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Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 2948, 5 March 1884, Page 2

wheat will be rather over the average per acre. In the district immediately around Waimate there is not near the extent of land under cereal crops as was the case the last few years. In many cases the potato crop is a failure, especially on land where the drainage was defective, the wet during the damp spring and early summer proving injurious to this crop. Fairlie Cbbkk School. — A meeting of the Faii-lie Creek School Committee was held on Feb. 25th, all the members being present. The Master reported an average attendance of —boys 17.9, girls 20.3, total 38.2. He asked for a supply of school books, and it was resolved to obtain them from the Board's dep&t. A memo was received from the Board of Education respecting the proposed new school district of Silverstream, and the Chairman was instructed to attend the public meeting at Silverstream, to assist m settling the boundary between the two districts. Upon tho application of the Gladstone Lodge, 1.0.0.B 1 ., the übc of the schoolroom was granted for Lodge meetings, a small sum being charged. It was decided to recommend the Board to appoint a sewing mistress, and to recommend Master J. Milne for appointment as pupil teacher. A voucher for £5 2s for incidentals for the quarter was received from tho Board. Accounts to the amount of 27s 6d were passed. Mr Close was requested to see to some repairs wanted at the master's house, and report cost. Mr Binney was appointed visitor for the month and the meeting adjourned. The Toubist Season. — The Wakatip Mail Bays the stream of tourists and visitors to the Lakes district this season continues remarkably small — a fact which is mainly attributable to three causes, namely, the unusually inclement summer which has prevailed more or les3 over the whole colony from the beginning up to the present time ; the lessening of facilities for travelling through injudicious cutting off of the Waimea direct railway communication between this and Dunedin ; and lastly, depressed times, which appear to be felt generally throughout the colonies, and have consequently limited the spending power of the people. The majority of our tourists proper are composed of well-to-do residents of tho sister colonies, who can spare time and money m the pursuit of pleasure. Cheap Living. — A Mr T. K. Allinson has . put before the readers of the Times the . result of some experiments that he has just . mado with the purpose of solving the difficulty of feeding the poor m London. A month ago he determined to live without flesh of any kind, milk, butter, egge. cheese, tea or coffee. ' After a month his weight had increased 3jtlb. ' The following passage explains the diet, ' which costs 6d a day : — " Breakfast consisted ' of a basin of porridge, made from a mixture L of oatmeal and wheatmeal, which I found • more palatable than either singly. Thia I 1 usually ate with bread, to ensure thorough i insalivation. Then came bread fried m re- , fined cotton-seed oil, or fried vegetable hagi gis j for drink I had a cup of cocoa, or fruit ■ syrup with warm water and sugar. The ; cocoa used was an ordinary one, with plenty of starch m it, which makes a thick drink, , and no milk is then required. Dinner consisted of a thick vegetable soup and bread, ( potato pie, savory pie, vegetarian pie, vege- , table stew, stewed rice and tomatoes, &c. For ' a second course I had bread plum pudding, 1 stewed rice and frait, baked sago, tapioca and apples, stewed prunes, figs, raisins, and ! bread. Tea meal consisted of bread and jam, 1 stewed fruit, or some green stuff, such as 1 watercress, celery, tomatoes, &c. I had only . three meals a day, and frequently, when busy, ' I had only two, and a cup of cocoa and a ' biscuit for supper." This seems a pretty , liberal diet for 6d a day. With too many m j London, unfortunately, the difficulty is not • to live on 6d a day, but to get the 6d. Too Much Wheat-growing. — At this '. time of the year, remarks the European Mail, | many valuable and interesting statistics are put before tho world, and the figures reF fating to the corn trade are certainly not the least important to those engaged m J agricultural pursuits both at home and 1 abroad. It appears that while we im--3 port m wheat and flour weekly, 391,728 ■ quarters, of this we have, from America 5 136,123 quarters, and from the rest of the 5 world, including India, Canada, New Zealand, , and Australia, 255,605 quarters. These are 7 tho figures an analysis of the year's wheat i trade shows us, and the figures are curious, be--3 sides helping us to a knowledge of the year. 3 For very many years past stores of wheat j have been accumulating, and there is no more curious feature than that at the end of Beven years of low yields we had, on July 31st, no less than 2,295,787 quarters of ' wheat and 1,081,175 sacks of flour m stock. ' A trade paper (the Miller) discusses this 1 question, and boldly states that these enormous and unprecedented stocks are the ' results of the accumulations of several past i years, and urges that at the present time more " wheat is grown than is really wanted. . Whether the peoplo who have to be fed will [ agree with this trade view of the matter rer mains to be seen, but at tho same time it ! cannot be but a curious feature that seven lean years should be succeeded by tho largest stocks of wheat m our stores ever known. 5 Wo have reversed the story of the storage of ! Egyptian corn by Joseph. Mothers Don't Know. — How many ohil- , dren aro punished for being uncouth, wilful ' or indifferont to instructions or reward simply ' because they aro out of health ! An intelligent ' lady said of a child of this kind, " Mother don't i know that she should give tho little one moderate dosos of Hop Bitters for two or three . weeks, and the child wonld bo all a parent " could desire." liook for. — (Advt.) A Lovely Chaplet. — A late fashion ro- . port Bays: — "Nothing oan be prettier than a ) chaplet of hop vines m blossom." A recent ( medical review says: — "Nothing can be a bett»r renovator of the health than Hop , Bitters. They aid m all the operations of nature ; toning up tho stomach, aseisting tho ' food to become properly assimilated, and pro- ■ mote healthy aotion m all the organs. Tho I dictates of fashion, as well as tho laws of health, alike favor a right application of hops." Kead.— (Advt.) SYNOPSIS OP NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ' J. Mundell and Co.— Sell halfbred lambs at Win- ; Chester Fair to-morrow. I M. do H. Duval— lnvito tenders for erection of cottage. 1 \V. Granger and Co.-Notlfy tho s.s. Warentoa sails , for Westport to-uav. A. Roberts, Ashbui'ton— ls a cash purchaser of oats. District ordors—O Battery hold daylight parado on 12th Inst. Returning Officer for Waimato County — Notico ro eloctlcm of Licensing Committees. R. C. Hamorton, Public Trusteo— Notice re estato of tho lato W. C. Bayly. Lost— Two notices. Wanted— Ono notico.