LATE LOCALS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 253, 28 September 1912, Page 6

LATE LOCALS.

O.i enquiry tc day we were inlormed that there vas no improvement in the condition of Mr. H. M. Carnpobn. M.P.. and that his tempt future was still very high

Tne London wool sale cable to-day states that good competition continues for all classes. Prices for crossbreds continue firm and merinos are unchanged.

A farmer at Waituna employs a unique method of securing a good bag of hares. All that is required is a motor car, two good headlights, and an assistant with a gun. He sets out for a spin on a wet night, when hares are known to frequent the roads in preference to the fields. The hares invariably keep in the light in front of the car, are are easily knocked over. It is considered a bad night when half a dozen cannot be ba "ere d.

A Marlborough man. writing to a local papir. states that he has found that spreading kelp about his fruit trees has kept them free frem blight. As a test be planted an apple ti-cc-infested with aphis blight, and opplied kelp, and the blight gradually disappeared. The contributor adds : "I cannot tell whether it is thcsaline or iodine properties of seaweed that are responsible for the immunity from disease. Seine assert that the close proxirninity to the sea is the chief reason ; but other orchards the same distance (about five chains) from the beach suffer, while the trees here escape.” He says he has never sprayed his trees .and the Government orchardist has never found any trace of blight on them.

The fruitgrowers at Stanhorpe (Q.), where ail kinds of English fruits are produced, intend to get into closer touch with the consumers. The annual shews are held locally in February, and each year there is a great display of fruit. It is intended to transport this display to Brisbane. where it will be put on exhibition in some central place, a number of the crchardists attending at the same time. As few people in the Northern State have any idea of the splendid fruit raised at this centre, it will be at once an eye-opener to city dwellers, and an opportunity for them to get into direct touch with the glowers. It is thought that this will lead to a good deal of direct trade between producer and consumer.

Some of tiie recent immigrants have not impressed the men who were delegates to the Industrial Corporation which sat in Wellington. Mr. J. B. Laurenson, of Christchurch, said that one immigrant who was o\er fifty years of age. went into his office to borrow a shilling with which to buy a meal. The man had offered a small tape measure as security. "What are you ,’’’ Mr. Laurenson had then asked. “A nurse,” was the reply. "A what ejaculate Mr. Laurenson. "A nurse a nurse of the sick.'’ the man had answered. "He carried the measure.” Mr. Laurenson explained, "to measure with after he had finished nursing." Another immigrant who had gone to him. Mr. Laurenson said, was a man of 65 years, who had been "dumped out here without kith or k:n, and truly helpless.” This man had served thirty years as a driver on the Great Northern Railway in England.