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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 913, 29 January 1881, Page 4

The number of dogs registered up to yesterday in the Borough were 118, and in the County 210. Dog collars are in active demand, especially in the country districts. Mr. M. Boland has left a sample of white Tuscan wheat at our office, which was grown on his farm at Ormond. We have shown it to several practical men whose opinions have been most favorable. Mr. Boland has garnered his crop, in splendid condition, and he expects the yield will be from 36 to 40 bushels to the acre. One of the principal recommendations of this wheat over others, we believe to be that rust does not attack it to the same deleterious extent. A review at Aidershot lately was honored by the attendance of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, and other personages, amongst whom were some foreign princes, The latter were late in arriving, and searched in vain for the Royal party through the greater part of a tedious morning. At last the carriage reached a bridge, at each end of which a sentry was posted, and the wanderers sought guidance from one of them “Do you know where the Prince of Wales or the Duke of Cambridge » ?’’ an occunant of the carriage asked The man saluted. “|No, sir, I don t myself, he replied, “ but I’ll ask 'mv my mate. Jem all thfS piMic . about here Many Aidershot public-houses are named after Royal or military personages, and it never occurred to the sentry that it was the illustrious man and not the' hostelry, named after him that was wanted. The sentry was perhaps thirsty, and his mind may have been running on “ drains ” as the most likely.