COLOURED COMEDIAN'S DEATH

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 62, 7 December 1926, Page 9

COLOURED COMEDIAN'S DEATH

By Telegraph—press association. Napier, December, 6. A coloured comedian named Murray in the Ferris Jazzland Revue Company was admitted to the hospital seriously ill yesterday and died to-day. Pheasant raising on the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation Society’s farm at I®radale is an interesting business (states the “Daily Telegraph”). .There the pheasants are hatched in incubators or under hens, the latter, making excellent foster-mothers, and this year, nearly 260 voting pheasants have been raised fol the restocking of coverts. Several varieties of pheasants are kept, including a strain from Central China introduced this vear but the one most favoured for liberating has been fixed irom a cross between English and Chinese pheasants. One fact noted by the curator at the Taradalo farm is that pheasants lay twice as many eggs in captivity as they do in their wild state, as many as 28 being placed to the credit of one hen. Experiments in liberation that it is inadvisable to let the birds out until (hev are nearly mature. afe out nine months being regarded as an : age at which the birds can survive in their changed surroundings. A holding pond , for trout fry has also been constructed at Taradale, and the society now hopes to give the local rivers a better of trout by liberating yearlings. Earthern banks' and not concrete have been used for the pond, so that the feh, which are sometimes troubled by timgoid parasites, may get nd oi them by means of ® dirt butts.