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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 199, 22 August 1881, Page 2

The Melbourne Weekly Times is responsible for the astounding atatement that— "Forty-eight hours' incessant nia at Wellington, New Zealand, caused a severe flood in the Thames jiver and a waterspout burst over the town, drowsing two men, and damaging property to the extent of £20,000." Sir F. D Bell says regarding bis work at Home : — " I know what work is, and I may say, with the exception of the West Coast Commission, I have not for 18 years done bo much continuous work as since I came to England." Alluding fo the Meat Freezing Company, the Manawatu correspondent of the Wairarapa paper asserts that the effect of ths proposal to export mrat has already caused a rue in the pricoe, and that at a recent sale cattle fetched £2 per head more than they have for the past three years, although fat stock of all descriptions iB most plentiful. With the view to encouiage orange cultivation the branch of a tree laden with fruit baa been exhibited in Auckland, the exhibit having been forwarded frcm the Bay of Islands. The grower sayß there are iboussndg of places in the North where the orange w ould grow to perfection, and that it is purely tha result of neglect or want of skill on the part of our settlers that the orange groves in the North do not supply tho whole of the New Zealand demand.