TELEGRAPHIC From the Daily Southern Cross.

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 42, 6 August 1872, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC From the Daily Southern Cross.

j Grahamstown. Kub.'.kui.—The find oi'specimeas on Thursday night has had a most beueficial effect upon the iortuight's yield and brought it up j to a point that has not been touched for many j months. An average of -35 head of stampers ; has been* crushing during the fortnight, and ,; the yield has 289 ounces retorted .gold j which lost ten ounces by melting. Of this I total. 135 -ounces were obtained from" the _ 1 j cwt of specimens, showing, that they equal in j quality those for which this creek will ever : stand famous in the annals of the Thames. I Wellington, Thursday;, j It is reported that Mr. Vogel, in retaliating j on the Provincial authorities of Weihng&on,- ; intends moving to sectm> the removal of the Government to- Chr-iatchurch, and intend a ; placing £50,000 on the Estimates for the i purpose. ! Christchnrcti, Friday. j In the live stock market to-day, fat cattle j were in good demand, and realised. 22s Gd j per IOOIbs. Sheep: ewes,2£. per 2f to 3d per lb. Horses: heavy- draught! fetched from £35 to. £45; medium,' £20'to-\ £:Joi." - !

Grain market. —Wheat sold for 4s lOd to 08 per bushel; oats, 2s Id to Cs (3d per bushel. There was no barley offered. These prices are all in Ohristohurch. Permissive Bill petitions were forwarded to-day by the Turanaki for Wellington from various districts. There is no news of the overdue -ships. One is ihnv a 1-lJ days out Friday. Fat cattle were sold to-day at Mb 5s per J head; store cvi't'-e, from £'3 and upwards;' fche-p from 12s to 20s. O-ie flock of two- , tooth fat ewes sold for X 1 per head. j Melbourne, July 29. j A telegram from Webb, dated July ord, | to Mc.decliun, says that the Daoolah sails on | the 10th August, direct for Melbourne, to begin a iu*w service on the 2'Jrd October, and to advise the Colonial Secretaries of \ iotoria and New Zealand ol the faefc. Large English orders have arrived for ! preserved meats. i The Governor's term of ollice has expired. I No instructions have been received as to his | remaining, or any order as to his successor. I Buyers of Too key at i-5 10s; sellers, at xG. j A new issue is wanted. ! Fiour, X\~) 10s to £15 15s ; wheat Os 3d to | to 6s Ud ; oats (New Zealand) auctioned at | 2s 2d to os 2d ; sugars firm. i Wellington, Saturday. I Dr. Younger has written a letter to the 1 Press denying that small-pox,existed onboard i the ' Nebraska.' The symptoms observed by '■ the medical authorities in the old cases of | sickness were fever and neuralgia. i\& attru i butes the quarantining of the vessel to the i ignorance of the medical authorities, and says j that the treatment by Dr. Philson was an agreeable contrast.. ' Sailed :—Keera, for Auckland; Nebraska ; sails on Monday morning with the mails. ! A motion of Mr. Holmes' was agreed to for ': a return of all contracts and engagements ' entered into for railways and tramways under | ihe Public Works Act. ! Saturday, Last night's pitting was occupied by-a discussion of the Clerk of Parliament Bill, which passed all its stages; Some stormy discussion took.place between Filzherix'rt, Bunny, Vogel and Gisborne, re--1 T ,l ieidim<''s land purchase, and the statements ma !e during the previous night s debate. Mr. Shcehan presented a petition from the residents of Rodney, praying for an alteration of the Highways Act. Mr. Gillies gave notice of motion for a return of the amount of penalties remitted by the Colonial Treasurer from Mr Webb •in reference to the mail service, and to ask by what authority the penalties had been remitted. Christol'urch, Saturday. The master and mate of the schooner 4 Black wall,' named respectively Balstonaud Hum, have been found at Kaiapoi l in a precarious condition. Hunt is not expected to live, They were nearly stifled by the fnmes of a charcoal tire lighted in the hold, whiuh penetrated inr.o the cabin. Six.thousand six hundred and seventy one South- British-shares have been applied for.

