UNSHAKEN IN POPULARITY.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 878, 28 December 1888, Page 26

UNSHAKEN IN POPULARITY.

Wolfe’s Schnapps will soon drive from the field tiashy competitors. In the meantime the publio have only to oxorciao ordinary caution to get hold of the real article.

side, and Mr Brown is of opinion that the interest of the Tongaus demand some organic union. Sydney, December 21. The weather throughout Australia iB generally broken. The Babbit Commissiouera have adopted their report for presentation to Parliament. The report deals extensively with the various experiments, and, as far as the experiments have gone, they tend to prove that M. Pasteur’s remedy is totally inefficacious. Under the conditions prevailing in the interior of the continent the microbe loses its virulence after a few hours’exposure to moderately warm weather, or when subjected to the drying effect of the wind. The disease sarcopets cuniculi, discovered by Professor Watson, and others are dealt with. With regard to the bladder worm, it is said that it cleared the Wairarapa district of rabbits, and the Commissioners recommend that further investigation be made into this disease. Brisbane, December 21. A pedlar was brutally murdered at Charters Towers to-day, and three foreigners have been arrested on suspicion of beiDg concerned in the murder. Thursday Island, December 21. The steamer Bucephalus, from Wellington aud Dunedin, passed here to-day, and sent word ashore that they had lost four of the shipment of horse". News by the 8.1. N. Co.’s steamer states that the relations between China aud. Corea are still strained. The Chinese Government refuse to recall Yuen, the Chinese Resident at Leone, against whom Judge Denny made serious charges, as the Viceroy is satisfied with Yuen’s conduct. Sydney, December 23. Arrived—Ringarooma. Sailed—Waihora, for Wellington, last night. The inquiry by Government into the charges made by Messrs Melville aud Want in the House of Assembly, that Mr Eehon, one of the receutlyappointed commissioners, was connected with what is termed the “ wool frauds,” proves beyond doubt that the charges are without foundation, and that Mr Eehon has .fully vindicated his character. Melbourne, December 22. In proroguing Parliament this afternoon, the Governor in his speech from the throne, regretted that the drought had seriously affected the country. The Treasurer’s budget, he said, showed that the general prosperity of the Colony was unchecked. The Exhibition had been the success predicted. In connection with the Exhibition he eulogised the support accorded by the sister colonies toward rendering it a success. In referring to the Chinese question, ho hoped that legislation in the colonies would be such as would be acceptable to the Mother Country. Albany, December 22. Arrived —Oceania, from Plymouth. Passengers for New Zealand—Mr and Mrs Campbell, Mr and Mrs Richards and two daughters, Miss Popham, Messrs Ilammon, Steward, Stringer, Sheriff, Churnock, and Antrobus. Melbourne, December 24. Typhoid fever is largely on the increase in Melbourne and suburbs.

William Thomson, a well-known Melbourne and Eiji merchant, has failed for L 116,000. The assets are stated at L 50,000. Tiio plunger ease of the pump at the Maryborough mine fell down the shaft and killed a. minor named Whedlcck. Another, named Grade, was carried SO feet under water and drowned, besides which several men were more or less severely injured. The German, Gartner, who shot a man named Brown in Elinders-street on the 12th November, has been sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. Sailed—Ohau, for Dunedin. Brisbane, December 24-. Arrived —Janet Nicoll, from Lyttelton. Adelaide, December 24. Lindsay, the explorer, confirms the statements recently made as to the existence of an active volcano to the north of Lake Amadeus. Lindsay locates the mountain at about 200 miles north-west of Alice Springs Telegraph Station, on the overland line to Port Darwin, and states that the Natives say it “ growls ” aud throws up stones and sand. Sydney, December 24. Potatoes are brisk. The present quotation is Ll 5. Onions, Ll 3. Brisbane, December 25. A Government agent named Armstrong, belonging to the labour-re-cruiting, schooner Ariel, was decoyed

ashore at Nalayta and cut to pieces by the Nativep. The weather is generally fine all over the colony. At Kiandra, however, it is stormy, a heavy snowstorm lasting three hours to-day. Pive thousand sheep perished in the snow. Melbourne, December 24. An aeronaut named Bartholomew dropped with a parachute from a balloon at an altitude of 4000 ft. The descent was successfully accomplished. The Russian war vessel Nayednika will visit Auckland shortly. There is now no chance of a good wheat yield this season in Queensland. The Federal Council meet in Hobart on 28th January. A horrible outrage is being investigated in the Police Court at Perth. A man named Griffon is charged with the brutal murder of a native at Esperance Bay. It is alleged that Griffen, with the assistance of another black fellow, whom he compelled to take part in the outrage, did a native to death by pouring red hot embers over his neck and abdomen, and horribly mutilating him with fire aud forked sticks. Griffen then kuoeked out what life remained in the unfortunate man by jumping on him till he was dead. The New South Wales Parliament adjourned on Saturday for the holidays. It will reassemble on the Bth January. Butter has risen to Is owiug to the small supply in the Sydney market and the Christmas demand. The Australian Backing Record says the changes in value of the shares of some companies between July and December afford full proof of the severity of the land crisis, as the fall ranges from 20 to 90 per cent. Of the July operations the average is fully 50 per cent. The press expresses the opinion that the financial pressure is gradually disappearing. Probably, however, the banks are already discounting the effect of the new loan. The Victorian Parliament has prorogued for the holidays. The mau Culter, charged with the murder of a Chinaman in the Little-Bourke-street (Melbourne) row on the 17th November, has been acquitted. The man Griffen, charged with the brutal murder of a blackiellow at Lake Esperance, has been acquitted. The evidence in the case was very conflicting. Arrived, at Brisbauc—German warship Moewe. A Government surveyor’s assistant named Lloyd was killed by lightning at Dreghorn, Queensland. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following telegram from their London office, dated 20th inst. :—“ Frozen meat. —The market is dull-—Canterbury mutton is worth 3-fd, and Wellington, 3fd per lb. New Zealand beef quotations unchanged .”