MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr Babbage on his way to Adelaide, discovered some good pastoral country north of Sturt's Creek. It possesses numerous springs of hot water, one of which throws up 7300 gallons per hour. Lake Torrens is found to consist of three distinct lakes.
Bell's Life, in Sydney, complains of the extortionate charges made by the managers of the electric telegraph. For a telegram of twenty seven words, from Adelaide, they-paid 6s. 9d. ; a telegram of four words, to Adelaide, was charged 9s. The salary of the Mayor of Melbourne, for the ensuing year, has been fixed at £1000, or double the amount granted last year. A Mr Moore has invented a floating Sock which can speedily bo raised or lowered any number of feet by the aid of water and air. The dock is adapted for any port where the nature 'of the coast precludes the excavation of graving docks, or wheregreat economy and despatch are ■desirable. It is stated that no less than 160,000 cabbagei have been destroyed by the aphis this season in one garden alone near Sydney, that of Mr Baptist, and that » positive loss of several hundred pounds has thus resulted.
[Printed by G. W. Wooh.]
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Taranaki Herald, Volume VII, Issue 343, 26 February 1859, Page 2 (Supplement)
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200MISCELLANEOUS. Taranaki Herald, Volume VII, Issue 343, 26 February 1859, Page 2 (Supplement)
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