CLIPPINGS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8484, 16 May 1893, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

Baring the Bank panic in Melbourne tit Savings Bank authorities relaxed the rule not to accept deposits of more tlaa filOO in any one week from any one individual without the written consent of tie Postmaster-General. One day a lady appeared at the head office with a bug <**>• taining £2600, all in coins, principally sovereigns. She brought it in a cab tp paid it all ia. . . ;',

The Wairarapa Star, which is odilod tj Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., one oi the staunchest of the Governuient supported, says :—" It was an open (secret betore the death of the Hot). John Ballance thai electoral privilege would not be oxtendedio women uatil after next election; and nowt.^S one of the most consistent advocates of tH« claims of the women {the Luto Premiec) il dead, there is not the slightest probabilifcy.oi the franchise being extended next nemiw,"

The Dunedin Star, which has been pnbließ- || tog an intewsting series of articles oti $>fo | Hot Lakes district, learns thut during tiss m year ended March 31st, 1893, lifty-eighi p patiente passed through the Governmsii p Sanatorium at Rotorua. Oi this number p| twenty-five wore cured, twenLy-six im« "* proved (some gteatly), and seven wentatfiy *i unimproved. The bulk of the cases suffered ':*' either from some form of rheumafciarn er \\ ekm disease; and in the latter, especiajb, ->' the enecesft of the bath treatmcut was v«*j : proncanced. Since the amended Mgul&tioss '] for the admission of patients was gazetu4 ip •;[ June, 1898, in which tbreo bode were H appropriftted to members of | Friendly Societies, five such members-had ;:• preaented themxelvea, aud all of tbetn had > 1 been greatly benefited by the treaUaea* ;J they received at the institution. '}. : j

An Aticklander who has recently HWd« f the round trip to Australia and baofc at*SM j that New Zealand was never held in 6rt*& > high esteem in the colonies as It 5 h to-day, and the people miy that if t»&| ■ had our liberal land laws Uie present o* , < pressed state of affairs tharo would &*& pass away. Hβ states that we may oxg# a considerable influx of old iNotv Zealand?* back ito the colony agaijn. While i* Melbourne he paid a visit to tb» famous Tyson Sanatorium jtor treating is , j ebriatea, &s he has for tiairfcy-fivO y&>® \ taken an interest in the curativo tfeat»J«# | Of dipsomaniacs. On wquirujg as y> W eh&rges lie etates he vnin told that t» e charges were £30 for three weeks' tres** j m§nt, or at the rate of £10 por week, P» patients will not be taken for a lees jpenflft than that above named.— Ntte MtoMM , Herald,

M. Blouet (Max O'Rell), who, it will be remembered; left ia the While Star lin«* AuetraJlaßian en route to Englaad via M»* Cape, was interviewed during hie frt»v, a * Capetown. Speaking of tho Australia Qplonies R he ia reported to have nttiu:-~ ••What etruek xoe most thcro wai t&e growiog spirit of nationality, whrth no Iβ* is provincialism. For instance, th® P rfe " tensions of very small towns fcr amueing. As an example t Wtica fti»: Stanley weafc to lecture in a little town « 2000 or «XX) inhabitants in AosttftU*, Mr Staylhe was in advance of him as tt»tt«# l 'j Jklr Smythe happeued to meet a B«jg*»mfnister there, and aeked hhn && he thought Stauley would take. The Ulil * Baptiat miaieter became very eerioue, c*™ after considering, replied, 'Well, I-ami know at all, I have given aoveral lecture*" 1 the town myself, and have never beea a»w te>*et ft4jo<?d house.' That ia typical » Australia. I think thore is a great fawre for that country. Ita manparces arc immeaie. but they want a population, ami of the r«g»* class. I was moit leased with New land, wise** Uie eeenery ;s equal Mtkefxiei to be seen ito Norway or Sweden, f™™ the people are more Kngltah and •efctiedil»n in the proper Aaetralmn coionke, ati&w* climate ia delight fuL "

The naturalist io London needßOtslatftk 6 * and sleep. There are many email w« intereefcing inatttor* conti&ually wurW OI his notice. Wβ are told, for examptet the Field, that a lapwing has beeu eceu in a field near Befeke-avenue, HaverstocK hill, by a man who shot one of the mi®» specie! there feat yfeav. During/w»w March daye a magpio haa boon «otic|d^ •* livrgeia Regent's Park, but- tins proDW vraa a truimC from tlxe Zoological «ttwies| bwd by. Though the presceoe of f««r gwf created grebee on the lakes of the Urea* Park at Wittdao* ftra not, Strictly fipeafcin«« a item, the d*behieks ww have «Bkde their yearly spring »««** ance on the Ornamental Wat«sr oi W«. JameeV Park dp oo«»e w»Ai« fcb * oMegory. But all these records *&» eclipaeci by the revival of the rookery *»

B ■» Rgnsiagtoft "Gardens. There -was a large ! colony —probably a hundred nests there *~ jfiginally, but they had dwindled wholesale '- ; about fifteen years ago, and when the old -. elm ß tumbled down or were felled, the rookery was deserted, and so remained for »t least a dozen years. Last spring, without rhyme or reason, a single pair built a "-_ -£& ; bat this year there are at least eleven ' iKtitfan re-establish ing the old colony. Rooks, however, have a way of disappearing M if for ever, and then at lengthy intervals turniDg up agaiu. The unhappy woodcock that haunted the Ranelagh grounds with broken beak, and met with crowning disaster from a goif-ball, is better dead, and in the glass case at the Club its migrations have i sided.