The Express from Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (2024)

April 30, 1890

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The Expressi

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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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Wednesday, April 30, 1890

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tn the ht few days It has to do with the authorship of the extraordinarily glaring novel called Rebel Rose" which was published anonymously some two years ago and In which Mr Glad atone Lord Hartington and other politl cal leaden were Introduced aa prominent actors under their pseudonyms All aorta of persona were suspected of perpetrating this clever almost too clever book The real sinners it seems were the fair Austra lian Mrs Campbell Praed and Mr aatin McCarthy They avow the fact tn a new two shilling edition which will not how ever be Identified by many ae the title baa been changed and scarcely happily changed to Rival Princess" All who did not read The Rebel Rose should procure Rival Prlnceas" aulty or not it la a capital story LONDON TABLE TALK rom cur Special Oorreepoudfut1 London March 22 18i4O A Rudyard Kipling erase has set In and threatens to rage aa severely as did the Conway and Haggard crazes for their respective periods Several accidents have contributed to this end irst there were the young Anglo Indian's recent stories inthe English magazines and reviews which attracted considerable attention on their merits and led to carious persons like myself looking up the author's previous work Then aeveral papers oblivious of the books being ten years old or more suddenly awoke to' the extraordinary merits of Mr Kipling's Depart mental Ditties" and Three" unobtainable in England three weeks ago inally Dabby'1 clinched matters by seriously proposing in Parliament that ike author of the powerful verses en titled in Saturday week's Scot Observer should be hailed to the tar of the House for contempt Naturally everybody began to ask la Kip ling?" and Anglo India proud of lbs product responded boldly The coming man Mr Kipling's books have been rapidly republished In England and can now be got at most of the smart shops Sampson tow Co Issue a shilling edition of Three" which you cught not to miss This week tn the Scots'Observer Mr Kipling unabuhed by threats goes straight for that gentleman himself satirising more par ticularly the hon appeal to the English people in Tuesday week's speech wnd his lofty statement our tribunal is cutside the House" Here is a short extract from one of the most powerful of Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills" a story detailing khe Madness of Private Ortheris" a little co*ckney who Is suddenly seized with a terrible attack cf homesickness He de tails the symptoms to his comrades sitting beside an Indian river in the hot sultry night The language la the rnde rough language of the British private soldier iu indls but the sentiments are common to all who love and relish Intensely the full pulsating life of this great London and Jhaye had to leave It nek to go go go 'Ojie I Ko I ain't ttauimysick because my unola trunk me up bet sick for London sick for the sounds of and the sights of 'er asd tbe stinks of 'er orange peel and hasphalt so gu comin in over bndge Sick lor the rail down to Box with your gal on your knee an' a new clay pipe in your face That the Stran lights where yon knows every one tbe Copper that takes yon tip is a old friend that tuk you up before when you was a little smitchy boy lying loose She Temple an' tbe Dark Harcbes No guard no retteo stone nor khaki and yourself your own matter with a gal to take see the Eturaaers a dead corpses out of the Serpentine Sunday Au I let' all that for to serve tbe Widder beyond the neas where there no women and there no liquor worth 'avin and there to see nor do nor feel nor think Lord love you Stanley but a bigger fool than tbe rest o' the regi scent and Mulvaney wired together tbe Widder siftin' at with a gold crowod on ead and am Hi Stanley tie Winder property a OOL Equally characteristic In a different Trsblon are tbe reflections of a lover in Ditties" who has been tdd by bls fiancee that he must choose between her and his cigar After re leaning the delights and comforts of tobacco he murmurs angrily it Is very lard he should have To choose between The wee little whimpering Love and tbe great God Nicotine Abd I have been servant of Love tor barely a twelvemonth clear But I bave been Priest of Partaga a matter of seven year And the gloom of my bachelor days is flecked with the cheery light The current Scots Observer which be comes each week a greater power la the land contains in addition to the wither Ingly satirical verses Arms" an in dictment of Mr Gladstone which would be more effective If It were less abusive Political extremists I notice invariably damage the cause they espouse by gro tesque extravagance The waverer whose reason may have been all but convinced finds bls taste revolted by some unneces sarily brutal phrase or metaphor and promptly bounces back to the old belief There Is just enough truth ho wever in the following to make It very mlschevous Look at the man's career from what ever point yon may the effect of it Is In variable Mr Gladstone has lived to ex haust the capacity ol change till beside him mutability looks constant and the frailty of woman is firmness Itself There Is scene a principle but he has tried and found It wanting In adaptability there Is hardly an opinion but he has entertained It first and then kicked it oat of doors He has lived for himself and the hoar aid Aaa found It pay To the dignity of lie rarer immortality he has wilfully pre ferred those cheap heroic effects which1 aa ib were the halfpenny journalism of renown and after a lifetime in the ser vice of bamanlty he Is now supremely happy In Hie alliance of a set of traitors io tbe Queen and rebels to the But an Influence he haa always been ard an influence he will remain until the end He has made more and greater mistakes than any living man but he haa survived them all he haa broken up majority after majority yet he can still talk and talk honestly aa we think of a flowing tide be has parted with more convictions than anybody oatside the Cspltol of Washington haa ever enter iained and lived and he la still regarded as a monument of consistency He has never boggled at misrepresentation nor aLrutk from calumny nor hesitated at apology nor refrained from Identifying bis own peculiar interests with the own peculiar interests of humanity and to the faithful he remains the type and the exemplar of all the virtues It is impoMlble to admit that hla intellect la more than third rate for he has said no word that la worth remembering has said no word indeed that tbe most valiant of hla dupes can on aoy of the th ou sand and one aabjecta with which In hla hunger to be up and doing in the sight of njfifi he haa chosen to concern himself reflect that Mr Gladstone has ever truckled to the mob haa sometimes said the thing which te not has never hesitated to prefer himself to his inatry has never Interfered In the affairs of booanlty without humanity having to suffer for it has never been able to reals' the opportunity of a Bulgarian agitation baa allowed