General News

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3099, 15 September 1899, Page 1

General News

In connection with the recent trial of Dreyfus the members of both Houses of the New Zealand Parliament have forwarded the following cable to Madame Dreyfus in Paris : —" Deepest sympathy from members of New Zealand Parliament." A meeting re anti-federation, held at Invercaigill, on Tuesday, under the presidency of the mayor, was well attended. The speakers were Messrs Buxton, Collie, Morria, and Mackiey, who all obtained an attentive hearing, Mr Collie especially. At the conclusion Mr J. L. Macdonald proposed — " That a vote of thanks be accorded fche speakers, and that in the opinion of the meeting the question of federation is of such vast importance to the colony that it requires to be more fully discussed before any definite conclusion is arrived at." The motion was carried. Afc Tikefcere, in the Eotorua district. 20,431 tons of sulphur, valued at £5367, were mined and exported for a period of 12 months. The ore contained; about 75 per cent, of sulphur, and it is said that a larger quantity could be produced if a better tenure to the land were obtained. Another memorial in brass has been added to the new Church of StPaul's, Auckland, being a gift of tbe widow of the late William Mason> architect, of Messrs Mason and Wales, Dunedin. On it is inscribed : "In loving memory of "William Mason, architect of old St. Paul's. A two-roomed cottage adjoining the White Harfc Hotel, Marton, was destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning. The" sole occupant was an elderly man named Hewitt, an old Wanganui identity, who perished in the flames. Two short-senter.ee prisoners, working in Cook's Gardens, Wanganui, escaped cm Wednesday afternoon. The police immediately took steps to capture them, and by 6 o'clock the two runaways were again in charge of the goaler. William Oliver, was committed for trial for breaking and entering the Farmei-s' Store at Geraldine, on August 5, when the safe wa. dynamited without being opened, is already awaiting trial for a similar offecce at Ashburton. Two county surfacemen, John Smith and Michael O'Donneil, met with an accident at Lawrence on Tuesday. While driving down the Corkscrew Hill road from Tuapeka West, something went wrong with the harness. The horse bolted, aud both men were thrown violently out. Smith sustained severe concussion of the brain, and is still unconscious. O'Donneil escaped with some rather serious cuts and bruises, while a boy who was in the csrt escaped without injury by remaining in the bottom of tha vehicle. An artesian well was recently beiug sunk in Christchurcb, and, when near completion, one of the men engaged on tbe work poured a few handfuls o' brass filings down the pips. On wator being struck, the filings came to the top, and the other woikmen, who were not " in the know," imagined for the moment that they had discovered a veritable goldmine. Work was suspended, acd the contractor, who was some twenty miles up country, wa s sent for. The subsequent cauveieaym is understood to have been of a strictly private nature. A new remedy for tub rculosia has, according to a news i.m received by the San Francisco mail, been developed iv France, and reported to the State Department at Washington. Tbe treatment was called to the attention of the Academy of Medicine by Dr Meiidal. It consists in a daily injectio&Tfinto the bronchial tubes of essence of eucalyptus, thymme, and cinnamon, held in a solution of olive oil. The oil, in descending, comes in contact with the walls of the tubes anrl the upper parts of the lungs. Tbe gas. set free saturates the air iv the lungs, and acts on the mucous membrun?. In sixteen c-»ses treated there was a lessening or complete cessation of cough or expectoration, and a retura of sleep, appetite, apd strength.

A strange freak of a somnambulist ia reported from Victoria Barracks, Portsmouth. About midnight recently a private of the 2nd Shropshire Light Infantry got out of bed in his sleep* loaded his rifle with ball cartridge, ar.d fir6d it off iv a barrack-room fall -of sleeping soldiers. The bullet lodged iv the ceiling, and so nobody waa hurt> the man was at once arrested, and an investigation as to how he obtained the ammunition was begun, with the result that a number of rounds of ball cartridge were throvn out of the window by men who were afraid to be fouad in possession of them. It is a punishable offence for these men to have ball cartridges about them. It is believed that the men got the ammunition by eecretiag it when at musketry practice* Owing to several deaths recently, wbich it ia believed might have been obviated by proper medical attendance, a strong feeling has been raised in the State of New Jersey against what is called Christian Science. At the funeral of Mrs Porcella, the Rev. George Francis, paster of the First Presbyterian Church, said: — "The lavs of tbe universe are inexorable, and to violate or disregard them is to invite disaster. I desire to point out to you the essential immorality of that grotesque and pagan teaching to which our attention hae been directed — that gross perversion of the Bible which ia called Christian Science. Deception lies at the heart of it. It teache3 its votaries to cry pnace when there is no peace. It teaches them to declare that they are in health when they are really suffering from disease. In its soul thia I grotesque and incoherent system is an insult to human intelligence, to good morals, and to God.