GENERAL NEWS.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Issue 115, 15 February 1895, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

; Says a London correspondent:—' I way the T/est Australian boom is 1 worked is quite extraordinary. ' aggregate capital of the conipalready formed exceeds six iaio ; sterling, and the cry is still ' they ec" Chas. J. Stevens, a Nelson p'>graplier, was gathering apricot? ll Thursday afternoon, when the tree it down the trunk, and he fell, the 11 Done of his back striking across a with the result that his spine is par; "d below the waist. The first temperance hall built in;;land was erected at Bradford, in kshire, in 1837. The fust tempiiee society in England was formed at drord, on Feb. 2, JB3O, the chief >'er being Mr Ilenry Forbes, who had jied the pledge at Glasgow. Bradforcexample was speedily followed by the nation of a temperance union. Captain Graham, of Fitxgids' Circus, had a large tumor removed' ol " his breast last week, and 18 stitch put in. He disdained the use of ehlor' lll Dr "Willis operated. In the eveni the captain entered the lions' den as aid, and this morning he started to v to Eeefton. Captain Graham is ' bv any means a delicate subject.—port Times. That successful feeder of pigs, |t late Joseph Harris, greatly increased tl consumption of food and the increase meat in some fattening pigs by the d(-o of turning into the pen at feeding tin: loan and hungry animal, kept for the pposo, as soon as the pigs stopped eating) that on the appearance of the intruder £ the trough the pigs returned to their, fl. and so ate considerably more than theivould otherwise have done. _ The most complete coining plr ever discovered hero has been unear-'d at Waterloo, Australia. For some tie past a large number of spurious pes, representing ail values —from a sting to a sovereign—have been in circnla'n, and the counterfeit is ol such excellen workmanship as to nlmost deceive an expert. A man named Bireli, after a operate struggle, was arrested on a c'rgc of being concerned in the affair. Andrew Carnegie made a few emarks nt Pittsburgh, Pa., on November 11, on the accumulation of wealth, v.icli, in the light of his previous hiatorv it luny be well to repeat, "Some sought rtune," lie said, "for the gratification having it j others wanted it for tlie|f? :cl they could do other people. 31y ere' is that n man who dies rich dies ,'d: graced Segarding the distribution of lis own money Carnegie said : "I expect co leave \ nothing when I die but my int< st in the iron business. I want to do all 10 good I can while I live." An infant child had a narrow escape of being carried away by an eagle in Pennsylvania. The bird fixed its tubus in the child's clothing, and the garments tore, letting the child drop to the ground, a distance of a few feet, escaping injury. The unrolling of an Egyptian mummy, supposed to be that of a princess, disclosed a cuhous cheat. The priests who idid the embalming probably spoiled or mislaid the body entrusted to them, and t— ;f r .' ttnted that of an ordinar\ I* -S* —: i Jj lave been made for the fcland of wooden houses as 'ccs, on the Swedish model, that they can be brought j .en and put together at half the i very ordinary brick building, » ,o grasshoppers, which have increased '■ nillions about Somerville (Vic.) within 3 past few weeks are now attacking the shards, and where they have been for a w days is plainly shown by the frees, i /liich are entirely stripped of both leaves a and apples. The residents state that it is H many years since thoy liove bad this pest T in such large numbers. It is said that if bankers were compelled) by special Act of Parliament, to furnish a statement of all accounts standing unclaimed in their books for during, «-;y, the last fifty years, it would be found tWit the aggregate would bo enormous. '±> to Scotch banks alone are t.dd to lulcl £9,000,000 and the English banks probably hold £15,000,000 or ...18,000,010, i The month of February ISt3O was iS'mo I respect the most remarkable in tho wi .d's I history, It had no full moon. January - had two full moons, and sp had March, but February had none. This had not