himself to be bamboozled (l ways In tbe Interests of mankind and never In those of Britain) by such shallow Intel ligences such caricatures of authority as Mdme de Novlkoffand Mr O'Brien has broken up his party time after time and time after time has exterminated bis majority And you find yourself wonder ing If after all life is not a dream and if after all the generality of mankind is anything but an aggregation of folly vanity dishonesty mental incapacity ar supreme selfishness There Is Gordon of Khartoum there are Pnnjieh and Majoba Hill there Is the Special Com solation and Mr Gladstone Is still a THE EXPRESS AND TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY APRIL SO 1890 power So desperate is the dilemma that one is almost persuaded that the great governing Anglo Norman race has declined upon a future of vulgarity His brains are those of a third rate ecclesiastic hh conscience is that of the man who reasons through appetite and for whom whatever ha wishes the gods wish also hb theory of duty excludes whatever is opposed to the pursuit of a coarse of conscientious self advancement he is nothing if not self righteous self sufficient self conscious be is the heroic in cams if on of mediocrity the complete expression of whatever Is least civic and most personal in the British race or his secret Is not far to seek Be has tbe genius of temperament In him la much of tbe strain of conquerors he is of the stock of them that have sub dued the world and lb Is written par haps that with his abounding of voice presence magnetism strength of self worship of self capacity of illusion superiority to every consideration but the main chance he shall so pervert them from their ancient religion of doty that unborn generations shall curse hh very name But also it is not perhaps so The Prince of Wales has been no fewer than four times in the course of the last few weeks to see 11 The Strange to say the piece wont catch on at all In America though the cast has been twice revised by Mr Carte and his clever wife They are now cruelly advised to rechriaten It Gone Dollars Mr Jerome Jerome whose successes appear to be multiplying la a very commonplace person to look at and not specially Interesting to talk to Like the Immortal 14 Bill he's right when you know him but got to know him People run after Mr Jerome a good deal nowadays and he doesn't care to turn himself inside out for every notoriety benefit Hands Across the Sea" which had not much of a run in London seems to have just hit the American taste Henry Pettit has just received a mammoth silver souvenir from Manager ield of the Boston Museum the Adelphi of the of the where the melo drama had a run of 17 weeks After the Carl Rosa opera season Drury lane will revert bo melodrama In the shape of an American blood and success called in which popular Billy Terris and the Inevitable Miss Jessie MUI ward are to play leading parts This the piece I understand which has sixty thrilling situations In five brief acta The scenic effects are said bo be simply hair raising and the dialogue full of solemn signifi cance The title finally fixed on for Sydney Grundy's Haymarket novelty A Vil lage Priest and for Arthur Law's new play at the Shaftesbury Venables" The last named selection does not strike me as equal to the original one of The Panther" Mr Henry most conspicuous failures having been made In romsutic parts such as and Philip" it Is somewhat surprising and disappointing to learn that Herman Meri vale'a new play to be produced ab the Lyceum next September is only an adaptation of Scott's Bride of Lammer moot" Irving of course wants to play Edgar of and cast Miss Terry for If ha dues the result will be a fiasco as both are far too mature for the parts Young Irving should play and Miss Norreys I remember echter per forming in a version of this novel ab the Olympic He was though getting fat an Ideal romantic actor and could make love better than any of our modern jeune premiers bar perhaps Terries Poor old John Maclean who died suddenly In a shabby Bloomsbury lodging on Saturday was what Is known as a useful actor of secondary parts He was attached to the Gaiety in the old days when Toole Robert Souter Con stat ce Losely and Annie Tremaine were the leading fote and Nellie arren only a rising star When Maclean left the Gaiety he gravitated from theatre to theatre doing on the whole pretty well I fancy and being much liked and re enacted An article In one of the weeklies dr attention to the significant fact that whereas a few years ago a London dally would not on any consideration have taken a lady journalist on Its staff nearly all the papers now employ them Several ladles such as Mrs Crawford of the Daily News of Truth Lady Colin Campbell of the World Miss Lowe of the Queen and last but not least Miss riedrichs of the Pall Mall (iatttfe have Indeed latberlv acuulrad almost world wide reoutatlous and are as well known by name to litterateurs Messrs Stead Hutton and Greenwood Moreover the lady journalist when fairly successful oftens earns more proportionately than her equally popular male fiere for instance gets £500 a year for her two column weekly contribution to that journal besides what she earns on the Daily News But then letter was the first ot its sort and is par ticularly well done in fact none of the lady's Imitators have excelled her Miss riedrichs also makes plenty of money and deserves to do so As an interviewer she has few male equals vide the ac count of her visit to poor Arabella Goddard in the current Budget Lady Cohn Campbell goes everywhere and according to report is dressed free gratis foe nothing" by the smartest of court milliners She places her copy In all parts of the world writing suffi ciently plquantly for even the moat go ahead American prints The Speaker generalising on the subject of the rise of the lady journalist remarks truly enough her chief fault is a lack of grammar and punctuation and a general carelessness of detail was the lady reviewer of a rellgicus periodical who wrote of a sermons book Is full of pithy sen tences but corrected her proof so Inade quately that when the notice appeared It read book is full of filthy sen and the bishop was wroth Ic was a lady also who on being asked to write an obituary notice within an hour sent word up to tbe editor that she 1 collect her thoughts' and even tbe supposed om nipotent editor had to confess he couldn't collect them for Whether Mr Ernest Parke did or did not keep the wheels of the ctar running smoothly may be judged from the fact that though only a couple of months have elapsed since his departure the editorial department of the paper Is tn a state of chaos Mr Stead who must be pronounced the biggest gossip ever breeched gives the following account In the Review of Reviews Star" he writes was started two years ago with a capital ot £20000 The leading shareholders were Mr Holden Mr Priestly Mr Schwann and Mr Brunner Professor Stuart who sat as chairman of the directors did so it is understood not because of his I own stake In the concern bub as manda talre of Mr Holden Mr O'Connor the Irish member who sits Lr Liverpool was appointed editor with Mr Massingham an ardent social Radical as bls assistant As Mr O'Connor was much absorbed In parliamentary and electoral labor the control of the Star fell more and