INTERCOLONIAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2719, 25 April 1906, Page 53

INTERCOLONIAL.

MELBOURNE, April 17. ■* Mr De-c-.k.in has received' a confidential despatch relating to the settlement of tin New Hebrides question. SYDNEY, April 17. Agricultural interests in the State have sustained an almost irreparable loss by the death of Mr William Farrer, Government wheat experimentalist. Mr Farrer, who was known as the Burbank of Australia, devoted his life to breeding wheats of great disease and drought-reaisting qualities. So valuable were his researches in this direction that the Indian Government sent an official to consult with him on the subject. At the show the following draught stallions were sold :— On account of Mr Grant, of Invercargill, Colonel Robin realised 9s9 s guineas and Taieri Lad 55 guineas. Ort account of Mr Chrystal, of Lochiel, Hector fetched the record price of 143 guineas. At the first annual conference of co-opera-tive dairy factory managers and secretaries the president, referring to the quality of white pine used for butter boxes, said that. New Zealand white pine commended it6el? as the most reliable wood for the purpose, and he had to admit that the local whit^ pine had failed to give the same resultt? as that imported from New Zealand.

It is stated that there are numbers ofc young Japanese, of good families, enpag--ing for work on the best farms in Canada.' in order to gain an insight into sto.-k management*