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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9720, 16 January 1895, Page 6

Speaking recently at Carlisle, ab an, inquiry into the question of agricultural depression, Sir Wilfrid Lawson said when he came to those meetings—where agricultural depression seemed bo have gone on for four or five generations—{laughter)he was always reminded of the observations of a Bishop of Oxford, who said that when Convocation met they should always pray for those who were at sea. (Laughter.) He thought tb*y were all at sea a great, deal as to finding any definite means of improving the lob of the distressed and de-

pressed agriculturists. (Laughter.) When ho came to those meetings he generally fomid the course of things to be this. Farmers gob up and talked more or less sense(laughter)—and suggested remedies, and then someone jumped up and said, " Ren*3 maun cum doon." (Laughter.) Tremendous cheering generally followed that observation, but he believed that, whatever success they might have in improving agriculture, ib would end by putting more money into the pockets of the landlords than anybody else. (Laughter and cheers.) ' He would not object to a Land Court being established.

It appears that heart disease is more common among horses than is generally supposed. In a late issue of the Journal of Comparative Pathology, I'rofessor Stockman, of Edinburgh, has an interesting article on the subject, which states that the most general heart trouble of the horse is disease of the aortic valves in the ratio, according to Noct.rd's recorded observations, of 28 to 42; and Frohner found in ten cases that seven ware lesion* of the lefb heart.

Horses suffering from the more general form of heart disease are not necessarily useless. They rarely drop down and expire instantaneously in the street or on the highway. However, horses showing symptoms of heart disturbance should nob be

severely taxed in *tienjjth :or speed, else serious consequence? may be precipitated, It is not (says the Live Stock Journal) of much special interest to the horse-owner to be told by Professor Stockman that the administration of digitalis may do good, or to be informed' that " we can relieve venous congestion by giving a saline purge, and digestion can bo stimulated by carminatives with digestible and nourishing food." "•A Sate investment." In these days of numerous stoppages of financial institutions one feels in doubt how or where to invest bis money. There is no risk in the bargains in houses and land at Themes' Laud Agency, 81, Queeu-etreet.