Daily Circulation, 1750. The Oamaru Mail. FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1899.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 7491, 14 April 1899, Page 2

Daily Circulation, 1750. The Oamaru Mail. FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1899.

The Chetnole cattle advertised to be sold at the Junction Yards to-morrow cannot be forward, but they will probably be offered on Tuesday. The horses and implements will be sold as advertised.

In consequence of Monday, 24th instant (St. George's Day), being gazetted a public holiday, the statutory meeting of the Harbor Board, fixed for that day, will be held on Tuesday, 25th instant.

At the Lan-i Board meeting on Thursday Messrs Lee and Grave wrote, on behalf of J. F. Mitchell, in regard to a water supply for the section held by him on the Toka-rahi t- state.—Received, the Board not having power to comply with request. A letter from J. F. Rowland in regard to Californian *hisiile on sections 15, 16, and 17, Teaneraki settlement, waa received. The Receiver of Land Revenue forwarded a list of the holders of pastoral licenses in arrears with rent due on the Ist March last, amongst them being Sutherland M'Quade, Maerewhenua. The ordinary meeting of the North School Committee, which should be held this evening, has been adjourned until Friday next.

Mails for a ustralia, Tasmania, Ceylon, India, China, the Straits Settlement, the Continent of iiurope, and the United Kingdom, per Tarawera, close at Wellington tomorrow.

We would draw the attention of farmers to the advantages to be gained by dressing their seed grain with Clarke's wheat protector, a certain preventive of smut, and protector from the ravages of birds and worms, and which saves the seed to the extent of a quarter of a bushel to the acre, and causes earlier germination and the production of a stronger plant. Farmers would do well to give it a trial. A writer in the Quarterly Review, in an article on the Spaniards and the Moors, says that the Spaniards repeated the crime of Rome in destroying Carthago, and that they have paid the penalty in the decay of four centuries ; but he recognises that the Moors had reached the highest point of civilisation which is possible to Islam. " In the poems of Hafiz, in those of Khayy&m, and in the Arabian and Indian romances, the same level is reached : a delicacy of sentiment, a subtlety of philosophy, a refinement of sensuousness, and an enjoyment of luxurious life without sense of sin or completeness. . . Christianity was the force which moved the nations of the North and West; Mohammedanism, though it has accepted European inventions, remains to-day where it was in the Middle Sges. If you cross from Gibraltar to Tangiersj you find yourself in three hours transported from Modern Europe to the Arabian Nights and the Bible." Christianity is the farce which is also " moving " the African peoples. One cannot doubt the efficacy of Christianity, but it has not been effectually transferred from the tables of stone to the minds and hearts and habits of those who rule the world. Nor can one read a magazine nowadays without seeing some awful accusation against the administration of affairs in some part of British Africa, where the men and women are treated as chattels. It ia high time to inquire whether our commercial Christianity is not of IeBS real virtue than any other idolatry. A rather remarkable hen's egg was (says a contemporary) on view at Carterton the other day. There was an indented impression on the shell resembling a diminutive sunflower, looking just as if it had been stamped on when the egg was in a soft state. The fowls had been feeding on sunflower seed. A Wellington telegram Btates that Ministers presented the Minister of Lands with a little gift on their own account to-day, in the shb.pe of a gold sovereign case and match box. The Cheviot News states that some time ago Mr Hullen engaged an expert to make a thorough examination of a property owned by him on the Seaward Range, where kerosene was supposed to exist. The result of his investigation is that he has struck what is believed to be an unlimited supply of pure kerosene, a Bample of which the News had the pleasure of examining. The sample in question although in the raw state, burns brilliantly. Mr Hullen has gone to Wellington with the object of getting the samples analysed, after which he will take immediate steps to float a company to work the deposits. Chas. M. Sheldon's now well-known book. "In His Steps," is to be published in a penny edition. This edition, which is t o; be " complete and unabridged," will bring the work within reach of the lowest stratum of the reading public—to a class which, more than any ether, will appreciate—and earnestly long for—the change which would come over the world ware the question, " What would Jesuß do 2 " prefixed to all important actions. It is an interesting fact, not generally known, that the late Emperor of Russia was a cured consumptive. In an article on the Prevention of Consumption, which appears in the Nineteenth Century for February, Dr Goghill declares that even theoretical scientists have always held that consumption is not a fatal disease. He says : " Carswell, the greatest scientific physician of Mb time, says : ' Pathological anatomy has, perhaps, never afforded stronger evidence of the curability of a disease than in the case of phthisis.' The poßt-mortem investigations of many observers, both in this country and on the Continent, prove that spontaneous cure of consumption occurß in from one third to one-fourth of all adults dying after the age ot 40 years. When the body of the late Emperor of Russia, who died of another quite different disease, was examined, a scar w»s found at the apex of the right lung, indicating a former seat of tubercular disease, that had run itß courße unrecognised from the first stage to the last." With reference to the statement that the cancer microbe has been generated by a French doctor, a Christchurch medical man informs the Press that about 12 years ago the general feeling that cancer was due to micro-organism took expression in the works of many pathologists, who began a definite search for it. Some time previously two diseases, actinomycosis, and Paget's disease, had been classed aB cancers, and these were both definitely proved to be paraßitic. The latter is proved to be due to a form of protozoa (psoro-sperm). Actinomycosis was, already in 1876, proved to be not cancer, but due to the ray fungus. Bodies of the same nature (protozoan) were identified by many observers in the epithelium forms of cancer, 'but so far they have never been separately or cultivated. Several German observers have discovered baoilli which they separated and cultivated, and which they claim to produce cancer. But their experiments have failed in the hands of others.

