Local and General.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 436, 7 October 1869, Page 2

Local and General.

Gift Auction. — Active preparations were . Iteing made this morning at the Colonists' ' SaU, and, judging from the number of donations sent in, the affair will prove a great success. It would be almost impossible to enumerate the articles that will be offered far sale. They embrace hot-house plants, . sre stock, dairy produce, perambulators, inraiture, glassware, books, pictures, children's clothes, toys, &c. The auction commences this evening at 7 o'clock, and closes st»X

Eureka Gold MnriNa Compant. — A meeting of shareholders was held at the Temperance Hall last evening, Mr Dawson in the chair. It was resolved that operations should -be continued, and that a further call of £1 \>er share should be payable on the 22nd inst. TfjQBicKET.— The opening match of the season will be played in Hagley Park, on Saturday next, at 1.30 p.m., between sides chosen by Messrs Cotterill and Stevens. Mr Cotterill's side — Messrs Anson, Beauford, Condell, Cotterill, Dickenson, Harley, Lee, Mainwaring, Parkerson, Reade, Williams, C, and Woods. Mr Stevens' side — Messrs Blakiston, Calvert, Cresswell, Dignam, Fowler, Hobbs, Maples, Miles, Moore, Stevens, Turner, and Worthy! A committee meeting of the Albion Cricket -Club was held at the City Hotel last evening, Mr Wynn Williams presiding. The position of the Club was carefully gone into and discussed, and the committee adjourned until Monday evening next. Bankrtjptct.— His Honor held a sitting at the old Town Hall this morning. The following cases were adjourned until the 4th November -.—Re Edwin Watkins, Henry Piper jj-David Nairn, John Scott, William Pearce, James Caygill, F. P. Hepworth, R. K. Parkerson, Thomas Buxton, and Alexander Heron. Final orders were made in the following cases : — lie Wm. Richardson, Henry Wright, Fredk. Back, Geo. Wm. Howard, Andrew Swanson, Win. Halstead, Robert - Cameron, Hugh Monaghan, Wra. Weston, Thomas Gbldstone, -Thomas Chave v Joseph Batchelor, and Edward Fruhauf. Relief was suspended for a month in re George Clarke. The following cases were adjourned until the 13th December: — Re Egerton ' Ninnis and Evan Griffiths. In re George Mussen, his Honor dismissed the petition. Re Henry Barton— Relief was supended for 12 months. Judgment in « Richd. Kyffin Kenrick was .postponed until to-morrow, The Search for Gold. — The local journal of Oct, 6, says that thiere are now 'seven or eight parties out in various parts of .the southern district prospecting for gold. McMeekan and party are up the Waiho river, but no information has been received from them regarding their prospects. At Fox's Peak, or in the immediate vicinity, there are three or four parties now" at work, and in the Kakahu district there is one party out. The Timaru Gold Prospecting Association also propose to equip another party in the course of a few days, so that if gold exists anywhere ih payable quantities, it is very likely to be brought to light. We may mention that a small patch of poor alluvial ground, sufficient for perhaps twenty men, is reported to have been discovered by Thew and party, but only bare wages could be made, and the ground would be worked out in a very short time. They did pot think it worth their while to stop on this ground, having unbounded faith in the quartz reefs at Fox's Peak. We learn from MrW. S. Howard that several specimens of gold-bearing quartz were washed out of the bed of a creek running into the Waiho, which was turned by his party. There is no doubt that the quartz' js rich with gold, but where it came from is a mystery, as there ib not the remotest sign of a reef anywhere in the locality. - Howard expresses his belief that the reefs are entirely covered by a false rock, and that they will only be discovered by driving. The gold obtained in the Waiho river bed ie heavy, and a very little more to the dish would pay. We would suggest to the Provincial Government the desirability of requesting the services of Dr Hector for a few months to make an examination of the ■ reefs in the southern, district. -.-••• Philosophical Institute.— The monthly meeting of members was held last night at half -past seven o'clock, Dr Haast presiding.* Messrs G. Hart and E. M. Templar were ad-/ mitted as members of the Institute ; and th/ secretary laid, two vols, of the official catalogue for the London International Exhibition, 1862, upon the table, stating that they had been presented by Mr J. D. Enys. Dr Haast Was appointed to vote on behalf of the Institute, at the forthcoming election of governors of the New Zealand Institute, the secretary being instructed to ask Dr Hector by letter, whether the expenses incurred in visiting Wellington for such purpose would be paid by the Colonial Institute, and what financial provision was made for enabling the governors to discharge their duties. Dr Haast apologised for being unable to submit his paper on fossils found at the Waipara, explaining that he had been unable to write it, and substituting