NEWS, AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVII, Issue 2964, 30 October 1891, Page 2

NEWS, AND NOTES.

At Pahiatua a man tried to burgle the residence of the local constable, and found a resting plaoe in the lock-up. Wanganui Borough Council has resolved to take the opinion of the burgesses on the subject of ereoting publio baths. " Hot Iron *' sends the following tips foy the T.R.C. Derby to be run tomorrow :— Oxide, 1 ; Strathmore, 2 ; Penance, 3. The Marl borough Express says that it is reckoned from the small community of Blenheim alone fully £100 has gone to Sydney for Tattersall'a sweep on the Melbourne Cup. In reply to a question at a recent meeting, Mr. Buckland, M.H.R., said he waa in favor of the Stratford' line. He con.sid.ered the central route would lead into an unpayable reigon, and, therefore, he would support the Stratford route. Mr. Sandford, the new member for Chrietchuroh, has pledged himself to. vote against an increase of merqherß* salaries, and to " stonewall' 1 ' to, the utmost of his power anj proposal to make the 6um more than £200 a year. This is significant of the state of publio feeling on the subject, Farmers' Union, hp^e fair to-morrow. N,pjan, Tonks «nd Co. sell sundries tom,orrow. Samuel Allsopp and Sons, Limtd., B«r-ton-on-Trent, Sparkling Ale on draught, Commercial Hotel, Hawera.— Advt. Mills' Spanish Polish is the only article in the market for permanently obliterating scratches in furniture. Try it.— Advfc.

Carbine wastwoly unplaoeci once daring his career. The Bey. Mr.. Beeoroft returned this morning from Auckland, butxp"rooeeded on to Wanganui to take theservioes of the Rev. H. R. Dewsbury next Sunday. He will, however, return on Wednesday to Opanake.

A chess matoh Manaia v. Hawera will be played;in Mr. c Caplen's offices on Saturday evening. There are eight players a-side. The Hawera team will be seleoted from Mesßrs. T. Mason, W. G. White, J. Mason, J. Mendelson, M. Horneman, H. Caplen, E. Barton, Gunthorp, C. H. McCutcban, and Martin. The Manaia team consists of Messrs. Pearoe, J. L. Perry, Ramie, Sexton, Aldis, Calthrop, and Hurley.

We have to acknowledge the receipt of the actuary's report on the mortality experience of the Australian Mutual Pro* vident Society for the period 1849-1888. As a record of the experience of this society the information now made public can scarcely fail to be found interesting, while as a contribution to the vital statistics of the Australasias it will prove of considerable value.

About 300 people witnessed the unveiling by the Premier of the memorial stone to the late Mr Biobard Turnbull in Timaru cemetery on Wednesday. Major Steward and Messrs Hall - Jonea and Rhodes, M'b.H.R., also spoke in eulogy of the departed. The Premier was introduced by Mr Boss, the mayor, who also gave a tribute of praise. The stone is a white marble obelisk,, and was paid for by shilling subscriptions.

Mr. Prank Lawry, M.H.8., who is regarded in the House of Representatives as one of the best-informed members on matters connected with farming and the country generally, has (.says the Auckland Star) been requested by tho Government to undertake an investigation into the nature and efficacy of various remedies employed for the destruction of rabbits, with a view to the adoption of some systematic action on the part of property owners, sheep farmers and others interested.

Mr. Downey, railway engine driver, bad a curious experience at Palmers ton North the other morning (the Times reports). When he got up about 5 o'clock he found a man helping himself to the kitchen utensils. Mr. Downey at once went for the burglar, who however decamped before he had time to seonre him. The housebreaker would not part with the booty he had secured, and early risers in the vicinity might have seen him running up the road with the culinary utensils on his back.

The result of the drawing of Tattersall's £100,000 No. I. sweep on the Melbourne Cap has been received by Mr. Hutson, of the Commercial Hotel. It evidently filled early, as the winning numbers have already been printed, and havereaohed here. It is noted that G'Naroo, the winner of the Canlfield Cap drew tioket No. I. Is this prophetic of the result? We believe that about JG2OO was sent out of Hawera, and, so far as can be seen at present, only £10 is likely to come back*

The Waikato Times says: — "Our readers are doubtless aware that quite -recently a practical trial of Dr. Koch's consumption cure was being made at the Auckland Hospital, under the supervision of several of the leading physicians. Altogether some five patients were treated, one of them being Mr. John Calder, the Bon of a Waipa settler. The jonsg man has lately returned to Waikato after spending some nine weeks in the ' hospital, during which period he was subjected to the Koch treatment, receiving no less than twenty-three injections of the lymph. We gather from Mr. Galder that neither in his case nor in any of the others had Dr. Koch's" speciSo any ' apparent beneficial effect. One of the patients died while under treatment, and in others it was soon abandoned. In Gaidar's case a prolonged trial' was given. This can be understood from the number of injections, which varied in quantity, from one minim to as muoh as ten minims. We understand that very slight hopes are now entertained by Auckland medical men of any benefit being obtained from Dr Koch's co-called consumption cure."

i At a reoent meeting of the Terrace End Special Settlers who have been promised land in Mangaotuku block the Seoretary said (the Palmerston Times reports) he had been to Wellington and interviewed the Surveyor-General. The 15,000 acres had been laid aside for the Association and there was no donbt they would get it on the return of the Minister for Lands. The Surveyor-General had, however, told him that no township could be formed in the block under the present settlement) laws. He bad got over the difficulty of area by arranging to have the Association divided into two but worked as one. The Surveyor-General had informed him that in a very 'short time a road would most likely be formed through the block from Stratford to Pipiriki. They would then be connected by road and stream with Wanganui. Mr. Anderson, who had just returned from the block, had informed him that the land was of an undulating character, of good quality, and covered with light bush chiefly tawa.

