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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 132, 5 June 1891, Page 4

One of tho novel produota the oulture of whioh is sought to be encouraged .by the Department of Agrioulture of Viotoria is hemp. The department, has, therefore (the Melbourne Argus says), imported a quantity of Italian hemp' ,Beed. paroels of which will be distributed among farmer who are willing to proceed with experimental cultivation. Italian hemp produces the finest fibre, and is largely used in the manufacture of ooidftge, Toe price of the fibre 1 i#about £48 per ton, A moist, rioh soil is most favourable for it« growth, l "• •' I The Hop, Elaine Quest and bee sisters have started ft novel undertaking at Poole (flog.) in the form of '&' mushroom farm. They devote the proceeds to the nappori ot » boya' evening gohool, which is oauoft needed in th.jj town, and has a weekly attendance ol about '500. Ginger-drinking iB praotiaed so largely in the United States ub to produoe perfeot intoxication. Ginger tinoiure is the usual form of consumption, but women and children also eat ginger till the habit beoomes a regular mania, and aots injuriously upon the health. A London journalist interviewed Mr Toole, the comedian, in Paris, Here are some eye* opening exoerpts from the report of the interesting interview, as published in a London contemporary of April 6 :— On the subjeot of Australia, Mr Toole is literally trantio, Fine country— bo jolly English too —the "larrikins" oi Sydney rather demooratio, of oourse, but never was so happy in his lite, Everywhere Toole was shaken hands with as an old friend. Bugfula of opal pins and other souvenirs were given to him by the Governors, and in the evening of his wellspent days the veteran actor will have tho joy of knowing that he has conquered Australasia. There is at the present time flowering in the Vioarage-street Nursery, Warminater, a wonderful Mareohal Neil, whioh was planted on April 16, 1888. It made in the first year after planting shoots 25ft long, and it produced 200 roseß before it had been planted 12 montbß. Next year its shoots reaohed to the length of 80ft, and the number of bloomß amounted in 1890 to 2000. The plant oovers at the present time an area of 460 square feet, and is oarzying flower buda and blooms more than 8000 in number,— Gardeners* Chronicle. The medioal men of Berlin have agreed that in future their coachmen shall wear white hats, so that a dootor'a carriage may Always ba immediately distinguishable, A correspondent of a Home journal, living near Lyme Regis, states that the Phormium tenax flowers well in her garden, whioh is about five miles distant from the sea, Plants taken from New Zealand and planted in a garden in the same county (Dorset), distant from the sea about three miles and a-half, have also flowered ; in a mild, damp season flowers appearing early ia November, At Glasgow, on tbe 80th ult,, a gipsy named Vlera Smith, or Allison, was sentenced to ft month's imprisonment for prt* teading to tall the fortune of ft girl named Hendenoo, whom she swindled by ibis means oat ot • largo sum of money, One frequently visited the gir), eaoh time delaying her prophecy and demanding more money. To meet these demands her dope pawned her mother's gold watoh and several other artioles, handing over to the gipsy's total earn of about £40, A write; in a Dunedin contemporary givea a word of advice to the "oroakers" : — " The people have only to be true to them* selves, to cultivate more patienoe, self -dantyl, and thrift in the raoe for wealth, and not to be continually running down the country of their adoption by telling the world that, because business transactions don't yield fifty-one per cent, and house rents have gone down one-half, and the price of labour considerably reduced from former rates the conn try is ' cooked,' "