Untitled

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7520, 21 August 1886, Page 2

On the fourth page will bo found an article entitled " Civilisation and Eyesight*" ' A " ' The sea still continues very high in the bay. Last evening it broke over the wall on' to the Marine-parade in several places. • At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr E. Lyndon„J.P., John Began was fined 5s and costs for drunkenness. . • The. second fifteen cup match between the Napier and Connty Clubs,- to have been played on tiio Recreation Ground this afternoon, has fallen through. . An old -resident of the district, Mr S. B. Firth, died at Papatu, near Ormondville, yesterday, _'0M cancer in the stomach. He had been ailing for some time past. The subject of the Rev-. J. Gr. Patersdn's sermon to-morrow morning will be "Love greater than the lovo of woman." _ The subject of the evening lecture will be ." How young men and young women are to achieve success in their occupations." Mr Swan, acting chairman of the Hospital Trustees, acknowledges the receipt of the following sums from hotel boxes in the Taradale district: — Greenmeadows Hotel, 15s; Puketapu Hotel, 6s 7^d; Waverley Hotel, 7s; Taradale Hotel^ 3s 10_d. "Puff" writes in the Priss:—"Unemployed at Auokland and elsewhere clamouring for work to be mado for them at 4s 6d a day, while tho. Ross United mine is giving 10s a shift bf eight hours, and can't get half enough hands!" " There's a good living for auy number at goldmining!" "The worst of it is tho. sort of men who could get agood living at goldmining aro not the sort who tti'e willing to do the Government stroke at 4s Cd a day !" " No, I expect a shift of eight hours in the Ross. United is worth every penny of 10s 1" We yesterday saw a new form of spring bed,, the invention of, Mr W. Henshaw, of, this town.- .Che under portion of the bed appears in all respects similar to tile ordinary spring mattrassi but attached to it is a quilted' bedi • The advantages claimed by the inventor are that full ventilation is secured, thus ensuring health, and that the shape of the bed results iii greater ease than is- possible,witli the old form of spring mattrass. Mr Henshaw also makes a point of the fact that the bed covering can be " tucked in ' with his m.att__SV The new combination is WOl'tli inspection by. those about to furnish. Here is the latest of Ben Trovato's stories. It is said that a visitor from the South was being shown ronnd our Municipal Council hall. He expressed delight at" the tasteful character of tho decorations, but, noticing the large plan of. the City of Wellington, which is placed in a corner of the chamber, said, "That is a remarkably fine plan/but why on earth give it that funereal aspect by surround-' mg it with a deep black border?" ' His cicerone was ready of wit and caustic of tongue, and replied, " Ah! It had to be done out of respect for the deatli of pnblic spirit in the city!" —Evening Press. .Tlie committee of the Napier Tradesmen's Athletic Club met last night at the club rooms, Faulknor's hall, Mr J. Mills in the chair. It was decided to continue the gymnasium open till the end of September, instead of closing, as had been arranged, at the' end of August, so that members can train and practice in view of :a variety entertainment to be given to wind lip the season. Messrs R.J. Hawkins and A. Paul were elected members of the committee, in place of Messrs A. C. Norris and T. Fothergill,- resigned, and-15 new members were elected. This thriving club has made great progress- since it was started, and can boast of members who take a lively interest in its welfare, and of a sound financial position. The following particulars from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency's circular of July 2, contain some interesting information regarding the rise in wool which took place recently in Europe': — During the past fortnight thesales have progressed firmly, and notwithstanding the exceptionally largo daily offerings, opening rates have not only been maintained, but have in some instances been exceeded. French buyers have throughout been the chief operators, but the German section, has. lately exhibited moro activity, and more recently the bidding on the part of the Home trade has shown greater confidence. To the last'named circumstance is doubtless due the fact that the coarser grades of crossbred have during the past few days advanced about Ad per lb as compared with opening rates. These descriptions it will bo remembered were not quotably dearer ,at the comnlencemont of the series. Whilst the average advance on Australasian merinos, as compared with last sales' closing rates, may be quoted at 20 to 25 per cent., it is noticeable that the rise is more accentuated in the caso of sonic descriptions than others. Thus short, fine-haired, soft Australian wools, in. the grease, are qnite' 2d per lb dearer, whilst those of Netv Zealand type have advanced barely ljd per lb, and extra superfine combing qualities, whether of Australian or New Zealand origin, show but a slight enhancement in value. Merino lambs' sell rather irregularly, but crossbred parcels of good lustre make vory fnll prices. Itt Ids annual report the SurveyorGeneral 'refers to tho soundings which have been taken of Lake Taupo, showing the lake to have a uniform depth of about four bundled feet. - He adds, " Were the lake to run dry its bed would bo