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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 7, 12 March 1866, Page 3

-Dunn, the N. S. Wales bushranger, has been sentenced to death. It is reported that the Maori prisoners now in custoday, are to be sent to the Chatham Islands. . The Canterbury farmers have lately lost' cattle by their .eating the poisonous tutu. Bleeding, and an emetic consisting of "gunpowder and liuseed oil, are said to be an effective remedy. The kind of separation advocated in O.tagp now, is remodelling of , the relations between the Provincial aud Gener.al Governments, and a financial dissolution of partnership, as far as all future liabilities, are concerned. : The Crops, in- the United States. — The Oct. report of the Commissioner of Agriculture is lnghly encouraging, and- will relieve much apprehensionconcerning 'the crops of the present year. It will be " remembered that the reports published about harvest time, in respect to the wheat crop, were .exceedingly unfavorable. It was thought that the protracted rainy season in the Western States had almost ruined the crop, and the Agricultural Bureau reported that the yield of wheat would be over twenty-six million bushels short of what it was the previous year. It now appears from that final exhibit of crop reports, that the deficiency of wheat will not be- more than about twelve' million bushels, the wet "weather hay : ing caused much less injury than was ' supposed. ' But this deficiency of wheat is more, than counterbalanced by other cereals. The corn crop will be the largest ever grown in the United States. The oats crop exceeds that of last year by 50 million bushels ; th» increase of hay is five million tons ; and rye, barley, buckwheat, and other crops, are all represented as being very good. The condition of the crops Tis particularly gratifying, in view of the heavy foreign demand consequent upon' the very .light yield in Europe. Notwithstanding the facfcwe are just emerging froih the" greatest war in the history, of the. world; we have an abundance of everything in the way of food, and can besides sunply . |Euroj>e with. allit^requires. „.■..,.. [ ; .Schoolmaster r v ;How'iniany v grftinS; to, a. scruple ,? ; . ! [Bpy. : Three, sir." Schoolmaster : Right; how man/ • fscruplestoadrani? — Boy :• Please, -sii'j r father takes '. ihis: dram ■without. any jeruiile^.. .;;•■.■, ; / • :■• ,-■.