The Bush Advocate. THURSDAY, JUNE 28. NOTES.

Bush Advocate, Volume IX, Issue 795, 22 June 1893, Page 2

The Bush Advocate. THURSDA Y, JUNE 28. NOTES.

credit to the oolony, and is far from being the least of the displays made j by the several colonies. From the description supplied by the correspondent of a contemporary we obtain the information that in the court there are many specimens of Maori flaxwork, showing handmade flax goods in great variety, and very effectively displayed. Also, there are photos of New Zealand stock, cattle and sheep, of the Lincoln Agricultural College. The end soreen will be covered with photos of New Zealand scenery, enlarged by the bromide process, showing mountains, lakes, rivers, and forests. The greatest attraction of all will appear in a part of the garden, which Sir Walter Buller and Mr Perceval have cabbaged for the purpose. A glass building ie being erected which will show in one division the process^ of sheep freezing, and in the other the carcases of mutton as frozen J A smaller glass compartment will hold refrigerated butter and fruit, etc. Machinery will be fully exposed to view in the glass case, and will be worked by electricity. There will be glass-covered passages all round and ferneries in each corner of the edifice. This has been done at the suggestion of Sir Walter and Mr Perceval by the liberality of Messrs Nelson Bros, and Me3srs L. Sterne and Co., the, machinery-makers, •free of all cost to the colony in the Institute. This ought to give a great impetus to the New Zealand mutton and dairy trade. A EECENt cable was to the effect that Mr Gladstone had told a deputation that he was willing to consider a proposal that intercolonial disputes should be settled by arbitration, provided such a proposal emanated from the President of the United States. That such a method of disposing of international quarrels would go far towards bringing the milennium along goes without saying. The destruction of militarism would make such a change in Europe that that Continent would scarcaly know itself. The money saved would ensure the continual smile of prosperity, while the wealth produced by the millions who are now under arms, if their weapons were talteu from them, and their strength and numbers utilised in a peaoeful direction, would be. incalculable. The Eangitikei Advooate thinks that when Mr Gladstone proposed that the initiative Bhould be taken by the President of America in endeavouring to have international arbitration substituted for war in the settlement of disputes he made a most valuable Bugg9Btion. If one were to take a bird's-eye sweep of the whole international field, he would fail to find one among the Monarchs, Kingly or Eepublic, better qualified ,-to become an apostle of peace' than 'the head of the American nation. He .is almost untrammelled by international complications ; he couldinot be accused of covertly seeking anyadvantage by preaching peace ; and he would not be by any means a red-handed apostle. Whether tho rulers of the military powers agreed to his proposals or not, too, they would be obliged to treat them with courtesy and consideration. Will President Cleveland take the initiative to which be is challenged by Mr Gladstone ? He has now an opportunity offered him to distinguish himself in an immensely more important matter than the question of cheap money or that of the pension frauds by bringing about an international council, which shall agree to beat the swords of the nations into plough shares and their hundred ton guns into steam hammers.

Mr Veoht, the representative of the Intra-Marine Supply Company, who recently visited this distriot, is not allowing the grass to grow , under his feet. We learn from the Post that Mr Veoht is aotively {lushing hi i mission for the estabishment of the mess pork industry, and throughout the colony is obtaining ready support from settlers and prominent colonists, who peroeive the great poseibilities that the new industry opens up. The difficulty whioh he finds at present is that a sufficient number of pigs are not now grown in the colony. The matters have advanced to such a stage that a stall of experts is to arrive in the colony during July to commence operations. Arrangements are now being made to start operations at Ngahauranga. Mr Veoht left again for New Plymouth on Tuesday. Several small farmers intend going in for pig-raising on a large scale, and it will probably be found that when raised in considerable numbers pigs will return handsome profits. Tite appointment of two Veterinary Inspectors for the colony is meeting with general . approval, not only from those who wish to avail themselves of the services of the Inspectors, but also from the general public. In commenting on the appointments, the Evening Press says:— That New Zealand, with all its natural advantages, is not blessed with immunity from diseases among its flocks and herds, is a fact only too well known to our pastoral and agricultural population. Cancer, tuberculosis, iungworm, and other epidemic scourges are not unknown, and the want of some professional expert in such matters has frequently led to the loss of valuable stock from ignorance of the cause and nejessary treatment. The Government's attention was drawn to the matter, and the Agent-General instructed to obtain the services of two veterinary surgeons of undoubted qualifications for the colony. From a long list of applicants for the positions two gentlemen have boon selected whoso credentials are of a voluminous and flattering character. In addition to having taken high honoms in several crucial examinations, both gentlemen are authors of papors on subjects connected with their professions. The date of their arrival in the colony is not known, but the department expect them at an early date. The prico of flax in the London market has lately been on the down grade, and has now dropped to £20 10s per ton. Wo learn that the fall in prices is caused by the collapse of a ring in America called the Cordago Trust, and which was formed two or throe years ago to control the manufacture of twine and ropes in the United States, and amalgamated about fifteen firms in the association. This ring bought up everything in the shape of flax, and the stocks now held ran into millions of dollars, and the combination so affected the English demand that the machinery there was thrown out of work, and the demand for Now Zealand flax in London fell to virtually nothing, tho market being paralysed all round. Of course, the slaokness will only be temporary, for there is an immenso consumption of the staple in tho one article of binding twine for harvesters ; but it will have the immediate effect of closing some of the mills, nnd throwing a number of men out of work at a season when other employment is hard to obtain. The New Zealand Court in the Imperial Institute has been made a.