Two hundred and ninety-two rfeaudinaviaas I sailed ior Canterbury on Alay 18. j Tanranga, Saturday. I A nnmerms prospecting party is daily i awaiting the approval of the Commissioner I to set out on a prospecting expedition. it is rumoured that the Government do .not. approve of any prospecting.at. present,, and' wish to acquire largo blocks of native land before it is publicly reported that gold has beeu found.. Sydney. The motion of a monthly Galiforniaa M ail Service carried. ; I

An interesting discussion is in progress among the chemists of continental Europe, on the cutting of hay and clover befoie they ripen, and on. the true character of that substance which forms the framework of plants, generally known as woody fibre. Chemists have heretofore considered this-as a single proximate element, but the researches of Dietrich and Konig have pretty clearly established the complex character of this substance. There is first the true f*vmework, or vegetable fibre,,consisting substantially, of organised starch.. To this substance the term cellulose has been appropriated. Covering this true skeleton is found a second substance, much denser than the cellulose, and containing the chief part of the mineral matter remaining as ash after the plant is burned. This is called lujnhi. The point of interest in the discussion lies in the fact that cellulose is largely digestible, while lignin is almost indigestible. Dr. Marcker of Weende, has conducted a • series of instructive experiments on the digestion of hay by sheep. Of the crude fibre of meadow hay, he found that about sixty per cent was digested, and the 40 per cent, which remained in the excrement consisted chiefly of the lignin,- containing a la''Je proportion of the mineral elements of the food. Of the albuminious portion of the hay, but 55 per cent, was digested, whiMhenon-nitrogenized substance such as sugar, gum, &c. .'proved more digestible, OS • per eeut. having disappeared. When the experiment was repeated with hay of the second cutting, in which the woody fibre had not fully matured, it was found that 68 per cent, of the crude fibre was digested. Professor E. Wolff has made similar experiments - with red clover hay, with results almost identical. He ascertained, however, in another experiment, that clover which was Cat before it had blossomed was about, one-sixth more digestible than that.which had passed the bloom f before it was- cut. From-; these, experiments it is fairly to be inferred that the.- increased weight which grass acquires in ripening in the sun is from;! the. increase- of indigestible lignin,- and not from I digestible cellulose. Meadow grass <or clover cut j before blooming is worth- 16 per cent, more than an ' equal weight cut after it has matured.

PACTS FOR FARMERS. A writer in the " Field" says he killed all the wire-worms in three-quarters of an acre of old turt land by spading under in the mouth of November two cart loads of spent gas limamixed with six times as much good soil and manure, equal quantities. Maize, says the " Furnu'r," is the best and therefore the cheapest food for fowls. Give cooked and raw, whole, ground fine, and ground coarse, for the sake ot change. To j feed fowls on nothing but this grain, howj ever, would be a mistake. It should pro- | dominate tor economy's sake, but buckwheat, j wheat,- screenings, boiled potatoes, scraps | from the table, aud as many other things an j possible, should be added to the bill of furo. | Many otherwise successful and intelligent. persons fail with poultry because they do not crivo their fowls a sufficient variety of food.

Tno slow but sure influence- of ft- good nowspaper is thus truthfully discoursed'of by "The American Agriculturist" :—lf you personde a neighbour totake and' read a wideawake, instructive, reliable journal, treating specially of his business, you set him to thinking, yon elevate him and his family. He wiUoxpcriineut, and will have the benefit of the experiments of others. His family will read and be moi-e intelligent neighbors Tho tone of society will improve; and property even will be improved in the neighborhood. Every additional reader in the place will have a like tendency. Scatter in any neighbourhood good papers treating not only ot tho news of the day and the statu of the market, but of agricultural, horticultural. and domestic economy, and it will change the character of the neighborhood, and increase the intelligence aud the desirableness of the place, and raiso its character in the aggregate every year.

