ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 217, 23 September 1901, Page 4

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

r lake meat public performers, says a %<■ London writer, Sandow has had his | bard times, acd at the outset of bin % earner after ho had be' n ton ring with £ circuses and titling as an arliit's medal, '! ho found himself in low wa'er in Ama- * terdam. Whas he wnated to brin? * hiawe'f to the front was advertisement); he had the strength. He suddenly ~ tamed his attention to the automatic weight lifting machines in the town, •nd reaoWed to lift them with a veogeanca. Chart ting a cab, ho drove al! roand Amsterdam, dropped a penny ia A the slot oi each machine, gripped the ( handle, and- lifted lln every ewe the i" epring was smashed and the thing I g. thrown oat of ne*r. The city rang! ■? next day with the story of a g»nf cf' f: marauders and their wi'ful damage, a jgy gilders being offered far inpi ■ formation loading to thfir arrest. SanP tbw repotted bis prfformance twice, I and en the third trip rouad we a capI " tared by the police. Bnt he poi' te' l £t oat to the authorities that he h«d done nothing wrong—be had merely, as ingj." vitp), plec d his p?ucy in the a'-' t tnd ■-> tried his lifting powers. As a necessary •*' T»a\ he was promptly released, and t hie great f"&t became thi t» lk of the jj'' town. He imm diate'y commearei » I' traccrsafnl season in bis prsptr ch»r- ---£ acter. It was his first big bit as a §• akowmao. , , K With reference to tbe tutt oi to b> adopt dij o'der t> toru tosh taud to 'p- acooanti as ep.eiiiy p esible, the fol* C lowiag ii an extract; f< m a letter reli,. reived by tbo §L » settler at WbaogAmcmona, Turaaaki, Mr. W. A. McCutcban :—"As yon lan aware, toe great drawbac. to tb« working of bosb lands ia the years gene by h vs bwn the tardiness of any money ret an frnm the land ; but under ' the system of lurnp-growinK t n the new barns, begun tome five yjars »gf>, and now Te-y generally followed, this state of thing) is altered, a v*ry speedy and substantial retorts h&va : heen obtained within 12 ao«thsof the I" time the axe fir<» tackled the busl*. Y When living on %he coasts hrfji e■. emiog gr here, 1 had fair "nccew on bu«b burns % with both awtdts and soft turnip*, which indoczd me to try th® experiment | ' • here bst year. My boys snwed JO & acres with turiiip— Parple-top, Mainly moth, and green-top Yellow Aberdeen P —tbe seed being on the ground by s&r January 25. The sessiu being axeepi* tionally dry, very litblo germin»t:d for I* « mouth. Good showers then gave it & a start, and wa had an ncellant: crop J, of sound ro?ts. Tbe first & week in Jane I stockel with a mixed t.; Jot of sheep—hoggets, breeding e*e», I. nod withers. There were 525 acres ia f the clearing, and the shr-ep bad the £* entire ran, getting a bita of young grass i lrith the turnips. The ewe* hud turnips *>-' vp to within a month of lambing. E There was a vary low pe r centage of mortality at the lambing, and the lambs ■were the b»t lot I have ever bal"