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Opunake Times, Volume IV, Issue 184, 7 April 1896, Page 2

We give a reminder of Mr W. D. Scott's Opunake sale on Friday next. Mr Newton King holds his usual Kahotu sale to-morrow for which he notifies entries. The proportion of working expenses to income of the Manawatu Railway Company for the past twelve months was 46 per cent. On the Government line for the whole colony last year it was 6362 per cent. The Lyttelton Times on Friday morning, commenting on the Brunner disaster, said "Tho fact that naked.lights were used by the workmen shows that at least one of the precautions insisted upon after the Kaitangata disaster was neglected." This is independent testimony, and suggests a line of enquiry. During the recent spell of hot weather in Victoria, writes the Tortland Guardian, not a single gallon of milk had to be turned away from the Cobrico Cheddar Cheese Factory. This factory insists upon all the milk supplied to it being Berated, and it is claimed that it is to this the immunity from loss during the hot weather is due. A butter.box which it is believed will meet the requirement of the export trade better than those now in use has been invented by Messrs Hart and Brannell, two officers of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria, The box made by Messrs Hart and Brannell's design has a piece of the board projecting at each corner, so that when the boxes are placed side by side and on top of each other there is an open space between thorn, through which the cool air can pass.

The thoughtless manner in which the sick and diseased are being foisted on to this Colony is exemplified by an extraordinary communication from Mr D. Dent, secretary to the Associated British Charities, who, writing to the secretary to the Benevolent Institution at Wellington, under date February 19, states that his society is sending out to Christchurch a Bristol man named Sidney Didcott, who has boen under treatment at the Bournemouth Boyal Sanatorium for Consumption. The letter Btates that the patient has been strongly recommended by the doctors to go a voyage to the Cape or New Zealand, and the local Emigration Society is granting him £o as a loan, and giving Didcott an introduction to a Christchurch resident. Didcott, who is a " rounder" in the shoe trade, will also be provided with £2 in his pocket, and the committee authorise'the Benevolent Trustees to expend a further sum of £3. Of the whole amount provided by the committee, £ll is a " returnable grant," which he is to pay back as he can. The committee hopes, frankly adds the letter, that the man will wish to slay in the Colony, and send for his family to join him. —On the suggestion of the chairman the letter was referred to the Customs autho. rities, the Trustees fearing that the man is likely to become a charge on a benevolent institution.

Mr W. D. Scott notifies entries for his Awatuna Stock sale, which takes place on Monday.

Every year one person in each hundred persons dies in New Zealand, and of those that die, one person in each hundred persona dies by suicide.

In 1810 the grandfather of the present Rothschild family wasn't worth a penny. The family is now worth £400,000,000, and it is calculated that in 1905 it will have increased to £120,000,000,000, the interest on which would be sufficient to keep in comfort the whole population of France. The Rothschilds are famous for saving the results of other people's labor and sticking to it.— Thrift.

The census that is to be taken this year is of a purely personal character, the only information asked for, besides the details as to individuals, being a description of the house in which they reside, and there should therefore, be very few mistakes made by householders in filling up the schedules. The work of distributing the schedules is already in progress; the census is to be taken for the night of the 12th instant, and collected on the following day, or as soon after as possible-

The Agricultural Department, has forwarded us the following leaflets for farmers, gardeners, and fruit-growers:—" Shot-hole Fungus," which apricots and stone fruits are generally liable to suffer from; " The Apple Beetle," " Ox-eye and Day Daisy, or poached Eggs," which cause great damage to grass lands; "The Grain Weevil," which burrow into and through the corn; and also a paper on "New Commercial orops for New Zealand." All the papers are by Mr T. Kirk, F.L.S., Government Biologist.

The Hawera School boys, 32 in number, in charge of Mr Straok, head teacher, paid a visit to Parihaki, leaving Hawera on Friday last. The arrived at Opunake in the evening and camped for the night in the school. On Saturday morning they proceeded to Parihaka, where they were well received by the natives, who turned out in force to welcome them. Every hospitalty was shown them during their stay. On the return journey they stayed at Rahotu on Monday night, and gave a concert in aid of the Brunner Fund, which realised £2 lis 6d. They passed through Opunake on their way home to-day, thoroughly delighted with their outing. The manners and conduct of the boys were the subject of very favorable comment and reflects great credit on their teachers. The New Zealand Department of Agriculture has received a letter from a prominent firm in Victoria stating that as New South Wales and Victoria were much understocked in breeding ewes there could hardly be a very keen demand for rams this year in those colonies. It New Zealand dealers were going to flood the market in the same way as happened last year the sales must again prove a fiasco. If, however, only bona fide breeders were represented, and they limited their drafts to really good quality, a fair demand at fair values should result. For the next sales in Melbourne the firm would be able to pen up about the most representative oatalogue of Lincolns ever offered there. It is therefore absolutely necessary for New Zealand vendors to limit their consignments to small and very select drafts of the highest possible grade..

The following account of conveying water by means of a syphon may be a wrinkle to some of our farmers worth knowing. It is from a Californian paper giving the details of the application of the syphon for obtaining water on a dairy farm of upwards of 300 acres. Selecting a low, moist spot over the hill on the east side of his ranch for a well, the farmer employed two men to dig over a surface 12ft x 24ft to a depth of 12ft. When completed, there were sJft of water in the pond. To convey the water over the hill to flattie tanks, 1260 ft distant, he laid an inch pipe along the level about'4ooft and over a gentle sloping hill 12fi; above tho plain and then down the slope westward. At the summit he used a pump temporarily to draw the .water upwards, and he soon had the pleasure of seeing a flow from the outlet. The pump was removed, and his syphon worked to perfection. By the use of stop-corks he can regulate the flow to and from the two large 600 gal troughs, just made and placed in position. He has ordered float-cocks for the tanks. He has now an ample supply of water for 1000 head of cattle. Other tanks will be constructed at convenient points to supply the wants of other stock on the ranch, also for domestic and garden purposes.

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