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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 118, 6 March 1895, Page 4

Can T see you apart for a moment? You mean alone, don't you? ies, a 1 ran, that's it exactly. I want to borrow a sovereign. She laughed at every litttle jest, Even though it might bo simple ; itwasft't a wish to show her taste; Hutacun::in little dimple.

A wild duck shot at Kempsey, NewSouth Wales, a few days ago Avas found to have a piece of gold the size redoill shot on the Behhofe was also found to have a small piece of gold in its crop. The vital principle is preserved in seeds and eggs, fruits and vegetables, during cold weather because Ihcy have a heat of their own. The temperature of an egg or apple, down to the freezing point, is always several degrees i above that of the surrounding air. The Eoyal Agricultural Society of Bngland show this year is to be held at Darlington during the last week of June, and £6,035 will bo given in prizes, of which horses got £2,012: cattle. £1.7-10 ; and sheep, £1,170. Last year's show at Camhridgo was very successful, having resulted in a net, profit of nearly £l,lOO. A Nelson firm is now experimenting with anew piocess for preserving eggs, which, it is anticipated, will keep them in a sound state of prearvalion

for three years. The long?st time during which n note has remained outside the bank of England is 111 year?. It wa3 for £25, and it is computated that the compound interest during that long period amounted to no less than £G,OOO. A cargo of. villas has been despatched from Gothenburg, in Sweden, to Buenos Ayres. They filled fifty railway waggons. The building of portable houses is indeed becoming quite an important industry both in Sweden and Norway. The villas are useful and very cheap, and they have ready found buyers in a number of different countries. A resident Gympio (Queenland) whilst walking along one of the streets picked up a boulder containing gold valued at between £SO and £7O. More than one had been tripped by the stimo boulder on dark nights.