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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7612, 8 December 1886, Page 2

On tlio fourth page will be found a communication from our Hastings correspondent regarding " Hooker's Incandescent Gas-light."

The erection of the structure for the new iirobell at the top of Shakespeare-road, is now being proceeded with, and the bell will bo hung in a day or two.

Mr James Mills is now in Napior soliciting advertisements iovti fac simile copy of the " London Gazette" published shortly after the great (ire of London, lfa'ls6. Tlie publication contains an account of that startling event.

The Winds at the Supreme Court might be in a little bettor order, and if they were renewed altogether tho result would not bo much more than is desirable. If the country can stand the expenditure the suggested improvement should he carried out at once.

The new "Brcnnan" Lodge of Druids will be formally opened at the Gaiety Theatre to-morrow evening. J)r Moore will bo in attendance, and all intending members are requested to attend, aa it is desired that the full strength of tho Lodge uliall bu represented. The Albion Lodge will assist at tho opening.

The Napier Kitlo Cadets mustered in good force in WntcrwortU's Hall on Monday evening, Captain Adams m command. The lads acquitted themselves very creditably, No. '2 squad especially showing marked improvement, Afler that squad had lieen dismissed No. 1 squad was taken charge of by Lieutenant Chicken, of the Rifles, mid 'performed several evolutions in company drill. Jieforo falling in the. lads wore ollicially enrolled.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court ycslonlay, before Mr G. A. Preece, H.M., Hio following oivil oascn won; iliFipnr.otl of : —Walker v. (ilazolirook, claim JC7 12s 7(1, judgment for amount:, with costs and exlionses 12h.— JjiiHcellcs v. X, II". 'Ward, claim £13 10s, judgment for amount,

with costs Jtl.— Sykos v. Cross, action to recover possession of a house, Mr Lee, junh, for plaintiff; defendant ordered to give up possession within a week from date, costs J2a, solicitor's fee £1 Is. . Tl'ic. Hawlco's riay Ledge, 1.0.0. F., Ko. 4<"i, met last evening at the Foresters' Hall, Dickens-street, there was a good attendance.. ;Ouc ; .candidate yras duly initiated** and t!)rco . oU\e>s weie proposed, II -,YiU siated by the secretary that the lodge was progressing at a very favorable rate, and that tho next meeting would lie the iirst regular half-yearly one, when the accounts would bo laid before the members, As three candidates have to be initiated at that meeting a largo attendance is desired;

A little bdj-i tiiqsdii of Mi 1 W: Young, lUei; With a serious accident yesterday. Ho was being chased by another .boy, ,aml when running biit from Ijohiii'.! a dl'ay received ft push Uiafc sent 'him headlong lJSlWeeii the fore and hind wheels of a.-nab being driy.en in > an. . apposite direction. The lad received,?; very aasi.y scalp. wHiihd, .an.cl.liis right hand was badly crusiiecl and oit'o by one of the wheels of the cab. He was quickly ■ picked iip and conveyed home, and Dr limes was sent for, who stitched up the scalp wound, and attended to tho other injuries. The little sufferer is progressing as favorably as can be expected.

The Uarrieon Band will play the following selections in Cllvo-square this evening: — Quickstep, " The spirit of the night' 1 (Lingwood); "gi-anil fantasia, "Field .of.. .tile cVdtii 61 gold" (Victor •Bout); waltz, "Twilight shadows" (It. Smith); selection, "Bohemian Girl" (Balfe); polka, '•" Tho Queen's 'visit" (Round)} quadrille, ■" Cynthia" (Ronnd); "God Save the Queen." Members are requested to meet at the band-room at 7.30 o'clock sharp. As the promoters of the improvements in Clive-square are still liable for a few pounds of the debt incurred, the performance by the band to-night will be a good 4 opportunity for collecting enough to wipe oft' the deficiency.

A shooting match between teams representing the I l ' Battery of Artillery and the Napier Hides will be fired on Saturday, the contest being due to a challenge from the first-named corps. The following will compose the teams : — Artillery : Lieutenant lloss, Sergeant Major Plain, Sergeant Blackwoll, Sergeant Parker, Corporal Williams, and Gunners Drummolid, Bunting, O'Connell, Chippy, and Fuliorll ; emergencies; GhnnerDawson and Scfgealit Kobson. Rifles : Lieutenant Chicken, Color-Sergeant Frame, Sergeants Tail:, Nicholson, and Langham, Corporals Cantle and Strtidwiek, Privates "Walker, Harphani, Dewsnap, and, J. Miller, and Bugler Kobson. Competitors will (ire at 5 o'clock on Saturday morning and at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

When the Protection League waited on Sir Julius Yogel in Dunedm and asked him to address a meeting on the question of Protection, a chemist present suggested that if a protective duty was placed on patent medicines the makers of them would establish factories here and so increase the population. One of the deputation remarked sotto Voea that whatever the manufacture would do the consumption would likely decrease the population. Sir Julius said that the virtue of patent medicines depended entirely upon the amount of faith possessed. , The makers of those medicine's, he observed, all pretended that they had some secret that no one else could possibly discover, and he was not sure that duties would cause them to start manufactories here, but lie had no doubt whatever that if patent medicines were made here and -advertised sufficiently the people would be induced to consume them.

