NEWS ITEMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7663, 23 June 1896, Page 4

NEWS ITEMS.

%?:&'■ Franci^ Beatrice (Princess Henry of fefeßattenburg), daughter of the Queen, was |t"/' appointed Governor of the Isle of Wight gSj'dffMay.lsfc. %gi L '--:; The Marquis of Northampton is building £|X; in the heart' of the most squalid district |>Sp£olerkenwell a vast polytechnic institu#i;Ytibh,'ab a coat of over L 200.000. &§;,. Sir John Millais, president of the Royal f*"ryA<«demy, reported to be suffering from i. eancsr in the throat, was operated upon ;^:, : von May 11th,^and the alarming symptoms case were much relieved. iStv- ft The" Minister of Lands is asked ts make &-.» grant of L4OO for the purpose of aiding §„ settlement and opening up auriferous kss country In the Maitai Valley, Nelson. pP?£i r ?Mtf David Lewie, who has been settled since 1837, died last week, I^Xafc the ripe age of 93. |fejJ.vTnere has been a scaroity of provisions &;1 at Lyell, consequent on the late fire. mgi'i Tho";> Auckland Amateur Opera Oluh Sp^haveJ obtained from Messrs Williamson l^'snd Musgrove. the necessary permission IJgtp/piay/VThe Gondoliers," :£A detaohmentof the Alexandra Cavalry f|#i Is being formedin the Rangitikei district. The South Spit, Wanganui, is in danger iSftpf 'river encroachment, and extensive proiKftfcective works are contemplated. fe:> /-Meipdllins, of Christchurch, says " Mr alf*: "Ward : 'must nob be allowed to suffer mj.slone,"--' 1 • p--V*i-The Dunedin Licensing Committee has P" l*taen served with a notice calling upon it j ; $io;flhow cause why a mandamus should issue directing it to grant bottle P^UiThus ."R.A.L." in the New Zealand ||p: Times on Mr Carhell : — Napier holds in to its many other attractions the gljoprbod position of providing the buffoon of lllF.tbr&SHse. " 2py' The divorce suit of Mrs Watt against K-her husband j : Hugh Watt, formerly M.P. W&for Glasgow, on the grounds of cruelty Ipyand misconduct, is exciting a great deal ®|i 6! attention In London. |&-:j • 'Mr' John. Dillon gave out on May 21st ||ij that the convention of the Irish throughthe world, which it was decided on IfSthe 20th to call at Dublin, has been fixed Rj-I? ?*" September next. p,sS%^liorttLeigbton'B peerage was the shortest jfeSvlived in the history of England. He died J£||bn the day following that upon which the of nobility was issued, and as he Ippleffc no heir the title died with him. RI^A-.'Ten '-thousand dollars has been paid for ■pithe Bole right to a new double carnation — Kp;the Murella- which. has been developed BJ^( by 'a florist in Michigan. The flower is pJajdee'p J f ed in color. A New York florist ■Papaya the money. ■ly:* v;There was a lengthy discussion in the ■I^^Auckland City Council last week relative H|V to the morals of the city, when a deputaE;:tion consisting of both sexes addressed the ■SrMCorporatioD. It was ultimately resolved B^tlto askithe Government to set up a Royal jKSCommisiion to inquire into the best means ■fftcit prevent the further spread of disease in Rji'ibpth jsexes throughout the colony. Hf^« J)r Salmon, the oldest Freemason in ■jl^the world died in London on May 11th. H^iHe was 108 years old. The doctor began Kffthe practice of 'his' profession in 1809, K|iffhen Napoleon was at the height of his Bjtjjglory, and was the oldest member of the I^Soyal CoHegeof Surgeons in England. HEpl'The newly-foroied Miners' Association j^pffilßtruc'ted its secretary to express to Mm JpljßfiZiiiflan' the indignation of the meeting ■^aij'the; dastardly and senseless outrage Bf-iSppn 1 her .-peace by missiles being migiMdwn at her dwelljpg in the dead of Hp^bt, during her husband's absence, and B^tc'|;espreas . their fullest sympathy with B^^ s A?hquseholder in a couutry school disgtratford, wrote to the New Bp-flym'outh Education Board the other day ■^jnyi|ing,membera to "come out to the [^&pl»ce4!-and olean some of the school ■^K|d)r6o'9 beads." The members of the B^^jfta^Langtry's aotton against the Union HKiWnt ? |)l London, to recover L 40.000, the HIMI'KI'^JWe' 8 ' deposited with the Bank Wfe^ftiß^ievsjeeping,'but which were delivered ■KgJ^ffjfwa* comprpraised out of Court on HES^*ifti%£9*!fi)nclant6' agreeing to pay the jewels, if reH^Jl^Kto; "maln^er property, but if ■K^^||oJ:L2siOoO in' value oomea into H^^SillgJJ^Df/^lie excess Roes to the

