FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 132, 26 March 1879, Page 2

FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

It is rumored that the Natives in the Patea district have determined to remove all the surveyors from the Waimate Plains to Hawera forthwith. A considerable sensation was caused in "Wellington on Monday by the following placard, which was posted all over the city:—“Gold! Gold! Plad the people of Glasgow asked for gold in payment instead of taking bank paper, thousands would have been saved from ruin. This should prove a warning.” As the poster has no imprint, the detectives are trying to find the printer. It is supxrosed to be a foolish piece of revenge by some one who lias had to complain of the bank’s pressure. A fire broke out in the Union Bank premises, Greymouth, on Monday morning, at one o’clock. The flames spread with great lapidity, and the Bank was soon burned to ti e ground, as well as Pointer’s and J.tWeller’s shops. The old Bank of New Zealand premises and the National Bank wore completely gutted, the flames at one time having almost the mastery of the buildings, but the Fire Brigade worked excellently, and the flames were stopped, although at one time the whole block seemed doomed. The damage cannot yet be realised, but it must be close on £20,000, as the papers, etc., in the Union Bunk were all more or less destroyed. Three claims are on gold at the Eight Mile Bush, Hokitika, with fine prospects. The new diggings are about two miles south of Woodstock, and the work is done by tunnelling. A meeting of the creditors was held at Christchurch on Monday in the estate of "William Saunders, general merchant. The" meeting was a private one, but it transpired that bis liabilities were about £20,000, and the assets estimated at : stock £4OOO, book debts £6OOO. The cause of stoppage was land speculations. The estate is very complicated, and it is impossible to say yet what will be the composition realised. It was decided to assign the estate for, the benefit of the creditors to C. W. Turner, A. C. Wilson (of Wilson, Sawtell and Co.), and G. G. Stead (of Royse, Stead and Co.). All the merchants here are interested. The Sheep Districts of Napier, Canterbury, and Otago are proclaimed clean and those of Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson, Marlborough, and Westland declared infected. All the books necessary for carrying on the Savings Banks in connection with the public schools will be forwarded by the Government to the Education Boards during the current week. The disputes re the administration of the will of the late W. B. Rhodes are to be brought before the Court of Appeal for its opinion. On Thursday the "Christchurch tiain over-ran a porker which was crossing the metals, and transfixed it on the wheel guard. The animal’s shrieks soon informed the passengers of the fact that there was a pig in distress. The train was stopped, and the guard taken off before the animal could be freed, and one of the passengers wisely put an end to its sufferings by cutting its throat. The pig would weigh about 2001bs. Professor Leone Levi has published some interesting’ statistics as to the earnings of the working classes in the United Kingdom. Oat of a total population of 33,800,000, the number engaged in various industries is 7,821,000 men and 3,008.000 women, 90 per cent, of whom are embraced by dexile manufactures, service, and agriculture ; and an average rate of wages in the higher branches is about 33s per week. The total amount earned annually would be about £503,000,000 ; but after allowing for holidays, bad,trade, and strikes it is about £423,000,000. The wages show an increase, compared with 1806, of six and two-thirds per cent earned by men under 20 ; of 6| above that age ; of 12 by women under 20 ; and of 24 above that age ; the wages of women having increased more in proportion than men’s. Professor Levi goes on to show that in the past decade the laboring classes have had ample opportunity of laying by money ; but they have, as a rule, spent it in extra expenditure in eating, drinking, and smoking, and are therefore not prepared for continuous bad times like those we are now passing through. The whole statement is extremely elaborate, and was prepared at the request of Mr Bass, M.P., who takes a large-hearted interest in the good of the people. An occasional correspondent, writing from Dipton to the ‘ Southland Times,’ says : —“ Admirers of agriculture would do well to pay a visit to Caroline Station, where there are nine reapers and binders —eight back delivery reapers, and three threshing mills at full work on a 3000acre paddock of grain, near the town of Lumsclen. On the whole the reapers and binders are doing well, but tire MUormack machine is, however, giving incomparably the greatest satisfaction, next in favor being the Osborne, while the Woods is least in favor, the ‘kick’ of the arm of the machine in delivering the sheaf being still objected to, especially on rough ground, because of the waste of grain by shaking and frequent wire-breaking. The crops that are being harvested are wheat, oats, and barley, and taking them all round a yield of 40 bushels pm' acre is anticipated. The grain is of excellent sample, bright and full, and very rainy strawed. The land that is now being harvested was taken on cropping lease by several western district farmers, who are likely to do very well out of it. Caroline Station is now included in the New Zealand Agricultural Company’s estate. _ The wheat and oats this year are superior to the barley, but the breadth sown of the latter was slight.” Holloways Ointment and Pills. — Pear not. —Though surrounded by circumstances disadvantageous to health, these remedies, properly applied, will cut short fevers, influenza, inflammation, diptlieria, and a host of other complaints always lurking about to seize on the weak, forlorn, or unwary. The superiority of Holloway’s Medicines over others for subduing disease has been so widely and fully proved that it is only necessary to ask tlio afflicted to give them a trial, and if the instructions folded round them be followed, no disappointment will ever ensue, nor dangerous consequences result. In hoarseness and ulcerated sore throat the Ointment should frequently be rubbed on the neck and upper part of the chest ; it will arrest the increasing in nomination, allay disquietude, and gradually cure.