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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 439, 22 January 1890, Page 8

Broad Beans : A fact in connection with this edible may belnentioned. By keeping the stalk above ground well stripped, so that the plant does not run to seed, an under ground and lateral growth may be encouraged, and the supply kept up all the year round. r J his wrinkle is communicated by Mr Higgs, the exhibitor of the big bean-stalk. The Chief Justice says that under the Criminal Evidence Act passed last session if two men are tried together for one offence, one has a right to call the other ns a witness, that was if he consented. This altered the law in two respects. A man can now give evidence on his own behalf, and if his fellow prisoner consents, he can cal! him as a witness in connection with the case. We take the following from the Lyttelton Times :—The compressing of chnff into as small a space as possible is a matter of great moment to exporters, who will be interested to know that some extraordinary results have recently been obtained with Messrs Andrews and Beaven’s new chaff preßser. A few pounds over a ton of oaten sheaf chaff were pressed into twenty sacks at Messrs Wreaks and Collie’s grain store, St, Asaph-street. With the presser formerly in use, at least twenty-seven or twenty-eight sacks would have been required for the PfHne quantity.