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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7525, 27 August 1886, Page 2

On the fourth page will be found an article entitled " The Shah's Wives."

There was no business at the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

11l another column will bo found the entries for the several events to be contested at the Amateur Athletic Club's sports next month.

In a civil case heard at the last sittings of the Supreme Court in Napier, the amount in. dispute was £60. The loser of the case now finds that the costs come to over £59.

Members of the Napier, Union, and County Football Clubs are particularly requested to turn out at the practice match to-morrow. On the form then shown the team to play against New South Wales will be picked.

The opening meeting of the new Lodge of American Oddfellows will be held in the Foresters' Hall, Dickons-street, this evening. After the inauguration ceremonies are completed those present will sit down to a supper to celebrate the opening of the Lodge.

Mi- Holt's large establishment is now being removed to his new premises near the railway station. All the machinery has been moved, and nearly all the timber. To-morrow the removal will be completed, and on Monday work will commence in the new mills.

The Auckland Star'sYiji letter contains this choice paragraph :— Some unmitigated scoundrels have stolen the Lcvuka firebell. They ' would have stolen the engine, but for the weight of it. Certain Polynesian converts are suspected of an attempt to smuggle it home and convert it to Church purposes.

Mr W. Patterson is proving very successful with his "Horso Relief" in the country districts. At Hastings yesterday he treated two bad cases, the result being very striking. A testimonial from a wellknown Hastings stable-keeper will bo found added to Mr Patterson's advertisement on the fourth.page.

The four lamps presented to the town by Messrs H. S. Tiffen, E. D. D. M'Lean, J. D. Ormond, anil the late John Sheehan are now erected in Clive-square. Each lamp bears upon it the name of the respectisre donor. A powerful Wenham light has also been fitted up in the band rotunda.

Mr Greafcbach, of the Telegraph Department, will leave Napier for Wellington on Saturday. His placo will be filled by Sir W. Ashton, who was formerly in the Napier office, and is well and favorably known in tho district.- Mr Greatbach has been stationed at Napier for six years, during which timo he lias made a host of friends who will wish him success in his new sphere.

The Salvation Army will hold a " demonstration " in -: jDickens-streeb -to-night, to discuss the processions bye-law, t'erhaps a vote of censure on Mr Justico Richmond will bo passed, for daring to ntter his recent common sense reasoning on the " liberty of tho subject." Tho Safvationists will probably construe liberty to mean the right to do as they like, irrespective of tho" rights or feelings of others.

Yesterday uiorning'the Governor dcv cided to commute the sentence of death passed upon Kowland, now ill the Napier gaol, into penal, servitude for life. An urgent telegram announcing the fact was at once sent by tho Minister of Justice to ilr P. A. F. Birch, SherifF, instructing him to forthwith inform the condemned man of the Governor's decision, and also to inform Rowland's wife. Mr Birch went up to the gaol immediately and told llowland that his life was spared. He took tho matter very coolly, merely saying, " Oh, very well." Mr Birch also caused Rowland's wife to be informed of die decision. Some days ago a Wellington paper, more anxious to make a paragraph than ■ to give its readers news, stated that the sentence had then been commuted. The statement was copied by a Napier paper, and was probably made known to Kowland. It is therefore pleasant to record that his life has been spared, as otherwise the publication of a false statement would have added un-. necessary jjangs to the condemned man's tortured mind.

In certain parts of Scotland fanners use small spades for digging out thistles and other weeds from among the grain. An old Vifo farmer, engaged at this occupation dub day, was accosted as follows :— "Are ye rio apt to cut a, lot o' the corn dneiu 1 that ? " " That depends on -wha the corn belongs to," was tho answer. <• If it's yor am yell no cut very muckle, hit if it's ony itlicr body*, yo'll cut a quid lot."

Tlie Melbourne Avgus contains the following advertisement. It would be interesting to learn; whether it had the desired (or rather, perhaps, the probable) effect on the erring lady :— " I hereby give notice that if my wife, , maiden name — ■ , and daughter of -, who left her home on or about the 10th. January, 1883, does not return to Bottuigtonstreet, Merriwa, N.S.W., within 30 days from date, I will contract another marriage. (Signed) — ." ..... .

One of the finest pieces of lace ever seen in England was shown at the Edinburgh Exhibition. It consists of a huge counterpane, move than two yards, square, in point do Veniso, and of extreme beauty and ■ richness of design. It was made about a hundred years ago for the reigning Pope,_ and it occupied two or threo lifetimes in the working. A few years ago it found its way hack to the Royal Laco Factory at Venice, whence 16 was added to the collection or Mr Stuart Samuel, of London.

