WHAT SHALL I DO WITH MY MONEY?

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2039, 1 August 1885, Page 4

WHAT SHALL I DO WITH MY MONEY ?

The Society journals of London are pot given, as a rule, to praising the Colonies, ami it is rather astonishing therefore, to find one of them holding up Colonial stocks as the beat investment just now. The following sketch appealed a few Weeks ago in the World :—: — Scene : a Bank Parlour. "Don't tell me," said the Colonel; " the country is is decaying fast— goinj; to the devil, in fact. Wlij, we haven't even the courage to fight Russia ! We shall lost Indii, ami, with Tmlh, a\\a> got ■> .ill uui pi i stigi Nothing hut run, sir ! I clout even thin* th.it my p-n>ioti is safe; md win n «c -if (Jl.uNtme actually l-ehe\mg anything th.it J-{n^-.ia says, ami those tools in Beihn thinking tint ' Russians' aie woith ninety ever so nfuch, when, ai ever} body knows, the countiyis bankrupt, and peopled with ■wimlleis, it strikes me that it is high time to sell evei> thing -foreign stocks, railway and all. Just tell them to get my box, and let us *cc what there is. What are jou to do with the money ? No don't put it to my deposit account. I can't aftord to lend you money at lj per cent. I have made up my mind to buy nothing but Colonial stocks ; that's v> hat I came about. The further my money goe« from this country the better. The only hope we have left is in the colonies. Which stocks? 0 it doesn't matter much. 0, you think Victorians are perhaps better than Queensland^, which are better than New Zealands, and so Jron go down. Well, I don't think there • really much difference between them. They'll all hang together— except perhaps, Canada. Don't buy any Canadas— too near the Yankees to please inc. Tell me which are the cheapest. Let me look. Ah, Cape five per Cents and Natal Five per Cents. Well, buy most of them, please. Yes, you're light ; if the Natal 4i per Cents are worth 97, the Five per Cents ought to be worth more than 103, with 2\ per cent dividend to come off Buy a lot of them, then. You'll ate all about it, please, and write to me. Thank you. I must get back to the Club for tiffin, and tell them what I have done. May I light a cheioot' Thank you very much. Good-bye." We vouch for the substantial accuracy of this sketch. The Colonel only expresses the views of a good many investors just now. Though his reasons may be open to grave objections, his conclusion that his money would be safer and mon; profitably employed in Colonial bonds than in loreign securities was probably sound. Albeit his logic is somewhat hazy, and in the multitude of his club councillors there may not be much wiidom, the Colonel is evidently a shrewd man. There can he no question that "Colonials" will be a favourite invest ment at rapidly advancing prices for some time to come, dnspite the forthcoming issues of new loans

AccnnniNo to Profossor Bouchardat, of tlio Paris School of Medicine, the use of cifler has a tendency tocheclt excessive corpulence. In a recent lecture, he recommended nder made of tart apples us posessing superior hygienic qualities. Tin: Lancet says that appetite is a most misleading senvition, only lemotely related to the actual demands of the organism. If we only ate more dell bcrately we should find half our accus tomed quantity of food suftiuient to satisfy the most eager era\ ings of hunger, and hence save ourselves from tho evil of dyspepsia, or, on the other hand, a tendency to e\er-incrcasc in weight. Riissn, says the Odessa correspondent of the Daily News, it must be admitted is not very well prepared for war. She is at present masking her military weakness. Her millions of troops are a mere expression. Her reserves now being mobilised are hords of unkempt peasant youths who are totally ignorant of the use of lifled weapons, which so no of them can scaicely carry. Looking on the other day at the departure of some 500 of these troops for the Caspian, an Rngliah captiin, Wiring over the 1 ail of his quarter-deck, remaiked ' they may have quantity, but they certainly have not much quality.' This obseivation aptly describes the general physique of the Russian reserves. It may be that the old loguish commissariat officialism denudes these poor boys of their proper equipment. I know not, but their extremely dirty appearence is something worse than that of the convicts who periodically leave this port for Saghalien. A Lunatic in Command of a Tkain. —A terrible story comes from Chicago about a lunatic who, being armed with revolvers, owerawed a whole train for fully 100 miles on the Wabash railway between Kansas city and Chicago. On the arrival of the train at Chicigo, a •quad of nine policemen attempted to capture the lunatic, who, however, killed one of them, injured another, and wounded also sevenl of the bystanders. He then jumped out of the train and ran off, but was shot and mortally wounded, three bullets entering his body. This incident (remaiksa London paper) is not without its lessons as bearing on the question of through communication in tiains. For a single man, whether lunatic or desperado, to hold a trainful of people in terror, is, of course, only possible on trains constructed on the American principal ; and this danger may fairly be •et against those which arc sometimes encountered in our divided railway carriages. For the rest, we may be comforted with the thought that not only do our train arrangements secure us against lunatics disposed to run amuck among the passengers, but that British railways, as a rule, are not so distinctly provocative of madness as lines of the Wabash type. Mystkrt Gold.— All London is alarmed and angry at the depredations of a gang ot coiners who have found a means of palming off base coin which defies the closest scrutiny. An amalgam of tin, copper, and platinum, electro-plated with gold, produces a sove reign which is identical in weight and ring with the true coin, and defies the nitric acid test and the microscope. Cut into ths metal, however, and no gold is found. There is small donbt that the country will soon be flooded with these spurious coins, which it is almost im possible for any one but a chemical expei t to detect. Operations are not confined to sovereigns only, for articKs of jewellery are made, with which pawnbrokers have been victimised right and left. It is stated that at Brighton a pang of men cleared over a £1000 in a day or two, chiefly fiorn tho pawnbroker. In consequence of the revelations which have been brought out in the Courts, Aus tralian sovereigns ha\e come into great favour, as from their colour there is great trouble in imitating them. It is unlikely, however, that such clever rascals will not find a means of producing equally good representations of the Colonial coins It is believed th it silvr i enn also be imitated so as to defy the acid tft There will bo an excellent chance of a foitunc for the onterpiising chemist who can discover a compound which will easily and quickly detect this "mystery" gold. It maybe remaiked that platinum is by no means a (heap metal, so that the cost of the countcifeits cainot be trifling. A Great Business. The United States of America is the home of some very large enterprises, but none p< ''haps greater than tho hnsiuc* conducted by Mr G. (}. Oreca, of Woodbury, New Jeisey, U. S. A. He is the propiiftor of the well-known Bosehee's German Syrup, which was unequalled as a. icmcdy for Pulmoumyand Bronchial afftctiont. He manufacturesalaoGieen's August Fower for Dyspepsia and all disorders of the Li\ei These preparations are used throughout ths civilised world, and thousands testify to their valuable curative properties. Both these preparations have reached an immenst sale solely on their merits. Sample bottles of each are sold at 6d, or fullsized bottles at 3s 6d, All druggists keep them.