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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 129, 2 June 1891, Page 3

Beturns given to the Cromwell Argus by the manager pi the Kawarau and Northburn stations as to thgrrabbite destroyed last year show that in round \figures half amilliou rabbits hav£ been destroyed and accounted fox on 232,000 aotes; and even ibis largo comber does not represent the grand total, as about 1,0 per oent of the rabbits poisoned are never found, aod * goodly number also tall ft pfoj t» the bawkSi wbioh ate very aumeroriila th 6 viol&ity ot the stations, On the Kawatiu station*, of 200,000 aores, the average number ol rtteh employed was 56*60, the amouit they earned being A 3634 18s, for whioDf 427,500 skins were received by the station, Th^appraumate amount received foiftbe *4Ss6wt of skius sent away van £2931, ' snowing a loss to the station of 4850. On the florthburn station 11 men were employed; on a$ average their earuiuga being *673 10b; repreijenttng 67,300 ekina paid for, The amount leceived for the 80 owt 2qr of akios.se^t away was 45660, showing a loss toi t>he station of £76. The loss to the station Is therefore an average of id' per aero for, Kawarau, and £d per acre for NorthbJfm, iiid'e'peudeht of the lobs of feed. . .The JButcman, a paper published in Bothe■ftjviLfi,, gives t&e, following account of thefineoaot wwsfcj laarresting gangrene:— MfVo%Tay|9)f.,WM obliged to get his, leg amwttfied,' Qwiog. to Boriie disease, of the bone, bt Maddeyer was' desirous of performing the operation some days earlier, but Mf'Ta/iof would not BUbniit to it, and even when he did agree would not allow the doctor to take off as muonof the diseased' Ihn6' l 'ak ( he considered necessary, to e£» I joV&'f obtain " and speedy re'eo verj. The oohfcequenoe was that a second operation had t6^i r |erfbimed, fcsiViug tne'patlent exceediflgly weak, and moTbifioatitfa rapidly set in. lii'iljese oirimms'tahoes Dr Maddever resorted toriifF *frobg measures, and presort bed a ffitu&'bl whuky u> be given Mr'iay'ior every nii i)hiß'waßd6lie for several days, With'thie iktraordinHry* result ihat the gan gViWdMppeaied' from the leg at the rate of Wfeti'fe'hai! an inch a' day, till at length it wE^ritii'ely gone, and the diseased leg beoaoio as'whiw'aß^he' other, the wound also heating 'iu^th^ most' 'aatisfautory manner. TWoisewasotofeely watohedby Dr Pater, soujotthe Gleubdrn Hydropathic, and Dr MaUdever got gteafi'br^dit in surgioal oiroks aforhkvirig pulled his patient through, It was a remarkable fact that although suoh qojMi^itiejs of' i spirits , were poured into the patient ,tfwre were no symptoms of intorioution until the gangrene was completely expelled from the system, and then he rebelled against the aiirse giving' him any more, and he oould not be inducetlto paftoke of any more spitiU^for a 1 long time after his reOovery. .Tit is saidtthat the only son of the deoeased lady whose braoelet was missing from the Pabilo iTrust Office is on his way from Sydney to look into 'the affairs of hia | mothers estate. - And aa his mother was an English lady of good breeding andprominnenfrinißnglißh society,' itis inferred that she has ,not ( .been sooustomed to wear two- 1 ahd-sixpeany bracelets. The one looked for by the soa is alleged to be gold set with | amethystonaßd onylea, of which he has U>ft>.gned the police. • iteoeived many handsome birth' darpresenis the other day, and one gift was i spwisliy aoo«ptabl«.' The Oentral Union of Uerman manufaoiUTers Bubaoribed to present him with a silver dinner B«rvioe, but the lands were so abandanfc that it also boDght a strip 9i land adjoiniDg Friedxiobsiuh which ihfcf rinoa hs,4 long coveted. The owner of Jhi» >ad jntended to build a sommsr hotel tOj.eMuisionists, who would be attracted to