NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume x, Issue 1942, 30 May 1888, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

A gentleman who has just returned from a trip to the Otago goldfields says that there is room for a " thousand more "' diggers in the neighborhood of Milton and Lawrence.

The public meeting to consider the advisability ot establishing a regular Bteaua service to Opunake, harbor matters, reduction of rents, &c, will be hold on Saturday next, having been postponed owing to bad weather.

A \ mile race is advertised as the special feature at the rink next Monday evening. This, we believe, is the first ol the special programmes that are to be carried out lrom time to time so as to afford as much amusement as possible.

The director of the Canterbury School of Agriculture, Mr. Ivey, has adopted a method of storing apples which has proved uncommonly successful. Instead ot being kept upon shelves of wooden battens, the fruit is kept upon trays of galvanised wire netting. These trays are arranged in tiers sufficiently lar apart to prevent the apples in the various layers from touching one another. Mr. Ivey has apples which have been kept for fifteen months on these trays, and which are still perfectly sound.

The Waverley left Nelson last night at 8 o'clock with calm weather, but she has not yet arrived. Probably having experienced the gale and run ior shelter at D'Urville Island.

There was only a small house at the performance of Martha last ni£;ht The piece dragged more than a little in parts, and was far less successful than on its first presentation, the chief tenor being noticeably weak.

A good story is current about the budget. After his three hours' speech, the Chancellor of the Exchequer went to have a bottle of champagne to wet his whistle. He was charged sixpence more than usual, and on enquiring, quite innocently, why, he was answered, '• The new duty, sir."

Mr. A. Martin, the well-known photographer from Wanganui, announces that he will shortly open a branch office iv Hawera. It is scarcely necessary to say that Mr. Martin's reputation as a firstclass photographic artist extends throughout this coast, and the Hawera branch is sure to be well patronised in consequence.

At a meeting held at Manaia on Tuesday night, to consider the proposals of merging tbe Road Boards in the County Council, a resolution was passed in favor of circulating a petition to declare all county roads district roads until such time as the "Waimate riding can be declared a separate county. The voting was given by the chairman as 27 for, 5 against. But more thac this number voted.

An attempt has been made at Manitoba, in Canada, in crossing the wild buffalo with a Durham cow, which has been attended with success. M. Bedson is the first to try this novel and happy idea. He is the proprietor of the only herd of buffaloes in the north-west. M. Bebson says that he accomplished the cross without difficulty or trouble, and thinks that the cross can be effected with the common cow as well as the Durham. He has tried only the latter, but intends to make a trial with the Polled-Angns and Galloway.