The Patea County Press. (With which is incorporated The Patea Mail.) "Be Just and Fear Not.” FRIDAY, 2nd JUNE, 1899. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Patea Mail, Volume XII, Issue 54, 2 June 1899, Page 2

The Patea County Press. (With which is incorporated The Patea Mail.) "Be Just and Fear Not.” FRIDAY, 2nd JUNE, 1899. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tlio uoxt English and European Mail via San Francisco will close at the local Rost Otlico on Friday, Dili June, at 5 p.in. Money Onh rs, Friday, !Uh Juno, at U) a,in. Tins mail will bo duo in Loudon on July 12 111 . Somebody's blundered.—-A number of co-operative workmen sent up to hero arc still awaiting, in idleness, tin; arrival of an overseer to set them to woik. It is ratlier bard on tho men to be kept in onto? cod idleness in a strange place during a tine spell of weather, such as will not probably occur again during (bo winter. The bcauliesof Charitable Aid are shown in the following par from the Evening Post; —•“ I would slay in Wellington, but tho other night tho detectives told nio toclear out,” said u young man who yesterday applied to tho Penovolent Trustees for help. He had got into trouble, receiving a sentence of IS months’ imprisonment, and since his release had been unable to obtain employment. If lit* could get a passage to Christchurch he was sure he would get work, as ho was known down there. “ Well, now, look here,” said tho Chairman, after confening with his colleagues, “ tho Flora goes in 15 minutes will you go by her ? ’ “I will,” was the prompt reply, ami he went. For Children’s Packing Cough take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/0 and 2/6.

Infenciinj?* tozic'JGrtM'S tor £2j© lonsla fiillii-ijSj’ contract of one hundred acres on Mr E. P. Blake’s AVhemiakura farm, are again reminded that tenders close at noon on Saturday (to-morrow), did instant. A ninth satellite of Saturn is reported to have been discovered by means of the photographic plate. It is estimated (o be of the fifteenth magnitude, and may be 100 to 2h'o miles in diameter. It is 7A million miles away from the planet, and makes its revolution arouudit in seventeen months.

The “ Temps ” reports that a Russian expedition is proceeding to Spitsbergen to measure the parallel of latitude iSricidists believe that the earth is b moim iug flatter near the polos aud of greater circumference in the equatorial regions, and the expedition will sot this matter at rest. The cost of the expedition will be £OO,OOO. The record of William Lister, who has just retired from the so-vice of the London and Norths Western Hallway Coni' puny, is a remarkable one. He was the guaid on the first train which ran between Bolton aud Manchester, and remembered Leeds and Liverpool without railway sfations. When he first went on duty third-class carriages had no roof, and the guard, was perched in a little dickey, where bo was u"t infrequently frozen to death iu bad weather. For more than had a century Mr Lister has served the company at Bolton.

The following account of a reniurkalile leap by' a horse appears iu the Feiklmg Star-One day hist week Mr High!, of Colyton, drove a young light half draught horse into his smithy. As so iu as the door was closed the horse seeing no means of getting out other Ilian by one of two small openings for windows, made a leap and jumped clean through, only touching the ledge of the opening with its hind hoofs in its flight. I measured the opening which is as follows; one foot ton inches wide by' two feet live inches high, the lower ledge being four feet six inches from the ground.

It is a common expression “What's in a name Sometimes there is a good deal in it and unpleasant dilemmas result. To wit: —On some of the North Queensland limes there is a suia.il station way out ou the “ hack-block ” by the euphonious name of Sawyer 1 It so happened that a young couple (just made one) wore awaiting the arrival of the incoming train. Standing in a corner of the wailing room Hie gallant swain was imprinting a last fond kiss before proceeding to embark, when the train rolled in and at the same moment the guard exclaimed in raucous voice “ Sawyer h’ The young man, blushing deeply, but conscious of no crime, disengaged himself at once and corrected matters by replying “ Well, I don’t care if you did : she’s my wife.”

Sonora Key Castillo, a Mexican 1 uly, surely holds the world’s record for multiple widowhood, as she has worn the weeds seven times between the years bSSO ami LSl's, A curious feature of the case is (says a New York contbmporary) that each of her consorts found a violent but different exit from life. The first fell out of a carriage ; tho second took poison by accident; the third perished by a mining accident; the fourth shot himself; the fifth was killed while bunting ; the sixth met bis death by dropping from a scaffolding, and the last was drowned. Literature unfortunately docs not flourish iu Mexico, or Sonora Key Castillo would certainly bo .snapped up by a sensational novelist, to whom her experiences could hardly fail to bring w oalth and fume.

