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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 56, 28 May 1873, Page 3

The Prets siys there is a rumour from Otago that probably Mr. McAndrew will be appointed Agent-Geueral.

The Gipps Land Mercury reports that Mr. Blacker has tried the sulphur fumes for pleuropneumonia iu cattle with good results. He had three milch cows bad—one so weak as to be unable to stand. He made them inhale the sulphur fumes, and effected a perfect cure of all three.

The Lyttelton Times, of a recent date, says : —We cannot refrain from noticing the failure of the barley harvest. The best fields have been bought up by the provincial distilleries and a few lucky brewers, and thus our malsters and others are driven to their wits’ end. It has been asserted that a Nelson brewer has proceeded to California in order to ship down there a cargo of barley, to be subdivided. Again, it is related that one or two of our own brewers have ordered regular shipments by the Californian boats, but if they are taken off, their indents will be worthless. Alalt is worth 14s to 14s 6d, and we understand that the quotations in Australia are little less. A commercial traveller told us that within a short time, unless supplies arrived, our local brewers would have to shut up or sell brews from sugar and hops.

The writer of “Notes of a New Zealand Tour ” in the Auckland Herald says of New Plymouth that, “ There are three things of which Taranaki people are said to be proud—their mountain, their Devonshire cream, and their pretty girls, and considering the beauty of Kgmont, the delicacy of the cream, and the charms of the young ladies, their pride is not only excusable, but natural and proper.” And that on “ Returning to Auckland, one is impressed with the idea that it is the most beautiful and the dirtiest town in the colony ; that its natural advantages for the expansion of trade are superior to any other town in New Zealand, if we except Wellington, and that its merchants are the most apathetic.” IWvls that eat their feathers need animal food; they should have fresh liver given them to peck at, which they would find more satisfactory diet than feathers. If livers cannot be procured, butchers’ offal or any fresh meat would do as a substitute, but the softness of the liver makes it very agreeable to them. They should also be furnished with a drink made by dissolving a piece of copper as large as a white bean in a quart of water.