LIFE IN THE LOWER VALLEY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 6736, 18 December 1900, Page 4

LIFE IN THE LOWER VALLEY.

(From Our lower Valley Correspondentl' Monday. Concerning dehorning cattle, Hoard's Mrymmmpi "The iir.il day after tho calf lias sucked itself full it will lay dowu aud sloop. Then is the timo to operato on it. Opou tho hair whore tho littlo lioru is to como uud you will find aspotwhoro thoro is no hair. Just put a littlo polush on the spot aud it won't wako it up, and the horn will nevor grow. By common potash is meant common box lyo that they use in making soft soap, 'i'ako a littlo wooden stick to put it on with. Don't put 011 too much, just wot the little button as we call it, is all that is needed. Thou ibe next day go aud oxamiuo it and if tho spot has a littlo dent (which it will liavo in !)9 cases out of 100), the horn is doad aud iu a short timo ii littlo scalo will come off, then tho hit' will grow, and be as smooth as a poley can be. If there is no dent, then the noxt day you must put on a littlo more, but it is seldom Deeded, aud I think it is so much bettor to have tho horns off. Our dairy cattle have no use for thorn now, aud I think it merciful to kill the horn when tho operation can ho performed so painlessly." One of the Waiarongomai shearers, Mr J. Jidlin, met with 11 nasty accident about noon, on Saturday last, through beingsevoroly cut on tho left arm with a pair of shears. Mr Edliu proceeded to Featherston, where Mr Fife, in the absence of Dr Palmer, atteuded to tho wouud.

lu Mr T. M, Grant's roport to tho Survey Department, the scbome for draining the Wairarapa Lako roads well, and embodies some good ideas, but thore are a few dillicultios in the way. lu the first place, tbo water would have to be confined to one channel, and all the streams running into the Lake would have to run 'through small channels into the main channel. These channels would havo lo lako the form of a concrete drain, and when it is taken into consideration that, during tbo big Hood a short time ago, tbo Lako rose in places some 15ft above what it bad done for somo timo past, they would havo to be very high, Tlion again the Onoke, or Lowor Lake, is bolow tbo level of the sea. Tbo expenses in connection with the drniunge scheme would be enormous, as every little stream round tbo lako would havo to run through a concroto drain into tlio main channol, Some few months ago, when ho was preparing his report, Mr Grant and L talked the scheme over, and lie seemed to think the idea of draining tbo Lako quite feasible, No levels of tbo Lake were taken, at loast so far as I know. A scheme like this is bound to receive a largo amount of opposition, but Mr Grant is a" longheaded " gentleman, and generally knows what bo is talking about.

Mr W. H, Fitcliett, Australian editor of the lloviem of Reviews, in an aiiiclo in tbo London Spectator, ontitled "The Jimpiro Through Colonial liyos" says: " The typical colonial is certainly not a 'jingo,' in any foolish sense of that questionbogging epithet. He is too much occupied with tbo rough work of a new hind to havo either energy or imagination to waste on military adventures, But tlio colonial is an imperialist of the most thorough type, The" Littlo Englander," with bis frost-bitten imagination, his fatal want of perspective, bis mistrust of a national destiny, is to tho colouia! an unlovoly and uuintolligiblo human oddity. The colonial, in a word, finds that bo thinks more proudly of England, and dreams moro nobly for her, than does oven the avorage Knglisbmau, What explains tbat strain of warmor-blooded Imperialism in tbo colonial mind? Is it bocuuso tlio colonist is a more imaginative and romantic creature, less roughly cbnstonod by oxperionce, ami less familiar with the hard facts of tho world than the average Englishmen ? No ono will say so. The typical colonial on the wholo is a rougher-libred and more practical man than tho uverago Englishman. Tlio chief explanation of tho difference of political mood betweon tho two men lies in tbo fact that the colonist Bees tho Empire more or less from the outside; the Englishman soes itcbielly from the inside." ftThere is a general newspaper rule, that "he who copies notes shall acknowledge the source from whence they come." Yet ono South Wairarapa paper and also a Wellington paper copy portions of my notes without any acknowledgment at all. lam not at all surprised at tho plagiarism of tho Wairarapa papor, as its columns avo principally filled with "cribbed without acknowledgment " nows. Shearing operations are just about oyer in the Vallqy. . Mr A. Judd, manager of Wliarepapa statiou, is leaving this part next week.

l'lio pniign of dentil by tlio dentist's cold force]* enn bo ojpcrloticed for llio imnll price of ono ■blillnii; tor tlio wine nmoimt youcnti liny Ilnrraolongh'a Mngle Nervine, Wliloli will you Itnvc ?