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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 519, 16 October 1890, Page 3

At the Police Court on Tuesday morning Oliver Goldsmith was fined 20q (he amount of his bail, for being drunk and disorderly on the pievious evening. Mr O. C. Lucas was the presiding Justice, The prison of Sparta (,ays she Figaro) i« in a stale of revolution. A prisoner had obtained leave to keep hie dog, .The anime), to gain hia private ends, went mad and bit six oonvic’s and eleven soldiers. Tha Greek Governmsnt his determined tn send the seventeen persona bitten to Paris to undergo the Pasteur treatment. The six convicts are to be sent at the expense of the State. One of them has raised the question wha'her the time spent in the journey will count as a part rf his penalty. Some interesting exnerimenfs serried on at the French National farm at Grignon showed that scab's land became charged, after the harvest, with nitrates from tha air. The quantity thus deposited was equivalent to 400 kilos of ni'rate of soda, representing a value of about 70 shil'iugs. But the nitrates were washed away in the autumn, They may be retained, however, by the sowing of co'za or turnips, These vigorous plants assimilate the nitrates, and yield them up for the cereals when the fields are being ploughed.