SMALL TALK.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7092, 28 August 1901, Page 2

SMALL TALK.

It is calculated that at least 20,000 people are: engaged in dairying in New South Walesa • ..- ; ..-.-.

Pulmonary complaints are prevalent in Goulburn, New South-Wales, and "the hospital now contains more patient's than at any previous period of;the year.--' ■' A broom factory, has 'beeH established atTatham^ Richmond River; New South Wales. .The fine' growth of miUefon the Xsortnem rivers is bringing this industry to the front.- •/ " -: ./• ;-

AtLaunoeston a lad named Clifford Ramsaj, aged 14 years, was placed under chloroform.forI:the ■• extraction of teeth He sudden^ collapsed, andj despite the eflprus; of two doctors, di'edv r.

- One of three.: seamen: sentenced at limarufor absenting themselves mtKout leave from'the barque Alma to a fortnight s imprisonment, said-he would sopner/do sis years'than go back to the .vessel; ;■•..•' " . ■ ■■:<'■ : -;.-h:-*;: A steerage passenger named Rossi belonging to Roekaampton,' jumped. "from the steamer Wbdoriga, off Uape Bowling trreen.. The vessel; was 'stopped/and I :search made,; but nothing, further -was seenofßoss. - ■:;■; ■■/■•:'. -v-v.v. . Speaking .at :a s New .South' Wales meeting, of. dairymen,^ supplier stated that .-.suce feeding: his -calves on pasteunseo. milk hehailO per centless loss , th.^ wheiiiieeding;them^ on skimmed .milk n ;as: lfc came from.the creamery iinpasteurised.L,. -'. ■■'"'" '\- J J-- ■ A man was tefoi-e thfe Jfelbotu-ne CityCourt recently,, who, out of a life o f f 5 yeai^had speiifc^' years and: three ■^S^^f 'SeMs oli.Fredlrick :m/a , sei ,3 ational ii^W^o^ species of shark was shot ayje^wharf.a^Edeni South Wales, if It- has Been shipped to the curatorrof.the^Publib Museum, Sydney, lhis fish-unlike-other sharks, gets its ;tood by means of strainers in the moutk similai-ito;whalebonp. . ,> '■ . ~ ■-