LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1539, 14 September 1905, Page 1

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An electro-chimical tlax-Ideaching proe._-i.-i was under teat at the laboratory oi the Department of Agriculture last week (says the 'Post'). " Further tests are to Ijc maiJr. and the invi-ji-tors do not wish for the present to brintf their proem prominently l>.fore the public. At present bleaching i* done by exposing the strip|*-d fibre in paddocks for about three weeks. A chemical process has been sought after for some time for the purpose" of saving the delay, expunge of land, etc. The new profess gives excellent color, but a factor that always has to I*- [ weighed in connection with u chemical bleaching process is the "übstypient effect on tensility, etc. A resident of Napier nfently wrote to a Mend in Central India, a medical man attached to one of the missions there, asking him whether tie-re was a possibility of the bow* of plague-itricken human being- 1 Ix-in-.- reduced to honedust ami exported to New- Zealand. The doctor hu- replied as follows Bearing in mind that there are 300,000,00i> people in this country, and that so many k.vp cattle, the result is that the country is far too overstocked with cattle of all kind*. There are about 7,000,ini0 undressed hide* and 1,500,000 dressed hides exporti-d from India annually. Aliont 1.300,000 will |>o used in manufactures in the country. Thus, al*>ut 10,0(H),000 hides of cows, o\en. and buffaloes which have died or been slaughtered are annually e\]>ortei] or used at home. Now, it seem- that the average weight of bone per skin is about SOtb, thus giving considerably over IiOO.OOO tons of bone for export. With such an immense quantity t.> deal with, the wvd for other than animal lwme« is not obvious, and, moreover, in India it must be borne in mind that the bodies of natives are for the moat part burned oil funeral pyres. Your friend is quite »r..n; In supposing 'hat any human Ih.ih~ are used for the purposes Kiianre»t«l. the funeral pyre leaving: only ashes, which in most cusi-y, I believe, are d<-po»itnl in an urn and carefully kept." "An Old Farmer" "writes to the Brisbane Worker' i-oneerniiii; "th« tfreat outcry aeair,-l tlife rabbit ami says : "I am one of th»>se who think that the rabbit i- a ble—incThey kept me ami many thou-unds besides trom -tLirvinu. and l < and scatter poison through the country will cause untold misery. It I- onlv Ix-cau-e thev Ijenefit thv poor that the rabbits are a |x*st. Tln-y are more profitable tlian shis-p. as a rabbit d-»-not want water, the dew on the ileitis' sulVe-ient. llutMh'.-d- of farmers diirin<_' tlie droue-ht would ha*e fared badlv onlv tor the rabbits Settle people oti the laud, and that wilt solve the dilli. ultv ! CHUON'IC RHEUMATISM ! EFFECTUALLY U HED.

No matter how long you !.«,ve suffered from Kheumati«iu. no matter what other remedies have failed, KHEUMO, if given a fair trial, will e, "ct « cure. Thousands of other sufferers hav* been permanently cured by UHEI.MO when all else has been tried in * »n. Many bave spent liitl"' sums of a. - ucy at Rotonia and other thermal *r rings, but it was RHEUM(J that eventually effected a cure. If von are sutferin? from Rheumatism, or from Gout, Lumbago, Seiata, or kindred complaints, give RHEUMO a fair trial. It Las cured others and will cure you—and that at little cost. All chemists and itnrea, 2s fid and 4i fid. The Warracknab«a! >rr-'-[ >«!,. :.■-* ~[ the 'Australasian' n-iH.it- that lh" rabi>it-trapper- in -.me part- >.i *.titdistrict cutih numbers of dome-tie eatu that haw none wild. Some of these attain a lartre size, and art' v.-ry ferm-ious when caught. As the -Litis of the animals nr.- a marketatil mmudity. the trappers -u-tain no !"-> by eatehintr them As the rat- In.in the burrow-. s n .minjk in peri ■.-» amity with tlif rightful KrupanK. i' is assumed that they do not kill rab bits, but if the burro"' were el.-ar.-d out it would lw> f<mti<i tlicit there were very few yoiinjr rabbits in the burro*. Another writer says that eat- "in keep rabbits completely under, lint "unfortunately, the f- ■' that catskins "ere m..i" valuable than rabbitskin*. and this proved fatal to the eats." Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, for Couff, and Cold» naver fails. It 6d. The MeliKturne 'Aritu-.' comm. editorially upon Mr Sed.loii's lantl re solution*. remarks :~"A< an ulfdKa tion oi Ministerial responsibdit v . without resignation oi olfne. Mr S«it- ■ lon's iiwit' is unparallel.-d, ami the Leader of the Opposition ha- natural ly tabled a't amendment i-allini; upon the Government to show it- hand. Were it not that Mr Siil.lon i- -•> clever in manipnlating parties. ami in ijainititf a material hold upon ti..litician.s and constituencies. it would l»: difficult to expect liiui to weather tie' storm which.has so loul' b<t-n I iw ■n. 'Whatever the outcome of tin ,M.!,te. his strange attempt to ca-t upoti Parliament a duty which uuirht form..l I.y the Xinittry 'ha' his power is waning." RHEUMATISM CAN BE CI'RED. 1),, not sulfer t'ruui rheumatism. One application of Chamberlain > I'aiu Balm ffi\ca relief, and its continued u»e will bring about a permanent cure. Kor sale by G. K. W hart. >ll, Chemist, It is sometime* u»toni*hin2 hj« ■ » news rvgurding mines leaks out. The Thames 'Star' thus thru" liiht upon one method u*«J to a.iputirn outsitter? with developments t«-low "It is -tated Ha> * the journal named 1 that a prominent mining man Thames I fi-I .t\ er>. 1 a h.ll rate system oi signalling from a Thames mint, and that he watclW its operation with considerable interest the other da>. The -iytial- were worked on the semaphore system. and the operation was evidently att.-ude-i with suo-ess, for the day after the shares had advanced 1*1." The Marlborough 'Times' s U \ - German correspondents mix up .olonial addresses prt»Uy considerably at times. A post card has just nnch<-d us from tlte " Faderlanil' a<klre»s«i : "'Revd. Wit. - ~f 'Marlborouyh Daily,' Hi.-nhelm. New Zealand, West Australia. The reverend 1* distinctly "*e l*'ar our blushing honors, etc. | A horror came to me one night. | A spectre blear and old— I "Your name ! " I cried, in wild afj friijht. ' It laid, "I am a cold." I "Begone ! " I cried, "your clammy j 4ouch I will no m<w» endure ! 4r,J straight it vanuhed at the Kitf-ht I Bi Wood*' Gtfat Peppermint Cur*-.