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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7064, 16 January 1885, Page 2

A letter on " Local . Industries and Liberalism " will be found on the fourth. ' page. There was no business at the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday. The Tarewa flag station, between Waipukurau and Waipawa, recently closed i by the authorities, has been re-opened for traffic. The money for the enlargement of the Athenceum, £1200, has been obtained at 7i per cent, interest, and the work will be put in hand as soon as possible. A smart shock of earthquake waa felt in Napier last evening, Bhortly after six 1 o'clock. The tremor was more prolonged than experienced for a considerable period, lasting several seconds. 1 It is anticipated that the annual Fire Brigades Conference, to be held at Dunedin in connection with the forthcoming interprovincial competition at that town, will decide to hold the next competition and conference at Napier. Mr Fred W. Millis, the celebrated ventriloquist, will appear at the Oddfellows' Hall. Waipawa, this evening, in his unique and .talented entertainment. Mr Milliß will be assisted by Barry O'Neil, the well-known comic and motto song vocalist. A telegram was received by the police authorities in Napier yesterday evening, to the effect that Mr C. Griffiths, son of the coach proprietor of that name, had shot himself at Tarawera, the result being fatal. An inquest will be held, Mr A. Kennedy, J.P., and Sergeant Burtenshaw having started for Tarawera this morning for that purpose. We are indebted to the secretary of the Napier Chamber of Commerce for a copy of the report of the proceedings at the meeting of the associated Chambers of New Zealand, held in Wellington in September last. The report does not convey much of an idea of what took place, although it has taken nearly three months to prepare and publish. In the oricket match at Fetane on Saturday, between the second elevens of the Phoenix and Rovers Clubs, the latter will be represented by the following players : — Anderson, Bell, J. Cato, Chapman, Davis, T. Hunter, N. Kennedy, A. D. Newton, Niven, Turner, and Tylee. Emergencies: Guy and Williams. The coach will leave the Clarendon Hotel at llp.m. We were slightly in error yesterday in reference to the site recently acquired by the Government for the Woodville railway station. The number and late owner of the section were correctly given, but it was stated that the land was situated within the township, whereas the site is actuall situated outside the limits of the township proper. This is due to the large prices asked from the Government by owners of town sections. Five cases of fireworks were landed at Napier on Saturday to the order of the Napier Volunteer Brigade. These fireworks, which are of high-class quality, and comprise many of the best specimens of modern pyrotechny, were ordered for the annual display given by the brigade during the Christmas holidays, but were delayed in transit. It is now intended to give a grand display after the return of the representative teams from Dunedin. A lively meeting in connection with municipal matters at Feilding was held at that township last week. The chairman was pelted from his position by showers of rotten eggs, and one speaker was silenced by being struck with a large horse-collar and a dirty doormat, hurled at him by the audience. A township that can provide " striking" tableaux of this kind must be a very nice place indeed. There was a fair attendance at Mr E. Lyndon's land sale yesterday, but bidding was not over brisk, a determination among speculators and intending settlers to await the result of the poll on the harbor question before purchasing land ' tending to make business dull. A town section at Kaikora, with buildings thereou, fetched £130, and sections 298, 299, 300, and 301, East Clive, were sold for £10 each. Sections 12 and 13, of the township of Danovirke extension, were quitted at £27 and £21 respectively. The ordinary monthly meeting of the committee of the Napier Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday in the rooms of the Chamber, Browning-street. Present— Messrs J. G. Kinross (in the ofeair), W. T. Irvine, O. B. Winter, E. W. Knowleß,' JV S. liarge/M. & Vl Miller,

and J. W. Neal. Correspondence on the question of the projected telephone exchange was read. The secretary stated that he had. succeeded in obtaining the names of 27 subscribers, and that the cost to each in Napier would be £12 for the first year and £10 per year afterwards. Subscribers at the Spit would have to pay extra for mileage, the cost being £19 10s for the first year and £15 per year afterwards. The secretary was instructed to continue his negotiations with the telegraphic authorities, and to procure the signatures of intending subscribers to the necessary application to the department. A letter from Mr Lemon, superintendent of telegraphs, was read, stating the conditions under which the Governmeut would establish the exchange, and further informing the committee that the police office, fire brigade station, and post-office would be connected and maintained free of charge. It was decided that the committee should in future meet on the second Thursday in each month, in consequence of the Wednesday wool sales preventing members from attending on that day. A. few accounts were passed for payment and the committee adjourned. The largest gold nuggets ever found were the following: — The Sarah Sands nugget, found at Ballarat. It weighed 1301 b troy, or 1560 ounces. This, at £4 per ounce would be worth £6140. The Blanche Barkley nugget, dug up at Kinkower. It weighed 