General News.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4708, 8 February 1884, Page 3

General News.

lathe Erld^ewator (Victoiia) district there is (accoidijg to the Colccßelovmev) ti abendrnt growth of a new c:'-d strr^ie herb?-;e pint f Jat xride iis appetence in f^e dis ticfc come few ycers a^o, tud estahMsb.i itse! r, t^ "c gr :.t advandge of owners of s? It is popnlarly and pffeci'ors'sly spoken of cs " Jack Holhs, but it i* roT7 gelt'c^ to be cMrd wild piwU.'o ""• cf. At the present time it s'cids eight orr^e nches high in jle Bridgewat^rpaddocks, the pl> Ms a'andi^ close together. It c~n be mowc like oafs It grows in tusocks, and lias the power lo fix loose sands. It grew all through last winter, and.is now coming into ear where it fees be en kept down by stock. Cattle are tery fond of it, and, the best thing of all, rabbits will not como near where it is.

A great point regarding telephones was decided lately in the London Guildhall. The telephone was declared to bo evidence, and conremtions by telephone ore no longer excluded from nolice by the Courts. It appeared that a conversation by tele- . phone had taken place involving fads necesiary to the case against the bank manager and his confederate. Tbe point wrs raise 3. Tbe Caurt aßked whether the voices Vkore recognised, and, satisfied with . th-t proof of identity, decided that the evidence was admissible. . A man named Radcliff, who has just i died at Sheffield, England, had for years pretended to be a bearded woman, and was • great attraction lo the curions. *.'i--It is one of the signs of the time 3 that ' 'the European nations,. though quick to 'quarrel, as of old, are slower to fight than they used to be.