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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 65, 29 October 1864, Page 3

.ENGLISH . EXTRACTS . " _ The cook of ( the Ouse, bound from Sunderland to Alexandrlafhas'been charged with attempting to poison the whole crew. -Three of them, it «eems, died, but " An M.D., " writing to the ttmes suggests ' 'that they died of eating* bad port There ia a disease * among pigs, in which they become infected with' a minute worm called trichina spiralis!-' If iihe meat thus poisoned is not particularly well cooked the" worm enters the consumerVsystem, arid gradually eats through him also, causing disease or death. The complaints is well-known in Germany, and even in England/ several cases have been reported, particularly at Birmingham, and Professor Gamgee mentioned to the committee on diseased cattle the necessity for' special precautions against the evil. Pork is not' often eaten by the rich half cooked, but sailors eat it nearly raw, and it remains sometimes. in. sausages only just heated through. A new machine, by means of which its inventor hopes to supersede the steariijengine, is the order of the day in France. It has' been already introduced with success into a paper factory belonging to aM. Auzon.-., This machine can, it is said; in a report of -the], French 'Academy :6f. Sciences, rbe made to do the work of a ste-^-engine of equal power at an economy of. from. 60 to. ,70., per... cent.. Itis- too, free froin ■'such~drawbacks_as. .the necessity of high chimneys, smokej v or ."the danger rof explosion. In many waysfit "bears ia close analogy to the Ericsson engine, and is cadledargazomoteur, being composed'qf .three ; principal; parts, 1 namely, an air-pump, a smoke-consuming furnace, and a motive cylinder. The furnace, wheiTthe engine is at work, rmaihs'closed; vunless at the' orifice by which the air-pump opens on it and the one by which the heated air sets, the cylinder in motion. It is so arranged that* a quantity of combustible matter equaftb thaVwhich it consumes falls constantly into it. -A state of combustion is kept up by the air-pump, Part of the air passing from this rushes into the furnace ; ,the rest combines with the coal gas, -forinirig thus a' gaseous mixture the volume of which is-far "greater than -'that ofthe air previous to its introduction to the furnace. This mixed-air. acts on the piston of the cylindre wo^ar with' a force "proportionate to the volume produced by the augmentation of the elevation of the temperature. SiTßitAEEtns Expiosroih— The Dords of the Admiralty paid their annual visit to the Royal Dockyard afc Pembroke last week, when advantage was taken of the occasion to perform some experiments of submarine explosion, which were directed and carried out by Mr. Macdonriell, engineer, and Mr. Tatham, submarine engineer. Two r explosions were fired with great success, at a sigrialfrom|Mr. If acdonnell. The effect was very remarkable, an immense mass of several thousand tons of water and stones being heaved up, towering as high as the mast head ofthe Osborne.- After the up heaving of the water,-- thousands of fish, salmon, congers, &c, were seen on the surface of the water. The effect felt on board the Osborne and Her Majesty's ships Blenheim arid Saturn, as well as to a great distance on the shore, was such as to establish a conviction of the wonderful defensive power thus at command. "Their Lordships were pleased to compliment Mr. Tatham on the success of the experiment. Affectation in Cier&y.— Gail Hamilton thus satirizes the " cloth :" — ""Was an orthodox minister ever known to use therrord 'wife' inthe pulpit? From the manner in which he steers round ifc, one would suppose that its utterance was a ban. Your •" consort,' ' companion,' ' the partner of your joys, or ' sorrows,' or * bosom,' is recognized ; but * nobody ever prays for your ' wife.' "Why is ifc not just as well to say that Mr. A. will preach in the afternoon, as in the. 1 -after part of the day ?' "Why nofc say that the man whose life you are sketching was married at a certain age, rather than that he * entered into the marriage relation ?' Why in the pulpit shall we not hear our own tongue in which we were born ? If dignity cannot iitand Anglo-Saxon, so much the worse for dignity, '^ood, common, honest, racy, idiomatic, words and •prases are nofc only the strongest, but often the mosfc eloquent. The cumbrous euphonisms of a pulpit patois are neither pleasant to the taste, nor good for food." Clothiers, -&c. LEAVING EOE HAVELOCK DIGGINGS. SELLING OFF! SELLING OFF!! AT 60 PER CENT UNDER COST PRICE AN IMMENSE SACEIFICE Ol? MEN'S AND BOY'S CLOTHING AND BOOTS AND SHOES .FOR FOTJETEEN DATS ONLY. T F. BTE N E akd CO. Are leaving Invercargill for the Havelock Diggings and are resolved to CLEAR OUT their ENTIRE STOCK at the above ENORMOUS SACEIFICE ji & DEE-STEEET, NEXT PRINCE 'OF "WALES HOTEL, AHD Mbcum. Camt avo G-ik-m* Hobs* Bazaab,