A Plague of Locusts.

Melbourne, November 25. News from the country districts of both Victoria and New Houth Wales give depressing accounts of the locust plague, which is so bad this year that the insects are invading th« townships arid hotels. A telegram from Hillston m N.S.W. says :—"'Tha locusts havt been creating terrible havoc of late._ _ For many years past they havo not visited us m such . numbers, but for the past fortnight vast armies of them have been moving m a north-west direction. For miles the grass and herbage have all but disappeared, and scores of gardens have been ruined, Vines, with strong healthy leaves and fruit bearing, have been eaten, the stumps being left, and fruit trees have been bereft of foliage. Vegetables of all kinds have been destroyed, and the Chinese gardens are a thing of the past. The wheat crops have also suffered heavily, and many art* hardly worth cutting after the visit of the pest. Not content with dealing destruc tion broadcast outside, the interiors of the houses have also suffered. Window blinds, curtains, clothes, &c, have been perforated, and tanks and wells have been polluted." From Keranp, m Victoria, under date Wednesday last, the report says :— " Yesterday morning great swarms com menced to arrive m the town from the surrounding country, and to-day the streets, paddocks, and gardens are thickly covered with vast multitudes :of the insects. The greater portion of the vege tables, flowers, and grass was already devoured, tho ground m many cases being left perfectly bare. The insects have not as yet, except m a few instances, com menced to fly, being m the hopping stage. They travel at the rate of several miles a day. When a wall or some other obstruc tion stops their onward progress they are collected m heaps often 6in deep. Ihe verandahs are so crowded with them that householders have to keep the doors shut to prevent th» insects coming m. During the day men were engaged with brooms and hose driving them from ihe doors of most of tha shops and public offices m the town. The landlord of the Royal Hotel (Mr O'Donnel) had to keep his house closed during the whole of the morning and afternoon to prevent the locusts obtaining admission. In the cattle pits on the railway line the locusts are some feet deep, and as large numbers have already died the stench is very bad." Reports from Yattala, Wamboota, and, other places m New South Wales also give alarming accounts of the inroad of the locusts. "At Wamboota Crimp's Hotel has practically been closed for days m the, effort to keep the insects out. They are about the hotel and enclosures five inches m depth, and the inmates are constantly employed by every means they know killing them m countless numbers. The bedrooms, parlors, and diningvooms are fairly alive with them. Fields are rapidly invaded on all sides. Mr Sands, of Yattala, m a little over a day had a splendid field of wheat practically de stroyed, the flags and beards being com- Kletely eaten off. The Deniliquin and [oama railway line is covered with locusts, and the engines and working parts on the journey become one mass of insect life. In a few weeks mare the general opinion is that Victoria will be inundated from the river, and immense injury dove.

IRISH AFFAIRS.

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JLondon, December 3 and 4. The second reading of the Irish Land Purchase Bill was carried by a majority of 138, the Parnell section of the Irish party voting with the Government. Mr Parnoll's supporters are daily in creasing m Ireland and America. The adherents of Mr Sexton fear further defections from their ranks. There was no new development at to day's meeting of members. The proceed ings were adjourned till to-morrow, when it is hoped a'compromise will be accepted if Mr Gladstone gives certain pledges. The Archbishop and Bishop of Dublin have decided against Mr Parnell. Mr Parnell's opponents have been challenged to resign their seats for Irish constituencies. The compromise proposed by Mr J. J. Clmcy, member for Dublin North, in sists on. a pledge from Mr Gladstone that the Irish Parliament when constituted shall control land and police. Lord Salisbury, speaking at Eosondale, said Mr Parnell was preferable to a crew of deserters. [Received December 5, 10.30 a.m.] London, December 4, The Belfast electors are m favor of Parnell retaining the leadership of the party, and it is said that m conse quence of this Mr T. Seaton (member lor Belfast) -will likely resign his seat. It; is believed that Parnell will again offer to resign the leadership upon the condition that Gladstone gives the pledges demanded by Mr J. J. Clancy, aitd it is stated that m the event of refusal by Gladstone, the party will m all probability confer their support on Parnell. It is reported here that Messrs Dillon and O'Brien, the Irish delegates m America, have prepared a fresh mani festo, m which they declare that Par nell, by his conduct of late, has selfishly sacrificed the cause of Home Rule. The Catholic hierarchy met yester day, and as a result of their delibera tions, a manifesto has been issued that Parnell has committed a grave offence against religion and society, which <often.ee he had aggravated by making ■use of every circumstance to secure a -scandalous pre-eminence manifesto. It also says that the retention by Parnell of the leadership of even a section of the Irish party will inevitably defeat the ends and objects of the Hojae Rule party, : JLord Salisbury, speaking at Rosen dale, said that Gladstone's denial to several of the statements contained m Parnell'S manifesto, was not a, specific contradicts on the material points, and demands that Gladstone should reveal facts of th« Hawarden inter view. Salisbury refused to admit that an Irish Imperial Parliament would be established if Home Rule were granted. The belief is gaining ground that Parnell will resign. _

The Gain of the Dockers' Strike.