occured since the creation of the world, , and it will not occur again. Fixed cn a garden wall in Maida Yale, London, is a tablet announcing this fact. IYVe (Bush Advocate) learn that as tho result of a compound test held at the Umataoroa Dairy Factory foi three days the milk supplied by Mr K. Wille's ■Jersey cows has made the record of 5 per •tint of butter fat from a herd of seventeen cows, tho next being 3.6 per cent. After 3.G per cent the price per gallon rises at ]d for every three points, so that UrW'ille is making a name for himself Sivitli his valuable Jersey cattle. Out of one hundred lives insured in England, only ilvo are women's. ■'lt is estimated that over 10,000 appeals against the Sydney city l assessments have been lodged. "Whales have completely forsaken the east coast of Greenland, so < mercilessly have they been hunted. * At the Nelson Police Court lust week a resident was fined £1 with lis costs for unlawfully torturing poultry by confining them in a yard in a muddy and unclean condition. It was proved defendant had 108 fowls, 89 ducks, and 10 geese, while the fowlliouso measured Bft 4in by sft Tin. Tho beat medicine known in Sander and Son e Eucalypti Extract. Tent its eininnt powerfb ] effect in coughs, colds, intluenzu, etc.—the relief ia instantaneous. Thousands give trie mnsl gratifying .'eetimoiiy. His Majesy tho Kit of Italy,'* and medical synt!ica 4 <-« *>H over llr globe are its patrons, fiend r : .~i'l. reporel it that accompany each botttle. M/e-ler, M.JJ., Prof. University, Greifswald, reports Th< ' Eucalypti Extract proved mngnifie'i ntly sao--ful in very severe contusions, bruises, spr. insi wounds, scoldings, brokenrihs, and limbs,"(MedJournal, Nov., 1881). In diseases of the kid neys, either active congestion or supprrs: i-» (uraemia) or albuminuria, drojliiiiiisi: notbingwill equal ir: its fictionKuealypf iK-rlr.'id DOSO3, Bto 8 drops. JT.'sler, M.1>.," I'rof. Uui p<;r«ity, Greifswald, reports- -Uiptheria/iWil: continualiycoherentj)resenting ulcers with wliiU lexadats, Cured in 14 da3 r s. Surgical Clinic oi Prof. H'lntyro, College of Physicians and «Surgons, St Louis—Scirrhus of Breast Excision: ucalypti Extract employe j. No swelling, beat js«oloratioD.Oured ull d-iys.—[Advt .J 4 ►

CO-OPEEATIYE EMPLOYMENT. j Mr W. Enni-haw, iv.omVr of | Bunodin, is not pleased with the Government's way of distributing •' " i 1 unei)ip;o;,vd ' on : ■ ■. " " • throughout the colony. :(u rues! Otago and TV", llimrtco, and jii a - 'ii:v letter to the Ihincuir. press says, iairr} 'ilia : ' The emplpymoi\t pf co-ppora-, tive labor by the Govonmient iu Otngo ] and Wellington for the last six months j (twelve months would show equally i. i glaring) to see if tiu .••sjius- - siitl lioJus I good.' In Otago there ar; o :-oper;tiors | emploj'ed upon G-ovoranient wovb; under the Lands and fiurv. y Uepartment, and upon the Ca'tlins and Otago Central Eaiiways. In Wellington tiiere are co-operators employed upon Government work under the Lands and Surrey Department, State farms, southern end of tho North Island, Main Trunk and the Eketahuna-Woodville Eaiiways. From Juno to November inclusive, which is tlio latest data available, there hare boon employed in Otago 336 co operators, in. Y/ollington 718 co-operators. Tho latest return gives the employment of cooperators in Otago as 288 all told, in Wellington B(34—just thrice the number for Wellington. It is also to be remembered that a very heavy ox-! pendit-ire of public moneys is con-j tinuallv going on in Wellington, a->] the continuous extravagant alterati to the General Assemblj' buildin;- •»[ which tho lion. E. J. Seddon : a return showing - what work ho had done, and again redone), tho extravagance of furnished offices for Ministers printing establishment and public buildings, Porirua Asylum, Mount Cook Gaol, and the costly pile of Government Buildings, etc. . . The West' Coast may b<> viewed ns sinkhole for New Zealand's revenue. In no one instance since the Government have assumed office have they kept faith as between their own statements of the necessities of Otago, the supplies granted by Parliament, and the performance of tho work contemplated.