KINGITES AT SHORTLAND.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3702, 31 May 1869, Page 4

KINGITES AT SHORTLAND.

A Fiw cliys at/.) we sfc.it.-rl that; Takerei te Kan and about; 100 of theKmgite W.ukptos were on their way down to Bee the natives residing near Shorfcland. They arrived on Wednesday evening, landing on the banks of the Thames and walking to Kaitawa, without orning into the creek at Shoitland. Ou Thursday a gieat m-etiiis? was held at Knitaw a, between the natives of the district and these strangers. The speakers on what we may call the Que n's side Wt-re To Moananui, Huiiaua, Kitahi te iauiwha, I'iwai, and Rapana. The speeches were in the first place of welc >me, and next of entreaty to come over to the QueenV side, so that the island might be at peace. Takfrei and other of the Kingites replied, reciprocating the kindly feoling expressed by tho others, jmd expressing their wishes in the strongest terms that peaca and quietness should prevail over the land. They expres-sed that, not merely as their own personal wish, but as the message which they had received from the King himself to deliver. Takerei and the Waikatos will leave, it is expected. on the day after to-morrow, and will go to I'auranga, or rather to Katikati, where they have been invited to attend a meeting which has been called by Hori Tupaea. We may say that never, for several years past, h«s there been such ?y Btrong desire for peace and agreement suown by the King and the Waikatos as fit this tiurid. We should be «lad to find that the Prinjce able to do any good, but we would not raise our expectations too high. At all events, he could not have tried at a better time. — Advertiser.

Sewage Irrigation. — A grave error indulged in by farmers (says fcbe Engineer), and one which it will not be long ere they acknowledge, is that the only difference between the present and future methods of manuring land ' consists In the substitution of one fertiliser for another. Thisis a serious mistake. The one is a simple and primitive mode, capable of design and execution by any common farm labourer ; the other is an accurately and carefully-planned project, requiring, from first to last, a high degree of professional skill and technical knowledge and ability. Thus it is that, in the few instances wheire the agriculturist has been hia own engineer, his attempted utilisation of sewage haa eventuated in a miserable failure, greatly to his own surprise and chagrin, and also to the detriment of the principle whioh he tried to put into execution. .Regarding sewage irrigation as applicable to every description of crop, and taking the broadest view of so important a subject, it must in every instanoe necessitate conic preliminary preparation or surface foimation of the land which it is Intended to irrigate. It ia probably this circumstance, together with the local features of the district which has m&inly contributed to the utilisation of Bewage having; been hitherto, leatricted principally to grais crops. They not only require little or no surface formation, but admit, almost with impuuity, of a Tery reckless and distribution of the fertilising fluid. The case is otherwise where cereal crops ate concerned. According to the physical contour of the laud, so "the-'preparation of its surface be more or leas expensive. > At the same time, it is idle to inveigh « against this indispensable outlay, and it would be utterly useless to expect that the utilisation of sewage can, be fully and Adequately effeoted upon a scale commensurate with ita proper ralue and importance, unless this item of expenditure be estimated and allowed for. ' As the ground must bo prepared for a railway before the permanent, way oan be laid, no is a similar operation in a minor degree necessary to ensure the' proper and remunerative disposal of sewage, and it would be as hopeless to imagine f hat'tbe fecuudatory liquid could successfully irrigate unformad land a^ to expect a railway locomotive to travel up and down an ordinary roatf. Hollo-way's Ointment.— Agonizing Bains. —It M gratifying to hear sufferers recount the ease they derived Jvhen first they applied this Ointment to their, ulcers, sores, or abscesses, .with which they had been afflicted Jor year*. Soon after its application to a bad leg or inflammatory ulcer, it restrains the excitement .oibljood-vessels and nerves, which at onbe bnngi coolness and comfort, andfurthers the 1 gradual deposits Jof healthy' materials to fill n£ the ravages caused by violence, -debility, 1 or 1 ' disease. 'It expels all no*i6UB-matt\ri,>nd hoals all sbresWandiy. It «Y4««aW4o varioOse veins, bad legs,' and swellings of fcheifeet and joittttj when' the agony .iii almoit unrwmttmg antUth&paJn too muolufor a'*giiat'# ItCfDgCQ,