PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11366, 8 May 1900, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Rev. Joseph Parker, Mrs. Parker, and f family, were passengers to Sydney by.'the *i J Mararoa last evening. ' ,~:'| | Amongst those present at tho funeral of ■ I Mr. Bold were Mr. Petrie, chief inspector i It of schools, and Dr. Naylor. ' •'.' ■ r Sir. Justice Conolly is expected to return s II to Auckland next week, at the conclusion of : h the sitting of the Court of Appeal. ij X || Mr. H. J. Greenslade has resigned his posi- . «' : || tion as one of the Thames Hospital trustees, . ■' |' and Mr. R. R. Menzies has been appointed | to fill the vacancy, ',•-* 1 Mr. S. W. Entrican, M.A., brother of \ Mr. A. J. Entrican, has been appointed " ' junior master at the Auckland College and Grammar School. Mr. Entrican, who arrived recently in the colony, is possessed.of high educational qualifications. His degree was obtained at the Royal University I of Ireland. .. | Mr. J. Mackechnie, stationmaster at New- I market, left on Sunday by the s.s. Gairloch, ■ he having been transferred to Abbotsford. I On Saturday evening Mr. A. V. Macdonald, 1 the district locomotive engineer, on behalf ' j '.' ofthe staff, presented Mr. Mackechnie with ' 1 a gold-mounted umbrella, suitably inscribed, j; also a gold-mounted walking-stick, and'»' p pearl-handled pocket-knife, as a token of | the. esteem in which Mr. Mackechnie was - | held by his fellow employees in the Railway ' • j j Department. Mr. Mackechnie appropri- .. Is ately responded. I The golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs Julius Hyman was celebrated at the Synagogue, Dunedin, on April 29, when a special service ' was held. The building was crowded with people, who watched tho proceedings with , : great interest. Mr. Hyman emigrated to . j the colonies in 1852, and came to Otago ten years later. He is one of the oldest and one of the few remaining of the original members of the Dunedin Jewish congrega- |; tion, and although advanced in years, he fc retains much of his early vigour, and still Iris one of the chief supports of the Hebrew j congregation in Dunedin. Mr. Hyman is j prominent in Masonic circles, being M.E.Z. | \ of the Chapter of Otago, 814, and possesses -. | a fine collection of presentation jewels. Mrs. \ h Hyman has been a worthy partner to her . h husband, and was (says the Otago. Daily || Times) the founder of the Ladies' Hand-in- j Hand Society. ! _. A competent authority has stated that j plants gather water through the roots, not j all through tho leaves. Plants lose watei jj;; continually and rapidly, through the leaves. _ j Tho opidermis of the leaves is pierced with j h minute openings —in walnut leaves some r. 300.000 to the square inch, 160,000 openings j to the square inch of apple or plum leaves. 1 Every apple leaf therefore lias about 400,P holes leaking water. The openings are | primarily for admitting air to the plant, out water also escapes from these in the form o! • vapour. It is safe to say that the amount oi ~ water necessary to be pumped into a pIW or tree is 100 to 200 times the amount con- j | tained in it at any one time. ' If you torn . < keep plants from giving out moisture, treeand plants could be grown with one-tenth oi . g the rainfall. In considering what varieties to plant and what best endure drought- .■ choose the thicker leaved varieties, am ■ I : leaves like the mullein lose little water. j . Wide- windbreaks can actually moisten no air that reaches the orchards, and deflect wind that would sweep away the moisture. . The Sydney Mail remarks that the P" ™ - i | boring into old fruit trees and fillin ? rtUr ~( specifics to assist them in regaining «P '■■ and combating the disease has been triett .j 1() .. ! A years past, and in some instances treatment has proved very ~ | fill. Ono of the chief difficulties « ; chardists have to face is fou'.ul in the >**.., \j | treatment which acts effectually nßaiiw tf • ~ pest in ono district will fail in a " oth< n .v i : travelling representative of the Mail rccm « | dropped on a case in which the operate entirely successful in combating woolly V_. , : on apple trees. This was Mr. .lames (£»» of Cobargo, whose apple trees aro vcrj and bearing heavily. Five years a? jj f> .;; | trees were covered with woolly aphis, »' ' . .j ; Graham having noticed the effect °, » o |he! - 1 nail in one of the trees, concluded (in" A j.J substances could be used by medium ».. . t . : sap, and ho resolved to try the effect or. g phur on the aphis. He therefore, D«' ]( , 3 . .: obliquely into the trees, and filling ln Vi. | > With sulphur, corked them up. ,J. |,j----months afterwards the pest had comP" _ W disappeared, and Mr. Graham stated W*..^ , ? . neighbours had also usi-J Hie N'F*^ai \s |l ment with success. It is certainly * .^ -■.:,• Jr. trial, though success is not always ce .■_ -i£ for we have known it to fail elsaffhcre. • ; j TICKER'S EGG-POWDBB. . j A valuable substitute for eggs; M " B I everywhere. ;:c::feA