CLIPPINGS.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 8358, 17 December 1892, Page 6

CLIPPINGS.

Two children were lately poiaoaedi at Kurow, and would probably nave died bufc tor prompt medical attendance. They picked up on a neighbour's ash fcea» a bottle containing a mixture cf opium aad belladonna, carelessly thrown away, &rh tasted the contents. Mv Labouehere, writing ia Lindoa Truth, says:--"! should fancy thac"jaoss people who interest themselves in Chttrea affairs will bo astonished to loam Utag the stipend of the Bishop of Sydney is i«uj £<IUOO a year. This is by lar'tuo largest revenue which auy Anglican Bishop o«t< aide of England uraivd from his see, au<J more.than- double the income of any othw Australian prelate." Mr G. E. Lac, who has made the habita of the codlin inotu a study (aaya tha Unwke's Bay Hevald), has found that inter* eating plague rather erratic this season. Either because the forming of the apples is a little earlier than usual, or because the hatching oat of the eggs has beeu a little later, the fruit has hog been attacked' from the flower, but from tae sides. Mc Lee finds that by exercising care in eufi*. ting out the small portion of the sfciii attached, the larva is removed and the apple is practically nob injured, bo ttiat it is easy to save the fruic tnis season. Tbif little " tip " should prove useful. A new antiseptic, which is proved to be of great value in cases of putulenS pleurisy, anthrax, abscessed, and obstetric and epidemic maladies, has been discovered by Dr. Tisoa a French practitioner. It is called lysol % and is a preparation o! coal tar, somewhat akin to gaiacol, but more powerful. It is as energetic in its action on microbes as a solution cf sublimate, while free from the dangers attending the employment of the la&tes agent. Mr Chew Chong, of Eltham, Taranaki, whose name sufficiently indicates hte* ■■ nationality, .baa a. etoro and a dairy factory. Someone informed the police that Mr Chew Chong was using false weights and measures, and Sergeant Dulliu, of New Plymouth, wont to iaepeci; them. Those iv the storo were all rights bub ia the factory Mv Chew Chong received . un unpleasant surprise. He fouad thalj the £»ilk scales were wvoag, had been paying considerably too £ttucs for milk. Mr Chew Chong norr pobUel| thanks the informer who brought th? police to his factory. A good many dead donkeys go in tiisit last days to Mr Q-ill, of Hunipstead, -wfcio (says a writer ia the Leisure Hour) su|>* plies them wholesale ;to the Veteriiwy College for diaeecting purposes, th*. auatoaiy of the donkey being almost identical with that of the horne —in fact, a donkey ia practically a Korea, minus ths eallosiuies on the hind legs, and plus the tufted tail and long ears. The dead os moribund horse goes to tho knackor% "the practical zooiomista," as they &*9 beginning to CftU themselves. ißut tht>., knackee will rarely have anything to do ; with, the donkey, which ia liardly worth. the coat of carriage. Five shillings is bis outside value for his hoofs, his bones, and skin, chiefly hia skin, out of which we get shagreen leather and memorandum tablet*,, and perhaps a drumhead or two, thoughdrumheads are nowadays mostly made cl Canadian deerskin. The flesh is iforth; leas. 16 is only the Persian who will eat ass's flash, and even be must have it wild, after hunting it as if asses were doer.

Never was a more incredible storj, invented than the one proved—so the Magistrate considered—at the Westmin*.. ster Police Court a few weeks sinoi. 4 young woman applied for an afliliatsoa order against a man who had lived with her for ten years and by whom sho had six children. Ho was not her husband, but had been best man at the wedding* and when that ceremony was completed he took up his abode with her and wj» believed by her mother to be the real bridegroom. Sho had supported him ail this time by keeping a coffee-stall on Ebury Bridge (the net profits of wnion business were said to average JBS a week}* and, if the master had not let his fan*}* go straying, nothing would have brokea up the irregular household, unless it had been the re-appearanoo of the lawful hm* band. That gentleman disappeared at the church door, and—3o the evidence rasS-* has never since been heard of.

Most people will be surprised to leafs ( (says the HawJce's Bay Herald) that Ne# ■ Zealand as a colony has been a discounter of promissory notes oh an extensive scale. , lb has not been a profitable biniM»;> either, for a Parliamentary paper jttMy issued shows that notes aggregating); 444,726 14a 9d are due but unpaid, law I. notes were given hy assisted immigrants* and some are owing in evei-y district. The amounts vary from *u« Is 4d in Westland to 411,560 Ss 3d ia Canterbury. Hawkc's Bay, we are e&rrf to say, shows up badly in P«#**. tioa to population with £G420 i» Bd. Tbe return gives fh« araoa&p:. owing by eaoh individual. « Hawke's Bay they range from ±1 J* *AA. and Scandinavian settlers loom very large in the list. We believe (continues our contemporary) that » very 1W proportion of this £44.000 odd eouM be very easily recovered. We know at least, tfaw the greater part owed in Hawke, s bay could be got ia without mush troubte. U the list are a number of settlers wrttt comfortable homesteads, and »*«■ {J peiinanent work. We fail to see *by the country should lose through them. W know the terms before they shipped, an* they came out here to better their con dition. They have done so, and. tftW_ should be held to the bargain It does not reflect much credit on tw Department concerned that so roues money has remained uncollected.