AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2212, 9 June 1891, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Svnnnv, Jane 5. At the East in Wheat Conference Dr Cobb read a paper based on evidence collected in New South' Wales,- to the effect that farmers’ crops sown in rich black soil anil sandy ~ Ipam were most affanted f ywith rnst. .De eleo ehowed that land which had not been drained was more favorable to rnst than natural and artificially drained land. Moat of the rust, resisting; wheats were those with good! herd strew, end' Httle, , leaf. The general opinion favored cutting wheat in the dough stage, or just before maturity ; and early lowing of early maturing varieties, combined with early ploughing greatly minimised the chance of rust. Strong heavy oropi suffered most, while light crops wrr* compnratirely free. The question, he eeid, es to the treatment of seed-to. prey Apt rust, produced no reliable information. Dr Cobb disapproved of the idea of soaking wheat to

preTent.xoaV.ajad qrged.the importance of a eolation being spread over the planta. Some mat aporea; ware prevented from germinating by a dilute-solution of blneatone, Jane 6. Intelligence received from the New Hebridiss states that the natives on ' Tanna are fighting among themselves. In other jrespects affairs on the islands are quiet. Steamers have been despatched from here and Melbourne to search for the mining steamer Taratamnsga, MiLioymnn, Jana 6. The Board, ifEoquiry which wii set up to investigate the oireamstencea connected witji, the mutiny of the 3rd regiment of iftlitia sl Ballarat at the beginning of, £sport that they .found gross irregularities,': in dinoeption with the regiment, and that ai conapiracy existed HQiong against Sergeant Major Garland. The.,Board recommend that the di abended, i BxiaxAxn, June 5. Two Unionists;.at 1 owns vita have been sentenced to asvan years* imprisonment each for arson at the Lammarmoor Station. Adblaidi, June 5. Parliament was opened yesterday. The speech from tha ihrone, was of. a colorless nature. Tha Federation Bill was laid on the table* Hobakt, Jnna 6. • .When.tbc.g.B, Hauroto, which lehhera yesterday ,for. the Bluff, was about sixty . miles out, a feed pipe buret and the vessel returned to, port to have repairs effected.