An Australian Professor.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3316, 23 September 1889, Page 3

An Australian Professor.

Professor Jebb, who had just resigned the Greek chair at Glasgow University, is to be succeeded by Mr G, G. Murray, Fellow of New College, Oxford, Mr Murray is only twenty-fivo, and has had a very brilliant career at tho Alma Mater, carrying oil the Hertford, tho Ireland, and the Craven University scholarships. But what is of interest to Antipodcans is that be is tho son of a colonial, and a colonial himself, his father having successively occupied tho Speakership of tho Lower House and the Presidency of the Upper in New South Wales, and subsequently having been knighted for his public services. This is the second Australian who has reached the highest distinction at Oxford, Mr Alexander, of Lincoln, being the other. A Cool Proposal. Mr William Courtney, who is on a mission to England ts procure Bottleis with monoy for Now Zealand, writing to the Taranaki Herald, forwards a letter he has received from Mrs Pender Cudlip, known better as Annio Thomas, author of 'Jenifer,' ' Donnis Doon,' 1 Played Out,' etc., in which she writes as follows " Spardwell, Vicarago, Plympton, S. Devon, Monday, 21st July. Sir, — Having heard your extremly interesting lecture on, and seen your views of New Zealand, I have conceived an intense desire to visit that colony and write a three-volume novol dealing with society there, and charged necessarily with local warmth and color, In addition to this I would write two volumes of ' Impressions of New Zealand made on the spot,' dealing exclusively with facts, and with any question that the colony may liavo at heart and wishes to seo ventilated in a proper mannor. Can you put me into communication with a responsible society which would be likely to entertain my proposition on something like the following termsnamely, my travelling and hotel expenses and tlioso of a lady companion guaranteed from date of my leaving England till tho expiration of nine months, and the sum of £IOOO, for the entire copyright of novel and impressions. Should these terms meet the views of any such society, I think I may venturo to promise that, though an expensivo, I should bo a remunerative visitor. I would hold myself ready to start not later than October, or early in tho spring of 1890."

A New Butter Extractor. Another noyclty in dairying appliances wns cxhibiterl nt the show of tlio Royal Agricultural Society of England just held at Windsor, This was a butter extractor, made by tlio Extractor Coraapny,Stockholm, which produces butter direct from the milk churning, and this result is obtained in the following manner The milk is fed into tho drum of ti centrifugal BOfaralor, and under tho action of the centrifugal forco the butter globules with a'small amount of skim milk assume a vertical position nearer the centre of the drum than tho bulk of tke heavier constituent,the skim milk' It is tlion necessary to removo the last traces ot skim milk, from tho butter globules to enable the latter to coalesce and form a perfectly pure buttter. This is effected by introducing into tlio mixture of cream and skim milk whilst it is exposed to the action of tho centrifngal forco, nn appliance which will, as it were, keep parting the butler globules from each other, and .thus allow the skim millc with which they are combined to escapo to tlio periphery of tlio drum whilst the butter globules are left free from skim milk nearer the centre. Tho advantages of this procesß arc that it takes no longer to make the actual butter than tho time necessary to extract the cream by nieans of an ordinary separator. The Mark Lane Express considers that there is a great future before this machine, which, though now good, is suro to be improved upon.