MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 22 June 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

» The Melbourne Age writes that, according to the latest advices from London, some 2000 relatives bare al« ready enrolled their names as customers for a regular supply of Australian butter. There is a very strong pro* babilify that the demand will far exceed what we shall for some time be able to meet. Of course the fact that Australia can supply the English market at a time when'dairy produce everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere is scarce, is an important factor in our favour. Tf the delivery in London of sweet snd sound butter in December, January and Feburary can be assured, there is no competition to fear from outside. Milk refrigerators are coming into use in the South. One farmer (says a Dunedin paper) who sends milk to town by rail twice a day, has a machine of this nature, and his production, after beiDg subjected to the colling process is said to keep well for 3or 4 days, even in the summer season. The principle of cooling consists in keeping up a constant stream of cold water through a series of pipes, over which the milk fljws gently into cans. An hotel-keeper, residing, in the thirsty town of Hay, New South Wales, had a cockatoo, whose perch was usually in the bar. At this ho^el there was a brisk bar trade, and ocy casionallv men would pop in and call for drinks simultaneously. On such occasinnj the borman was in the habit of saying. ' One at a time, gentleman ; dont's rush a fellow.' One day tl e cockatoo was missing from his usual perch and the owner apon going in search of him, found him in an adjacent paddock surrounded by a fl >ck of crows, who seemed bent on his destruction. The owner arrived only in time to careßs poor cocky just before he died and to bear him feebly exclaim, • One at a time, gentlemen don't rush a fellow.' The following information taken from the ' Crown Lands Guide ' will interesting to many :— * The to'al area of New Zealand is upwards of sixty* four million acres. Of these fourteen millions have been sold, or disposed of in education and other public reserves, sixteen millions belong to the aborigines, or *o the Europeans who have purchased from them ; and thirty-four millions of Crown Lands still remain Tor disposal. Of the latttT, fifteen millions are opengrass or fern country, len millions forest, and nine millions barren mountain tops lakes and worthI less country. Bear-admiral Karl Clan-Wiiliam in command of the Royal Squadron, is the; son-in-law of Sir Arthur Kennedy. Governor of Queensland. Two sons and four daughters (*ays the Herald) are the issue of the this marriage: The Earl, who is forty-nine years of nge has no less than eight residences, his seat being at Gill Hull, Cromare, County Down, Ireland and the town residence at Hereford Garden?, London. A properly at tlie corner of Eliza* berth aud Cjllina streets brought £550 per foot.