THROUGH OUR EXCHANGES.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 2265, 15 May 1891, Page 1

THROUGH OUR EXCHANGES.

-s> Mr A. J. Balfour has now the degree of L.L.D. from four Universities, and is likely to receive a title. The youngest widow in the colonies is probably Minnie Breen, 13 years of age, living at Berrima, New South Wales. Her husband died last week, aged 23. A farmer of over twenty years practical experience in New South Wales writes to the Bureau of Agriculture of that Colony that the system of wheat growing he has pursued has insured his crops against rust. He works the land in hot weather, burns off the stubble immediately after harvest, ploughs deep, steeps the seed wheat in a solution of vitriol and arsenic, dries it with wood ashes before sowing, and uses only half a bushel per acre for aeed. The system tends to destroy the rnst fungus in the soil and also in the seed. A cherished privilege of English folk settled in foreign countries is the facility offered for the celebration of marriages on Her Majesty's war- vessels, which is regarded both in faob and in law as equivalent to a marriage on British soil. Without any reason being assigned, the naval, commanders-in-chief at foreign stations have (the London correspondent of the , ' Manchester Examiner' says) received "an order from the, Admiralty prohibiting marriages on board Her Maj esty 's shipa after the end of the presenfcVear.