The strike of the London dockers enlisted the sympathy of Englishmen everywhere, who recognised that the conditions of the dockers' life cried aloudjf or improvement, and the struggle has been fully justified by its results. Mr Tom Mann, m an excellent address to the Dockers' Congress, held m loru don seven weeks ago, stated some of these results as follows j i( Very care fully collected statistic will show that we have obtained a solid advance of wages averaging 7s per week for 50 per cent, of the London members, or 15,000 men, and an average of 3s 6d per week for the remaining half. Thus, m round nurafcers, the 24,000 men who compose the Membership of the Dockers' Union m the iwtropo]i tan area are receiving £300,000 # year more than they 4id jplot i&

Union action being taken, or an aver age of os 3d per week per member. These statements are based upon de tailed informatton obtained from each tecticn of the men affected, and they square with the figures given by Mr 0. M. Norwood as chairman of the London and India Docks Joint Com mittee. But of equal importance are the gains obtained by the abolition of the contract system m eight out of the ten groups of the docks m London, which operated so disastrously to the men. The money that formerly went to the middlemen—generally sweaters of the worst type—now goes to the members of the Union; but it is not included m the ,£300,000 pi;eviously mentioned, because it has not gone to swell up the wages of those em ployed under the old conditions, but to the payment of an additional num ber of the men who formally did not work at dock work, and rendered necessary by abolishing the nigger driver. The fact that very little loitering around dock gates now takes place, even when the work is slack, is proof positive of a very substantial change for the better. Even more substantial have been the gains m the provinces."

This Man was Frightened'

x\.nd on resting the facts it will appear that he had reason to be. The man rsferred t» was Edward Perrin, a guard on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire Railway. In September, 1887, ho met with an accident, which gave a tem porary shock to his system. N»t long afterwards he began to feel a pain m tho chest and have difficulty m breathing, and threw up a great deal of mucus (phlegm). He at once concluded he had some serious ailment of the lungs, and nought medical advice. The doctor said it was so, and added that there was no cure for it, and that he could do no more than give him something to ease the pain and the cough. Then the doctor gave Mr Perrin a certificate stating that he was suffering from "Catarrh Phthisis," which is the professional term for that dreadful malady, Consumption. Further symptoms soon appeared which seemed to confirm this alarming opinion. The poor fellow experienced great pain m eating, and a tightness across the chest, which felt, he said, " as if some strong man was gripping him around the body Under the arms." The rest of Mr Perrin's narrative is best related m his own words. He says: "I soon commenced to have a brackish taste m the mouth as if I had been sucking copper. Then came cold chills and sweats m turn, the cough got hollow, and I raised more than I had done. These terrible symptoms to scared me that went and consulted tho late Dr Dacre Fox, who wufi at that time Consulting Physician to the Railway Company and to the infirmary. He examined me care fully, and certified as follows : — "In the case of Guard '■ Perrin. This man is evidently frightened. He is suffering from Phthisis and Dyspepsia. Cod liver oil and iron are indicated." This fully bore out what the other doctor had said, so I now looked upon myself as done for. I took everything I could hear toll of. I have drunk gallons of cod liver oil and sherry, and have Lad many quarts of camphorated oil rubbed on my chest, until my wife was sick of rubbing. I was also poulticed continually, but m spite of all this terrific dosing and medicating I got gradually worse. In balf a-dozen words my condition was this: I believed myself to be fast going to the crave with consumption ; my friends said ho, the doctor said .so, and it looked like it, if anything ever did. It is understood that consumption is sure death, and I made up my mind for that awful end. I had been off my work from 1887 to 1888. I was ashamed to be away so much, as I was obliged to draw funds from the Club all tile time to help support my family. " While I was thup doing nothing but waiting to die, crawling about feebly like a man who has virtually done with this world, I happened one day to meet In spector Rippon, of Ardwick Station, one of the Traffic Inspectors of our line. He was shocked at my looks, but said, ' Perm, I don't know as anything will help you ; but, if anything will, it is Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup.' I remember that this idea amused me, miserably broken and ill as I was. Help me ? Could it cure consumption % Not likely. Impossible ! Still it couldn't make me worse, and so I got a bottle and began to take it. I could scarcely credit my own feelings, but as snre as truth is truth, before T had so* 1 ui> that bottle of medicine, I found relief. Now comes what you may find it hard to believe—l took but two more bottles and went back to work, and have been sound and healthy ever since. I told the doctor about it, and, although he saw I was well, he seemed displeased. " You say Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup cured you V he said. 'Nonsense. It is only a quack medicine; it is nothing but stuff and rubbish.' Well, all right, I said to myself it may be stuff and rubbish, but it has made a sound man of me after that very doctor had me booked for the graveyard, and said no earthly power could keep me out of it. That was enough for me and will be enough for shousands of others m this country. "I am exposed to allgorts of weather, bufc hay* never had a return of the bad breathing, chest pains, nor any of the other symptoms that nearly frightened me out of my senses. I eat and enjoy my food as well as any man m England. Now, what was the secret of this getting welll If I really had consumption, it was nothing short of a miracle ; but I never had consumption at all. The doctors were all wrong m calling it that. What I actually suffered from was indiges tion and dyspepsia, which causes . the same symptoms that mark true consump tion ; hence lots of people who are sup posed to haye lung complaint might be as easily cured as I wav if they woujd let cod liver oil alone and take Mother Seigel's Syrup." Mr Perrin'r address is No. 36, Goi ton Brook Street, Gorton Brook, Manchester England, and he will reply to any letters written to him concerning his case.

