THE DEFINITION OF A HEIFER

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, Volume 1, Issue 1, 29 March 1901, Page 2

THE DEFINITION OF A HEIFER

■- ■'♦ .'■■■ The .apparently .simple task of supplying- an intelligible definition of the word "heifer" proved i#o much for, the combined knowledge of Bench, Bar, and .three expertsjfch^owii^, during the hearing- of jfche .cage, Hauyh y. Darton before Mr, Stratford, S.^3itl/aw.rence. One of the counsel engaged in the case described 41 hetfer $? •'■% fiQW *vat hadriot y&t calved." If lie had not dofineda"lieifer" Wa+Jeasj:iwitfft&um a palpable (%dl," at which h;us learned brother smiled incredulously., not to say contemptuously, though &is &\riu attempt, -"a maiden cow " Mas hardly more enlightening. T%e# followed the three experts to whom his Worship looked for escape! Eroai tlie menial tangle in which the " definition" oi^ths Bar had placed him. But, as experts ,T,ig.y..aily do, the experts' lifferedsufficie^tlyiW le/ivc the proper lefiakion of the wojrd w obscurity^ "A heifer," said one, (; is a heifer until She tu&s ieyseieond calf; "i^lU she hasher first calf," said N 0.2.; "any tim^past: tier first calf," said No. 3. "Bring 190 j m encyclopedia;" said his Worship in lespair. The volume.yyas brought, but mother point arose and obscured the icifer puzzle, which js sjtitt, as far as •he Court is concerned, in its unsolved >tate. . / At ilio ifotuekfl, Magiijrti'ato's Court as,t week a man named Limmer was lined £?,, #1$ costs, for ill-treating a iov iy ajlbwripgiit *» &»■#';i* rß e iiffeiwg from <an ulcer&ed .eye. The: svidence showed that the £jj.iinal had >een suffering jfor about six inoaths, j nd ; that the effected eye h^4 dropped. { ut of her head, but, .poWi«fr&arW.<» ij ag.^is, she h^d been>"milked r-upt6 •■ rifchjn a few days §f )-i§ai--deß*h'fbt|-tlia l j .enefijt '(4 am}S' "^ *: {^:[ V-^ " \ Abe/iiittif^plaijtof goMoaii.mir. measiring 2 metres a^d'oQ.centiiiietTes,, was cry much admaretl' a< ;<;lie.Paris Ex- > libition. Tliis wQhderf6l;BSiv belonged j o a yQiing**Noimandy-gii>1,.".v^».p,.tp.• tay a family demand save luirfath^r's,, jobd:^njLe,"sold it to ajiairdresser for (00 fi-aucs. Hoi in turn sold it a Frisian for 1000 .francs ;'^nd i low it is who the property.of a ltidy lesireg the strictest incognito to' tie | :opt ; ai^.-i »ho paid SQQ^ feai^cs for , t- - • i Mr. H. C. Cameron j .biir .pyo^uce t 6mmjSs|oner in London, continues id ( .0 good work in pushing- and arlverisj^g New Zealand meat and produce. | Some scientific paper.?, race^Jy made statement to tl}e ,^#ecj; "that after a J ertaiu timei'frozen meat lost its essen- * al rigu'rishing qualities to a very gre.t A Kthni. Cameron has had exhq,\j.sj;re tests made by experts, whioh have £ i-Qved ([oubt that New Zea- . vnd fpf)7 t ejx meat is; as nutritious *j,s " iebestEnglisli njeat, T]iese tests were .■n smluciecj by ontirely unbiassed ox-j'" crts, Tlyi )>ig liojtels in are V 11 co^swi^ers of Tscw Zealand fro- a en mutton and lamb, and supply tUeir d atrons, .wj. ; th ' EnglfcK Scotch, or Velsh^^sVlesivea,'from^eJLr sjtock of ; few^eWwdirp^e'nmjo^ to their en- J irp^saii^actiq^.., Tliis: informutLon- is n most exec-llent aujthavity. ...., , 1 -Thesijail is blessed with great powrs of'vitality. A case is recorded of 1 n j»n desert sjjail Ayhicjj. came J 0 life iipon being immersed iv : -.wfltm c rftter after haying passed fpur years a/card in the British itfuseuni. t Joiho speoies, in the.-c^l^tiQn.^ofa.per-am nnturftlist, retiye'd aWi'lhly had i pparently been dead for 15 years 5 and 1 nailsJiaving been frozen for weeks in 1 olid blocks of ice have recovered upon I )eing thawed out, The eggs are ashard o destroy as the snail itself. They 1 leem pei'feetly rfidifferent to freezing, : md have been known to prove pro^i luctive after having been shrivelled up' j n an oven to the resemblance of grains >f sand, 'C .■■■■^•