MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, 17 December 1919, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

From tiio Waiweapa Station, virko, comes tho statement th Maori shearer, John Hoppy, cla world’s record tally by shcari sheep (ewes and lambs) on 3 last. Hoppy’s last year’s recc 301. The total for that day of 1 shearers engaged on the statii 1296, The other shearers were S. Patterson 311, R. Chase 303, Hotcreni 309. Residents of this district wh been visiting tho Hawke’s Bay report that practically no rain ha for about eight weeks, and O’] this fact, and the prevailinj winds, feed is exceedingly seal the outlook a most serious one! farmers. Already, in many 4 Hawke 's Bay the country is as* bare as in early autumn, and, I dry summer be experienced, 1 will have a disastrous time. | A discovery which should b<l eiderablo importance to the B was made on the property of Mfl Lee's Line, near Kitchener la the Awahuri-Feilding Road, lal ■where a scam of brown coal IS found. Tho outcrop, which if* foot of the hill, shows a face ol and the seam has so far bee* over 500 feet, showing that thij is of some magnitude. A test tl of the coal for blaeksmithing |S in the presence of a number ness men in Mr McDougall’rl[ in Rangitikei Street. A shoes were forged in 7J inimH forging being ready for the ra 2} minutes. 9