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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5415, 23 June 1879, Page 2

Constance and Thomas M'Kenna, the two children whom the police are seeking to send to the Burnha'm Industrial School, to remove them beyond the reach of the evil influence of their mother, were brought up at the Resident Magistrate's Court on Saturday, but Mr Kenny, R.M., was obliged to remand them, as the necessary Gazette notice authorising children to bo sent from Hawke's Bay to the Burnham School, Canterbury, had not been received. James Langhan, a boy whose father is undergoing imprisonment for life for wife-murder, was also remanded for similar reasons. Peter Lundon, charged on remand with lunacy, was sent to the asylum ; and John Farrell, who was similarly charged, was further remanded.

Mr N. Jacobs has resigned his seat in the Municipal Council, increasing the number of vacancies to three.

Last Saturday several whales were seen disporting themselves in the outer Napier Bay.

Mrs Neill will give a ballad concert to-morrow evening in St. John's schoolroom. Toe programme, which is a very attractive one, wttl be found in our advertising columns.

Dr Henry, member for the Buller, was picked up by a carter a few nights since in a stream six miles from Lyell. The enrter put him in his dray, and deposited him at the public-house. He appears to have been coming home from Lyell, where he had been stumping, when on crossing the stream he fell off his horse, which cantered off and left him, and he groped about, the water being very shallow, until he scrambled to a shingle bank in midstream, where, thinking he was on safe ground, he evidently fell to sleep, and there he lay in blissful ignorance of the rising waters closing round him, when the carter, attracted by his dog, lit a candle and found him, otherwise his body would probably have been washed down the Buller.

The Balclutha Councillors seem to have strange notions of the purposes to which the Borough funds are applicable. The local paper publishes at the end of a report of last meeting of the Council the following items of a bill handed in by Mr John Dunne, which seems to have been passed without comment : — To six large bottles of champagne, at los, £i 10s ; to three small do, at 7s 6d, £l 2s (3d ; to six bottles of soda water, at 6d, 3s ; to soda and bitters, 4s ; to corkscrew, 2s 6d ; to three bottles of claret, at os, los; to drinking glasses, 4s 6d. Total, £7 Is Gd.

A strange accident occurred lately at Ashburtou to a girl named Minnie Henderson, who was in tho employ of Mr C. B. M. Branson as a domestic servant. It appears (says the Press) she lay down with a pin in her mouth, and accidentally swallowed it. It stuck in her throat, causing her great pain. Dr Boss, a resident medical man, was called in, and onendeavored to remove the pin, but failed ;. tho girl, who was subject to epileptic fits, refused to allow him to operate. He then recommended her instant removal to the Ohristchurch Hospital, where she is at present.

In the waters of British North America, as the .Colonies informs us, there is an odd fish, as surprising in its way as the sea-serpent, and infinitely more useful. It is -'a species of : smelt,- and. may '•■■'be poetioally .^described as ah aquajio glowworm. We> arej'tbld ii inay be^ literally, used in,; .tile same way ; /«,s' a ; candle, by simply setting a iight to the tail> when it will burn -with a flame as steady as .that, of the. "dips" which our grandfathers used to have to put up with before gas was invented. • It is a small silvery fish; averaging; about fourteen inches long, is excessively fat, and affords . an excellent and valuable oil, which is so inflammable that the dried carcase ■will serve as a torch. Among , the natives the fish is known as the oolahan, and by them, as by others who have tasted' it, is considered one of the,most delicious products of thev:sea', being far more delicate in flavor than the herring. The fish are caught in wicker baskets, and are smoked as much as their oily nature will alloWi

Mr E. Brightwell has a little grey marei which, for purposes of protection, is equal to a Colt's revolver, or a bull-and-temer. A few, days ago (says the Manawatu. Times) the owner was holding an animated conversation with an excited ptrangei 4 , towards the conclusion :of which the pedestrian indulged in aojtaß artistic motions, arid as a prelude ,itos posing -j himself for "ye manly a*fc," atripped off hia coat. Having accomplished that preparatory, he proceeded to attack his opponent in the rear, but before he had time to strike a blow, the grey came to the rescue, and by a welldirected kick, placed the "pugilist horse-de-combat. The .battle was over intone rouridy ; the cries of' lamentation fironii:. the' \vo\irided gladiator being thore boisterous . than were the threats, of vengeance a few moments before." . . '

Dr Erasmus Wilson says: — "Wea^ know that there is nothing more painful than a sprain of an ankle ; it will lay a man up longer than the fracture of a bone, arid he ..may .reoover witiKa very weakened joint. Accompanying a country medical man in his rounds, he told, me, he had made a great discovery in the treatment of sprafns. 'The way I cure asprain' he said, 'is this: I take some lard; I warm it, and rub it into ;' the sprain half or three-quarters of an hour. I then take some cotton Wool and wrap round the joint, and .put on ,a light bandage. .The sprain, Which would have taken many months to, get well, gets well in a few; days-rrcertainly in a fpw weeks— without any ill effects or a,fter consequences.'" 'Mr Wilson adds : " I tried this treatment and found $tst it .succeeded admirably."

DUriflg jthe late Russo-Turkish war no fewer than 20,000,000 rations of condensed forage were, we learn from a lately published statement, consumed by the Russian arnaies '-\ itr thy field. This condensed food was" supplied in the form of flat cakes or biscuits, weighing 41b each, and strung together by a string passing through a hole in the centre of each.

Fears are entertained that a volcano may be tapped before the St. Gothard tunnel is oompleted.