Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 21 April 1892, Page 3

Notes and Events.

~4fm — Mr G. V. Hudson mentions, in his work on the entomology of New Zealand, that amongst the mosquitoes, the males are harmless, inoffensive things, who subsist entirely on the honey of flowers and do not meddle with anybody. It is the lady-mosquitoes whose fierce and bloodthirsty attacks are the terror of our bushmen I /-U we can say is, that female mosquitoes certainly seem to much outnumber the males.

Mr Rudolf Lehman has just finished a picture dealing with a well-known incident in the career of Cromwell. On July 2nd, 1644, after the battle of Marston Moor, Cromwell proceeded to take up his night's lodging at Ripley Castle. Its owner was absent, and his lady was with difficulty compelled to admit the parliamentary general. Finally, induced to yield a reluctant hospitality, the fiery dame received Cromwell avmed with a pair of pistols, and, leading the way to the great hall, seated herself, opposite him, and passed the night in this position, weapons in hand.

California's dried fruit industry amounted to 28,440,0001 b, in 1889, against a product of 2,250,0001 bin 1883. The output of raisins was . 1,600,0001 bin 1890.