PROCLAMATION.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3433, 17 July 1868, Page 3

PROCLAMATION.

Lieutenant-Colonel Gorton has issued thefollowiug proclamation : — NOTICE. la consequence of a despatch I received from Lieutenant-Colonel McDonnell last evening, and the settlers of this district bring unarmed, for the safety and protection of the same, and to be prepared to meet any emergency that may arise, I hereby call upon the settlers liable to serve in the militia to come forward at the Militia Office, at 11 a.m. this day, to be armed— such volunteers to be called upon for actual service at an hour's notice. Signed, Lieutenant-Colonel Gorton". Militia Office, July 13, 1868.

A Good Dough Cake. —1. Bread Cake. —Take a quartern of baker's dough, Irnead well into it two ounces each of butter and brown sugar, half a pound of grocers' currants carefully cleaned, and a teacupful of thick cream ; bake it into a buttered &hape for half an hour or more, according to the heat of the oven. Caraway seeds may take the place of the currants, and the cake may be rendered richer by an increased quantity of sugar, butter, &c. 2. Dough Cake. Three pounds of dough ; oiie pound of butter; one pound of sugar ; one pound of currants ; six eggs ; one glass of brandy ; one nutmeg ; half a teaspoonful of allspice. Work the butter, sugar, and eggs well together, with a glass of brandy, then work it into the risen dough, adding the spice and currants well pioked and waihed, Make it into a lo*f t ft n <* bftkt tbt wmt m toft»<li «