Untitled

New Zealand Herald, Volume XV, Issue 5064, 8 February 1878, Page 2

The Hon. Sir George Grey, Premier ; Hon. J. Sheehan, Native Minister; Hon. Mr. Fisher, and the Hon. Hoaui Nahe, accompanied by Mr. Brown, M.H.R.; Mr. Wood, the celebrated sculptor ; Mr. (i. M. lieed, and Mr. Geach left Auckland yesterday for Onehunga by the 9.15 train, and embarked on board the Hiuemoa. They will arrive at Taranaki this morning, where the Native Minister will land. It is also possible that the Hinemoa may call at Waugauui, provided there are appliances to tender the steamer and land the passengers on her arrival. The Hon. Houi Nahe during his visit to Auckland gave the native children attending St. Stephen's School, Parnell, a treat, in the shape of a railway trip' to Onehunga, with which they appeared to be greatly delighted. Amongst the lads v/ho availed themselves of the- treat were Uoui Nahe's son, and Hemi 1 larapapera, and Karota Tamihaua —the two youths who were recently sent from the King country to receive instruction at this institution. After the conclusion of the play between the Australian and Auckland Tenuis yesterday evening, a scratch match was played between tivo Auckl.iud eitizeus, which excited a good deal of merriment amongst those who remained lor it. The phiyero in this single-wicket match were Air. It. Jlrowiu and Mr. IS. llalstead. The batting or running were not quite so good as some which had been exhibited during the day, but the amusement afforded was as great, and the niawb resulted in Mr. lialsteaj scoring nine runs to Mr. Bruwiu'a seven, the match was for £1 a side. Amongst those who accompanied Sir lieo. Giey in the I'iuemoa, on Thursday, was Thomas '■ arawhiti, sou of the Kev. Tarawhiti, of Taupiri. The lad has been educated at St. John's College, and h;is a good knowledge of the Kii-lish and Maori languages, lie is u> take iv position in the Telegraph Department at Wellington, in order to be instructed as an operator. A great deal of diilk-ulty has often Ueu experienced in the department on account of want of knowledge of the .Maori language on the part of the operators, and a few operators in the principal uliicco who uiulnrstuud t.'iis language would, no iloubt, prove a gre:it acquisition, ami prevent many blunders. 11l the lock-up cells last night were two drunkards, a child named Annie Uroivu, who was taken up under the provisions of the Neglected and Destitute Children Act, aud an old man named Swan, who was locked up for stealing a spuke, or rather the material from which the upuku of a wheel might bo manufactured, from the Wliari. The parents of the girl JSrotvii reside in Waikato, anil it is probable that she may have strayed from home or been induced to leave it. Swan has been in the habit of picking up pieces of waste timber for firewood oli tin: Wharf, and might have mistaken the uuprepai-cd piece of wood which he picked up lor waste timber. It had, however, been lauded from the Hero as a spoke, aud lie took it, and was arrested for theft.

Tliere was not a single case for hearing at the I'oliec Court yesterday. The Kesideiit Magistrate, Mr. Barstow, liuding that the civil court was not opened, attended at the Police Court, and when it opened and he took his seat on the JJeuch there were only present the clerk of the court, the court orderly, and a solitary reporter. The following conversation ensued : ;;leik: "Call the first case." Orderly : " iiiit there are no cases, sir." Clerk : " Then clear the Court." Orderly (in a 1-jud, authoritative voice) : '"The cases are over; clear the Court," and the Court was accordingly cleared, the magistrate making his exit by one door, the orderly by another, and the reporter by a third, leaving the Clerk in soln charge, ileing, however, of a gregarious disposition, the Cle:k speedily divested hiinst-lf of his solitary grandeur, and left the Court to take care of itself. The following letter has been received by a gentleman e.jim'jetud with the I'ress of WYllin-.'Um iii)in a well known colonial celebrity wi... has been lo«t to the view of the pu'ilic of these pans fo- some years: — " London, November SMtli, 1577. —Dear Independent, — Although you may not have heard of tho ex-cvuiie vocalist, 1 uiu:,t say 1 have not been idle all these years. I'.y a catalogue I poss to ymi, you will sec that the "reat :uietii)nt'ers." Christi..-, Mauson, and Woods, a.-e selling my collection. 1 have travelled extensiveiy in the interior of China and Japan, learnt both languages, au.l U.id many u'urious adventures, which some day I may give in a book. 1 was brought up by my father to the study and sale of old Chin.i, luit, unfortunately 1 fooled my time away on the stage. 1 have made far more money at n:y legitimate profession than in the palmiest days of my vocation as a vocalist. 1 return back to China and -lapan in January. 1 ■noun, if all well, to go a thousand miles up the Yellow 1 liver ir. China to cxploru fur ..11 porcelain. I have sold :it present in ly.mlmi old porcelain to the vului: of til), 000, and have a "large collection yet not sold. 1 am so full of business that 1 have to hs brief. Uemi-mber me to all old Wellingtoiiian.s. — Believe me, yoiira faithfully, Cha*. 11. Thatcher."