There are some canny Scots at Wanganui. The other day a resident donated a live bullock to the organ fund of St. Paul's Presbyterian Charch. In order to convert it into as many " bawbees " as possible, the beast was killed and cut up and sold, and the fund took a handsome dividend. A mirage was witnessed at Timaru recently. The sea front of the town aud a steamer in the harbor were for a short time faithfully mirrored apparently on a reflector four miles out at sea. Tho steamer's masts, yards, flags, and issuing smoke were particularly noticed. This is not the first time that the same variety of mirage has been witnessed at Timaru. | English polilQ society feel deeply disI gusted by the official announcement that the wedding of Prince Carl of Denmark aud the Princess Maud of Wales will take place in a small chapel inside of Buckingi ham Palace, which means that nine out of ten people, entitled by their social position to be present on such occasions, will be excluded through exigencies of space. The Queen has announced her intention to attend the ceremony. A Napier expert has been studying the habits of the croatures discovered in the water supply recently, and has arrived at the conclusion that they are of like nature to the common or garden variety of earth worm, and form similar functions under water to that insect under ground. It is consoling to learn that these small fiy are quite harmless, and would not hurt anybody swallowing them. Mr H. S. Fish whs evidently born under a stormy star, for wherever ho is is or whatever body of men or women he is associated with there is "bound to be a row " and turmoil sooner or later. Only a few months ago he was received with much enthusiasm into the peaceful fold of the Dunedin Good Templars. He has now left for England, but he has left disunion behind him, much bad feeling having been, caused over an election for a high office for which Bro. Fish was » candidate and was beaten, to use his own words, " by unfair means." A Presbyterian minister up country got a bit of a shock the other day while tying up for life a ralher young and sheepish couple. He had just asked the callow yokel if he were willing to take the woman for hia wedded wife, when, to the amazement of everybody, the groom paused, scratched his head, and then summered out, " Oh, I suppose I'm willing if it comes to that, but I'd rather have her sister." The Rev. W. E. Lush, ot Auckland, formerly ourate of St. Paul's, Wellington, suggests in a letter to the press that the Government should offer agricultural scholarships, so that the winners of them, whom he assumes would be the sons of poor parents, might be able to go as cadets or apprentices upon a farm for a sufficient length of time to enable them to acquire the necessary practical knowledge of farming to work a piece of laud on their own accounc. The Premier's salary from various sources, now amounts to L 2690 per annum, says a Southern exchange, amounting up as follows :— Salary LIOOO, German Syndicate L 750, Estates ßo»rdLsoo, honorarium L 240, house allowance L 20 0; and of course travelling exs. in the bargain. The Colonial Treasurer, in the witness box, stated his annual income was LSOOO per year. Julian Ralph, the well-posted London correspondent, says in his letter of May 14th that the Irish members of Parliament, elected for the most part on the Catholic vote, ardently support the Tory Education Bill, which favors voluntary schools at the expense of secular School Boards, to which policy the Liberals and Radicals are bitterly opposed. The situation threatens the abandonment on the part of the Liberals of the Irish Home Rule policy. There is a serious rift between the Irish and English Liberals. The JBrench Society of Psychical Research is still much worried over the case of Mile. Conedon, of the Rue Dv Parade, who claims to be inspired by the Angel Gabriel. A committee has been formed to investigate the woman and her pretensions, but with no satisfactory result, A member of the last one, Canon Brette, of Notre Dame, gave it as his opinion on May 22 that Conedon ia inspired by an evil spirit and not by an angel. Her replies would be more decorous in this oharacter if the good instead of the evil principle were present. The woman made fun of the Canon. Tha largest road bridge yet built ia tho colony has just been completed for the Rangitikei and Oroua County Councils by Mr J. Griffin, of N&pier. It ia known as the Vinegar Hill bridge, and is 407 ft in length, spanning tho Rangitikei river. The Hunterville paper says the superstructure is of wood resting on iron cylinders filled with concrete. There are three pairs of cylinders, the spans being one of 121 ft and two of 79ft each. The cylinders are 6ft in diameter, and in all contain about 400 yds of concrete. As I they have been sunk 26ft in the solid papa, their resisting power must be enormous. The heaviest flood ever to be expected in the Rangitikei should not affect their stability. Ample room has been left for the passage of the water, the flooring being 12ft above the highest flood mark, calculated upon the drainage area, and the heaviest rainfall ever experienced in the district. The contract price was L 6725, of which the Government promised L 2500 according to the County Councils, but only LISOO according to the Public Works Department.

