MULTUM IN PARVO.

Colonist, Volume XXIV, Issue 7110, 7 September 1891, Page 4

MULTUM IN PARVO.

I Thb ' Brunner News' states that good gold * finds are being made at Moonlight, and a big ' rush is likely to set in there soon, The ' Beef ton Guardian' notes that the Golden I I Lead has obtained 40oza 13dwts of retorted l gold, for what was equal to eight days ordinary crushing. — - It is stated that all the gold 1 in the world can be stowed in a room measurJ ing twenty-four feet each way. — — The I * Express' notes that wild dogs, which are ' becoming numerous, are worrying sheep in ' Bome_ parts of Marlborough. That poisoning rabbits, with carrots and arsamc, has been so Buocessful that \ery few are now seen in 1 the Upper A^atere district. — Owing to the Urge shipments to England the exports from 1 Pioton have inoreaeed in a year from £40,222 'j to £146,324. The Pioton ' Press 1 Bays the Eiqg Solomon mine at Mahakipawa, has just given a dividend of five pounds per share, and besides £50 was placed to the reserve fund. •—• The Pioton waterworks were formally ' opened on Wednesday. There was a social V celebration gathering the same evening.—— I The ' Guardian* notes that the meat freezing 1 industry has givea a great impetus to bush /" fulling in the Pelorus Sounds, the settlers being anxious to put sheep on the land. — The Wellington ' Herald' says that a young J man at Dunedin who advertised for a wife, , was replied to by his own sister: What a sell \f for both. The Otago papers note the great } r success of the Gabriel's Gully Consolidated Company, wbiob, after payiug every expense 3 of getting the gold, has banked a clear profit I of upwards of £500 a month. A thousand x pounds worth oi gold was obtained in ten j. days by hydraulic sluicing only. — «— The , Dunedin ' Globe' advises 'Mr Br>'ee to pecket ; his vanity, and not make an ass of himself.' — Mrs M. J. Abbott at Auckland has ob- , tamed £700 as compensation for land taken , for railway purposes. The Commissioners ' offered her £580. —It is proposed to light I the township of Mosgiel, Otago, by eleetrioity. i The Union S.S Company's ne,w steamer ' Ovalau at'racted many visitors at Auckland, j The ' Herald' says her handsome proportions t j and eplecdid appointments were greatly admired.