GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8986, 25 February 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

GENERAL NEWS.

MB. BRIGS® kvb FARM UE A WORKING-MAX at rWlmcf . " wrote to Mr. Bright callw, fo° F . re% 7 the National Society for the Iv eiU ' on to Agriculture and other ' A ceived a reply, in which Mr. Briof* , re " " 1 have not time to enter into a r d ~ on the reetrade question, but. J , labourers I think your old men them could give imformation as t mode 01 living from forty to fifty V fJ*what were the wages then paid Vv' &? " J ' the cost of that they had to p br -J M whether clothing or of food. what i • bread they had, compared with wW tjl had now. Young men may know nothiv those times, but fathers and motV. ? tell of their condition, and comrl/" ' A "' their present state." com Pare n Vi -j

THE CAUSES OF CONSCMPTIO.V . Dr. Brown Sequard, who has be*n r-. • ing that bad ventilation of sleeping and poor and monotonous food Thereat causes of phthisis, treated V u'!' disease at the last meeting 0 t CV' i: Academy of Sciences, taking m an -V,; ir : ; examples from England. Wherever lation is dense, and sleeping rooms "ip or overcrowded, consumption pr-v-r' ""-f* Bailey reported that in Millba'nk % there were, out of 100 death® y --."P 1 from this disease. According to trious French doctor, a room in % v consumptive person sleeps is ret kin-''-- 1 contagious germs, if the air ha t rV"' U not carried off. ' «

TENNYSON- ON HIS OWN POEM? Evening-at Faringford : Tennv-:-, " Boadicea" and "The Lincolnsni r J - - " T -" 1 mer." The latter gains immen-e' v V'r!' giving the words their proper acc'cit''' j by the enormous sense of humour'"-'-into it by his voice and manner in t&J-Z it. I asked Tennyson which he pre : -'-"J of the two poems, "Enoch Ard^ri'"V-i " Aylmer a Field." He replied " rj", Arden," which he thought was v c rv pe-?v~ and a beautiful story. "Ay liner's had given him more trouble'than anv-vV, he ever did. At one time he had aside altogether for six months: the'--."-Was so intractable, and it was so difte-; : '- "-'j deal with modern manners and convert- - The Indian relative was introduced s -- for the sake of the dagger, which was the instrument of the lover's suicide.— 1 * - F. Pollock's Reminiscences." A SINGULAR ACCIDENT.

A singular accident occurred at waite, near Huddersfield, the other which for the time caused a good excitement among the people there? i very extensive cotton mill ha* been for the Slaithwaite Spinning Company" Vr'J the chimney, which reaches to a V--height, was so far completed that a " Jack" from Huddersfield was ascend to remove the scaffolding vvhic; hi? been used to complete the chimney v-, round which there is a very wide nak>-' The "'steeple Jack"' successfully r-~jV-i the scaffolding, and was about to maki preparations for his descent, when ther.> by which he was to descend somehow cocame detached and fell to the gr/u-i. The man was left on the chimney Soon a large crowd of persons as-rtcb'.?] and they were for a time somewhat pun.*! to know how he was to get down. T;; "steeplejack" was equal to the occi-/.n, and while the people were wondering fc;-? he was to get down he was busily engird in unravelling one of his stockings, i-.d when this work was completed he it: d one end of his thread, and in course c: lizi was provided with a rope sufficiently to let himself down by.

DEMONSTRATION AGAINST A CLE?.',

A procession of several thousand nies, carrying torchlights, with an ethgy : tie Rev. Lewis Price, Rector of Pake-fit Id um a trolly drawn by two horses, and by a brass band, marched from to the rev. gentleman's residence, twe distant, and there, amid groans and L— burnt the effigy. The Rev. Le'.vis hi.-; has given offence by writing a letter o•• local papers on the wickedness o: the lav.; in proposing to give a ball.