a few remarks on a specimen of Euplectelta Speciosa, a sponge sometimes termed Venus' Flower Basket, and which had been obtained for the Museum from Manilla. The specimen. was also submitted for inspection, and much interest was evinced in comparing it with a coloured drawing of one in the British Museum. >LDr Turnbull read a short paper on the main drainage of the city of Christchurch, explaining that in compiling it he had also directed his attention to the further point of protection -from the overflow of the Waimakariri, and the beautifying of Hagley- Park, by forming a serpentine lake therein. His plan, as described, was to cut a canal from the Carlton, along the North town belt, to the river, just beyond the city, into which he would divert the principal portion of the river; the formation of an embankment at the Hospital corner, by which the water allowed to pass the canal would be backed up, and form the lake in Hagley Park; and, lastly, the laying down of the main drain of the city in the dry river bed, enabling it to be covered over for use as building sites or pleasure grounds, and flushed i^L stated intervals with water from the lake^- A very animated discussion ensued, but the lake was scarcely deemed feasible, in consequence of the great fall. VThe doing away with the river througff'the city was opposed on account of the pleasing effect it now has in the appearance of the place ; whilst it was alleged that the streets would afford full advantage for

excavating a mMri -'drain. Dr Turnbull re- ! plied to the latter objectionj by averring that as the city progressed the stream would resolve itself into an open - drains being a convenient tgceptacle for refuse and drainage of every Hndjb.. After full consideration, no part of the Scheme, was approved, even in theory, except the canal on the belt, as an overflow channel in the event of the Waimakariri again breaking loose. Mr Fraser called attention to the prediction of Capt. Saxby — that certain remarkable effects would be apparent in consequence of the peculiar positions of the sun and moon in relation to the earth— and averred that no ordinary conjunction of .these bodies could occur which would have -an effect on the tides much greater than that produced at spring tides. A brief discussion ensued, and the meeting adjourned. Night Temperature. — Dr Stark reports that one of the most important elements bearing on vital statistics is night temperature. It is the night temperature, far more than that of the day, which has the most deleterious influence on human life. He recommends that, along with the statistics of mortality, both the absolute and the mean lowest or night temperature should be published. Experience in Scotland has shown that an excessively cold night, when the temperature falls to ten degrees or to five degrees, or below zero, the change is most fatal to the aged, to the very young, and to those weakened by disease. In some of the smaller parishes of Scotland a cold night has been known to kill all persons above eighty years of age — husband and wife, brother and sister, being found dead in their beds in the morning after such a night of cold. Statistics of Mortality.— Some curious statistics of mortality have lately been published in Paris. Of 100,000 inhabitants 2200 die annually in England, 2380 in France, 2220 in Belgium, 2900 in Prussia, 4500 in the Austrian monarchy^ and- in all Hungary 4540 ; but in Siebenburgen the number is only 3097, and in the German part of the Banate 4200, so that in the Magyar part o_ the country the proportion is 5240, or about twc-and-a-half times as great as in England. The high rate of mortality among the population is not leas surprising. While in the entire Austrian monarchy 10,570 males die for eyeiry 10,000 females, the proportion in Hungary is 10,658 males, and in the Magyar parts of the country the. average is as high as 10,700. An Austrian journal believes that with a little attention to hygiene Hungary might easily support three. times as many inhabitants as England, whereas in consequence of apathy and ignorance the population is not near half as numerous as tbat of Great Britain. Sudden Blanching of ihe Haib;— M. Pouchet relates the following anecdote : ; — On the 19th February Colonel Franks was engaged near., the village of Chamba with a body of, rebels, and many prisoners were taken ; one of them, a Bengalee, aged about fifty-four, was conducted before the authorities to undergo interrogations. " I had then," said, Surgeon-Major Famy," an opportunity of observing personally the following facts: — The prisoner for the first time appeared to realise the danger of . his situation when he found himself stripped and surrounded with soldiers. He trembled violently, terror and despair being- depicted' on his countenance ; and when replying to the questions addressed to him, he appeared absolutely stupified by fear. Then, under our eyes, and in the space of some half an hour, his hair, which we had seen to be of a brilliant black, became grey on every part of his head. The