Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 26 April 1892, Page 3

Notes and Events.

From an authentic . source it is learned (March 28rd) that the terms upon which the Wood-O'Shea will case was settled are as follows : Mrs Farnell, formally Mrs O'Shea, obtains the wbole of her aunt's freehold property, which is situated in Gloucester and Suffolk Counties, England, and is valued at nearly £10,000; also half the £140,000 in cash and securities left by the testator— the other half goes to the other litigants. Mrs Parnell is required to give Captain O'Shea, her former husband, a halflife interest in her £70,000. When Mr* Parnell and Captain O'Shea are both dead this money is to be divided among the children of their marriage. The legal expences of the settlement amounted to one-sixth of the entire property involved. Mrs Parnell's j costs were £ 10,000. j A bookseller in Tokio, the capital of Japan, thus advertises his business : - " The . advantages of our establishment - 1. Prices cheap as a lottery. 2. Book elegant as a sing-ing-girl. 3. Print clear as crystal. 4. Paper tough as elephant's hide. 5- Customers treated as politely as by the rival steamship companies. 6. Articles as plentiful as in a library. 7 Good3 despatched as expeditiously as a cannon ball. 8. Parcels done up with as much care as that bestow£d on her husband by a loving wife. 9. All defects, such as dissipation and idleness will be cured in young people paying us frequent visits, and they will become solid men. 10. The other advantages we. offer are too many for language to express " Complaints are frequent, and by no means ill-founded, at the profits made by the middlemen, but it will be found a task of very great difficulty to get rid of them. It was thought by the cattle and sheep breeders of Great Britain that by selling live stock by weight, by which means a very close estimate of. the value could be made, the profits of the middlemen would be greatly reduced ; and after considerable agitation on their part, an Act of Parliament was passed compelling the erection of weighbridges in all markets and places were cattle and sheep were exposed for sale. But it appears the middlemen are not to be " done "; and it now happens that the stock of those vendors who patronise the weighbridge make a very bad price. This can only be ties cribed as another form of " boycotting." The following figares will give an idea of the enormous number of rabbits killed since the beginning of the present year on some of the stations in the western division ot New South Wales. The majority were destroyed by water poisoned with arsenic. It is estimated that the number given is independent of rab- • bits killed by the drought, which it is estimated considerably exceed the number poisoned. The numbers are : — Billilla, 15,000 ; Moorara, 800,000; Cuthero, 150,000; Netley, 800,000; Outer Nettalie, 80,000; Mpmba, including Mount Murchison, and Purnanga, 1,000,000; Kilfera, 1,250,000 ; Marfield, 147,000 ; Mt. Manara, 150,000; Baden Park, 80,000; Fullham, 70,000; Kew, 62,000 ; Tilcha, 48 mile tank Booligal road 17,400 250,000 ; ; 35 mile Tank, Booligal poad, 40,000 ; 26---mile Tank, 73,500.