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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 61, 19 September 1872, Page 2

Tho population of Australia, includ'ng Tasmania j and New Zealand, is estimated at 1,814,135. The j area is 1,652,524,800 acres, and the number of cattle | 4,059.536, whilst of shoep and lambs there are 49,136,642. The population of G-reat Britain, including the Isle of Man and the Channel Island?, is nearly 31,000,000 j its area 77,500,000 acres ; cattlo. 9,235,052 ; sheep and lambs. 32,786,733. By this it ■will be observed that, whilst the total population of Australia is scarcely more than half that of London, it is over twenty-one times the extent of Great Britain. The curious theory is propounded by a physician in Germany that small-pox originates "rom au excess of albuminous matter in the blood, and that this is to be prevented by the administration of common salt. The habit of children indulging over freely in sweetmeats he considers one great cause of this undue development of albumen, and coffee and tea, if highly sugared, tend also to exeito it in adults. An organic ! acid, such as lemon juice, he considers the best means ; of freeing the blood when clogged, up with, too much I albumen; and Realleges that by taking these simple | remedies,, in the way of precaution, he has, for up- ; wards of twelve years past, frequented and taken up I his abode in the most pestilential hospitals in Europe ! and South America with entire impunity. I A curious discovery has just been made at the { Charterhouse, in the shape of an autograph by Sir I Henry Havelock, when a boy at that school. It has j on it the date of his leaving, and was probably pushed S by his own hands behind the wainscot of his cupboard , or locker, where the mice- and the rats have very ; kindly spared, it for upwards of half a century. —City [ Fi-ess. j Herr Friederieh Gerstaecker. the Gbrman novelist, I has just died at Brunswick-