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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 152, 30 October 1895, Page 4

As showing tho value of spraying fruit trees, tho Now Zealai <1 experts while in Australia w ere informed by a meeting of the growers in a small district that their returns through the systematic adoption of the process had last season been £IO,OOO greater than in any previous year. A case is reported to us in which a domestic servant's hours of work are from 0 a.in to 12 p.m. Why should such drudgery of life exist in this young land, with its boasted democracy, its eight-hours day for men. and its shop hours and factory legislation ? Helen Keller, a deaf, dumb and blind girl, recently received 250d01s from a juvenile magazine for a short sketch of her impressions of life. Iler copy was beautifully typewritten, being done by her own little machine, winch iiu3 raised letter,* on its buttons. N.B.W. bullocks in tho form of tierces of beef are now on their way to Sibera by the steamer Menmuir.' It is an experimental shipment, and the first, perhaps ever made from Australia to Vladivostok, theEussian naval and penal station in Siberia.

A great many people believe in beirg just before they are generous ; and it lakes thein so long to be ju«t that tbey never get around to be generous. Cyclists must beware not only of the thief, but of the tramp who makes frro with machines lie tan capture to 'give bim a lift' on his way. A valuable ' safety,' borrowed without have from Wobuvn Abbey, lias just been returned to its owner, having hern founu in a hedge with a sheet of raper on which was written : 'Handsome Heward. Please return to owner, who resides at W"burt> Abbey. Signed, Nemo. P.S.— Thanks for my lift •on my way to Liverpool. T have nearly broken my kg over your machine.' For una hashed impudence this will take a lot of bea'ing. Visiting Cards equal to copperplate done at the office of this paper.