.The latest story .abdu.fc the Rev.- Henry Ward Beecher tells what cariie of Ins Ip^ing.a watch: through the skill; of a pick: jiocketl The uicident was widely circulaiejl by the newspapers, and naturally afforded material for journalistic wtt without ends or bounds. -But tho sequel was very consplinsr to Mr Beecher. A day or two after his loss he purchased a low-priced watch for immediate use. . The next day the president? of a well-known watch company sent binij a watch, with the. compliments of the manufacturer; a few. days. ;Jater a friend surprised Mr Beecher •with a, present of a very.handsome watch of the beatj.mako; then the city of Boston, by way of recognising tUe services rendered- in the address which he lately gave in that city oii.GewstiU Grant, sen* on a watch of beautiful fiiiish and workmanship ; and, finally, the stolen .watch itself was returned in exchange_ for a reward. Mr Beecher is now anxious," it is said, to have something else stolen from him. •

Great interest is felt throughout Italy in the condition of a niau named Succi, who lives at Porli, in the Romagria, and who' asserts that he has 'discovered in the. course of his travels through a great part of Africa a sort of liquor extracted from various herbs which has the effect of "mummifying" the body, so' to speak,' and rendering it insensible to any kind of want/such aa hunger or thirst ; while it will also admit oi a person : takiiig any poison, however violent, without feeling any ill effects. A committee of the inhabitants of Forti has been formed, at his request, to watcli the experiments which ho is making upon himself, and several doctors who examined him have stated that the case is a very "curious one, and that they cannot detect any fraud. Succi takes nothing but four glasses of 'water a day, and says that he feels very well. At the request of Professor Peruzzi,' of the Bologna Academy of Medicine, he has started for that city, where he proposes to go through another course of fasting .and to take poison.

An intricate and interesting machine, which for over two years has stood in the room of one of the House Committees at Washington, D.C., is to bs removed, It has a curious history. An old gentleman named Crosby, noticing with some degree of annoyance the immense amount of time lost in the calling of the yeas and nays, undertook to invent a machine which could record the vote almost instantaneously, by the means of electricity. There wore to be electric buttonsat each Congressman's desk. The pressure of one recorded iyea and the pressure of the other recorded nay, upon a printed slip at the clerk's desk, while at the same time an ingenious arrangement moved the hands on : the dial on the Speaker's desk and showed at a glance how many votes had been cost on cncli side. The inventor, after having liad an expensivo model made, was taken sick and was compelled to spend nine months in Florida. The next session was a busy one, and lie could get no one to listen to a dissertation on the merits of his invention. This year his son fell sick and died, and he has not been able to urge upon Congress the'addption of his machine. The Speaker will probably give orders to have the apparatus removed, for it fills up considerable space. Mr Crosby wants 75,000 dollars from the American Government for his invention.

The Scientific Amsruxm states that at the works of the Dicksoii Manufacturing Company, Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, a new machine and process, patented by Mr J. J. Garr, has been tested with satisfactory results. It is claimed that while by the old method of moulding, casting, dressing and boring the wheels the average firoduct ot three men per day of twelve lours is 'eighteen wheels; with the now process the same number of men are able to turn out one perfect wheel every minute, or 720 wheels "per day. The principal feature seems to be the substitution ot a stael core for one of sand in casting the wheel. This has bsen tried before, bnt no one lias hitherto hit upon a means of getting this coro out or the wheel after it is cast. This is now accomplished by a centre key, which falls out upon a single stroke of the hammer, and lets the steel core drop out, leaving the hole in the wheel perfectly true, ana ready to be put upon the axle without any dressing or boring. The sand is run into the moulding boxes by a hopper, and botli matrics are moulded into the pattern drawn out by the single revolution of a shaft driven by steam power. The matrices are carried away upon moveahle platforms to the cupola, and then the niece is cast as under the whole process. The moulding is done as rapidly as a revolving disc can carry the boxes under the pressers.

. Halt a dozen estates situated in the North of Scotland were exposed for sale in London lately. Offers were made for all' of them, but not one changed owners. Tho reason was that in every instance the price bidden came considerably short of 30 years' purchase, and thus foil under the reserve which was assigned to the auctioneer. The most valuable property put forward was the Aberdeenshiro possession of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, who has recently acquired an estate in Fifcshirc which had long belonged to the family, Sir Coutta Lindsay being the lnst possessor. Dunecht is a beautiful place, much improved of late, with a rental of £6000, and a spacious mansion house, lmilfc from designs by the late Mr Street, the architect of the new Law Courts in London. £170,000 was the highest sum offered. Less proportionately was bidden for estates in Argyllshire and in Perthshire, and for the island of Rum in Inverness-sliire, which once belonged to old Lord Salisbury. It is interesting to note that, wherever on these Highland properties it could bs done, it was specified as it recommendation that there are neither crofters nor cottars on the property. This inducement failed to attract purchasers. Nor is this to be wondered at when the low rents for such sporting estates as want tenants are taken into acconnt. Obviously a change is coming over tho condition of the Highlands. — Edinburgh Evening News.