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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 59, 14 August 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

Worth Knowing.—The great difficulty of getting horses from a stable where surrounding buildings are in a state of conflagration, is well known, and that in consequence of such difficulty arising from the animal’s dread of stirring from the scene of destruction, many horses have perished in the flames. One gentleman, whose horses had been in great peril from such a cause, having in vain tried to save them, harnessed them as if they "ei e going to their usual work, when, to his astonishment, they were led Irom the stable without difficulty. Substitute for Tobacco in tre Cure of Scab. A correspondent, who, from his experience and intelligence, is entitled to bo regarded as an authority on the subject, gives us some very valuable information on the cure of scab in sheep. As the result of actual experiment, he asserts that sulphur and soda is an elleetual remedy, quite as effectual, indeed, as tobacco water, and more useful for general dipping purposes, inasmuch as it acts as a preventive to contagion. Our informant assures us that for three years he used this in Tasmania with the greatest success, and that quite recently he has dipped a flock badly diseased, which has resulted in a most effectual cure. This information is peculiarly valuable at the present time ; for, bad as the scab naturally is as a scourge to the sheep farmer, it will be a still more serious matter when the Scab Act comes into operation. In fact, if the provisions of the Act are to be carried out, the scab must be eradicated next year ; and any squatter who fails to get rid of it, will himself be nearly ruined ; and, in addition to this, there is the unpleasant fact that the price of tobacco lias risen cent, per cent. A commodity that is at once cheap and effectual in its operation is consequently a great desideratum, and this sulphur and soda is asserted to be. The difference in price between it and tobacco is very great. I o dip a thousand sheep in tobacco-water costs, in material alone, £l3 10s. ; while with sulphur and soda the material would only cost £1 18s. I here is also an additional advantage in using the latter, from the fact that, with the most ordinary care in purchasing, the sulphur and soda can always be relied on as good ; whilst with the imported article, tobacco is often so thoroughly destroyed in bond that all remedial properties are lost, and the dipping, from no want of foresight, and from no sparing of expense on the part of'the squatter, is rendered useless. These are arguments which should induce flockmasters to <nve (he suggestion of our correspondent their very serious consideration, and to test the proposed remedy by actual experiment. It is devoutly to be hoped (bat the day is not far distant when the scab will be a thing of the past. In no part of the colony has it proved more generally prejudicial than in Western Victoria. As an instance of this, we have been credibly informed that during the past yeartho engligenee of one individual in this district eas caused Ihe dipping of from 30,000 to 10,000 sheep. The new act, however, will prevent a recurrence of such instances as this.—Hamilton Spectator. On Saturday last, 3rd instant, a large and enthusiastic meeting of Liverpool shipowners, captains, and others were held in the offices of the Liverpool Mercantile Marine Service Association, for the purpose of making a presentation to Captain Wilson, of the Emit// St. Pierre , her steward, and cook, for the gallantry displayed by them in rescuing their ship, after its capture by the United States war steamer James Adger, under the circumstances recently reported in our columns. Captain Wilson was presented with a handsome tea service suitably inscribed, a gold chronometer watch, and a sextant, and in addition is to be presented with 2,000 guineas from the owners of the Emit// St. Pierre. With regard to the steward ami cook, they received each a purse containing £2O, and will be rewarded by their owners 'also. The Mercantile Marine Service Association intimated through their chairman that it was their intention to present Captain Wilson with a gold medal, and his steward and cook with silver medals.—Thacker's Overland He tvs. May 10. “ Do you keep matches /” asked a wag of a country grocer. “ Oh, yes, all kinds,, ” was the reply. “ M ell, I’il take a trotting match, ” said the wag. The grocer handed him a box of pills. When you discover an owl on a tree, and find that it is looking at you, all you have to do is to move quickly around the tree several times, when the owl in the meantime, whose attention will he firmly fixed, forgetting the necessity of turning its body with its head, will follow your motions with its eyes till it wrings its head off. Pit words are better than fine ones. As perfume is to the rose, so is god nature to the lovely. 111-nature renders the prettiest face very disagreeable. A Good Scotch Pun.—At the meeting at Errol on Wednesday night the Kev. Dr. Grierson related a story of a capital Scotch pun. Two gentlemen had been fishing for salmon with the “ lister”—a kind of three-pronged spear—in one of the salmon rivers in the south of Scotland, when one of them having speared a fish, drew it from the water, and holding it on high, apostrophised it thus, “ And noo, Mr. Salmon, what think yo o’ yerscl’ ?” The other gentlemen, an inveterate punster, remarked, “I suppose he will say, ‘ I’m name the belter for your spear-in.”— Dundee Advertiser. The End we allDesibe.—The end of a speech A Generous Idea.—“A’m told a Sir. Peabody, ” remarked a swell, “ appwopiated hnndwed and fifty thousand pounds towawds ameliowating the condition of the London paw. A hundwed and fifty thousand pounds! Half that sum would make my wife and children happy, if a wa’ married, and—a—t wice as match would make me tolewably comfatable.” It is told of Lord Korbury, that when passing sentence of death on a man convicted of stealing a watch, he said to the culprit, “ My good you made a grasp at Time, but, egad, you caught Eternity.” An eloquent speaker is too frequently like a river—greatest at the mouth. Why is a horse the most humane of animals? Because it gives the bit out of its mouth, and stops at every cry of ivoe. Why should the quill pen never be used in indicting secret matter?—Because it is apt to split.