GENERAL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3591, 2 August 1912, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

“Just stop to think that Theodore Roosevelt is only one nine-hundred-and-forty-thousandth of 1 per cent, of the population of the United Slates,” says the “A lbank Journal.”

“liberalism . in this country Ts hound to decline, as in Germany and Belgium, and to become gradually an altogether subordinate factor in the State,” says the “Observer.”

Professor Smart, in his book on “The Distribution of Income,” .suggests that “the kind of liberty that literary men hold so dear’’ is “the liberty of doing thou- work when they pleasi and with the intensity they please.”

An account of a surgical operation performed in a sailing ship at sea was related by members of the crew of the "it©' Star Line sailing ship Mersey, which arrived in London from Australia. During very rough weather off Cape Horn a- cadet, aged seventeen, was taken seriously ill with appendicitis, and an immediate operation was necessary. The only medical man on board was Dr. Kbriveil, and he appointed the headmaster, Lieutenant Cross, to administer the anaesthetic, and the first and second officers also tr> assist him. The ship was rolling badly, but the operation was conducted su’fce-ssfnly. Three weeks later, however, the cadet was again taken ill, and another operation was successfully performed.

At the end of a Home Rule me.,- - ing addressed by Mr. C. E. Hothouse and Mi-. W. Redmond, ALP., at Bristol, Mrs Dove Willeox, a aider of the local militant Suffragettes, was found' in an ante-room disguised as a man, wearing a sort felt hat, a dost coat, and trousers. She was r)i =”« \ - o.'ctl by the police aikl ejected Mw was pursued bv a large crowd el people who roughly treated her nod .‘die eventually ctv.ipcd in a tramway-ca:.

The Government of Ontar-o "*ir>\c announced that at the next sos;i n

of the Legislature a .Bill will be introduced to prohibit “treating.” To some extent this measure is men t t<’ offset the policy of the Opposition i ( >r tht* abolition of the bar. .t wid make it a misdemeanor to iitl.P' “treat” or be /‘treated,” and the hotelkeeper will also incur a heavy penalty for permitting such a thing on his premises- This is a new aspect of the temperance movement.

Dr. Ettles, the well-known London oculist, giving evidence in the Law Courts, made the surprising statement that it was a common oecurrvir.'c for him to see jioople who had lest the sight of onu eye and do not know it-

Air and Airs James Danbv, of Bnrdnev, Lanas, who have just celebrated the. 70th anniversary of their wedding day, have received the following message from Buckingham Palace: “Sir, —I am commanded by His Majesty to offer to you and your wife his congratulations upon this interesting occasion, and to convey to you the .expression of IPs Majesty’s hope that you may bo spared to < ek’brato further anniversaries of ycur wedding dav.”

“TJio a n noun cement by Dr. Forbesltoss that-lie lias experimented successfully with a new local anaesthetic which controls the nerve-centres round the scat of an operation wound sufficiently long to remove the pain of reaction and tiro danger of after-shock must prove of the greatest interest to surgical science,” says- the “Pall Mall.” “If it be further shown that minor operations, at anv rate, ran be saf-elv performed under iti influence without the use of chloroform, the subtle danger now known to arise from the 'mysterious'' condition called status lymphatieus will he eliminated from the risks of surgery.”

AY hen a farmer was examined in bankruptcy at Carmarthenshire Bankruptcy Court it was stated that bis ledger contained such maxims as: “Promptitude is the soul of business,” “Accuracy assures success,” and the declaration: “J. herewith sincerely declare and vow that I shall not buy anything in the way of business without having the. money' ready to pay (or it; to do nil in my power to pay at the specified time for the same; and to cultivate the principle of getting paid down for all goods.” The debtor, turning to the reporters present, said: “It is not fair to copy my maxims, and scatter them about the country.” His labilities totalled £i;)()0 and the deficiency was £llOO. The body of Air. Joseph Af. Alaynes, a Mormon missionary, who died by the roadside, from a heart affection while eyeing from Gloucester to vuaitenham, is being taken to Salt Lake Gitv for interment. The body was embalmed -and clothed in the vestments of a high official of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, and it lay in state for a couple of days in order tliay all the members of t-lio sect in the district might take a farewell look at their late leader. The coffin was taken by motor-em to Liverpool, where the long journey of G,500 miles commenced.