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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 203, 27 August 1874, Page 2

The Thames Advertiser says :— : The principal cattle dealers in Auckland and at the Thames have lately intimated to the butchers here that the price of meat must be raised — a very unpleasant notification it must be admitted. They are very modest to begin with, and propose an increase of twopence per pound, but if the plan agreed upon is at all successful, no doubt the price will be further advanced. The fact is that a " cattle ring has been formed, and the monopoly of the trade, held by a few persons, is to be abused to put money into their own pockets. The breeders and owners of stock will not be benefited, as the buyers are not likely to divide any. portion of increase with them, and the butchers will probably get no more profit than at present. Can nothing be done to break down this monopoly ? The Montreal Star says that Dr. Edwards has addressed a communication to the Mayor of that city on the subject of the refuse covered up by the snow on the streets, which eventually, he thinks, will be desiccated by March wind: 1 , distributed as fine dust in the house?, and inhaled in the streets. Ho says that he finds that, within an hour or two of melting, the snow water conJains a swnrm of living organisms, including most of the infusory animaleulse aod a variety of worms and vibriones, a teoepoonful becoming, in fact, a miniature aquarium, and a few grains of the dust mentioned containing more filth, animal life, and germs of disease than a block of ice 800 pounds weight. Dr. Edwards urges the Board of Health of the city to remove this unwelcome nuisance from the streets more promptly and efficiently. (For remainder of News see fourth page.)

:,»ir.A T Taamsman L paper reports a remarkable cure, by singular means, of a lad at LanncestOD, who accidentally l .' bebkd: hia rfght arm near the elbow joint, and on the bone uniting found the 1 joint so stiff aa to be unserviceable. A Vat was obtained, killed, opened up, j sod ihe body {bowels included) placed ~* and bound round the joint. The patient went to bed,- and the next morning he found the joint as free and ' serviceable as tbe other. A. Pjitchman and bis wife had traVelfed 1 West and arrived at Salt Lake, , where they halted for a few weeks. .jThi. Mqrmons got round the old DutcbWn'and coaxed him to jcin their ranks. ,: i( After retiring one Dight to their canvas- ; e«Q^ere(l ; wagonette bed,, the good Dutchman broke the matter to his ■; j better half, hinting tbat the Mormons n! told him that he had better stay, settle among them, and take some more wives. - , ? •* Hew many more wives you tinks you vante? asked Katherina. Tbe Dutchman thought " Fife more vould make half a dozen already;" whereupon the . old wife got down her bodice, and slip- - pi°g fr° m what the Dutchman called ... the prieat-board, which was made from Yieco'nßtn hickory wood, and vas very tough," she laid the hickory fierce and ' .feat on the old man, who shuffled out of [! t "the wagonette and fell into a ditch. - il The old man got' up and said, his " Stomach 'waa very cold, but his back ■j. ■- was very warm." His wife cried ou t, qf ;•• now many* vives you tinks you vants now, old fool 1" But the Dutchman felt ;• ■!: and expressed that one was enough. a> ,:■• The great clock of the British House of Parliament has beea stopped for 3 - cleaning on account of having lost a second in one month. The average variation of the clock does not amount to » f quarter of a second in the year. '* Compulsory vaccination has finally i been; established in the German Empire, .the provisions of tbe bill requiring that every inhabitant of that Empire shall have himself vaccinated twice during -^ bie 1 lifetime.