more Into the hands of Mr Massingham who did his best to force the pace In the Inter mittent visits which Mr paid to the editorial chair he does not appear to have noticed the drift of the Star pro for some months Liberals of the older school took alarm at the bills upon the future which were being drawn by tbe framers of the London programme but Sir Harcourt cynically smiled and said that was doing very welt It was necessary to win 20 seats Ln Lou don at the next election and he saw no reason to interfere Mr Morley however took the matter more seriously When he took his stand against the Eight Hours Bill Mr formally pro claimed the Eight Hours Day to be pa of the Star programme much to the delight and not a little to the amazement of hla lieutenant whose fervent Radicalism was gradually developing la the direction of practical Socialism Mr Morley and pos albly some of the capitalist shareholders appear to have remonstrated and Mr promptly tacked The eight hours movement wm to be boycotted the Star to go softly and nothing was to be done to embarrass tbe party inding that the editorials published in hla own journal embarrassed the Liberal candi date at Partick Mr threw over his assistant publicly disowning the opinions for which he accepted fall responsibility This did not contribute to smooth the difficulties at tbe Star and when Mr Glad stone shook hla head at the miners' request for an eight hours day tbe crisis arrived The editor refused to support the miners against his Parliamentary chief Hie assistant handed in his notice and appealed first to the directors and then to the shareholders against the policy of his chief The Incident small enough in Itself is significant as illustrating how the Socialist development Is disturbing party ties and disrupting journalistic rela tions as soon as ic comes within the domain of the practical We await with interest to see the result of the appeal which the representative of the proletaire is aklng to the holders of capital Mr Marston has returned home bring ing with him fully half of new book It will be freely illustrated by Rlon who knows Africa thoroughly and contain three Important new maps will be the title of Rider Icelandic romance to be published In 1891 by the Illustrated The hero is an Icelandic yeoman of much the same pattern as Mr Hall pet Jason and prevails mightily against the giants and Baresarks then infesting the island He is loved by two women one of whom works evil spells to enthral him and finally driven to became a Viking through accidental homicide The theme must obviously prove not dissimilar to that of The Bondman Indeed the name Brighteyes" sounds as If It had been suggested by Mr Caines' The six shilling edition of Lewis complete poems was published yesterday Vanity at a shilling Is promised to day William novel will be called When we were and fills a single volume only new story Is entitled Syrllu Mr George Du Maurler Is writlog a novel Of course It will be Illustrated by himself Bete Humalne" has proved the rench greatest sucoesa since On the day of publication not far short of 50000 copies were disposed of by Charpentiers This firm boasts that since they took up Zola they have sold 1031100 copies 'f hla books The sales of totalled 155000 117 000 and Terra" 88000 Mr Ruskin has consented at last to a cheap reissue of some of his most popular works Sesame and a great favorite with all classes of Rnaklnltes la now obtainable at 5 and Seven Lamps of Architecture" at 7s 61 The plates In the latter have had to be reduced about a third but with this exception they are little if at all inferior to those of the larger editions Mr Allen has also In preparation 7s Gd re issues of Arurtra Ariadne and Vai Philis tines imagine that Ruskin is a faddist whom only artists of a certain calibre can appreciate That la all probability is be cause they never opened one of hla books or judge him by his latter day madnesses Mr Allen declares he sells on the avenge 3000 copies per annum of aud Lilies" and has done so for years though the book till lately cost 10s Gd The Scotch gentry have as a whole de clined to know tbe new duch*ess of Sutherland and his grace Is furious According to report he has revenged him self on those tenants whose wives decline to recognise her grace by evicting them Be the reason what it may several of tbe gentlemen holders on the estates are leav ing In fact one of tbe most prominent is the late agent I am told his grace who la quite Irrational on the subject of hls marriage and seems to think It ought to ct ver a multitude of anti nuptial indis cretions actually had the hardihood to propose the presentation at Court The Lord Ohaiuberlaln referred the qmstlon to tbe Queen who on dit sent the duke a message which made his cheeks flah and his ears tingle The flat racing season will commence at Lincoln next week when we should enjoy some good sport The Duke of two year olds were tried last Saturday at Newmarket when Charm (by St Simon out of Tact) beat Simon Magus Koorate Caithness and the three year old Ulva so easily that it fully expected the fidy will follow In the footsteps of Donovan and Semolina and win the Brocklesby on Tuesday If beaten It may be either by Lord Jessamy (Beau Brain me! Jessica) Lord Paradise (a sister to Paradox) or Mr Wlcenza (by Venice) The field for the Lincoln Handicap will rfbt be as large us usual The Cambridgeshire wiener Laureate (4 yrs 9 at 2 lb la at present favorite with Sir Jardine's Sweetbriar (4 yrs 7 st 9 lb second In demand My fancy is Aperae (5 yrs 7 st 10 lb an uncertain mare by Cam bal'o Apology that has sometimes run very well or the Grand National Nlghtingall's Ilex (G yrs 10 at 5 lb) is all the rage old rigate despite her 12 st 7 lb being well backed for a place My fancies are MP who ran forward last year and the rench chaser etiche said to be a particularly safe jumper but there has been no betting worth men tioning yet on the event THE PARACHUriSTE TO THS KDITOB The acting mayor (tbe Hon Tomkinrou LO) and tbe City Cmacl have decided to authorise tbe proposed parfor xnaDceon tbe oval Permit me however to point out that Act 2 of 1871 by which the cor poration exercises authority over thia ground distinctly dedicates the land for cricket only lhe Act further states that there shall be three trustees As a matter of fact since tbe death of Judge wynne there have only bseo two viz Sir Heury Ayers and Sir Smith The former admits that it is the duty of a trmtee to see that tbe terms of a trust are duly observed The latter who is a notorious popularity hunter entertains a different notion aud approves ot the ascent I am unfortu nately not rich enough to obtain an injunction stopping the performance but I am aatisdeti tbe law is quite clear ou tbe point that sooh a performance on tbe oval is illegal and being illegal that no charge can be made for entrance to tbe oval by the members of tbe Cricketing Association whose lease is now liable to for I am ALLERDALE GRMN3ER LAWN TENNIS The lawn tennis Season was brought to a c'ose on Tueedaj evtbitg Ly a social at tbe Belborne Aa rpology was reao for tbe unavoidable absence of Sir 8nJth Tbe proct ecings were open by an overture by Nr Cavendish whi'e oua and recitations were given by Meiers Cavenagh Hambldge Uow Bker The chairman then presented prizes to the suc cessful