Interprovincial.

Bruce Herald, Volume IX, Issue 984, 3 April 1877, Page 7

Interprovincial.

-mm • Mrs Crispe, the lady public vaccinator of Auckland, appears to be giving eminent satisfaction. She rides about on a spark ling grey horse from station to station, polishing off the infant Auck landers in a way that is a caution to variola. About 5000 head of cattle Are, now grazing on the New Zealand and Australian Land Company's estates in the Eastern district of Southland. Drafts of fat stock are sent regularly from thence to the Dunedin market. The polled Angus breed seems to find much favor, upwards of 400 cows of that description being kept for breeding purposes. It is said that these cattle have been found to be very profitable, as they thrive well during the winter season, and yield a capital quality of beef.— Southland paper. A Mrs Eamplin has died at Auckland at the age of eighty.eight, whose first husband, Mr Otto, was attached to the commissariat during the Peninsular war. Mrs Otto accompanied him through most of his campaigns — that of "Waterloo included. She witnessed the siege of Badajoz, and had a daughter born during the battlbs in the Pyrenees. On Mr Otto's death she married Mr Eamplin, and came with him to Auckland, where, she spent many years, and, ip which she leave? many defendants and other relatives.. Waimate exports are timber, grain, wool, and mutton. Her markets are Timaru, Oamaru, Chriatchurch, and Dunedin, The two former are the more

immediate depots of trade; in the main staple, viz , firewood, posts and rails, shingles, Ac, monopoly might be secured from the two ports, which would considerably assist this portion of the intermediate railway, and push the town 1 ahead for some years. The bush will last for firewood purposes for some 16 years ; the timber will be exhausted in about five, posts and rails in ten c/? less, depending on the demand ; yet no effort has been made to meet that exhaustion, by private or public plantations. Our agriculturists would do well to expend a few of their leisure hours in forming plantations, whose value may be proved year by year in practical returns. Orchards are scarce in the County, and fruit dear ; peaches, plums, and apples all do remarkably well, so that there is no excuse for non-cultivators. Our agriculturists are very apathetic on certain points, first in breeding good stock, of large and small cattle ; secondly, in improving the general tone of their system of cultivation ; and lastly, in endeavoring to establish a branch of the New Zealand Pastoral and Agricultural Association for the County, and thus bring about improvement by competition. ' — Correspondent of the 'Lyttel ton Times.'