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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6411, 21 November 1882, Page 2

Tho following- articles of 'interest; will bo found on our fourth page : — "Ladies'" Dresses on -the 1 Cup Day,'' "A Fashionable Lady Swindler," and "Archibald Forbes and his Candid Critic."

Shortly before 1 , o'clock this morning the Aurora AwsiraHs was again visible in tho southern .sky. The light was in long, streams, which changed somewhat in form until the whole disappeared on the approach of day.

Those interested arc reminded that nominations for the principal events for the Hawke's Bay .Jockey Club's Boxing Day meeting must bo made this c von ing. As the programme id a v<>ry liberal one, good entries should be forthcoming.

' In Messrs Large and Tow nicy's window: there is a fine engraving from Uolman Hunt's famous paintiug, " The Shadow of the Cross." The engraving is the properly, of Mr . Torr, manager of the Union Bank, and is (he first co]jy that has reached here.

An order declaring the complete execution of a deed oi : arrangement made between Georgo Benjamin, of Taradale, and his creditors, was granted by the Kogisirar of the Supremo Court yesterday. Mr Corn ford applied for the debtor, and there was no opposition.

The othor day wo mentioned that wo had received the bank returns for last quarter by telegraph, but as there was a trifling deficiency of £2,000,000 in tho totals we did not publish them. The mistake was not duo to an omission on tho part of the telegraph operator*, as we at first supposed.' ' We have seen the original copy, supplied by the Association's agent sit Wellington, and the mistake is made in that. '

The secretary to the hospital requests us to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums collected from the hospital boxes .- — Box at hospital, £3 12s ; Petane, £•2 IN; Criterion, £2 9s ; Clarendon. £1 15s; Caledonian,. £1 Jls ; Hail way, Hastings, .Cl as ; Groenmeadows, £1 3.-; ; Hastings, £1; Victoria, 2n ; Napier, os ; .Albion, -Is; Masonic, 9s ; Mr Levi's, 4s; 7s ; Working Men's Club, 3s; Forty, 4s:'; TVaverley, 3s ; Taradiile, os ; Hastings railway -station, 2s; Young's, 7s ; West Clive, 5s ; Farndon, 5s ; .Empire, 7s; Occidental, 10s; Shakespeare, 8s; London, 3?; Crown, os ; Hoyal, ss; Exchange, 3s ; ) J rovim:ial, Cs ; Terminus, 5s ; Napier, railway station, 2s ; total, £21 ss. A special Collection is now 'being taken up' in all the boxes, for tho now wing and a Children's Hospital.

Ah English correspondent supplies us with some particulars of the festivities attending the recent marriage of Miss Russell, daughter of Mr. Purvis Hussell, of Woburn, Hawke's J3ay, and Warrock, {Scotland, to Mr H.. Montgomery, " of Hattonburn. All the servants on tho estate were entertained at supper at Warvook House. Afterwarda Mr Hal i burton, manager, in the name of his fellow-ser-vants, presented IVlicis JUissell with a handsome cake-basket, bearing a suitable inscription. Mr Purvis Kussoll acknowledged the gift for his daughter. The healths of the bride and bridegroom and Mr and Mrs Jlusscll were drunk with Hearty cheers. Afterwards the company adjourned to the large coach-house, which had been cleared for dancing. Mr and Mrs Hussell and the bride and bridegroom led off tho first dance to the music of the bagpipes. Tho party broke up in the " wee sum' hours," after spending a most enjoyable evening.

An insolvent named Wm. Short, while under examination at the Sydney lusolvont Court, stated in evidence that he lost JSGOO betting at the last Hand wick races, and £-iSO gambling with dice.

It is suggested that lucifer matches carried into birds' nests may have been tho cau^e of tho fire at the Sydney Garden Palace. A case of this kind happened some years ago in the fire in the Church of England, Richmond, Australia.

The news of the victory of Navigator in the Derby was received at lieu tor's office in Wellington before the winning jockey had dismounted, the actual time occupied in transmission from the Flemington course being less than five minutes. Such a feat of telegraphy over a distance of nearly '^000 miles has scarcely ever been equalled," and it reflects great credit on the Victorian and other tele-graph departments.