members The Ztnzaris were anoouooed aa tbe first holders ot tbe Jarvis Challenge Cup watch bas to be won lor two years A very handsome cup presented by Sir Edwin Smith vae banded to Nr fl Hambidge who has won the championship Messrs Baker and Gow were presented with two verv handsome medals for tbe Double Champion ship Mr Baker received a trophy as secondwarded in tbe Championship bingle wblle a very choate silver Hawk presented by the Eon Baker MG was also taken by i Baker for hie victory tn the Stogie Handicap from owe Net re "Baker and Gow received two valuscie cops as a reward for the Double Handicap which they won horn ecratob and Mr Btuut gained a very chotoe diver cigarette case aa second prize in the Single Handicap Alter the toasts ol tbe association coupled with tbe nsme ot the secretary Waite had been honored the procee ilDtfS were blOUJ'bt to a eucctsefui close INDIAN HOSPITALS REPORT BY DH GARDNER Daring his recent visit to India Dr Gardner inspected a large number of tbe hospitals in tbe principal towns of Northern Hindustan npon which he has submitted a report to the Gbief Secretary He enters into detail in connection with the hospital system the buildings and the results achieved comparing them with the Australian institutions rom hi report we call these items THE KN EBAL 8V8TEM is divided into the Army medical staff and the Indian medical service both divisions being under the supreme control of the Surgeon General of her forces in India Uider bim are deputy surgeons general for each prrsidtncy The Indian medical service is under the control of a surgeon general subordinate to whom are deputy surgeons general Apart from this general combined ruling the two departments are absolutely distinct Tbe Army medical staff consists only of English medical men the Indian meliosl service of both Europeans and natives who have qualified in Great Britain spent a spesi ti time at Nettey Hospital for iastruotion io tropical diseases and passed the Indun medical examination After receiving in struction at a station hospital and passing the language test in nindostanee they are appointed as vacancies occur to native regiments being supposed to have two military employment before electing for civil work and a medical officer having chosen tbe latter does not as a rule return to military duty except in case of unfitness or emergencyuch as war The civil surgeon is paid by tbe Government and has to attend all offi uals free having charge ot the civil hospital in tbe place to which he is appointed la the army medical department the oupreme control of a station hospital is assumed by a brigade sur geon under whom are a surgeon maj jr and a turgeoo The brigade surgeon is under tbe general control of the deputy surgeon general of the circle On entering tbe army medicsl staff at Netley tbe medical officer ranks as a lieutenant and after passing tbe outgoing examination as a full captain After 12 service and after patsing an examination tbe surgeon becomes a surgeon major with tbe rank of maj After eight years' service assurgeoa major tbe medical officer ranks as a lieotenaat coionei and surgeons major are promoted by selection to the rank of brigade surgeon haviutr tbe relative rank of lieutenant colonel though senior to surgeons major Daputy sirgeons ge neral are appointed by tbe director general of tbe army medical staff in Loodoo Tbe medical officer who has not retched tbe rank of deputy eurgeon geueral at 60 years of sge or that ot surgeon general at 62 te com pelled to retire Military surgeons are not prevented from having private pcacticr but really get little to do outside their military work The subordinate medical department consists of hospital apprentices who are natives of India specially selected for the wrk sab assistant apothecaries and apothecaries the last named being responsible to the medical officer for the sanitary state and discipline of the wards The nursing of the army is carried on by men of tbe army hospital native ccrps specially enlisted and trained by the medic Hsff but the hospital sisters with English Gaining are being imported to supervise the ursing and train the nurses in some of the civil hospitals the training is done by nuraea who train up nat've women aud Eurasians as nurses la the civil hospitals there are native assistant surgeons and assistant physi cians in addition to the resident surgeons and physicians India is richly endawed wta medical schools the principal being tbase of Calcutta Bombay and Madras which grant licenses to practice There are secondly schools in many ot the chuf towns as Agra Lahore Delhi Ahmidabai Lucknow whose chief function is to train up hospital assistants both male arU female The lec turers in the various medical schools are the civil surgeons appointed to the various chairs on account ot special knowledge la the smaller schools tbe civil surgeon bas to lecture co a variety of Burjct and of course the standard is not so high aa tn the inorecom lletely organised colleges INDIAN HOSPITAL WQiK Tbe detailed accounts the work done in the Indian hospitals give some idea of its vast extent In tbe Bombay Presidency the indoor patients number 37 248 of whom 25259 were cured 3761 were relieved 8750 were dis charged for other reasons and 3031 died giving a death rate of 8 1 per cent Tae out patients treated numbered 1 677928 the msj operations performed were 4779 and the miuor operations performed were 80273 Of these tnere were cured 84 3 per cent i relieved 4 3 per cent the total mortality being 3 2 per cent lu the Bengal Presidency the iodont patients were 25761 ot whom 14103 were cued 4175 were relieved 3 101 were dis charged for other asoua and 3291 died giving a death rate of 12 77 per cent le out patients treated were 1106700 the trajor operations performed were 1 622 and she iuor operations performed wiule of toese there were cured 76 3 per cent aud relived 118 per cent the Madras Presld acy indoor patients numbered 43447 of wbm 27749 were cured 6929 relieved 4191 dis charged for otter reasons aud 2913 Jted giving a death rate of 6 7 Pr ceut Toe out patients were 2264650 toe maj opertioos rformed 6960 aud tue minor operations portormed 68216 ot which there were cured 75 5 per cent and relieved 111 per cent Tbe total mortality being 4 7 per cant In tbe Hyderabad assigned districts tbe indoor patients numbered 2383 of whom 2005 wae cured 91 relieved 123 discharged and 102 died giving a death rate of 4 2 per cent The out patients were 254416 in all the major operations performed amounted to 218 aad tha inor operations 7203 of which 87 1 par cent were cured and 2 7 per cant released the total mortality being 2'7 per cent In the Punjaub tbe indoor patients amounted to 43667 of whom 29779 were cured 6331 relieved 4041 discharged sod 2865 died giving a death rate ot per Tae outpsheots numbered 2087 034 the mj operati tis performed being 10263 and the minor operations 152 520 ot whom 82 2 par emt were cared 9'3 per cent relieval the total mortality being 5 4 per cant Io the central provinces the indoor pitiauta umbered 7598 of whom 5424 were cirel 64 relieved 482 discharged and 746 died givii a death rate of 9 82 per cent Taa out patirots totalled 812 '67 the major operations priRrmed being 974 and tbe minor operations 20682 of whiab 85'5 per cent were cured and 7 4 per cent