Miscellaneous Items.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1632, 11 February 1886, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items.

''The Quemslander says:— "Too great i !a, greed for land has caused hnndaeds jo; fail as farmers m this colony. The simple fencing required by a large block has absorbed more money than have sufficed to enrich and •bring m a good return from a smaller area. The adage that a s nail &nu .well tilled means a pocket well filled, .is a truism. Many a salecor has lost hcarc through spreading his labour and capital over 320 acres m *the burk, when, if he had been content with 32 acres near a market, he could h^aveiiiade a competency. Ouragriculliial tepoi tei mentions instances of far mers rising tn comfort, amounting aliiuost, sto affluence, by beiug content with 8 orl2 ! acres of good land near to a market; 'We know of similar successes from a few acres of pineapples from orchards, from vineyards, and from garden produce. In general it is the i man who concent rates hw energiea and; his capital upon a small area that lives* the most comfortably, and iffihbst free from the worrying sares of life: '■; V-" 1 : ■'■■•■; -.■:';■■.■■ ","■. Anroffioial notification from the Danish Ministry of Marine announces that Denmark is poorer by the loss of an island and of an interesting natural object', youth of the island of Suderoe, one of the Faroe group, a might .cliff rose sheer out of the sea toa heihgl of from 80 feet to 100 feet. Looked at sidewise iroiu a distance at seat, it resembled a great ship m fall sail: but fcesn . from Suderoe, it presented the appeuraece of a monk, when it received from the Farpese the name ot .Munken. . sThe5 The Monk was not merely a picturesque object, it was also -a- valuable landmark for sailors, i LW«riiing jthfciu agafriat. a dangerous 'whirlpool which swept/ around its base. But it is now only a thin of 'the past. Last year a portion of "the '"cliff tell down, aud ; this year all *tlmt remained was broken off just bolow the water-line, leaving m it place a dangerous, reof, which is covered even at low water. Fortunatly it was uninhabited, so no liyes. were jfoHt.;Tiie)occaiTeric^ is noteworthy; as jirovtiig "that" the continuous*wash of the sea, aided probably m the winter by Ihe action of dViving ice blocks,

is * jibje to saw thi-oiigli, immense "masses of rock ■consisting of hard ' basalt, cutting them clean across at the water's edge. . There is something about the .misfortune wbicb : occurred recently to . a clergyman of Chaahire(.says the London Spectator) which appeals strongly .to the imagination. ■We 'hardly remain her an o. cuvnmcai within the last 30 years which was so purely an accident m the strictest sensed of the word — so completely beyond human provision, or prevention, or contrl. The Rev W. C. Vauohan, vicar of Tallarn Green, near Mulpas, m Cheshire, had driven out with his wife m a pour ctirmge to jwy ii professional visit to hick parish- >! He' .weiit inito the house m the discharge of his functions, leaving biff wife \to take care of the pony, when a cart loaded with corn came up. the road. The pony for some reason was frightened, and Mrs Vaughan called to her husband •lor help. Mr Vaugha'i ran out, when a laborer who had been, aa ukual, riding on the top of the corn m readiness to unload the sheaves, craned .f irwanl to look «t the pony. He over alancfd himself, fell forward, itnVl. diOi \m we i,'ht ilrove the |>itchU f(»rk ho had m l'»^ hand into the lungs pt the clergyman, who died within 20 minutes, leaving his wife nearly insane, and quite prostrate with the joiTPf »»d the shook,