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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3735, 13 February 1891, Page 3

VERY LATEST.

(By Telegraph). Death of a R.M. Dunedis, Friday. Mr "Whitefoords, Magistrate at Kaiapoi, died this morning. Extraordinary fiarafallf TBAJTIC SUSPENDED. Woodville, Friday. An extraordinary heavy rainfall was experienced here last night, four and a quarter inches having fallen in four hours, which is the heaviest rainfall ever recorded here, the nver3 are 'in high flood. On Gn the Woodville-Napier line, traffic is stopped by 8 slip at Victoria, and the Mataiwi embankment is giving way. A portion of the Napier-Pal-mers ton road has been Washed away, and it is believed that heavy slips have occurred on the Gorge iine, but there is no possibility of communicating with there as yet. Heavy landslips have occurred throughout the district. Arsenic v- Little's Sheep Dip-

three years ago a considerable flutter was made amongst sheep dip proprietor?, by the announcement that experiments had been made, on a large scale, with arsenic, in its crude condition, (dissolved with soda or potash); and as the results were said to be in every way satisfactory, it was supposed that manufactured sheep dips would at once become things of the past. But, somehow or other, the agents of one or two of the leading dips seemed precious little concerned at the pews. They said that aflSnic had boen tried before in other communities, and had been given up in favor of ihe manufactured articles. One sheep dip in particular (Little's) so far from suffering from the intro" duction of arsenic, has steadily gone ahead ever since. The sale each' Season. for the past three years, being almost double those of the previous season. We now learn the secret of this remarkable success. Flockowners have discovered that, however cheap arsenic may be, and however good it may be as a destroyer of parasites, it has, as against Little s, certain distinct disadvantages. First, there is the danger to bDth men and sheep intensified in bad weather, which arises from using so _ violent a poison. But more than this, it is found that arsenic has an effect in drying up the yolk in the wool, and so, for a time, at least, checking its growth. Mr Gillanders, a Southland flock owner, who dips annually about 20,000 sheap, states that for two years in succession he tried experiments to ascertain the difference in the-weights of wool between sheep dipped in preparations of arsenic and others dipped it "Little's Fluid," Mr Gillanders says he carefully marked the sheep on the back of the head to distinguish them and that they run together between dipping and shearing on the same conditions. On weighing the wool he found each year a difference of half a pound per fleece in favor of the sheep dipped with "'Little's Fluid Sheep Dip." It is clear that this would far more than pay th e cost of dipping, and if Mr Gillanders is correct in hiß observations it is

the manufactured article and not whioh forms the cheapest Jip. The Wellington agents are Levin & Co,, and Messrs MurrjVy, Roberts & Co. Messrs Caselbei'? and Co have been appointed amenta fo^Masterton.