The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1877.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 97, 26 April 1877, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1877.

A mebry party, consisting of the scholars attending St. |Mary's Boys' School, to the number of about 120, started by train this morning for Wakefield, where they will amuse themselves during the day with games andm wandering about the bush, and after tea at Mr Drager's will start on the return trip at 5 o'clock. A lecture will be delivered by Mr Ashcroft to-morrow evening at the Boys' schoolroom, Kichmnond, in connection with the local Institute. The subject will be " Egypt at the present day and its probable future." There will be vocal and instrumental music at intervals. The return cricket match between the town and country butchers was p'ayed in one of Mr Muntz's paddocks at Richmond yesterday, when the country team again carried off the laurels, the game, however, being a very close one, the scores being as follows :

Country : First innings, 63; sreond innings, 72. Town : First innings, 68; second innings, 54. The annual general meeting of the Artillery Company will be held at the Nelson Hotel this evening at 7*30, A seriods accident occurred this morning to Mr Henry Barnett who was driving his butcher's cart with a full load of meat over to the Wood, when, in crossing Collingwood Bridge, the bolt of the swing tree came out and the horse, taking fright, bolted, and Mr Barrel was thrown out, the wheel passing over his leg and elbow. He was taken home and Dr Bhgh was sent for, who found that no bones were broken, but that the patient was severely bruised and shaken, the elbow being the part. most injured. Mrs Mary Rice, a lady of West Coast notoriety, who has just spent a year under the care of Mr Shallcrass, was liberated yesterday, the term of imprisonment to which she had been sentenced in default of finding sureties of the peace having expired, ihe excitement of her emancipation, combined with the trifle of liquor she took to celebrate the event, produced such an effect upon her that the police found it nece«sarv to take charge of her last night, and she was xn m ° min S brought before Mr Pollock, J.F., who considered that on so festive an occasion ten shillings and cost3 would not be too large a contribution for the good lady to pay to her Majesty's revenue, and mode au order accordingly. We are glad to find that a local industry which at ona time showed symptoms of collapse has been revivified and now holds out greater promise of success than ever. We refer to Messrs. Webley Bros, and Bother's cloth factory which is now once more in full operation. The proprietors, however, are at present turning their attention to the manufacture of flannels and hosiery more than of cloth, and we were to-day shown of these at Messrs Hodder & Co.'s in Trafalgar street, which it would be difficult to beat anywhere. Mr Bother, «he new partner in the firm, ha3 established 'or mmaelf a colonial reputation as a manufactjrer of hosiery, and we are informed that orders have been received for the supply o f guernseys and stockings for the Auckland, Danedin, Christchurch, and Wakatn. Football Clubs. So long as they continue to produce articles of such excellent quality as those we saw to-day this enterprising firm is not likely to have much spare time on their bands The Oiaqo Daily Times, re the delay'in completing railway communication, says:—" Bow long, then, are we to be deprived of our national trade by the unpardonable dilatoriness of the Public Works Department." We might ask a somewhat similar qrest'on in Nelson withregard to the railway extension to the Port. We take the following from the Evening Post :-Dr Leighton Kesteven, surgeonsuperintendent of the immigrant ship Northampton has notifed hi3. intention of applying to be registered under the New Zealand Medical Practitioners Act We understand that Dr Kesteveu intends to | practise at Waitnea, in the Nelson District Wk have received the second number of S£ T l7 U^ fu , 1 a = d *•" Sot up little work The New Zealand Country Journal " which is strictly what it professes to be "aquar-te-lyrecord of information connected with agricultural, pastoral, and horticultural pursuits and rural sporta in New Zealand " The present volume contains 142 pages well stocked with such information, and judging from the two numbers that have already appeared we can warmly recommend it to farmers and others as a most useful addition to their libraries. Under the signature R. H. there appears a communication from a Motueka correspondent, from which as being a matter of local interest, we make the following extract :— « Our crops of wbeat were very good this season, and were harvested in first-rate order. Of oats we grow more, using the straw for winter food for store cattle; tbe crop was light this year. Of barley we grow little, our soil being too heavy, tbe grain being often flinty; the crops were remarkably heavy this year; on the whole our corn crops were good, well horvested, and are now being threshed. With regard to pastures, we have some very good but find they want renewing at least every ten years; it is curious to see how in a few years the grasses destroy each other I have seen in 1868 about two tons of hay per acre cut from a paddock which in 1875 did not yield 15 cwt, and had only been grazed with sheep during the interim, and I have no doubt that after being boken up, cropped and re-sown, would again produce good grass. Sweet Vernal seems to be the grass that destroys all others, and I advise farmers to keep clear from it if they can; we chieflv sow rye grass, cocksfoot, timothy, and red aid white clover, and from this mixture we cut m good seasons two tons of hay per acre Our chief crop for export is potatoes, which do well, and give as high as twelve tons per acre; but this year they have suffered much from floods, which have destroyed as much as £30,000 worth of property. Another growing industry is the cultivation of hops which thrive well, and yield in good season* from one ton to one ton and a half per acrebut this year they are not so good as usual' owing to too much rain in the spring I believe that in a few years hops arid apples will be onr principal production, as from these a living (if not more) can be made from a few acres of rich land; I have known forty bushels of apples taken from one tree, these at 2s 6d pay better than growing corn on a small scale. A good deal of stock is fattened in some parts of the district but owing to the smallnees of the farms, 'very little care is bestowed on the hreediqg, and I don't think,- with one exception, that there is a pure bred bull in the district. The same remarks apply to sheep, except that our farmers are alive to the fact that if you want good sheep you must have pure rams, chiefly Lincoln and Roinncy Marsh, crossed with Down ewes. Before I close this ramblim? paper, let me give one cry of warning to all farmers m New Zealand— beware of imported birds— larks, sparrows, linnets; shoot, poison net, destroy; if you ever get them in the South as thick as they are with us, you will curse the sound of a lark. Never mind what the bird fanciers tell you; destroy them or they will destroy you, also hares. How sane men could bring such things into a country like this is more than I can understaud; remember 5s worth of strychnine will destroy one thousand small birds; dissolve in warm vinegar and water, aud ateep wheat in solution until it absorbs, then sow on ploughed ground in the spring or winter You will hear more from me about birds " Nothing scceeds like success, says the French proverb. This is strikingly exemplified by the popularity attained by a stimulating invigorant and diuretic some twenty-five year ago, and which has ever since gone on conquering weakness, kidney disease, gravel, rheumatism, dyspepsia, and various otherjmaladies. Ifc isalso regarded by physicians as an efficient protection against complaints caused by variations of the weather, and is known to the public as Udolvuo Wolfe's Sciiiedam Abomatic Schxapjps. — Advt.