A PECULIAR MEDICAL CASE. INVERCARGILL, March 22.

Otago Witness, Issue 2404, 29 March 1900, Page 10

A PECULIAR MEDICAL CASE. INVERCARGILL, March 22.

At the battle of Jone^borough, in the American Civil War, C. W. Flowers was struck by a bullet on the right shoulder. The wound healed, and he returned to Ms regiment, serving till the end of the war. Afterwards he came lo New Zealand. During all the intervening years he hacfi bsen troubled with constant pain, in tha shoulder, latterly accompanied by a swelling. About a month ago he consulted a doctor, and has since been poulticing the swelling, with the result that ifc burst and! discharged a core about the size of a hen's egg, consisting of jelly, in the centre of which was a very smal-1 piece of leather from his cartridge box belt, which was cuij through by a bullet. The pain has enw tirely ceased, and Flowers hopes he has got rid of the cause after so many years* buffering.

I The Tarn.nui Courier reports that Mrs Esk 7dale, of Clifton Park, a resident of the district for over 30 years, passed away on Thursday i 15th, after a lengthy illness. Mrs Eskdale was tho mother of the young man who was drowned, along with his wife, while crossing Hhe Pornahaka River on December 31.

Governor Solf, of Samoa, lately paid a visife to the graves of ihe German sailors who wera killed at the. fiqfnt with the natives of Samoa at "Vailelo on the 18th of December 11 years ago. This was one of the first acts of the Governor alter the German flag went up. Ha placod two wreaths on tho graves. The readers in Otueo of an article out Major-general Hector Mac Donald, which appeared in the Melbourne Argus of the 27th January, from the pen of an old comrade o£ his, and attracted a considerable amount of attention, will be interested to know that the writer of it (Mr Hugh Patience) arrived im Dunedin this week from Australia with a view to settling here. Mr Patience was for, some years master tailor at Stirling Castle, and after purchasing his discharge camo to Australia, where ho designed and manufactured the uniforms for the Queensland Scot* tic.i and Tictorian Scottish forces. Mt, l'alier.ce hi-< cone to Dunedin under engaga* uaenl. to a Ig«.ial iirux.

A large number of sailors have deserted 'from sailing vessels at Gisborne during the last few months, some of the crew deserting from, nearly every vessel that .visited the i port during the wool season. Some of the captains have been put to a great deal of | iUQPUVGLnifinoo liv tha action oi the men. 1

The Manawatu Farmer states that the present season for harvesting has been a very disappointing one. Many fine crops were laid down by the wet, and then when they were ripening inclement -weather caused the grain to shell out. Soma of the crops are so damaged as to be unfit for even, chaff.