SECOND EDITION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7988, 14 May 1904, Page 3

SECOND EDITION.

Poaehws are in tronble op Stratford way. Court cases are pending m eonieqnenoe of aotion taken by the Acclimatisation Society. Stevler, who this week figured in a sensational slander ease in London, was the first to introduce cash betting into Australia. His pioneeiing venture won him a fortune. A sale of sections in the township of . Whangamomona was held en Friday at Stratford. There was not a large attendance - «f 'buyers, and in no instance did the par- , ■ ofaaM money exceed the upset price. Out of the 88 sections submitted, only eight were disposed of. Of these, one was soil to the ' dairy factory oompaoy , and three to ohutohes. A meeting of the Bltbam branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union Is to be > held on Monday afternoon. The principal business is to eonsldrr the order paper for the Provincial Conference. '- At My J. E. Wllion's furniture warehoute. for one month only, bargains may be scoured in any' of the numerous lines stocked by him. k diaooont equal to 4s in tue £ is to be ' Allowed. 4 Pt-bb AssooiaUon telegram says that the P.-emier and Mrs Seddcn visited Cook Cove da Friday morning, in the Binemoa, but the . p*ttjrdtonotg<»|«hore. The ship then pro. «a»ded »long the ooast and reaohed East Oape at 11.80 ».m. Qatiafaoiory reporta are received ot Mr Peddon's Improving health. Whilst at Tologa B«y tlie Premier and party visited the sohuol. and during his stay several v NQuirementtweie brought to the notioe of the Minister. . Luturiog before the Royal Society of( BflgUnai Dr Aloock astabii'hed the fact that nerve impulses' take a definite and meaaur- .. abl« time in travelling aloog the limb nerves to *nd from. the brain; «nd. that therefore th* will to execute any act is followed more • quickly by the act itself in a short man tban & a tall dne. Dr Aloock oxamined subjects •varying from sft Jin to 6ft in height. He found that the rate ot nervous impulse was about seventy yards a second; and that, therefore, if the reaction had to traveffrom life tot or the finger to the brain, the 'dlilertao* in time would be somewhere between ibeone<-three-bundredth and the onehundredth part of a second t In a paper real before the Oassel Congress ot Gtrman Naturalists, Mr Zaoharias exposes quit* novel and somewhat psradoxioal ideas *% to the nature of magneticd phenomena. . 'Accord ng to him, magnetUm would be dne ' fa mechanical phenomena occurring in the " itber an < attended by a certain more or less ' fctgn ether vacuum. Mr Zaobarias tries to Ulm trafe the mutual action of a magnetic r< d and a mngnetto needle on the inatanae of two routing spheres, one ot which is suspended by a thread, and which are found to exert on one another a repulsion in the oase of the ■ ditftctfoo of their rotation being the same, whereas for opposite rotation they are found to *dhe«e to one another.

Ante we now «tremeljr awful m «ur«lc»l ■tlietiM. From « cbrwspondeni (nvi Science Hif«ng») who hu •ctutliy h»d them used upon bin in Greece, welttra tnattfat intents an of a ■peota remarkable for their long and Wweifoi mandiblM. The majority dl Greek lurgeuu kiep itooki of them, and upon the irrivil of a period infferinß from a clean out the anu are brough* into ute. Theedjei of ibe eat »rt bronghl together with the finger* •• or one band, while the ant, grained by a v pair of foToepi, is brought elofce to the wound with the other, iv mandibta biting through the flesh on both sides and holding the edges . together. Its bead isihen promptly nipped ■ oil and the mandibha ara left to take the place of surgical atitohei*. is many as fifteen »nd twenty, are sometimes ntcd for a single oat. and they are tuually left on for three or four days. Their. wabVal is then far ♦atier ttian the withdrawal of the wire ordinarily used for the purpose. The debt and the allegiance which every man owes to the national traditions that made him are not lightly forgotten by . rtien who are wotth anything to the world ' at -large) nor, while lriV has any savour . in' it. will they- ever be.— Daily News. An orange tree will bear fruit till 160 years old, 1 .W. Hawkins and Co. have a notice irefating to dyeing and cleaning. * For Children's Hacking Cough at Night, i Woods' aMhfcPeppermtot Crtre. Is6d.