The Daily News. SATURDAY, APRIL 14.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8084, 14 April 1906, Page 2

The Daily News. SATURDAY, APRIL 14.

Babbits arc roported to be increasing around Napier. Many settlors find it necessary to use the gun, and even in Napier itself rabbits aro being trapped on the Bluff Hill. A remarkably largo crop of onions has been gathered by Mr Edward Ling, of Gisborno. Ho has obtained three tons from an eighth of an acre—at the rate of 24 tons to the acre. An Otago farmer states that on light ridges he has completely smothered Canadian thistle with fescue. Others in the same district have also obtained excellent results by thickly sowing this grass on rich silt or bush land.

The Westland County Council has decided says the " Times," to support a proposal to establish an expeirmental agricultural farm in Westland, with necessary out-stations in the district, and to urge the Minister for Agriculture to undertake tke matter as soon as possible. Sir Robert Ball, who has been leoturing on the Glacial Epoch, informed his hearers tkat the next Ice Age is due winters hence. Then our posterity will sec all Northern Europe and America once moro under an ice-cap tkat will cover the highest mountains, and last for many thousands of years. Subsidences of a serious character occurred recently at Backdykes, in the neighbourhood of Prcstonpans, Haddingtonshire, and caused considerable alarm among the townspeople. One of the underground coal workings, with which the district abouuis, subsided without any warning, and a number of houses were badly damaged, while a large wall collapsed. A striking comment ou the alleged injury resulting from the " dumping " ofAmcrican steel in Wales was furnished by a recent case of summons for debt. A steel worker in South Wales was compelled to give evidence of his wages, and it was certified that his average monthly earnings amounted to £ti 2s Id. Nearly ffi a week earned by a steel-worker in Freetrade England! $#

Besides the voluminous tariffs of the British colonies—intricate, perplexing, a'ld vexatious, the tariff of the United Kingdom is remarkably brief and simple. It includes tke following items only.—Beer, cards (playing), chicory, choral hydrate, chloroform, cocoa, coffee, collodion, ether, ethyl, fruit (dried), glucose, molasses, saccharin, soap, spirits, sugar, tea, tobacco, and wine. All else is imported free.

Wheat blights hitherto unknown are troubling the farmers in the South Island. One at Temuka, occurring in a field where diseased potatoes grew last year, was erroneously supposed to be die same as the potato pest. At Balclutka a new blight, " wkick gives a piebald appearance to tke fields of wheat," is perplexing the farmers. The effect is that, while harvesting, the stalks drag out unless the knives are very sharp.

The Cambridge correspondent of Hi " New Zoaland Herald" wrote on Wednesday: "It was reported here this morning that gold in payable quantities hai been discovered about nine miles from the township. I saw a fine gold-showing piece of quartz, reported to have been obtained from the totality. No other information is available at present. Probably the field is at and held by native owners." A well-dressed man, showing no sign of mental aberration, gave himself up to the polico at Clapham Junction at midnight on the 7th Eebruary as the murderer of Miss Mary Money in Mertham Tunnel on the 2oth September last. He has of course been detained in custody, but long experience has led the police to be suspicious of such confessions, which always follow a crime that has strongly affected the public imagination. The executors of Mr Charles Lockhurt, one of the founders of the Standard Oil Trust, estimated his estate when they filed his will, at £3,000,000. But it has just been made known that lie left nearly L4f1,000,000. This would probably not have been disclosed if Mr Lockbart had not cut olf one of his daughters with only LGO.OOO, because she married against his wishes. Mr Lockbart went to America a proo boy from Scotland In a paddock on the native reserveWoodend, Canterbury, leased by Mr J, Brown, a plant of Hunter's white whea. was found having 89 heads, and ant other 71. There was also one of the velvet chaff variety with 01). The plants were growing on the site of an old stack, and had stoolcd out, owing to having been eaten off by sheep. Two hundred and twenty head from three grains of wheat is probably a record. An attempt will be made to preserve the plants tor the Exhibition. Captain Musson, of the steamer Henley, at Newcastle, reports that on January 21, l'JOti, being then in latitude l'Jdeg. 3m. south, longitude 171

cleg. 41m. 30s. east, he observed large patches of discoloured water, having the appearance of coral or sandy shoal below the surface; passed at about one mile and a-half distance. As these shoal patches are not yet charted, and lie in (he track of vessels navigating to Fiji and the South Sea Islands, a sharp look-out should be kept by mariners when navigating in the vicinity.

The "Taglicuc Eundsehau" stales that the German Emperor has ordered the construction of a new racing yacht which will constitute an entirely new type. The yacht will be almost flatbottomed, for the purpose of offering the least possible resistance to the water, and a new system of ballast will bo utilised to counteract the small draught. Experiments with a small model have been successful, aud have induced the Emperor to order a large racing yacht to be built on the samo Hues, Further particulars regarding the construction/of the vessel arc being kept secret by the designer. The settlers in the Mount Vernon Estate, Hawko's Bay, taken over a year or two ago by the State, have a grievance against their landlord. The luspector has been round several times aud served them with notices to clear Californiau thistle, etc. They have worked hard to do so, yet on the Government sections lying along Ihc river-bed, Californian thistle, six or seven feet high, are flourishing, forming a thicket that no animal would venture to penetrate. Moreover, the seed-heads being dead-ripe now, the prevailing winds arc scattering the seeds for miles around. Each time the river Hoods the seed is carried down, takiug possession of some of the richest land on its thirty or forty miles course to the ocean.

The winter winds are blowing, Think of the ills they briug, And guard with care your household Until the welcome spring. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure Will aid you to this end, And, as a sentry, safe and sure, Your dear ones will defend

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