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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1984, 16 April 1906, Page 4

Fifty tons of chaff fer sale. A dance will be held at Hansen's Hall, Hawea Flat, on Friday, 20th April. Tenders for the surplus water from the Hospital race -granted. A meeting of the Dredgemen'* Uni*p is called for Saturday, 21st. A'goed attendance is requested. Methodist services will be held next Sunday as follows:—Cromwell, 7 p.m.; Rev. A. Reader- Bannockburn, 7 p.m., jjr Lopdell. "

Mr Maries, the Dresden piano tuner, notifies that he will be in Cromwell from about the 20th April. Presbyterian Church Services Sunday' 22nd April:—Lowburn, 11 a.m.; Bannockburn, 3.30 p.m.; Cromwell, 7 p.m. Preacher —Rev. J. Gordon McLeod. Some of the deerstalkers are now making home. Mr Smithson, of Timaru, was here on Friday night, and left on Saturday morning, having secured three splendid heads for seven shots. A couple of coaches were required to bring the large number of tourists and oth«rs to Cromwell on Friday night. Mr and Mrs Robert Gilkison, of Dunedin, arrived here on Friday on a pleasure trip, and as Mr Gilkison has a lot of interest in the Clutha, he paid a visit of inspection to the dradgss he is interested in. Wo have been requested to ask footballers to roll up for the opening practice on Saturday, and also that a challenge has been received to play a match in three weeks. Mr James O'Kane will be in Cromwell from Wednesday, 25th, at 2 p.m. till Thursday, 26th, at 1 p.m. . Mr Laurenson, M.H.R., one of the new Liberals who made such a stir last year, walked down from Hawea last week, where he had been deer stalking, and left by the coach from here next morning. A number of local residents have taken a trip to Pembroke for the holidays, and it is a great tribute te the beauties of this lovely spot that residents of Cromwell, who have visited it dozen of times always enjoy the trip again. A correspondent from Makarora writes that quite a number have gone through this year via the Haast Pass, and it is, without doubt, one of the finest trips imaginable. Mrs Grant, of Pembroke, and Miss Ewing and Mr J. Faulks, of Makarora, made the trip through to the West Coast and back last week, via the Haast Pass. A very old resident of this district, named James Smith, of Bannockburn, died on Tuesday night rather suddenly, at the good old age of 82. He has been in indifferent health for a few years, but only gave up working very lately. He was a baker in Cromwell in the seventies, and was for very many years cooking at the Kawarau Station. He was buried in the new cemetery on Thursday, and tho burial service was conducted by the Rev. G. McLeod. " Just now the Maorilander doirinates everything," says a Sydney paper. " His Stead came over and cleared out the bookmakers; his footballers have broken the world's record in the way of a successful tour; he is borrowing faster than anyone else in Australasia; and now Arnst has scooped our biggest cycling prize. In fact, the earth is, just now, the Maorilander's." Then the crumb of comfort. " Bar one thing—he can't play cricket." The beginning of the end to the many spars over building on the Mining Reserve on the Clutha river bank is now likely to be shortly settled. The Government Surveyor (Mr Wilmot) was engaged last week laying off the different sections, and we believe they will be submitted to auction at an early date. As the valuation for improvements will probably bo the full value, the parties who have built on them are almost certain to get their respective lots at the upset, and will then own the freehold. The Caledonian concert on Saturday evening was very largely attended, and the singing of Messrs Orkney, D. C. Jolly, Williams and Perry was much appreciated, in each case an encore was demanded. The dancing of Fanny Perriam brought forth an ovation, and Messrs McKechnie Bros and Kilgour received a splendid reception for the Highland dancing and music. Mr G. Wishart played a euphonium solo very well, and the orchestra, under Mr Gordon's conducting was the feature of the evening. The. accompanists during the evening were Mrs Jolly, Misses Murrell and Richards, and the concluding part was the farce, " Thumbs Up," in which the parts were well represented by Messrs Perry, D. C. Jolly, Orkney, Williams and Vickerman. During an interval the Mayor thanked the public for the generous support accorded to the society. The shepherd roaming o'er the plain, The stockman on his lonely run, The teemster with his bullock wain, The sportsman out with rod or gun, The digger on gold-bearing reef— While firm to duty's call they stand— For coughs and colds they find relief With Woods' Great Peppermint Cure at hand. Speaking to a Lyltleton Times reporter apropos of the ptomaine poisoning in connection with a wedding festivity at Christchurch, Dr Russell stated that it was most difficult to locate the cause of ptomaine poisoning. There were 58 ptomaines, and of these twenty-eight were toxic, or poisonous, and they might be found in almost anything, but particularly in fresh meat, canned meat, and the like in a state of partial decomposition. The public had not even a distinct idea of the clanger that lurked in food. Ptomaine could be found in mussels, oysters, eels, sausages, ham, canned meats,_ fish, milk, ioe cream and other comestibles. But ptomaine fled before heat, and it was a rule of his own never to allow anything taken from a can to go to the table until it had gone through a heating process. After removing the contents they should be heated for preference to boiling point. This practice he carried out in every case, even with fruit. There was a chance that tinned food might not have been scientifically and thoroughly sterilised in the process of canning. The effects of ptomaine were the same as those of other irritant poisons—nausea, vomiting, griping pains in tho stomach, purging and faintness, and delirium, or narcotic symptoms. Ptomaines were transition products in the process of putrefaction, much the same as alcohol is a by-product of decomposition.