MISCELLANEOUS.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 1, 5 June 1902, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Minister of- Mines has been furnished with details of a scheme for holding a,Nevr Zealand Gold Jubilee at Coromandel at the end of the present year.. It is proposed that , the exhibition shall be under the auspices of the Government, and shall commemorate the discovery of gold in 1852. A guarantee fund. has. been formed. Any surplus funds are to be devoted to the establishment and upkeep of a library and museum in connection with the Coromandel School of; Mines.

Magical devices for discovering deposits of precious metal are out of fashion nowadays. Their place has bepn taken by various contrivances of a more or less scientific nature, by means of which masses of gold and silver, -or rich lodes, may be found. Most of these forms of apparatus are pretended to be electrical. One of them has two long and sharp iron staffs, which, being held apart at a distance of a couple of feet, are thrust down into the earth. Attached to them are a small battery and a telegraph key. If the ends of both of the staffs come into contact with a mass of metallic ore the current readily passes between them, and a pressure of the key above ground completes the circuit and causes a bell to ring. The unlucky poY is always getting his fingers burnt, his hand cut or his shoulder sprained. His parents should keep a bottle of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm in the house. This is a liniment of superior merit. One application gives relief. Try it. — Riley and Co. sell it. . .

In a district I was in last week (says a writer in the Waitara Mail), a Taranaki schoolmistress was toiling hard explaining to her class the meaning of the words “ imports ” and “exports.” After she thought she had drilled the children sufficiently, she asked the scholars : “ Now, what is it that comes into the New Plymouth harbour ? ” The twenty little throats nearly burst when the word came forth with one accord : “ Sand ! ”

Wellington is to have its next Industrial Exhibition in 1904. The Industrial Corporation of New Zealand, which has its headquarters in Christchurch, has acceded to the application made by the Wellington Industrial Association for leave to hold such an exhibition. A special meeting is to be called in order to put matters in train. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy loosens the cough, relieves the lungs and opens the secretions. It counteracts any tendency of a cold to result in pneumonia. It is unequalled for bad colds. It always cures and cures quickly. Riley and Co.'sell it.

Roses (according to the Fruit Trade News) are likely to be, in great demand for the Coronation, although the lily of the valley has been named as the flower of the occasion. Our contemporary has been indulging in some abstruse calculations as to the number of rose blooms that will be required for the week, with the following results : If a quarter of the entire population of the United Kingdom wears a rpse each every day for a week at Coronation time 60,000,000 blooms will have to be provided by rose-growers. If this number were, with their stalks, placed end to end they would form a line of 10,000,000 yards long. Then, again, these 60,000,000 blooms will, on a fair average, give a weight equal to 16,765 cwt., and, if loaded into railway trucks holding five tons each, about 170 truck's would be needed to bring the lot to market. The amount of manual labour which such a supply would demand for cutting, loading and unloading, and distributing is prodigious^. 'is a cough ?—A spasmodic effort-W" expel the mucus from the brbuchial ’tubes. A cold causes a more abundant secretion of mucus, and when the lungs and bronchial. tubes are inflamed, they are extremely, sensitive to the irritation. Unless care is taken, the cold may result in pneumonia, which is swift and deadly. If the cold is' a lingering one, the more leisurely but equally fatal consumption may set ip. Do not neglect a cold or cough. Take Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It always cures and cures quickly. -r Riiev and Co. sell it. i> v v .