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Otago Daily Times, Issue 12100, 20 July 1901, Page 7

Tn the liOsi;!«iive Council vrstcrday ihe Youm; Persons' Protection Hill w.i- disciiKcd ill committee, The Cyanide Talent Intension, Public HraH'i Ait Amendment, and-the Chinese Immigrants Act Amcuilment J'il!i wore read a sceunil time. In tne House 01 l!r|)resentatives ye.-terday the Premier announced llmt Hie tlovcrnJiicnt intended ro introiiuee legislation ilralinK with defamatory libel. TIIO Ueferrinhnn liill and luc Police (liiences Act Amendment Hill were paiscd, and the rest of the nil rins was taken up with the unfinished dc'liate en the second rending of the Land lor Setlleineuij Act Aaieadinenl Hill. Only one nomination, that of Mr James Curio, i.a.< received by the returning ollicer ypsienlay for the vacancy in the Sawyers 1 Hay Ward of the West Harbour Horouifli Council. Mr Curie v.in accordingly declared duly electee. As a resuli ot the verdiei of the coroner's inquiry in connection with l.lie Dunback limekiin totality, (Jeorge Francis Knhinson was arrested, and «ill appear before the 1 (nice Court this morning. Immediately after the arrest the accused was bailed out. Owing hi a defective chimney a tiro broke out. in tin- kitchen of a shop and dwelling occupied hy Mj* \f. Lynn, in Arthur street, yesterday. The brigade on getting the alarm turned oat with their customary despatch, and succeeded in subduing the Haines before any extensive damage was done, line of the walls of the kitchen was badly charred, The damage is ciimated at £10. There was no insurance, cither on the stock or dwelling. J he brigade ill the afternoon received a call to M'f,coil's soap works, but. happily, the nlaini was a false one, the indicator having been accidentally set going. Mr A. tttuhb*. clerk of the Supreme Court. Napier, has been promoted to the portion of deputy-registrar of the Supreme t'onrt, Dunedin. A leciure 011 the general working of tho American .School of Correspondence and its advantages to the mechanic was given by Mr V. 1,. Iladfield in the Oddfellows' Mali, H.ll tray street, last evening. The lecturer urged the necessity for a higher education in engineering, etc.. basing his arguments on (lie lacts that complicated machinery is supplanting manual labour on every hand (some men lose by this, lint the experienced mechanic gains), and that, higher education, apart from monetary gain, was u source of pleasure ami inventive ability which was always at a premium in these days. After explaining (he methods of the institution for imparting this higher education, the IceSum- closed, having been accorded a sp]t>nditl hearing. After the meeting a number of the amlicnce inspected the text-books. and several enrolled in the school. Messrs A. Thomson and W. Goldie, .I.l'.'=. sat at the Port Chalmers Police Court yesterday. when Joshua Salter was lined's-. with (he alternative of ?] hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness; and William Hunbury. for a similar oll'ence, was convicted and discharged. At the Police Court at Tapanui on Wednesday last the Inspector of Stock for the dijtriot of Tuapoka (for whom Mr -A. R HiSj&ili, of Lawrence, appeared) sunl Pavid llaugh, ol Pmirnhin, farmer, and Allan Miii'an, of Punrohin. fanner, for failing to send return* to liie Stci-k Department of the total number of sheep kept hy them "ii tlio 30th day of April thru !n<t past, as required hy subsection 3 of soctinu 8 of "The Stock Art, 1693. Amendment Ael, 1N5." In holh oases the defendant* v.oic convicted and fined the Minimum penalty under the act. (£]) and costs. Wo understand that those are the fir-t informations that have as yet been laid hy the Slock Department. under the above-mentioned section of the act. Ihe I anterbiiiy sheep-buyer* are appalentU still operating freely in .Southern and a hiri;c number of vheeu IlilVO been prnvlmsed iu {| )r . Mil( nn district bv them during the la.t few duv*. The pureh.w, so fat ;(s the Ilnu-e Umhfean ascertain, amount Iu miw £000 sheep, no le>s than 5030, consisting principally of ewe*, wethers and small lines of hunhs, having b-en taken by one speculator from Plenum loinl. Hie sheep will be taken north in apodal trains,

Ordinary traffic will be resumed on the Otago Central line of railway to-day. A singular sample of law is reported from North Carolina. A train happened to collide with a- hull that hnd strayed upon an embankment. The bull, being projected from the u cow-catcher" of the locomotive, struck a hunter who was standing below the embankment and knocked him into a ditch. His gun. being knocked out of his hand, discharged itself on striking the ground, and killed two cows, " grazing near by. In the final settlement of damage* thn railway company \ui* adjntlieated not liable, hut the owner* of the cow* secured a reimbursement by the unlucky hunter in the sum of £20. Styria. a duchy, having a population of ahmit 1,500,000. ;tnd lying smith of (liatz. iu the mountainous portion of the great tierman confederation, i? noted for its arsenic eaters. Arsenic caters abound in every city, village and neighbourhood, and in thousands of ease* every adult in a family uses it almost the same its sugar. Heillaud (ells of a Styrian peasant who contracted the poi*ou-eatiiig habit by taking out 1 grain and a-half of arsenic on the first day, three oil the second, and live and a-half on the third. Thi* man increased the doses so that hy the cm! of the first year he was regularly eating 12 grain.'; of the drug three times a day, without visible harm. Maelagen mentions the of a man who daily consumed 22J grains- r."veu and a-half grain* before each nieal—of Ihc poisonous drug, in his estimation this was something truly extraordinary, iloillaiid'* ea*e i*. of course, much more wonderful, but Pr Kerr reckons both as freak*, and gives it as hi* opinion that the regular jioi-on-taker* of Klyria do not aver;i;;o more than live ami a-half grains during each 24 hour*. The annual ball of the Punedin Kngineer.? took place in (he Harrison Hall Inst night, and proved a highly enjoyable function. The iiali and the stage were very prettily decorated by Mr Sutton, the caretaker, and the bright uniform* of the volunteers mingling with the handsome dresses of the ladies went to make the scene a very animated one indeed. Among.»t those present wen; his Worship the Mayor, Captain Xieol*on {of thp fourth contingent), Major l -Myers, Lieutenants Prain, .Johnstone, ! S'irong, llaron, and Krydone, and Sergeant Mardonnld. About 190 couples occupied the j floor. The M.tVs were Sergfant Tonkin, | Corporal* Wilhelmsoii and Wholnn. The umsic was supplied by Messrs YalesV? tad, ! while the catering was carried out by Mr | S. I.ean. During the evening the toast oj ; Captain Xicoh.on's health was proposed by the Mayor, and enthusiastically honoured. The attendance at the Alhambra Theatre last evening was quite up to the usual, and (he applause was of the heartiest description throughout. All the performers acquitted themselves in a most praiseworthy manner, and that the audience recognised this was manifested by the frequency of t-lio encore.*. This evening a complete change of progranuni' will lie presented, and no doubt all patrons will find .something to their' taste.