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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 367, 28 January 1890, Page 2

down tbe Mangatainoka to its junction with the Manawatu, reaching Palmerston about 4 o'clock. Mr Park experienced no difficulty in negotiating tbe Ga -ge rapids, and describee his trip as a very pleasant one. The scenery right through, h« says, was grand. When pigs get amongst a crop of potatoes, the latter disappear very quickly. On Saturday Mr E. lianrke surprised a party of eight gnu iters in his potato patch. He had a breech loader, and he thinks five or six of llio trespassers will eat uo mors potatoes. The owner had been repeatedly warned of tha damage tlie pigs wers doing. At Gisborne on Wednesday evening a sad accident happened to the Rev. John McAra. Presbyterian minister. He was driving in a buggy, when the horse was startled and became unmanageable. The carriage swerved and capsued, and the reverand gentleman and a child were thrown out on the road. Mr McAra sustained a fracture of the skull and collarbone. The child was not severely injured. The rev. gentleman died on Saturday evening. Says the Wanganui Chronicle :—The Codlin moth pest is playing havoc in some of our local orchards. A gentleman in Wilaon-street, out of some 80 trees, has not one unaffected. Indeed, his usual large crop will this year be diminished to a fsw pounds. On Saturday he extracted between 80 and 40 of the vermin from the truuk of one tree.—We were not aware that the Codlin moth had turned ite destructive attention to pear as well as apple trees, blit Mr Andrew Oilinour informs us that he discovered one of the moths in a Car plucked from him orchard one day it week. A telegram states that Mr Vanini, the caterer to the Rifle Association, has brought an action against the Association,' claiming ±'loo damages, for alleged breach of agreement, principally as regards the number of competitors. Tbe case is to be heard in February. A farmer at the Taieri (says the Advocate i had a bit of bad luck with some young cattle the other day. Six of his yearlings wero suffering from ringworm, and he was recommended to wash the affected parts (the eyes and neck) with sheep dip. He acted as advised, and the result was that one of the animals died in about five hours, and the remaining five died through the night. The dip was applied to the sores in its pure state, instead of first being diluted with water; hence the fatal result. It is very plain however, that the dip must be of an extraordinary poisonous nature. One of the young cattgft was a fine bull recently purchased. The Government have received a letter from the Governor of Bombay commending to their care the young Kurvar Bhavsingpi, heir presumptive to the Rnva of Porbandar in Kathiawar, who has been travelling in Australia under the care of his English tutor. The pr n;e was to leave Hobart on Friday. The wife of tbe Duke of Cambridge says the Napier Telegraph, was a Miss Farebrother, a burlesque actress and dancer at the Lyceum Theatre, and though she was not a particularly protty woman, she had a splendid figure. It was said Prince George fell in love with her legs. She made him a capital wife, and throughout their married life they were a happy and affectionate couple. The Queen always recognised Mrs Fit/George. There are three sons by the marriage. The following article very forcibly illustrates the necessity of proper punctuation. It can be read in two ways, describing a very bad man or a very good man, the result depending upon the punctuation:— " He is an old and experienced man in vice and wickedness he is never found in Opposing the works of iniquity he takes delight in the downfall of bis neighbors he is always ready to assist in destroying the peace of society he takes no pleasure in serving the Lord he is uncommonly diligent in sowing discord among his friends and acquaintances he takes no pride in laboring to promote the cause of Christianity he has not been negligent in endeavoring to stigmatise all public teachers he makes no effort to subdue his evil passions he strives hard to build up Satan's kingdom he lands no aid to the support of the Gospel among the heathen he contributes largely to the devel he will never go to heaven he must go where he will receive the just recompense and reward.” The following amusing items are from tho W ellington Herald :—There was quite a scene enacted on Thursday last in the Basin Reserve, when the " greasy pig" ■ought its liberty among the crowd of merry-makers. In its wild career it shot through space with the velocity of a cannon ball, carroming and ricocheting among men, women, children, policemen and preachers, scattering them in every direction. And it is alleged that the greasy sebaceous animal, after tossing a sergeant of police in the air, shot in between an old woman’s legs and carried her some distance, but being well greased the old dame slid off again nothing the worse of her ride. When last seen tho jubilee swine was wending its course up to Mount Cook jail, he apparently having some acquaintances there.—An old identity had his first bath for 60 years on Wednesday ; fell over the breastwork into the sea by accident. Mr H. C. Russell, the Government Astronomer in Sydney, writes as follows in the Sydney Morning Herald “It will we remembered that in tho beginning of October laet a plague of moths visited Sydney, and so completely eat up the bee food that at one bee farm 7001 b of honey had to be given to the bees to keep them alive. A similar account comes from Port Stephens. One bee-keeper there lost 200 hives from this cause. At the close of the visitation there the sea washed up the dead moths inches deep on some parts of the beach. On October 6th a cloud of these moths settled on the Rebecca when off Green Cape. They quite darkened the atmosphere as they approached, and crowed into every nook and corner when they, rested. Even the lamps were put , J *keee pests, and all the sails were blackened by the multitndes that crawled over them. At Kiama, we are told, they were so numerous that school work was almost stopped by the time taken to remove the dead moths. If it be remembered that at least 260 miles of our coast was infested by these moths at the same tuns, some idea of the magnitude of the swarm may be obtained.