COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1417, 18 January 1879, Page 13

COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS.

(By Special Wire ) Auckland, Jamwy 11th. Mr A. Sauudera reports:— Soling : Buik. of Now Jso.iland (new), £*0 ; Colonial, 61s ; National, 00s ; South British, 665 ; Union, 13s (id ; Loan and Mercantile, £10 2b6u; Auckland Uas, £10; Guthrte and Larnadi'ti, QU ; Alburni<i, Us ; .Kurunui Hill, 10s 6i. iiujors : Aucklaivi Gas, £9 ; Colonial i?ank, 48s 6J. J. A. Mackenzie reports for wjek ended 11th Janu ary, as follows : - bales :-Culonial Bank of New Zealmd, £2 10s, £2 10s Csd ; National Bank of Now Zealand (L.d). £3 17s ; National Insurance Co, £l gs 0J ; Htnndard j n - BUranco Co, 19« ; Union Insurance 00, 13s 6J ; Mcssriel Woollen Factory Co (Ld), £393 ; Walton Parlc Coal Co, 15s ; Energetic Quartz mining Co, lieefton, £3 15a ; Welcome Quartss-nv.ning Co, Reefton, £2; Keep-it-Dark Quartz-mining Co, Reefton, 18s Cd ; Union Quartz-mining Co, Button, 33 6d.

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maintain, or has' fclie actual custody of any •child." The occupier of a tent would therefore be entitled to vote. DOUBTFUL.— According to Hutton's report on. the geology and goldfields of Otago, the altitude of Taieri lake is 986 ft. FLORA. — French words, when used in English composition, are always pronounced in the French fashion, whether italicised in print or not, as the omission to italicise is sometimes owing to a lack in typa of the often indispensable accented letters. Some French words, though, have been thoroughly Anglicized, yet have acquired a French pronounciafcion, and in pronouncing them you exercise a choice as to whether you shall utter them a la, Francois or a V Anglais. Ennui has been Anglicized, but its pronounciation is still French. The same may be said of the word nonclmlance, for although it is pronounced by some persons noncha lance, we confess that it shocks us to listen to the innovation. SUBURBAN READER.— In our early days the remedy for gapes in chickens was tobacco Bmok'e. The mode of administering was to take a pipe with quite a long stem, partially filling the bowl with tobacco, lighting it in the usual manner, arid then i covering the bowl with a small piece of cloth' through which air naay be readily blown ; then take the chick, hold the mouth open with thumb and. finger; insert the .bowl of the pipe in your own mouth with the end of the stem a short distance from that of the chicken, and then proceed to blow gently a slight volume of smoke into the open mouth of the chicken. Don't blow too long or the fowl may be killed by the operation. For a short time the chicken will not J be very lively, but will soon recover, and the cause of the gapes removed. More than one treatment will seldom be required to effect a cure. Persons, not accustomed to smoking should be careful to avoid inhaling the smoke, or they might become sicker than the patient . W.L. — The Dominion of Canada consists of Upper and 1 Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba, British Columbia, and Prince Edward Island. Tho Constitution of the Dominion is similar to that of .Great Britain, with' a Governor. General overall. i,~ .