relieved the total mortality being 9 8 per cent la tbe north west provinces ana Uadh tbe indoor patients numberal 51 1)58 of whom 37779 were cared 9626 relieved (it 77 discharged while 2898 died giv ing a death rate of 5 5 per cent Tie out patients amounted to 2 375765 tbe major operations performed being 16492 and minor 107775 of whom 73 par cea were cured and pr cent relieved the total mortality being 5 5 per cent In Bengal with a population roughly speaking of 70 millions 70713 cases of goitre were admitted to the spitale and dispensaries in one year whereas 10 Bombay Presidency with population of 22 millions there occuned only 79 cases In Bengal only 50 cases ot smallpox were ad mitted whilst in the Bombay Presidency 741 cases weremet with The returns show that tbe Lumber of indoor patients treated in 188 was 212062 and of outdoor patients 10608860 The number of major operations performed was 44318 and of minor operations 49 5203 The returns of infectious or contageous diseases treated during 1888 showed that the tun beis dealt with were Central proriacea kproey 720 smallpox 96 cholera 237 Madras Leprosy 4367 smallpox 250 cholera 15788 Hyderabad districts Leprosy284 smallpox 8 cholera 92 Bom bay presidency Leprosy 1656 smallpox 741 cholera 7833 Bengal Leprosy 2787 5 smallpox 69 cholera 4839 Punjaub Leprosy 952 smallpox 339 cholera 8033 Leprosy 10766 smallpox 1484 cholera 31817 THE 7RN4NA WJEK The national association for supply ins female edical aid to the women of India owes its inception to the Countess of Dufferin and to her continued interest in it and that of the Marchioness of Lansdowne aud Lady ay much of its present prosperity is due Tue object of the association is to provide tbe women of India with female medical aid as theexistaoce of the Purdah" system among the higher orders prevents them from bsiag attended by men except undec such restriction! as make tbe service in tbs majority of case of little value To reach the zeaaaa women was thus tbe primary object lor which tbe whole system was started la connection with tbe Dafferin fund th reie now 192 female students at the various colleges and medical schools in India irg ot Eurasians Bengalis native Christian Europeans Mohammedans Hindus An cans Portuguese and Parsess Borne of the are studying to become hospital assistant1 others to become Hoentiatee in medicine a surgery or to obtain tbe MB degree of i cutta With very few exceptions these worn have signified their intention of ssrviug wi the fund The number of women who bave app'ied tor relief is stated to hire it creased bntitmustbe a very small prnp ir bon as 200 COO women are treated annually by the fund wheras the total number of womaa io India is put down at 1000 wOOO so th it only 2 in 1000 of all classes come under treat ment Many women also apply as women who are not so being anxious to appear higher on the social scale than they really are Tub objection to their treatment cones frem tbe male side and not from tbe women themselves but statistics on the subject are difficult to obtain Leaving children out of tha question and con sidering the in patients in tbe hospitals of the various pretidenciea only there was a daily average in the Bombay presidency 1429 men to 834 women in the Madras presidency of 1302 men to 623 woman in the Hyderabad rtiatriets of tl men to 4 women in the Puulanh 1169 men to 31t women in the Beagal presidency ol 874 men to 937 and the central provinces of 269 man to 59 Tvomen or 8'4 men to every woman Thia at Hurt proves that the women of tbe lower orders avail themaelver of hospital treatment in very fair proportion to the numbers of men and there is not such a great disparity as might have been expected under the existing conditions In Calcutta the Surnomoyi Hospital has been established and the foundationstone of a building to be called the Lady Lyall for female students has been lately laid by Lady Lansdowne Sclolarhip hare been founded to assist female students to procure a qualification in India and a few also in connec tion with tbe school ot medicine for women iu London The latter scholarships are held on condition that she winners of them undertake to serve for five years under the Dufferin fund Hospitals and dispensaries are being rapidly built all over India HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION AND NURSING Moat ot the hospitals visited were welt built and well situated the wards being lofty and well ventilated aud in many of them the use ot tiles and cement is replacing the wooden floors and plaster of tbe older buildings with corresponding advantage to the patients aud the general appearance In all the army hos pitals and in some of the civil hospitals punkahs and mosquito curtains are supplied which in moet parts of India are absolutely necessary to comfort This example might well be followed in Australia during the summer months Sanitary matters are more carefully attended to in tbe army than in the civil hospitals but allowance must be mode for the greater assistance and the smaller amount of actual hospital work done to tbe former The ideal hospital for all but the large cities of India is a central administration block with cottage hospitals scattered bout the grounds each with a nurse io charge so that caste prejudices may be respected as far as possible Necessarily from their enormous require ments id this respect tbe nursing in India is as far as one could judge from limited observe tic behind that standard which is attained in other parts of tbe Empire Every effort is however being put forth to obtain well trsiaed nurses from English hospitals so that they may train up native women who will ia time do the greater part of the work Evidence collected from civil surgeon in various parts of India goes to show that the native women are capable of being trained so an to become highly competent nurses They are very even tem pered and possess the delicate touch iu tbe highest possible degree It is stated that they are wanting in self reliance but even thia invaluable requisite in a nurse might iu Dr opinion be acquired by a higher standard of training It is not to be expected that there could be self reliance without com plete training INDIAN AND AUSTRALIAN SUBGIBY An essential difference between tbe natives of India and Australians is that though they suffer more from shock yet traumatic fever is infinitely lees marked among them which is probably due to their diet being principally a vegetable one and to the absence of alcoholic stimulants One of tbe most noticeable fea tures the delay in having operations for deformity performed is due to the reluctance of the natives to surgery unless life ia rendered a burCento them by reason of pain Gradually however the native mind is becoming educated up to the beneficial results to be derived from good surgery Abdominal operations tor tbe same reason are rarely done with tbe exception cf ovariotomy of which in 1888 there were only 21 p3iformd Operations on the kidney (oue of the causes tor which viz stone is very frequent) are very rare there beiog only two iu 1888 oue fatal nephiictotry and a nepbulithotomy which recovered Eye operations amputation1 aud operations for stone occur however with a frequency entirely unknown in Australia Splendid results are obtained from litholapixy both in adults and