On the other hand, the majority of observers, inoluding most of tho eminent pathologists of )* urope, have come to tho conclusion that tho disease is probably duo to a very speoial form of protozoa. The arguments against it being of this nature are all to a great extent of tho negative kind, suoh as it had not been onltivatod or separated, ita spores had not been found, and its cellulose envelope had not been demonstrated. These, of course, will all be swept away with tho disoovery mentionod above. The Fronoh school is greatly Identified with the theory of protozoa, and it ia highly probable that t is some form of protozoa to which the cablo alludes.

An amateur newsgatherer oalled at our office to-day to inform us that sprats are in, marbles are out, and to-morrow will bo gas day.

Some special attractions are expected afa the bazaar to-night, when muslo will also bo supplied by tho Garrison Band. Tho Tablet announces that tho Very Rev. Dean Mackay has been appointed Admistrator of the Diocese of Dunodin during tho absence of the Right Rev. IJr Vordon. Tho following clerical changes have taken place in the Dioceeo of Dunedin:—Rev. Father M'Grath (invercargill) goes thiß week to Gore, bis place in Invercargill being taken by the Rev. Father O'Dea, who, up to tho present, has been assistant priest to the Rev. Father O'Donnell at Gore.

Coincidences are not always safe things to draw conclusions from, but we mußt oonfoßß to a feeling of disgust on reading two paragraphs in a recent Home contemporary. Tho paragraphs in question were not, apparently, placed in the same issue for any particular purpose beyond that of mere news-gather-ing, but to the thoughtful mind they had a muoh higher mission. Tho first paragraph told of a banquet recently given in Now York to some 42 persons at a cost of Ll4 000 1 The other told that in Iho same city 50,000 persons were destituto. " How loDg, O Lord 1" At the Courthouse, Waimate, on Wednesday. before Messrs Manchester and Milsom, J.P.'s, J. Wergis was charged with assaulting J. Moaclem on Saturday night. After a great deal of evidence had been heard, defendant was fined Li and oosts LI 153 6d, and solicitor's feo LI. One half of the fee was ordered to be paid to defendant for medical treatment. R. Moaolem was charged by Wergis with using insulting language to him on Sunday. Tho eaBO was dismissed. On Thursday before Major Keddell, S.M., tho Waimate County Council sued five persons for allowing oattlo to trespass on tho road. Ono case was dismissed, and in the other cases dofondants were fined 2s a head, with coata in eaoh oaBO 7s, solicitor's fee lus 6d, and ranger's feo sb. Manchester Bros. v. J. Dooley, junr. Defendant did not appear. Judgment for amount claimed, with costs ss. J. Boyco v. H. L. Meyer, claim LI, balance of an 1.0 U. for L 6, owing for purchase of a horso. Tho receipt for the money was producod by defendant, and judgment was givon for defendant with costs 1,1 7s. In tho oaso