Windsor & Richmond Gazette, Saturday, February 24, 1900 - page 13 SCISSORS and PASTE. Australia produced 1,170,000 bales of wool last year. A man was fined £3 1s 6d at Mount Morgan for calling a peaceful citizen 'a Boer.' Three allotments of land in Martin Place were sold last week, that at the corner of George-street bringing £925 per foot. Judge Cohen is the only member of the Supreme or District Courts who defies fashion and the accursed tall hat, and appears upon the block in a "boxer" or hard hitter. Last year Mudgee paid for killing 8665 rats, 17,121 hares, 6620 crows, and a few hundred native dogs. Wanaaring raked in 225 dogs, 212 of them being at £1 each, the rest at 10s. A recent Wilcannia wire :- People here are living on mutton, as no beef is to be got. One butcher has closed on account of the impossibility of obtaining stock. Potatoes are 28s per cwt. Mr. Henry Lawson, the Eurunderee (near Mudgee) poet, will leave Sydney for London with his family in April. His literary ability should command success in the world's metropolis. Rev. Dr. Campbell, of Dundee (Scotland), says that city is notorious among Scottish towns for infantile mortality, because of the excessive employment of married women in Dundee mills. At Maryvale, a fettler named Angus McMillan and his daughter were both run over by a train and killed. Miss McMillan met her death while trying to save her father, who failed to hear an approaching train. In Melbourne last week an unfortunate ice cream merchant was fined 2s 6d, for selling his goods on a Sunday. Big concerns was [sic] run without penalty every Sunday. What canting humbugs we are, to be sure ! A big rush has set for Jawbone N.S.W. where alluvial gold has been discovered. The Jawbone referred to is not in the neighbourhood of Parliament House, but situated somewhere near Bodangora. There are already 500 diggers on the ground. Here is a simple plan for making a compass of your watch when "bushed." Point the figure 12 on the watch to the sun at any time, and midway between the hour hand and the figure 12 will be north. Once having north it is very easy to draw a compass on the ground. On the score of martial ardour, New South Wales is top notch ; while on the ladder of orders form the War Office for food supplies for the army in South Africa, the colony is at the bottom rung. What have the patriots to say to this utter lack of reciprocity - and what has our Agent-General to say to it ? On Wednesday last week Major-General French, with 6000 cavalry, reached Kimberly by a brilliant dash through the Boer lines. The rapidity of the British advance completely surprised the enemy, and casualties only amounted to 20 men wounded. In the advance his brigade covered 75 miles in four days, notwithstanding that they were encumbered with a supply team and fought two engagements on the way. The letters from the soldiers at the front make it abundantly clear that South Africa is not the best country in the world to live in. Private G. Grey, of Kiama, incidentally mentions that he has only seen one running stream in 607 miles from Capetown - the Orange River. A Lithgow man says "this is a splendid country for sand, Dutch laagers, and scorpins [sic]. . . I had a notion of stopping over here at first, but that has vanished. I am quite satisfied with New South Wales."