THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1885.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 5366, 10 December 1885, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1885.

By this morning's telegrams we learn that so far 324 Liberals have been returned, 243 Conservatives,, and 75 Parnellites. — The Bulgarians insist. .upon Servia coming to terms.— Vanderbilt the millionr aire is dead. : ' In consequence of .; the pressure,; of advertisements and in order >.£o.. v make room for matter of general interest we issue a supplement with this number. The friends of Thomas O'Loughlini the pedestrian, who has been an inmate of the Hospital for some weeks with a bad leg, will be glad to learn that the report as to the likelihood of him losing his leg is a gross exaggeration. His injury may interfere with his running in the . future, but there is at present no reason to apprehend thac amputation will be necessary. His injury in the first instance was serious enough for him to lay up with, as the bone was injured, so that subsequently inflammation Bet in from the inside. He 13, however, getting on very well under Dr Morice's care, and will soon be about again. This being the last day for receiving Property Tax, the Money Order Office will remain open until 5 p.m. The regular meeting of the Hospital Committee was held at Gilmer's Hotel last evening, there being present — Messrs Lahman (chair), Arnott, Matheson, Kent, Cameron, Dupre, Yarrall, Petrie. Blackmore, Tonks, Hogg, and M'Parland (Brunner delegate). The minutes of the regular and special meeting having been confirmed, the Visiting Committee reported everything satisfactory at the hospital, there being 26 males and four females in the institution, All the repairs had been effected at a cost of £26 19s Cd for labor and material ; which, with the accounts for the month, £166 Is lOd, were passed for payment. The hon. treasurer reported following receipts : — H. Johnson, per Mr Frankpitt, Red Jacks, 20s ; Government subsidy to 30th September, £723 13s 3d; Paroa Local Committee, Rutherglen district, per Mr Seebeck, £8 9s ; J. G. Woon, 2Ls ; per Superintendent — Peter Petronio, 20s ; R. Forsyth, on account of T. Miller, deceased, 20s. The canvassers appointed at last meeting had canvassed the town and had leceived the names cf 134 subscribers, who had paid in cash £23 10s, and had promised subscribtions for next year to the amount of £88 17s. The list of patients, nonticket holders, was read and dealt with ; and the doctor's report read and received. A letter from Mr Williams, Superintendent, asking for an increase of salary to the night wardsman and himself was consideredj and it was resolved that the night wardsman receive an increase of £20 per annum and the Superintendent £50 per annum, both increases to commence from Ist- January, 1886. Tenders for painting were then opened as follows : — John t O'liagan, £198 10s ; F. Badger, £189. : The lowest tender was accepted. Messrs Ma f heson, Kent and Lord, were appointed Visiting Oomnrttee for the month. j Two boys were fined £2 5s eaoh for defacing the Stafford State school. One of the boys was an ex-pupil teacher in the Stafford School, and the other was a pupil teacher of the Goklsborough School. The latter has been dismissed by the Education Board: The Unive sity Matriculation Examination will co.ninence on Monday next, and occupy about eight days before being completed. There are six candidates as follow :— J. Kay, Westport ; R Boy lan, Ellen Walsh, and J. M'Kay, all from Reefton ; Elizabeth S. Smith and A. S. Malcolm, from Greymouth. The examination will be held at the Court House. Mr W. A. Barton, Clerk of the Court, has been appointed supervising officer for these examinations,

It is understood that a go-as-you-please j match for twelve hours will come off next j Saturday week between Haylett and McGregor. Tenders close at noon to-day for buiding in the boiler at the Coal Pit Heath Mine. Nancarrow and Co. will sell this afternoon at Noonan's Commercial Hotel, Wallsend, leasehold sections. ... _Tlxe Tasrnanian Legislature has increased the property tax to threepence. The expulsion of Russo-Polish subjects from the eastern provinces of Prussia is proceding apace. Whatever may be said i l about the anti-Germanising agitation of .these immigrants, it cannot be denied (says the Times) that the decree of expulsion is a great hardship in many cases. Persons who have been 40 years in Prussia and have served their time in the German army have been peremptorily requested to quit German soil, and a young Russian physician and several students of the University of Breslau have also received notice to leave the country. This last action of the authorities has been received with special disfavour by the German Press, and it can scarcely be denied that the instinct of selfpreservation has been pushed to an extreme of illiberality and absurdity. It "ould be a bad thing for Germany if her universities were closed to foreign devotees of science. .Travellers in polar regions have sur- ' vived exposure to cold as great as 75deg. below zero, Fahrenheit. On the other