GLEANINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1309, 18 November 1880, Page 3

GLEANINGS.

Pleubo. — Pleuro is far from dead in Europe, an outbreak has occurred in Denmark, having come there from Sweden ; it has also broken out at Tunbridge, Kent, and at Walthamstead.

Mr. Mechi lias declared that never again will anyone look back on such a seventy-five years of growth and change as he has known ; it has <J1 come, he saya, through the bubbling resistance of the lid of the tea-kettle.

Tasmania, with her small population is one of the most prosperous colonies in the A ustralasian group. Her population numbers 112,000; last year her imports only represented £126,000, while her exports amounted to £1,300,300.

LocAl Industry. Mes3rs. Ingram and "White, of Oxford, have suceeded in manufacturing an excellent sample of Portland cement, weighing llSlbs to the strike bushel. The material is found in the district, at very little distance apart. We have seen a sample, which appeared to have all the qualities of the best Portland cement.

x\ Word fob our fobests. —The sum of 500,000 rupees is to be spent in Mauritius in re-forming the forests which have been destroyed by the settlers. Vlie destruction of the forests is said to have rende-ed the former salubrity of the island a , "thing of the past." In 1879 the deathrate equalled 32 8 per 1000 of the population.

Submarine telephonic communication is carried on effectually across Sydney harbour.

A FARMING REMINLSEXCE. 1780. F.irmcr at the Plough, AViio milking cow, Daughter spinning yarn, Son thrashing in the barn — All happy to .1 charm. 1880. Farmer goes to sec the show, Daughter at the pi-an-o, Madam gaily dressed in satin. All the boys a- learning Latin, With a mortgage on the farm. — N.Z. Country Journal.