a compact, level plain of an area of 241 square miles, at an elevation of about 800 ft above tlie sea," Of all the devices to get to Kimborley the following from the roport of a recent meeting of the Inahgahua County Council is the most original: —"Letter read from G. Escott, asking for the loan of £25 to enable him to proceed to Kimberley, and offering in return to take the blue ribbon, arid to send back' a voluminous report of the new El Dorado. Application refused." At the trial of Charles Sorol, submanager ofthe Jersey Bank at Jersey, evidence was given tliat during the Inst live years the * reports presented to the shareholders were regularly falsified. The liabilities in 1879 wevo understated by £70,000, and increased to over £243,000 in 1883. Interest had been charged on outstanding accounts and credited as profit, out of which dividends wore declared, though neither principal nor interest was paid. o Reuter's Telegram Agency announce that thoy havo now started working tho new code for- tho transmission of messages in au abbreviated form. The code has been most elaborately prepared, and comprises fully 100,000 nhrase . applying to every variety of subject. The code should prove of great service to bnsiness men, to whom it will render communication with their agents or customers across the sea-s very much cheaper, and it is also likely to be of service to private persons. Commenting upon a case involving domestic unliappiness, which was heard in tho Wellington Magistrate's Court, Mr Wardell, R.M., said the circumstances were very sad, but were almost the natural outcome of the conduct of a drunken husband. „ The scenes sometimes pictured to him in the Court as to tho misery brought upon domestic life by such a state of things"almost made him tremblo, whenever he read the announcement of a: marriage, We are informed (says tlie fii/dnci/ Morning Hcrak. that the Mayor of Sydnoy contemplates inviting the Mayors of the various cities of Australia, and New Zca-

lana/ ana inose oi vie principal country « towns of Now South Wales and Victoria, & to visi.tSyjdney .iri.Ooto. er, and that his n Worship intends to entertain tliem nt a ci banquet, to provide other entertainments a for tham, and affofd them Opportunities B also for inspecting the various public buildings anu scenery in and around the N metropolis. f, . On the motion of Sir George Grey, a return has been furnished showing what fa persons are employed by the Government in endeavoring to induce people to locate n themselves in village settlements ; also, • ° their salaries and expenses, the list is as 0 follows .--Auckland, J. Lundon, no salary, at £33 19s claimed for travelling expenses, . but not yet paid ; C. Hill, £275 and tra-. J veiling expenses; Wellington, A. R. Mackay, £275 and expenses; Canter- 1 bury, J, E, Morah, £212 10s and expenses; InvercargiU, H. G. Winsen, £275 and oxpensos ; Otago, .T. Vaughan t, and W. H. Vnlpy, each £255 and exj penses ; H. M. Adam, £100 and expenses. " In the course of, his speech on t\io Inst „ day of thp s.esslpn, says .tlje Evening Press, Mr Moss made sonio Voty hai 'd hits against tlie Premier. i-Jir Robert Stout had j* twitted that hon. member wl|h his.obstrnc- a tion, and proceeded to say tliat that would always be the case until someone took pity on him and gave him a seat on the Government benches. Mr Moss i__>ri_d by 1 asking, " Who was .the Premier that he ] should talk of talcing pity on hon. members? The Premier had yet his spurs to - _vin_ and sat there the mere accident of n ( Queen's Jubilee." A little further on Mr - Moss remarked that the roaring rhetoric : of the Premier deafened but did not con- _ vince him, nnd he further improved the occasion by quoting "Asperius nihil est i humili cum surgit in' altum," whicli he left the Premier to translate, for himself. ■ News from Derby, dated August 3rd, states that an officer arrived from Mount | Barrett. Ho reported all diggers wero getting gold. .One party had 920z, another 20oz, and others averaged from sdwts to loz daily. , Over 1000 men were J on yie ground. . Uood water and feed are „ plentiful for tho whole distance,- which Sergeant Troy covered in 17 days, In i returning he met 260 men, 210 horses, and 100 drays and waggons, and also barrows ' well on the way. Ono man, named Mar-; riott, had been speared bythe natives. ' The diggers retaliated by killing four of , the blacks and wounding others. The medical ofiicer quarantined the Triumph, ' on account of there being one case of Scarlatina on boad. The New Zealanders refused 'to submit, and thoy seized the ship's boats and went ashore. Pratique - was then granted. During tho early part of July a serioiis epidemic among tlie horses broke out on the Ooonong Station, Urarta, New Soutii Wales, the property of MrS. M'Caughey. Up to the 10th ult. six animals had died ' and ten others had been attacked. A;'os( mortem revealed the following character-" istics in all cases:— The lungs were veiy much enlarged, congested, and filled tfitli black blood. The tongue was very much enlarged and protruding. The passage of the throat Avas almost, closed hy the enlargement, of .the tdiimid., Tlie other organs wdre ijeaUhyi There can be .little doubt ds to. tlie contagious nature of tliis alarming disease (says the Australasian), as all horses coming in contact with those infected are immediately attacked; Two dogs' whicli were chained cldsd to tlio stable, *ere attacked by tlie. disease. One* is dead, and the other nearly dead; Nothing like this .disease has ever been known in . this district before. .