News Items.

Colonist, Volume XXXII, Issue 5522, 17 June 1889, Page 4

News Items.

The Melbourne unemployed, to the number of 200, assembled outside the Working Men's College the other day and decided to wait on the Premier this week, askiDg him to establish a national labour bureau and to set apart £50,000 for public works during the winter.

About three years ago a family by ] the name of Hocking removed fromj Beefton to Black's Point to enable the lather to be nearer to his work. There the eldest boy, a nice little lad of 13 years, the subject of this sad story, appears to have been one of nature's unlucky children. About fifteen months ago he had the xms.fortune to have one of his eyes destroyed add lost two fingers by the explosion of dynamite. And now an inquest has just been held on his body. lEhe cauee of his death, from the evidence given before the Coroner, was that some boys was rolling stones dowotheeide of a bill when one of .the stones struck the boy Hoking full on the head, and smashed his droll. JFrora the evidence oi Dr "Whitton, his death must have been inatantaneous. A verdict of accidental death was returned. .

I'bbee years ago an Oamaru lady «n 6 visit to Almroa, lost a valuable diamond ring id the surf. Careful search failed to discover the missing ring, and it w&s given up as altogether lost. A few weeks ago, however, a jweon walking along the beach at Akaroa found the ring, and made Inquiries as to the owner, with the result that the ring was returned to the lady the finer day. The gold (the •North Qtago Times' says) was con--Biflet»toly worn by the action of the a.ea, feat the setting was intact. The owner of course, was pleasantly butprised on recovering her long lost ring. Hebe is a remarkable experience. $he, steamship Medway, which arrived at Plymouth last month from the West Indies, brought Lome Mr M. A. Battye, of London, engineer of the ■teamer Gulf of Trinidad, from Iquique with nitrate. At midnight on February 18, when off Bio de Janeiro, Mr Battye was thrown overboard from the upper deck by a lurch of the vesae', He secured a lifebuoy which was thrown to him, but in the darkness the steamer failed to find him and proceeded on her voyage. Mr Battye remained in mid-ocean, clinging to the lifebuoy, under a tropical sun, Without food, or drink for 66 hours when he Was rescued in an exhausted condition iy the Norweigan barque Vesterlire, irhioh landed him at Barbados. ! General Zikovisff, the Governor! of Riga, bas la St. Petersburg correspondent reports) asked for and obtain-! •d an extraordinary authority to expel Iromthe province trtrich he governs tny person whose expulsion he may 'deem expedient. He thinks that this autocratic power, when made use of only a few times, will crush the resist* ance whicn the National party in the Baltic provinces opposes to Buesian influences. Three persons have already been forced to quit, pga.

In 1816 oiie bushel of corn vould buy one pound of.nails,, In 1889 one bushel of corn will buy ten pounds of naila. In 1816 a pair of woollen blankets cost as Mnuch as a cow; in 1889 a cow will buy five pairs of woollen blankets. . In 1816 it required sixty-four bushels of barley to buy one yard of broadcloth; in 1889 sixty-four bushels of barley will buy twenty yards of broadcloth. In 181 dit toolj twenty dozen eggs to buy one ljuihel of salt j in 1889 twenty dos&n eggs will buy ten bushels of, salt. In. 1816 it required a bushel of wheat to; buy one yard of calico; in 1889 one fcmshei of wheat will buy twenty yards of calico. With these figures before them, who can justly claim that farm products are not improving ? The outlook for the productions of the farm is certainly hopeful. The farmer can exchange his crop for mora of the necessaries of life than at any former period in the history of our country.—' wall Street News.' ••EoxJoH on Phjhs."-Why Buffer ■* Piles immediate relief and complete cure guaranteed. Ask for "Bough on Piles Sure onre for itching, protruding, bleeding, or any form O f pilea.—Advt. ' , 'Bough on Bats. '-Clears out rats, mice roachee, flies, ants, bed-bugs, beetles, insects kunka, jack-rabbits, sparrows, gophers.§ At chemists and druggists. ■ Gm>bobt Bros, call attention to the Dutch aoeoaUnd their imitations soldias pure, with alkßli and other agents added to give apparent strength by darkening the liquid. Tins, may be detected by scent when tin is newy opened. No cocoa can b9 stronger than Cadburv's, guaranteed absolutely pure.