sergeant who had charge of thejprißoher cried out, 'He is turning gray!' "and called our attention to the singular phenomenon, of which I thus, with many other persons, was enabled to i&b^ /erve the completion through all its phases." False Haib. — The large and daily increasing demand for. the fair, hair with which many, " ladies of the period " are wont to eke out the scanty, supplies granted to them by nature, has run up the price of that article to such an extent that the finest sorts are positively sold for more than their weight in the gold whose colour they are supposed to possess. According to the American papers this circumstance has given rise in New York to a new branch of industry. Pickpockets have begun to vary the monotonous business of abstracting pocket-handkerchiefs and purses by the easier and equally profitable occupation of cutting off ladies' hair. Armed with a pair of sharp scissors, they haunt the entrances of the theatres and churches, and in general, all crowded place; those ladies who, according to the prevailing fashion, wear curls hanging down their backs suffering most. Journeymen hairdressers out of work find this an excellent mode of turning their skill to a lucrative account. The Bishop of New Jersey has announced that at the next confirmation he will ref use to lay his episcopal hands' on any head adorned with borrowed tresses. But how, unless he empannels a jury of coiffeurs in the vestry, does he propose to arrive at a fair judgment between art and nature ? An Unexpected Difficulty. — The Maitland Mercury, New South Wales, states that some delay was occasioned in the business of the Quarter Sessions, by the refusal of a Jewish witness to be sworn upon the authorised version of the Bible. The objection was that the volume contained the New Testament as well as the Old— a copy of the Old Testament bound separately would not have been objectionable. It was then found that another Jewish witness, who had already been examined, had not kissed the book, and being questioned, Jie said he never did so, declining upon religious grounds, such an act being, in his opinion, an act of idolatry. This witness took occasion to question the fidelity of the received translation of the Old Testament, and called his Honor's attention tp the 22nd verse of the 9th chapter of Leviticus in proof of this assertion. All thiß time busmess, of course, was suspended, but the Crown Prose- j cutor sent to his hotel for a copy of the Hebrew Scriptures, upon which, when it arrived, | the witness was sworn, it being first aacer- >

tamed that the book was authentic, and that the oath was considered by the attestor binding on her conscience. The vritness whose evidence had been taken, gave similar assu-. ranceto the Court of the obligations upon his conscience which his manner of swearing imposed, and therefore he was not again examined, which would have been necessary had the oath been defective. His Honor remarked that he had never in all his experience known of a similar objection being made, and thathe had always seen Jews kiss the book. Bloody Rain. — Prodigy lovers will be gaatified by the intelligence that a fall of what in other days have been called bloody rain has lately been witnessed. A few weeks back the_ Neapolitans found their, streets stained with red, ahd their garments spotted, with sanguinary-looking drops. Examined closely,' the colouring matter of this shower was found to consist of small red grains, sensibly round, and varying from the onehundredth to the four-hundredth part of an inch in diameter. When the mysterious element of this fall was dispelled, it was clear that the, rusty particles were really dusty specks drawn up: by the wind from African deserts and borne with it across the Mediterranean. This is not an unprecedented phenomenon. Twenty years ago a French philosopher collected a large quantity of dust of the same quality, and probably from the same source, from a house-top at Valence; and, again, a German found the peculiar African grit in Berlin. These facts show how pests, and plagues, and the germs of disease may be carried from country to country by the trans- i porting power of the wind; it is not always inanimate dust that is thus wafted to immense distances. A shower of insects fell at Aracheß, in. Savoy,, last January, which, upon examination, proved to be of a species peculiar to the forests of Central France; and a few years back Turin was visited by millions' of .larva? of a fly found nowhere but in the island of Sardinia. V; These are recent and well- pro yen cases; many more striking instances might be collected from chronicles of things curious. ; A Chance for SoMEBODT.