By the Way.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 17, 17 May 1895, Page 3

By the Way.

i. Go r e. d The Oatopolis of Ofttago. r According to the Praotioal F-irmar. a A pretty exhibition in the Wyndham I Court on Wednesday. 0 A lively time looked for at the Borough 3 , Council on Monday night. 3 A thriving local industry— tbe Gordon i Fellmongery— the subjeot of a descriptive article this morning. J Mr J. It. McEwan has been appointed > i Chief Dairy ilxpert for the colony. Dairy 5 | schools are to be started in each Island. | Something highly prized, yet always given 1 away— a bride. All men are not homeless, but some men ■ are home less than others. Tapanui 'a turnip record is : Red Mangle 561 b ; Purple Top, 361 b ; Swede, 58 b. Ths planet Venus is now visible in the daytime with the naked eye. i It is said tbat a number of Masterton young men are ia the habit of smoking opium with Chinamen. " He entered the edit a'i sanctum And vented his views unsought, And next day was hanged as a bandit For wrecking a traiu of thought.'' A wether killed at the Wanganui Freezing Works scaled 1661 b, This iB a rcoord for the works. Mr Winter, of tbe 'Koi, has been visiting Merrivsle, and is of opinion that the best ''farm " on tbe estate would be a suitable accomodation house at the eaves. Recently a man was admitted into the Chrh-tchurch hospital suffering from a bite from a spider, which, according to his de* scription, seems to resemble tha American tarantula.—' Press.' " How to fiaise a Boy " is the leading article in a magazine for family reading." Ihe best way w« know is to show the boy a telegraph pole that overlooks a circus. Don't think yourself better than your neighbor because you live in a finer house than he does. He may hold the mortgage of your place. " The unprecedented death-rate in England, largely due to influenza, and especially severe upon old people," says the 1 Medical News,' " has of late in London reached as high a figure as 386, and in Liverpool the frightful rate of 555 has been recorded." A swagger who said he had tramped from Napier and could not get work, broke two large panes of glass in tbe Papakura Courthouse on Sunday. The Papakura bench fined the man L 2, and 10a for the damage done, or one month's hard labor in default. Since tha frozen meat trade was started, little more than a decade since, no fewer than 25,000,000 frozen sheep and lambs have been imported into Great Britain- viz., 13,000,000 from New Zealand, 3,000,000 from Australia, and 9.000,000 from the Eiver Plate. The autho* of ' Progress nnd Poverty • is vidently no believer in Prohibition. In a letter to Mr O'ftegan, mem ber for Inangahua, Mr Henry George, thus writes :— »• Prohibition succeeds where no one wants to drink. Elsewhere it does not prohibit, but, as well as I can make out, really leads to more drinking, and to much hypoorisy and corruption," On Sunday night a number of young men connected with one of the Ohristchurch churohea visited a number of hotels, with the object of detecting, if possible, the licensees in breaches of the act. It is said that thay had little difficulty in obtaining liquor at some of the houses, and it is understood informations will b 3 laid against eleven publigans. The Hindoos show simgular frankness in making census returns. Among those who were called upon ta describe their callings, some designated thoir means of living as "village thieves,"" supported by reUtivea." or •' living on loan!." The Wellington branch ol the Medioal Association hag passed a vote of thanks to the Government for its forethought in introducing a supply of anti-toxin, which came just in time to meet an outbreak of diphtheria at the Hutt and Petone. The doctors aay it has already been the means of saving sovoral lives whic'i otherwise would almoat certainly bave been lost. Speaking to a former the •ther day as to tho profit in potatoes, he remarked tbat he was very well satisfied at the returns obtained from his crop for the past two or three years, He obtained about 18 tons to the acre, and as the potatoes were sold for 90s a ton his return averaged L 27 per acre— a very satisfactory figure, he thought. — • Taieri Advocate.' An interesting discovery, instancing the ignoranoo of bank officials regarding their monetary assets, occurred at the Commercial Banking Company's Sydney office a short time back. The teller, requiring more sixpences, was supplied with a bag from tho vaults, whioh was found to contain brand new " Lion " coins of 1829 date— some L4O OF so. As the specimen is very saaroe the directors bave decided to send tbe sixpences to England, where, it is anticipated, they will fetch, 7s 6d eaoh .