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Patea Mail, 22 March 1882, Page 3

One hundred millions is named as the modest trifle that the Irish landlords suggest should be paid to them as compensation for the deprivation of the right to let farms to tenants at a rent that renders it almost impossible to live and thrive.

An important chronological reform is being discussed by the leading European astronomers, which is no less than the introduction of Greenwich time as a uniform standard for all nations, just in the same way as the meridian of Greenwich is the standard in calculation of longitude. Mrs Percy Mitford has started a movement to wear English silks instead of French. She points ont that in some kinds of silk manufactures we are not inferior, but much superior, to the French, and she claims that English ladies should give their own countrymen’s wares a fair trial.

The Presbyterian Harvest Home picnic at Marton realised close on £SO. At the same time there was the counter attraction of the Bulls Autumn Flower Show.

The Ligurian bee pest is being felt at Rangiora, the farmers in that district complaining bitterly of the ravages, committed on their hives by these insectrobbers. As a rule, they are too indolent to make honey, preferring to rob the hives of the industrious little black bee, where they find it already made.