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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 132, 4 June 1881, Page 2

The Rangitikei Advocate says that most beneficial results are following the work of the West Coast Commission. Before the Commission began its labors the auction yards were flooded with the stock of people who were eager to desert the district. Now the settlement is progressing with extraordinary rapidity. Hawera has a population of nearly 1000, and there is a corresponding increase in all the townships. Sheep sell readily for 9s a head where 6a a head used, with difficulty, tp be obtained.

Mr. C. H. Mills, of Havelock, states in a letter to a local paper that his brother, Mr. T. H. Mills, has found kerosene a complete antidote for tutu poisoning in cattle. On one occassion he found one of his most valuable | cows nearly dead from the effect of eating j the poisonous shrub, aud, after trying various remedies withont success, as a last resource he gave her nearly a pint of kerosene as an experiment, and in about twenty minutes he was delighted to see she had completely recovered. Since then he has had fifteen cases through his hands and never lost a beast.