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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6881, 20 January 1894, Page 3

The Queensland Department of Agricul ture recently forwarded to a firm in Japai a small sample of cotton grown in the Wesi Moreton district. A report is to hand t( the effect that the sample was of exeelleui quality, and would fetch about the Bairn price as Cochin China cotton. The Southland Times says : — A grandei looking crop of oats one could not wish tc see than a paddock of about eight acres at Kakanui, belonging to Messrs Sheehey and M'Mullin. The same field yielded 80 bushels to the acre last season, and competent judges put it down at 100 this year. Two brothers in the Manawatu district were recently injured while bushfelling at the same hour, in the same manner, and placed upon the same train for the same hospital. The brothers were forty miles apart when the accidents occurred. This winter will rank as a famous frose year in Europe, when we read that peopls are frozen to death even in England. It it said to be the coldest year of the century. All the Australian delegates to the Postal Conference ac Wellington, leave .Melbourne on January 17. Impressionable people should read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest the following from an English paper : — " There is no person, whether phrenologist, palmist, or any other ist, who can foretell coming events in anyone's life, except so far as they can predict that certain phases of character and constitution of physique are likely to lead in certain directions. Almanacs that pretend to predict coming events are conducted by guesswork, with some consideration for what is likely to happen. Sometimes these guesses turn out correct, as guesses of all kinds occasionally do." There is a man in a country town in Canterbury who has had three wives, two more than fall to the lot of most people. Two are dead, which goes without saying, and are buried in one plot, with one gravestone for the two. At the bottom is the text, " Lord come quickly," to which some ribald person, evidently in the know, has added, " and tak* the other one." — Truth. The average cost of a fully equipped lifeboat, with transporting carriage, lifebelts, etc., is £700. A lady suitor, who fell over an obstruction at the Law Courts and broke her arm, failed to recover damages, as the responsible person in the case was the Queen, and "the Queen can do no harm." An American professor infected a letter with ■cholera bacilli, and when it was taken out of the post-bag, twenty-four hours later, the bacilli was still alive. Bacilli were also found living on post cards twenty hours after infection. A navigable balloon, made in Paris on the Krebs system, has been tested by a Russian military commission near Warsaw with satisfactory results. It is said to have risen against strong atmospheric pressure, and was steered successfully against the wiud. It was then propelled in many different directions, and was able to descend to earth without the gas being. let out. Speaking at a female suffrage meeting at Sydney, Mr Glover, a visitor from New Zealand, said that the effect of the women's vote at the general election was to drive out of the Legislature every man of known immoral character. The British Consul at St. Petersburg, in his last report, gives the details of the scheme for constructing a railway across Siberia which was decided on in November last. It is to be built consecutively in three stages or sections. The work is to commence with the first section, on the completion of which the second will be taken in hand, and the third will be proceeded with when the two other sections have been completed The first, or Western Siberian section, will extend from Tcheliabinsk to the River Obi, a length of 885 miles, thence to the town of Irkutsk, a distance of 1169 miles. John Temple Graves, of Georgia, wants to solve the negro problem by founding " a necrro State, planted in the heart of our own great Republic ; under the shadow of the flag ; under the benediction of the Government. In the region of Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona is to be found an area of 150,000,000 acres, upon which our whole negro population could find subsistence, and yet not be so densely populated as I found Germany or Belgium. The Government should lend them every aid in developing the country. Negroes alone should hold the offices and rule the country. Nor are they opposed to such action. Actual investigation has shown that numbers are L ready to go even to Africa, where the\^gdi have a State of their own.