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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 150, 17 July 1903, Page 3

A grey horse, with its mouth covered in blood, was obnerved being driven aboui town this forenoon. Without expressing an opinion aa to cruelty or otherwise, it is suggested that the Cruelty Prevention Society might make inquiries. "The patient delving European has been the fulcrum and American brains and enterprise the lever of our great progress," said the "North American Review," recently. A whole-hearted slaughter of this self-flattering American sentiment is undertaken in the "Empire Review" by Mr C. de Thierry. " Where are the Americans ?" is his title, and he shows that in railways and canals, in cotton, coal, and iron, in wool and pottery, shipbuilding and invention, in almost every form of enterprise in America, {he initiative has been taken, not by natives, but by men of English, Scottish, and Irish birth. Even for actors and actresses America has to send over here. We talk about the ' American j invasion ' of our stage when some mountohank and ' variety ' sketch is put on the boards in London, but what about the other side of the account? America has given birth to one great acires9, Charlotte Gushman, but to no great actor. There were four generations of Jeffersons, and not a drop (if American blood in any of them. Edwin Booth was born in the United States, but of English parentage, and the same is true of Lawrence Barret. Edwin Forrest had a iScottish father and a German mother. The Warrens and the Drews are English, Clara Morris a Canadian, and Ada Eelian Irish. Mary Anderson had an English father, and Fechter was born in England of French parentage. And as it is now, so it has been. Speaking generally, distinguished American actors and actresses are British born." As the author says, " Where are the Americans ?" Recently in New South Wales a young inairied woman, Blanche Cunningham, attempted to commit suicide by taking a solution of match heads. She gave as the reason that her neighbours had put their cows in her paddock. She wrote a pathetic letter to her father, placing her children in Ms care. Mrs Cornford, wife of Mr Thomas Cornford, of Youanmite, Victoria, missed her little daughter, aged two years and three months, and was horrified to find her drowned in a small hole in the yard containing water which was used for the purpose of shrinking vehicle tyres. A woman who applied to the Nerth Wairarapa Benevolent Society for relief gave as a reason for her refusal to go to the home in Wellington that " she feared she would not be permitted to enjoy her j'ipe there." In the Perth (W.A.) Supreme Court recently a police constable named Green claimed £1010 damages for injuries received through falling into an unfenced hole, 20ft deep, on the property of thp defendants, Messrs Cole and James. The plaintiff stated that while on night duty he went down the. lane, suspecting that someone was hiding. The lano was fenced, except one spot, where he stepped into a linle. The jury returned a verdict for the plain tiff for £25. An incident flawing the stupidity of sheep occurred at Matgawela (North Island) the other day (says the " Wairarapa Times. ') A mob was being driven abng a bridge when one of them took fright, and jumped into the river, which was flowing rapidly. AU the rest followed, and although a good many men trii*d to rescue them, they were nearly all drowned, owing to the &teep banks of the river. The Melbourne "Age" of June 24 states: A daughther, age nine, of a selector named Bradbury, of Thorpdale South, was with an elder sister playin g about their homestead when the latter obtained her father's axe, and was in the act of cutting- down some scrub, when the'younger sister /got in the way and was struck by the axe on "tho right side of tho bead. A wound 4-in long was inflicted, the. axe cutting clean through the skull and lacerating the brain. The child walked some distance to the house, and the father bandaged the wound. Next day the child was brought on horseback into Mirboo North, a distance of eight miles. .- Dr. Moir, when he flaw the terrible wound, expressed surprise at the child beiiag alive and able to ride such a distance on horseback. Although it ne The " Lyttolton Times " states that an extraordinary position has arisen in connection with the Moule bequest to the Canterbury Charitable Aid Board. The late Mr TSifoule made a bequest to the board for the Old Men's Home at Asbburton. It was stipulated, however, that there should be paid with the money a Government subsidy of 10s for every £1. The law provides that the Government cannot pay more than a total of J>soo on a single bequest. The first instalment of the bequest was handed to the board by the trustees. It amounted to .£lCGr>, and tho Government paid JJSCO. Another &ICOO is available., but the Government cannot pay any. more, and, worse thai thatrthe trustees cannot give the money to the Board, as the terms of the bequest will not be complied with until the Government has fulfilled its portion of the contract. Thetnoney iff entirely tied up as the trustee.? cannot 'dispose of it, and i1 must simply lie and accumulate. Mr J T. Smith; chairman 0$ the board, and Mi T. C. Norris; : tlio secretary, waited on the Premier in Wellington,, and placed th< position before liiin.. Mr Seddon sympa thised with ..them, and said something ought to be done, and it is likely that 1 special bill will be introduced to enabL the board to fafce advantage 01 the be quest. • A tew days ago a cablegram stated tha Professor Orth, the late Professor Vu chou's sTfecesaori in a paper read bafor the Berlin Medical: announce Sat experiments "prove the c6mmunic£ bility of human tuberculosis to cattli :and vice versa. At the British CongreH on Tulerculpsis, held in July, 1901, E Koch, the discoverer of the tuberc] bacillus, declared that if the bacilli c bovine tuberculosis were able to infec human beings many cases of such tube; culosis would occur. But such cases wei extremely rare, and there was no necci sity for taking measures against bovin which Dr Koc reaffirmed in 1902, was warmly contw : verted, ffiddaS: a result the G< vernment appointed a Royal Commissic of Government men to inquire — (1) Whi ther/the disease in auimaia ana man ib^and~t£.e:&me.; (2)^Wliether>nima -and men caiibe^^ reciprocally injected wit it^ : (3) ; ,tiiiLder what conditions^ if at al We traiisniißsion of disease from anima /romah takes place, aiid what are the 01 cionßisancei:(iEayourable or unfavoutabl loVuch iransnils3iox!» , ■£^{(- l: ''-i\^;r -y>j.^'-:-X>>:"f.- .-'. :::'•'..■ .V" •• • ; ■

