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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 79, 16 August 1873, Page 1 (Supplement)

It appears to be the case that, at last, a thoroughly efficient and satisfactory cure for scab has been discovered in Australia, and its value is now so thoroughly tested and so generally recognised, that the inventor is regarded as having a substantial claim on public gratitude—a claim ■which, in his own district, at least, has already been honored. We take the following with regard to the subject from the Australasian of June 21: — “The commemoration of the invention of the ‘ lime and sulphur cure for scab in sheep ’ was the occasion of a large gathering of squatters and others engaged in woolgrowing, at the shire-hall, Alexandra, on the 11th instant. A controversy had for a long time been carried on in the local journals, with a view to settle the claims ot rival ‘ discoverers ’ of this specific. We have not the evidence before us, bnt we have the fact of some sixty woolgrowers and residents of the Goulburn district, in which the use of this remedy originated, assembling together to do honor to Mr. Ewen Tolmie, as the first person who had the courage to risk the value of his clip by dipping his whole flock in a solution of lime and sulphur. As a substantial acknowledgment of Mr. Tolmie’s great services a handsome tea and coffee service and salver was presented by Mr. Whitelaw, president of the shire. The testimony of the whole of the speakers went to show the great value of the specific, and as doubts have sometimes been expressed with regard to its effects upon the wool, we quote a few words from the speech of Mr. W. L. Ker, of Killingworth:— ‘ Mr. Tolmie was a public benefactor by giving this wondef ul discovery to the world. Not only was this colony benefited thereby, but the whole of the Australian colonies. The home country was benefited; we now sent home a better class of wool. Even smokers were benefitted, as there was no market for inferior tobacco. The cost of the other specifics used before this discovery was ruinous—tobacco was from £BO to £lOO per ton, and a cure not by any means certain. Something was necessary to alter this lamentable state. Sheepowners were beginning to despair of ever getting rid of the scab pest, when a public benefactor steps to the front, in the person of Mr. Ewen Tolmie, and proclaims to the world his discovery which is now fast ridding the flocks throughout the country of the scourge, scab,’ ‘ Surely,’ suggests the Alexandra Times, ‘ a matter of so much importance as a cure for sheep scab demands something more than the Alexandra demonstration. Other districts throughout the colony should take the matter up, and acknowledge the benefits conferred on them by Mr. Tolmie, who, if he had patented his discovery, as most men in the colony would have done, could have made a large fortune out of it.’ ”

An Arabian, having brought a blush on a maiden’s cheek by the earnestness of his gaze, said to her, “My looks have planted roses in your cheeks; why forbid me to gather them; The law Eermits him who sows to reap the arvest.”

One style of bonnet is called the “ Mansard,” because it takes a great deal of “ mans-hard earnings to pay for one of them.”

“ Mt brudders,” said a waggish colored man to a crowd, “in all affliction, in all ob your troubles, dar is one place you can always find sympathy.” “Whar?” “ Whar ?” shouted several. “In de dictionary,” he replied, rolling his eyes skyward.

The following advertisement —apparently the production of a jealous wife—appeared in the Liverpool Courier of March 20th: —“Wanted, a really plain but experienced and efficient Governess, for three girls, eldest sixteen. Music, French, and German required. Brilliancy of conversation, fascination of manner, and symmetry of form objected to, as the father is much at home, and there are grown-up sons. Liberal salary. Address, R 58 Courier office.”