hand, the inhabitants of some parts of the globe are forced to endure at certain periods a natural temperature considerably higher than lOOdeg. above zero. A still greater heat — greater even than 200 deg. — may be borne by the human body for a short time. Brewster mentions that Chantry and five or six friends remained two minutes in the sculptor's drying furnace, bringing out a thermometer which stood at 320deg. Chantry's workmen entered the furnace when the temperature was as high as 240deg. Ex-Professor Blackie, writing to the Pall Mall Gazette, under date August 21, says :— " As definitions ought to be short, 1 will give you one which I hope may appear satisfactory in a single sentence. Liberalism is that tendency in the minds of politicians which inclines them tc grant as much freedom and scope to individual self-assertion in the members of a social body as is consistent with the general good of the whole ; while Conservatism, as an antagonistic force, is that tendency in the minds of politicians which lea'Js them to preserve as fa>" as possible intact the rights and privileges, functions and interests of ■the governing classes as they have been handed down to the present by the ihsti- | tutions, laws and consuetudes of past. The watch wtrds of the one"party,"'accordingly, are liberty and progress j of ( the other, authoiity and stability ; and in the balance of these two antagonistic forces, according to time, place, and circumstance, good government consists'." . The Pall Mall Gazette says :— An ex- : periment which should be highly interesting to the public at large recently took place on the Thames at Westminster! Several persons, including a lady, a clergyman, and .military and naval officers, all clad in tWe^garments of their every day life, embarked in a small boat, and on 'arriving in midstream proceeded to jump into the water. When there they ap-p'eared-to be- perfectly at their ease, and making no movement, rested calmly, with their heads appearing above the surface. The explanation of the phenomenon was that the clothes worn by these bathers were madefof a fabric in which fine threads of cork'were interwoven with other material Mr Jackson, the inventor, is to be congratulated on the complete success of this ingenious device, Avhich is a vast improvement on the unwieldy Bbyton dress. Timid sea travellers can nowVequip themselves in garments which, while being undistinguishable from those of ordinary mortals, will make death by drowning an impossibility. A farmer boy bought himself a bicycle, and wishes he hadn't. His thrifty father has utilised the thing by making it furnish motive power for his winnowing-mill, corn-sheller, and grindstones. This he does by suspending it to the axle, remov- i ing the tire from the wheel, and connecting it by an endless rope with his agricultural machine, then making his son mount and do the propelling. The bicycle has a i future. Shortly after one o'clock on the morning of September 18ih, a serious collision took place off the South Foreland between the steamer Brenda, 1,700 tons, bound for London, and the steamer Dolphin, 406 tons, from the Thames to Havre. The Dolphin was struck by the Brenda about amidships, and at once began to fill ; the captain immediately turned her head towards shore, and launched two boats, which were soon tilled with passengers and crew, but two or three minutes after the.: coliosion the Dolphin sank, and with ;her aboqutwenty;" person's. Several of' these = were ; picked up by fishing boats, but seventeen- are missing. The Brenda, which , :wasseriously damaged, Oontinued hor coure. and managed to reach Dover in safety. A colonel asked a corporal what his father was " A farmer," was the reply. "It's a pity .he didn't make you follow his trade," said the colonel. "What was your father?" asked the corporal. "A gentleman, " answered the colonel. ' ' What a pity he didn't make you one too," was the neat retort. Sir As.tley Cooper the renowned British surgeon once said that no man sho.uld be aware from his sensations that he has a stomach. Alas ! how many thousands are painfully and continually reminded of the existence of that organ. Dyspepsia renders the lives of the unfortunates perfectly miserable. Every manifestation of the disease vanishes, however, when Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is used to strengthen the stomach and" associate organs. — Advt. Never Return. — It is said that one of every four real invalids who go tv foreigncountries to recover health never return, except as a corpse. The undertakers, next .to the hotel-keepere, have the most profitable business. This excessive mor-' tahty may be prevented and patients served and cured under the care of friends and loved- ones at home, if they will but use Hop Bitters in time. Read. Indigestion. — The main cause of nervousness is indigestion, and that is caused by weakness of the stomach. No , one can have sound nerves and good health without using Hop Bitters to strengthen the stomach, purify the blood, and keep the;liver and kidneys active, to carry off all the poisonous and waste matter of the system, See.— Advti '>