The s.B. Minnesota, the largest jess ever built in America , was ' w£™ launched at the *«*<*£? £££ and the Celtic being her only pEJJ^ The following are sions .—Len-th overall, 63Ott D* ea 73ft 6in ; depth from keel to upper aec 56ft; displacement at a JtaajfM of 3 *J 33,000 tons, and at «^S^Suk 36Kt, 37,000 tons. The engmes com furnish 10,000 It Sou sufficient to drive the. ship 14 knots "J^- ie^J£.f%*h* CIKSSSd^ twin *ip wil ply XL Seattle and Yokohama, i SJtaST of 5800 miles, by way o Honolulu. No further steps beyond those reports have been taken in connection with tK< suspected case of leprosy discovered a Newlonn. Kiin Lee, the Chinese fruiterer who is believed to be suffering from tin disesßQ, will remain on Somes Island unti Dr Mason, Chief Health Officer, who is a present in Auckland, and other medica experts, including Dr Frengley, Healtl Officer at Nelsonj diagnose the case. Th< shop on Adelaide-road, ©ccupied by th< suspect, is still closed pending a report b] the Health Department as to its sanitary condition. As the Royal procession was passing along the route in Edinburgh a small boj was observed to be winking his eyes vei*s rapidly. Asked why he did so, here plied, " Oh, I want to see the King bun dreds of times. The suggestion made in the Governor's Speech at. the opening of Parliament that His Excellency nopea to see an exhibition on an extensive scale hold in tho colony at no distant date, attracted the attention of members of the Industrial Association at their meeting at Wellington. Mr Alister Brown suggested that the Premier might be interviewed and asked whether his idea in any way fell in with the proposed exhibition to be held by the Association. The President (Mr T. Ballinger) said it was apparent that the Government's idea was a big thing, and nothing would be made out of it. Tt would be illadvised to have any clash or comuetition. After a desultory conversation, it was resolved, on the motion of Mr Brown, that the Exhibition Committee be instructed to look into the matter and consider the feasibility of holding an international instead of a colonial ex.hibitiou.. I

days have elapsed since she received tl wound, she has never lost consciousne nor shown the slightest sign of paralysi Dr. Moir says it is one of the most r markable eases he has seen, and r attributes the girl's escape to her youtl and to the fact of the axe, which was very sharp one, making a clean cr without fracturing the. skull. The littl J patient is progressing towards complet I recovery.