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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 275, 1 November 1884, Page 2

Electricity.—The Home correspondent of a contemporary says All our English railways—even those which have been using gas—are now going in collectively for electricity to light their trains by. The electricity is not generated by motive power, but by batteries, according to the new method described about a month ago. It is both cheaper and safer, and more thoroughly under control. In other words, the electricity will be generated by the combustion of zinc in the sulphuric acid of the cells, instead of by the combustion of carbon in the firebox of an engine.

Quite Right.—Says the Dunedin Star:— Our reporters are constantly pestered with applications to keep the names of individuals out of Police Court reports, or to suppress them, but it is almost needless to say that neither request receives the slightest consideration. To-day our representative at the Police Court had this communication put into hie hand:—“ Kindly alter my name as witness to Frank Hunter, and give as few particulars as possible, and you will extremely oblige. Fred Hunt.” We wish people like Mr. Hunt to understand that all future applications of this kind will be treated exactly in the way we have done with his. Rum.—“ Rum distilleries, from what I have seen of them,” states a writer in the Sydney Morning Herald, wl.o is reporting on the Queensland sugar industry, “ appear to distil anything that comes in their way. The material they get to work on is the refuse molasses out of which no more sugar can be j obtained; added to this are the sweepings