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Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 231, 14 April 1874, Page 3

Beauty Sleep.—Bleep obtained two hours before midnight, when the negative forces are in operation, is the rest which most recuperates the system, giving brightness to the eye and a glow to the cheek. The difference between the appearance of a person who habitually retires at ten o’clock, and that of one who sits up till twelve is quite remarkable. The tone of the system, so evident in the complexion, the clearness and sparkle of the and the softness of the lines of the features are, in a person of health, kept at “ concert pitch” by taking regular rest two hours before twelve o’clock, and thereby obtaining the beauty sleep of the night. There is a heaviness of the eye, a sallowness of skin, and absence of that glow in the face which renders it fresh in expression and round in appearance, that readily distinguishes the person who keeps late hours. A slum tee is probably the richest gold country in the world. In the alluvial "diggings the precious raetal is found at a depth of from five to ten feet in nuggets of 41bs and upwards. On the banks of the Bara and Brahe rivers many thousands of slaves are employed for two months every year collecting the gold dust brought down'by the floods. Travellers relate that, on great occasions, the chiefs appear so loaded wfith solid gold, that they are obliged to rest their arms on the shoulders of slaves. Coomassie is 150 miles from the coast, and the Fautee country lies between Ashautee and the English settlement. The population of Ashantec is estimated at 3,000,000. The Ashantecs excel in the manufacture of cotton cloths, and in the brilliancy of their dyes. They make good earthenware, tan leather, and work in iron, manufacture sword-blades of superior workmanship, and display great skill and taste in the fabrication of articles of gold. A singular case of audacity was displayed by a woman, named Jane Glass, at Port Chalmers, yesterday. On the previous day she was indicted at the Supreme Court with the robbery of £7O or £BO from a gardener, and ns the case rested upon circumstantial evidence, through the money not being found, she was acquitted. No sooner, however, was she at liberty, then she took a passage to the Port, where an unsuccessful attempt to change a £2O-note was made by her, and she was subsequently taken into custody for drunkenness. On being searched, the bank-note was taken from her, and found by the number to be a part of the money she was charred with stealing.— DaVy Thud.