INTER-COLONIAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 125, 30 June 1870, Page 6

INTER-COLONIAL.

We take the following from the Melbourne " Herald " :—": — " Photograph him, and take him away," it is suggested should be the sentence pronounced by the Magistrates on all inebriates who may be brought before them. This hint has been thrown out by a correspondent of a London journal, and the plan advocated is that every drunkard should be photographed, and then a copy of his portrait forwarded to every publican in city, with the notification that should drink be supplied to the individual photoed, the publicans will have to pay the penalty for so doing. The pub- | licans would, in course of time, supposing the hint were taken, have a | beautiful set of portraits to adorn their bars — in fact, they might in course of time, paper their walls with i likenessess of the lovers of strong ■ drink. The suggestion, though we fear, however strinking, is not likely to be adopted, though we have no doubt that the operation of being photograph would prove in some cases a stronger deterrent from getting I drunk than the fine of five shillings and costs. What would the magisj trates do with the man whose photographic cartes were in every publichouse already ? Would they re-photo him, and send him round a second time? They might give orders that any one found drunk a second time should be photographed a second time in his drunken state, and order that this picture should form a companion to the first. Beyond this stage we know not what could be done in the way of ornamenting the hotels and holding up to public gaze the man incapable of keeping sober. There is one objection to this scheme of punishing the drunkard, and it is this — What is there to hinder some wicked spirit of mischief from getting copies of the portraits multiplied of some of the most virtuous of our citizens, and sending such round for exhibition in the various bars ? We might find, some day, that such an ardent temperance man as even the Hon. W. M. K. Vale, or Mr. Burtt, or even Matthew Burnett, might find themselves held up as shocking examples to every draml drinker in Melbourne. We believe I that one of the American States has a plan of taking the likeness of every man who is charged with drunkenness, while he is in a state of intoxication, and these are exhibited in public, so that publicans might be warned against selling drink to the original of the portrait, and the transgressor be shamed out of his drunkenness. Melbourne would supply a varied selec- | tion of portraits, and perhaps if a drunkards' portrait gallery were formed and everyone brougt up at the police court, convicted of being drunk, were taken, and then sent to form part of the collection of partraits, it might, at least, lessen the beastly sights that are often to be seen in the streets of this city.

Green onlly (says the " Daylesford Mercury") has produced another fine nugget, and the lucky finders are Tockneir and party. On Thursday they carried their prize to Castlemaine and sold it there, the nett weight proving to be 208 oz. Why did they not offer the gold at Daylesford, where most of the nuggets from the same gully have been purchased? Castlmaine, instead of Hepburn division, now has the credit of having yielded the treasure. Says- an Australian contemporary :—: — Some laughter was excited in the St. Kilda Policecourt on Friday morning, by the case of a man named William Allen, who, going home probably a little overcome, missed his house, and walking into the wrong one, got into a lady's bedroom, and proceeded to retire far the night. The lady awaking of cource screamed, and Allen finding his mistake, went quietly away. He was called upon next clay for a formal apology, which he declined to give, as he had by that time forgotten all about the matter, and a summous was accordingly issued for being unlawfully on the premises. The bench, considering that \ they could not inflict a fine, and that j the offence was not sufficiently grave I to be punished by imprisonment, dis- j missed the case, on condition that the prisoner paid 10s to a charity. When diptheria was raging at Castlemaine, Victoria, a correspondent sent the following to the editor of the " M. A. Mail " : — Should you, or any of your family, be attacked, do not be alarmed, as it is both easily and speedily cured without going for a doctor. When it was raging in England a few years ago, I accompauied Dr. Field on his rounds, both in town and country, j to witness the so-called " wonderful cures " he performed, while the patients of the medical men were dropping off on all sides. Of course the remedy, to be so efficacious and rapid, must be simple. All that he took with him was powder of sulphur and a quill, and with these he cured every patient, without a single exception. He put a large teaspoonful of j the flour of brimstone into a wineglass of water, and instead of a spoon he used his finger in stirring it, as the sulphur does not readily amalgamate with water ; and as soon as the sulphur was pretty well mixed he gave it as a I gargle, and in ten minutes the patient was out of danger — brimstone killing every species of fungus in man, beast, and plant, in a few minutes. Instead of spitting the gargle out as usual, he recommended the patient to swallow it. In extreme cases, to which he had been called just " in the nick of time " to rescue the sufferer from death, where the fungus was too nearly closing to admit of sufficient breath passing to enable the patient to gargle he blew the sulphur into the throat through a quill, and when the fungus had shrunk sufficiently to admit of sufficient wind passing to gargle, the whole occupying a few minutes only, and he never lost a patient from diptheria. If you should meet with a patient that cannot gargle, take a live coal (stone or wood) from the fire, put it on the shovel, and sprinkle the flour of brimstone upon it — a spoonful or two at a time — and let the sufferer inhale it, holding the head over it, and the fungus will die. If plentifully used, the whole room will be filled almost to suffocation, and the patient may walk about it, inhaling the fumes with the doors and windows shut. This mode of fumigating a room with j sulphur has often cured the most violent attacks of cold in the head, chest, &c, at one time. A public meeting of the Melbourne anti-Immigration League was held at St. Patrick's Hall, Melbourne, Mr. Longmore, M.L.A, presiding. The hall was crowded, and the meeting unanimous and enthusiastic. The chairman dwelt at some length upon the ill effects of pauper immigration, and expressed his conviction that the large public works now contemplated would bring a sufficiently large immigration without the colony spending any money. He stated his entire disapproval of the action of his late colleagues in respect to immigration, and assured the meeting that it was taken without his knowledge and consent. The present state of the money market sufficiently showed that no more consumers were needed. Any extended scheme of immigration would be useless and hurtful until land was thrown open to selection, and not hedged about as now with useless regulations. He briefly alluded to the question of female servants, and stated his opinion that no such demand existed as was supposed. The j movement against immigration had j had one good result, that instructions had been sent to Mr. Verdon by the last mail not to send out any more free emigrants. The warrant system was to continue, but few emigrants would be induced to come by means of those. After a few words on the subject of protection, which he said he firmly believed was the one thing needed for the prosperity of the colony, the speaker sat down amidst loud applause. The following resolutions were carried : — ■" That this meeting, viewing the energetic measures now being taken in England for the unemployed and poor to these colonies, and the general depression in the neighbouring colonies, evinced by the increasing number of the unemployed, is of opinion that it would be highly impolitic to sanction any scheme of Government immigration so long as our fiscal system is in so unsatisfactory

a condition." "That this meeting, viewing / the gradually-increasing depression* of all interests in the colony, especially the manufacturing, agricultural, mercantile, labouring, is of opinion that it is owing to the indefinite character of our fiscal system, and that there is no substantial guarantee for their renewed and continued prosperity, save in the application of higher duties of a purely protective character on all goods which can be produced and manufactured here.'* "That this meeting pledges itself to support at the ensuing general election such candidates only as will give their firm and unreserved adhesion td the principles contained in the foregoing resolutions."— " Ballarat Star" May 25.