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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 125, 27 May 1919, Page 4

t I The Weather Bureau forecast for 24 ' ' I hours from 9 a.m. this day is ac follows: ; "The indications are for south-easterly . ■winds, strong to gale prevailing. Expect ' cold and damp weather. Barometer rising. Tides good; sea heavy." ' j The manner of the handling of meat 5 in transit from the Mount Eden railway - station to the butchers' shops in the city . was the subject of comment by Mr. Mc- j , Xab at a meeting of the Mount Eden Borough Council last night. He stated; that carts which were engaged for the I rest of the dny in general carting were t used for the carriage of meat, that the meat was insufficiently covered, and the covering material was frequently mi- ! clean and unsuitable. Complaint had " I been made by him to the Health Depart- j r ment, and he had been informed that the f matter was one for the local body having . J jurisdiction in the district. On the r I suggestion of the town clerk (Mr. A. | ' j Oray) the Council decided to deal with' " I the matter by a drastic by-law, in the ' -'framing of which the co-operation of the f j Health Department will be invited. f Dr. Watt, district health officer at J Christehurch, says that apparently the i new disease had often been associates I 1 with influenza outbreaks. The earliest 21 outbreak of which there was any record t'was about 1712, at Tubingen, in Ger--3 many, when it went under the name of : the sleeping sickness. After the pan- s j "i demic of influenza in 1890 there wertj - outbreaks of what was apparently the - r same disease in Northern Italy and ! . Hungary. The disease was then known 3 !as "Nona," apparently a popular corruption of "coma. ,. Cases were reported in 'jEncland last year. First of all it was | i S believed to be poisonincr, and was called ) botulismus, as it was thought to be due i ; lto the bacillus botulinus, a food poison. I Later inquiry and research showed that 11 J this was not the case. A cable message ■ from America a week ago stated thai I sleeping sickness was prevalent. There , is no record from Eneland of many cases i |. beimr met with there now.' Beimr due to j j a germ, the sickness is infectious, but no' cases have been reported of more than one member of a household being affected. - In England the degree of mortality was 1 , not high. I Plans for the post office at Henderson are on view at the office of the Public ■ Works Department, and tenders for its i erection have been called for. The • building has heen in abeyance during the war. and, though the new structure ifl ' . a comparatively modest building, it 1 marke a distinct step in the progress ol 3 j the place. |

■ Settlers in the northern portion of the . County of Waitomo have forwarded a t petition asking that steps be taken to ; incorporate that area within what is r | controlled by the Kakepuku road dis- ■ ] trict. The matter came before the board iat its meeting last Saturday. The settlers complain that the council has not j made any effort to have roads leading ]to Crown lands legalised, also that the expenditure of the rates for the past ten i years has not been satisfactory from their point of view. J The Waihi police report that books of |; i tickets for the English Derby have been ; , received from England by a Waihi busi- ; ness man, who has been asked ' '■' the j senders to act as their local agents. Tne i police advise that the sale of such tickets '; constitutes an offence against the New j ! Zealand Gaming Laws, and the recipient i '! has handed the books over to the police, ; The price of each ticket is £1. j W. Ardern, bricklayer, of Paeroa, who j, ' is at present engaged at retort setting ; 1 at the Waihi borough gasworks, whilst ( cycling to Waihi on Sunday evening col- . , lided with another cyclist, and was j , thrown heavily on the hard road. He . received slight concussion of the brain, j T and was conveyed to his brother's resi- , lidence in Waihi, where he is progressing , j favourably. [ Speaking at a boxing tournament in ' I Chxistchurch, on Saturday night, the . 