INTERPROVINCIAL

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1916, 16 October 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

[BY TELEGItUMI. — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] "* DUNEDIN, Tuesday. Tub New Zealand Rehigcrating Company propose sending home by the New Zealand Shipping Company's s.s. Done, over 9000 cji cases of frozen meat, and also expect to ship between 5000 and 6000 sheep l>y the Victory, which sails from Port Chalmers during the beginning of next month. Wednesday.

Mr T. L. Sheppard, formerly M.H.R., was foil iul lying in an insensible condition last o\ i-ning at the coiner of Minse and High-streets. He was removed to the Hospital, where it was found he was sufiuring from a stroke of paralysis. Mr Sheppard was conscious, but his left side appears to be powerless, and doubts are entertained as to his recovery. Mr .Sheppard lias been m Dunedin in a dcs pondent condition for several months, having no employment.

INVERCA.RGILL, Tuesday. An aged woman named Elizabeth Jenl>i'is, living alone at Gap-road, near Winton, >vas binned to death to-day.

WELLINGTON Tuesday. At a meeting o" Popp-ju's creditors today the Ofhcial Asignce stated that Mr Cheymol, who brought the debtorback, had been paid, he thought there would be sufficient in band to pay 17s 6d in the pound. A heavy thunderstorm passed over Wellington eaily this morning. A southerly gale has now set in, with heavy rain, and the wind is increasing with force.

CHRISTCHURCtf, Tuesday. The Acclimatisation Society have decided that the hon. Secretary, Mr S. B. Farr, shall proceed to England to take charge of the salmon ova, which the Acclimatisation Societies of the colony are anxious to procure from the old country. Harvy Rail, twenty-four years of age, son of Mr J. C. Rill, chemUt, Kaiapoi, was found dead this morning in premises at the rear of hia residence, Chnilesstreet. An inquest will be held. To-day about forty fishing licenses were i&sued to anglers, who intend making au early start trout fishing to morrow — the first day of the season here.

OAM ARU, Tuesday. Mr John Reid was to-day presented with a handsome silver salver, costing •£00, fn commemoration of the enterprise he had displayed in bringing the steamer Elderslie to this port and loadiug her with mutton tor London.

If you want to find a logician, go to your tailor. The other clay one of these fractions of the human family was heard to lemaik, " I never ask a gentleman for money." "But suppose he dof-s not pay you, what then ?" Well, if he does not pay me within a reasonable time I conclude he is not a gentleman— and then I ask him," Poultry houses, says an Ameiican paper, may be either ornamental or useful, or both combined, according to the taste of the builder. Where it is intended to continue in the business year after year it is bettei to put |J up substantial buildings in the fii&t place. A very good poultry house, which will last for many years, can be put up for £6 by the farmer who has a timber lot, Such a building would accommodate from 33 to 30 fowls, according to tl*j breed. There are many good plans foR. poultry houses, but some are better than others on account of adaptation to situation and locality. The chickens house should be sspaiate from that occupied by the adult fowls. When new there will be little difficulty in raising chicks. It should be kept olean and dry. The roof should be low and glazed on the southern exposure. It is better to let the sunlight in through the roof, as then the fowls receive the full benefit of its rays on the back, where most required. The chicken house should have a ground floor of light sand and earth, raised above the common level and provided with good drainage. This may be done by paving with cobble stones, embedded in gravel, covered afterward* with loose eai th. The roof windows must be arranged to let down from the top for vmtilatiou in sunny days, when the air inside becomes stifling, which is weakening to the chicks. There should be some method of heating artificially during cloudy and stormy days. This is * best - done by coal stoves. With these appliances chickens may be hatched in March, and if not kept too tender, will be able to run abroad in the mild weather. For spring and summer raising of chicks it might be lower atthe peak, as the young chicks would run out in the mild weather. The cold and stormy days of early spring are trying to young poultry and for these some provisions must be made. There must be separate apart, menta or buildings for adult fowls aud for chicks. The greatest difficulty in raising young chicks under glass is the - lack of good ventilation and fresh air, which makes them strong and robust. Of the large breeds, or Asiatic?, the April chickens are strong and vigorous, and less liable to the disorders that attack the Inter hatched onca,