Show NEW ZEALAND wellington dates are to the ath of july and auckland dates to the ath of july Wel wei wellington lintton has also felt the full violence of the in june storms and the attendant floods the following extract from a private letter dated the of june will convey an idea of the situation in that quarter on wednesday night the river commenced rising very fast and continued rising until saturday by which time the few dry spots about tile the lower part of the town was surrounded by a wide stretching sea that mythical personage the oldest inhabitant remembers nothing like it the macquarie on the wellington side backed up the bell water and spread over the flat fronting the town to the depth of about three feet it was up to the posts in front of parsons hotel and the cellars of the australian stores escaped being flooded by a few inches only one or two houses have been washed away from the bank of the river paddy the Chin amans house fences and all ill have been carried off and nothing but oe bent and broken fruit trees are left to mark the spot where once a garden smiled 11 over at Mont enores it rose up to sorrells Sor wells door and made an island of the commissioners quarters the free selectors about ponto have had to take to the mountains several of their farms having been completely inundated eleven hundred sheep it is reported arted have been swept away at mur rum edgee no lives have been lost here but two families at burrandong Burran dong are drowned out of 11 persons I 1 in n one family who were shepherding shep erding for blunden only the fat herand fatherland father and two children have been saved I 1 also hear that a family have been drowned inear drible Dt ihle ible I 1 fear the next news we get from down the river will be most disastrous for far hundreds of miles it will be a widespread sea of desolation for our part we have great reason to be thankful it j is no worse I 1 immigration MIGRATION the la crosse wis republican says there has never been such a rush of immigrants to this section of the country from europe as now there are hundreds of norwegian immigrants arriving every day at la crosse on the milwaukie milwaukee and st paul railroad rall Eail road and und tens of thousands more are on their way it is not necessary for us to say that the class of emigrants now coming are the very best that settle settie in this country that they will compose in a few years the bone and sinew of the coun country ma M T they hey make industrious frugal law a biding abiding citizens the more diore we have of t them hem the better for the country they open up the tho country and make muke the rich soil bring forth increase preserving POTATOES A correspondent of the scientific american says that he has tried the following method of keeping potatoes for years with complete lete success dust over the floor of the gln gin bin with lime and put in about six or seven inches deep of potatoes and dust with lime as before put in six or seven inches of potatoes and lime again repeat the operation until all are stored away one bushel of lime will do for forty bushels of potatoes though more will not hurt them the lime rather improving the flavor than otherwise to PRESERVE CIDER to iro one barrel of cider put in one pound mustard seed two pounds raisins and one fourth pound sticks bark of bf cinnamon maine farmer THE rot is said to be making great havoc among the potato potatoes esin in connecticut some borne farmers express fears that they will loose their entire crop atthe AT the paris exposition ig Is a machine by means of which a rabbit skin maybe may be converted into a hat in fifty minutes during the process the hat undergoes six operations the hats are lined and trimmed by a sewing machine |