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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 42, 25 January 1881, Page 2

Medicixal Properties op the *Bluk Qum. —Tue testimony in support of ti>< great medicinal properties of the Eucalyptus globvlv.s is increasing every year. Fe.» districts iv Europe had a more evil reputation than the Caiupagna as a veritable hotbed of pesiileutial fever, and people who know the country round Rome ma> remember the monastery at Tre Fontaus, on the spot as tradition tells us, that St. Paul met his death. Life in this monastery meant death to the Monks, but since the Eucalyptus has been planted ia the cloisterfever has disappeared and the place ha become habitable. Again, iv parts ol Corßiea and Algeria, whore the trees haw been planted for the sake of its repute virtues, epidemic fevers have been statnued out. Similar testimony also comes from Holland, the south of France, Italy, Cali foiuia, aud many other partstrf the world, as to the febrifugal attributes of the tree, which inußt make it increasingly valuable in the eyes of Australians. Wool on Southland Railways. — There never was a year (j-ro-vla the Southlaud Newo) in which wool was known to come down so slowly to the Bluff —uot even in the days when bullock-teams were the only means of tr&usit. It would be perfectly, safe to say that for every hundred bales of woolaTfready shipped at the Bluff, in any preceding year there were four or five hundred. We hear that some of the country stations on the line of railway are bjofeked with wool—-because there is no j railway labor available to load the trucks. Retrenchment has, in fact, been'carried to l' the extent the Frenchman pushed his 'exp6riiQent#if;«eaohiugthe horse how to do without food. At thd Otautau the only spare hand, in the shape of a porter, has bten «conoim&ed ou^of flight, and tne 1 WationmasW -fiftrft&h *t%4tei*rag hi* Ift* ventive faculties for the la*t three weeks in devitmig a purchase whereby to load the top tier by himself. He hasn't succeeded y.t |