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Inangahua Times, Issue II, 18 February 1880, Page 2

The G'didW Treasure 'Company wlil probab!y olenn up for the present crushing at the end of the current week. The yield is expected to be quite up to the average o< former parcels. Mr Brennau will submit* to auction tomorrow, at the Lett-hand Branch, a large quantity of live nml dead stock on the farot ot Messrs Gotlmrd and Batehelor. Ihe sale present? an excellent opportunity for farmers, butchers, dairymen, and others. His Honor Judge Wiston was a passenger to Westport by coach this morning. It has been ascertained that no less than than 401,080 persons died fron fever in the north-west provinces of India and Oudh during the month of October last. A new feature has been introduced in land Sftilement by Captain Colbeck -r- namely, upeeiiil settlement (or Colonists exclusively. T'ne fi.st intention whs to settle two adjoining blocks belo >gr:ng to him in England, but, as enquiries were ms'de for land here, Captain Colbeck wtia peisuaded to try the experiments of forming si>e ial settlement locally; Already 5000 wes hive been applied /or. The New Zealand Shipping Company publish the first of a list of 20 iron clippers with a capacity for 3&.000 tons, or a million Hnd a quarter bushels of gr«in- These are to sail in February, March, and April, and other vessel* are to follow. : Mr Jobn Temp'rlpy yesterday received horn the Government the warrant of his appointment to fie offi-e of bailiff <>f the Regi* dpnt MiiiisrAte's Court, Hokitika. The Minister of Public Works telegraph* thut he will be in Grreymputl| about the middle of next week. The J'ipnnpse method of keeping meat in hot weather is just now attracting a good deal of atteniiou in European circles. If consists of placing 'he raw' flVh iri~poteelain rossels and pouring on it boiling water, whereby thn albumen of the surface is q lick'y coagulated, and forms a protection aaainst the iurher action of the air a> d consequeno putrefaction of the meat. The system of protecting animal substances by gefurinjj the coagulation of th« albu'nen, and the exclusion of the air. is of course no i-ovplty, mid it can liar 'ly be supposed that we are indebted -to the Japanese for.it* original adoption. But undoubtedly their method jpi applying it is fur preferable to that peactinWl by ourselves in the process of pe^erved Mnned meats, which appea-s to con*i«t nf boiling them for such a length of time that almost all their flivor is destroyed, «nd the ultimate result is a mass of tasteless shred of- muscular fibre. An American contemporary, the Journal of the Telegraph, states ihat Processor Loomis continues his < ipeiiments in the mountaius of West Virginia, to demonstrate the theory that at certain elevitions thore is a natura! electric current, by taking advantage of which tele rapbio signals may ba sent without the use of wire*. It is said that he lv.is telegraphed a dist.inee ol eleven miles by means of kites flown with copper wires. When the kites reached the same altitude, or got into t're same current, communication by means of an instrument simitar to th:it of Mor-»e wa" easy, but cense I as soon as one of thf kites was lowered. He has built towesont.wo hills about twenty miles apart, and from th« tops of them has run up steal rods iuto the region of the eleetn'o cunenfc. ■ R quisite measure* huve been taken to prevent any dangerous extension of the prevailing famine and disease in Silesia. Its ravage* have hitherto not oeen extensive, and there need be no fear now thut danger will develope. The provincial authorities have voted 1,500, 000 marks or directly mitigating the hunger of the sufferers, and 880 000 marks for the construction of roads and other relief works Th? Emperor has pluced at the unconditional disposal of the Poor Law officers 400,000 ma'ks, which had been contributed in commemoration of hi» golden wedding. Getier— ous pums hoys likewise been given by the Empress, the Crown Prince and o'her mpmhers of the Royal Fimilv, and by t!ie public. Later in r or<nation states, that the famine h increasing.