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CENSUS.

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H OME AND FOREIGN,

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[Received December 5, 11 a.m.] '

Sydney, November 5. A Census Bill which provides for (baking the census on the night of April sth na§ been introduced into the House of AssemMy,

LABOR TROUBLES.

The coal lumpers who were out on strike hay.c resumed work.

COAL DISCOVERY.

An important discovery of coaj ha beer^made near Corand.

THE SWEDISH FASTER.

The report of the medical gentlemen

] attending Ibbol, the Rwodibh faster, states that it is po.s--.lblo to feel ivs spinal column by pressing against his stomach. t

THE DENNISTON STRIKE.

Melbourne, "December 51 The Amalgamated Association of miners has remitted a sum of £300 m ■ud of the miners who went.out on strike at Denniston. •

The French and German Armies.

Tljo following, says the " Liberte," m ;>■ comparative statement of the French and German armies. In time of peace the French army comprises, m 1890, 25,896 officers and 503,049 men; m 1891 it will consist of 20,934 officers and 520,540 man. The German army, m 1891, will be composed of 20,285 officers and 507,268 mcn.'^The .gendarmerie and Mie military employes are not comprised m these figures. In time of war Franco would have 2,000,000 men belonging to the standing army and to the reserve of the standing army 1,022,000 men m the Territorial army, and 702,000 men m the reserve of the Territorial army. tJeneral total, 3,784,000 men. In 1891, thanks to the new military laws, she will be able to mobilise 4,000,000 thoroughly disciplined troops. As to Germany, it' a mobilisation" were to be carried out to-day, she could muster only 3,100,000 men, for her figure of 3,500,000 is not entirely composed of properly trained troops.

What the Parnell Com mission Cast the "Times."

The Parnollitc business has (says the I London correspondent of the " Grlrsgow Herald") coat the "Times" £180,000. That is the exact figure, everything in cluded, and it has been paid by the share holders of the paper foregoing their divi dends for last year and for the first tux months of this year. The' Walters, how ever, are not losers to fche extent commonly supposed, for John Walter stands towards the paper m a twofold capacity. H« is owner of sixteen shares out of wixfiy, and the dividend on each share for 188') was £3000. Therefore John Walker's loss was, on his sixteen sliiuv.", £48,000. But he is also printer of th-s "Tunes," and this printing lmsiue.-s i:> kept separate from the publishing. He supplies-paper, ink, printing etc., arid the profits therern belong exclusively to him. On these Jib lost mthing, for it was decided that the printer of the paper could not be cillod' upon to bear any share m the general losses accruing to the publishing depart ment. The whole of the £180,000 has now been paid off", and as the circulation of the paper and its receipts for advertise ments have increased it is reckoned that a dividend of £2000 wiil be paid per share at the cloae of this year.

Dreadful Tragedy at Brisbane.

