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Otago Witness, Issue 1418, 25 January 1879, Page 15

BUSINESS NOTICES. MARSHALL, SONS, & CO., (LIMITED), Gainsborough, England. NEW ZEALAND DEPOT: Walker street, Dunedin. Portable STEAM ENGINES, all sizes Improved TRACTION ENGINES, of new design Steam THRESHING MACHINERY, with latest improvements SAWING, GRINDING, and PUMPING MACHINERY The whole of which are of best possible constrnotion, and for which they have received over 140 PRIZES The undersigned have received advice of an extra large supply of all sizes of Engines and Threshing Machines, to arrive this season, and for which, as Agents for Messrs Marshall, Sons, and Co., they are now booking orders at English prices. Articles not in stock here ordeied by telegraph from England free of cost to purchasers. HENDERSON, LAW, & CO., 2o Agents, Dunedin. \TEf ZEALAND INSURANCE IS COMPANY. FIRE AND MARINE. Capital £1,000,000. Reserve Fund ... £135,000. Office of Otago Branch : Corner of High and Rattray streets, Dunedin. Fire Department. — Insurances granted at Lowest Current Rates on Buildings, Mills, Breweries, Stocks, Furniture Farm Produce, Stacks, &c, &c. The above Company, being the First Insurance Company established in New Zea. land, has prior claims on the patronage of New Zealand Colonists, and, being a Local Institution, the whole of the funds are invested in the Colony. Money advanced upon good Security. GEORGE W. ELLIOTT, 27jy. Manager for Otago. GREENLEES BROTHERS' WHISKIES. In Quarter- casks — PURE HIGHLAND MALT and GLENLUSSA. In Case — LORNE and HAZELBURNE. HENDERSON, LAW, & CO., 120 Agents, Dunedin. CAUTION. UDOLPHO WOLFE'S AROMATIC SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS. -VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an IS Injunction has been obtained in the Supreme Court of Victoria against Mr Henri J- Hart, of Melbourne, restraining him from offering or exposing for sale or selling any of his Schnapps in bottles similar to those used by Mr Wolfe, or only colourably differing tnerefrom, or in packages or parcels similarly got up, or with labels colourably imitated and that it is Mr Wolfe's intention to pro ceed against all persons making sale or disposing of, or offering or exposing for sale, such imitations in this Colony. DALGETY, NICHOLS, & CO., 17a Agents for Otago. ANKS, BARRON, & CO WINE MERCHANTS, Rattray street. PORT WINE FOR INVALIDS— Yellow seal, 60s per dozen; 5a per bottle. CHAMPAGNE— A light dry Bpark. ling summer wine, 50s and 60s per dozen. FINE OLD MARSALA— A great bargain ; 37s 6d per dozen. WHISKY— The perfection of Blends, thoroughly matured, 42s per case. Orders for Wines and Spirits in quantities of one dozen and over sent, carriage paid, to any railway station to which through communication from Dunedin may be open BANKS, BARRON, & CO., Dunedin. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Correspondents must enclose name and address not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. We in all cases claim the right to correct or abbreviate communications. We cannot guarantee the return of rejected MSS., unless accompanied by a stamped envelope. Contributions for the Press, not in the form of letters, and nob exceeding two ounces, can be sent for Id, if left open at the ends. We do not answer questions by post. J. D. A., author of " Station < Management," would oblige by sending us his address. NOTES AND QUERIES. A SUBSCRIBER asks, "Can you, or any of your readors inform me how much it costs per aero in Otago to take up an old grass paddock and sow it down properly in wheat ? " ANSWERS. A FARMER writes :— " As tho season for gathering apples is now approaching, would you kindly lot mo know the requisites for keeping apples during tho winter ? " Answer : Thore arc three requisites for keeping apples we ]l — a l ow temperature, about froezing; a uniform or changeless temperature ; and the exclusion of air currents. Apples will not freeze unless a few degrees below the freezing point, and if they could be kept constantly about 32° Fahrenheit, they would not decay in a year. As we cannot attain this in practice, we must come as near to it as we can. Place the fruit in a cool outhouse aB soon as gathered, and keep it there till froezing Aveathor sets in. Keep it as cold in the cellar as practicable, by open windows, and use a thermometer to regulate a uniform temperature Alternations of heat and cold soou rot apples. This is the reason that iipples keep longer iv barrels than, on opon. shelves ; and barrols would be best if k wo could only know | when tuo decay bogius, for as soon sis this