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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6413, 25 March 1892, Page 2

Up to date £357,500 of the property tax has been collected. The estimate was £355,000. There is £65,000 to collect, which will probably have to be sued for.

Mr James Allen is definitely out for the Bruce seat, vacant by the resignation of Mr J. W Thomson. Mr H. Clarke will be the Government oandidate if he will consent to stand, in which case it is believed that tho other Ministerial candidates will probably be asked to withdraw in hiR favor.

A telegram from Wellington says that negotiations are going on for the purchase of 1000 acres of land at Waikauaf for an industrial farm. The •sstablishment would provide work in times of emergency for 100 men. Full wages, however, will not be paid to the unemployed who may be sent there for temporary work.

Mr H. Owen, one of our local ohemists, certifies in our columns to the benefits derived from the use of Mother Aubert's remedies. It is evident there is a great future before these purely local vegetable medicines, and which we hear are now about to be introduced into New Bouth Wales, Victoria, and the other Australian colonies, and will bring the name of New Zealand very prominently before the public of the Southern Content, and be one of the best advertisements for this colony. The proprietor deserves success from the spirited way in which he has entered in this enterprise.

«' Old Judge " Whisky is the beet in the market.

A private letter from Gerald ton, Western Australia, gives a doleful account of affairs J in tbat colony, where the writer states that ' there is no prospect for a man with small ' capital, all desirable land having been taken up by syndicates composed of the present or former members of the Government or their friends. Regarding the Murcheson goldfisld, he says that a more inhospitable country he has nover trod. Rain has not fallen for three and a half years on the field, and all vegetation is dead or dying, while all animal life is almost extinct. He declares the field to be a fraud, and states that all hands will have to leave unlesp rain falls, as the wells are drying up.

At the spot -where Mrs Stock, the newlymarried bride, was killed at Mauku, Auckland, the work of forming the road is in progress, and there is an embankment about sixteen feet deep. The road suddenly narrows at one point, and here the horse and trap fell oyer the embankment. Stock jumped clear and escaped injury, but Mrs Stock was caught by the trap falling across her back and fastening her to the ground, her face being buried in the mud. Stook succeeded in lifting the trap a little, but the poor woman, after murmuring a few words, expired. At an inquest held at Waiuku the jury censured the Mauku Road Board for having neglected to place a light at the cutting.

The rowing representatives from Poverty Bay were entertained at a social gathering J at the Cafe laßt evening, when a large company was present. The chair was occupied by Mr Hutchison, deputy-captain of the Napier Rowing Club. Numerous toasts were proposed during the evening. In the toastsof " The Guests" reference was made to the accident that befel the Gisborne crew at the commencement of the race with tho Union Club, by the accidental unshipping of an oar, but for which mishap the event might have been much closer. Mr Sandlant acknowledged the good wishes on behalf of his crew, and took the opportunity of thanking the Napier and Union Clubs for the way they had entertained them. Various other toasts were honored, and with the songs and recitations that were contributed, the social was made very enjoyable. Mr Jno. Parker efficiently presided at the piano.

Two well-dressed Maori women, named respectively Mere Kiki and Poti Wi Rihana, who apparently had hard luck at the races yesterday, committed a larceny from the person of Alexander Campbell last evening at the Masonic Hotel. Campbell, who seemed to know the women, was sitting in the doorway of the hotel talking to them, when by some means they succeeded in extracting his pocket-book from him. Immediately after the larceny the Maoris ran clown Tennyson street, but the theft had been observed by some by-standers. Chase was given, the pocket-book, containing several pound notes, was dropped on the way, and the culprits were captured without much trouble. They appeared before Messrs Sutton and Blythe, J.P.s, at the R.M. Court this morning, when they denied the offence. In order to enable the police to get the evidence together, a remand was granted, the acoused being admitted to bail, Matenga Peka Peka finding the sureties.

Under date January 30th a London correspondent writes : —A period of extreme flatness and general depression has followed on the storm and stress of the last fortnight. In almost every household there is sickness, and in an extraordinary large number mourning. Old people seem to be dying off literally in hundreds, and the influenza epidemic grows more murderous daily. At Brighton last week, I told you, the death rate was over 50 per thousand. This week it has become 60.9, whilst London has risen from 35 (I think it was) to 46 per thousand. Norwich and Portsmouth now boast a rate of 44, Liverpool's figure is 40, Wolverhampton's 39, and Croydon's 39. In other large towns the death rate remains normal, the healthiest of all being Huddersfield, the return from which is only 17 per thousand. In London last week there were 271 deaths from influenza. This ffeek the return is 506, and still the medical authorities seem quito unable to suggest even a really powerful palliative. The hydropaths swear by what is known as " the pack," and many instances of rapid cures with its assistance have been quoted in the papers during the last ten days. There is also a bicarbonate of potassium treatment which finds many advocates amongst doctors. This consists of taking thirty grains of tho bioarbonate in a little water every two hours. According to tho discoverer of this speoific, Mr Crerar, of Maryport, it is an absolute preventive, and, taken when ill, destroys the power of the disease in twenty-four hours.

Mr Owen, chemist, Hastings street, has received direct from the maker a new supply of Pepsalia, Kola Wine. Bovril, Pnmillne Essence, Roche's Embrocation (for whooping cough), Quinine Wine, Anti-Catarrh Salts for Hay Fever, Influenza, etc.