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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 125, 5 June 1895, Page 3

Mr W. H Beddel, who returned from Bloemfontein recently, informs an exchange that the train in which he came down was twelve hours late at Cookhouse, having been delayed by the locusts on the line. At one place neat Middelburgroad they spent six hours in getting up a small rise having to take the train into three pieces before they could do so. The locusts lay somo six to ten iuchos thick on the track, clogging the wheels and rendering the rails so greasy that the train slipped constantly back. A letter has been received from a leading San Francisco coal importer ctating that English coal is entering into very strong competition with tho Australian article, and is already cutting down prices. The letter adds that if the importation continues Australian coal must be knocked clean out of the market. An Oregon man has hewed u thir-teeu-I'oot boat out of a cedar log, and in this little craft ho jiroposos to make a voyage to Europo from San Frnnisco by way of Capo Horn, unless tho railroad companies will allow him to reach the Atlantic seaboard, by putting his boat on wheels and using the tracks, sailing before the wind. From some English exchanges wo learn that great dissatisfaction is expressed at the fact that it largo number of shells are being made in France for use in British warships, and by tho announcement that largo orders for Cardigan jackets for the Indian Army had been placed with linns in Leipsig, Germany. The Victorian Government has severely censured Judge Molesworth for his remarks respecting tho position of judges in Bankruptcy. Ministers ex press the view that the course adopted was not the best way to obtain impartial public opinion. The whole matter conveyed distinct and The Government hope that in future no judge will on grounds devoid of foundation, avail himself of his position on the Bench to cast discredit on the members of the highest court of th country. There is a good chanco now for thoßo who keep bees on a large scale touako some money (writes a Home correspondent), as, owing to the French war in Modagascar, the large supplies of honey-comb usually available thence, are running short and will soon stop. This is sending up the prices by leaps and bounds, and there is ' money in it,' if any New Zealanders are prepared to ' take tho tide at its flood. A man sued the New York horsedealing concern known as TatfersaH's because a hunter sent to it by him to be sold by electric light had been inadvertently put up at auction m broad daylight, with the result that certain defects or superfluities in or upon his legs became easily apparent to purchasers, and he brought only a very small price. Tho plaintiff got a vordict of 2',io dollars. Lord Salisbury hold fire acres of land in the vicinity of Charing Cross (the very heart of London), for which his ancestors paid 10s an acre. It was secured as grazing land 250 years ago. A magnificent object lesson on unearned increment here 1 At a meeting of Sir Henry Paakes' constituents, it was resolved to ask him to resign on the ground that he had betrayed the electors. A public meeting is being called to considor the question.