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Waipawa Mail, Volume I, Issue 22, 27 November 1878, Page 3

From a Southern exchange we hear that for the forthcoming show of the North Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association there are 1067 entries. This is 44 more than were made at the late Christchurch Show, the number of entries having been 1023.

Corporal Punishment. The Otago Education Board “ enjoins teachers to have recourse to corporal punishment sparingly and with due deliberation, and authorises it to be inflicted only by the head masters and acting head masters of schools.” Lord Beaumont claimed £20,000 for 1 acre and 20 perches of land at North End, Fulham, which is required by the Metropolitan District Railway for a depot. Tiie case was tried in the Sheriff's Court, and ultimately the jury awarded the sum of £17,250.

The Standard says that Mr Cattle has succeeded in disposing of a block of land, seven miles to the north of Masterton, which he purchased two years ago for £I2OO, at the handsome advance of £2250. or at the rale for partly improved [and of £8 an acre. Salmon in Tasmania. —We learn from the Ilobarton Mercury, a reliable source, that in the middle of last month some salmon smolts came down the troug-hing leading from the River Plenty to tho salmon ponds. This is the fourth season that smolts have come from that river through tiie same troughing, and the fact is particularly interesting, as it proves that the parent fish must go up the River Plenty fin which river salmon were first liberated) to deposit their ova. Population of the Earth. —The fifth publication of the Behm and Wagner’s statistics shows that since the issue of the previous edition the population of the earth has increased 15,000,000, partly arising from natural growth and partly the outcome of new and more exact censuses. The total population is now set down at 1,439,145,300, divided among the continents as follows : Europe, 312,398,480; Asia, 831,000,000; Africa, 205,219,500; Australia, and Polynesia, 4,411,300; America, ■ 16,000.