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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 12 June 1907, Page 1

It sounds amazing, but actually there, will be no stonemasons, no carpenters,- . and no bricklayers employed in tho building of the «ast block which is to form the General Post Oifice extension in London. Indeed ,no skilled workmen except the gangers and foremen will he necessaiy for. the wprk. All the rest will be labourers. The explanation of this apparently miraculous undertaking is that the great buildings are -to be erected, on' the Hennebiqu . Ferro-Con-crete system; they will be all-steel and concrete. U.nderVthis : novel system, as described by the-. Westminster "Gazette," the whole framework of the building - may be said to be steel — somewhat on tha ' principle • .. and • yet ' greatly cEffering in ' detail from the ' American plan— encased in concrete, which it naturally strengthens and suporte, but which, when the building is finished, is quite invisible. A complete building has the' appearance of being composed of Ecctland stone. One of the most remarkable attempts at suicide*- on record was witnessed recently at "Collingwood, \ Victoria. A corpulent old man was -floating down the stream, ducking his head, and disi-. appearing at intervals, bat making no attempt to keep afloat or to -swim ashore. His progress .was stopped by two men who happened to be passing. They went in after him . and hauled him, unresisting, 'ashore, .' "7They received.no v thtf___&' for 'their action.^ In-' stead pf gratitude; 'the' predominant, feeling in the old-man's breast was one of asftonish_nent'thatr,he had not .been, able to sink. •."- ?'l^tppk* : off mycoat so that it would not catch. the air. and. held me tip,'.' he-(saip_7'"and!-I jumped in near Gipps street;'. ' I don't know how it is' that IvflpatiedJ' except that- I have not had anything to eat for a day or two, and have been drinking a lot. I must haver beetf, full, of - 'gas." Constable McCullough took charge of the man, who several .times expressed his disappointment at/his want.of snccess. "I did all I could," he said, "I ducked nof? and, then, but I could not sink." fie stated' that' his name was Robert -Cox, and/ that he had been an inmate of the Salvation Army "Anchorage," in Collingwood.- "'.'He jumped into the fiver nearj the; refuge, so. .that in" his remarkable joufney he covered about halJ-a-mile. • ''.' ; •■■ - ry,\y^^*^:y/^yyj\y, A correspondent to the _ Auckland Herald 'writes; lira recent. issue of the "Herald" there is.-'an_ account of the death of a man at Gisborne, from septicaemia. -This,-;iii.-tlie.,yernacx_lar, is simply bldpd-poisoiiing. • The .writer has long known of a thoroughly, reliable specific for this misfortune in sulphur, and has more than once had, ample proof of jts power. - hut, through diffidence as "an outsider;* held bade, from mentioning it, although" of ten tempted when reading in -your- columns of mahy ; deaths from the same simple cause. I. can- compare it ia nothing more^ aptly than. putting a. ferret. -into a-rabblt-hole.- - is driven but in front. . _T once scratched one of my wrists .with a' splinter from the.. 'jawbone of a.butlock's bead.T, -was-.-cutting-ap. - The meat was-- slightly taunted.. ~No mark even wasi noticed'rjwtil the following day, when: my~ arm irjwwf slightly . inflarai,ed, and it soon got to the elbow, and felt hot and sore to -the ; shoulder. It gave me a "scare sure'enough, yet, having the utmost confidence in the remedy mentioned, I, witiputvfurther delay, took a Bmall^feasptynJEulvpfiSulp-iur, at the same time bathing the aim with the mixture ■used-.fi>*sclc___^g:.ict'fs on fruit trees (lime," sMphuranaisalfc- boiled together.) Finely-crushed •■. rbck sulphur is most effective internally ; flowers of sulphur is.;* good, outside application for any sore. For.aafeiy-enother spoonful of the remedy rwas-'takeri '.at bedtime. On the fofiovrngrmoyiiing, the swelling had nearly: disappe^redj-indwasalmoist forgotten before S the -day was "ont. Need more be said? .Invalids go to Rotorua, and ..come hack^renovated in health, -yeb-I 'doubt if .more than one in 100 realises that it . _is= the sulphurcharged water and,atmpsph__M,- ; ana nothing else,; whicb/efiecW.the-shangß.