MISCELLANEOUS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 108, 5 March 1870, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS.

A telegram was received on Feb. 7 by the directors of the Australian diamond mines from the manager at Mudgce, to the effect that the yield was 35 diamonds for the lost six clays, and 6oz. 13dwt. of gold for 10 days' work. The yield of diamonds has of late been so satisfactory that the directors have given instructions to set up two large machines of Hunt's that are on the ground. — " Australasian," Feb. 12th. The "Australasian" Dated Feb. slh, gives the following : — It seems that a very novel and peculiar industry threatens Queensland. The meatpreserving movement in that country assumes the form of dugong beef. A contemporary who had the good fortune to taste the marine monster, at a place bearing the not inappropriate name of Tincan Bay, is loud in his praises of the sweetness the tenderness, and the delicacy of its flesh. Dugong butchers and dugong preservers will soon be in high request, for who could resist buying a pound of meat when he gets a bottle of physic thrown into the bargain. It is certainly a singular recommendation that the meat possesses all the medicinal properties of the famous dugong oil. Our friends in Queensland will literally make their medicine their daily food. The simplest post-office in the world is to be found on the southern extremity of America. For some yeara past a small barrel has been fastened by an iron chain to the outermost rock of the mountains overhanging the Straits, of Magellan, opposite Tierradel Fuego. It is opened by every ship which passes through the Strait, either to place letters in it or to take letters from it. This post-office, therefore, takes care of itself, it is confided to tho protection of seafarers, and there is no example of any breach of this trust having occurred. Each ship undertakes the voluntary transmission of the contents of the barrel if their destination is within the limits of its voyage. Private advices have been received in London from New York, stating that the honour done to the remains; of the lcte Mr.Peabody, and to the fact of our Grovermcnt having conveyed his body to America, in a ship of war, has had a great effect on the States, and has gone -far towards doing away with' the ill-feeling caused by the Alabama difficulty. There is a story going about to the effect that the special correspondent in London of a wellknown American paper lately telegraphed to ask his employers what line he should take upon the Alabama question. The reply, through the cable, was " Let the matter drop ; it's played out:' Lieutenaut Saxby has got into the bad books of the inhapitants of Peru. It seems that a Professor Falb predicted that a terrible earthquake would take place at the Fame time as that mertioned by Lieut. Saxby for the occurrence of storms, and the inhabitants, mindful of the disasters which recently befell them both on sea and land, took to the bills for safety. No less than 60,000 of tho people of Lima and Callao lefl their homes, carrying with them whatever of their possessions was portable and remaiued camped out for a week in tents and sheds, where they caught agues and fevers. "What they lost by a week's suspension of business, by the removel of their goods*, and by robberies — for the thieves did not give way to the general panic — is estimated at nearly a million dollars. Enraged at this the luckless Peruvians gave vent to their anger by burning Professor Falb and Lieutenant Saxby in effigy, and were, according to last accounts, still heaping maledictions upon the prophets. A dancing mistress has been awarded £1,550 as compensation for compulsory removal. Mr. Hawkins, in stating the case for the plaintiff, said she numbered amongst her pupils duchesses, countesses, viscountesses, both English and Irish, and even archbishops patronised her establishment. A young German, while visiting the house of a married lady in California,, observed a portrait of her sister, a Miss Rowe, then living at Sfe. Austell, Cornwall. He was charmed, and two days af terwads wrote to the young lady, avowing his love and offering her marriage. The reply was favourable, and he then forwared. a liberal sum of money to defray Miss Rowe's expenses from Cornwall to California, adding that should she, on arrival, be unfavourably impressed, he would not hold her bound by either law or honour to accept his hand. "Within the last few days Miss Rowe's mother,, at St. Austell, has received a letter announcing that the nuptial knot has been tied. Holloioaj/s Pills. — The changes of climate and, above all, the varieties of water, encountered in traversing even a small portion of any country, are severe trials. In order to secure the system from the evil consequences so frequently resulting from these causes, it is absolutely necessary to be provided with Hollo way's justly celebrated Pills. It is proved beyond disputethat in all cases where the stomach and bowels are disturbed by change of air, water, or diet, (or any other cause,) they quickly and invariably restore the' tone of the one and the regularity of the other. Visitors to, or residents in, the alluvial districts of the South and West, will find them a certain remedy for bilious affectiona I and intermittent fevers.