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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8106, 8 October 1904, Page 2

The case A. King r. W. J. Barleyman, in which plaintiff claimed half cost of the erection of a fence between the properties of the parties to the action, was concluded in the Magistrate's Court, Manaia, yesterday. The verdict was for plaintiff for £11 12s lOd, with £12 2s 2d costs. Mr Welsh, who appeared for defendant, signified his intention to appeal. In the Courthouse on Thursday (the Taranaki Herald reports), on the application of Mr Claude Weston (Weston and Weston), instructed by Mr R. D. Welsh, of Hawera. Mr T. Hutchison, sitting as a Commissioner under the Native Land Courts Act, confirmed alienation of certain lands in Hawera by William Min- | hinnick to E. A. Pacey. A Westport citizen of unblemished repute received a summons the other day commanding him to appear at the Magistrate's Court to show cause why he did wilfully detain his four children from attending school. In answer to the summons, which was in court form, he appeared in Court. Asked how he pleaded, he replied, with a faint chuckle, "Not guilty." "Then you assert that your Jour children have been duly sent to school." "No, sir, my children have never been to school in their liveß." "Enough of this, sir. What do you mean by this fractious behaviour?" "Nothing, sir. I am not married. I have no children, and I can't send them. If you wait for a year or two " But the Court laughed heartily, and the Truant Inspector blushed 1 vividly. The following is an extract from a letter written by a teacher at the request of the Chief Inspector of Schools, Wellington. The lad referred to is attending the District High School at Masterton. "He lives at Hamua, distant about six miles from the Newman railway station, which is itself about twenty-six miles from Masterfcon. He rides from his home to within a mile of Newman station, and has to leave his horse there, walking the remaining mile. He has to leave his home every morning by 5.30 a.m.. and arrives home in the evening* <>y about 8.30 p.m. Although in winter he both leaves home and arrives there in darkness, he has not missed more than four half days this year, and two of these were during the big snowstorm of a month ago. He went with our team to Wellington to see the English match, and arrived home on the Monday evening, or rather Tuesday morning, at 2.30 a.m. At 10 a.m. the same morning he was in his place in class. Twice he has fallen asleep in school, but his work is good all round as a rule, and he is strong in mathematics. As to character, 1 think so much of the Iwy that I often have him up at my house putting in time from 3.30 to 5.30 (train time). Often his horse has strayed, and led him a merry dance, but he turns up serenely next day." The District High School is two miles distant from the railway station, Masterton. A ferocious civil war broke out on Monday, September 26, in Little Bourkc street, the "Chinatown" of Melbourne. The members of two rival secret societies known as the Gee Hing and the Bo Leong attacked each other at 9 o'clock at night with knives, clubs, and revolvers, and the eftorts of 40 policemen, who were quickly on the scene, failed to stop the riot before eight Chinese had been seriously wounded. The dispute arose through certain members of the Gee Hing having informed against their compatriots of the Be Leong for sly grog-selling. The grog proved to be a delectable compound said tc contain among its other ingredients pounded tiger-bone and the juice of the wild melon. It might have been thought thai the grog would have brought its own pun ishment. But when the Bo Leong vendors were hauled up at the District Court on the information of certain Gee Ring disloyalists and fined £25 apiece, they de tcrmined to have revenge. Several hun dred Chinese fouglgt furiously for nearly ar hour, and the police who were engagee in restoring order — with the assistance o: fence posts and large logs of timber which were used as clubs — managed to d< a good deal of execution among tne riot ers. But it is very difficult to kill i Little Bourke street Chinaman, and thougl the entire medical staff of the Melbourm Hospital were engaged during half tin night in patching up the wounded, not ( single fatality was reported. On. the vexed question of what con stitutes a state of drunkenness some re markabie evidence was given some tinn ago \n a case in Scotland, in which i publican was charged with supplying liquor to two men while they were in i state of intoxication. Counsel for thi defence put in the witness-box Dr Martin medical officer for Glasgow Parish Coun ci). In this capacity, the doctor said h< had occasion to visit His Majesty*! prison at Barlinnie, where there wer< brought under his special attention case: of alcoholism, including delirium tremens From the varying results which spirit: have upon