-r-The following is from the Globe :— Among the curiosities of matrimonial advertising, one of the richest specimens of elaborate vanity ever met with, or one of the most unjustifiable practical jokes we ever remember to have seen, may be read in the MdrningiPost. The motive which has led to this extraordinary announcement is almost as singular as the announcement itself. It appears that reports to the effect that the advertiser is about to be married are frequent. These reports are " calculated to injure his present matrimonial prospects." He deems it necessary to declare that "he has never been engaged to aay~ lady in his life, although he has frequently made offers to ladies of fortune, or their friends on their behalf, both in England and elsewhere, but has been ref used by those ladies or their friends on account of his assumed poverty." The gentleman in question goes minutely into his financial position. He wants a lady of sufficient fortune to enable him to pay off mortgages on his estates to the extent of £95,000. He. would thus have it in hia power to make settlements to the value of that amount, which, by a process that looks well in type, but which we do not quite comprehend, will thus "in that manner become doubled." The advertiser further assures the world that he is universally considered' to be " amiable and accomplished, and has the further recommendation not only of being descended from families remarkable for their beauty, but of being himself six feet in height,' and of handsome personal appearance." He may be seen " almost daily in Hyde Park between the hours of twelve and one." He claims to have Royal blood in -*his^veins, and to be the inheritor of nobody knows how many 'baronies. ."Should more than one offer reach him, he reserves to himself the right of giviug preference to youth, rank, or beauty." We have no doubt his correspondence will be very extensive. New Vase in the British Museum. — A noble addition has been made to the entrancehall of the British Museum 'in the shape of a vase of great beauty and fine proportions, which was discovered in the course of excavations made just a hundred years ago in the villa of of Hadrian at Palestrius. It is about ten feet in height, including its base, and probably dates from the early part of the second century of our era. It is described at length by Piranesi (Vol. xiii.), who gives three separate views of it, and, is inclined to think that it was the. work of some of ths sculptors whom Hadrian so often entertained at his villa between Rome and Tivoli, the ancient Tibur. The base, about three feet high, is ornamented with bulls' heads of bold design, intermixed with wreaths and cornucopias ; from this -rises an upright shaft, which supports the vase itself, and takes the l shape of the stem of a pine ; it is supported by three lions' claws ; out of these claws above spring demi-figures of Sileni, in high relief, alternating with heads of fauns. Round the upper part of the vase itself we are presented with a series of scenes from the Italian wine-press, in which the prominent figures are satyrs, admirably grouped. Some of these are busy in gathering the grapes, others are heaping them in canestri or baskets, while others, again, are filling tbeir goatskins with the juice, and making off for their homes among the hills with the goatskins on their shoulders. Tbe design in said by Piranesi to be unique in several of its features, and a very fine specimen both in its proportions and in its several parts, and, indeed, he pronounces it una delle maraviglie delta scultura. Underneath the lip of the vase are swallows, gracefully disposed upon a rope which passes over - the heads of the faunus, and busily engaged in pecking at the grapes. The vase itself in the last century, when Piranesi's book was written, appears to have belonged to a certain Mr John Boyd, probably a Scotchman, though resident in England; but it was purchased only a few years since by the Trustees of the Museum from a gentle-

mtm named Hugh Johnson, and until recently it was lying in a sadly mutilated state, among the Halicarnassian and other marbles, under the unsightly sheds which still disfigure the fagade of the Museum. It has been carefully restored under the superintendence of the Keeper of the Greek and Roman Antiquities, the broken parts'being rejoined with copper fastenings. Stoves v. Open Grates. — The open fire is retained, observes the Engineer, in our drawing-rooms not only because it is pleasant to look at — and this is something— but because it is not injurious to . health, as is the stove. The latter heats solely by raising the temperature of the air of ah apartment, and is in a great measure inimical to free ventilation ; because, if plenty of cold air is admitted, the temperature of the room is reduced, and the exclusion of cold air is one reasonVwhy a handful of fuel will do in. a stove. ... The open fire, on the contrary, darts its rays of heat through the air direct to the person or thing; and thus it is quite possible to bask in the beams of a friendly fire, and feel quite - comfortable too, while- a volume of fresh air is rolling through the room, which would cool down a stove heated apartment to a most uncomfortable .. point. There are other reasons, on which we heed not stop to dwell, why the open fire isto.be preferred. ' " **'*• '.'■" ', '■ ■ X An African Traveller.