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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XL, Issue 195, 8 August 1876, Page 4

The Value oe a Man. — No animal (observes the Medical Press and Civ cular) works harder than man, anJ as a working or domestic animal man may be valued. Dr Farr has made eome curious and interesting calculations as to th(j value of the agricultural classes. Tho calculations aro not made to correspond to tha working years oi man, but allowance ia inude for the infant hn'J child, who, though not able to v/oik, u»e valued prospectively; and *-.'/, n^u'iu, in old age, when the labor j,«:iio'l in puttged, aud, as fin animu), he t:t)timnin:ii more than lie produces, his viiluij is coiiKidcrud a iniiiua quuntity. Tfi'i eftlouluiioDH aro based upon the Shitulk u|»riculiural dieses, in which county tltn infant laborer ia worth at the 1111K1 of Iliri.ll, £5. When he has sur-viv-d lljn flint dangers) of inf.'Uit:y, and hurt rt'-vnurjed five ycura nearer the time at which ho will become a productive H^'itit, hit* price r'mcH to no loss thau £.16; und this, again, iu five years more ia eumeihing more than doubled. At tho nge of twenty-five yours ho hna utiaiiied hie maximum vuluc, £246 ; and he declines alterwarda steadily but slowly, down to £138 at fifty-five years of agp, and £l at the age of seventy. After this age he produces little or nothing, but still he consumes, and when lie is eighty years old he is valued at minus £41.

Down Invercargill way they are having pretty cold weather. Lumps of ice that have lain exposed to the sun's rays for hours are still an inch and a half thick,