LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 85, 17 July 1895, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A good quiet cow is advertised for sale. Capt. Edwin wired as follows at 1 p.m. to-day Indications strong north to east and south-east winds with rain after sixteen hours from now; glass fall. The Wairoa Guardian has beeninformed that the Bank of New Zealand is foreclosing on a large estate in the Poverty Bay District, the amount in volved being something over £50,000, and that several others are likely to follow, P/r Potter, of Melbourne, has been experimenting with the Broken Hill sulphides, with the view of extracting the zinc and converting it into a marketable product. Ho has been so far successful that a plant capable of treating 100 tons of crude material daily is being erected. Bays the Dunedin Star:- The virtue of self-denying benevolence reaches a high level in the case of a Dunedin labourer who, after handing over his promised subscription to the unemployed fund had 3s left as his week’s wages. Verily it is more than a mere saying that the poor are the best friends of the poor. Viscount Peel, ex-Speaker of the House of Commons, in referring to the honour of the freedom of the city being conferred on him, said he was conscious of the fact that bis services were confined to a limited area, but they had been attended with fatigue, and at times were even distressful. For years the city had honoured his father for a great act of patriotism and duty. Mr Edward Dorling, of Patea, late of the s.s. Waverley, who has been studying at the Trinity House Navigation and Steam Schools, Wellington, on Friday last passed his examination for a certificate of competency as “ Mate of a Hometrade Passenger ship,” The examination was conducted by Captain Allman, the principal examiner for the colony, and Commander Edwin, R.N. The cost of diptheria anti-toxin is not so heavy as is generally thought. It costs 2s 6d and us 6d a bottle, and one bottle is sufficient for each case of diptheria. It bad been used very successfully in New Zealand the Premier informed the House, but at Home its efficacy has been questioned. Speaking on the subject of diptheria anti toxin on Tuesday, the Premier said a case recently occurred here when a medical man charged a guinea for administering a dose of antitoxin valued at Gd, Such charges by medical men, he thought, showed the necessity for fixing the foes of the pro fession by law. M. Alpbonse Daudet, the distinguished French novelist, declined to definitely reply to the question of a Daily Graphic repres mtative as to what he thought of London. He distrusted first impressions, but said ;“ La joule 1, P actin'te, In force — there, in three words, you have the things that have impressed me most in London, There cannot be anything in the world, I should imagine, to equal the energetic life of your streets —the crowds., the traffic, the eager vigour of the people, and the great area over which this high pressure vitality extends. As for your faubourgs, I must confess I was not very much impressed by them. They struck mo ns less original that those of our own great commercial and manufacturing centres. The same impression (was made on me by your slums. We can show you in Lyons, Marseilles, and Roubaix much more terrible sights than 1 have seen in Whitechapel. One thing, however, has interested mo very much, everywhere I have scon the characters of Eicbons in the flesh. 1 have recognised them in the gamins, in the ragged girls dancing jigs to the tunes of the hurdygurdies, in the portly and prosperous shopkeepers—even iu the trim servant