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of Mr W. G. Runcic, and we trust that their enterprise will be rewarded, and that the j.tfblie of Ku'Wara 4i\i ap'p'reci.'iie (heir endeavour to nicefc the rcciuir#meh ! ts df Muh li large aril] iiiip'bUaHfc district as kaMtS. M become. The late Cn'amnion ftacfe Meeting at Melbourne, on New Year's Day, is described as a disappointment, though about twenty thousand persons were present. Only seven Horses' stated; viz. :— First fcihg, Chester, Robinson Crusoe, Pluto, Pride of the Hills, Waterford, and Glenormiston. Chester had all the best of start, but First King won as lie pleased. The bookmakers' are said to liave lost on the event. Among the specimens forwarded lately to the Canterbury Museum, we notice that Mr W. Docherty, late of Okarito, has presented some specimens of Hornblende rock with pyrrhotine (magnetic pyrites) and copper pyrites from Dusky Bay. A Vienna paper has gone to the trouble of analysing the various war bulletins of its contemporaries in the Austrian capital, that subsequently turned out to Have been simply "bogus" despatches. Tlie result may be summed up as follows-— Of battles of which neither of the belligerents has any knowledge as appears from later tidings; there have been fought— in the Neve Frcie Presse, 13; Presse, 3; Deutsche Zeitang, 7; Fremdenblatt, l; Neve Wiener Tageblatt, 19; Extrablatt, 17j Morgcapost, 8 ; Vora'fadt Zeifcuug, 9; Tagespresse, 2; Wiener Abendpost, i. These figures are curious, but more singular still are those which follow. In the above mentioned buttles there fell — according to the Neve Freie Presse, 390,000 Russians; according to the Presse, 12,000 Russians; decordirig to the Deutsche Zeitu'ng, 176,000 Russians arid 5000 Roumanians | according to the Neve Wiener Tageblatt, 210,000 Russians; Estrablatt, 380,000 Russians; Morgenpost, .140,000 Russians; Fremdeublatt, 27,000 Russians; Vorstadt Zeitung, 10,000 Russians; Tagespress'e, 4000 Russians. Of the Turkish losses the daily papers take no note, iike the Turks thouiseives. The Shipka Pass has been evacuated by the Russians — a cording to the Neve Freie Presse, " times; Neve Wiener Tageblatt, 11 times; Presse, 4, times; Extrablatt, 7 times; Vorstadt Zeitung, thrice; Tagespresse and Fretiibdenblatt each once; Wiener Abendpost, twice. A Stornoway correspondent says that when it became known in the nebridies and the Western Highlands of Scotland that the Queen was among them, none were more delighted than the people of Stornoway. On hearing that Her Majesty would visit Gairloch, the Rev. Mr Greenfield, of the Free Church, eugaged the steamer Clansman, which plies between Stornoway and Glasgow and accompanied by about 300 people of the Lews, crossed the Minch in order to testify their loyalty to their Sovereign. The Queen graciously consented to receive them, and appointed Kensdale-bridge as the place of meeting. Hero they assembled with the Rev. Mr Greenfield at their head, an-1 when her Majesty drove up with the Princess Beatrice in an open carriage, she wa's reciived with the greatest enthusiasm Nuihiug could equal the unmistalseable pleasure and pride with which her Majesty was received, and when she, through tlie Rev Mr Greenfluid, thanked her snbjects for coming so far to set her, their loud plaudits echoed through the hills. Noihwithstanding the general prosperity of New South Wales, there must be <i good deal of destitution in Sydney. The Herald of a recent date says: -The manager of the night refuge and Soup kiteb'eri in Kent street reports: — During the month of November 4622 meals were given, and shelter afforded in 2100 instances. Situations were obtained tor thirty persons. Average number daily to dim er, ninety-four; average number to &leep, seventy-one. Outdoor and indoor orders for tlie infirmary were obtained for the sick. Free passes by railway to the country for many of the unemployed. Several going up the country on foot in search of work were supplied with rations. Many women with families were assisted. All who name were helped in one way or other. In a London satirical journal of 1846 (writes iEglcs in the Australasian), there is a description of model houses for Australia which is almost as prophetic as Campbell's lines upon the New South Wales emigrants. After describing the model lodging-house, the model theatre, and the model church, there is this far seeing description of the model Australian House of Commons: — " This house is built exclusively of wood, as it is intended to contain the heads of the nationIt is divided into two sides— the side that is ' in' and the f out' side. In the corner there is an immense dust-bin for the reception of the petitions. The house is beautifully ventilated, and there are pipes as in a bath marked ' hot' and ' cold,' which any member can turn when he wishes for a fresh supply of air. Several models of the speaking automaton have been sent out with this model House of Commons." Now, if one adds that the members' dressing rooms contain a good many frequently turned coats, have we not a very fair description of our intensely respected Legislative Assembly ? M. Buiseion, of Paris, was inoculated by hydrophobia virus whilst attending a patient who waß affected. He felt all the symptoms of the disease, constriction of the pharyngeal muscles, &c. He entered a Russian vapour bath 107 degrees Fahrenheit, resolving to terminate his life by suicide. To his astonishment the symptoms gradually vanished, and he in time completely recovered. Since then he has treated eighty cases successfully. His mode of treatment is this : — The person bitten should take a certain number of vapour baths, and should induce a violent perspiration by wrapping in flannels and lying under a feather bed, afld by drinking freely of warm decoction of sarsaparilia. So convinced is he of this mode of treatment proving successful, that he will suffer himself to be inoculated with thejvirus. The late unsettled weather has caused serious disasters, many homes have been inundated and many of the people will be suffering from the effects of exposure and drenchings, causing much sickness in the shape of rheumatism, colds, and fevers. The antidote is to be procured— Try those extraordinary Indian remedies, Ghollah's great Indian Cubes — They are the most certain and unfailing remedies, and can be had of G. Mcc, Chemist, Wholesale Agent for Hokitika; and of all chemists and raediciue vendors. — Adyt.