BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, 28 January 1911, Page 6

BY THE WAY.

Caterpillars are doing a-great deal of damage in the Temuka district. Some very prolific potato crops are being dug round Taihape, the tubers being also of large size. j Since its last monthly meeting the Waitaki County Council has paid £lls 38s 2d for 154,062 birds' eggs and heads. The Oamaru Borough Council has given permission to the local Beekeepers' Association to place two observation hives in the Botanical Gardens. The sale of a considerable line of new season's wheat is reported from Ashburton. It ran into the region of 12.000 sacks and the price given was 3s 4d f.o.b. Timaru. In r .t state of uncontrollable excitement over Hon. Roderick McKenzie's disparaging remarks upon the prospects of the Blenheim-Waipara railway the Kaikoura 'Star' refers to him as "the Minister for Public Works and other phantasmagoria." Ctaerpillars are playing havoc uith the root crops in the Waimate Plains district, Taranabi. In some cases whole crops of mangolds and carrots have been entirely destroyed. / The 'Winton Record' says: "It is reported that one of our local horseowners while staying at Gore during the race meeting last week tried his best r.o blow the electric incandescent light out in his bedroom. He was much surprised to see the light suddenly disappear when one of his room-mates turned the switch." A little girl came to the door at < no of the ho-ises visited during the recent general election in England and explained that her father was not at home. "What is his color, then:-'" the inquisitor asked, arid after careful thought the maid replied: "I think he was ginger, but he's very bald now."