The recent floods at Vershetz, in Hungary, which are said to have been caused by the peculiar phenomenon known as a terrene waterspout, were more destructive than was at first anticipated. In that single village, states a telegram, no fewer than 11 persons were swept away and lost their lives in the rushing waters. Tho number of houses which have been destroyed is 23. At the time the stone bridge was carried away by the floods there were 25 persons on it, who were all drowned, most of them being children,

The Annulate Cnronide and tho Tttmwortk Observer, two New .South Wales papers, are at loggerheads over, tho Queen's English. The former paper says that "literary larrikins fancy that if they

detect a typographical error in a newspaper they have achieved the acme of human bliss." The Ckroniclo man winds up its invective by offering to bet ten to one that the editor of the Observer cannot give in English the meaning of "Pot pourri" and "bric-a-brac." Is this a reflection upon the contents of the Tainworth paper F

Sir Wilfred Lawson, speaking at a local option demonstration at Kensington, said he dared say that a great many of those present had seen an advertisement iv the newspapers headed, "How to avoid the injurious effects of stimulants." There was once a boy who was told to write an essay on pins and needles. The boy wrote a very short essay. (Laughter.) Ho said, "Pins aro the most useful things ; they have saved the lives of many families." "How so ?" asked the master. "By not sw.iilowing them," said tho boy. (Great laughter.) That was his (Sir W. Lawson's) cure for the injurious effects of stimulants.

A ruriou.s computation has been made of tho cost, to the British nation of the two hours' bombardment of Alexandria. It seems that every round fired from the four S(Mon guns of the Inflexible cost the nation £25 iOs per gun. Thc23-ton guns, of which the Alexandra carries two, the Monarch four, and the Tomeraire four, cost £7 por round per gun. The 18-ton guns, of which tho Alexandra carries ten, tho Sultan eight, the Superb" sixteen, and the Tcmerarie, cost £5 5s per round per gUn. The 33- ton guns, of which the Invincible carries- ten, the Monarch two, and the Sultan four, cost £3 12 per round per gun. The Penelope, which alone carries 9-ton guns, has eight of them, which were discharged at a costoE £2 15s per round per gun.

Tho Duke of Westminster's! new family relations aro "a little mixed. He .has married Lady Catherine Cavendish. The bride's eldest brother, Captain Cavendish, married the Duke's daughter, Lady Beatrice Grosvenor, upwards of four years ago, and has a son, Charles William Hugh, by her, now three years and a half old. Captain Cavendish will therefore become the brother-in-law of his father-in-law.; his son tiharles William Hugh, will become the nephew of his own grandfather, and any son born of the Duke's second , marriage will be at once the brother and tho nephew of Lady Beatrice Cavendish. The Duke will become the uncle of his grandson and the brother-in-law of his own daughter, and thus in a sense he will be his own son. Miss Cavendish is a very charming and pretty young lad} r , who is just over twenty-four years of age. The Duke, on the other hand-, is thiry-twb years and two months older than his bride.

A case has just occurred in Geelong (says an exchange) which exemplifies ihe great danger .of the very prevalent practice of fonaling and kissing dogs and cats. A young lady was, by her friends, supposed to be suffering from consumption. Many of the symptoms which developed themselves Avere >'closely ."allied to those which are prevalent in phthisis., . The death of a. pet cat which had been allowed to sloop on the same bed as its mistress, afforded, a clue by which the.observaut medical man was ; . enabled to trace the cause and origin of : the. disease from which his patient was suffering. On examining the interior organs of the animal, a number of hydatid' cysts, varying in size from a pea to a marble, were found, and the examination of the patient's saliva disclosed tho presence of a number: of hydatids of tho same class as those which had caused the death of the cat. Young ladies will doubtless, be able from tho above case to ..draw the moral that it is less objectionable and less dangerous to indulge in the oscillatory practice with members of the human family than with those of either the feline or canine races. '

Chills and fever, a sort of generic name, liberalised in its application by quacks . and non-professionals, who, like the thief who " fears each bush an officer," sees in every result of malarial or miasmatic influences this dread and perplexing malady, often attacks weak constitutions because they are naturally more open to assault. Instead, however, of dosing one's self with all the nostrums that aro guaranteed to ward off these spells, just mo Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps, and ifc will be found to indurate, as it were, the frame, and destroy its susceptibility to pernicious atmospheres.— [Advt.]

The aesthetic age by which is con-, sidercd the aversion we have to the ugly the deformed, Hie odd, tho longing we have for tho beautiful, the symmetrical, tin? sublime, and the picturesque. These natural desires constitute the promptings to m.-teutic pursuits, whether in an artist with tho further views of producing either on canvass or 'stone, or in tho spectator in the direction of impelling if possible to gain possession of the objects that will meet those desires. The purely intellectual housekeeper considers the wants nf hor household and the pleasures of.her social ends, and provides for these £c s the tic, aud physical comforts sho proyides aesthetic bread and pastry, buns, scones, and cakes, obtainable only by the use of Sharland's Moa Brand Baking Powder, pure and unadulterated, and rich in the phosphates. — [Advt.]