Untitled

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1756, 6 November 1885, Page 3

St George’s Hall and the Art Gallery at the Exhibition has had a narrow escape from fire. Yesterday, when the gas stoves were removed it was found that the dado was charred and the scrim and paper partly burnt. A new find of gold on theLangwood Eange, Southland is reported. A new find of gold has also been made in the Ophir District, Otago. The Times of India has the following remarks relative to the prospect of finding in that country a market for Australian frozen meat " The steamer Duke of Westminster, arrived in Calcutta with a cargo of frozen meat from Queensland for London, the Indian Daily News gives its readers a description of the process followed in preserving the meat. The Daily News refers to the possibilities of opening up a trade with India, and thinks that with regular steam communication to Australia we would have Australian beef and Australian mutton in abundance, which would improve our tables, disrate our swindling khansamahs, and abolish the butchers, who as a rule, well deserve the worst that can befall them. A Great Business.—The United States of America is the home of some very large enterprises, but none perhaps greater than the business conducted by Mr G. G. Green of Woodbury, New Jersey, U.S.A. He is the proprietor of the well known Boschee’s German Syrup, which is unequalled as a remedy for Pulmonary and Bronchial affections. Pie manufactures also Green’s August P lower for Dyspepsia and disorders of the Liver. These preparations are used throughout the civilised world and thousands testily to their valuable curative properties. Loth these preparations have reached an immense sale solely on their merits. Sample bottles of each are sold at 6d or full sized bottles at 3 s 6d. All druggists keep them. The latest thing in explosives is blasting paper. Dynamite, it is claimed, is nothing to it; and it can be made at so small a cost that the present condition of the dynamiters treasury would suffice to furnish enough of it to blow all England into “ smithereens.’ It is a patent by a Viennese by the name of Petry, an 1 is now coming into use in excavating purposes. It is made of common blotting paper. Cremation in Paris will soon be available for the general public, at the small cost of tos for each operation.