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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1442, 30 September 1872, Page 2

Speaking of the diseases and complaints of cattle, the Country Gentleman says :—There is one medicine for cattle that can never do harm and is commonly beneficial : this is pulverised charcoal. Nearly all sick animals become so from improper eating in the fir>t place. In nine cases out of ten the digestion is wrong. Charcoal is the most efficient and rapid corrective. It will cure in a majority of cases if properly adminisiered. An example of its use : One of the old men came in with the intelligence that one of B"s finest cows was very sick, and a kind neighbor proposed the usual drugs and poison. The owner being ill and unable to examine the cow, concluded that the trouble came from over-eating, and ordered a teacup of pulverised charcoal given in water. It was mixed in a bottle, the head held upward, and the water with its charcoal poured downward. In five minutes an improvement was visible, and in a few hours the animal was in the pasture quie'ly eating grass. Another instance of equal success occurred with a young heifer, which became badly bloated by eating greenstuff. The bloat was so severe that the sides were almost as hard as a ban el. The old remedy, soda, was tried for the purpose of correcting the acidity. But the attempt to put it down always caused coughing, and it did little good. Half a teacup-full of fresh powdered charcoal was next given. In six bouts all appearance of bloat was gone. One of the result? of importing Polynesian labor to Queensland is, white girls occasionally marry natives of the Pacific Isles, and accompany them to their homes on the expiration of their engagements. A correspondent of the Brisbane Courier describes the condition of three girls who had accompanied their husbands to Litu as being wretched in the extreme:—For some time past the poor women have been deprived of the common necessrries of life—such a* tea, sugar, and flour—which the) have had to beg from the white settlers on the island. What little money their husbands saved in Queensland was spent in paying the passages of themselves and wives to Lifu. Since the arrival of these women at Lifu according to their own account, and their husbands' also, they have been living on yams and which, however suitable to natives, are hardly sufficient to sustain white people. Their bus band's relations are complaining that they should have to support these white women, so that in a short time, if they remain on the island, they will have to do the same drudgery as the black women—such as go and dig the land, and carry wood and water on their backs like beasts of burden. These white women have been told by the representative of the French Government at Lifu, that they are at libei ty to leave the island and their socalled husbands whenever they choose; and they are only seeking an opportunity to do so. On the 6th July a gentleman was giving a favorite Newfoundland dog a bathe in the Thames, by the steps close to St. Thomas's Hospital, when a ohild {•even or eight years of age fell into the water, and was carried away by the ebbing tide. By the time it had passed nearly through the arch of the bridge the dog had swum up to the child, and grasping its clothes, held it until one of the boatmen rowed to the spot and rescued it.