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Oamaru Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 4539, 30 November 1889, Page 3

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"Where does dißeaie come from 7 " is a question whioh has always exercised the inhabitants of a city, and has done so in Wellington for some time past' Perhaps the following will help to throw a lbtle light on the mystery, Speaking at the meeting at which Mr C. B. Morrison ad. dressed his constituents last night, a gentle man, well known in Wellington, stated that from his honse there was no drainage whatever, except within his own private ground. The drainage from his kitchen scullery, bedroom?, etc., was carried through his private drainß down the hill on which his honse was situated and into a Chinaman's garden. These enterprising tillers of the soil had, ho had noticed, dug a large hole at a convenient spot in their grounds, into which the slops, eto., from the house ran, and in it they washed their vegetables every more in? before taking them into town for sale. Mr MorriEon on hearing this said that it was a very good subject for the Sanitary Association which had lately been formed in this city.—Wellington Press. Jersey Island, the place from which we obtain the favorite Jersey cow, Is a small spot of land. If squared, it is 6| miles each way. Yet this little island has a papulation of 60,000 human beings, and over 12,000 cattle, and has had that number for the last 20 yearß, for the census of 3861 gives 12,037. And yet they export on an average annually 2000 bead. Roughly speaking, on this little Island they manage to support one head of kine to every acre, while in England there is only one head to every ten acres ; therefore, in proportion to its Biza, Jersey exports as many cattle every year aB England contains. If England were to export cattle at the same rate, her whole stock would be swept away in a single year. A party of well-known Waltonians from Christchuroh, with the addition of one or two others from the neighborhood of Waimate, went on a fishing excursion to the month of the great river Waitaki a few days ago (says the Christchurch Press), and met with great success. It appears from the description given by one of the sportsmen that the fish run to a very large size, and from what was seen, and from what a local ficherman told them, the average size of the trout at the mouth of the river is about 81b. They killed In a very short time one morning 11 fish averaging 91b, the largest turning tha scale at 121b. Another fisherman, who had been fishing a few days ago, killed 14 fith, the largest weighing 141b, and the smallest 81b. The sport is greatly enhanced by tho convenience of the spot for camping, and the fiih take freely during the tidal Is flu ence, and there is no occasion to tramp any distance over heavy shingle, or to wade, as in the Selwyn fishing.