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Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 577, 1 December 1897, Page 2

The County Council meets on Saturday next. Mrs Isitt adresscs a meeting at Ballance this evening. New Season’s Cricket Goods now in at the W.F.C.A. The production of the cantata “ The Good Shepherd ” has been postponed indefinitely. Yesterday being St Andrew’s Day the local law offices and Bank of New Zealand were closed. The box plan for the Gardner Bros, entertainment on Friday evening is now open at Mr F. G. Moore’s. A musical prodigy has arrived in London from Australia. He is a boy of 7, and plays difficult pieces with the greatest ease. Tho Masterton corps of the Salvation Army is about sending two young women—Cadets Robins and Lumsden—to the Melbourne Training Garrison. Four public-houses, situated at Polesworth, a mining village near Tainworth, were sold by auction recently and realised the remarkable sum ot £13,175. An aged woman had an order made against her in England to pay a debt of £4O by instalments of Is per month. It would thus take six years to pay off the debt. A quick-firing gun has been made at Sheffield, which, on its trial at Portsmouth, was found to have an effective range of 16,000 yards with a charge of 251 b of cordite. Included in Messrs Abraham and Williams’ list of stock for the next Pahiatua sale for next Tuesday, the 7th of December, published to-day, are 80 2 to steers and 10 8£ and 4-year bullocks. Incidentally the fact was mentioned at the last meeting of the Grey Education Board that a young man had been employed as a probationer in the Grey school for 18 months at a salary of £lO a year. Mr lieakes, the Government Veterinarian, was in the district yesterday, and in company with Inspector Harvey, visited and inspected a number of the local dairy herds. Mr McKittrick, lato of the local telegraph department, and now stationed at Hastings, paid a llying visit to Pahiatua last night and leaves again for Hastings this morning. His many friends here were pleased to soe him well and hearty. Public subscription to meet the second liability of the Pahiatua Brass Band instrument fund will be received at this office and acknowledged as received. We commend this matter to the public and trust that such a deserving institution as tho Band will be liberally assisted.

Messrs C. Sandford and Co.’s replace advertisement appears to-day and makes special reference to a special purchase of ladies corsets, which the firm are offering at greatly reduced rates. The prices are quoted in the advertisement. The firm also draws attention to the fact that various colored blouse silks, the usual price of which is 4s 6d per yard, is now selling at 2s lid. Last year Mr J. Burrows purchased from Mr J. H. Harris, of Woodville, four purobrod two-tooth Lincoln ewes, which were shorn on 26th December last and again on th> 16th of last month (or a month and ten days short of a yoar since the previous shearing). The wool weighed 621bs nett, or an average of 15-ilbs —a yield that must be considered very satisfactory. Since the purchase each ewe has reared a lamb.

Dal/fiol’s correspondent at Baltimore, Maryland, reports that Dr Robert Xavier Gloring, a young physician of that city, claims to have mado a wonderful discovery in connection with the X rays, which is that an ordinary photograph may bo subjected to tho Rontgon process, and it will disclose tho internal organs tho snmo as would bo the result were the actual body placed before the rays. The doctor told an interviewer that the latest marvel of the X rays establishes a fact hitherto unknown to scientific men, namely, that a photograph is a through and through likeness of the body of the individual.

Game is to be preserved in Central Africa. Major von Wissman has set aside a portion of German East Africa, within which no shooting will be allowed without a license from tho governor of the colony. A license to shoot elephant or rhinoceros costs 500 rupoes a year for a nativo ; females and young elephants with tusks weighing loss than six pounds must not bo shot at all. White men will pay 100 rupoes for the first elephant shot and 250 rupoos for every other, 50 rupees for tho first two rhinoceros and 150 rupees for all after them. Monkoys, lions, nyienas, boasts of prey, boars, and birds, except ostriches and secretary birds, may bo killed without a license.

On Monday night, after Mrs lsitt’s lecture, tho ltov. Mr Boggs, in tho course of his remarks said “ tho press was always roady to publish tho mis. 1 altos mado by tonipcraiice speakers, but failed to give prominence to their speeches as a whole.’’ Wo would roinind Mr Boggs that there is such a thing as a libel law very much in ovidonco in this colony, and temperance speakers are so given to reckloss speaking that it would bo a suicidal thing for any paper to givo a verbatim report of sycli speeches. Statements mado by irresponsible people at tomporanco mootings become dangerous only when they appear in tho columns of a. newspaper. As far as noting the errors of temperance orators is concornod, Mr Boggs should remomber that wo at any rate do not, publish all the errors made on tho Pahiatua tomporanco platform. During the visit of (ho last lad.y lecturer she made a glaring error when speaking, which, had it boon published, would have made her the laughing stock of tho colony. Mr Boggs will, of course, remember how pleased ho was that tho urror was uot reported.