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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1816, 5 April 1886, Page 3

Henry Labouchere in his paper, ‘ London Truth,’says :—I wonder how many English men have any notion what a Connaught mountain “farm "is like. Well, if yon were to take off here and there about a third of the pavement behind the Duke of York’s monument and plant " crops ” in the holes thus made, and then between the cracks of the remaining stones insert a good many ferns and weeds, and wet the place thoroughly, and lift the whole surface to an angle of 4' degrees, and then throw down the monument upon it in goc.’.i.dt big pieces, you will have an Irish mountain farm, in miniature. But, for my part, I should not fancy paying rent for such a place. My argument would hi that after all the trouble I had taken in grubbing up the stones and planting th ■ crops and throwing down the monument I bad earned the right to be wet to the skin six days out of seven rent free. This is exact!;what the “ cultivators of the rock ” on th \ west coast of Ireland, Scotland, and the adjacent isles do to-day ; and as they hav > now got votes, their opinions will probably attract some attention in the near future.

How to Get Sick.—Expose yourself day and night, sit too mnch without exercise, work too bard without test, doctor all th i time. Take all the vile nostrums and imitations advertised, and then you will want to know. How to Get Well.—Which is answered i i three words—Take American Go’s Hop Bit' ters ? Read.) “ Rough on Rats.” Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies ants, bed bugs, beetles, insects, skunks, jack rabbits, gophers. Druggists. Kempthorne, Prosser A Co., Agents, Christchurch.

Poverty and Suffering.—“ I was dragged down with debt, poverty and suffering for years, caused by a sick family and large bills for doctoring, which did them no good. I was completely discouraged, until one year ago, by the advice of my pastor, I procured Hop Bitters and commenced their nse, and in one month we were all well and none of ns have seen a sick day since ; and I want to say to all poor men, yon can keep your families well a year with American Co’s Hop Bitters for less than one doctor’s visit will cost. I know it." A Working man. Read. The census papers which have been disiribnted broadcast daring the past few weeks (says the Lyttelton Times) are supposed to be tilled np with the names of all who passed Sunday night under the roofs of the various houses at which tne papers were left. Hence it appears that no persons who were so unfortunate as not to pass the night under a roof can be included in the census They mast, seemingly, be omitted from the population of the Colony—as given in the returns—altogether. In this connection, it may be noted that at least two very estimable and conscientious individuals are just now in a state of mnch perplexity. They are a couple of shepherds in the employ of Mr John Mann, of St Albans, and were during the whole of Sunday night on duty in the paddocks adjoining his bouse, watching for certain dogs which have of late been making havoc among the sbeep. These men certainly cannot include themselves among the inhabitants of any and so must, perforce, be as it were effaced.

How to illuminate a road in front of horses in driving at night is, says the ‘ Scientific American,’ an important matter. The usual side lamps on carriages, or the attaching of a lantern to the dash board, fails to reflect the light where it is most wanted, and the suspending of a lantern to the front axle is objectionable for many reasons, but it is the best plan for shedding the light where it is most needed that we have seen tried. But a Philadelphia physician suggests the attaching of the lan ■ tern to the breast collar of the horses, which he says he has tried with perfect satisfaction ; and he has evidently had someexperience with the ordinary method of lighting, for he says the various forms of dash lights are pretty much the same, in that they put the light just where it is not wanted, illuminating the horse’s tail and hips, and the buggy thilis with a brilliance quite unnecessary, which intensifies the blackness ofthe shadow cast by them just where one most wishes to see clearly.—An oM country mode of lighting the path of a rider, which has long since been abandoned, was to strap a lantern to the knee of the equestrian.

At the present time, when wool-growers, at anyrate those with ordinary merino flocks, are deploring the low price of their staple, it is refteshing to hear of high prices being realised for wools of superior quality. At th,s \ear's Jan -Feb. scries of London wool sa.es, the hot-water-washed fleece wools from Sir Samuel Wilson's crack Western Victorian flocks sold as follows : •Mount Bute,” 75 bales at js 2d to 5s per lb (jo bales selling at over 43 and 7 bales at ss) and '• Ercil doune," 56 bales at js to qsajdperlb. 101877, l '\o bales fetched 5s ofd per lb. being required for a special fabric for the Paris Exihibition, but the average price this jyear t is the highest yet realised.

It is intended to make Australian black wattle growing on the extensive farms for that purpose near Mercer (Auckland) as great a success as possible. The hundreds of wattles that have been already planted rhere are thriving well, and will produce a large quantity of bark in two or three years hence. There being abundance of land available, thousands more wattles are shortly to be planted, so that the Jindustry is likely to become an extensive one. For training purposes the bark of the black wattle is the best of all others. In Australia all the tanneries use it.