NEWS OF THE DAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5610, 15 November 1889, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Upward* "f <Vjo oatt'iw havtr b«tn v»> dflivecl fur tha lirtt nhow of th« VV tiling ton Attrioultural Sooiety, And th« numbir is likely to be aotmderftbly increased, It ia rumored in \Yang*nui that the Chronicle has been formed into a limited liability company with a capital of L 4500 in L"» share**. The Wnnganui Herald has long been otonod by a company, The H.B. Herald says :— lt ia said that Hud available for small settlements in Haw ken Bay in getting scarce. If by that h meant that there is not a great deal more Grown land left, the statement is quite true, although to counterbalance that there is an enormous quantity of land privately owned which is held by auctioneers and land agents for sale at prices ringing from £2 per acre upwards. The Land Office will shortly put a block of about 10,000 acres in the Porongahau on the market, and more is being surveyed, h > that those who wish to acquire a farm will not be immediately at a loss. The London correspondent of the Auckland Star wrote on Septeniber 11th : Tyser's new Steamship Company for imposing frozen meat and provisions from Australia and New Zealand -wan registered on Wednesday with a capital of LIOO.OOO and Ihe title of ''The Tyser Line, Limited." The two Tyser brothers are the only directors named as yet. I need scarcely point out that should this Company go through it will prove a formidable opponent to existing concerns. Many, however, think it is only meant for a bluff, started with a view to bringing Mr Dawes and the N.Z.S. Company to a proper sense of Tyser's influence. Three boys at Kumeroa, near Woodville, have been getting into trouble. They wantonly set fire to outhouses and cottages, and visited some of the bush camps and helped themselves to money, food, Arc. Then they conceived the idea, after sleeping out in the busli for two nights, that it would be bettor to build a houso, and with this intent they stole an axe, and Bet to work in earnest, but they had not counted on the waste of physical force without adequate sustenance, and the scheme collapsed. They were committed to trial at the Supreme Court. A London correspondent writes : -On one of the New Zealand vessels recently arrived, and which is now waiting till the strike is over, to discharge, there lies the body of the wife of a colonial clergyman. She, it seems, desired to be buried in the Rochdale cemetery in Lancashire, and her husband endeavored to comply with her wishes. It is painful to relate that up to the present the relatives have not been permitted to remove the coffin, nor have they been able to elude the vigilance of the dockers' pickets. The funeral consequently stands adjourned till the strike is over. If it happens now-a-days what may we not expect in time to come from the exclusion of the bible from schools. The other day the Hawera Star published a contribution, which gave a full, true, and particular account of Esther, the Jewish bride of King Ahasuerus, the elevation of Mordecai, and the hanging of Hainan. And this was published as a truly beautiful story, contributed by " Ajax :" A contemporary requests some kind friend to send a bible to our brother of the quill who controls the destinies of the Hawera Star. The Authorised Version will do equally as well Ha the Revised Edition, and will, apparently, supply him with something new to read.— Napier Telegraph. William Blaikie, the author of " How to get strong," says that it is the little things which often turn the scale for or against health, and he give the three following little helps which anyone can practice and pro tit by:-l. To hold the body erect, whether standing, sitting, or walking, and breathe deeply. This habit gives the lungs and digestive organs free play. More oxygen is taken into the blood, and the food is more readily digested and assimilated. 2. To fill the lungs full at frequent intervals, holding the air in the chest as long as in comfortable. This practice will soon improve a disturbed circulation. 3. To masticate the food thoroughly and secure a period of rest after each meal. Most thin people, he says, "do not keep still enough. do not take matters leisurely, and do not rest enough ; while if their work is muscular, they do too much daily in proportion to their strength." Thin people especially need to habituate themselves to a deep abdominal breathing, as it aids greatly in digestion and promotes the vigor and health of many of the vital organs. The principle of local option is in force in Victoria, compensation being allowed for the houses closed, and Geelong has just given a practical illustration of the costliness of this method of reforming the people. The Court of Arbitration appointed to determine the amount of compensation to be awarded to the owners and occupiers of hotels closed in (leelong through the Local Option Poll taken in March, 1888, have nearly concluded their labours. Altogether 17 hotels were condemned, and in the case of 13 the Court have made their decision known. The compensation awarded to the 13 hotels amounts to no less than L 13,949 (is Bd, and the four other hotels will cause L 15,000 to be exceeded. Together with the cost of the poll, the subsequent proceedings in the Supreme Court when the publicans appealed, and the Arbitration Court, the closing of the hotels in Geelong will cost the country close on L 20,000. Hanlan in an interview with a New York Herald reporter said : —As for Searle's staying powers, why, the man never seems to tire. As regards his style it is a most peculiar one. Most scullers have a Wonderful strain on the arm, but Searle gets all his power from the body, hips, and legs. The arms seem to be used for nothing else but guiding polos. You ask if there is any other man at present capable of bringing back the World's Championship to America. There is no one at the present time capable of doing so, or even of coming within a reasonable distance of Searle. My opinion is that he can beat the three best scullers in the world one after another, in one week at any distance. Stansbury has no chance of beating Searle, as he is now thirty years old, and has never won a championship, and I don't see that after ten or twelve years of rowing he can be so improved as to compete against a youthful man like Searle, who is a perfect athletic wonder. What giv^l Searle such wonderful staying powers isVfiis extraordinary breath-capa-city. He is*, without question, the coolest and most Collected oarsman I have ever seen in a race. One would like (writes a Paris correspondent) to be able to look ahead with the conviction that " peace " is really to be the upshot of France's marvellous achievements of the present year. Dr _rnest Engul's computations, just itmied, of the cost of human life in the wars of the last 34 years is simply hideous. The eminent statistician shows that cost to have beon 2,253,000 50u15. The Crimean ■war coat 750,000 men ; the Italian war (of 1859), 45,000; the Danish war (1864), 3000 ; the American civil war — the North 280,000, the South 150,000 ; the Austro-Prussian war, 45,000 ; the Franco -German war — France 85,000. Germany, 60,000 ; the Turco-Russian war, 250,000 ; the South African wars, 30,000; the Afghan war, 25,000 ; the Mexican and Cochin-Chinese expeditions, 65,000 ; the Bulgaria - Servian insurrection, 25,000. This list does not include the loss of life in the Carlist adventures beyond the Pyrenees, the many other smaller fightings in various regions of the earth, and the lists of mortality from sickness in the various armies that have taken part in these struggles. What would be the total mortality of the new war which threatens this hemisphere should it break yyit, one daro not attempt to calculate.