AUSTRALIAN EXPLORATION.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1701, 31 May 1883, Page 4

A USTRALIAN EXPLORATION.

Tim South stuttruhiin llrgnler says :— Mr David Lindsay, the well-known Noithcin Tcmtory, suneyoi and explorer, will leave the colony by the stramei South Austialian, en jouteto tlie Northcin Teintory, fiom which ho has been absent forsomo months. At Sydney he will ]oin the steamer Tannadice, by winch he will bo conveyed to Palmerston. Anhcd there ho will spend a month in making siuveys for private companies in Adelaide, and on about Juno Ist he will start fLota Pa.luier.ston on an exploring tiip to Anaheim Land ou behalf of the Government, to this end proceeding along the couise of the overland telegiaph line aa t.ir .is the Katheiinc, where he will bianch oIF, and almost imrnedi.itely comnieiico his mteie^ting oxploratoiy work. In peifoiming it he will have occasion to cioss LuohhaidtV. old hacks. The ountiy which In 1 will really explore, however — about 20.000 square miles loughly — has never yet, so f.ir as is known, been visited by any white man. It is represented on the map by a blank square. It has, nevertheless, the mpute ot being very fertile, and Mr Lind-ay's. observations of it will be watched with gieat inteiost. So will his attempts to find that mysterious celebiity who is supposed to inhabit tho«e legions — the European with the '• fiour-bag-beard," who has been so often heard of thiough the bliickfullows. Mr Linds.iy'n patty consists ot two white men and two bl icks, and he will take with him 25 hoises for riding and pack-can ying. His work will probably be ended by the Ist October next, and ho will lotum to Adelaide lmmcdiatel}' aftcrwaids. It was at Hist suggested that Mr Lindsaj r should conduct the exploration and survey at Melville Inland, which now has not a single white upon it, and which has as unenviable a uotoiietyfor the fierceness of the blacks as for the vast numbers of buffalo which lun upon it ; but he will not be able to undertake this commission. Whoever may have it to do will be charged with an impoitant and difficult task — quite as much so as that which Mr Lindsay, with especial fitness, gained from five years' expenence in the Northern Territory as natuial capacity, has now confronting hira.

It dosen't do to engage in a dispute with a chemist, for he always has a retort ready. The current coin of life is jilniu, sound sense. "We diivc a more substantial trade with that than -n ith aught else. Ax actuary pave a student the following advice : — How to become practically acquainted -with the "Rule of Three." Live with your wife, mother, and mother-in-law. Gossiv. — A child thus defines gossip : — "Its when nobody don't do nothing, and somebody goes and tells of it. " German friend : "De picture you haf baintcd is most pntiful ; clere is only yon vord in de English lanckguide vich describes it — and I haf vorgotten it." When the rain falls, if she gets the bigger half of the umbrella, they are lovers ; it she takes the bigger half they are married. Cotton-seed-meal is the most valuable and concentrated food that can be given to cows, It is worth for feeding about twice as much as corn-meal, but it should be mixed with three times its bulk of bran or with cut hay or stray to be safely used. A Candid Savage. —The American correspondent of a Dnnodiit paper tells an amusing story of the Red Indian : — An acquaintance of mine, he says, went inquisitively among the tribes in Nevada. One rather superior-looking heathen hailed him with the customary question. "Got any 'baccy ?'' " None," replied the white man. " Have some of mine, then," said the savage, producing a goodly roll. " Why, how do you come to have so much ?" inquired the visitor. "0,1 am pleat her round about here," was the reply, rieacher .' 0, a preacher, you mean. T sec. And what do you earn by preaching about here ? toll me." " 0, sometime 'baccy,flour,rum, sometime old pair pants, sometimes old coat.' 1 " H'm ! not much for a preacher, I guess. Don't you reckon yourself that that's darned poor pay for preaching, now P" " May be so, may be so," said the Indian reflectively, " but then, its dam poor pleaohthey get, too, very dam poor pleaofi. I ' ,