children but to relate the supra pubic operations for stone which ia so uniformly successful here is as yet a very fatal operation Antiseptic surgery is as well carried out asis possible ith the vast numbers which the surgeons bave to treat with fre quently only limited assistance THEATRICAL GOSSIP (rom tbe London E'a March 15 1 His Royal Highness the Duke of Oamuridge has asked Mt Leslie to convey to the author and composer of The Ecd Hussar the pleasure it gives him to accept tbe dedication of this popular work which honor he appreciates bigbly aa a gratifying oomplimeat to the Coiumander in Chief of tha Army Mr George Edwatdes has planned another tour in America for Miss Nellis arren a ad Mr bird Leslie and they will sail New York iu November after Deluding a through the English provinces Tne Iiuiau epera season at Caveat Garden will ueain ou Saturday May 19 and will ex tied ovci cigh weeks tihd repertoire has not jetb tn definitely arranged but tbe services have been secured of MM Raudegger Bevig Dri atd Maocinelli as conductors Among tbe aoing vocalists are to be tbe brothers Je tn and Edouard de Reszke de Laeale and Mo lie Richard Toe new tent Rvvaer who is said to have an altogether voice hss ako been eugd aa well as Djc veh and Mdllee Qolombati and Tetrazzini It is said tbe rench Government have finally decided to interdict the production of de at the ranc vis so as to avoid wounding the religion! sus ceptibility of the Sultan and his subjects The Tuikieh Ambassador as we stated soma months ego was instructed to make strong rernou (trances on the subject and by all accounts the wishes cf the Porte bave been acceded to The Paris papers announce that Mayer hr engaged Madame Sarah Bernhardt and company now appearing in Jeanne d' it the Porte St Martin to give a acutes of perkirmauces of patriotic legi nd in Loudon during the coming season Mr Rider novel has been dranatised by Muss Lavrenoe and Mr birgood and the version will be produced under tne direction of Mr Beveridge at a matinee at the Adelphi Theatre on the 25th inetsDt The cast will include Messrs Beveridge VV Garden Charles Dalton and Tbalberg and Miss Eweretta Lawrence Miss St Ange and Miss Helen orsyth UTr Herman Merivale has chosen for the basis subject of bis new drama Sir Walter Scctt's story of The Bride of and in the play which he haa drawn from this source Mr Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terrv will appear as Edgar of Ravenswood aud Lucy Ashton at tbe Lyceum Theatre iu 8: ptember Mas revival of You Like at the St has quite hit the public taste ard it is evident that all playgoiog LuudcD is determined if possible to see it Un Saturday last not a seat was vacant iu any port cf tbebouce and money bai to be refuted at vbe doors before the rising of the curtain Mrs Rosalind is decidedly one of tbe most charruing seen ou the stage for many years being delightful in its girlish freshness ard its natural grace Mrs Langtey ia nightly honored with repeated calls to the footlights At the Hull police court on Monday Mr Twiss the stipendiary magistrate was applied to by a music hall artiste named Tucker the head of the Great Little Tucker amily for pertitiesion for his seven year old daughter Miss to appear io a dramatic sketch Although the application was verbally granted there being no proper license forms in the poneesMon of tbe court his worship satiafled hnnself that tbe little girl was able to bear the tsk imposed upon her Ou Mr Twiss ex ptersi? a desire to see tbe young lady Miss Lena was placed on the edge of tbe witness box and in a kind and sympathetic manner his worship drew from the gill the shy assurance that she liked her profession rom further enquiries it transpired that she had been ou the stage 13 months aud in this bad only a few lines to repeatvmd oue verse of a artg to sing When a ked to repeat the lines tbe child at first appeared timid but eventu ally to the aruuBem nt of tbe court she turned to the bench and pointing in tbe direction of Mr Twiss repeated away you bad and wicked man" His Royal Highness tbe Prince ol Wales (for tbe fourth time) accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince George of Wales witnessed the perfor mance of Gondoliers" at tbe Savoy Theatre on the evening of tbe 7th inrt Mr Heury Irving and Mis Ellen Terry will give a reading ot in St Hil on the 25th of June when Sir Arthur Siili van's incidental music will be performed by a full orchestra and chorus This interest i event will be preceded by a series of re ot tbe (ma play in the provinces tbe titt takrg place at Liverpool on June 3 Mr Macktin baa been engaged by Mr Irvirg for tbe next Lyceum season Lcibg in September with Herman Merivaie's new plT Tbe Claymore barque from Port Louis arrived ou Tat sday nigut after a very long pa rape caused by contrary winds tatn Smith who has been a master in the Bickir'u htie tor very many years and was almost aa well known and respected at the Port as tbe bead tbe firm died during tbe voyage Sanai ol tbe crew bave been indisposed during the therefore she will be inspected byJBr oil this morning before being granted pra tique Tbe chief officer atates that the master wm 11 when the Claymore sailed for MWirftiu! He subsequently became worse aud died 10 days after leaving port Tbe Defiance steam oatter wm chartered cn Tuesday to take tbe SL Peter's cillegians cu an annual pleasure trip giveti by Mr Cave cne of the governor! A call was nude at the Torrens Island quarantine station aud tne iigntoouse was mspemea wnue a visit was paid to the Orient liner Austral then at aDUbor in the outer harbor The whole outing Was most enjoyable and Mr Cave was rendered vsrv amnnust the boss br the care he 1 mMkifeited ter their weltas TBE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS by SUBMARINE CABLE (rom our own Correspondent PRACTICE AT CHISWICK PARK London April The Australian eleven have begun practice on Chiswick Park ground prepa ratory to their opening match with Lord Sheffield's eleven AUSTRALIAN COLORS London April 29 It haa been decided that darieg their English campaign the colors of the Aus tralian Eleven will be dark bias with gold faclogs while the Australian arms will be a conspicuous feature Io the uni form THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN Tbe programme of matches for the ur of tbe seventh Austrahan Eleven ia as tollowa Mar 8 Sheffield Patk against Erl of 3'a ffi Il's Eleven 13 Birmingham against Warwickshire 15 Westbury against Mr Lsvertou's team 19 Oxford against University 22 Kennington Oval against Surrey 26 bffield against Yorkshire 29 Manchester against Lancashire Jcnb 2 Lord's against aud Ground 5 Cambridge against University 9 against Middlesex 12 Nottingham against Notts 16 Kennington Oval against South of Emr land 19 sgainst Players of England 23 Bradford against Yorkshire 16 Manchester against North of England 30 Derby sgainst Derbyshire Jilt 3 Stoke against Staffordshire's Engtaud Eleven 6 Leicester against Leicestershire 10 Bristol against Gloucestershire 14 Sheffield against Players of England 17 Kennington Oval against Surrey 21 agarnit All England 24 Brighton against Sussex 28 Blackhaatb against Kent 31 St Ann's Barnes against Lyric Club August 4 Canterbury against Kent 7 Leyton against Pat and Present Oxford and Cambridge Universities 11 Kennington