The Patea County Press, (With which is incorporated The Patea Mail.) "Be Just and Fear Not.” FRIDAY, 26th MAY, 1899. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Patea Mail, Volume XII, Issue 58, 26 May 1899, Page 2

The Patea County Press, (With which is incorporated The Patea Mail.) "Be Just and Fear Not.” FRIDAY, 26th MAY, 1899. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wo must compliment Constable O’Brian on the excellent manner in which he conducted his exceedingly disagreeable case on* Tuesday last, as while making his his chain of evidence perfectly complete**, from the assault to the prisoner’s safe lodgement iu durance vile, which necessarily invoked much evidence which could not bo published, yet he never ashed a single unnecessary question. Mr 11. E, P. Adams on his part also, while guarding the accused’s interest to the utmost, avoided any approach to browbeating, annoying or painful cross-examination, an ax ample which might well bo more generally followed than at present obtains. At the meeting of the Domain Board held on Monday evening, all member's wore present except the Rev. C. C. Harper, when it way resolved to look into the state of the various fences, and do any necessary repairs, A sub-committee, consisting of Rev. C. C. Harper and Messrs H. E. Adams and Beamish was appointed to interview cricketers, with a view to arrangements for laying down a “ pilch ” during the coming spring, and arranging terms of public maintenance. Mr Adams was also asked to confer with the football club to ascertain their feeling with regard I o payment for use of grounds, and right to charge for entrance; reports to he in by next mooting of the board. Accounts amounting to £6 9s Gel were passed for payment. For Bronchial Goughs lake Woods’ Great Peppermint (Aire, 1/0 and 2/6,

The telephone branch of the Queenslaud Post Office advertised for thirteen positions for yonug women in the local bureau at a salary of 10s per week, and 1671 applications were received. Ten of the fifteen players chosen to res present the White Btars8 tars in the Union Gup match against Waimate, made the journey to Mauaia on Wednesday last to fulfil their engagement, when they were defeated by a try to nil. We remind our readers of the appear' auoe of Mr A. H. Whitehouse in the Har> monic Hall this evening, when his New Zealand pictures, taken by himself, and other new now subjects will be exhibited. New selections on his loud duplex phono • graph, which created such a favourable impression on his last visit, will also be given.

A full report of Mr Hutchison’s speech at Alton on Saturday last reached us on Monday, but was too late for publication in that issue. As Mr Hutchison spoke at Kalcararnea on Monday evening, traversing much of the same ground, a report of which appears elsewhere, we deem it unnecessary to publish the Alton speech.

According to an American paper, a truly remarkable character, Samuel Yoder, the husband in bis time of live wives, to none of whom did he ever speak, died recently at Indianapolis. He obstinately refused to speak to any one of his brides after the marriage ceremony. He gave as his reason that if ho did not talk to his wife she could not disagree with him, and that this was his plan for ensuring domestic peace. One wife became so exasperated at his persistent reticence that she sued for a divorce and was granted it, whereupon, the tie between them being broken, he talked with her freely. Another of his wives put up with him for 2d years. Dur ing the whole of that time he never ex changed a word with her, but conversed with his previous wife and other ladies of his acquaintance. He left a considerable amount of property. Ills fifih wife and his children have refused to attend the funeral. He had no friends.

Yet another street pavement! Not satisfied with cobble-stones and wood, the city of Lyons has been experimenting with glass as a substitute. Since last November the line do la Republique has been paved with devitritied glass. This new product is obtained from broken glass heated to a temperature of 1,250 deg., and compressed in matrices by hydraulic force. The glass pavement is laid in the form of blocks, eight inches square, each block containing sixteen parts in the form of chequers. These blocks are so closely fitted together that water cannot pass between them, and the whole pavement looks like one gigantic draught-board. As a pavement it is said to have greater resistance than stone, it is a poor conductor of cold, and ice will not form on it readily, dirt does not accumulate upon it as easily as upon stone, and it will not retain microbe-). It is more durable than stone, and just as cheap. 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 Coghill declares that even theoretical consumption is not a fatal disease. He says : ‘ Carswell, the greatest scientific physician of his time, says, Pathological anatomy has, perhaps, never afforded stronger evidence of the curability of a disease than in the case of phythisis. The post mortem investigations of many observers, both in this country and on the Continent, prove that spontaneous cure of consumption occurs iu from one-third to one fourth of ah adults dying after the age of 40 years. When the body of the lata Emperor of Russia, who died of another quite different disease, was examined, a scar was found at the apex of the right lung, indicating u former seat of tubercular disease, that had run its course unrecognised from the Hrst stage to the last.’ For Children’s Packing Cough take Woods’ Groat Peppermint Cure, 1/6 and 2/6.