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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 829, 11 February 1868, Page 2

Medical Practitioners Act, 1867. — Forms of application for registration under the new Act can be obtained by applying to the Registrar of the Medical Board in Wellington. All persons desirous of having their names entered on the forthcoming register must make application prior to April 9.

Cobb’s Coaches. — Messrs. Davis & Co. continue to press on in the way of improvement and accommodation for travellers. On Monday next, it will be seen that they propose running a coach from Rangitikei to Wanganui, by way of Tutaenui, daily, — an addition to our means of locomotion which cannot fail to prove a great convenience to a populous district of country.

Lecture by the Rev. Mr Elmslie. — The opening lecture, in connection with the new Literary Association, will be given by the Rev. Mr Elmslie to-night in the Odd Fellows’ Hall. The subject of lecture is one of great importance ; it should specially engage the attention of young men in these times ; and we cannot doubt it will be presented to them on this occasion as popularly as the nature of the discussion will permit. The state of Provincialism. — The Hawke’s Bay Herald says, the provinces of the Northern Island are all, more or less, hard up. Auckland is virtually bankrupt. Taranaki has to work in the most economical manner upon an income of less than £5000 per annum. Wellington, hitherto so prosperous, is unable to meet the demands upon the treasury chest. Hawke’s Bay, with the assistance of its £60,000 loan, seems to be the best off of the lot, but its land revenue is almost nil, and it, no more than the others, can carry on any great while without local taxation to supplement a very scanty revenue from other sources.

Funeral at Rangitikei. — The remains of Charles Anderson Ross, late of Invercargill, who had been killed by a fall from his horse on Friday last, as briefly mentioned in Saturday’s Chronicle, were interred on Sunday in the cemetery at Lower Rangitikei. The funeral started from the house of Mr C. N. Campbell, and was largely attended by the settlers of the district and many friends and acquaintances from a distance. The deceased was a nephew of Hugh Ross, Esq., of Cokely, and his sad fate and the sadder calamity to his widow and five children were deeply felt and regretted. An inquest had been held the previous day and a verdict returned in accordance with the facts of the case.

Destroying Thistles. — Many years ago, says the Correspondent Scientific American, I heard it said that cutting Canada thistles in the full of the moon of June, and again in the full if the moon in August, the same season would kill them. The idea carried was that the particular phase of the moon killed them. I cut them as aforesaid, and it killed them. I was not inclined to yield to whims and superstitions, and searched for the cause. I found at certain times of the year, or at least that there were times of the year, when the thistle was hollow, and the cutting of them at any time, while hollow, would kill them, simply because the rain would fill them with water and cause their decay. The Boiling-down Value of a Horse. — Now, when horses are almost unsaleable, and when sold from the Pounds they realise the rates of from 6d upwards, it may be satisfactory to their owners to hear that there is a prospect of their soon possessing a proper commercial value. “One of our enterprising breeders upon the Murrumbidgee, in the neighbourhood of Gundagai,” says the Tamut Times — a New South Wales paper — “lately, experimentalised upon a fat but otherwise useless horse, as to the profit of boiling down. After the process had been carefully carried out, he realised fifteen gallons of pure oil, which he readily sold at Gundagai for 6s 6d. To this is to be added the price of the hide, the value of the hair, the glue from the hoof, and the bones for manure — all of which would be realised if the process was carried out in a large and systematic manner. With this fact before them, how long will our horse-breeders continue to throw away the prosperity within their reach ? ”