Oral against AU England 14 Portsmouth against Past and Present Oxford and Cambridge Universities 18 Nottingham against Notts 21 Cheltenham against Gloucestershire 35 Mancbester against AU England 28 Not yet arranged Biptsmbkr 1 Not yet arranged 1 Scarborough sgainstLozd Londcsborough's Eleven (S Lord's (Match for Cricketers' und) 11 Moulsey against Hurst Park 15 Hastings against South ot Ecgland SEMAPHORE CRICKET CLUB Tbe annual social of the Semapnore Cricket Club was held in the Institute ou Saturday 26 There was a numerous attendance and Mr Ashwin occupied tbe chair the vics cba'rn being filled by Messrs A LeMeasurier and Sansom After tbe opening overture and tbe toast of The Queen the secretary read his report which showed that the past season was the most successful the club had enjojed They had played 51 matches out of which they had won 21 drawn 24 and lost 6 Tbe total number of rune scored was 6744 for a lose of 469 wickets being an average of 16 5 wicket Their opponents' record was 4 6J7 fcr 379 wickets being au average of 12 1 Toe biggest scores made were against the Nurioot pas 456 runs being compiled io 3 i hours' batting In the second gam against that club 467 runs had been totalled tbe Alberton Oral being the battleground and on this occasion Mr A Begg made 115 and Mr Bhawyer 80 rnna The club had beaten the redoubtable Norwoods on the Port Adelaide Cricket Ground and bad dnriog the season lowered the colors of tbeir old opponents the Port Centrals At Cbrutmas the team took a trip toChr? where they defeated the local team by an innings but upon playing 15 Clare Unions were disa trously defeated Their Melbourne trip bad been most although not very successful Leaving Adelaide on April 3 they arrived at Ballarat on Good riday ing and played their first ch 'be dy scoring 70 only against their rivth 165 Oj the Tuesday they were at Ssniuu's an 1 le tested the local team the on'y wiu of the trip The Melbourne diversity beat the total of 132 runs for too loss of two wickets Tbe treasurer trtel receipts £29 8i 2i and expenditu'e £2 i 7i Id The toasts of patron president and vc: prest dents having been honored the prizes wer pre sented A pipe suitably inscribed want vlr Hind for his fielding while Mr Sbawyerf ir bowling received a present of books or his batting average of 35 8 Mr Angel received a paint nox and a pair of ekeve links while Mr Rundle for the highest average (38 3) received a bat arther toasts were proposed and re sponded to musical selections being rendered at intervals ODDELLOWS MU The quarterly board meeting was held at tbe MU Hall ranklin street on Tuesday April 29 There were McLean DGM Thomae Pickun GC 3 A Beyer and directors Hines Measday Haines Sketheway A Deveuub Burgess Ward Thomas Paltridge Anderson and Cragie The balance sheet of the widow and orphan fund of the society showed: Balance last quartsr £47455 15s 10! income £1608 10a 5d expenditure £1159 14s leaving a balance to the credit of thia fund of £47904 12s 3d which with arrears of interest and goods iu stock brings tbe value of this fund to £48485 12s 10 being a gain upon the transactions of £387 te 7d The auditors Dearman aud PPGM Tucker certified to the correctness of the ac counts and that there are 11776 members belonging to the society in South Australia The balance sheet and report were adopted and a levy of Is 6d per member wm made for the ensuing quarter The following nominations were received from the different districts or grand master Thomas Pickup tor deputy grand masUr PPGM A Goodall Gurr Laker Lambert aud Phillips for grand corresponding secretary GCS A Beyer for directors Ander son Burgess Cooper Craigie A Devenhh A Goodall Haines Hines James Measday Palt ridge Polkinghorne Sketheway Ward Wiilimott and Young Six teen proposed and nine directors required An application was granted to open the Salisbury Juvenile Lodge No 30 Tne ruling of the district officers of the DJy district was upheld that before an application can be made to apply for leave to allow a former member to be reinstated upon paying up bis arrears his lodge will have to decide by vote by ballot whether such application shall be sent on to tbe district meeting and from there to tbe direc tors and two thirds majority is required at such ballot Permission was granted to allow one each former members of the Burra Peninsula Min taro and Clarendon lodges who have been struck eff the books for non payment to pay up tbeir arrears and be readmitted upon pro ducing their lodge certificates being now in good health TEMPERANCE NEWS The usual monthly meeting of the Welling ton square Band of Hope was held on Monday evening Mr Hudson presiding over a crowded attendance A good programme consisting of cougs and recitations was succesifally carried out by Mr Smith Masters and Gill Goldsmith Gilmore A Wood ana Beaney (2) and Miues A Smith A Gilmore and Gill Three g'vsn by Mr Dodds were well competed fur Vi' A Wood gaining the first and Masters Goldsmith and Gilrnrre the second nd tbuO respectively Mis Smith presided at the organ Un Tuesday afternoon aud evening acr eresce was held between tbe member of the Adelaide aid suburban branches of tie WCT The conference was held io new YWCA Rooms and Mrs Nicholls occupied the chair Mrs Lake ciaductel tbe devotional part of the meeting white Mrs Beck lately cf the Victorian I nion read a paper ou Suggestions for and a diecusaion ensued on tbe best methods of carrying out the plane suggested A desire was strongly expressed that in the city aud each cf the suburbs a reading aud coffee might be established In the two papers were one by Mire George ou Work amoDgyouug jh was dis cussed with much energy another by Mrs Clatwoithy cn Evgeyltj0 which opened several new of thought better was by Miss Hawkins Mrs Lake gave sever! racy little spsecheo and the occasional remarks of Mrs Nicholls were listened to wij great interest KZSSRS STUMP OO Ptotonphars by spesta! appotatmen) to lb and COUNTXM Of KIN ORK are Koognlsed aaths Photegraphan of lbs day Addrewts yMtaaki King WUUam and Bundis Streets Influenza at Hindmanh Death of Two Residents The influenza epidemic haa takes hold of number of people at Hiodmarsb and after two or three days illness two residents have Ctied the immediate cause according to madicat testimony being iofluaDza although in both cases the persons attacked had suffered from ebronis diseavra Mr Alexander Park of Hindmaash West was taken ill on Saturday last and died on Monday He was in his usual health up to Saturday although aufferinr from a chronic complaint which however did not incapacitate him from following hie em ployment Mr Park was the son ot the late Captain Park the 42nl Highlanders and arrived in Victoria about 4' years ago He was in tbe Civil service io the suter colony for some time SubKquently he entered into agri cultural pursuits New South Wales aud Victoria Md few years ago arrived in this province or some time past be has been manager at Mr Ooumbe's foundry Kilkenny which ffiee he filled at the time of bis death He was 68 years of age aud leaves a wifi Tbe other victim to the epidemic was Mr John Mudge of Bowden who also wae token ill on Satarrtay night and died ou Tuesday morning He also suffered from anotber ail ment but was comparatively well up to tbe tme be was seized with inti leoza He arrived in South