The Weiner Tngblatt states that a daring young Englishman of good family (mime not given) has succeeded in abducting and eloping with one of the ladies of the Sultan's own harem. According to the Morning Louder correspondent’s version of the story, the young man made her acquaintance during the recent festival of the L'd’at El Kad rat, when all nun and women alike go to the mosques to pray. Each of the ladies of the Sul tan’s harem who goes is jealously guarded by a eunuch, but the luro of this adv< in tire succeeded iu winning over tho guardian of the beauty he admired by In avy bribes, Tho eunuch acted as a gobt tween, and made the necessary arrange', aunts for the elopement. The Englishman succeeded in getting his Mohammedan lady-sieve on board a steamer bound direct to Bombay. (Several eunuchs, suspected of being accomplices, have been thrown into dungeons, and tho Sultan utters fearful maledic'ious on the English.

Tho influenza pest is raging again in London, tho deaths having, at the end of March, risen to nearly one hundred and fifty a week, and every paper recording fresh lists of well known persons who have been “ lai I up,” which means knocked down by an attack quite as severe as the extinct attack of ague, and much more dangerous. Arc a - hng to a reporter of the Daily Mail, who visited all the leading hospital*, the visitation is nut so severe this year as it has been, but has been more independent of sanitary conditions, Kighgaio, for instance, which is exceptionally healthy, having gicatly suffered. The sequel to of the disease, and especially the cruel depression it causes, wore as distressing as ever, ami there has been an unusual number of cases of influenza attaching tho eyes. The eyes grow at first bloodshot, then watery, and then acutely painful, and seem quite beyond the effect of any lotion whatever. This is notice:! also by tho house surgeon at Guy’s. There is no hint of a euro as yet, or of any system of prevention, people who are well nourished and warmly clothed suffering as frequently as the poor. Mr 11. W. tieaiou-Karr, the brother of Hie Conscrvaiive member for St. Helens, has sent Dr Jamn some inti res!ing details of his lion-hunting expedition to Somaliland. He writes (says the St. James’ Gazette) under the date of January Bth as follows : —“ Yon will be glad t.o hear that yesterday Sir Edmund Leehmere killed a fine lion in the open. Lady Lechniero was close io her husband and (.hey wine both on foot. The distance from the lion was 28 yards. 1 reserved my the in case of the lion charging. Lady Lech - mere is a, second Lady baker. We were all very ‘done,’ having followed the lion's (racks at a fast rale from 10.80 a.to. till 2.80 p.im, when we suddenly came on it. We might have bad to follow further, only luckily it: had killed a lino aryx. boi.sa (a, largo antelope, allied to I.lm gemshuk of Mashonaland), and was lying by it. We had heard the lion roaring in the early hours of the morning. Tho oilier two members of our party had killed a lion, amt two lionsand a,rhinoceros r, spectively ten days ago, and probably others by now. Their men gave us three English cheers when wo got to camp. The climate is delicious, but wo are all very sunburnt. The caravans are working splendidly, bat we Ua'-c lost some camels.” It seems the fate of modest men To hide their talents deep, I’evhaps it is their will, but then id reliance they go to sleep; Row, live men know what’s in tho wind, Of (hut you may be sure, Eor coughs and colds, relief they fiud, Xu Woods’ (Treat Peppermint Umax

An inst.mce of the i-einptrlczthle Loming faculties of Ihe homing pigeon is quoted by the Auckland fttar. Mr I. Hopkins, of Epsom, near Auckland, supplied to order, on the 20th April last, some young homers, which were sent on that da*e to the Great Barrier Island. One pair had had their liberty at Epsom, but had never been trained a yard in any direction. Early on the morning of the 2-1 th May, a pigeon was noticed trying to enter the “ Epsom ” loft before it was opened. Mr Hopkins thought it was strange it should have been shut out over night, but on closer inspection believed he recognised it. After catching it ho fonn', by the ring marks, that it was one of the birds sent to the Barrier a month before. Here was a young pigeon that had never been away from the vicinity of its loft, sent acres a stretch of sea to an island about sixty miles distant, and yet the moment it regained its liberty it made straight for its birthplace. For Bronchial Coughs lake Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/0 and 2/0.