CANTERBURY.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 71, 6 November 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

CANTERBURY.

The demand for horses continues unabated. To those most intimately acquainted with the trade, it is a matter of wonder what becomes of the large numbers which are continually arriving both by sea and land. At the date of the last census, Canterbury stood at the head of the list, the number returned being upwards of GOOD. Since that time at least 1000 more have been added, and yet prices show no signs of giving wav. At the present time a really good hack cannot bo got under £ GO, and good sound cart horses are worth from £7O to £OO. At a sale recently held in Christcllurch of old seasoned hacks and harness horses, most of which had done a great deal of work, the lot moved oli' at an average of £3l per head, meeting with brisk competition on the part of dealers and public, and there is little doubt that were another cargo to band, they would move off as readily as the last.— Times, Oct, 11. The estimates for the Province of Canterbury, have been published. The estimates embrace a period before nine months, ending June 30, 18G3. The ordinary revenue is placed at £117,000 ; territorial of £IIO,OOO ; and it is proposed to raise a sumof£l2l,oooby loan, making together £351,000, of which amount the expenditure during the same period is fixed. 1 Scab in Sheep. —A remedy for the above prevalent and disastrous disease, by which the flocks in these colonics arc so frequently attacked, is suggested by Hr. Ledger, in a letter recently received in Sydney, lie writes : “It may not be uninteresting to some of stock-breeders to know that the oil of juniper is a most ellicacious specific for the scab in sheep. In 1855 immense numbers of sheep—in particular, merinos—were carried off by this dire scourge in the Argentine Confederation. The flockmasters were at their wits’ end, and anticipated losing the whole of their stock. An Italian chemist suggested this remedy, and it was found to answer admirably ; To a pound of lard mix a quarter of a pound of oil of juniper: rub well in. I found that very few required a second dressing. It only cost 3d. a-hcad.” The present year has boon fruitful in accidents to members of the Now Zealand Parliament. First, there was the wreck of the White Swan, on her way to Wellington, with the Auckland members, thou came the wreck of the .Lord Worstei/, conveying the sarao members back to Auckland, and lately several gentlemen narrowly escaped death by accident on the Dun Mountain Railway, in Nelson. The following account of the accident is from the Nelson Examiner: —“On Thursday, September 18, a party of gentlemen, principally members of the General Assembly, on their way back to Taranaki and Auckland, paid a visit to the Dun Mountain. On returning to town in two carriages, when about two miles from the bottom of the hill, the brakesman observed some loose stones on one of the rails, which had fallen from the hill above, and applying the break suddenly, to stop the carriage, it broke in his hand and threw him off on the road. There being nothing now to check the carriages, they run on the stones, which threw them oil’the rails, and precipitated them over the hill side. Of the seven gentlemen who were in the carriages, none were seriously hurt. Dr. Monro got both his ancles sprained, Mr. Watt was shaken by bis fall, and Dr. Knight was struck in bis ribs by some one falling upon him, but the others escaped without injury. The Auckland police have subscribed £SO to the Lancashire Relief Fund. The Budget of Charles the First was £8,000,000 that the Queen Victoria is just ninety times that amount. Wreck or the “ Golden G ate.”— The steamer Golden Gate, which left San Francisco on the 21st July for Panama was burnt to the water’s edge on the 27th, off Manseancllas. Out of 330 persons on board, only 11 were saved. The specie on board, which was all lost, amounting to 1,000,000 dollars. Holloway’s Pills. — Health restorers. —The variable temperature of (he English climate during the winter, has a pernicious and deleterious influence on the skin, muscles, glands, and lungs, hence we find erysipelas, rheumatism, enlarged glands and bronchitis so very prevalent. To these Holloway's remedies have proved themselves a perfect antidote for more than of a quarter of a century. Thousands have cured themselves by nibbing in this inestimable Ointment ; which by continued friction pentvates the skin, and restores regularity to every organ, both as regards circulation, secretion, & function. Holloway’s Pills should always bo taken to aid the Ointment where the disease is constitutional, chronic, or dangerous, as they prevent the internal lodgment of any deleterious matters.— Adet.