SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Southland Times, Issue 3580, 11 December 1879, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

The Commissioner of Crown Lands and the 'Surveyor-General have returned from their tour to the North! They travelled over lOOOmiles. The wheat they saw gives splendid prospects, and 'the^ayerage yield is estimated at frorii 12 ftp 14- bushels ' peracrei-i ' ■• i ,^;-/.-i^7^Ji ;; ' Puit(^ri r^nd Darcy Bead have- beeri fined at the!"pbiice Court for:dis|ributing gifts at their The iriformatiOn was laid by tbe Rey..Janies Grayi Svitli a i view to "test, the legality, of ithe. practice, whicb-has become comriion;'; ___;

Remaikable Meal.-^^e- foUowing .account' Was presented . the other day .to the Edenbaiy Board of Guardians-^^^ To Patrick Grugarie/ debtor, to eating and drinking a ; relievin^officer with acan of paste, and-'brush, while travelling to put '".up advertisements in ; eight electoral dmsibrisof theumon, &V The diarge was for posting notices 'relating to the CbutagTou£Bls&ie£^ was necessary toj'eat the relieving officer with afcah-df-'past- and brush deponent, sayeith not ; but the chafge forisb great a feat appears veiy small. Very few people, even in . Ireland j- would have done.it at the price. — •'. Mark I^nc Express. . ! .- An. /fLmpfovemieat . in Telegraphy.r— A _re-in-jrkdble invention or, improvement has. just. been patented m V.Germany /by. Professor Klinkerfues, -the principal astronomer at the Observatoiy of Gottingen,'!and Widely known for his meteorological and physical researches. The improvement now referred'to consists of a method by help of which; it will be possible to despatch. as. many ias;. eight different messages simultaneously along a single wire An apparatus has "likewise-been devised by which all the messages Will at the same time be mechanically written down . 71 y The*enormous increase iuHbe number of suicid^ of late is attracting siriie attention. In the fbur weeks ending August 16th 51 snicidesjwere recorded in the jnetropolis^the conecfedayerage bffthecbriesponduig periwi of lite. last' ten years. b*bing . but 22. The^l6 cases recorded in the las^week iricluded^six by hanging, three' by drowning, two by gunshot, two by poison, -one by ciit throat, 7and two by other means.. , -Tbel-irik or ocenpatibn of the suicides would throw some light upon the causes of the recent: riaajkedexcess of this form ot deatb. iri Loridbuff. r tbis information, -however, does not And a^^ place iri the Regis-trar-General's weekly iefhrh.7 0 7 fniff" Infant Gericrosity.— A little three-year-iftd whose mother' wasl mixing fa' isimple cough medicine for him, watched the process, and asked if i^was.gbod, -JHe". .wa3 permitted to taste, and , f.f ' It's awful good, mamma. Let's keep it all for. papa*. , , „

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