Mr. Justice Richmond, speaking at one ! of General Booth's .meetings, is reported by the New Zealand Times to have said he had always held that the territory of young colonies was in no way the property of the handful of people who might first settle upon it. The mother oountry had /reserved to herself the, control of the waste lands of; the colony, and although she entrusted it to the colonial legislators, it yet remained but a trust to be held for the great British Empire. (Applause.) He admitted they were not oalledupon to allow the colony to become a lay stall for filth of others, or to allow their labouring classes to be brought down to the level of Whitechapel or Bethnal Green, but they were bound to allow their large territories to be used for the su3tentation of man. The land was in no sense theirs : "the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof." They .would hear a plan for an organised settlement, he believed. Organisation was : necessary, and, if they would pardon him for the reference, they had a great instance of that in the Mormon settlement, the secret of whose success was their perfect organisation. When a settler arrived in Utah, he was treated as a brother- in both spiritual and worldly respect, and the success of that movement was the recognition of tbe brotherhood of man. There might be difficulties in New Zealand in the w«y of planting such a settlement, such as tbe distance from Home and their limited area of land, but the General's remarks had great Interest for them because they in the colony .had submerged classes, and they were hot quite sure that they were doing their duty by them in every respect, and General Booth might put them up to a wrinkle ov two. Whether tbe plan was or was not feasible, he could say in the words of James Basse!! Lowell, the greafc American poet lately deceased — Thank God, I say, for every plan To lift one human being's level, Give one more chance to make a man, Or anyhow to spoil a devil.

PERSONS OP DELICATE CONSTITUTION, who are obliged to.abstaii* from ordinary Ooffee, should try Cbbask's Tab a-: xactjm ob Dandxlion Covwss, which is' recommended by medical authorities as a very vrluable beverage for persons who suffer from weak digestion, flatulency, and nervousness. Sold in lib and jib tins, is and 2s.

I Taranald Eduoation has passed «&¥■■ | following regotatioa J*^ 11 A question having come before the board with respect to the discipline in the board's schools being impaired by nndoe interference by members of school committees, tbe board is of opinion that it is undesirable for members of committees thus to interfere with the procedure of tbe sohools, as such interference tends to weaken the authority of I the teacher over the children. If committees are of opinion that any change is required in the procedure, recommendation should be made to the board, which is responsible for the discipline of the publio sohools under the Education Act."

M. Levraud, himself, by the way, a' medioal man and president of the Municipal Council of Paris, has jnst received a cheque for 100,000 franca, or £4000, from a Kussian gentleman resident in Paris (writes the Lancet's correspondent). The cbeque has been deposited by the president in tbe municipal counting* house while awaiting tbe decision of the Council as co tbe acceptance or refusal thereof. The object of this Russian philanthropist is to introduce a system of medioal reform into the hospitals of Paris, as a result of which, he considers, many lives will be saved and muoh money econo* mised. Should the reform prove successful, the same generous donorundertakes to form a hospital for poor on the new system. The money deposited is intended as a means for trying the experiment in the hospital of Paris in which tbe greatest mortality at present oocars. We are told precisely what tbe second " Novum Organnm " is, but we are oomforted by the assurance that it implies a relianoe on tbe remedies indicated by nature, and tbe eventual suppression of doctors and medicinal drags.

Mr. Larnach does not seem pleased with the ran of the politioal tide. Speaking in reply to the presentation ot an address by his late constituents at South Dunedin, be said:— The Chairman has done me the kindness to Bay that I am a true Liberal. I can take credit for professing Liberal opinions, but there is another kind of Liberalism grown up in this country of late which can hardly be palled true Liberalism. (Applause). It is more a sham Liberalism ; it is a kind of Liberalism that pretends to look after a single class interest. Now, that is not the Liberalism I profess. Whenever class is, ranged against class I feel sure that the interests of the country will suffer, and the interests of all classes of the community will suffer.' I must say this, that unless politios are run on different lines to what they have been run on lately I fear tbe country will still suffer. I am not reflecting on the party to which I belong— that is the Liberal Party— but what I mean to say is that there are gentlemen who compose that party now who really pretend to be Liberals! and they are not acting as true Liberals; they are not acting on the broad principle of Liberalism, and some again have peculiar fads in their ideas of politics which they desire to carry out, aud these are not only likely to become, but will become, very injurious to the country.