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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1110, 17 December 1869, Page 3

Haymaking. — This is the season of hayf making, and ifc may not be without its use [ to give the experience of a farmer regard- - ing the best mode of treating the grass. It is too often, as we understand him, allowed [ to stand till it is dead ripe, and then the little life left in it is deliberately fried out [ by days of needless drying in the swath, or '. cock. In this way it makes a hay which \ only : the severest pangs of hunger will in--1 duce cattle to eat, attesting the trite old „ truth — ' . . . . If vain our toil 1 Wo ought to blamo the culture, not tlio soil. | Let the grass be cut the moment it is ripe, i jand gathered before it is fairly shrivelled [ up in the siui, thus retaining its succulency and forming a grateful bite to the cattle.— [ Wangaimi Chronicle. ) Okicket. — The Wesleyan Ministers in. . Australia havo been setting an excellent [ example, as will be seen from the following , extract in the Mount Alexander Mail :—- --, " Tlie cricket season in Castlomaino was . , dnly inaugurated on Saturday. ;The , Wesleyan Ministers attending the conference held here being desirous of some , little relaxation to their labours, sent the > ! press a challenge to a friendly game, which was accepted, and accordingly a portion of the Mount Alexander Mail staff • met the roverend gentlemen on the reserve , at Milkmaid's '.Flat. A very pleasant afternoon was spent, the result being a victory for the t3'pos ; the totals being — Ministers. 42 ; l J ress, 51. The game was , witnessed by a goodly number of persons including several ladies." Large ISTuggets.— -Lately, two nuggets i were got from Tyler's reef, Ingle wood, Victoria, one weighing 200ozs. 15dwts., i and the other 89ozs. Several smaller i nuggets were also obtained. ■ A young lady's opinion of the bonnet ; of the season : " Oh, tho bonnets of my 1 girlhood — the kind I wore to school ! I ■ really thought them pretty. I must have . l been a fool. And ,yet I used to think myself on hats a jaunty miss. . Perhaps I . was, as fashion went ; but what was that ; to this? Oh, the lovely little pancake— s the charming little mat! , It. makes my r head' so level, and so very, very flat!" ■ 'We hear there is a book with the dan > gerous title of The Pocket Lawyer. We [ shouldn't much like a book with this title, ? fpr we are sure that if we were to get a , lawyer, into pur pojbket, w;e : never' should be able to get him oiit of it. ;