. A TERRIBLE DEATH. A young child of seven has just me: v::h a terrible death in Paris. The lad—.:.; only son of a prosperous tradesman—vy playing in his father's room a mornin? *: two ago, when he noticed that the la:r; strong-box had been, contrary to custca. left open- Out of fun lie got into it. am his father, a few moments after the be; had hidden himself, had to leave home the day on business, and hastily locked tie strong box before setting out. The b:y, not reflecting on the consequences, kept perfectly quiet whilst he was being maat i prisoner, and when his father returned home in the evening he found his wife a a state of deepest alarm because the child missing. The police were communicate: with, and the parents passed a nigs: c: anguish whilst waiting for tiding? of the;: son. The following morning the tradesman, opening his strong box, learned the terr:::e truth. The little fellow was found a corpse in it.

SIR CHARLES DUKE. Sir Charles Dilke presided a few days art at the first house dinner of the Hammersmith Liberal Club, and was cordially received. In proposing " The Liberal Cause, he asked for indulgence while he said a fc>? words about himself, and proceeded to »;•' that statements had been made during tne last week with regard to his supposed intention shortly to return to public life. He wished to take the present opportunity c: saying that he had no such present intention. He had not in the least degree relinquished the hope of being able to vacate his honour by the law, and even if M were to find that for some reason or other that course was not open to him. he would still look forward, if not to obtaining justice in that way, at least to the clay when tk fellow countrymen would come to seetH nature of the odious fabrications by they had been misled. In local work hi had never ceased to take an active part—M had, indeed, added of late to his responsibilities by accepting other local offices: ana his old constituents he would always m glad to meet whenever they cared to »■ him. Literary and historical work also engage him in serious labour for W a ; years to come.

ANOTHER FOOTBALL FATALITY. Mr. T. N. Johnson held an inq uest s ;. Stockport Infirmary, touching the aft' l - James Harkin, 32, of Cheadle. On Oct° • 22, as a professional football play er,. played in a match for Heaton Park ar-uf: Darwen Old Wanderers. According w own statement, one of the players aeon - 1 , ally fell upon him with his knee up®. " thigh. This produced an abscess which Harkin died in Stockport- liiGrroa. ■ The jury found a verdict of '' Accwe death."

FATAL RESULT OF LARKING. Mr. Baxter held an inquest at the 1° fir's Arms, St. Leonard's Road, Bromley , lative to the death of Grace Ellen Jleaft■ ' aged 27, the wife of a coffee-house Kj-P^ which occurred under singular circumft none Monday recently. George Meacock, ' East India Road, Poplar, said the de«! , was his wife, and they had been row seven years On Saturday after she was making some mince-meat. jj ? had chopped the apples and was star » on the plums. He took a few °*P and she turned round and said, ' (( *? me eat all my plums." He replied, y' .jf another one." She laughingly said, '« you take another one fll rap your ? He took another one, and she trie ; hold of his hands, bub he turned rou - n she got on his back. -He put the P t his mouth, and while she was r >' in =■ , {, er at his mouth he stood up strait, Hocr. back went through the panel of ag , t j, e He took her to the Poplar Hospital, surgeon there extracted a piece ot g under the right shoulder, and bandar Tfae wound. She was able to walk home. heXt night she became delirious a .j t!)g Dr. A. .Moore, East India Road ' ler . cause of death was delirium tremen , _ \ a ated by the accident. The jury djcal verdict in accordance with the w evidence. THE VICTORY. ojflstha HerMajesty'sshipVictory.renovmea^^ flagship of Nelson at the battle . dock t he underwent a careful exammati ,j i yard other day at the hands of old hi»' uthorities, with the result) that the g re aD torical craft waa found, in S P* . a really age and lengthy services, to .oe lea k marvellous state of preservation. sinic which some time since threaten 5 her does not appear to have been tbe as ™ feared; leaving no doubtthaj weather-beaten man-of-warwdl 8 pg[ta . able to return to her old mooring 3 mouth Harbour*