The dairymen of Washington .Territory,, for want of tubs and jars, have adopted a method, of putting up and keeping butter* which presents some features that are worthy the attention of those who desire to cure and pack butter either for'sale or for family use, The packing is thus described by the "Illustrated Journal of Agriculture" :--" All butter is packed in muslin sacks, made in such form that the package, when complete, is a cylinder three or four inches in diameter ami from haif-a-fuot to a Foot in length. The butler goes from the churn as soon as worked over, into the cylindrical bags, made of fine bleached mudin The packages are then put into large casks containing strong 1 brine with a slight admixture of saltpetre, avid, by means of weights, kept always below the surface. The cloth always protects the butter from any impurities that chance t; omo in contact with the package; and being always buried in brine it is protected from the action of the air ; and it lias been ascertained by trial, th it butter put up in ■ this way will keep sweet ■ longer than in any other way. Besides it is found easier and cheaper for the manufacturer than to pack either iu jars or firkins. And for the retailer there is no telling the advantage on the score of safety and convenience. These rolls of. butter can lie up m his counter as safe from injury, from dust or other contact, as-bars of lead ; can bn rolled tip for his customer in a sheet of paper with as much; propriety as a bar of soap. If the consumer, when he gets noma, discovers specks of dust upon the outside of the bag, he can throw it into a pail of pure cold water and take it out clean and' white. As he uses the butter fromday to day, with a sharp knife he cuts it off from the end of the roll in slices of thickness suited to his want, and peels off the cloth from the end-of the slice, leaving it in tidy form to leavo upon the table "

It is folly to expect sweet milk from mouldy hay, musty fodder, decaying- vegetables, and impure water. Let a cow eat bitter weed?, &c, and the next morning we have the aroma of them in the milk. Likewise, set sweet milk, or good butter, in a newly-made pinecupboard for a few hours, and the very flavour of the wood will be in them. In no other department of daily toil ia cleanliness akin to goldliness than in the milk and butter business. A farmer may take wheat to mill or market in his dirty sacks, keep the flour in an unsightly barrel, need the dough in a tray that has never been washed or scraped, and 'yet have good bread. But milk and butter cannot be kept in unclean vessels and be sweet. Soon as the milk is drawn, set it in a very cool place for one or two, and never more than three hours. Then remove to a warmer room so that it will soar and thicken a little in from 40 to 48 hours—a temperature of 60 to 70 degrees will do this ; then skim and set the cream in no matter how cold a place only so it don't freeze. A week there, and a little added every day, will not it. If the - weather is cold on

the day you wish to churn, remote the cream four or six hours previous to churning to a warm room, so that its temperature may rise to about 65 degrees. Churn as usual, and, if you are a little expert, in a very short time you may expect butter as good, rich, aud sweet as ever melted in the mouth. As to complaints about churning in cold weather, to all io ■ troubled; I say, after straining your millc thoroughly, mix with each four quarts one- pant of boiling water, and your cream will change to butter with as little churning as in the summer, and I will warrant the butter good.—W. E. Essex.

