NEW USE FOR GOATS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1095, 9 June 1882, Page 3

NEW USE FOR GOATS.

" Anglo-Aiiatralian" in the European Mail writes:—

As labour-saving appliances' are always in request in tho colonies, it may be as well to set forth how the Oalifornians derive profit from the employment of the goat in an "altogether unusual manner. At St. Maoto there is one of those gigantic dairy farms in which Yankee enterprise delights. All the arrangements are_ on a large scale, with a variety of ingenious machinery to save manual labour, and no expenso has been spared to make the dairy'a model. But the working of the big churn, which holds over 50 gallons of cream, and turns out 120 lb, of butter at each operation—the cream considered, a rather large amount of butter, by the way—presenting considerable difficulty till tho manager hit upon tho happy idea of employing goat power. There happened to be about a dozen of these nnimalß, old and young, attached to tho farm, and it occured to him that he might possibly turn incessant activity, wonderful powers of endurance, and frolicsomeness to account, So a treadmill of 18ft in diamoter was constructed and counected with the churn by means of a shaft and coa-wheel ami on tho wheel some of the eider goats were placed. They took to it at once, with charming amiability—here was something to climb without ond, the well-known desideratum of.goat nature. Soon; too, the young scions of the family acquired ft taste for the excercise, and now the difficulty is not to keep the wheel at work, but to restrict the ardent goats from making it whirl when thoro is no cream in the churn. The Los Angelos Express declares that " when released from tho pon they one and all, great and small, run bleating to thewheol, and tho only trouble to contend with is tho excess of power which they are apt to give it in their frolicsome guinboh," Now, as competition is the soul of business, it may be expeoted that Colonial dairy farmers will tndeavour to learn the secret of of that treading wheol, and get some goatstowork it.

'William Nanco, of Knoxvile, Tent),, murdered his three-year-old stepdaughior. The child was in bed, and became fretful. Nance got out of patience, and jumping up seized the child by the hair and beat its head on the floor until its skull was crushed to pieces. Nance made his escape.

Count von Moltke is greatly impressed with the idea of aerial navigation as an aid to military manoeuvres. An officer of the German headquarters staff has been ordered to attend the lectures of the German Society for the promotion of aerial navigation. The nut for aeronats to crack ut a means to steer air vessels. Air, as a gaseous fluid, has similar properties to those of water, but being about 800 times lighter than the denser fluid, requires a correspondingly greater power to be successfully operated upon. The supreme difficulty in aerial navigation is to get sufficient power without weight. Conquer tho weight drawback, and the thing is done, Recent lights of science point to electriejty as the coming metor. Fancy carrying stored lightning into a thunder cloud,

Mr Jerusalem Smyth, the well-known contractor, writes thus to the Otago Daily Times:—"l have just arrived home (N.Z.) on a visit for a few days, and after an absence of four years, and I am much disappointed that our steamer did not noload us in Dunodin City. I, with others, offered to bring, five years ago, the James Nicol Fleming up to Dunediu and tie her up to the wharf fur 1800,000. I think thislsum must have been spent since, and no James hicol Fleming at tho ivharf. I I see you are also asking for applications for a new engineer—£3so screw. It must surely mean £3350; if the former, you want a man with brains in his boots. The Dunedin Chamber of Commerce have passed the following resolution : "That every bill of .sale hereafter executed within six calender months before the bankruptcy of the grantor thereof, whether given to secure payment of a present advance or existing debt, shall, as against the trustee in bankruptcy, or under the assignment for the benefit of creditors, he deemed fraudulent and void so far as regards the property comprised in any such bill of sale, and that the time for registering a bill of sale be limited to ten days from the making thereof, and that copies nf this resolution be printed and sent to ouch member of the House of Assembly and tho Upper House." It does not often happen (says a recent Melbourne Age) that a bride figures as a prisoner on the morning aftor her wedding day, but Biich a case came before the Carlton Court yesterday, when Augusta Williams, who had been married at half-past 10 ou Tuesday forenoon, was charged with being drunk and disorderly. The bride had her marriage lines in ber pocket when arrested, and also a pawn-ticket for her wedding-ring. She pleaded " guilty," and was fined 5» with the alternative of 48 hours in gaol.