BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1034, 17 May 1902, Page 2

BY THE WAY.

Weather anyhow. ■ Wragge's snowstorms have visited parts of the North Island. Lord Hopetoun resigning the position as Governor-General of Australia. Even an Earl will turn when his salary does not cover his expenses of living and keeping up the dignity of his oftice. Taking one consideration with another the Commonwealth family is not a happy one, and New Zealand showed more than an average amount of commonsense in keeping off the Federation grass. A " cow-spanker " in Mangatoki, Taranaki, who is milking 40 cowa on 100 acres, received £3BO Gs Bd, or £'J ltn Od per cow, for the year's takings. The shipment of New Zealand frozen apples by the Waikato to London was a failure. The fruit was of poor quality and unsuited to the London market. During the past week the police force of Wellington has engaged in a ping-pong tournament. Watch-housekeeper E. C. Collett proved an easy winner, with Constables Mahoney and Lewis as runners up. A Taranaki paper has been informed that in the Obura Valley, twenty miles or more beyond Whangamomona, there is a patch of 400 of nothing but ragwort. In Queensland last year there were 87,232 acres of wheat under cultivation, yielding 1,1)92,222 bushels, or an average of 19.00 bushels per acre. With a letter in her hand announcing that she bad won £SOOO in a lottery, a widow who kept a small shop in Paris haa been found dead in her chair, killed by the violent emotion resulting from her unexpected good fortune. phonographic records of the bowling of a pack of hounds kept at Elizabeth, New Jersey, have been placed in a phonograph, and reproduced in Court as evidence in a charge against the dogs 1 owner of maintaining a public nuisance. H'ade't Worm Fin*—the wonderful worm «• orriors—are always effective. 1» buia verywhere. The " Excelsior " cultivator is more simple, stronger in construction, and lighter in draught than any other.—Morrow, Baasctt, and Co., sole agents.