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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 292, 3 November 1875, Page 2

The Marlborough Express of Saturday says: — A train, including two passenger carriages, came through from Pieton (o Opawa Station yesterday afternoon aud returned immediately. Of course this was but an experimental trip, and no official signification. No intimation haa yet arrtved as to the precise day on which the opening is to take place, nor had any of tbe Government officials turned up yesterday. A writer in tbe Queemlander gives the following directions for preserving eggs: — "Take a f -inch board, say a foot broad, and three feet lonsr, with a bracebit of ljj-incb; bore 14 sets of holes — you will be able to get five in a row ; then nail together four strips of deal of the same thickness as a pieoe before mentioned, and two inches deep. Nail the perforated board on the frame, and round the edges add a bead of half an inch deep. You will then have sn egg-board which will hold seventy eggs ; and with such boards eggs are kept in my honse perfectly good from August lo the following March. Care must be taken tbat the eggs have always been kept dry. The rationale of this is, that when au egg is laid on its side, the yoke, being of slightly greater gravity than the wbite, gradually sinks to the side, and when it touches the shell fermentation sets in, and the egg soon beoomes unfit for nae; whereas ia saah a frame aa I have

described, tha egg being put the small end dowo, N the yoke fi.ats in the centre of the white, aod ia kept froui any contact with the shell. If the eggs are small (ha holes must be likewise.