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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXII, Issue 272, 24 November 1898, Page 4

aggggg i i i »» The list of candidate* for the Victoria University College Scholarships haa closed, th* number entered being 15S, as fo"o*s :— Wellington, 98 ; Nelson. 21 ; Hawkes Bay, 15 ; Wanganui, 15 ; TaranaU, 6; Marlborough, Greymouth, and WeatUnd, I e-ch. The examinations will be held on the 141b, 15Ui, and ltith December, and tbe paper* are ready and in tb« hands of the printers outside the Middle District The examiner will have no knowledge of any name. There will be seven centres of examination, and the Education Board will nominate supertLo a. Tho scholarships will be awarded early next year. '^Thejwar scare was very prononncid in New Plymouth the other night. Aromour was persistently circulated that hostilities between England aod France had coinmessed and there were many anxious inquiries being made on the point. Some interesting reminiscences of the f**!* 4»y» °* tbo colony have been pubjiihed ia connection witb the recent death in Wellington of Mrs Dougherty, relict of Captain Dougherty. Captain Dougherty lived at a whaling station in Queen Charlotte Sound, and at the time of tho Weiran Massacre took the women and children of the tbin-populated Hcttiomente over Cook Btrait to Wellington in two whaleboat*. Ho at one time left bis wife acd family in Queen Charlotte Sound in charge of the stores, and two hostile natives came to Mrs Dougherty ■fid demanded possession She reacted their claims, and they retired, threaten ing that during the night tho whole tribe would descend on the settlement and born tbe place, and murder the inhabi tanta. An anxious watch vas kept by tha unfortunate women and her daughters, aad in the middle of the night a great fire appeared on the summit of a hill at the back of the bay. As the flames leapt up innumerable natives were seen to pass in single Ke,and the watchers gave themselves up for lost. An old " shellback," however, who was in Cap. tain Dougherty's employ, crept up to reconncitre, and discovered that the two wily Maoris who had threatened the place ia the day were walking round and round the fire, to give the impression of numbers. Referring to the report of the Lighting Committee on tbe proposal to light Christcburch by electric light, the Mayor of Ohristcborch, speakiogat lhe City Council, said the matter was a, most important one, snd one tbat wonld have to be taken into 'consideration at onoe. The contract for Ughting the dry at present had not very long to ran, and tne Council mc-t bo prepared to take tbe matter in hand and deal with it. He hoped Councillors would give their very best consideration to the matter during tbe interval before the next meeting, aad come ready to do sofjethiog. In Havana there iea device for protecting passengers from the extortion of cabmen which might profitably be imitated in other countries. The lampposts aie painted in various colours— red for tho central district, blue for the second circle, green for the third, eto.— and tlnu the "fue" knows immediately when Im haa passed the legal boundary, and pays accordingly.

A CURB FO CHRONIC DIAKKHCEA I have been a sufferer from chrunic diarrhoea ever since the war, and have " ueed all Unas of medicines for it. At last Z found one remedy that bas been a success aa a> ohm, aad that is Chamberlain's Oslio, Cholera, aad Diarrhoea Remedy.— For tale by James Boon, Chemist.