MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 20 April 1881, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

"We clip the following from the Tuapeka fame* *— l SfttisfacM-v .progress is being mode, at the Waitahuna copper mine. The manager report that they are nearly down from the mouth of tbe main shaft, following tbe ! lode, about : 4oft f The lode is keeping up its size, and the walls are getting softer, enabling them to sink more rapidly than before. Ten tons of ore have been taken out since the two shipments were sent to fbe Newcastle smelting works the Company has •recently procured a s-t of boring pods, which have been 1 1 iced under tbe direction of a practical man who is now engaged in boring on the No 2 lode with Ibe yieW of prospecting it at a further depth*,' From the inquiries conducted by Prof. Herman Conn of Breslau. since 1865, it appears that short-sigh ted ness is rarely oMieirerboro<#ilh those *übje'.ctfta it and is, almost always the result of straining unstained by tbe eve during study in early youth. Myopia, as it is called, is seldom found among pupils of village , schools, and its frequency increases in the proportion to tbe demand made upon the eye, in higher schools and in colleges. A better construction of school desks, an improved typography of text-books, and a sufficient lighting of clase-rooms are the remedies proposed to abate this malady.