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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2491, 28 June 1888, Page 2

Stokjxu Feuit roil Wintkk.— People wlio liavc trieil say that apples packed in bran, in barrels, will keep in exelletit condition all winter. Put a layer of bran in the bottom of the barrel, a layer of apples, steins upward, upon the bran, another layer of bran upon the apples, and so forth, until the barrel is full. Head up and store in some outbuilding until there is danger from severe freezing ; then either remove to the cellar or the hay iiioiv, covering with hay to protect j from frost. Bruised fruit should be carel fully sorted out before the fruit is packed. | It is reported that the Czar has expressed antipathy towards General Boulanger. A semi-ofticial communication from Berlin has been published at Vienna, stating that Germany's sympathies for Russia aro decreasing in the same measure as they are increasing for Kngland. At Sofia, Major Pop oil' was sentenced to four years' penal servitude, with degradation from bis rank, for defalcations in the War Department. Other offenders were sentenced to terms varying from five months downwards. This New York Assembly has passed a Bill, by 07 votes to S, substituting death by electricity for hanging in capital cases, and also prohibiting the publication in newspapers of the details of executions. Mr J. Pannell has a notice interesting to rin leers. Mr J. Knox will sell a lot of sundries on Saturday. ilonuro Tikitini, of Puniu, has filed a declaration of insolvency. There is a vacancy in the Alexandra Town Board to be filled up. We draw attention to Mr J. S. Buckland's important sale at Mr S. S. Graham's farm ou WtiduesUay uuxt.