HERE AND THERE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10673, 24 January 1911, Page 1

HERE AND THERE.

MACHINE. ''■J".That'-wonderful- machine into which pigSvwalked at one end-and. from which sausages' :were- produced it: the :: other has;?almbsfcbecome- 'a" reality;.. "An Austirian named ; ¥on Hen--riquSshag.inventecl a machine ; which can turn" out--15O;O0O ball" cartridges, in ten fiottfs."by-what is"- described as ; an ah-, surdly simple process.-V". 'Powder cases arid-'bullets' are v -dr-opped: ifttp 'receptacles - short rtime; -reappear as cartridges *eady ; for ils'e.. \ -The machine ;' distinguishes" ". 'between ' good and bad material^'all defective material being discarded.~ ? The.-Austrian War Department has ordered ten. machines to be constructed.,-" and with them will be in a- position. • to -'manufacture 1,500,000 cartridges German- military authorities are following the' matter- withclose attention.

THE "CANADIAN. WILDERNESS. ■ TlWe are Ivast-areas in Canada of wlncTi. : Wen!the -Government has no definite knowledge; 'and there are thousands of square-miles where the foot of a wliite manuhas never" trod. Practicallv all knowledge of-this, big wild coun- - try. liasrbeerivsecurecL again and again aloiig'-'.a few- chosen , arid, well worn routes; of wliich, investigation lias''seldom'' .gone. Imagine a dozen or so; well beaten:vehicle liigh'ways traversing .a'country ohe-fburtli as large as Europe—narrow, hemmed in bv' ; imneiieiitable . one inav form some sort idea of the -little .that J% „stilL known -of 600,000 'squiire miles of.VtligfN'orth; Americancontinent;. v -.Al(ingiithese; routes nearly all' ,v expldrejs .gone., . ■ Along them "are-sitiiate'd'anost 7 of jthelfur posts and -b'eyond httle- is 'fcrTowri:: ;And jn:this world; 01 forest and mountains and eternal desolation, mystery and. silence .of ; 'ehile^:,centuries, are its -'people. :: App.roximatelj: there.-'are from 13,000 to 25\00b""liijnia'ii; souls .in an: .area .six ' times ofr. New: "Zealand, and 'triOTe : are.rio jhbreth.j>ii;soo-of these who 'hare frsthstfme."lndian blood in their i^eirre 1 - %Q.n "tlfe."'"'blher hand fully one-l-iatr 1 population has its strain b^.^li,ite„blopd.

DANDIES. ; ;fn'the'-matjer of dress we have fallen upon a :decliiie" since the da vs, when "the Duke of Wellington was refused adniis-sionvto-Almack's, because -he was wearing; "trousers instead: of breeches 'and silk' stockings.:- vEven .Alma.ckjs. how-: ever, had to admit trousers within iits closely : Guarded- portals the following year." When Gladstone was "up" at Oxford the reien of the dandies was in full: swing".' When late in life" he revisited, "the university to lecture to the nncfrrpradnates on Homer he was asked try G. Wv E. R.iissell whether he noticed any difference between the audience and the-men of bis own time. "Yes," he replied, "in their dress .an enormous change'. I am told that I had among nr? audience some of the most highly pnVmnotcrl find richest men in the university, and there wasn't one whom I couldn't have dressed from top: to-toe &t£s." ".'■ .■-.•:v'-v:*-:>