General News.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2030, 25 February 1887, Page 2

General News.

During the late harvest, a Scotch farmer, after suffering from several weeks of wet weather, determined to secure his crop on a temptingly fine Sunday. His laborers, however, refused to work. Twelve “ stalwart young ladies’’ of a boarding school near by, hearing of his predicament, volunteered their services, and before sundown had put up a forty-acre field of oats into small ricks. Mr McLean, solicitor, Kaikoura, has raised an important point with regard to prosecutions under the Babbit Act, which he contends does not create a competent court of jurisdiction, the non destruction of rabbits after service to destroy being an offence created under a special Act of Parliament. The statute should also have created a competent tribunal. This, he contends, has not been done. The magistrate is considering the point. From our .North Otago and Canterbury exchanges we gather that the bumble bee has been successfully acclimatised, and is industriously woiking amid the clover bloom. The results will be of considerable importance, as the seed of the red clover being fertilised by the labors of this insect, the colony will not only be able to supply its own local markets with seed, hut will in a few years have large quantities for export. There is a good deal of money in this, for there is not a colony in the Australasian group which can raise red clover seed. Even in Tasmania, which is perhaps the most favored with regard to climate, the best red clover degenerates in a season or two, for the reason that there is no insect with a sufficiently long proboscis to do the work of fertilising the blossoms. Ibo bumble bee is the only insect which can do so, and from all accounts it is now quite at home in New Zealand.

Ihe .New England Homestead teport an experiment with Urn application oi manure which indicates the importance <d the line pulverisation of barn manure by harrowing, .■'trips of ground were prepared and manured in the same manner; ouo was harrowed thoroughly with a fine-tooth harrow, tbe next was worked with a cultivator, and the third ploughed at various depths. The coru crop was best where the manure was broken and well mixed with tbe soil by harrowing and was poorest where tbe manure was simply turned under at the greatest depth by the plough. Skinny Men. “ Walls’ Healtu Ueuewer" restores health and vigor, cures, Dyspepsia, Impotence, Sexual Debuity, At chemists and druggists. Kempthorue Prosser je Co, Agts. Uuuedin. Wells’ Hair Balsam. If grey, restores to original color. An elegant dr, *aing, softens and beautifies. No oil nor git aae. A Tome Bestorative. Stops hair coming out; rreog, thens, cleanses, heals sot Ip.