THE Marlborough Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1883.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1010, 18 July 1883, Page 2

THE Marlborough Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1883.

“ Paddy Murphy’s ” views on the East and West Coast Railway and “ Murder and Mutilation’- will be found on our fourth page. The Wakarnarina Gorge Gold-mining Company call for tenders for the construction of a tail-dam and pumping out the Company’s mine. Frederick Hayward, of Wairau Valley, has this day filed a declaration of insolvency, and the first meeting of his creditors is fixed for Wednesday, the Ist day of August next, at the Courthouse, Blenheim. A subscription list has been opened on behalf of Mr J. Simpson, who lost his horse and trap in the Omaka last week. Mr Simpson can ill afford such a loss, and we trust the public will liberally subscribe to recoup Mr Simpson in a little degree for the loss sustained. Messrs Holmes aud Redwood returned from Wellington per s.o. Waihi yesterday, and we understand the information respecting the freezing process which they have obtained is of a very favorable nature as regards the prospects of this district. Their report will be submitted to a meeting of the Directors of the Company on Wednesday next, when it will be decided on what day a public meeting will be called. The Auckland Frozen Meat and Storage Company is now in process of formation, and the prospectus will be issued in a few days. There will be 30,000 shares of L 5 each, making a total capital of L 150.000. There will be a first issue of L 14.000. The plan and specifications of the first part of the harbour reclamation are ready, and work will commence at the earliest possible moment. It is expected that the whole affair will be completed and ready for work within twelve months. Arrangements are being made in England to provide the most improved refrigerating machinery. Our special correspondent telegraphs from Wellington to-day about the Main Trunk line :—Ministers will not disclose which of the routes reported on by the Commissioners appointed re. Cook Straits railway they prefer. The question has been asked several times in the House lately, but to no 3vail. Ministers have evidently some idea in keeping their decision back. Probably they will wait until near the close of the session, when most of the business will have been done, and the severance of numbers from the Government ranks on account of the route they choose, will have no effect on the Government majority. It has also been said that the Government are consulting several engineers on the subject.

Judge Innes, in the course of a recent address to a jury at Maitland, N.W.S., thus laid down the law: —“You may slander a man as long as you like, provided that there is no third party or witness present, in which case he has no redress in a Court of law.” The Due deCharters, who is the youngest brother of the Comte de Paris, the heir of Louis Philippe, when France was hi her extremity, dropped his title and joined the army as Robert Lefert. His farewell words to his regiment on his enforced retirement were : “I was by your side at Solferiuo, and with the army of the Loire, and I shall be there the next time fighting is to be done.” From the inquiries conducted by Professor H. Cohn, Breslau, since.lß6s, it appears that short-sightedness is rarely or never born with those subject to it, and is almost always the result of strains sustained by the eye during study in early youth.. A better construction of school desks, an improved typography of text-books, and sufficient lighting of class-rooms are the remedies proposed to abate this malady. Iu a few hours a pitcher of water will absorb all the respired gases in the room, the air of which will have become much purer, but the water utterly filthy. The colder the water is the greater capacity to contain these gases. At ordinary tempera-a ture a pail of water will absorb a pint of carbonic acid gas and several pints of.ammonia. The capacity is nearly doubled by reducing the water to the temperature of ice. Hence water kept in a room awhile is unfit for use. Impure water is more injurious than impure air. The rush of amateurs to the professional stage still continues in London. The latest addition to tho ranks is Mr H. Fitzpatrick, brother to Mrs Cornwallis West, the celebrated beauty. This gentleman has just made his debut at a Gaiety matinee, with the result that he has been engaged by Mr Bancroft to play in “Fedora.” Henry Irving, notwithstanding the sharp tilings he lately said about amateurs in general, has himself an amateur protegt: in the person of a young man named Benson, who showed some latent ability as Clytemcstra in the Greek play, and whom he cast for the part of Paris iu the “ Romeo and Juliet ” revival. In Titnaru on Friday, in one of tho butcher’s shops, two or three carcasses of frozen meat were shown, and much interest in them displayed. The Timam Herald says :—“ The appearance of the meat can be judged from what frequently happened when people dropped in to see the exhibit. A number of carcasses of freshly-killed sheep were hanging on the same rail, and over and over again people pointed to some of these, saying they had been frozen too. Those who had been previously told which carcasses had been frozen of course ‘smiled superior,’ but some of these in their turn had been equally wrong in their judgments. The unanimous verdict was that if the mutton could be landed in Loudon in the condition this was in, it was bound to command a market.” “ Civis ” writes :—“ A North Island clergyman was reading in the lessons the other Sunday the history of Hezekiah’s sickness and recovery. The end of the lesson and that of the chapter did not coincide, and by mistake the reader went past the proper stopping place. Perceiving his error lie pulled up suddenly, witli the following curious effect : ‘And Hezekiah said —Here endeth the first lesson !’ This is not so bad, however, as the misadventure which lately befel an eloquent young clergyman at Austin, United States. Being a man of catholic sympathies and literary tastes, lie is accustomed to quote from secular writers as often as from the Bible, and often adorns his sermons with references to the novels of Charles Dickens. On a recent occasion he surprised his congregation by winding up a gorgeous peroration with, ‘lt is thus, you see, my brethren, as the Scriptures say, ‘ Barkis is willing, but the flesh is weak.’ ” Mr J. C. Chappie writes on the rabbit pest to the Otago Daily Times : —ln almost every newspaper appears articles, extracts from other papers, and letters to the editor on the above subject, all aiming at the destruction of “ bunny,” and, with your permission, I will add my quota. The months of October, November, December, January, and February are the principal breeding months, and daring those months little or nothing is done in the way of destroying. There is not the slightest doubt that the females, when heavy in young, are more easily destroyed with both dog and gun than when not in young. No doubt many will argue that hands are scarce during those months, and to a certain extent this is true; but at the same time plenty of hands can be obtained to do this work. At present the rabbits are allowed to breed all summer, to be destroyed in the winter ; and I feel confident that so long as they are allowed to breed unmolested during the months stated they will increase rather than diminish. The Chinese are taking to rabbiting (poisoning) in this district, and are reported to be doing better at it than Europeans, and there are numbers on the tramp looking for a job at rabbiting without obtaining it. The distinctly opposite attitudes assumed towards Mrs Langtry by different sections of the press can be best illustrated by the two following criticisms upon her new essay as “ Galatea.” The Spirit of the Times says:—“We sat through two acts of it, and have seldom witnessed a worse performance by a professional company. The public are asked to pay two dollars for a seat to see Mrs Langtry, not as an actress, but as a beauty. Made up for the statue she shows red lips and hands, blackened eyebrows and lashes, salmon-coloured arms and neck. What sort of a statute is that ? When she is supposed to be inspired with life, she throws off her white wig and displays her brown hair ; but she is more like a statute in her acting than while she stands on her pedestal. Unable to deliver Galatea’s speeches with anything _ like dramatic effect, she intones them like a ritualistic parson.” Here, on the other hand, is the dictum of another leading American critic “ When Cynisca, the wife of Pygmalion, first drew back the curtain that concealed the marble Galatea, a hush fell upon the crowded house. Will Mrs - Langtry be beautiful a 3 the statute ? will she be graceful when the statue is called to life ? were questions that seemed in the air. It may be answered that she was both beautiful and graceful, and that she won upon her audience with a charm of her own that was artiessness as much as art. She gave, indeed, a rendering of tho part that delighted the house, and was pleasant surprise to the critical.”