Priedriohjruh in hopes of seeing Bismarok. Ths Prince greatly dreaded suoh an invasion ol bis quietude, bat oould never persuade his neighbour to sell the ground. However, the manufacturers offered suoh a good prloe that the owner yielded, Tbeanoaal eutietioi of emigration have bet^ iesue^ (i»y« a London oorrespoodent) and tj^sy indicate Ib^t a pexiod pi minimum emigration has set in. Last year only 218,000 Danphs pf British aod Irish origin emigrated fw&'the Uoited JBUogdom, while in 1889 the «w; was 258,795, and in 1888 279,928, W^rfQur'tha of the whole emigrated to the QnileJlliates, 23,610 to Canada, 21,179 to 4^6ralitaia, and 10,821 to tho Oape of Good „/^ following bit of advice to farmers is ti|th in, the American Agrenilturitf.—Do Mtuadertake top muob. It pays to undertakeyonly as muoh work on the farm as oan 6e\ ; thoroughly attended to, The most s^ooscsfal profeesionsl men are speoialißts, an4,fs'*rule,;pn6or two branohes of farming oonduoted in the beit way will pay bettor, both in money and satisfaction, than half oompleted work on six or eight, There I* no profit in undertaking impossibilities. . From 6t, Petersburg comes an anecdote of the Czaiewitoh's journey in India, whioh is interesting, owing to the recent murderous attach at Kioto. The Prince was dining at Government Honse, Madras, when suddenly a load report was heard from an adjoining rooi^ The Caare witch started ,to his feat, Wle as death, and the ofnoers wh» were at table. gathered round, him, the first imWWjM, being that a ehot bad been fired by lt*HUoJUst wit^n murd^ripus intent;, - The opmpapy was Jiluoh relieved on learning that thßnolw'whiqthft4joreatedßo rauoh alarm bad merely been' caused by the explosidu of a siphon Pf seltzer water.' The Gzarewitoh eeejns to be always haunted by fear of the NihllUfte,! tot, .on another . occasion, while Al^U at Madras, he was pacing the deok of the- .Blifßian: man-of*war in whioh he .travelled, when a poorly-dressed individual ■made his appearance, and addressed him in his town tongue. The young Prince at once draw » revolver and fit ed on the man, who laokily was not hurt. On inquiry it was ascertained that he had slipped on board for tho) purpose Qf asking the Geare witch for money to enable him to return to Russia. .The"! Prince presented the stranger— who ,waa a Polish Jew— with a good i round sum, ,but the 6ffloer of the watoh received a severe reprimand fo* not having kept a sharper lookout, :. •>' J A fctory oomea to me ("Ruffler," in Vanity Fair) from Athens whioh is almost tod good to be true, but quite too good to be withheld, The numbers of the, P/ivy .Counoil had & meeting ia the 'com set apart for them in the glaring, white, stuccoed palace. , It Was evening, and the president had iaat 'iran to address, his colleague*, laying, jftOOdldlag to custom, his gold watoh on ntM&bjo in front of. him, so that he 'Mem owk, time. Suddenly the eleotrio 'llgnt weiit out, but after a short interval 'mtunecL' 'Then the president discovered that bis watoh, wbioh was a present from his royal 'feattsi, W"a* mlislng. He lamented, and wvited ois oolle'aguee to replace the watch, bu^ there was. no responae. He re« minded tbem'inat the door was looked, and $bafc,the wa.toh must be in , the possession of ' ooe ol [/ftSfcy/Sff n «^ ppl.Wh,, member, pn his w6id of honour to say that he bad not ; aVwhioh litil* pntormanee was promptly 'toHh»Oßgli. ; The Ptetident . then remarked Absinthe situMiou had become embarrassing; bal, ss he wished lo make things iWcTid tepjpUtlo^jjin'a momenf [of weaknesi, te .would order t^e lights to be! again extinguished; in order to, give him an' oppottcniiy of restitutldii. This was done ; r Jff»4j*lMn .the lights were turned oo the' pwsioent found that, not only hai he no, ]p& >ft* N bld * lw |Mt biß BllTer io!i '