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Waipawa Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 2502, 6 September 1890, Page 3

The Economist points out that without a new development of wheat cultivation, the Australasian colonies will become less important as contributors to the wheat supply of tne United Kingdom. The acreage, including New Zealand, was odly 3,739,295 acres in 1889-90, as against 3,584,166 four years before, so that the wheat area per head was only H 7 acre last year, as compared with L3O in 188485. Mr Henniker Heaton ordered goose berry fool for his diuner at the Carlton Club one evening lately. When the sweet came up, its appearance did not satisfy the fastidious Australian. “ I ordered,” he said sternly, “ gooseberry fool, not that stuff.” “ Excuse me, sir,” replied the waiter, with stately gravity, “ but that were sent up for a fool !” Whether the man meant anything the member for Canterbury could not determine. In the British House of Commons the other night, somebody compared the Irish members to extinct volcanoes. ** Used-up craters,” said Mr Balfour.