LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1065, 7 April 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In another column will be found the usual quarterly return of infected sheep in Cook County. The return shows that 93,470 sheep are declared infected. Mr. Orboll has just returned from a trip up the East Coast, and we gather the following facts as the resnlt of his trip :— Mr. .Robertson's sheep at Hick's Bay were found to be clean, although general report had it otherwise. The danger to Mr. Robertson is from stray sheep owned by Natives making their way through the bush ou to his run. Mr. Urhell interviewed a Native who had about half-a-dozen sheep and there ia e/e>'y probability of these being killed as soon as they can be caught. At Tolago the sheep were found clean ; the sheep owners have taken every precaution against infection by dipping their flocks and other means. A small flock of Mr. Mullooley's at Puatai are infected, through sheep from the adjoining run mixing. As there is at least six miles between Mullooley's run and Murphy's at Tolago, there seems little danger of the infection being carried further in that direction. Messrs. Douall and Seymour have taken and are taking active measures to stamp out the disease on their runs. In Mr. Douall's case there is a probability of his sheep being declared clean before long. What may be called the hotbed of the disease is in the direction of Patutahi, or rather on that side of the Waipaoa River. From what can be gathered, Mr. Barker is rather slack in the adoption of those measures which are needed to enable him to have a clean Hock. Without all do their very best in the matter, there will always bo a risk to a neighbour which neither fences, river 3, or boundary riders can wholly guard against. The total rainfall registered at Napier during the flood week was rather more than 12h inches representing a weight of water of over 12(53 tons to the acre. The area of the town of Napier being about one square mile, the weight of water that fell on the surface would be in round figures 808,000. tons. We notice that Mr. Drummond, the Borough Engineer, is causing all the hollows in the footpaths to be filled in. This is a proper thing otherwise when the rainy season sets in, to nte the words of an advertisement which appear in another place in our columns, there would be " pool every evening." The Lancet is often very good reading, even to the folks who have nothing the mattor with them, and are not looking for "a parallel c;»ae. " The last number describes a gentleman who swallowed his false teeth, and felt them in his pharynx (wherever that is ; 1113' own medical knowledge ends with the larynx). A doctor was Bent for, who introduced a probang, which touched the teeth (so the patient said), but ho was afraid to proceed to extremities with that instrument, because they were described to him "as a completo set of morlars. " Ho then " bent a 10-inch military silver probe, and tried to hook the teeth up," but the spasms of the larynx were to severe, and the secretion from theparynx of excessive, that these dredging operations had to be suspended. The patient began to get in extremis ;so presently another doctor was telegraphed for, who found the missing teeth on the top of a chust of drawers. This gentleman reporting on the matter, very justly ob?erved(that this curious effect of imagination upon a strong and healthy man throws light on many a caao of supposed hydrophobia.