BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 15308, 7 October 1913, Page 8

BREVITIES

Captain Cook discovered. New Zealand October 7, 1769.

Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, and Oliver Wendell Holmes on October 7, 1894.

Crown icrraco (Lakes) people say that tins is the earliest spring on record in their district.

Rose trees in 31 as tor ton gardens are very badly affected just now with green aphis.

Lack of employment in Wanganui is still acutely felt in labor circles.

The Mayor of Auckland (Mr C. J. Parr) is a great believer in having borqugh work darned out by day labor. The grass grub is causing a good deal of anxiety to farmers in the Oamaru district at the present time. Feikling Acclimatisation Society are on the warpath against shags, for which an offer of 2s per head is being made. Since the trnmears commenced running in Napier three weeks ago the average daily takings amounted to £2B 8s 6d. A Raumati farmer, at the meeting of farmers at Danncvirke to form a cowtesting association, said such a procedure was useless unless the broad arrow was put on all culls. . We understand that Coronet Peak Station has again changed hands. The purchaser is a well-known Hillend farmer.— ‘Lake County Press.’ A runholder at Glenorchy states that during the past 12 months the number of rabbits taken on his station . exceeded 100,000. The lambing in the Lakes district this season bids fair to establish a record. The weather has been extremely favorable, and. breeders report that the mortality rate has been exceptionally small. At . the annual meeting of the Nelson District Fruitgrowers’ Association it • was decided to take steps to inaugurate- a national apple show, on the lines of-the American fruit fairs, to be held annually in different centres. A suggestion was made that land for the purpose of erecting workers’ dwellings in Mosgiel be purchased from the Otago Presbyterian Church Board, but the board have informed the Borough Council that it is not proposed to part with any of the property. Messrs Fletcher Bros., of Dunedin, are the successful tenderers for the construction of a new warehouse for Messrs M'Giuer and Taylor, of Invercargill. The contract price is about £B,OOO. A house owned and occupied by Mr Aaron Carnes was destroyed by fire at Reef ton. The only insurance was £IOO in the State Office.