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At Cheater Assizes lately Elizabeth Roberts was charged with attempting to murder her child, aged 14 months, at Chester. The evidence revealed a most horrible and unnatural offence. On Sunday, 4th March, the prisoner had been driuking heavily, and returned during the afternoon in a state of intoxication. The woman took the child up to suckle, but after a few minutes she put it down, saying, “I may as well begin, as I don’t intend to give you any more.” She then threw the child on the fire. It was rescued by two neighbours who were in the room, and a second and third time the poor child was flung on the fire by the drunken parent. Foild in her attempts to burn the child to death, she seized a saucepan of water and scalded her offspring severely. The prisoner was sentenced to twelve months’ hard labour. The Rev. Henry Clark Hewson, vicar of Fiugrinhoe, near Colchester, England, appeared lately before the magistrates, charged with being drunk and disorderly. The complainant, Cooper Green, a farmer, said he had always been on the most friendly terms, and on the occassiou when the Rev. Hewson disgraced himself they rode together into town. They drank ale, whisky and wine together, and defendant got drunk. Seeing his condition, the witness wanted to drive, which was resented by defendant, and from words they came to blows, the reverend drunkard finally drawing a knife, when the witness called for help and two men came to his assistance. The magistrate convicted the defendant, finding him S dols 25 cents and costs for each of the two offences. At last accounts the exemplary clergymau was still enjoying a fat office. A boy on the training ship St. Vincent, at Portsmouth Dock Yards, instead of returning from his leave one day recently, proceeded to Haslar Creek, in Portsmouth Harbour, where he selected from the fleet of yachts lying there the seven-ton craft belonging to Captain Arm, and in the presence of a number of onlookers, who thought he was acting under orders, he set sail, with—as he now says—the intention of proceeding to France. There were, however, no provisions in the yacht, and when off Littlehampton he was hailed by the coast guard, and as he did not respond suspicions were aroused and the yacht was overhauled. The hoy was brought ashore, and the nature of the voyage having been ascertained, he was handed over to the police, and an officer was sent to Littlefiampton to bring him back. He was charged with stealing the yacht, valued at LSO, "and will, beside, be tried for desertion. Wells’ Rough on* Corns.” Ask for Wells’ “ Rough on Corns.” 7VI. Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, wart bunions. Moses, Moss & Co., Sydney, General Agents. Holloway’s Ointment and Pills—Much watchfulness must be exercised at the present time, and the earliest evidences of illhealth must be immediately checked, or a slight illness may result in a serious malady. Relaxed and sore throat, influenza, quinsey, coughs, chronic coughs, bronchitis, and most pulmonary affections will be relieved by rubbing this cooling Ointment into the skin as near as practicable to the seat of mischief. This treatment, so simple and yet se effective is, admirable adapted for the removal of these diseases during infancy ancl youth. Old asthmatic invalids will derive marvellous relief from the use of Holloway’s remedies, which have brought round many such sufferers, and reestablished health, after every other means has signally failed.— Advt.