BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1412, 17 November 1904, Page 4

BY THE WAY.

Weather still contrary. Summer postponed indefinitely. Port Arthur continues to hold out, and there are evidences of Japanese pessissism in that connection. The number of sick and .wounded Goldiers tinder treatment in Japan is stated as 45,000. During a thunderstorm at Quamfcatook (Vic) a farm laborer named Frederick Wilson was struck dead by lightning while sheltering under a tree.

There is another rumor that the Czar is going to the front. The longer he waits the less distance there will be for him to go. In reopening the liscal campaign in wmSuST"' ,**■ """"bcrlain said people in England were underfed, an* that land values had shrunk by hundreds of millions. n2S? e!tßt< ? 1 bowlers spent the King's Birthday playing a match. President v. Vice-president for a champagne

AJarmet at Kaitawa informs the TaMatua Herald' that Ms farm of 88 acres u yielding about £ 500 per

-Out of 10,000, cows dehorned at TaraSaki, not one death was recorded "through the operation. Six thousand of the animals were dehorned by one man.

One million tons of grain are blockm KnssJa owing to war disturbances of the railway system. .Bri*'* warships arc being comsioned for two instead of three years. Jney will return oftener, and be kept constant readiness, and not allow repairs to accumulate. Weinsenner, the New York walking delegate who took bribes to allow strikers to return to work, has been sentenced to twenty months' imprisonment. *

Emigrants from England to the number o\, 135,000 have settled in Canada during the past J 2 months. it is estimated that gold to the value of £5,200,000 has been produced during the mining season in Alaska, which has just closed. The late James Gallanan of Dcs Moines, lowa, who was a strong temperance advocate, provided in his will lor the endowment of a 20,000 dollar home for the wives of drunkards. The Americans have a military problem of which (says a London paper) we are happily ignorant. When a Oeorgia private soldier refused to t a negro officer tne otner day the Governor of his State congratu--1 i mon *"* " trnc Georgia grit." 4L w h P° tato boom has started in the Fens, England. A new kidney variety called the Pearl has been brought out for sowing next season, and the limited supply on the market has taken the price up to the equivalent of £7280 a ton. It is what is known as a "first early." It is white fleshed and a big yielder.