GENERAL NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1903, 8 June 1892, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

Guineas were first coined in 1673. Phosphorus was first made in 1677. The invention of steel is of great antiquity Linen dyeing was first known in England in 1579 The coinage of a sovereign costs f d at the mint. Blankets were first made in England in 1840. Bread was first made with yeast in England about 1650. The first geographical map of England was made in 1520. It is best to throw bones of contention to the dogs. The duration of a flash of lightning is one four hundredth and eightieth part o a second. The great whistler of the fashionable worlds of Paris and Vienna is now Count John Zamoisky, a Polish nobleman, who so.ae years ago married the daughter of Marshal Palissier. Bis whistled notes are said to be of great richness and flexibility, and of wonderful range. He can whistle the moßt intricate and brilliant compositions, and imitate a canary, nightingale, or thrush. The " Times" considers that the mystery surrounding Premier Dibbs' mission to England is doing harm to the colonies, inasmuch ab it tends to suggest anxiety as to their solvency, though that solvency is undoubted. Mr Dibbs would render them best service by declaring what steps he will take to prevent the mis-appro-priation of public moneys and judicial corruption, and if he will see that emigration is encouraged and borrowed money properly applied. Richards dward, a station hand aged abouc 60, died in the Wilcannia districtt N. S. Wales, early this month from thirst- j It appears that the unfortunate man left Yantara for Mount Wood station on horseback, and having camped on the road he let his horse go. It is supposed he could not find the horse again, and becoming exhausted for want of water tried to make for a well on the Mount Wood station, but failed in the attempt. His body was found alongside a fence leading to the well. Several deaths have occurred' in the same district during the present srmmer from chirst in the bush.