Mn, Uttimir's English. — " Genuine j Saxon, by the floui of Honest," was the ex- j uKing shout of Codricon hearing the naraeof | u Saxon knight who had been victor in the lists. u (bmuine Saxon " will bo the exclamation of every critical listener to Mr, 1 bright. ' I lis look, his tone, bin choice of words and illustrations, bin stubborn independence, his boldness, his pugnacity, are all redolent o. race. A Foxite adducd Pitfs preference ot httlin compounds as an all sufficient proof of habitual ambiguity. Apply a similar test to lV ] r Lright, and no further proof will be ■needed of bis straightforwardness. His diction in drawn exclusively from the pure wel a j *>f L.mlish undouled. Milton and the Liule j nr, ? l.i«.inccH«ingßt I «idy. There wan a time j when it was rare to find hint _ without . ■< Paradise Lost " in bis band or bis pocket. , The use of the scriptural imagery is a marked I frifuro of his -orations, and no imagery can j be morn appropriately employed to illustrate \ bin views, for Mr. Pright. in all bis grand I vfrorts, far above the louucd mn\ boh> j aonKj atmosphere of T^ ri Y V<^ c * mto Uie ! purer air and brighter skies «>f patroitism nnfl iihiluiiilimpy. W« may d.fi'-r about bis ! m «,iiH- or nicMtHurt-a, but no one can d.ller , jdjout the abns when he puts forth his , *l.rcnglli to raise Inland and India m.the»| scale of eiviiisafiom to mitigate the evils ot j war, or to promote the spread of toleration randV/hristinn charity throughout the world. |[,« wound up a speech in Ireland in these words: "The nobm lord (Tulinerst-.u), towards the <-,ou<;l«sH»n of his speech, spo.<e .of the cloivl wlrich rests at ])resent over Ireland. Jt is a dark and heavy cloud, and its darkness extends over the ladings-of men in nil parts of the JJritihU empire. Ibit ttierc is u consolation which we may nil take to ourselves. An -inspired king, and bard, ami prophet, has left us words which are not only 1.1,0 expression ol a fact, but which we m», lake as the utterance of a prophecy, l:u „ iiy s M,olbe upright there arisetb lighUu the darkness.' Let UH try to be just. 'Iba-I. -cloud will be dispelled. The dangers wnu-.h surround us will vanish, and we may jet have the bai»pinesa of leaving to our children the '.heritage of an btmonrable citizenship in a imitc<r uiid prosperous empire. 1,, Although Mr Uri.oht i- a lHjady speaker, be is understood (like the great orators of Greece and Home) to devote much time and labour to the preparation of his orations;, which may Account for their comparative fewness and brevity His voice is all that could be desired in an orator, and his delivery is impres. sive although so distinct, slow, and calm as to sound more like recitation than declamation, uiid it is suspected that his more ambitious are fairly written out em the paper which" ho holds with seeming carelessness in bis hand.—"Quarterly Review."

\t a time when rn my professed friends of: liberalism are so ready at the demands of the j ■clamorous seet of teetotallers to sacrifice the < lihrrly of the individual to the easy-going . convenience of society, it is very gratifyng'to meet with so outspoken und manly a delence „!■ neisonal freedom as that made the other day in the llouseof Lords, in a debate on the Licensing l'.ill, l»y the Bishop of i'eterborongh (\)v I'dao-eo) IK* lonlshipsaid, in wise and weighty words:—"l entirely agree with the nobJo lord who preceded me as to the mischief and I wouhl even say the absurdity, of the Permissive HilL. I Udicve «ttcb a bill -would he socially mischievous, and where most needed it would' bo the least operative. H proceeded on this most vicious political ni.im.iph!—that the tyranny of a mere majority, not of representative men, but counting merely from door to door, should govern any people. 1 hold that it is the right of Englishimnio be governed by their representatives in Parliament, and not by the haphazard majority from door-to-door canvassing. This is one of the dangers of nil democracy; it ignores the rights and privileges of the minority as against the majority. I have a true abhorrence of the Permissive Bill, for, to put it in rather strong language, if I were given the choice-and this does seem to be the choice in the Permissive Bill—l should s>ny that it wouhl be much better that England should be free than that England should be sober. That may seem a strong assertion coming from one of my profession, but I honestly would prefer freedom to sobriety, tor with fieedom we must eventually obtain sobriety ; but. on the other band we should lose both sobriety and .freedom together."

T\io. \ll-e fleets of soda on linen lias given rise to a WW method of washing which has been extensively .•adopted in tienuany. and which has Wen introduced in Belgium. The operation consists of dissolving two pounds of soap in about three gallous of water, as hot as the hand can bear, and adding to this one tablospoonful of turpentine, and three of liquid ammonia ; the mixture must be well stirred, and the linen steeped in it for two or three hours, taking care to cover up the vessel which contains them as nearly hennctical as possible. The clothes are afterwards washed out andiinsed in the usual way. The soap and water may be- re-heated, and used a second time ; bvt, in that case, halt a table-spoor of turpentine and a table-spoon of ammonia must be added. The process is said to cause a great economj of labour and fuel. The linen scarcely suffers al nil, as there is little necessity for rubbing, audit; cleanliness and colour are perfect. The ainmdnu and turpentine, although their detersive action b great, have no injurious effect upon the linen ; and. while the former evaporates immediately, the smel of the latter is said to-disappear entirely during tin drying of the clothes.