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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3133, 18 April 1883, Page 3

The contractors for the Ugglan’s rudder are quickly pushing on their work, and iq a day or two the work of shipping it will be undertaken.

The weather has not yet been favorable for filling in another monolith at the end of the breakwater, as the contractors pro* posed doing.

The ship Margaret Galbraith is now taking in the last of her cargo of 10,340 sacks wheat. She is expected to clear tomorrow, for the United Kingdom. Jones, Millar and Oo„ “ the Sydney Leviathans,” have laid £IOO,OOO to £2OOO against Warwick and Groavenor (brother to Chester), in the Melbourne Derby and Gup. A woman in Dunedin, charged with using obscene language, pleaded that she had been to the Salvation Army meeting as she wanted to be a daughter of the regiment. The statement excited a good deal of laughter.

A writer in the Philadelphia “Medical Times” says that he has for eight years made a practice of treating erysipelas by the local application of borax dissolved in glycerine, one drachm to an ounce, which is to be well robbed in and applied on linen. The result has been to cut the disease short apparently in a few hours. _ In some cases he used tincture of iron internally, in some not.