THE Bay of Plenty Times AND THAMES VALLEY WARDEN,
'The Spirit of tha Times shall teac/J me speed. —King John, Act ir.
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 10, 1»92.
Notwithstanding adverse accounts of Tauranga as a sbeop farming country; we are glad to have such convincing proof as that afforded at Mr Me Nicols' sheep fair last week, that those who have spent years in this district and have had large numbers of sheep in their care, have still strong, we may €3ven say growing faith in its capacity and future. At Ohaupo last week about 1300 sheep in all were brought for this district, but small though the number appears, the quality of the animals purchased shows the intention of the buyers to spare neither pains nor expense to improve the local flocks. The report made to Government that much of the undue mortality amongst the local flocks is due to careless farming, caused a good deal of resentment, in certain circles, as this which is brought as a specific charge against Tauranga i*rmers, ig a general and acknowledged one as applied to sheep farming when carried out on as small scale and merely as a small part of the farm work. It has been recognised as an established fact that where the care and attention required by a small flock of sheep is only a small fraction of the general farm work ; the sheep frequently do not get it, and that hence sheepfarming on a small scale is not nearly so successful as when carried out as a business by itself. However we are now becoming convinced that the serious mortality complained of is not so un^jroidab^e as it has been made out to be, and instances have come to our notice lately showthat complete victory over the causes of disease and death, has been achieved bjr men who have made a careful study of o|e matter and been unremitting in their care and efforts. The knowledge of what has already been achieved in combating and ojrercoming the excessive mortality, has prompted ««n»© of the more energetic settlers to make pro pa ration for breeding a better quality of sheep that have before been kept in the district, and we both hope and believe that their enterprise will be crowned with success.
The charges for admission to the Te Puke j B*ce-course appear in oar advertising columns. ,
The s. s. Chelmsford's departaTe for tins poH s has been postponed unti] to-night, and she will 1 arrive to-morrow about noon, the s. s. Waiotahi , will not call here but go direct to Opotiki. } The sale of Mr Fenton's stock, &c, has been postponed until further notice. From our cable news it will be seen that the Earl of Glasgow has been appointed Govenor of New Zealand, but no word has yet been received by the Cabinet about it. It has been shown us that our local in last issue might induce some person not already in the hardware business in Tauranga to start here. Such was not the inteution 01 the local ; all we wanted to show was that those already in the retail line here do not carry sufficient stocks to meet the demand. There are too many already in the line here, but they have all small stocks, and instead of a fresh one starting we would like to see two of them combined. Messrs Mann & Co hare a yery large stock, but their business is more of the wholesale than the retail. The charge brought against C. Harley at the instigation of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will be heard at the R.M. Court on Monday next. An election of three members of the Board of Education, Auckland, will take place on March 11, to fill the vacancies caused by the statutory retirement of Messrs Buckhurst, Lennox ana Luke. There are seven candidates nominated including one lady, Miss Margaret L. F. Edger; the others are Messrs Bell, Buckhurst, Crispe, J. L. Kelly, Luke and G. M. O'Borke. An unusually low barometic pressure has ruled over this district since Saturday last, and on Monday evening a violent storm of wind, rain, thunder and lightning broke over the town, about 8 o'clock, the clouds coming up from the uor-west. Several lighter showers fell during the night. Messrs Mitchell and Watts have been appointed architects to the Auckland Board of Education vice Mr Allright. Permission has been granted to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to form Bands of Mercy in the public schooh, with a view to inculcating kindness to dumb creatures among the young. At Kaitaia recently the medical skill of a Maori tohunga having been successful and his patient having died in a most satisfactory manner, the usual funeral salute was fired with an array of guns that would have been highly prized in a museum of ancient arms. As a insult one man had a hand blown to pieces Necessitating amputation of the limb. During the severe thunderstorm in the Masterton district on Thursday two men at Opaki had a wonderful escape. They were unharnessing horses in a stable at Captain Holmwood'B when a flash of forked Jightning passed through the building and struck six ; horses dead. Both men were knocked down, and it was thought one was killed. Dr Beard on arrival found this was not so, as the man was only paralysed- The horses killed were Valued at £150. No other serious damage has been reported. A conference has been arranged between the representatives of Canada and the United States for the purpose of discussing reciprooity. A dog census, taken by the New York police lately, revealed the fact that there were 3387 licensed canines in the city, and 33,116 unlicensed ones. There are a million and a quarter people in New York, so that there is a dog for evdry thirty-four human beings. The biggest official salary paid to a woman is probably that of £2000 a year, which is received .by a Californian manageress of two leading life insurance companies of New York. She has to direct and organise insurance matters in the Pacific Coast States, and has over a hundred women under her control. The Chinese Government has issued a decree making the printing and publishing of antiforeign placards a capital offence, and it has j been given ex posto facto effect. Those already under arrest ore to be beheaded at once as a warning to others, if the news is to be credited ! that comes by way of Europe. In estimating the wheat production of New South Wales fdr this year the Sydney Mail puts i the general average at close upon fourteen bushels per acre. On 340,000 acres, the estimated area under crop, this average will give a total yield of 4,760,000 bushels. Last year there were 333,233 acres under wheat for grain, and the yield was 3,649,217 bushels. A table of the wheat production of the past thirty years, published in the same paper, shows how very slow has been the progress of New South Wales in agriculture ; it is rarely now that farms have yielded more than haJf the requirements of the population.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XX, 10 February 1892, Page 2
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