Australia 40 years ago was an old resident of Bowden and for a long period waa in the Railway Department On retiring from the Government service be entered into busi ness at Bowden and fur a tew years pt baa lived a retired life He waa 61 years old and haves a widow four daughters and two sjiu grown up and sixteen grandchildren BPORTINQ The following has reached us from Optiu Jennings answer to Mr challenge to me in to Adrcrtiur I would state that I am willing to meet him next Satur day afternoon I cannot defer our meeting to a later date aa 1 leave for Melbourne early next week" A polo match will take place on the Old Adelaide Itocecourae thia afternoon eommauo ingot half past 2 Blue aud Stirling Bowman Allan Baker Barr Smith against Red ami Biw man Bowman A Murray AjMiuxay SOUTHERN RACING CLUB The following are tbe acceptances for the races to be held on Saturday next at Strathalbyn Doody yards behind Dolly (Bogers) Do'lr (Jerkins) and Pilot 60 yards Dick 11 76 yards Tommy IV yards Darkis 175 yards HSXUICAP tlUKOLK KaCS One and a half miles st Ib st Ib Dutch (hen iu 2 Conundrum OS Colonel 10 0 tmlie 0 6 laveniile 9 10 Queen 96 Rifleman 98 llLNDliAf hKLUlNO One mile Victor 901 Conundrum 7 12 8 9 1 Seotoain 7 10 Maude 83 Corsair 77 Brooaeffiog 8 0 itAxniCAP ruT Rare One mile and a quarter Shootover a 12 Higbiand Lass 70 IthetoricUn 7 10 Croan Braud 70 Harbinger 77 Brltomane 0 13 Simpleton Dillon 12 Wattle 7 3 Moss Ross 67 iriXD'tir sTasrLKiiasi Two aud a ball miles Clipper ii 1 1 Emits Mi Tyro in Tok 97 bcrewwicnch 10 7 1 Orlando 47 i KT RlC ball a mle Matfdt 9 0 1 Titbit 1 7 Sunbeam 7 10 I Woodlands 70 Peter 7 8 1 nvixa HANitcsr Three quarters of a mile Sbootover 0 Mow Rose Rhetorician H0 Pirate 0 11 Wattle 7 9 Pirate II 6 11 Dillon 72 Maude 8 10 Colonel 7 0 Ssunteryr 67 Rifleman 70 Hakduap Trot Restless and Prosser scratch OOTBALL The Bovers'on Saturday played the Mediu dies on tbe ground The Rovers bad 23 players in tbe field and in tbe first ball had decidedly tbe best of the game soaring 3 goals and 2 behiade to 1 goal and 1 behind but iu the second half the weight and training of tbe Dingoes proved far superior the final result Mt todies 8 goals 7 behind River 3 goals 3 bebiniis or the Me4indie rtroQ (3) and Rossiter played well and for the Rovers Goixie Holhrook Derrington Kyd aud Kuby woiked assiduously Tbe Adelaides aud Maylauds mBt on tbe Adelaides' ground on Satmday Tne latter dorug tbe first half played 20 men only takirg three more on at bolt time Tue scores were Adelaide 3 goals (Dixon and Holorook) 2 behind and tbe Maylands 3 goal (Hylud aio Walkley) 3 behind The Adelaides were beet represented by Dixon Holbrook Bennets (2) and Mitchell aud for the lands Walkley Caskey Ksnnealy (2) Tamby and Goes did good service Mr A Molutjre acted as umpire The following extract already referred to ia our cablegrams is taken frm the Londtu Aorninff Post of ebruary 18 tha agri cultural returns recently received are only approximately correct than South Australia is the destined wheat country of the future Tbe extraordinary record of wheat growing to which this youthful colony can point is prob ably without a parallel and is calculated to make people both in Europe and even in the enterprising States of America open their eyes with amazement The entire number of fanners relatives assisting them laborers and field hands in South Australia is estimated at about 30C06 persons and in 1887 8 these 30000 agriculturists raised wheat valued at £3837000 which is equivalent to £95 per head of the per sons engaged in farming The value Ut the grain exported wm £4520000 or £81 per bead of the agricultural community Taking three persons a the avenge of family in this part of Australasia it appears that each household oecapud in husbandry earned £285 by wheat growing only in 1887 8 and exported after supplying themselves and their fellow colonists with bread and reed corn to tbe value of £152 The han est in 1888 9 was the worst tile South Australians bave yet experienced for the yield per acre waa smaller than the return of any previous crop in the colony StiU tbe value ot the yield was set down at £1360000 or £12 per head of tbe farming dare value ot tbe surplus available for ex port was over £600000 or £20 per head tbe earnings from wheat growing in 1888 9 brio? £136 for each family Taking tbe good and bad years together the net result is that wheat has yielded each household in South Australia an average income ot £205 10s Of course this is apart from what has been derived from other crops from cattle rearing and dairying It mast also be borne in mind that South Australia ia not only a young colony by comparison but a small one There is land enough and to spare it is needleas to say but tbe population is under 300000 all told not much exceeding in that of many English provincial towns or a little community like this to bave raised an average of over £2000000 worth of wheat a year and to have exported an average of £1500000 worth annually io an achievement of which the colonists and farmers ot South Australia may well be proud In the last two years wheat haa contributed to the national income after supplying all home wants a sum ot £3120000 or £10 per bead of the entire popu lation It is interesting! showing tbe pre eminent position taken by the antipodean colony in wheat raising to note tbe produc tion per head in some otner ot the leading grain growing countries of the world India pro duces one single bushel ot wheat per head of her population estimated at 200000000 Russia raises not more than two bushels per head cf her population Tbe United States grows it is stated seven bushels per bead of its inhabitants But South Australia pro duced in 1887 8 and in 1888 9 Marly bushels per head a total far beyond tLat any other country And there can be no question to whether wheat growing pays or not in the Australian colony whatever may be tbe case in other parte ot tbe world The cost of growing an acre ot wheat in Eng land is put down at £8 10a in tbe states of the American Union it is about £3 But the South Australian tartnen can raise the grain at the low coat ot 25a per acre about the lowest sum we should say poerible in a country where labor has to be paid for Yet there is room for increasing tbe yield in South Austra lia without materially adding to tbe cost ot pzcducticn lor tbe crop returns per actual acre are very low still averaging it seems about £1 in value per acre reaped It is not too musts to say that tbe present yield per acre might easily be doubled by more scientific and careful fanniDg As it is the figures we have given sufficiently show tbe prumuing condition oithn leading branch ot agriculture mthe South Aus traiun colony Much bas been said about the medicinal value ot Cod Liver Oil and when pure it le undoubtedly an invaluable medicine The purest aad moA reficed ot aoy ws bave seen la Dr Golding Bird's It baa hardly any taatey la most palatable and eaailj digested aoft ia preferred by invalids and ehfldm to all nther breads Priea 3a 6d OM bottle 7ax74c INVALIDS should use YALUMBA SPECIAL OLD PORT (Special uat Prixs Dunedin VW) bottled by Oaeoby aud Co wine merchants (by spacial to bis Excellency tbe Earl of Kintore) Industrial Wjia etreet eiosum DEECTIVE ORIGINAL 463.

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