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Southland Times, Issue 1007, 21 August 1868, Page 3

' At the County Court, Wangaratta, last week, "the law relating to fencing was laid down by Judge Cope, as the local journal reports : — " In a case then heard it was decided that it was not the business of anyone, sowing a crop, to fence his land in order to protect that crop, but that people having cattle were obliged to see that their cattle did not trespass upon their neighbors' ground. Garden-owners, therefore, who find goats trespassing upon their land, can bring an action for damages, although they had no fence at all. This decision ought to remedy the monstrous injustice,. that it is impossible to cultivate ah acre of land until a hundred pounds has been expended upon it in fencing." Under a powerful microscope, a spore of the diameter of a hair, looked at end-wise, shows three 'thousand cells which can be distinctly seen to be six-sided. Then and Now^Fasmen in 1776* — Man at plough, wife at cow, girl at yarn, boy at barn, and all dues settled; Farmers in 1867 — Man at Bhow, girl at piano, wife in satin, boy at Latin, - andrdues unsettled.