1451 b, and was worth £6960. The Welcome Nugget, found at Ballarat. It weighed 1841 b, and was sold for £10,000. This was the largest ever found. Forty-five years ago the Britannia was considered a remarkable ship. She was 209 feet long, and her tonnage 1155. The new Cunard vessel, the Etraria, is 520 feet long, and her tonnage nearly 8000. The Britannia had engines of 850 horse power ; the horse- power of the Etruria is 14,000. The Britannia carried 220 tons of cargo and 120 passengers ; the Etruria is built to carry 5000 tons of cargo and 150 passengers. The Britannia carried 500 tons of coal, and her speed was eight and a half knots per |hour ; the Etruria is to carry 2500 tons, and is expected to make 19 knots per hour. Five years ago the Arizona made the then extraordinarily fast time of seven days and seven hours. The builder of the Etruria is sure that she will do it in twenty-four hours less time, and he thinks that in another five years ships will be built to make the passage in one day less than that. An extraordinary case is reported from the land of the stars and stripes. Conklin Vande water, 19 years old, book-keeper in Williamsburg, and who, when he attains his majority, will come into possession of a handsome fortune, is said to have been married recently under peculiar circumstances. He is the son of the late Conklin Vandewater, of South Oyster Bay. During the past year he ha 3 gone occasionally to South Oyster Bay, and at these times he generally met Miss Cornelia Mann, the 17 year old daughter of a farmer. One evening recently he called upon Miss Mann, and says he remembered nothing further till he woke next morning, and found himself in bed in Mr Mann's house. Cornelia was in the room. He asked the young girl for an explanation, he says, and she replied, " Why, Conkey dear, don't you know that we were married last evening ! " Vandewater thought she was joking, but she produced a marriage certificate. Notice has been filed of the commencement of a suit for annulment of the marriage. The Auckland Sugar Refining Company keep an analyst whose services, it seems, are used to advertise the company's wares. The New Zealand Herald publishes a long account of his analysis of various descriptions of unrefined sugar, made with the object of detecting the presence of an animalcules known as the Acaras Saccharus, a nasty little insect which gives those engaged in handling sugar a disease known as " grocers' itch," by burrowing under the skin of their hands. Examined under the microscope, the Acaras Saccharus isa repulsive eightlegged insect, with hooked claws and turtle-shaped back. Its presence in sugar can be detected very simply by putting a teaspoonful of sugar into a clean glass, which should then be nearly filled with clean water. In a few moments the insects, if there be any, float to the top in shape of little white spots, which, if closely observed, are soon seen to be alive. All unrefined sugars are said to contain the inseot, but the process of refining effeotually extinguishes the vulgar parasite. Two inventions have just been described before one of the scientific societies by Dr Atcherley, a London engineer, which (says the European Mail) seem destined to revolutionise the operations of the goldfinder. In the first, the doctor's own invention, that old servant of the miner, mercury, is made to do a far greater amount of duty in amalgamating the gold in washing operations. The second invention, which is by Mr Henry R. Cassel, of New York, is however, of an importance that fairly takes one's breath away. He demonstrates tho possibility, at the cost of a few shillings per ton of ore treated, of obtaining more than 95 per cent, of all the gold out of the most refractory quantity ever thrown away by the Ualifornian, Australian, or Indian miner, the total value of which on the various goldfields of the world is calculated at more than 200 million sterling. The process only requires the decomposition of water, common salt, and lime, by electrical means, in presence of the rebellious gas in a state of trituration. The gold is in fact separated exactly by the process adopted by nature to impregnate the water of the ocean, every ton of which, according to ohemists, contains so many grains of gold. A powerful syndicate has already acquired the rights of the inventions. Bemember This. — If you are sick Hop Bitters will surely aid Nature in making you well when all else fails. If you are costive or dyspeptic, or are suffering from any other of the numerous diseases of the stomach or bowels, it is your own fault if you remain ill, for Hop Bitters is a sovereign remedy in all such complaints. If you are wasting away with any form of Kidney disease, stop tempting Death this moment, and turn for a cure to Hop Bitters. If you are aiok with that terrible sickness, nervousness, you will find a " Balm in Gilead "in the use of Hop Bitters. If you area frequenter, or a resident of a miasmatic district, barricade your system against tho scourge of all countries — malarial, epidemic, bilious, and intermittent fevers — by the use of Hop Bitters. If you have rough, pimply, or sallow skin, bad breath, pains and aches, and feel miserable generally, Hop Bitters will give you fair skin, rich bl«od, and sweetest breath, health, and comfort In short they cure all diseases of the stomach, Bowels, Blood, Liver, Nerves, Kidneys, Bright's Disease. £500 will be paid fur a caße they will not cure or help. Druggists and Ohemists keep. That poor, bedridden, invalid wife, sister, mother, or daughter, can be made the picture of health, by a few bottles of Hop Bitters, coating but a trifle. Will you let them suffer ? 89