of J. B. Milsom v. R. Fleming, application waß made by defendant for a change of vonuo to Dunedin, but the application was rofußod. If you know a good thing when you soo ib, here is a chanco to prove your knowledge. Just now thore is offered a fino assortment of best Brussels carpotß, newest designs, reduced from 5a 9d a yard to 3a 6d a yard. These carpotß are the bost 5-framo. Also a liDe of hearth rugs from 2s to 17s 6d. Slip doormats from 6£d to 3s lid. Inepection invited. No one asked to purchase.— Penrose's Cash Drapery Establishment, Thames street. For health, wear, British Hygienic puro, wool Underclothing, absolutely unshrinkable chill-proof garments. Ladies' Vosta, Bodices, Combinations, Nigh'i Droßßes, Divided Skirts, eto., < tc. For priceß boo John Bulleid and Co.'s show window. Ktiiapoi, Roslyn, and Mosgiel knlttod hosiery direct from the mills in largo variety. New autumn millinery now on view in tho show-room. Mourning millinery mado to order at moderate prices. Magnificent choice in furs and fur garmonts. Ladiea m ckintoshes, coats, jackotß, and oapoß, Genuine household linens of all descriptions, guaranteed for durability, with oxcollonb value. A large selection of down quilts and Witney blankets in all sizes and qualitios. New woven and printed fabrics in curtain materials for the autumn wear for bedrooms, drawing room i and dining rooms.—John Bulleid and Co., London and Oamaru. [Ad.] Now Zealand Boot Supply Company bog to announce that they have just purchased at a tremendous discount a large part of tho stock in the assigned estate of Garrott, Bootmaker, Auckland, and aro thereforo in a position to offer during tho holiday Boason unprecedented bargains. Tho following aro a few quotations : —Girls' Tan Leather Twostrap Shoes, 10 to 13, 3s 6d per pair ; Girls' Tan Leather Lace Shoes, 3s 6d per pair; Women's Two-bar Black Canvas Shoos, 3b 9d per pair; Ladies' Evening Shoes, just landed, from 3s 3d upwards ; Girls' Wnito Canvas Shoes, 7 to 9, 2s lid, 10 to 13, 3b 6d ; Girls' Two-Btrap Waterproof Canvaß Shoes, 7 to 10, 2s lid, 11 to 1, 3s 3d; Women's Glace Lace Shoes, 4s 6d per pair | Women's Glace Two-bar Shoes, 6s 6d per pair; Girls' Patent A. Straps, Indostructible Toes, 4 fca 6, 2s 9d, larger slzos from 3s 6d ; Girls' Carpet Slippers from la per pair, Women's la fid; Women's Kid Slippers, 3s 3d per pair; Women's Genuine Calf-kid Two-bar Shoes, 7s 6d per pair—A beautiful line. Quantities in tho abovo lines are limited, therefore oall oarly to provent disappointment. New Zealand Boon Supply Company, Thamos street. Spring Furnishings.—Wo have opened x Duke of Devonshire, Gothio and Kllngamite, a fino supply of House Furnißhi ga Sheetings, Door Mats, Counterpanes, Toilot Covers, Towels, Cretonnes, Table Covers Sateen Cretonnes, Lancaster Blindings, Oar tains, etc., eto. See our Millinery. So our Dress Materials. S e our Hosier and Gloves. See our Men'B Mercery.—Clayton, Gardiner, and Co., Standard Houbo.— dvt.