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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 30, 4 February 1875, Page 6

- The. Hawaiian Gov'erriment^is.; .fti*! the fl New York market fora loan : of 1,000,000 fl , dols., offering; 7 'per , cerit,' : ■ per ; ariniim in fl gold,* the principal to be.refundeuV-ih:gold 'I iri 30 years. The telegram^statesthafNew .fl '. , Zealand /capitalists .have made]an-^ifer at fl 1 nearly par, which is under consideration. *$A It is stated iri a French agricultural paper , that. straw forms/an excellent lighthing . conductor,, a purppse^br which 'itjhas^'been' ;' lately, employed with success. ; -Ithairheen observed that the material l^ iri/qrießtidri '^os- i sessed the property of discharging Eeyden i jars without spark- or. expiosibtt; and's'tfme^^ ' jbodyiri .Taib^s conceised the'iidea 'of?em* ploying it' as a "lightning copdiictorV A%isp , or rope of straw iis; fastened to ! auluprjght fl deal lath .with brass wire,' the conductor fl , i being finished off yVrth' a s pointed.-' Copper fl #»P'-. The, experiment, it is said, has been fl t tried dri an extensive stale in the neighbor* fl hood of Tafrbes,'; eighteen communes baying fl ( already been provided with such conductors fl , in the proportion of one to .every "i sixty fl "arpents, ; of. 760.' acres. English. It;is:said ff . thatthe whole neignbprhopd.has benefited fl . by the' atrangem'ent, having 'been' protected riot only irom lightning; but from hailstorms. ,-;.'' '■'':.'■'' a. y yy* I i <■ The astounding edifices' of : hair md '■.'!?*?£"• Which; me. every ;.now ja^d'then | } • meets with behind hotel bars baffle.descrip, i tion and transfir the I .; aWazement, ! asmuchat,^ i I tions as at tlie courage l and' ehdtifariefc of 1 : thpse;>h6:efflst'urider; ! thetop I i t*ires. The" long; standirig-fued belween j good taste afld'fashipri eviririfiuericel' more strong^ m i hideous instances* of head' disfigljMtiPn, I „ ais examples ■■, of .fashionable hair* dressing, M derstand. that, . yfrth a simple andi tasteful ; ;-. arrangement of their nitflraThair^lht 'male i brntg:s"w<c>ulrl ; beMyM^ry^le^%Un with; the shapeless -niasses of false- r trsfees t and pads ridiculous in the.eyes.of all sensible men, fc the evil would be more than half remedied. I feel bound ito say:that ' the' presidirik dil vinities.at refreshment and, wme i ' > barf are - ; chief 'in thii respect, r lam told that' thirt'outre style of -toilette is ;| ;« s ,r^tte> 1 - < pf;'h'dsiriiss^ j f i r ; suchp.olicy, however, I canfiln 'no 'degree I bj eridoirfle.;- v Tlie.c^ J „; .b^ } ;a|tractediih^ such . disptaysvaa 'ohertoo J c" often meets with, in "the- bari t# to'hfeb' I 1 -. have refer^ ;| ,-; theoestablwbnierit .ati moredeslra^le'Viei* 5 •^ tor^— '.U^^ | ti SomVi stadents^ fixed' \*wq h fcjtf- -fthWahdl c paper-office [the. other.nights •<and-i&eh<'<?e- * - . .the^itprs; iC^efgalprSg^andk ididVt-- •<«*'« b, frightened? -?r He 'disrpbbed ''tftraM^hpyi l ten- dollar vest, a-seven dollar pair of boot?, % c and an eight*djpmVH^ of.,theH r : apPtner ;roama saround 7<hrough iftie* less " ? , M@m r i£frl£S ;^^W*^Wt^W3J"bfW«a»d ,g h -1 pprkpiecap. r,,fA I con^rgiv^^ori;6ri#^ tSaid 1 i »«r*fltfjMfc i 'MlwWNr-l bootojnr^ i J