NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 24 April 1901, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Epypt has at at last got a cotton mill. It is situatei at Boulac, and the cntiro plant, machinery and finings are English from top to bottom. In connection with the beer-poisoning in England, tho value of tuspictcd beer poured down the Liverpool sewers is stated 10 be upwards of .£20,000. The last quarterly dividend of the Standard Oi! Trust totalled £4,000,000. The par value oftbo shares is £2O, and the latest market quotation is ,C'i2C There lias been a big drop in the price of eual in England, The prices tendered for the Swedish coal contract were from 0s 9J to 9s per ton below la?t year's figures. Sir Francis Cook, the well-known mer. chant and philanthropise died at his residence, Doughty House, Richmond, on Sunday, 17th February, in his eighty-fifth year. i The alleged spirit of the lato Miss Flo-

rence Marryatt, is said to have premised Mr Gnmbier Bolton at a s:ance, a botk on her experiences in spiritland. Several London publishers have intimated their willingness to produce the book. The British merchant in China considers it beneath his dignity to learn Chinese, and transacts business with natives through a servant. The German takes a Chinese partner, who, when the Teuton can speak Chinese, becomes hi 3 servant, So says the London Express. In all districts of South Wales tin-

platc works are closing down, and the condition of affairs gives rise to great anxiety. The present prices of tin plates do not, it is stated, cover the cost of production. The French Minister for War, besides stopping the sale of alcoholic drinks in the canteens of barracks, has decided that lectures shall be given to \hc men by the ollicers or the army doctors on the effects and dangers of alcoholism.

A big firm of English contractors has leased the Mexican railway from Salina Cruz, on tho Pacific Coast, to Coatzacoalcos on the Mexican Gulf, 199 miles in length. The line is being reconstructed to carry heavy traffic, and harbours arc also under construction at each terminus to accomodate the largest ocean steamers. Goods will bs carried across in 24 hours at a cost of 10s to 123 a ton, including all harbour and railway charges. In three or four years the route will be in a position to carry all the trade between the two oceans.

The enormous profits reaped by the colliery owners of Great Britain during the past .year are indicated in the Wigan Coal and Iron Company's report, A dividend of no lcs3 than 17. V per cent, was declared, tho net profits having totalled £408,438. A dog was heard moaning in a disused pit at Wodncsbury (England) for 14 days after it had been thrown down. The police effected an ingenious rescue. They lowered down the shaft a box containing a piece of meat. The dog crawled into the box, and was safely hoisted to the surface.

The diocese of Llandaff in Wales can boast of a clergyman—tho Rev. E. W. Vaughan, vicar of Llantwit-Major, Glamorganshire—still performing his duties in his ninety-second year, who was present at the coronation of Queen Victoria and sang as a choir boy at tho coronation of George IV. Having carried out a contract to find a wife for a greengrocer at Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, a young accountant sued for £3 commission in Stroud County Court. He had advertised for and introduced a lady with means, and the marriage was duly solemnised! The Judge awarded the plaintiff the amount claimed. The asbestos deposits of Canad?, the main source of the world's supply, are becomming exhausted, and the price of the fibre has largely advanced. There are largo deposits in Cape colony and Italy, but tho fibre is too short and brittle for weaving. Deposits have been discovered in New Zealand, but no systematic attempt has been made to work them.

SANDEB & SONS" EUCALYPTI EX-TRACT-—Under the distinguished patronage of His Majesty the King of Italy, as per communication made by the Minister forfForeign Affairs, through the Consul-Gcneral or Italy at Melbourne, March 14, 1878. Awarded diploma at the Amsterdam Exhibition, 1883Acknowledgcd by Mdical Clinics and Uni versities all over the Globe.

There aro imitations of Eucalypti Extract in the market, products of simple distillation, orming crude, resinous oils. In order chat these crude oils may not be taken for our purVolatile Eucalypti Extraet, which is recognised by the Medical Division of the Prussian Goernment to be of perfectly pare origin, as per nformation forwarded to us through the Consul at Melbourne, March 2, 1878, we vtate: —

It is proved by tests made by the Medical Clinics of the Universities of Bonn and Griefswald (Prussia), and reported to by Dr Schultz Professor of Pharmacology at Bonn, and Professor Dr Mossier, Director of tho Medical Clines at Griefswald, that only products that are saturated with oxygen and freed of acids resinous and other substances adherent to primary distillation, will develop the sanative qualities proper to the plant. All crude oils or so-called Eucalypti Extracts, are to be classed according to the named authorit' is, among the turpentines, which are abandorcd long since as an internal medicament. Tl cse crude oil, or so-called Eucalypti Extracts, are discernible : - *

1. By their deficiency in pungent oau (which our produet f tho only genuine Euca lypti Extract, develops most freely through ts surplus oxygen.) 2. By their alcoholic, thin, and mobile appearance, being reduced to specific density through the presence of acids. 3. By their taste, the result of contract ing tendency of resins and tanats. If these crude oils, or so-called Eucalypti Extracts, arc applied by mistake in cases of croup, bronchitis, dipthoria, internal inflammation, dyssntry, etc., the consequences are most appalling. For safety's sake ask always or Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract.— Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia.—SANDEß & SONS.