JOTTINGS.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 205, 4 November 1896, Page 3

JOTTINGS.

A ease on all fours with one which occupied tlie attention of the Jocal < mirfc some months ago was decided liv the Auckland -stipendiary last week and in the same manner. A umii charged under the Police Offences Act with having permitted his cattle to be at large plea led not guilty on the ground that as the animals were at large without !iis knowledge lie could not lie said to have permitted them to stray. His Worship considered the word "permit" in the tectum rendered it essential for the police to prove that defendant's cattle wandered with hi- know ledge- It w s cert inly an offence for cattle to be at large, but under that seition knowledge would have to be ■proved. The case was dismsised. The Kiiimanawft ranges, which lie to the e *1 ward of iiuapehu and Tongariro about 15 miles, have long been looked upon as likely to con- j tain payable quartz reefs, and should | prove worth careful prospecting as 1 soon as the summer sets in, as it, would be impossible to do much un- j til the season allows of ope ations be- I ing conducted under favourable conditions, Prospecting parties attempted to explore the Kaiinanawa* live mid twenty years ago, but the disturbed st ;te of the Taupo district at that time compelled the venturesome gold-seekers to desist and return II their home?", But some of them j saw sufficient to imbue them with the | bo'ief that gold exists in payable quantities in that locality. The best business done in Bellamy's during the session was during tho twelve hours' debate on Prohibition. Several supporters had a remarkably good color in their cheek. —X. Kavs. The following new books are on sale at Chronicle Office: —"The Xlth Commandment," by IT. Sutcliffa; '• l'eter lbbetson," by tho author of Trilby; "Seven Little Australians," and "The Little Duchess, ' by Ethi-1 ■Turner; " The Trail of tho Sword," by Gilbert Parker, &0., &c. Tin the new map of the Urowera country, published in the Grown Lands report, some formidable old Maori names of localities are added to New/Zealand nomenclature, having .been placed on record by the surveyors for the fir-t time. One place, on the Whirinaki, is called '' Te-ana kai-tainrata-a- Whavepakau ' 1 lie :na;i - eating cave of AVTiarepake "j. which recalls gruesomo memories of cannibal days. Another name is • Te- vv hnkamarumuru -o- j iinerunrangi " ("Tho lady Buaraugi'a screen fr-.;:n the sua.'') The City of Tokio, Japan, has 800 public baths, where some MO,OOO persons bathe daily, at the cost of about one half-penny, while almost every house in the city has its private bathroom. The baths are taken generally at a temperature of 110 degrees Fab r. The Arabians, like their kinsmen, the Jews, completely adopted bathing into their manner and customs; and Mohomet enforced it by connecting it with l elision. Islamism enjoins on its believers a careful preservation of corporeal purity, and ior this purpose prescribed repeated ablutions. Of European cities, St. Petersburg is famous for its vast vapour baths, to which Puss ans jfi .clc by thousands on Saturday eveninyrs. carrying' their own towels with them. The iine-t public bath is in Vienna; it can accommodate 1,000 persons, and has a basin 578 feet long bv 156 feet wide, varying to -2 feet deep. Notwithstanding its enormous size] the water is changed thrice (daily.