THE UNITY OF THE EMPIRE. {Daily Telegraph.)

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2146, 10 April 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE UNITY OF THE EMPIRE. {Daily Telegraph.)

.WmjsE a disposition towards compromise on aHsirtes seems to pave the way for some jdst and popular settlement of tlir land question itself, we do not find that the discussion afc to Home Rule ha? advanced ift'any degree the solution of thfe perplexing- pi oblem. No doubt if the landlords "were once cleared out of the WAyseme of the tnost ' serious objection^ to a large measure of county "government 'would b« at once rehioved ? ' bat thp . political difficulties arising from anything Hk«"" • national Parliament in Dublin •seem as'graveattd us complicated a,scvfer< 'Leading' men take refuge in 'slippery phrases about the supremacy of t[ie tVo\yn and the unity of the empire. The words mean-nothing when the speaker is asked to say what amount of ' separation hp would eiif!C^3£JisFwBiiCltoiks Ireland ib still to bp attache<l to tjje Jjjnipire. ■ Wfe "aife sometimes' totd'th'at' all "excluafvel^ Irish aftttirs " are to bd managed by the Irish ParliaTHdht But what is an exclusively Irish affair ? 'The most advanced kctaocatefc Of concession contend that before' we establish a Parliament we must disarm the Royal Irish Constabulary, and' make them a purely civil force. From rr^nple who talk oF gdnerogity, of satisfa'^i -u to national seutimeut, of appealing; t > Irish , hearts, this proviso is prepoatcioiia

For pigs, sweet food is preferable to that fgrmeHtftd. andi soured. 1 t , TukKß is do worae fruifc than that : vf hich nqyer ripens. ..* < ' A house's life, with moderate care and sjooil usage, w protracted to tweufcyjfp p, thjrty?hve and forty year*.- ' TiiBEB cows . have been poisoned ■by rotting potatoes.' One died ; the others were "saved with difficulty," t iA|f. excellent grafting wax: Take four , Places pitch) four ounces resin, two ounces hog's lord, and two ounces of beosvyax ; put them altogether into a pipkin, »n4 melt over a slow fire. ) R«tARMKa th 6 maimrial ralue of freshly falleti tre« leaves it has been &s'eortainenl thrott^h the researches of Prof. Enunerline,^ Dr. Loges and Herr Kmeis, that beetoh, oak, and birch leaves contain only <2 to 2 8 per cent. •of uti!i«&ble mutter,) plane up -to 4, and poplar and . willow &>to 6.7 per oat. It i^'one advantage of turnips that they are -a crop not damaged but rather benefited by slight freeing of the ground. Qf coarse they should not be handled \ when f raien, bat !n a d'&y or tv> o after , t)ie^''will have a Aner flavour than beJ fore. i - Tirnffi fs probably vo root more poorly i adapted to rilabing gord milk or butter , than goiitoes. .Cows ihoultf b? ftd 6nly sparingly and with a g< od ratbd of cornr meat, or the milk will Ije th'n and tho | butter of poor quality.