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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 969, 6 December 1879, Page 2

f*i *SBORNE S TEAM FLOUR ijr r - f - r ' r mills.^ Prices Current — Household Flour, Silk Dressed — 200 lb. Sack ... £14 0 0 per ton. 1001b. Sack... 14 7 6 „ 601b. Sack... 1415 0 „ Circular Saw — Superfine — 200 lb. Sack ... £16 15 0 per ton. 1001b. Sack... 17 5 0 „ 601b. Sack... 1715 0. „ KING & CO. RATCtIPPE & PIESSE, HOUSE, LAND, SHIPPING, AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENTS. Licensed tiand Brokers under "The - - J Land Transfer Act." CERTIFICATED ACCOUNTANTS IN BANKRUPTCY. &c., &c, &c. ' ' AGENCIESNoßWica Union Insurance Company. Australian Mutual PrJovtjdent Society. New Zealand Sun Newspaper. IVaTTA MirtPT, KEttMPdTßir. • — -- FraosW Rubber Stamps. Reed ,4c ,Archibalp's Furs and Bugs. Office of , the. , Gisborne Building Society. POVERTY BAY PRINTING AND .PUBLISHING COMPANY (Limited.) A GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders in the above Company is convened for THURSDAY, the 11th December, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon at the MASONIC HOTEL, Gladstone Road, Gisborne. By order of the Directors. ♦ . . . ; JAMES BROWNE, •■■■•''■ ' Manager. Gisborne, 25th November, 1879.

The several proclamations issued by Mr. Campbell which have appeared in our 'advertising columns, notifiying that several runs in the Bay are scab-infected, have caused much alarm, and not without good reason ; for of all the dire scourges which can befall the sheepfarmer, scab is, beyond doubt, the greatest. .., We think, then, we cannot dp^ije^r than to give pur wool-growers the contents' of a memorandum publised by Dr. Hector and presented to the Government for information. Writing on the subject of scab on sheep, Dr. Hector says the disease which is analogous to'the mange in the lower animals, and to the itch in man, the greatest scourge to which flocks are liable. A disease similar if not identical in its nature has been known from the earliest pastoral .history of The .opinion is held by <K?mex authors that it may originate from Various such as bad keep or starvation, producing a low condition. iof 4h«a flock ;_ but v there is ab'undah|i; proof : ;tKat ' in the Southern Hemisphere 'this 'disease' is entirely due