MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 20 June 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

» It is stated, says a Dunedin content porary that a Chicago bouse seriously contemplates establishing a branch in Australia, with a view extensively ex* porting meat, the projcet being to ship the more valuable portions' of the carcases of beef in a frozen state and to tin the coarse parts under the compressed system. We are not aware of the authority for this statement, but the bare possibility of auch powerful rivalry ought to stimulate colonial producers to immediate action. A wedding cake of unusual dimensions was on view in Mr Laing's shop at Wellington last week. It consists of five tiers which are surmounted by a rose and bouquet of white flowers. The whole structure is covered with flowers and delicately place greenleaves. The weight is eighty-five' pounds and the height four feet six inches. The cake was forwarded to Canterbury, where it will play an important part at a wedding in bigh life. The genteman who ordered it for hi* daughter's nuptials, has further en« trusted Mr Laing with the production of a facsimile which will be sent Homo in order that friends there may obtain a fair impression of the style in which the ceremony was carried out. Mr C, Mills of Havelock, states io a' letter to a local paper to his brother* Mr T. H. Mills, has found kerosene a complete antidote for tute poisoning' cattle. On one occasion he found one of the most valuable cows nearly dead from the effect of eating the poisonous shrub, and, after trying various remedies without success as a last resource be gave her nearly a pint of kerosene as an experiment, and in? about twenty miDutes he was delighted to see she had completely recovered. Since then he had fifteen cases through: his hands and never lost a beast. A Southland paper has been asked to publish the following:— The spirit of the late John Tyeaman controlling at the South Star Circle on Sunday May Bth, wishes us to publicly thrnk all those kind frjends who so nobly contributed to the relief of his wife and fatherless children. He also wished ns to say that. l Those that; giveth to the poor, lendtb to the Lord.' — T. BollaX. In adressing his cocstitraents last week, the hon Mr Hall, Premier, referred as folio .vs to Pyke's land crusade :— Mr "Vincent Pyke has com* menced an agitation in Otago as to the mode in which the runs there were to be dealt with when their leases fell in, but the agitation was unnecessary, because before it was begun the Government had taken steps for the classification of the land. That which was fit for agricultural would be surveyed into three classes — namely : for village settlement, for sale on deferred payment, and for sale cash — so as to bring together, it was hoped, men

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who, purcbasel for cash, would need tc c mploy labor, and those who buy od deferred«payment system, would be greatly aided by having work at hand, Pastoral lands it Was intended, should be divided into two classes— «the best to be disposed of upon the pastoral dj« ferred'payoaenb system, and the less good cufc up into small runs and leased by auctids.