A Hungarian named Hansmann Plania blew his brains out at St. Kilda the other week, being driven to the act through extreme poverty. Yet he was a very remarkable man. As a philologist Piania had probably few equals in Australia. Of Hebrew, Sanscrit, Arabic, Persian, and kindred Oriental languages ho was a master ; and his knowledge of the Greek, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon tonguc3 was by no means contemptible, fix his life Plania wassimple and child-like ; and he bore the most cruel poverty to the very last, with a fortitude which was almost sublime. But he was a dreamer, and inptead of making use of his gifts and acquirements for practical ends he devoted His life to .proving the AngloSaxon race to be llie^losfc ten tribes of Israel, and before his death he completed a large work on this subject, which by will he left to the British Historical Society, .with a plea that is should be published.

Mr Joseph Arch, who was a " Working Men's Member " in the two last Parliaments, addressing a meeting of laborers at Keinerton, near Tewkesbury, on September 20th, said he meant to'stu.mp the country during the coming winter and expose the lying rascality of the Tory party. "Ho was not returned at the general election, because every conceivable and imaginable lie the Tories could scrape up about him was hurled at his head." The Tories assign Mr Arch's defeat to quite a different cause. They say the working men have discovered that the ultra-Radicalism of so-called special representatives of Labor is all gammon, because the first thing they do when they get into Parliament is (o intrigue to get a snug berth for themselves. The almost universal rejection of the " Labor" candidates was a noticeable feature of the late general election, notwithstanding the recent extension of the franchise to three millions of workinjr mou.— Press.

Among recent additions to the British Museum is a Chinese cyclopaedia. " The museum authorities," says the ChristcliurchPress, "reckon it as one book, but it is a book not to be ventured on rashly, seeing that it contains 5000 volumes. We feel disappointed more particulars are not given about it. Was it issued in monthly parts, and did the enterprising book-fiend prevail on any simple-minded Chinese householders to become subscribers for the series ? If Ah Sing, on receiving, say, the 4816 th volume, was of opinion that it showed a falling off as compared with the 'advance copy' handed to his ,too credulous ancestor 400 years hefore, what remedy has he against the present publishers ? We presume, of course, that lie has to build a house expressly to receive this slight addition to his already existing library. If so, did he build it all at once, or is it the practice to add a wing occasionally as fresh instalments of the work arrive? It is clear that the Chinese cyclopedia is not a. subject to ho Jitly deait with in a few lines of neAvspaper <ype, and we hope to hear something more about it by-and-bye. In the meantime the work seems to have iircd the emulation of the British Museum authorities."

A well-authenticated ami remarkable story is reported from Oakland, California. Four months ago a young lady fell — or rather, lapsed— into a cataleptic trance, and did not awake for live weeks, except at long intervals, when she was conscious for only a few minutes at a time. Once when she awoke her mother had time to get her a cup of tea and some toast. The daughter had Hie toast in her hand raising it to her mouth when she sank hack into a trance, crushing the bread in her rigid lingers. At tlie end of live weeks she awoke "willi an acute pain at the base of her brain, but with unimpaired faculties, and her general health seemingly good. Recently slio fell into another trance, wliicli stitt continues, and wlicn tlie last San Francisco mail left her vital functions appeared to be reduced to the lowest pomfj tlig^alion beiuj* at iS. stAticlfelill. Her muscles were rigid, but her heavt beat and she breathed regularly. During the trance her heart shifted three times, by muscular contraction, to the right side, but this did not appear to have affected its functions. It is thought that she is largely conscious of her surroundings during these trances, becauso when she awoke from the first one she had some vague recollections of what had happened by her bedside.

Towards the close of life— no matter how virtuously that life may have been spent—regrets of greater or less intensity arc experienced by all. It may be for what we did, or it may be for what wo have lett undone, but the bitterness of despair can only bo realised by those who neglected to prolong their lives, protect their credit, and'add to the happiness of all around them by an intelligent use of St. Jacob's Oil.