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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVI, Issue 235, 14 October 1892, Page 2

A quautity of wreokage sighted off the island of Amsterdam some time agogavo rise to a supposition that a vessel had either beon wreokedor burned, a-id^hat possibly survivors might be there. The Government of Tasmania sought the co-operation of that of tho Capo in endeavouring to get a steamer to oall when en route for the Australian Colonies to see if such were the ease. A communication his now beon received (says tho Hobarb Meroury) from fcqe Colonial Secretary's Office, New South Wales, enolosing a copy of a lotter from the oaptain of tho steamship Falklaud, dated 21th August last, m whioh ho states thab sc tbe request of the Governor General of Cape Colony he touched at the island of Amsterdam on 6th July. Tho weather was favourable, bub he could discover nothiug of any shipwrecked people. Tho captain adds that ho was very close aud observed all parts of the island, With the nid o? a telescope ho saw about 10 head of cattle and a small wooden oro'S erected on the north-east part of the island, near the Pearl ivuohorago. Ia conoludiog he says:-" 1 can now confidently assure the Governor of Tasmania that there were not any human beings on this island." Writing in a Home piper, Dr. {Andrew Wilson says :-'• Personally, I havo no doubt consumption is infectious, for there is a vast body of evidence at hand whioh seems to me utterly unexplainablo on any other theory whatever. I oould quote to you cases by tho dozen, where healthy people, with no tendency to consumption at ali, have taken consumption through olose association with consumptives. Husbands have given it to wives, and wives to husbands, A girl haa been infeotel with it through wearing the ear-rings whioh a friend, dying of consump. tion, gave her, the infection taking place apparently through a out or abrasion in the ears of the healthy girl." Dr Wilson adds that there iB no dooter who now-a-days does net teioh his patisnts, if he knows his business at all, the duty of using Bpittoons ia whioh a little of some disinfeotant is plaoed so as to kill the germs, while tho spittoons , are to be washed out with boiling water daily, To use liandkorohiefs is an unsafe I proceeding, for thoy are obviously liable to act as centres of infeotion, Again, no con* sumptive person should sleep in the same room with a hoalthy persou or persons, He 1 taints tho air, and his olothes and bedding should be disinfeoted before washing. During excavations in an old bam at Newtownavds, Scotland, tho body of a man in a remarkable state of preservation was discovered. The body was clothed in a minister's gown. Tho bam liad at pae timo beon used for religious purposes. Prince Roland Bonaparte has installed a moteorologioal station in the valley of the Oaed Rhir, Sahara, where observations are now bomg conducted to determine the oouditions of olimate suitable for the oußivation of date palms,