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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7071, 17 February 1893, Page 1

“ Johnny, you have been a bad boy to day,’’ “Yes'm.” “Are you sorry?” “ Yes’m.” “Why are you sorry?” “ Cos I know that the chances are about 17 to 2 that I’m going to get licked.” A Greenstone publican is going to sue the proprietary of the r Picturesque Atlas ’ beer-use the publication is so excellent a specimen of the literary and typographical art that, he has sustained ten pounds damages in not having the series delivered at an earlier date. In the summery of Agricultural Produce Statistics in Great Britain for 1892, prepaved by the Board of Agriculture, the estimated total produce of wheat is pnt down at 58.560 932 bushels, and compares with 72,127,263 as returned in 1891, and the acreage under oul'ivation at 2,219,839 acres, as against 2 307 277. The average yield per acre for England is returned at. 26 20 bushels, ond for Wales and Scotland at 23 86 and 34 66 The production of barley was estimated at 70,501 562 aushels, and the average yield at 34‘82 bushels per acre for England and 35 84 for Scotland The production of oats was set down at 116,294,989 bushels, and the average yields for England and Bootland at 41 5 and 35 1 and for Wales 34'2. The Liberator Building Society (says a writer in a Home paper) is our Panama Canal. The crash really means that £7,000,000 have been lost by the lower middle class. It has produced real destitution amongst people who most keenly feel it. To detcribe the catastrophe as heartrending ia to speak with moderation. There is talk now of a fund to relieve these un lucky and much-to-be-pitied little investorsDnfortunately the accumulating worries that accompany bad trade have taken the off charity. The, hospitals all need funds. To be “supported by voluntary contributions ” is to exist on a most precarious income Here ia London Christmas is glimmering on us through the dim short days sadly enough. Many a family must face the Mew Year, and the struggle of unfettered competition with reduced powers of earning money as well as diminished hopes. The Cleveland correspondent of the Brisbane Courier notifies Australia that the electric eel, of south American fame, is not confined to that quarter of the world, but is to be found in Queensland waters. Whilst Mr Moore, of Kangaroo Point, was swimming in a private bathing enclosure on Saturday morning,” writes the correspondent, “his enjoyment was brought to an abrupt termination by an electric eol —an insignificant looking object, about ten inches long, and of the thickness of seaming twine. The eel became attached to his left arm above his elbow. The bather at once recognised the character of bis assailant, and tearing it off, slipped on hie pyjamas and made a rush for homo; but before be bad compassed many yards of the jetty he became paralysed. Mr M. Ryan and Mr W. Bowney were close by, and hastened to the assistance of (he distressed man, whom they carried to bis temporary seaside residence, a few yards away. Applications of spirits of turpentine to the arm and spine alleviated the terrible agony, and the paralysed limbs gradually regained their power, so that by the evening Mr Moore had fairly recovered from his lerrible shock. The mark on his arm was as though it had been branded wilh a piece of red bot wire straight at each end with three or four curves or waves in the centre. The electric eel is very seldom seen in Moretou Bay.” IS DEAFNESS INCURABLE? J. H. NICHOLSON, of 175, William Street Melbourne, has proved otherwise by making a complete cure of deafness and noises in THE HEAD OF OVEB 40 YEAEB STANDING, by a simple remedy and without the use of any “claptrap” ao called electro-medication treatment. A full description of this remedy which has cured thousands of other oases of long standing, will be sent FREE on application. Society in Washington has been highly edified by the result of a little feud between the Mayor and the ObL*f Commissioner of Police. The former functionary persuaded the Council to cut down the Chief Commisuioner’s salary, and gave his own casting vote in favour of that measure. Not long afterwards the Chief Commissioner received information that the Mayor was playing poker in a gambling saloon. He organised a raid, and Captured the Chief Magistrate, and his worship was in due course “ had up,” abd flood*-