THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." [Established November 15, 1861.] DUNEDIN, TUESDAY, OCT. 23, 1866.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23330, 23 October 1937, Page 5

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." [Established November 15, 1861.] DUNEDIN, TUESDAY, OCT. 23, 1866.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO

Although England and all her Colonies, thanks to the non-dnter-vention principle, have escaped the horrors of war, there are other agencies for evil at work that require special watchfulness to keep them at a distance. Nothing is more certain than that many of those diseases, the ravages of which we read of in history, and, in our own day, in the columns of the press, are preventable. So contrary is this! theory to the generally received notions of mankind, that although, by a, manifest contradiction between their doctrine and practice, they send for a physician to counteract what they deem a providential dispensation when disease attacks them, they scarcely seem to imagine it possible to adopt sanitary measures to guard against the attack. . . .

. . . Quarantine regulations may ; do some little, but prevention rests mainly with the City authorities and the people. The warning is not unnecessary; there is now a ship in quarantine in this port, and it will be seen by the telegrams from Wellington in another column that in a ship, which left London for [ New Zealand, a fatal case of cholera • made its appearance. If it were a question which affected sheep or cattle, the greatest alacrity would '" be displayed. How is it that man pays so little attention to man ? By an advertisement in the usual ■ columns it will be seen that Vauxhall Gardens will be opened for the season next Saturday. i The " Scientific American " gives th« • following recipe to render wood uninflammable:—" Make a saturated solu- " tion of potash, and thicken it with paste as for distemper painting, then add sufficient clay to give it the con- ' sistency of cream, adding yellow or : red orche or other mineral coloring matter, if desired, for the sake of •' appearance. Wood painted with this composition is said to be proof against rain, and to be incapable of being » inflamed, although it may be carboe* ised by a fierce heat." The Bruce is once more afloat. A ", telegram received states that on Saturday evening she left Hokitika for « Okarita —thus resuming the voyage she had commenced when she last got ashore. It would have been most regrettable if, directly after the thorough renovation she had just received here, : ' the successful little steamer had gone •" to pieces on a Hokitika sand-bank.