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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3873, 9 March 1915, Page 5

The prolonged absence of the usual rainfall has (telegraphs the Auckland correspondent of the Wellington “Post”), produced a great shortage of nearly all JNcav particularly cocksfoot, ryegrass, danthonia, and lotuses, and growers are demanding high prices ior the small quantities of seed they have been able to save. Seedsmen have consequently advanced the prices of several kinds of grasses, rape and some other seeds. A memorandum on a new price-list issued by an Auckland firm states that on an 'average it will cost farmers about 4s per acre more for seed than in previous vears, and that owing to the unsettled state of the market the present prices may be further increased. A motor bidycle with a. side ear attached and a mother and child figured in an accident on the Ballance Road which was not devoid of a touch or sensationalism, (states the Danneviuke “Evening News”). . The rider had set tile engine tin motion and was about to mount the machine when he missed his footing, being left on the road to ’behold bicycle and the occupants or the side car careering some distance, finally to swerve over a bank with a drop of-something like 40 or' 50 feet. On investigating the late of his w le and little one, the owner of the machine found 1 them caught in some friendly undergrowth, uninjured' beyond a little bruising. The machine and attachment were somewhat damaged. Charlie Adair’s shop-front is one of the smartest in. town, and—make no mistake —it is kept so by the Vacuum Cleaning Company. How abouf yonrsPf Clutching is now the order- of' the day with sheenf afriiers.' Grieve’s solid silver dog whistles, post free, 3s 6d, are a great assistance to dog ana shepherd,*