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Mataura Ensign, Issue 1413, 19 November 1904, Page 5

The British Government has purchased 70,000 acres in the Isle of Skyc for crofters' holdings. Members of the choir of Holy Trinity Church, Gore, paid a surprise visit to Mr and Mrs A. Hughes at the Southland Hotel on Thursday evening for the purpose of bidding them gnod-byo and presenting Mrs Hughes with a handsomely-bound Cathedral prayer-book in token of their esteem of that lady and of her invaluable services to the church during the past M years. Mr C. H. Fleming. (choirmaster) made the presentation, and in doing so bore testimony to the assiduous manner in which Mrs Hughes had attended to her duties in the choir. Mr A. Hughes replied on behalf of his wife, thanking the members of the choir for the valuable gift, and Mr Fleming foi his kindly sentiments. The visitors were afterwards entertained to supper and a pleasant hour was spent. A generul meeting of the Gore Cycling Club is called for Tuesday evening next to consider business in connection with the late race meeting. This gathering resulted most satisfactorily so far as finances as concerned, and it is hoped that by aneaus of the profit the Club's liabilities will be wiped out. The following district dredging returns are reported:—Mastetton 13oz 7dwt, Mystery Flat 370z Sdwt, Muddy Creek 330z 15dwt, Waimtiniu 30oz, Garden Gully 270z lfidwt, Central 22bz Sdwt, Nugent Wood 21 oz, Hessey's 14oz 12dwt, Waikaka. Goz 13dwt. The committee of the proposed Gore floral fete in aid of the Veterans' Home met last night, when a subcommittee consisting of Messrs Popl«lwell, Bowler, Gibb9 and Montgomery was appointed to draw up a pro. gramme. This will be submitted to a meeting of the full committee Inter . on. It was suggested that the ladies committee should canvass the town and ascertain what support in the way of flowers, vehicles, etc., could V.o secured. Special prizes will also be asked for and arrangements made for a short sports programme on the ciay of the fete. The project is likely to bo a great success, but to secure that result even. - effort will reqiuire ti> bo exerted by the promoters and members of committee.

Mr J. W. Jago, manager of the 'Evening Star' Co., and veteran teinperanco reformer, died somewhat suddenly on Friday. He had been at the office during the day and transmuted some business. Be leaves a large family, all grown up ; one of his daughters being the wife of Mr Justice Williams. Weather permitting the Gore Brass Band will make another attempt (the ' fourth) this evening to givo a promenade concert in Main street. New York has been startled over the discovery that at least one hundred persons have died from drinking bad whisky sold in saloons in the ,iroper quarters of the city. The chain of deaths which wiped out twenty-eight persons caused their friends t start investigations on October 9, and -it was then found that bad whisky was thp cause. Rudolph Fritche, saloonkeeper, was arrestpd on the 10th on suspicion. A city chemist analysed the cheap liquor found in the homes of the victims, and reported that it contained wood alcohol, a whisky which is retailed at ten cents a pint. Other saloon men suspected of selling the vile stuff are responsible for most of the deaths. On October 11, infuriated ; by the news of another death ,in the district, a mob, containing several women, attacked Fritche's saloon. bombarded the building with bricks, stones and sticks, and wrecked the front, but withdrew on the appearance of the police. The leader muttered that this was only a "starter." Detectives are busy securing sample* of whisky in the district, and the insurance companies also aro investigating the deaths. The Federal Oovern- : % nifiit has taken a hand in the investigation. The authorities believe that fully one hundred persons have succumbed to the poisonous liquor. It Works Like Magic—The reliel obtained from Chamfcei lain's Pain Balm when appHed to a barn or scald is so nearly instantaneous that it seems al- »■■' most magical in its effect. An injury of this kind heals without maturaturation when this remedy is applied, and unless the wound is yery ; severe, does not leave a scar. _ For |- - sale by G. B. Wharton, chemist.—

Dr Stephen Smith's new treatment, by which astigmatism and other defects of the eye are said to be curable, recalls an amazing operation which was performed in Dublin a few years ago with the object of saving an exsoldier's eyesight. The left eyelid of Ryan, as the man was named, had been partly cut away, owing to disease, but the remaining portion curled in on the eyeball, and irritated it to such an extent that the man was speedily becoming blind. The oculist decided to try to attach a pig's eyelid to that of the soldier, and in order that the eyelid might be taken from a pig just lulled the delicate operation was performed in a bacon factory. As the blood was pouring from the throat of a dying porker its eyelid was cut off by a neat-hand-ed surgeon, washed in antiseptic solution, and rapidly attached by six stitches to the remaining portion of Ryan's eyelid, which had been "cutto fit." No chloroform was administered to the patient, but cocaine was poured into the eye while the jpcrution lasted. The Waugamii 'Herald' say.s:— "Itis rather strange in these days to drop across a boy ten years of age who has never seen a trap, a bbycle or a train, but such a thing is possible, it appears, as the boy John Heapcy. who was committed to the Nelson Industrial School was wh an one. Tho boy had been an inmate of the home at Jerusalem practically ever since he was born, and wheu brought to town the other day showed his surprise when ho saw traps passing up and down the streets in u striking manner. His surprise turned to utter bewilderment when a cyclist passed him. and he stood and stared at the Ho him) strange sio-ht of. us he called it, 'the man on wheels.' Tho sight of the train was a matter of even greater astonishment to the boy, who appeared quite thunderstruck when he found himself mov ng there in, and was evidently frightened and did not know what to make of it all." Additions to special cattle sale at Gore on 29th hist.