Aa much as £40 an acre was recently paid for agricultural land in the Taieri (Otago) district.
On Saturday an elderly man, Patrick Cochrane, a farmer near Urenui, Taranaki, while trying to hold a sheep, fell, and when picked up life was extinct.
After a long and painful illness Mr A. J. Parsona, une of Wanganui's best known public men, passed away on Sunday evening.
A well-known Melbourne firm of nursery men have landed no less than five ship ments of trees in the colony this season. In Roxburgh alone orders for trees to the value of £270 wero booked.
What, for politoness sake, has been known as the " rustic bridge," close to the JNuhaka Hot Spriugs, has been carried away during recent heavy weather. Now perforce a decent structure must be put up. — Wairoa Guardian.
What this country wants is a large population. It wants a population of ten milliom Talk about going on the London money-market to borrow a paltry million and a half ! What the country wants is a hundred millions of trading capital —Mr E. M. Smith.
Christchurch can boast of a one handed girl who has passed her ambulance first aid examination. She did her bandaging with her left hand, and in tying knots assisted that hand with her teeth. Her examina tion of course had to be written with the left hand.
Arbor Day is being celebrated in Wel lington. Under the auspices of the Tree planting and Scenery Preservation Society, the Salamanca road and Kilbirnie reserves are being planted with trees and shrubs. At -Pelone the whole of the Recreation Ground is being planted.
