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Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 40, 17 December 1920, Page 5

It is thought that 200,000 acres of cotton can be cultivated in Mesopotamia, producing up to 20,000,0001b of cotton evcry year. A communication received by the Minister of Lands (Hon. D. II. Guthrie) indicates that William Cordon Low, the Scotsman who clam.s to own Wellington land to the value of £4,000,000 on accouni of a grant made to his soldiei'-grandfather, is not the sole claimant, reports the "Domin. ion." An English lady has written to the Minister asking him to see tliat the estate is not made over to Mr Low, since, she alleges, he is not the rightful heir at all. She herself , she adds, is the real owner of the £4,000,000 property. The rival claamants may he relieved when thcv find that they have really nothing to quarrel about.

Liverpool has now completed 100 of th« total of 1200 new houses which are being provided. Some of the occupiers took in their furniture before the paint was dry. Flje applications for the houses numbered 14,000. The Maoris in the Taihape district are predicting a very dry summer ancl autumn on account of the profuse flowering of the cabbage paltns. Some yeai's ago, when the conditions were similar, the' Maoris predicted a dry summer and long autumn, which proved to bo the driest ever experi. enced there. If this theory proves correct. Southland may anticipate simila? conditions, for cahhage trees have never shown such prolific heads of bloom. Mct»over, the fiax bushes are flowering stoms of quite exceptional size.