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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 144, 4 September 1895, Page 4

The Engineer newspaper, London, offers a prize of a thousand guineas for a self-propelled road carriage.

California now produces 2G,000,000 pounds of raisins annually. More than 100,000 acres in California are under vines, and these yield nearly 25,000,000 gallons of wine.

Coolgardie itself comprises about 13,500 square miles; East Coolgardie, 16,700 square miles; North Coolgardie, 39|C00 square miles ; and East Murchison, 56,00 square miles. There is a boom in rabbits in Victoria. Orders from London salesmen are coming to hand faster almost than they can be executed, and one shipment from the Government cold stores, recently, comprised no than 100,000 frozen rabbits. The demand has leJ to an advance in the price, which is now sixpence each, delivered in Melbourne, A farmer has been arrested in a village in Hungary for firing two shots through the window of an inn at his wife and her father. Eortunately his aim was bad. On being asked his reason for the attempt, he stated that he had already had nine wives, who had all consented, at his request, to be divorced. His tenth and presont wife, however, acting on the "injudicious advice' of her father, refused, aud consequently he felt annoyed. To exempt newspapers from poetage, as Mr Guinness suggests, would, the Post master-General says, mean a loss of £1302 in revenue, as well as an increase in carrying charges, and Mr Ward thinks the colony cannot afford this for maQy years to come. The Queen of Saxony maintains three physicians whose sole duty is to attend the ailments of the suffering poor. Mr T. Mackenzie attributes the Hon. Mr Steward's appeal to have Coronets' juries paid to his anxiety to find employ - luont for the unemployed of his district, where a great find of skeletons was recently made. "Kouqiion Hats."—Clear out rats, mice roaches, ilies, auta, bed-bugs, iufecta, si ink cocct-rarjits, sparrows, gophorß. Alchemists and druggists.