5 1 Mayor, Dr. H. T. J. Thack'er, M.P., said j 'he was ambitious to get a stadium for .Christchtireh in connection with the tepid ' baths. If a deputation of men repre- i senting the sports bodies of the city came before him as Mayor he would put i the question of a stadium, as a fighting , proposition, before the City Council. ■ Boxing competitions should be held dur- \ . ing the visit of Lord Jellicoe and the j Prince of Wales, and it should be pos- > i sible to offer some fine prizes as an in- '■! ducement for boxers to come over from 1 Australia. ; Speaking to a Taranaki "News" rep- j . resentative recently, Captain Atkins, of the Orissa, stated that there should be a ' splendid market for New Zealand butter, ) cheese, and apples in India. He had paid - 2/4 per lb. for Australian apples in Madras, and considered himself lucky to get them even at that price, while the Australian butter they paid 3/6 per lb. ' for, and were glad to get it. The Indian ■ market would absorb all the dairy pro- , ducc New Zealand could send, and the , same applied to apples. It was a market which he was surprised had not been ! exploited before. j Expressing his individual opinion at , the Mount Eden Borough Council last; ; night. Mr. C. Hudson (Mayor) stated that he considered the purchase of the i ' tramways by the City Council a matter ! to be favourably viewed by the Mount ' ! Eden resident*, as he felt it brought . , measurably nearer the borousrh's oppor- ' tunity for getting the Mount Eden Road and Dominion Road lines extended to the borough boundary. Hi: felt also that it , brought the union of the borough with i the city appreciably nearer. With the | ! trams owned by the city, the water sup- , plied by the city, and the drainage ! largely controlled by the city, he was of i i opinion that the date was probably not very far distant when Mount Eden residents would be asked to consider the , question of joining the city. I Saturday last was the centenary of the '' sailing of the firat steamship to cross the Atlantic. The first steamboat to cross the Atlantic was the Savannah, an American-built full-rigged ship of 350 j< tons, with paddle-wheels, which could be;i unshipped if necessary. She left Charles-;' i ton on May 34, lSl9,"and arrived off the!] j coast of Ireland on June 17. During the) voyage steam was used for only SO - hours. The first vessel to cross under s steam only was the Sirius, which crossed n from Queenstown to New York in IS3S,:< ,i with 04 passengers, in 17 days. The! Sirius was a British-built vessel of 703 i tons, rigged as a brigantine. Her en-i! gip.es developed 320 horse-power with a daily average coal consumption of 24 tons. J "There is no doubt that this is not a very bad drought," stated Mr. W. ; Lysnar, of Gisborne, to a "Times" representative on Saturday. "In fact, we have been suffering from a series of three or four wet seasons, particularly in the North,, with the result that the stock has not fattened well, the grass ! ■ having been too wet and pappy. There- ' fore, so far as it has gone, the present [ dry season has been beneficial rather than i otherwise. This year the feed is drier ! and there is rather less of it, but the j' stock do better on it; so that in the j Poverty Bay district, which has had a i slightly lower rainfall than Hawke's Bay, | 1 the stock has certainly come into the ' freezing works in very much better con- I dition. I think that the only people who i really suffer through this drought are | the dairy farmers. Cattle always feel: > the effects of a drought first, and there Jis no doubt that the dairy farmers have ' ] suffered a good deal through this ' drought, owing to their being on .the , j flats, which have felt it more than the '■ hill country; and also because the cattle . require longer feed to work on than sheep. Tl;e dairy farmers are certainly | entitled to sympathy." An appeal was recently made by Dr. Averill, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, for 1 the funds of the Queen Victoria School 1 for Maori Girls at Parnell. In order to f assist the funds, the association con- 6 nected with the school has arranged a gathering to-morrow in the grounds of that institution at Parnell. It will also I take the form of a sale of work, and is Ito be opened by the Mayoress, Mrs. J. H. Gunson. There will be stalls for the ' sale of sweets, cakes, handkerchiefs, etc. A cordial invitation to be present is given to all friends and supporters of the School for Maori Girls. An overhead wire at the Lower Queen | Street tram terminus snapned about 7 a.m. to-day, creating a loud report, which was accompanied by a shower of sparks. Fortunately, the tram conductor and i H others in the vicinity escaped injury. . Mr. Clement Wragge announces that 1 his tropical gardens at Birkenhead are : open to visitors.