News in Brief.

Otago Witness, Issue 1584, 1 April 1882, Page 12

News in Brief.

Dr Leahy has resigned his position as surgeon to tho Dunstan Hospital, He goes to Ashburton.

At the Bllosmcro Horticultural Show three roots of peas of the Farmer's Friend variety were exhibited, one of which had 93 pods on it, one 90, and tho other 106, all sound and well filled.

Tho storo just erected for the Farmers' Cooperative Association at Timaru has a capacity of about 70,000 sacks, and has a railway siding with turn-table and a line^ of rails down the centre of the store.

According to the Wakatipu Mail, Mr Boot, of Dunodin, has demonstrated that large trout may be caught in the lake with the rod and fly, he having successfully landed during the week two, of the respective weights of 151b and 71b.

A Canterbury farmer has just threshed 72 bushels to the acre from a 24 acre paddock of purple straw tuscan wheat. The same paddock produced last year no less than 14 tons of potatoes to the acre, and the previous season, being under turnips, finished off 55 heavy longwoolled wethers to the acre in a period of six weeks.

The new Eoyal Flouring Mills, which replace the Waitangi Mills, destroyed by fire, (says the Timaru Herald) are almost or quite ready for the reception of the machinery^ which arrived from New York in the Campsie Glen on Tuesday. This will probably be the finest flour mill in the Southern Hemisphere, and the machinery to be placed in it comprises the very latest improvements in milling apparatus in use in America,