the subject of delirium tre mens, it was contended by Dr Martii that it was quite unsafe to assume, be cause a person is found intoxicatedabsolutely drunk, it may be — that im mediately before he must have been par taking of stimulants. But the stranges part of the doctor's evidence, whicl throughout was exceedingly interesting was where he asserted that, in the casi of a dipsomaniac, all the appearance o intoxication or collapse usually attribut able to indulgence in alcohol may bi found when spirits have not been par taken at all. This, however, had beei absolutely confirmed in his experience a a medical officvr when visiting Barlinn : i and elsewhere. He had found frequently in prison persons whose systems had beei so reduced by the abuse of stimulant: that, at tire close of periods of seven ten, or fourteen day's imprisonment, thej presented all the appearance, so perme cited were they with alcohol, of advance( intoxication, and even of acute deliriun tremens. In such case, it was the wan of liquor that caused this apparent in toxication. which might easily be mis taken for the intoxication produced b; the immediate use of stimulants. This i a new phase of a very complex question and, coming from one holding the re sponsihle position that Dr Martin holds is worthy of serious consideration bj Magistrates everywhere. The romance of goldmining is perennial Three men named Richards, Stephens and Armstrong have struck a reef 18fi from tho surface at Southern Cross (Wesi Australia), and have extracted Hrg< blocks of quartz heavily studded witl gold, and assaying, it is said, 3000 ounce: to the ton. The reef appears to be of t permanent character. Armstrong recently tramped from Southern Cross to Mounl Jackson, 100 miles out and back, in searcl of work. He is now on the road to be coming a millionaire. Southern Cross h a small place on the way to Kalgoorlie It first leaped into notoriety as the tern porary abiding place of Deeming, tin miftderer. who was acting as a mine en gineer there when he was arrested foi the murder of a woman at Windsor, xieai Melbourne. He had buried the body d his victim in cement under the floor ol a room in the house that he occupied. When discovered at Southern Cross h( was residing with a young woman whom he had captivated by his romantic stories. But in the corner of the house the police found a larpe barrel of cement which Deeming had recently purchased. His arrest saved the young woman from the d're fate of her predecessor at Windsor, Victoria, and also of several others predecessors whose bodies were exhumed from their cemented rest'ng places at Rainhill, near Liverpool, England. Deemingn q always declared that there was plenty of gold at Southern Cross, and now it has been found. Mining seems to be looking up a bit. A miner has discovpred a new metal, supposed to be uranium, at Chillagoe. Queensland. Uranium is associated with radium, the mysterious element discovered by Madame Curie, and is immensely valuable. But all the stories about mining are not to he trusted. A black fellow lately arrived at Port Darwin, and announced that he had discovered a "mountain of gold." There was the usual rush of excited prospectors, and the usual cursing when it was found that the black fellow's mountain had vanished in the night. For lightness of draft, easiness of handling, and good work the "Benicia" is the plough, every time. Morrow, Bassett, and Co., Christ church.— Advt. Special show of everything new in spring and summer drapery and millinery, commencing on Monday. The cotton cambrics, canvas Toils, zephyrs, delaines are simply lovely, and will be on view in great variety at W. Spence, Economic. —Advt. Burns and Cuts. — Slight injuries of this character are of frequent occurrence in almost every household. While they are not dangerous, except when blood poisoning results from the injury, they are often quite painful and annoying. They can be quickly healed by applying Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It allays the pain almost instantly, and heals the injured parts without matter being formed, which insures a cure in one-third the time that tne usual treatment would require. If, is the most perfect preparation in use for burns, •calds, cuts, bruises., Arid; W& injuries. It should "bp ftpplipfl Vtlth a feather, and before the parts become swollen if possible. For sale by W.. K. Wallace, chemist,. — Advt. FORGET YOU HAVE A STOMACH. No need to worry constantly about what you eat. Your stomach will do its duty with a little assistance. Don't expect your stomach to do ererything. You get tired with orerwotk, ;does your stoinkch. Three orjonr Soses ot W? fiNSO J'3J^MER JtHCK will make f,be digestive jokes flow freely and t&e nerVes ot the •tbnucti itrong to their worlj. it makes you look out through *yM that see thVbnght side o! life. TAMER TOCE is obtainable from al/ Stores and* Chemists ; 2s 6d. J. Smith, agent. Hawera. *