— Our Malta, correspondent, under date of the Bth of June, sends us the following :— " Mr Gerhard Rohlfs, the African traveller, passed through Malta last week, on his return to Berlin from Alexandria. He has lately made a journey from Tripoli to Cyrenaica; and across the Desert to Egypt, some particulars of whioh may be of interest. Mr Rohlfs left Tripoli by ship for Benghazi on the 21st of February, and arrived there on the 27th at 4 a.ra. Thence he proceeded to Tolmeita and Cyrene, taking photograplii* views, botanfeirig, arid making topographical observations. On the 28th of March he returned to Benghazi, and thence, on the 3rd of April, penetrated southwards, following Hamilton's route. The country as far as Adjedabia Ib very fertile, but is exhausted by the overtaxation of the .Turkish .Government. He met with numerous caravans ibf slaves, from. Fezzan and Aud jla Homb. Waddy Fareg is a sinking or depression vx the desert. The great .sinking begins at Bir Rassan, extends southwards of Cyrenaica arid the Libyan plateaux' as far as Egypt, and is nearly everywhere 100 feet to 150 feet below the level of the Mediterranean. Audjila, Djale, and Siwa (Jupiter Amnion of the ancients) are all consequently below sealevel. It had been noticed by CaillaUd, as well as Aristotle, that these places were below the level of Lower Egypt. Mr Rohlfs was very kindly received by the Arabs at- Siwa, which enabled him to copy the hieroglyphics of the great Temple of Agermi, first discovered by Hamilton, while all previous travellers, from Browne to Bogle St John, bad considered the Temple of Ommu-Baida to be the chief temple. Mr Rohlfs made topographical .; observations of this basis, and secured a marble figure of a ram arid some coins. He proved the constant temperature of the Fountain of the Sun by means of observations taken by night and day. After a stay of eight days in this celebrated locality he bent his steps through tho Desert to Alexandria. The friendly reception of Mr Rohlfs throughout his route is attributed to ' the good relations existing between the Egyptian and Prussian .Governments. AH previous travellers had been illtreated, and Bogle St. John and Hamilton had even been fired on. Mr Rohlfs followed the great sinking as far as the well of Morbarai He states that were a channel cut from Syrtis to this spot, Audjila and Siwa would be covered by the sea, and Cyrenaica and the, Libyan plateaux would form a peninsula."— Times, June 11 . " "' Thb Literary Bodt-Snatchbb.— The following is from the Pall Malt Gazette :— The report of the inquiry into the death of the wretched family poisoned in Smithfleld. a few days since is most dismal ? readirig. ■ Nothihg that we have read for many a day is more touching in itself, or more suggestive of T fite bitter affliction under which thousands of our fellow-creatures are doomed to labour for ever, than is the letter. of Vtfie murderer printed in the newspapers of thiß morning. No matter whether he was right or wrong in attributing to another tbe cause of hia misery and the provocation of his crimessetting that question altogether aside— it Ib a very miserable, a very shocking letter, and one that it will do us good to reflect upon. But its significance is not likely to be increased by treatment in sensational newspapers, for which it has already served as- a welcome text. The result of that sort of treatment is, indeed, only to make one sorry and ashamed a second time. Such revelations as this * Smithfleld tragedy ' are shocking, but they are scarcely less shocking than the way in which they are immediately seised upon by sentimental liners as a means of earning an honest crust. To these gentlemen a colliery explosion, a shipwreck, a . death from starvation, a Smithfleld tragedy, is 'a chance for an article ;' and there are certain professors of the art of leader-writing who train themselves to weep and rave over such disasters as a regular line of business, ilt is their way of earning a living— just as robbing' graves was once a means of existence with an equally honourable order of men. Tha modern resurrectionists, the body-snatchers of our own refined times, are not permitted to seize and sell the dead— and, perhaps, would not like to do so— but they have no hesitation about making « subjects' of the drowned, starved and murdered, in another sense. They cry over the body, and sell their tears. They indite sobbing paragraphs, wrought to the proper hysterical pitch by some appropriate stimulant, and go gaily with the goods to any editor who will pay them for the job. When no dead body offers fair occasion » for work, these gentlemen will weep over thepoor man's marigold in the poor man's garden-pot ; or wail over a consumptive