Brisbane, November 25. A man named Mark Davis, residing at Spring H,il3, Brisbane, late on Sunday night poisoned himself and his three, children, aged respectfully nine, live, and two years. They were all taken to the Hospital. Davis died next sifter noon, but the children are recovering. Davis loft t:ie following note, dated 20th November, »'■; 12 p.m., Sunday, addressed to Mrs .lienrick :—"'l have poisoned my,throe children with * Rough on Ra^s' and chloroform, and have taken a strong dosa myself. I cannot face life any longer and cannot leave my little ones behind me. You had better send for a policeman to break open the door.—Mark JJ avis." Ib appears that after administering "Rough on Rats " to the children he gave them chloroform to c.tho their pain. Tali mused thoni t.o vomit, thus saving their live 3. Davis' wife is an inm^ta of the Wooragoona Lunatic Asylum.

It is hinted that m the Napier Theatre the conduct of some individuals ia tsrrbad thn.t it the evil goes on increasing at its present rate of progress, one half of tho audience v/ili have to chuck the other half out, for the -.sake of peace and quietness.—" Fielding Star." The "Globe" says:—A number of un employed labourers m Dnnedin have peti tioned the Government for work on the pro posed track to be cut from Milford Sound to the Lal?es m preference to convict labour. The reply of the Government to this petition is looked for with much interest by»a number of working men, ■ . .-; Mr Riidolph Friedlander, on Thursday made his first appearance m Ashburtonasan auctioneer, taking an active part m the dis posal of the large consignment of wool sub mitted at auction. On entering the rostrum he was accorded a hearty reception from his brother auctioneers and the large gathering of buyers assembled, and at once proceeded with the pmctical'part of his new profession. He disposed of a long wool catalogue m a very short spaco of time, picking up the technicalities of auctioneering as he went along. We heartily wish the Messrs Fried lander Brothers success m the new depart ment which they have added to their ex tensive business. Managers of theatres m Paris are adopting an excellent plan of suppling their patrons with opera glasses. In front of each seat is » little plush-covered box, which opens automatically when a sixpence is dropped into the slot- The spectator then finds inside a pair of opera glasses, the use of which is placed at his disposal for the rest of tho evening. Since the introduction of this theatrical novelty only two opera glasses have been taken away, and they were sub sequently returned to the management with an apology. This system is m force m five theatres, Including the Vaudeville. , About midday to-day Mr John More head's men brought into Reid and (Jrey's yard for repairs the coin bine they had been working the previous day. The fire m the traction engine had been let down, as work was over, but it was found necessary, to "get the engine on the road again for the short journey it still had to do, to get up a little steam, and a few billets of wood were used m the furnace. A spark from the funnel is presumed to have fallen upon th.fl. i straw on the top of the, e,omb,in.&, and smouldering there burst into flame shortly after. Meamwhilo Reid and Grey's people had gone to their midday meal. The tire was observed by Mr P. Peters at Kelly's Hotel; Mr P. Hanrahan, baker ; Mr Peter Gourdie, carpenter, and others, who worked strenuously with buckets of water to extin guish the fire. These gentlemen kept the mischief well m check until thq fire engines, which ■meanwhile had been summoned by the alarm bell, came upon the scene, and effectually extinguished the blaze. Mr Morehead'a. loss over the incident will be about £30. A curious calculation of the amount pf food consumed m alifetirr.eof seventy years Jias recently been made by a French savant, who says that the aver age epicure of threescore and ten will have consumed 30 oxen, 200 sheep, 100 calves, 200 lanibs, 50 pigs, $"JG fo>vls, 1000 fish of different kinds, 30,000 oysters, 5475 pounds of vegetables, 243 pounds of butter, 24,000 eggs, and four tons of bread, besides several hogs heads of wine, tea, coffee, etc. This enormous amount of food will weigh but little short of 40 tons. 4 few years ago (says the "Bulletin") the inhabitants qf the " Tight little Island," having got goqd reason to be ashamed of certain associations inse parably connected with the name •" Van Dieman's Land," altered it to " Tasmania.." Jt has now been dis covered that Tasmania anagparfl incised, is" lam Satan," They can't 'get away from him anyhow,

News received by (the Australian'mail the other day conveys^heintelligence of N. Hall'g arrival m Molbouriis a few hours before the Austral wheel, race .was run. A number of ••'Victorian cyclists, received him. on arrival, a'sn several New Zealanders now resident m Melbourne. The champion had a splended voyage across, and lost no time m getting i:i!:o training on the asphalt track, where the races will be held. He speaks highly of the tract, and experienced no difficulty m neg9-" tinting the sharp corners, but considers it, somewhat dangerous for very fast pedaling. It may be stated the New 1 Zealanders style pleases the newspaper writers, one of whom says lie will require a lot of watching m the Championship. On Saturday he competes m the luter-Club Plate and first-class handi caps, and on the following Saturday m the Championship of 'Australia and , Ladie*' Bracelet. In the latter, event "-he ■••has fifty six opponents.—"Press."

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