ANTIPODEAN CLIMATE

Press, Volume XLVIL, Issue 7732, 11 December 1890, Page 2

ANTIPODEAN CLIMATE

MIDWINTER IN JUNE. MIDSUMMER IN DECEMBER HAVE THEIR BANE AND ANTIDOTE.

The eHmate of this Australasian continent cf ours, taken as a whole, is well auited to .the Europeans; it is remarkably healthy, aavlng such complaints as. are not generally fatal in their tendencies, and'which In a measure are more or less common to all climates. Oar climate is peculiar in some respects; it is usually very dry, and subject in iummer to hot; winds and periodical draughts, and in winter to rains. The seasons are the reverse of Inoae ml England—Deceia- :- ber being midsummer and June midwinter. But these" conditions of temperature are in a physical.sense provocative of nerve troubles from the loag spells of dry weather which merge into a long ooetlbuanee of wet. In consequence, among the minor iDs which affect tile Seah, we have neuralgia, but the bane has its antidote, as the experiences which follow will show:— Mr Alf. Hay, of Boomanoomana, N.S.W., suffered at one : time terribly with neuralgia, and was cured by St. Jacobs oil. Second officer Wm. H. H«wes, F.M.8.8. City of Nevr. York* _ says—**l obtained astonishing relief from acute neuralgia of the face by using St. Jacobs oiL" Mr W. H. Mathieson, the wellknown coachbuilder, of Dee street, luvercargill, N.Z.. says—"An apprentice of mine was taken ill with neuralgia, and became delirious. He found relief from one application of St. Jacobs.oil." Mr William Walker {Walker, Lemon, and Co.), 12 liOnsdale street, Melbourne, writes—" I suffered from a severe attack of neuralgia—pain intense—and after two applications of St. Jacobs oil the pain ceased magically, and has-never returned." The death rate of the Australasian colo' nies for 1880 was as follows: —New Zealand 11.46, Western Australia 13.24, Queensland 13.59, Victoria 13.70, South Australia 14.85, New South Wales 15.57, Tasmania 16.12. The mean of the colonies was 14.01. In England and Wales the rate on an average of thirty years appears to be 22.3.