GENERAL NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 949, 20 March 1872, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

The Perseverance drive, Oollingwbod, pas come upon a better sample of ['quartz than at first —some of the same Isppearance as that which proved the pichest before. About 40 feet of the fdrive has been through quartz of varyIg thickness. The reef is at present e feet thick. The Decimal Cominy's drive has at last hit upon goodoking quartz. A young man named Richard Eranee as arrested at Masterton, Wellington, i Saturday, March 4, on suspicion of macy, being afflicted with religious lauia. He was very "violent when nder arrest, and had first to be hand.lffed, and subsequently fastened down ) the floor by one of his arms, there l«eing no lockup in Masterton in which pe could be confined. To be thus fastpued down, and compelled to maintain pa sitting posture for so long a time as ||roin Saturday afternoon "until Monday Biorning, would be almost sufficient to Prive a sane man mad, and it is not Surprising therefore that a medical cer'tificate to that effect was obtained. The •attention of the authorities is directed to the necessity of erecting some building for the security of persons under without recourse being had to the barbarous and brutal treatment of stapling one of'their arms by a pair of TiandcufFs to the floor.—' Independent.' , A deputation, composed of the Wellington directors of the Australian -Mutual Provident Society waited on ptbe Hon. Mr Gisborne to draw his retention to some erroneous statements affecting the society put forth [by the agents of the Government Assurance Department. The following letter has been sent o the " Wellington Independent." )h, friend, I haVe seen something very [ood; it is a representation of the ights of the Americans. It was plendid. Those wars of the Earo)eans, which are going on at their ilaces across the sea, are things to be eared. The foolish Maoris here are aying that they are at war here, but he wars are those of the pakeha. I we only now seen them, at eight •'clock in the evening of this day, the M of September, 1869. I am iesirouß that this representation should »e taken to the Maoris on the East Coast, and shown there, so that some persons who are perverse may see the of the pakeha, and thereby be frightened by it, and that those tribes ftho are loyal to the Queen may admire j» Sufficient. From me, your friend -Henare Potae. A writer in the Dunedin " Echo " ays:-—" Dunedin now presents a wonderful contrast to what it did a few years back. In place of the noisy rackety town it then was, all now appears so quiet and well ordered that N almost wonders whether he is in ™e same place. After dark, instead * noisy cafes and rowdy places of

amusements, everything sinks to slumber with that quiet and order which well-conducted citizens love. I can hardly 'realise'the fact that I am'in the same place that I was iu eight years back. Massive stone buildings, dosigned with strict regard to architec. taral beauty, tower above in all directions, while the streets are in excellent condition, gas everywhere, and the luxury of " aqua pura " always available.

When kerosene oil gets low in the lamp, a gas is generated which often explodes, and in such a case husbands run the risk of being widowers slightly in advance of the usual laws of nature. Now, if a little salt is put into the lamp, no gas generates, the ugly smell is removed, and a forced divorce 'from domestic joys prevented. Again, dip a piece of woollen material—a wool " tape"—in the oil : if the woollen tape when ignited, bursts into a fierce and fast running flame, the oil is dangerous. It has been proved that, for any purpose, nitroglycerine is superior to kerosene, especially for oiling iron. In frosty weather kerosene on metal corrodes, and when used to oil the hands of clocks kerosene in very cold weather solidifies and stops the hands. Some people have been disappointed because kerosene has not acted immediately as a cure for scalds and burns. It has not so acted because it has not been properly applied. When a scald occurs the scalded part should be bathed in water, and gently rubbed with a woollen cloth. Then the part affected should be bathed in an ample supply of kerosene.