FOREST TREE PLANTING.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1845, 3 May 1884, Page 4

FOREST TREE PLANTING.

The following regulations under the Forest Trees Planting Encouragement Acts aro gazetted ;— l . The planting in respect of which a grant of land under the Act is claimed need not be in one block, but may be in several blocks on the same property. 2. The land planted must be securely fenced, and must have been devoted to planting for at least two years. 3. The trees must be in a vigorous and heilthy state when the grant of land is applied for. 4 The trees may be of any description, and number planted must be at the rate of not less than 500 per acre. 5. The tiecs must be of an average height of 2ffc, except in the casps of gum, wattle, popnl.ir, or willow, which must be of an average height of 4ft. G. As soon as the land is fenced and the trees planted, a report must lie sent to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the provincial district in which the lands are situate, who will cause inspection of the same to be made, from the date of which, it duly certified, the twos'ears will be calculated. 7. The amount of the land order to be issued under authority of section 4 of the Foiest Tiees Planting Encouragement Act Amendment Act, ]872, in respect of cveiy acre of land planted shall be -C 4. S. The fulfilment ot the conditions above prcsciibed shall be ascertained, and shall be cettified to in the form annexed by an oilicer appointed by the Governor, who shall foiward the same to the Societal y for Ciow n Lands. Upon the receipt of such certificate, the Governor may either issue hit. own certificate to the Waste Lands Boards, or he may, if he think lit, cause further inquiry to he made into the facts of the case, 9. No peison shall be en titled to icceivc a l.uid older under the Forest Trees Planting Encouragement Act Amendment Act, 1872, unless he shall, at the time he makes a claim theiefore, produce to and deposit with the Commissioner of Ciown Lands, for the provincial district in which the lands aie situate apian of the land planted with trees in respuct of w hicli lie claims such land order, showing the nniks or numbers by which such land is known on the record maps in the Ciown Lands Office of the said distiict. The applicant shall also pioducc and leave with such officer a statutoiy dcclaiation made by him that to the best of his belief the boundaries and dimensions of such land are correctly delineated on such plan, and that no land older has boen pieviously granted to any person in lesnect of the planting the land described in such plan with trees. She knew music and painting and style, and possibly knew how to flnt; bo t— saints of the kitchen !— she aoked for a giidnon to non a shirt ! There aie in England no fewer than 10,000 Hour Tills, pioducmg annually over 30,000 000 sacks of Hour, woi th about £30,000,000 stei ling. The German Empire has 7,710. 05"2 women who have been mauied, and of these ],909,352 aie now widows. "Railways aie aisstociatic," says the New York E\pi ess, " they teach a man to know his own station, and to stop there." They are eminently social, too, being hold togelliei by many ties. "Glshml," said an Ameucan major, "I always obscive that those peisous who have a meat deal to say about being ready to shed their last diop of blood are amazin' peitie'lar about the liist diop." Tin; Archbishop of Canteibmy, pi caching at the consociation of a chinch at Croydon, said that it was the want of sympathy between the upper and lower classes which made us tiemble to think of the mine of ill will which lay buued for the puscnt A Toronto man waited until lie was eighty-tlnee jcais old befoie he got married waited until lie was smc that if he didn't like it, lie wouldn't lnc long to repent. — Boston Post. Shekidw, one day de-canting on the pedigree of his fannh, ie»icttid tint they were no longer styled OrtheiicUn as formerly. "Indeed, father," lephed the son, "I thing we ha\e moie right to the ' O1O 1 than any one else, foi we owe pvervbody" Soufc. pleasant habits exist among theatiegoeis at Hanlcy. Some boys weie recently taken into custody and fined for (hopping gmgerbeer bottles filled with explosives fiom the galleiy to the pit. Ay English syndicite has pui chased 40,000 acies of land at Taupo for £32,000. The negotiations conducted by eablcgiams, w Inch alone cost £7.">0. ONE of the best things in the woild to give a hoise if tor he has been dii\on hard is a qnaifc of oatmeal in a quait of watei It lefieshe-, and sticngthens him, ichevcs his immediate thirst, and prepares hi-, stomach tor moio solid food. Paint, to Inst Inner, should be put on eaily in winter oi spi mcr, when it i-> cold and no dust flying Paint put on in cold ■weather foims a body or coat upon tiie suifaoc of the wood that becomes haul and resists the uiuthei. Cow. t» that iv u fed exclusively on hay have a stiong"r dc->iie ioi water than it fed on other kinds of foddei. See that they have access to it at all times. It will pay to gi\e milch cows a pailful of water at noo'i in w Inch a, rjuait of bian has been stnied. Lick ot water will quickty cause a shrinkage in milk, as well as an actual loss of flesh. The following is said to be a means of detecting the glandeis : " A bucket half full of water should be held undei the animal's nostiiK, and the mucus allowed to drop into the watei If the substance remains on the top oi spicads or dissolves in the water, the disease is not glandeis, but if the diop leiuains undissolvcd and sinks to the bottom, the hoise should be killed." It is stated that the Pope is about to issue an Encyclical on the subject of Fiee masonry, and it is looked for with much interest, as in some influential quaitcis it is anticipated that some important distinctions will be made between some phases of Continental Fieemasonry of a such as that which exists m England. "Was early man a savage?" asks a magazine writer. That depends. If the early man was diessmg to catch the 4 a.m. train, and his collar button fell behind the bin eau, the piobabihties aie that he was about as savage as they make 'em. — Noir. Heiald. A writer on the subject of the management of childien says; "If, in instructing a child, your are vexed with it for want of adioitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and leincmber that a child is all left hand." An individual applies to the cab company for a situation. " Do you know how to drive ?" " Yes, sir." " You know that you must be polite with all passengers ? "Ah!" "And honest. For example, ■what would you do if you should find a pocketbook containing IO.OOOdoI ?" " Nothing at all. I should live on my income.*' " What makes you so late to-night ?" asked a wife of her husband. " You piomised me you would be home at ten o'clock." " I've been (hie) lookin' at the comets, 'he replied. " Comets ? there is but one comet visible to the naked eye. 5 ' •' Yesh, but one comet visible to ernaked eye (hie), but yer see I had the aid of er powerful glassh and could see two of 'em." — Philadelphia Call. 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