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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9939, 10 December 1900, Page 4

On page two appear cables and telegraphic, Transvaal war intelligence on page three, serial on page six, and an account of Colonel Sommerville's experiences whilst in South Africa and telegraphic on the seventh page. We are in receipt of a calendar for 1901 from the New Zealand.Fire and Mariee Insurance Company (Mr M. Herrold, manager). Mr John Davie?, late postmaster of Samoa, is a passenger by to-day's express from Wellington on a* visit to Napier. Rooms have been engaged at the Masonic Hotel for Mr Davies during his stay here. Tho "Messiah" practice called tor tomorrow night is unavoidably postponed till Wednesday evening, at the Cathedral, at 8 o'clock punctually. "The very first duty of a politician is considered to be to help himself." Pertinent remark by Mr Atkinson at a Wellington banquet. A contemporary says it is semiofficially stated that the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York to New Zealand will be confined to the four chief centres. The Hospital retur.is for the past week are as follows : —In at last date, 19 males, 15 females; admitted during the week, 5 males, 4 females ; discharged, 3 males ; remaining at date, 21 males, 19 females. According to the fost Mr A.L.D. Fraser, M.H.R. for Napier, will accompany the Hon. James Carroll (Native Minister) and three native chiefs to Sydney to take part in the Federal festivities. The social and concert announced to be held in the new Wilson Hall, Spit, next Wednesday evening, has been postponed for a week. There died at Lismore, New South Wales, the other day Mrs Harriet Brett who, with her husband, went through the Crimean war, being one of the nurses with Miss Florence Nightingale. The Wairoa Hospital Board propose to canvass the district with a view to supplementing the Government grant of £1000 for a new hospital by £400 or £500. The Justice Department, as c busy framing the regulations required by tr.e Shorthand Reporters' Act passed last session, and they will shortly bo gazetted. They will provide chiefly for examinations, and the standard number of words per minute will be fixed. A notification in the (raz'i'te gives a list of militia officera who have been retired on account of tlieir b.mg over 65 years of age. The following n«nies are included in the Hat:—Unattached "list—Captains M. N. Bower, E. Tuke, G. E. G. Richardson, of Napier, and A. St. C. Inglis, Wai i aw a. A Sydney paaer says tint over four hundred ode*} have been received for the competition in connection with th« Commonwealth celebration*. There is a.remarkable ruu upon the apos rophes, " Hail! Virgin Queen of the fouth," "Arise ! daughter of the Queen," and " Arise ! Ausiral's nation." The busiest bodies in the colony at the present moment are the conciliation, boards. They, are sitting in all the principle towns of the colony just now, with an accumulation of work before them, and every prospect of a brisk Christmas season, and yet we are continually being told that the Arbitration Act has completely settled the labor difficulty. Several eases of false packing of wool came to light when buyers were passing wool after the sale on Friday (says the Ti-> aru Post). A nice, bright, fine fleece or two had been neatly placed at the mouths of some of the bales, and so shown to the buyers to value, but on examination of the bulk the bales were found to contain inferior wool, such as coarse and dingy crossbred fleeces, the result of which was that the wool was rejected, and tightly too. Patient-' suffering from weak hearts cannot, it is well know--, be put under chloroform without danger. The Paris correspondent of the Daily JVtics says that a Chicago surgeon has discovered a way of performing operations upen such persons without pain and without sending them to sleep, and consequently without risk of life. His method is merely to inject cocaine into the spinal canal. The spinal marrow—a sort of telegraph wire between the extremities of the body and tho brain—apparently absorbs cocaine, injected not into the marrow itself but into the canal. _s scon as absorption has taken place telegraphic communication may De said to be interrupted for the time being between the nerve and where sensations of pan are received, and tho biain, where they are felt. The method is said to have been su-.cessfully tested in the Cook County Hospital, when a man's right leg was removed. The patient's vitality was very low, and time was consumed by the cocaine to accomplish complete insensibility to pain. About ten minutes before the operation was whollj over, however, the subject showed signs of collapse, and a mild application of chloroform was administered. the whole time the patient had all his mental faculties, and declared that he could not feel the knife. It was an hour and a quarter before the numbness had entirely left his body. Tlie patient's condition, the surgeous say, is highly satisfactory. Another mere delicate operation with the use of cocaine was performed upon a woman, who did not huffer a twinge of pain, although the operation is one of the most perilous in surgery. Kirkcaldie and Stains, Limited, are showing some Special Lines in House Furnishings. Cretonnes from 4d to 2s per yard, Tapestry from Is 8d to 10s 6d per yard. Curtains' 4s to 633 per pair, Em- ' broidered Linen Hemstitched Sheets and Bedspreads 28s 6d to 50s each, Damask Table Cloths and Serveiettes (slightly damaged) at reduced prices.—Advt? 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At the Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr A. Turnbull, S.M., a first offender was convicted of drunkenness and discharged.—Henry F. Herold was charged with having on the 9th December, at Mangateretere, stabbed one James Creedon on the neck, thereby causing actual bodily harm. Sergeant Treanor applied for a remand on the ground that *the accused had only been arrested last evening. The accused was accordingly remanded toappear at Hastings onMonday next, or before that date ifjjracticable. — Joseph Hollis who failed to appear, was charged with having faded to obey an order of the Court to support his wife, the amount in arrears being £27 3s 6d. Mr Cresswell, on behalf of the complainant, stated that the defendant had been setting the order at defiance and -asked.that a substantial penalty should he imposed. His Worship sentenced the defendant to two months' imprisonment, warrant to be suspended if he paid £3 3a 6d on the 7th January and the remainder in monthly instalments of £4. —John McCarthy was convicted of drunkenness and discharged. He was further charged with using obscene language and with having assaulted Constable Creeks while the latter was acting in the discharge of hi 3 duty. Mr Cress-' well appeared lor the defendant, and asked that the cases be a ' journed for a month, the defendant in the meantime consenting to a prohibition order being issued against him. The fact was, counsel added, that McCarthy was almost a madman when under th?. influence of liquor, and if the adjournment was granted it would be seen how he would behave himself during the interval. Sergeant Treanor offered no objection, and the adjournment was granted. — John Keating was fined ss, with costs 7s, for having driven a vehicle round the corner of Clive Square at faster than a walking pace, and John Lynch, jun., was simiUrly penalised for riding a bicycle after sunset - without a light.—Prohibition orders were granted against John McCarthy and "Patrick McCarthy.—Henry Patry Jones was charged with persistent cruelty to his wife, wherefor she applied for a separation order. Mr Westall appeared for the complainant and Mr Cresswell for the defendant. After evidence had been taken his Worship granted the separation order, and directed that the defendant should pay £1 per week towards the support of his five children. The unfavorable weather yesterday interfered with the intended church parade of the volunteers at present in camp, and it was considered advisable to postpone it until a future date. The majority of the men have remained under canvas in spite of the rain, aud enter into the proceedings with interest and enthusiasm. Yesterday the camp was inspected by a'number of citizens, and the officers' mess was visited by .the Dean of Waiapu (honorary chaplain to the batt_lion), Dr. Locking (honorary surgeon to the Battalion) Captain Sandtmann (Ahuriri Mounted Rifles), and Dr. de Lisle (honorary surgeon to the Ahuriri Mounted Rifles). Captain Kettle per-for-Sed the duties of officer of the day yesterday, Captain Halpin acting in that capacity"to-day. The usual parade was held at*s.3o o'clock this morning, when the non-coms of the two corps exercised their sections in various movements, the men acquitting themselves very creditably.