prostitute ; fall to any subject, in short, which will turn on the tap of their tears, or make occasion for the use of pathetic indignation, the of which is hot, with sugar. To .our own minds no profession can be. more odious or contemptible than that of the literary resurrection-man. The beggar; who loams at the mouth with soap when he slinulat.s'a fit is not more of an imposter ; 'and the halfpence he wriggles out of people's pockets as he wallows on the ground, are not - tnore disgracefully earned than the wages of this sort of sensational writing." -- ; A- Ytsby- Little ; I_u>t.—^General Tom Thumb's marriage was decidedly premature. _(ad7heVbut .waited, a few years he might _ave ; fouha his match in the elf -like dimensions of Princess Felicie, received on Tuesday; •by,the Empress at the Tuileries; through the mediation of Princess Metternich, to whom : the fairy was presented by Nadar, the photographer, and M. Jubinal, deputy of the majority. Princess Felicie walks erect beneath the outstretched arms of a child of two, yet the lady has attained the advanced ■ age of six. .-. Her parents are peasants: of Provence, her- brothers are stout and well.grown labourers. . ; To attire Princes Felicie ior her audience with the Empress a doll's dressmaker was sent for, and amongst her stores were found a muslin frock, a sash of blqe, and a plumed hat, which exactly fitted her lalfiputiah form. SmalllJirds.— The friends of the. small birds will be pleased to hear that their usefulness as destroyers of insects is thoroughly (.recognised by the Saxon Government.. . The APallAMdll Gazette, record sj a curious Scene witnessed lately on the market-place at; Dres^ . £en.. A body, of police suddenly made their -appearance, and, without any previous warning, seized all the cages containing singing birds exposed for. Bale and released their inmates. A decree has also been issued for--•Kidding, under penalty of a fine,- the killing "«r trapping of these useful, songsters, and . containing especially severe regulations with wgard to birdnesting. In France, notwithstanding all the efforts of Government, the t slaughter, still continues. At a rook-shooting **l>arfy recently in the Bois de Boulogne,' no less than 5000 of these Useful birds were desVtroyed,., though at the very time the trees were swarming with caterpillars. Capital and Currency.— The following 5s from the Alta California i— Hhe mail tithe between London and New .York is ten days; between New York and San Francisco, seven ■days. That is, San Francisco is now three days nearer to New York than Liverpool ia "to New York. The telegraph reports ih all simultaneously. In London, money is 3_ and :_per cent, per annum; in New York loans on Choice securities are 6 and 7 per cent., per annum-; ha San Francisco 12 ana 18 per cent, "ahnum. In all three of these cities, United States six per cent, gold bonds are equally well known, and are held as the - iigbest '-' security. The possessor 'of those bonds may obtain the best' terms ; for money ■in either city. -He may borrow in London at three and a half, in New York at six per cent, in San Francisco •at twelve. The reason that the rate ef - taoney between London and New York does not equalise is that the latter city is under the *■ demoralised influence of paper money. Capital will not freely circulate when it is exposed to _uch hazards. In 1860 the United States bonds sold at 1 dollar 30 cents gold; During tbe war they sold for 40 cents ; when peace was. declared, they recovered to 70 to 71 cents, and remained so until last March, ..when the Supreme Court of the United States made gold contracts legal, and a law of Con? , gresa guaranteed that bonds should not be paid in paper money. The bonds then rose . to 81 cents, but the price fluctuates with the depreciation of paper money. They would ..again sell at 1 dollar 20 cents if the currency was gold, but capitalists will not trust paper money at the same rate as gold. When the railroad annexed California to the great ' money markets of the world, there were signs of an immediate flow of capital hither, where ; -the currency is gold and property out of the influence of demoralised paper. Juat at the juncture, however, when millions of dollars « of gold capital were preparing to migrate for investment in our resources, a cry was raised in favour of using greenback currency, so ."that -Bob Snooks on the railroad might get his drink of whisky for a ten cent stamp instead of a dime. There were ' numbers who gravely argued this pork-and-beans, - theory, that the State would improve by taking dirty stamps for . " shilling cuts " in- ■. stead of dimes. . To the honor of the State no responsible parties supported this silly notion, but nevertheless it made foreign •capital hesitate. The capitalists reflected, "If those people are going to submerge a themselves in a demoralised currency for the '-avowed purpose of cheating, we had better keep our capital at home." That effect is now -passing away. The honour of the State remains untarnished, and the migration of capi- . ial wjil recommence. Already very impor- , tant sums have : been added to the State's capital, . and their influence is felt. Hence-forth-the combinations to avail of the diflferJ ,-ences[bf interest between the two cities may "become .more frequent end effective through -, the hands of those who are fully conversant . with the value of property here and the personnel of borrowers. C- -'-'-,■ ■- „ '