PEPPER POT.

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8968, 19 April 1890, Page 5

PEPPER POT.

Adelaide wants a rubbish destructor, and asks Wellington for information about the process. Adelaide is evidently wise in its generation and wants to keep pace with the times. In such a city of heat as Adelaide, rubbish soon gets very much in the way, and is deleterious in the extreme. We believe that the destructor is a capital institution, that has answered everywhere wore tested. It is rather surprising that antagonism to it should still be lurking in the City Council, and we hope nothing in the way of prejudice will be allowed to operate against the request of Adelaide. The destructor is doing its work excellently well, and is accepted as a success by the city generally. Sc the dynamiter in Sydney has escaped with ten years’ hard labour. It is true there was no explosion, but as the good intent of the perpetrator was clearly proved, he had earned condign punishment. Ten years about mot the case. To attempt to destroy by such means is an abominable crime. It is so difficult to cope with conspiracy and stay results. The Auckland tailoresses are bestirring themselves and mean business. They will have the legitimate “log” enforced. Well, we say they are right, for if the Union rules are carried by a majority they ought to be enforced, especial y as they operate very decidedly to the benefit of the workers. Samples of stone from Silverton mine, “North awa,” have been assayed, and yielded enormously. Whilst it is well knqwn now that assays, “ chemical tests” so termed, are moat misleading, as a rule, yet these particular ones do indicate abnormal richness of ore. At the same time ore, or quartz, so rich ought to yield a good hearty “ prospect ’’ by the ordinary and eminently practical testing method, pulverisation, amalgamation and retorting, and there’s your button of solid metal to handle and no mistake about it ! Hello ! ! Extensive old mining workings found in Swaziland, East Africa —caves and gold and what not 1 Quite ancient and very rich at this day, and are believed to be the mines worked for King Solomon. Such is our cable news elsewhere. Swaziland is a small native territory be. tween ; the Transvaal, Znluland, and Amatonga, and is close to the sea coast. Not at all improbable that Solomon’s ships got that far. Eider Haggard didn t make half a bad shot in that work of his, " King Solomon’s Mines,” only he didn’t happen to locate them so near the coast line. He made caves of it, too, and sliding rocks and subterranean passages. And now the caves are found and the gold, too 1 Well, ’tis singular, and something more may be looked for from the discovery. The Queen of Sheba’s bangles perhaps 1 Notwithstanding the Council’s action, the opponents of theO. D. Act are still endeavouring to mould public opinion. Their chief points are—(l) The iniquity ot providing clean subjects for men’s vice ; and (2) the shocking indignity offered to innocence should a mistake be made. If there is anything in this line of argument we ought to allow the vilest compounds to be sold for spirits because man ought righteously to suffer for his vicious indulgences. Secondly, we ought to abolish punishment for all crime, because innocent people have been known to suffer, and in ail probability will be liable to sufler while the laws are in force. Could the argumentum ad absurdam go further ? The drought has not yet broken up ! At any rate the genius who presides over the electric light appears to think so, for the Manners street dynamo was again not working last night. Millions of gallons ot water is running to waste at Wainui, but the genius is waiting until the Karori reservoir is overflowing, for fear of another dry spell 1 At this season of the year, too ! That Hutt Hack Race Meeting is drawing near. Noble Campbell and Co. are going to sell the privileges next Tuesday. See ad. The Government Insurance has an attractive advertisement for some people elsewhere Plenty of money to lend. That Melrose estate to the fore again. Going to be sold this time, and quite soon, too—next Thursday week. How people do rave about Melrose because it is a bit up in the work), as if the g r eater part of Wellington were not in the same predicament. The place should sell well.

Matson and Co., of Christchurch have an important sale notice elsewhere. A very fine property, indeed, going at auction next month.