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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 11, Issue 836, 19 March 1867, Page 3

The Thistle in Victoria. — The Afgus gives the following account of the thistle nuisance, which it would appear is becoming quite intolerable around Kynetown. At the last meeting of the shire council, it was said that go where they would they would find the ground covered with thistles, and the air thick with thistle-down. The president observed "that there were places where the cheapest way of cutting the thistles would be to employ a reaping-machine. He had been told by Mr. Little, that in his house it was almost impossible to eat their food, owing to the quantity of thistle-down which was flying about. The damage clone throughout the shjre by neglect of the thistles •would cost hundreds of pounds to repair. It was resolved to offer the reserves for grazing purposes to any one who would undertake to keep the thistle under, and to insist in future that the thistle inspectors should dd their duty before they received their salaries." Military Movements. — The ships Electric, Maori, and Mary Shepherd, have been taken up for the removal to England of the 57th and 12th Regiments, which are under orders to embark early in April. The Military Train is to leave in May ; and it is rumoured that arrangements are to be made for sending home the 18 th Regiment. The 18th Regiment is still stationed on the West Coast : but three companies are under orders to leave immediately for Auckland. —-Southern Cross, March 12.