* The 'Earl 'of Bective was plaintiff xp a case heard at the Wellingtod Supiienie Court on Tuesday. He o**V ns. some land at tlie'Hlitt, oh wliieh several people, had' "squatted" for twenty years. .Mr Jelli. coe,. counsel for the defence, complained that the agents of the plaintiff hadallowed ■ his clients to squat on tlieland.at the Upper Hutt and enhance its 'value by effeoting considerable improvements, .and had then taken proceedings against tjieni for being in illegal possession.- Mr Stafford, who. appeared- on the other side, denied his iearned friend's statement, and said that an agont had only recently been appointed in New Zealand by tho plaintiff. Mr Stafford offered to settle the caso on receiving paymeut of £100 as mesne profits, and he understood tliat if the amount was paid, every effort wonld be niadetb sell the , land to the defendants at a valuation fixed by Mr. John Barton, their own- valuer. Counsel pointed out that the defendants. had not paid any rent for about 20' years, and lie explained that tlie amount which , i he now desired them to pay was to recoup i the' Earl' o'f Bective for the expense which i they had put him to in asserting his rights, ; Dr.U. M. Ponoff, of St.. Petersburg, ■ states that guided by the works of Magnus ■■ Huis, Liiton, Dujardin-Beanmet . arid : others, he employed nitrate of strychnine ■ in two typical cases of dipsomania, and' obtained strikingly successful therapeutic results.. In one , of the patients (a very gifted man of letters', aged 40), the alkaloid was administei'd uhder the skin, in the dose of l-30tli of, a^grain at first (during' a drinking bout) daily, then every other day, thence twice a week, &c. The pationt ceased to ask for drink after the second injection ; within the nexttwo'days, , varieus morbid phenomena (headache,' '*■ weakness, discomfort, &c.j disappeared. On subsequent occasions a few injections of 1.60 th or, l-45th of. agrain of strychnine rapidly removed craving, anxiety, irritaJjilifcy, agoraphobia, and other premonitory symptoms of a threatening -dipso- . maniac attack. The patient each time ' rapidly improved in all regards, and : felt desire' for work and society. In another patient dipsomania disappeared under the internal administration of strychnine, the alkaloid being given for the first two weeks in doses of l-30th of agrain, and for another two weeks in that of 1-COth twice a day, in pills. Waiting for death, the World says, in, a little back parlor in Brooklyn lies Di* Charles P. Keed, 56 years- old, who has not been able to move hand or foot or turn in his bed since he was 34. He lives only in hishead, for every joint is-fast bound, ■ and his body and limbs are wasted to the bone. His eyes are sightless, his neck, stiff, his, jaws. set so close as to .prevent him from taking any food unless it be in very soft or liquid form, and shoulder joints, elbows, wrists, finger .joints, hips,, ;knees, and toes aro immovable^ The knees-are drawn up,' the left knee joint is ■alniost thrown from its socket, .the right' 'foot is turned outward, so* much as to be almost turned back. A white' moustache :aud' beard that Rip Van Winkle would jhave envied, ' cover" the ' lower part of a face strong in outline and full of character. Around this sufferer's bed, where so heavya cross is laid, gather almost daily people who come to get consolation intronble.' Dr Reed is a philosopher, aud his cheer-" ;ful disposition, in spite of the " extreme, , ; hardness of his lot, has made; him the ! wonder, of . everybody . who knows Mm. ■Those who have'lost -friends call there to, ■learn lessons in fortitude, and all who. meet the doctor say- tliey go away.*- ith ,new ideas of life ahd its purposes. He is . well read' in every'braiich of literature. '' We have- heard of people being moonstruck. Wo have oven known a few such. A correspondent of The Times, however, tells a tale of 'being star-struck ;— " As a gentleman, a well-known public official, was passing from St. ' James' Park into-* • 'Pall Mall by the garden wall of, Marl; borough House, at a' quarter to 5 in the afternoon, he suddenly received on the ■ right slioulder a violent blow, accompanied , by a loud cracking noise, which 1 caused linn great pain and to stumble forward as he walked.. On recovering his . footing,' • and turning roiind to see who had so unceremoniously struck him, he found that there .was no one on the pavement but himself and the policeman on duty at the park end of "it. On reaching home the slioulder was submitted to examination, but nothing was nt first discovered to account for the pain in it. But in a littlo while tho servant, who had taken away tlio coat' to brush. : brbught it back. to point out that over tlie right shoulder tlio nap was pressed down j flat in a long straight line, exactly as if a • hot wire had been sharply drawn across, tho cloth. The accident is, therefore, ex-, plained as having been caused by the explosion of a minuto falling, star or meteor. It is. an unprecedented' and most interesting occurrence, and. deserves, I think, to be placed on public record." A bicyclist way down'iu Brighton, Waa thrown, and his^iead lie did light on, He rose, covered with soil. Rubbed in St. Jacobs' Oil, Remounted, and once more went right on.