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would soon become intolerable, population would gradually gather 

 around it, and the old condition of things arise anew. Further, 

 the cost of carriage and, in the case of establishments concerned 

 in the working up of surplus live stock, offal, hides, etc., etc. etc., 

 deterioration of material in transit, would greatly diminish the 

 value of the raw material, lower the price of stock, lower the 

 price of stations, and so would tell back upon every important 

 interest of the Colony. 



The Bill gives no details of the measures to be employed — - 

 these are to be set out, as far as need be, by regulations made 

 under the Act. The principle, however, is simple enough, — pre- 

 vent decomposition of organic matter, and prevent the discharge 

 of malodorous vapours into the atmosphere. There can be no 

 reasonable doubt that the traders will soon here, as has so often 

 happened elsewhere, recognise the benefits conferred by the Bill, 

 in forcing them, and all alike, to conduct their business in sanitary 

 and therefore in profitable ways, for smells cost a deal of money. 

 At the same time the surrounding population will be relieved 

 from the burden of an intolerable nuisance. 



SUGAR AS FOOD-STUFF IN AUSTRALIA. 



An interesting circumstance worthy of mention here has been 

 emphasised by the financial panic in Australia and the depression 

 following upon it. In conversation with the manager of a large 

 sugar business in Australia, he mentioned that the consumption of 

 sugar had not diminished notably, certainly not to the extent one 

 might have thought it would, considering what we have been pass- 

 ing through, and that while there has been some small reduction in 

 the total consumption of sugar per head here, he thought that such 

 reduction has been only in the quantity used for brewing, and not 

 in that used for food. Even now the consumption per head in 

 Australasia is very largely above that of any other country, not- 

 withstanding the enormous import of confectionery, etc., from 

 England, which is all included in the British consumption, and 

 although the people here are supplied with other articles of diet in 

 infinitely larger quantity and of better quality than any other 



