Rider Haggard.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2976, 14 August 1888, Page 2

Rider Haggard.

In the domain of literature there is scarcely an equal to the meteoric and bewildering success of Eider Haggard. He was lorn in 1856, at Bradenham Hall, Norfolk, and was destined by his parents-descendants of tho good old Norfolk families—fur foreign service. .Fortune led him to accept a post on the staff of Sir Henry Bulwer, in South Africa; he accompanied Sir Theopbilus Sbepstono in the Transvaal, and at the age of twenty-one waß appointed Master of the High Court there. Two years later, be returned home, and married in 1880 Hie only daughter of the late Major Margiton, of Eitchingham House, Norfolk, where he resides whon not in London. With his wife he subsequently returned to tho Transvaal, and quickly found his party driven into laager by the triumphant Boers, Disgusted with the change of affairs in that country, Rider Haggard once more settled in London, was called to the bar, and is now practising as a barrister. His first literary ventures did not meet with much success, and he passed through the trials usual with unknown authora in his early efforts to secure publishers for "Cetewayo and his White Neighbors,"' "Dawn," and "The' Witch's Head." "King Solomon's Mines," written as a boy's book, wa3 an immediate success, and ran out of print in a few days. Since then his name and books have become" familiar to our ears as household words," Thirty thousand copies of "She" were sold in a month,'and each, fresh work from his pen seems to creato greater sensation, Personally, Eider Haggard has much to recommend him, and is as modwt and amiable as lie is gifted. He objects to beint; lionised, and carries his honors with an.ease and simplicity which win him friends wherever he goes. v7ithout being handsome, he is a fresh, comely-looking Englishman, with fair hair and frank blue oyes. He seldom appears in London, preferring to pass his days in the quiet seclusion of his native Norfolk.

Thirty-thousand acres of land are about to be opened for settlement on this side of the Manawatu Bivor. Of this area 20,000 acres are in the Tiraumea Block, 700 acres on the Mangatainoko, off the main road, 3000 acres neat, Hawera, and 9000 acta iu the Mangaone.' The price is to be fronting to 24* f«aor«, /

■ '• Cokornuts 'ain't I can tell a lot intern; buVit's ; look'pre, we'as: a'undred for'em, una'.' cover'd' up. yor /see., sun cracks : the shells, ) out,,an' the nut\tnrns.';vlf genii a bad nut he'll kick we loses custom; so, you see it' ain't all] '" u 'oney. pitch last week atToot- f ' ' ing as cpsbwtwentyrfive shillin's for one (lay. .What.do you think of that,- \ Birl and then I never took a blessed' r i copper." v" What do Jou reckon w > nut costs f ■■•- "Why, when we runaouV on ':■'em ■. we must' send a, tela- j ei'Hhi to Londohj .then pay carriage l when they arrives/so that hriMkt up to about tu'periceveach, Wenpf we gets a few ! busters'—some gents oust ' every liut, they throws so haid—the ge[Us: won'ti haw •'em,' and we're com-" peilod to give hima sound nut for everyone be knocks down, Soyersee, '' all as we've; got to depend onfoi 1 our * profit is the party as. shies six or twelve „ penny shies at a time, and don't 'it too many cqkers.for 'is,money." " Yob, , sir. that's, my carawa'n" (pointing to one of'these curiously constructed affairs, half house, half van, pulled up on the grass close by the canvas scieen - of his "pitch"), and that's my missus seated on (ho steps:just peeling tho tatersfor our' Sunday's dinner. I've got three little'. nnsf-that's my boy attending to the nuts when they'ie knocked off. "Bless jer, yes, he gets n stick or a ball on the. 'end sometimes, hut I expects bis''ead's pooty well seasoned to it row, sir j he never takes no notice onjt howsomevoi." IKTERVIEWINa AN OLD JOOKEY.jfcj Leaving this very men of the, hard-working chance to meet an old lockey—aie all jockeys bandy, I wcndei? I have never met one yet that was not; they are all exactly alise, too ; very little boy-men, half of each; your true bred • jockey will have no flesh about him, and he prides himself also that you can seo littlo or. no hair on head or face excepting the trim little patch in front of thick car, and of which inconsistent ns it may appear, beseems inordinately proud.- We strolled together along the beautiful green, velvety course, the newly whitewashed grand stand tearing its lofty bead proudly in front of us as we passed from the winning poat towards famed Tottenham Cornea, " Have I rode a race here 1 Yes many; mid. I should most likely again next week, sir, but for that confounded invention theCockspurbil,"" Howdo you account for that ?" " I will tell you. You see how I limp ? Woll this is how it happened: I had ju3t previous to this accident won some romgpod races in France, and waschosdHoride R—in tho races at F—;Jk[iud rode her many a time beforo, sirf She was that gentle that a little babo would liavo been safe with her, but the owner would make me have the Cockspir bit;) I didn't like it, never belioved in it,' ami don't now, It's a smooth bit with steel rings; when you pull, tho lings pinch Ihe flesh at the sides of ths mouth—it's rank cruelly, that's whit I call it, and never ought to be used, * for a good horse, Woll, sir, that tm'\ was-worth something like 20,000 francs, and I was expeoted to win it. The owner was a good soit of fellow. I was paid a stiff sum for Ibo mount, and I was to get a handsome present if I won the race. Well, as misfortune would have it, we couldn't get away for a long time at the start, We had a number of false goes, and all this time I was' comprllod, ataost against my will, to pull at ijp-, Bless you she was like a bird there was no holding her. Some horses know as much about the race as a Christian, She knew that I meant winning, and she meant doing it or breaking her heart; but the Cockspur did Irpoor beast I She must have thought I was wild with her each time I pulled her back after a falsestart. She trembled in distress; at last came a fair start and the move off, but too late, Tho sawing of the Cockspur had maddened her and she boiled. I saw the forest of trees on either side of the course fly past like lightning; I pulled tho cruel Cockspur, cutting her mouth terribly, Then came a dull crash."—Pall Mall Gazotti'.

