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Patea Mail, 30 March 1882, Page 3

Mr Morrah, inspector for the bank of Australasia in this colony, is just appointed manager at the head office in Melbourne. Telegrams are to hand announcing that the steamship Hollander, 607 tons, bound for Sydney with a cargo of sugar for the Colonial Sugar Company, has been destroyed by fire at sea. The crew have landed safely at Banjoewangi, Java. The captain committed suicide. The vessel was only partly insured. The Chief Inspector of Sheep, Mr Bailey, is visiting the Patea district. He is understood to have promised an early remedy, for the local grievance as to having no resident inspector to give certificates for sheep sent out or in by the port. It is considered of benefit to plough a clay soil in the autumn on account of the action of the frost, but it should be ploughed again in the spring. The rougher the fall ploughing the better, as there is a, greater surface, presented for the action of the atmosphere. In a gravelly or sandy lawn not much is gained by fall ploughing. Nothing is to be gained by ploughing sod in the fall except time. As a rule all fall ploughed land must be ploughed again in spring, or at least made mellow by the use of a pulverizer.