OTAGO.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 60, 14 May 1866, Page 3

OTAGO.

We have to chronicle an important addition to our local industries in Dunedin. We refer to the preserving of fish. The preserved fish is packed in tins hermetically closed, and each tin is guaranteed to contain one pound of solid food, exclusive of the sauce. The fish can be eaten cold, or made hot in the usual manner. The two tins which were sent to our office both contained cod, and were so excellent — the sauce being especially commendable — that we can safely recommend any gentleman to try one or other of the many good things which the enterprise of Messrs. Wilcox and Coventry is providing for him. The wholesale price bein« moderate, the fish can be retailed upcountry at au exceedingly reasonable rate. — Otago News Letter # The strike of the carriers is beginning to produce much inconvenience. Many mining parties are at a stand-still for material. Timber is very scarce, and is much wanted. Storekeepers in the out-districts, who have not the convenience for keeping a large stock of heavy goods on band, are getting pretty well cleared out, and unless the strike is speedily brought to a termination, the consequences are likely to prove rather serious. People must and will have provisions somehow. — Otago Times. A very gratifying proof of the recovered prosperity of this province, especially in spuatting investments, is to be found in the present large influx of sheep from the sister province. During the past two months, 41,000, principally ewes and mixed lambs, have crossed to this side of the Waitaki; 16,500 are now on the way down, and 12,600 more under negociation, will increase our Otago aud Southland flocks by 70,100 sheep. Messrs. Boyse, Mudie, and Miller report all these as having been sold at satisfactory prices to the holders in Canterbury.— Oamaru Times.

Copper a Curb fob Cholera.— -The Art Journal says — *• Dr. V. Burg, of Paris, has given much attention to the preservative and curative actiou of copper in the case of cholera.' He says'that in the. years 1832, 1849, and 1554, wh'en r the cholera committed sad ravages in France, the workmen who were in continual contact with copper always escaped the. malady, and that not one was'known to be attacked, even where neighbors and . members df their, own family were falling round. In support of this; assertion Dr. Burg cites the evidence -of Messieurs Calla, Chevalia, Sax, and 30 -other maffcfacturers of articles of which, copper forms a part. . Dr. de' sPietra. Santa observed the same effect in the case~of the boys in the reformatory prison of the Madelonnettes, who were employed in making copper locks"; j and M. Pechalier and M. St. Pierre, Professors in tire College of Montpcllier, remarked the same fact in the case of workmen employed in the manufacture of verditor. Dr. Clever de Moldiniii is said to have saved the lives of many of the soldiers, in garrison in Paris by causing them to wear plates of copper next the skin, and administering a few drops of solution of salts of copper every morning and evening. In 1855 Dr. Raymond, who was with the artillery at Gallipoli and Varna, adopted the same practice with complete success. Dr. Burg attributes to copper a direct action, and says that rings or plates of the metal are very efficacious against cramps and other symptoms of cholera. He also gives those, attacked or threatened with cholera considerable doses of salts of copper. In 1854 he carried invariably about him a diluted solution of sulphate of copper, and administered it to his patients in doses of from two to ten drops in a little sugar and water, with one or two drops of laudanum to prevent the stomach rejecting the copper. He believes copper to be, with respect to cholera, what quinine is with respect to fever — a sovereign remedy.