I'ew diseases are perhaps more dreaded by heads of families and mothers of young children, than tho.< ■• of the throat, us croup and diptheria, and new remedies of all kinds are being eagerly sought after. Of late years sulphur, or rather sulphuric, acid, has often been a favourite specilio fur the latter, but this it appears is not unlikely to be put aside in favour of a comparatively new salt called salicylic acid, whiehissaid not only, when ciupl: yeil as a g:ugle, to cure diptheria completely, but that us use invariably will prevent tlie disease spreading to other members of a family when one is attacked. According to the Lancet, which is generally looked on as a first-class authority, in combination with an alkali as in the salicylate of soda, it is a recognised spmilic in cases of acute rheumatism; and if a celebrated Paris doctor is to be relied upon, it only failed in curing or greatly relieving acute aud chronic gout once in fifty-three cases. Moreover, it is said to be a good preservative against putrefaotion in incut, fish, game, &0., and to ke«p milk, butter, cheese, jams, beer, aud such like things, from turning for a very long time. Last, but not lenst, it is also said to be an infallible remedy in pleuropneumonia in cattle as well as glanders, and the foot and inout.h disease. It appear? that on the Continent, tho Board of Trade at Saxe Uobourg have just published a process for preventing the first-mentioned disease by dissolviug two grains of the acid in a pail of water, and fiiving it daily to all cattle throughout the year ; and several graziers in the same locality have certified to the fact that it has entirely done away with deaths from the said fatal aud epidemical disease. " There is nothing new uuder the sun," aud from ita name it would seem to be somewhat connected with or allied to " salicene," a bitter aud astringent extract from the bark of the common willow—and if so it will perhaps explain why horned cattle aud horses in the old country are so fond of driukiug at apparently muddy pools surrounded by willows, and why farmers there prefer their doing so to giving them springwater. New remedies which profess to do so much in such a variety of cases arc I generally looked on with suspicion, aud disfavoured, but anyway, if only a small portion of truth is contained in the many favourable statements which have been made respecting this new salt, a very great and lasting boon to mankind generally will have been conferred by its discovery.

Mr. A. V. Macdonald, General Manager of the Railway, announces that tickets issued at any station on February 12, 13, and 14, to Hamilton, Kukuwhia, and Oiiaupo, will he available for return on any day up to and on Saturday, 16th. A meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association and the United Kvangelistic Committee, which was summoned for yesterday will held this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock! The alteration was found to lie necessary on account of yesterday having been proclaimed a holiday. For several days past there has been every indication of a coming change in the weather. Since the beginning of the present month, the barometer has been steadily falling, not very rapidly—about G0"1000ths of an inch per 24 hours; but the fall has been so continuous that sooner or later a storm was inevitable. Since the Ist inst. up to yesterday morning, the barometer has fallen about half an inch. Yesterday morning and throughout yesterday large quantities of rain fell at intervals, and some of the showers were accompanied with loud peals of thunder. Last night it was felt that the rain had brought a sensible decrease in the temperature, and during the early hours of morning the cold was much greater than we have experienced for a considerable time past. Mr. Samuel Edger sends us an article from the London Time* of December 4th, which in a measure seeks to jnstify the action of Russia, and he asks us to publish the greater portion of the article. There is nothing new in what the Time* says, it has always been a more or less pro-Knssi.in organ, and was strongly so before the Crimean war, and its arguments cannot justify the lust of power ami territory which has always characterised Russia. We have no space for the extracts, but quote the following sentences from Mr. ledger's letter, which is the main point in his complaint:— " You speak this morning in a leading article of 'the few lovers of Russian fraud and force to be found in the colonies.' I submit that the assumption of 'fewness' is as incorrect as the insinuation ' lovers of fraud' is ungenerous and unjust." Those who defend Russia's action which provoked cither the Crimean or the present war, are, we believe, few, but if they do defend it then cognomen is neither inappropriate nor unjust. In regard to the voting for the election of the new Hoard, to which reference was made in an article yesterday, School Committees would do well to boar in mind the following points : —1. That they must send to the Secretary of the Board on or before the last day of this month a list of the names. '2. This list must bo in icriihi;/. 3. The full names uf the persons, as given in the "public notice,"' must be written on the list. 4. Any number of names, nol crcwl\n;i niii", may be sent. We understand that specially-addressed envelopes have been sent to th'i several committees, in order tli.it the voting-papers, when received by the Hoard, may bo left uuopi'iied until the day of election (Friday, Bth of March). On the day these envelopes will be publicly opened, and the number of votes for each candidal- recorded. Opinions may differ as to the precise form in which the lists should be made up, as t" th<; signature (if any) required, but wo are enabled to state that a list given cm the f.'nn supplied in the circular from the Secretary wiil be deemed suilicient. The main point of importance is that the voting shall be recorded in the minutes of the committee, whii'li the now Act requires shall be regularly entered in a book kept for the purpose ; and as the Act requires that all proceedings of the committee- are to be trar.soeted at meeting?, it is evident that tin; list j of names to be sent must be voted for at a ilulji conrcuid mcrlimj. j