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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1116, 7 August 1882, Page 2

Ostrich farming ia succeeding admirably in South Australia. The first snowstorm ever witnessed in Melbourne fell on July 26th. The Parisians ate seven thousand horso.,lMt year, and ten donkeys. [We could lay them on to one or two donkey, who’d be right straight into their hand. The supply here ia larger than the demand. Ye. 1 we can lick Paris in donkeys lII]

A recent return showed that there have been no less than 1325 foreigner, in the service of the Egyptian Govornmont, tbeir.alario. being reckoned at £373,701 a year. An Irish landlord supplies tho following definition of Moonshine and Moonlight• “ It’s hard in this land of intrigue, Rival systems ti well understand , Here now ‘Moonlight's' the Law of the League, And 'Moonshine’s' the Law of the Land.” It is said that Mr Williamson has engaged the far-famed opera beuffc actress Miss Emily Melville, and that she will be the star of a company he intends bringing to New Zealand, after she has played in Melbourne and Sydney. The following curious announcement of a birth appears in an Invercargill paper i—--11 Patterson-—At Appleby, on the 30th July, the wife of Thomae Patterson of her fourteenth child, a son. To be called 1 William Prince of Orange.’"

We regret to learn that the Lord Abbot Akoek's illness—inflammation of the lung—< has assumed a more dangerous form, but that still hopes are entertained of his recovery. Dr. Loe has been in attendance, and latterly Dr. Philson has been called in, and these gentles men are doing all that can bo done for tho patient. Father O'Gara who has boon officiating at St. Patrick's Cathedral, besought tho prayers of the congregation on behalf of the Lord Abbot, It would seem that the wool industry in California is a gradually decreasing one. Me George Abbot (late E. Grisar and Co,) San Francisco, in his report on the six months ending the 30th June, states the course of the market had not fulfilled the expectation! qf the trade. He says the clip will be less thin year than last, as the southern portion of the State suffered severely from drought. Many sheep died, or have been driven from tl‘fi State, and the increase will be very small, The decrease in tho dip will bo more anpar. ent in the fall than in the spring. He snowq that the receipts in tho first six months of the present year were 59,951 bales as against 66,285 bales in tho corresponding period of 1881, 61,601 in 1880, and 88,659 ip 18q7. Ip the first six months of tho present year tl|a weight of wool received was 17,900,3501b5., M compared with 23,471,4291b5. in the sama period in 1881, 28,289,640)b5. in 1877, and 27,895,3141 be. in 1876, It does not seem that sheep-farming fur wad production is likely to be a profitable industry In tho Golden State.

The “World” eaye of Phoenix Path, outrages : *' The resources of civiliza, tion have been pitted against the yea sowroes of the secret societies, and thus far the former have been ignominiously defeated." It is a sad but true confession.

The Chamber of Commerce at Bordeaux has given a banquet to the commissioners from Victoria and New South Wales. Surprise was expressed at the strength and yield of the Aus. tralian wines. The toast of The Argus as an advocate of free trade wrs proposed and drunk.

A contemporary says tho strength of the foreign colonies in Egypt, according to the consular returns of 1879, was as follows: Italians, 14,524; French, 14 310; English, 4795 ; Austrians, 2480 ; Spaniards, 1003 ; Ger. mans, 879 ' Americans, 139 ; Belgians, 127, and Dutch. 119, None of the other powers can count more than a hundred subjects in the Nile Vally,

Some cheerful recipes wore found upon a man named M'Hngh a grogdoctor, who was arrested at Napier for drunkenness. The recipes were for making brandy, gin, port wine, &0., and show that the power qf chemicals is very great. The list of materials necessary it is not very lively read, ing, rather gloomy and saddening indeed, particularly to a man who likes a glass. To produce whisky, spirits of wine, creosote, and essence of capsicum are necessary; brandy requires spirits of wine, oil of oognno, carbonate of soda, and burnt sugar to color it; port wine can be made with logwood, sandalwood, carbonate of soda, and citrio acid; sherry la procurable by boiling raisins, and adding carbonate of sqda and a certain quantity of the bast brandy; this reoeipe w<W called “ flne|” but we squl}t the sherry being so, especially if the brandy used m its manufacture was made as directed. The man who would compound such distressing mixture deserves to drink them. Faith in human nature io weakened by such a disclosure. Perhaps the Belgian chemist was not far out when he eaid “ Wine can be made from anything even, from grapes 1"