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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2447, 17 March 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

Tim Burra Biirracoppcr mine (the sale of which to a Copper Syndicate was recently reported) isin the immediate neighborhood of Kooringa, South Australia. | 11 was discovered by a sheperd named Pickittin 1854, and operations were bejun in .September. Until n few years ago an average of 10,009 to 10,000 tons of on; have been raised ycariy, yielding pure copper to the amount of about 2,.~)U0 toil's valued at about £200,000. Daring t hirtyone years from the commencement of operations '215,000 tons of ore, valued at £1,000,000 have been raised. At one time nearly 1200 hands were employed in working the ore. Dividends amounting in all to £782,320 have been paid for this mine. CI wing to the luiroimiuorative price of copper mining, operations have for some time been suspended lint the recent rise in the price of the metal has again suggested the possibility of onue more working the mine at a pro lit. I [huh, by the way, is a dangerous passage in Cardinal Manning's article: — " All men are bound by natural obligations if they can, to feed ihe hungry. Isut ic may be said that granting the obligation in Ihe giver does not prove a right to the receiver. To which i. answar that the obligation to l'ecd the hungry springs from the natural light of every man to life, tin strict is this natural right that it prevails over all positive laws of property. Necessity has no law, and a starving man has a natural riijht to his neighbor's bread.'' Was ever such rank sedition preached before V Many a poor fellow for much less strong statements than that has been locked up or ''bound over." Cardinal Manning "ought to have known better," and Mr Matthews—-if he mean.-; to deal fairly all round—should lose no time in sending Sir Charles Warren's men to arrest so dangerous and ill-disposed a member of society as this archi-epi.suopal preacher of practical Christianity.--fall Mall Budget. Tun announcement, based unofficial information, that a dowerhouse is being crocted at Clarcmout for tile Duc'.k-s? of Albany, will perhaps in nine eases out of ten fail to convey its right meaning to the world. When the duke died, it was understood that the duchess's Parlimentarj' allowance of £0,000 a year will fall a long way short of the sum needed to maintain such a place as Olaremont. Anil so it has proved. The Queen, however did not wish the youug widow to turn out of the home where her tooshortperiod of married life had been passed, and offered to (bid the requisite difference in the means out of her own pocket. This has gone on since his Royal fiighuess's death, and presumably it is about to close by the erection on a site in the park of a house for the duchess which it will be well within her means to maintain. It is understood that her Majesty will herself provide the requisite endowment for the dukedom when the youug duke comcs of n = u ' IiItAVF. Uesoi'K - Particulars have been published iu the Swiss papers of a bravo rescue effected on Mount. St. Bernard, While a violent snow .storm was in progress, Grand, the manager of the hospice, noticed that his own .special dug that wa.s alone with him iu his room became very re.-tless, and made signs to him to go out. He look (ho lantern and fog-horn and went out on to the mountains, the dog leading him. fn a very short time ho hoard a call and groaning', and, helped by the dog, dug out of the snow an Italian, whom he carried on his back into his hospice. The rescued man stated that his father, two brothers, and another Italian, nil journeying home with him over the pass, lay buried in the snow. Ho pushed oil to obtained help, but had been overpowered by the storm. Grand made ready and went out again. This sceond search was more tedious and led him further away, but at last the balking of the dog announced a discovery. It was the Italiau stranger who was now saved and carried up to the hospice. A third time Grand and his dog sallied out into the tempest, and after a quarter of an hour's search found the others, noav where the second man had been discovered. They were quite buiied under the suow and almost insensible. He took t.lio most feeble on his own shoulders, and with dillieulfy conducted (lie others to the hospice. It was now past midnight, and his toilsome task had occupied G rand over four hours, iu a blinding Miowstono. Iu a pitched battle between white and negro troops at St. Louis at a New Year's celebration, one hundred men were wounded. Is TIIK ]'.OX.—"You mint have taken great pain* with yourself." said a willy judge to a dull witness; "you could not naturally have Wn so .stupid." If the, principles of contentment are, not within u.-, the height of station_ and wonlly Kra'idsui' will as soon add a cubit to a nrui's stature as to his daily happiness. It always bothers a Frenchman who is learning Knglish to read one day that a murder has been committed, and the next day that the murderer ieis been committed. A Newcastle, N.S.W. , paper speaks of a man there, "so short that wlinu he is ill he doesn't know whether he has a headache or corns.'' A l-AKiIKK living n<vr Watkoisville. Ca., says he has a hen that has hateh-d out m broods of chickens this yeer. Some i.l the iiist chickcns have raised broods ot their own, and thus the hen becomes a grandmother in one year.