Miscellaneous

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 33, 3 September 1887, Page 4

Miscellaneous

The Wellington correspondent of the Auckland Herald writes :— The publicity given i© 1 he abandonment by the Govern-' jni> n t or their retrenchment -scheme for collecting land revenue through ..the Post Office Department, has caused great displeasure in the highest quarters.. A mVtft searching arid inquisitorial investigation is being made to discover hoW the infoi-mati* it leaked oat. - The Post .says %?re H gr««* i wrath in the Ministerial «.imp pvei'this matter.

v 'It i's i«pprte,dtaat pieces of goW have Wen discotereil by the miners in the bed bf the river' Mawddach, North * Wales, and the investigatabnf seems tb:iconfirhv the statement that the bed of the river* Is impregnated with gold, which has. *pr6babiy licen 5 washed down from the hills. Some fifteen years ago a great rush-was- made to the neighbourhood of PoigeHy. and the yajtey of the;Mawdda«h, w;ere.,rich quartz containing -gold: lwd,beenJottnd. ;i The Cipgan mjne^was; opened ; a" compauy of which Mr John : Bright was one of the directors, ■ wis a formed, and for some rime upwards pf lOQos of gold per week were sent away JFrom'th.jfr mine. The Cmncian* njiAe, at th^ hekd bf the vaHey ; is etiJl at work v but it is alleged the enterprise wirgreatly checked by -the. heavy roy» : '■■■"";:■ : '"■ ' •'":' ■. .; ? '' TJiere have been many attempteiexw planatidni of the word fa Jubilee?* One of the most recent is that suggested in the course »f 8^ eQnverjsation .between two Scottish'^fish'wives; ! one of wkom (a£* cording to; tlie Globe) ■ saiS: to the other. ■'•* Bh^ wuinman,: can: ye tell me what a jubilee is, for I hear'a the folk sp akin« about ■itJP-"~ i'-Ou, ay,- replied the other, can telllye.that: Jeisee. whjar, a^ ; man and a wumwan hae been marrit for five-and-fwenty year, thafa a gpuden wadin' but when the mm's deed, that's jubilee, . A_gentleman on his way. out /of the Broadway -Theatre between acts asked ~» lady if >c could dp anything to relieve her : weiriness. $he said: irt Yes, ;|«st 4o as well by me »s you will by yourself. Hedid" On.ais,return helaid a pretty bnnch of -flowers -in her : lap^and wheh their extraordinary -weight aroused her attention, behold, cunningly fastened by a wire in -the centre was ft half-pint pu'mpkinxseed bottle- Through ihe cork;,; 4nt© the heart of a callaliry. -went, a straw. With^what a wealth of; -admiration for man'*. invention did she told the, firagpa^fe.hoiquet; tO|hex nleased face I- . Thfjbar* that has : this nov^el •way of intrbdueuigra^^il^oocktail to a Jad/will doubtless prosper. ; Beef tea. as, ordinlmlly prepared is of lit tie .'nutr^iye jfalue ;', but it Ihe .white ■" of 'an' -egg be mixed witlf'a cup of beef tea and h'ecrted to about 160 d&rees Fahrerii' heitj ike .valae ofrthe : - btoef 'tea; T^greatly •enbanoed. :; iigaini'if: minced raw beef- toe? just covered wi«i 1 Very jgeakhydrpclorici acid (four drops of acid to one pint of farj u and feft to m»>eerate^fpjr ,■ .flic R, the'liduid strained off and squeeet^ butr cf 5 by wringing in;f^ «loth contains so much^ syatoniri as to «ake it highly nutritious when ; neutray Used: »such \"iL liquid wfll remain jjlfear after 'foiling to. remove: the abore raw; flavour.-^- L^nd,on.Jjahqot.r ■. ; .: ;, *■>