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Otago Witness, Issue 1581, 4 March 1882, Page 9

News in Brief.

The township of Nightcap Is rapidly Bering idR into iioopottjMiOi ni coubf qut-nca of the coal meiisureH that.aio buiug developed thsrej Dr Gribbß,' 'of T korauga, has treajed ,23' palientl) Buffering' from diphtheria who bluegum Bte&m, and all are conyaleßcent. } The Popotunoa Chvotiicle saya that the v.ry •argo any* under wbftt on the Glydevile Nation will thi* year yield an averago 'cf 'ai e -8t 45 bushela to tho i'.c<e, , v j It is reported that; iwveral aalmon-froufc of very Wgn ciz^ wera seen in the Molyneux recently, below the Beaumont. : '," The Cl .'fcbji paper sta'^s that as was' antici pated, the c'r< i» on lha ridgps are lif?bt;but on the low and awampy ground they are excellent. The Ensign saya tbafc although the weather ia the Mtttaura district haa kept the crops back, farmers speak mt,h coufidtnee of » good hnrveat, and everywhere, the oats and wht-ai. look well.; i Tho Palmeraton Times Btatea that! Mr W. Affleck, who it will be rfm^mbpr-fl met wilh a Bevtre accident a short lime ago, is recovering fant,. and it ia to be hoped he will anon be about again. | " The Wyndham correspondent of the Southland Tiroes states that during a trip through the dii'tiict' l&Rt week *>c noticed ' several splendid crops of wheat awd oafs. A f °w field* '•f tb« latter should average from 70 to 75 bushels. A 200-acre paddock of wheat; on the Charlton block bei.ween G<th iin<l Malau-a, owned by Mews F<-jwr *rid M'Lean, ia estimated to yield from 45 to 50 bushel* per aero. A. good ■arvpsl;' generally is expected in the Mataurn dinfcricfc , . , The New Zealand Meat Preserving Company, having I»r». year mad) the experiment of h'nninfr rabbit* at Woodlandn, and having tried the pr>'d ct in the Home market, »re prepared >o, Bt.arl. their works again, and are now inviting supplies of the raw material. In mentioning the abolishing of the chafrman's honorarium al; the lant. mafctirg of the WaHaki O»unty Oonocil by I;hn cwtiag vole of the chairman lihmself, the North Ot'^i Times expro?B«* the opinion that ' in tluvo times of advanced wJf.ioteroßt il wonM not be ensv to itiflft -wi f ,h more than 1000 county qhtiirmpn who woxxW voto away £100 from their p( ckotH.' ' Spe I ,' ii the WfaLern Star, protflats wnineS; ♦^'» i»rt-p<-«j«l of «hf S n utbl'uul ApHcultursl Society to import stoats and weasels. 'One would havp f-uppoaed,' he writes, • that one drendful rolfifnke £tV c rabbits] wou'd have satisfied thenu without a Becond, I would xuegest ia cshb of their importation that farmers eboold combine and obtain compensation in the law courts, for until something of that Borfc is taken in hand and it is brought home to their pockets, the Society will persist in stocking thq guuntry, with .vermin. 1 ;