Samoan Affairs.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7062, 23 August 1894, Page 3

Samoan Affairs.

Bekli.v, August 22. The Germans in Samoa have petitioned the Emperor to annox the island, or declare a protectorate over them. They are averse to dual German and English control. Dr Mortimer Granville recommends as a remedy for "(grippe" live grams camphor in twenty minima tincture of iodine, and one dram of glycerine, with syrup, to be taken frequently," Strong meat juice ie commended ; no antipyrine. The Wyndham Farmers' Club is dead (says the Mataura Knsign). Like the Kilkenny cats they fought until there was nothing left but two tails. These two tails turned up at a meeting of the A. and I*. Association at Wyndham last week. After being carefully examined they wero considered to be harmless, and were kindly taken charge of by the Association. A young man named Joseph Morgan was brought into the Wanganui hospital from Hunterville last week, suffering from a very painful accident. He was working at Ohiugaili on Tuesday morning, and had occasion to clear out the head of an axe. \\ ith that object in view he used a gnu, and by some means it exploded, completely shattering hia left hand. A Hungarian chemist, Dr Johann Antal, already favourably known for his researches in toxicology, has reported to the Hungarian Society of Physicians that he has discovered a new chemical compound, the nitrate of cobalt, which, he says, is a most efficacious antidote to poisoning by cyanide of potassium or prussic acid. He tried the antidote first on animals, and afterwards on forty living persons who had been accidentally poisoned with pruesic acid. In not a single case did the autidote prove a failure. At both his Wanganui lectures Mr Her-bert-Jones took occasion to refer to the advantages accruing to a district by the establishment ef a Scenery Preservation Society, and on Monday night he Btated that he had heard with pleasure that there was a movement on foot here for the establishment of such a aocioty. In " the good old days " Victoria gave pensions to her high officials. Sir Andrew Clarke, who filled the office of SurveyorGeneral for three years, has since drawn £L>-2,.527 ; and the Right Hon. H. C. Childera (who besides has a pension of £2,000 from the Imperial Treasury, he haviug been a Minister of the Crown), who held office for a little over five years, has in the interval received £17,255. Dr Moloney wants these pensioners to reside permanently in Victoria or to strike out their allowances, but he will not be successful with either proposal. The Inangahua Times states that Mr McKinlay's homestead, in the Grey Valley, was struck by lightning while the family were at tea. The nails were drawn from many parts of the buildings. A large bullock chain was fused in parts and the links clean cut in others. A tree was felled by the lightning, being cut through as if by a paw. No injury is reported to human life or live stock. The first consignment of harea and|rabbits intended for shipment to London by the mail steamer Orizaba, says the Ago, has arrived at the refrigerating works, and preparations are being made to receive poultry, of which a large collection is expected, as a result of the success that attended the experimental shipment. The freight for hares, rabbits, and poultry in 90s & ton measurement, and it is estimated that according to the space occupied by these articles, the cost ot landing them in London will be 4Jd per rabbit and hare, and s£d per fowl. The 90s a ton freight is the rate charged for other dairy produce, such as butter, but the butter can be packed much closer than rabbits, hares, or poultry, and the charge on these, therefore, becomes specially heavy. The department is endeavouring to induce the mail companies to reduce the freight to 70s a ton, and sees its way. if that is conceded, to make the shipments a success.