Disease in Peach Trees.

New South Wales peach tiees suffer as much as those in this Colony, and anything relating to a lemedy for the disease that has deprived us of our most' bountiful uncultivated harvest should bo read with eagerness. Nothing seems to have succeeded in New, Zealand, but it seems as if a verjjhfeak spot had been detected by Mr angua Muckay, Instructor in Agiiculturo at the Sydney Technical College. Ikhw written a report on peach treeifficaso to the Board of Technical, and thus ha discourses:—Two parcels of leaveaand twiijs of peaoh trees, received from Mr Edward Whitaker, senctnry of tho Fruitgrower's Association, havo been under microscopic and chemical examination in the laboratory or this departmentduring the last two weeks. Tho 'yellows' disease, with which tho specimens sent'Jjy Mr Whitaker wore infested, is of old standing, I havo known the disease during several seasons, and on several occasions oxaniined iofected ! leaves, etc, ' Some soils from places where the disease was bad have been analysed, either fully or partially; thamain object in view, latterly, in connection with this 'yellows' and kindred complaints being to seaich for potash in the soil, andaleo in tho ash of the diseased leaves and every case examined poUh has Hed * > a defective quantity, • Ihe BpecXna sent by Mr Whitaker ato in muolfttie s same condition as others in that ies-" pect. I find the leavjs badly infested , with minute fungoid growths, and - purpose,'in the spring of next season, * endeavoring to cultivate them, with the -, view Ui identification. Meantime I do not think thai the fungi is the cause of, trouble in either tho doaves or wood/ - but rather'results ofinoro deop-seated _ 1 disease The wwd is, in, a very bad'^

>Nflr m,, '.'. m " m " " wwi*"'*w" """'''" Btntojsobad that it docs not seem ■possible that it can over bo mado healthy again by any course of treatment. The cause of the trouble, by all the indications I have been able to get at, is in tlio life-sap of tlio tree; and that it baa originated or been aggravated by defective 0 supplies of potash in the soil thoru is : ' much reason for believing. All the Btono fruit hunt very engnrlv after this eMtiiul in lieuiihy plant lite, When tha supply is used up or falls off sound health •is impossible, and audi .. symptoms as the "yellows" develop are very likely to follow, I And, further, that the disease is {infectious, and that, by budding from trees having the " yellows," what appeared to be perfectly healthy seedling stocks have ;■. ■ become diseased in the same way, It [• , would be a public boon wero theso 1 facilities availablo in an experimental garden or otherwise, as following up , matters of this kind is difficult and when carried on in private, gar'"dens with limited capacity, So far, I would urge, that, in the approaching season for budding and grafting, very groat care should be exercised that scions for propagation purposes are not taken from trees shoving symptoms of "yellowH," I would suggest, further, that tho safest way to deal \vi',h infected trees, is to dig tlioin out now and burn them roots and branches. Young clean trees may possibly be maintained in a healthy atato by careful treatment in manuring and pruning. Potush manures must be used in soils naturally defective of this essential substance cro stone fruit cultivation can become us satisfactory and certain as it am he made, As I have dealt rather fully with this defecti\«feature in many.of our soils, in the w irk published by the Board on the Grazing farm and Garden Soils of JSew South Wales,' it is not necessary to enlarge upon tho subject here. It may be well to add, however, , that early in tho spring of 188 CI profor one of the most capable ■forchardists in the metropolitan dis- *!' triots a fertiliser to counteract tho defect made evident by analysis. That fertiliser was composed of potash, su) is, ground bono, and prepared phosphates. The results aro satisfactory, though J should expect thorn to bo much more so by treating young orelurds in that way from the commencement. As a means of keeping not' yellows' only in check but gangrenous diseases in the orange, and other trees as well, there is much to make us believe it would be very helpful,

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