Anyone who has children will rejoice with L. B. Mulford, of Plainfield, N.J. His little boy, five years of age, was sick with croup. For two days and nights he tried various remedies recommended by friends and neighbors. He says : "I thought sure I would lose him. I hud seen Chamberlain's Cough Remedy advertised, and thought I would try it as a last hope, and am happy" to say that after two doses he slept until morning. I gave it to him next day, and a cure was effeoted. I keep this remedy in the house now, and as soon as any of my children show signs of croup I give it to them, and that is the last of it." For sale by E. D. Smith, wholesale and retail agent. — Advt.

j Hia Excellency the Governor has accepted the position of Patron of tha i Philatelio Society of New Zealand. j Tavaralo, an islet off the nocth-wesb coast of Sardinia, is the smallest independent territory in Europe. Its size is three miles long and three-quarters of a mile broad, and its population numbers exactly 55 souls. From 1836 to 1882 the islet was governed by one Paoloto, who had all the authority of a king, but when he died in the latter year ho advised the inhabitants to form a Republic, which was done. All the adult islanders, women equally with men, have votes, and every six years a President is elected for that period. The English cycle thief (says a contemporary) has hit upon an effective method of "obliging a lady." With all the outward resemblance of a gentleman, he frequents parks and other popular haunts of lady riders. Having selected his victim, he suggests that her tyres are too soft. He kindly offers to pump them. Then he tightens the nuts, and, having displayed an amount of tender solicitude which draw 3 copious expressions of gratitude from the fair recipient, he suggests that he had better try it just to see that all is right. Of course permission is given, and the lady has a rude awakening. Two ladies were victimised in one day by this means recently. Here is a story of P.iderewski : — " You must be a huppy man," said one to him, to which he replied : "You perhaps are not aware tlmt my wife died some yeiirs ago, and that my only child is an incurable cripple. Ho is all I havo in the world, and my wealth and fame can do absolutely nothing for him. My only motive in studying for the career of a public artist was that I should at last be able to obtain the best possible advice for my poor boy. Alas ! I have found it an idle dream. And when the public, which is always so kind to me, applauds mo I think of the little fellow lying on his couch in tho house by tho sea which I have taken for him, and I feel how poor and how vain it all i B ." An interesting experiment was tried a l "' Wady Haifa, on April 22, under the direction of Surg. -Captains Hill, Smith, and Spong, for the purposo of devising a method of rapidly carrying wounded cavalrymen in the case of a squadron retreating. Two sucks of hay were bound on each side of a mule, and a supposed wounded man was laid across these, and tied to the animal's back by means of puttees. Ifc was found that, under these conditions, the mule could gallop at a high rate of speed without much discomfort to the man on its back. The success of this experiment was considered very gratifying, since warfare against the Dervishes entails frequent small cavalry expeditions, and hitherto it has always proved difficult to bring off the wounded after a cavalry engagemont. The trunk mystery of Paris has been solved, Albert Oastel, and his companion Marguerite Dubois, in whose pc^ession a box containing v corpse was found, having made a confession of assassination. The victim was Emile Julian Delhaff, 22 years old, the eldest son of a brickmnker at the Rue Rubinkorff, Paris. The young man was aa enthusiastic collector of stamps, and well known to the stamp market of the Champs Elysee. He was invited by an acquaintance of Castel to a house believed to be in the Avenue de Versailles, on May 14th, and was requested to bring with him his stamp collection, valued at 5000 francs, it having been represented to him that a possible purchaser might be in attendance. Emile went to the rendezvous, but never returned.. He was murdered and robbed of his stamps. There is a story current in the London clubs, which if true may explain the previously cautious self-contained Cape dictator Rhodes's amazing recklessness in his recenb proceedings. When in London last year (the report goes) he fell in love with the widow Georgians, Dowager Countess of Dudley, still one of the most admired of English beauties, although she has now been a grandmother for two years. This lady is said to have declined immediately and finally his offer of marriage, declaring that she is rasolved never to marry again. Ever since this rebuff, Rhodes is said by his friends to have been a changed man and to have grown tenfold more arrogant and reserved than before, rejecting off hand the restraining counsel of his former advisors. He had never before been known to show the slightest fancy for any woman. He had always made it a point to have about him no married men. The effect of such a disappointment on a man of his selfconceit and pride may well have been what his friends now assert. The Dunedin Star contains a very interesting account of tho different matches that have been played between Australian cricket teams and the M.C.C. elevens, and nearly all the contests have been remarkable for sensational finishes. The first, match was played on May 27, 1878, when Spofforth showed the English cricketers some astonishing samples of colonial bowling. Tho M.C.C. made 33 in their first innings and 19 in their second, the colonials winning by nine wickets. The exact duration of the match was four and a half hours. The second Australian team had no match with the M.C.C., whilst the fixture of the 1882 team was drawn on account of the rain. In the 1884 contest M.C.C. had revenge for the bad beating of 1878, winning the match by an innings and 115 runs. In 1886 the fixture had to be abandoned on account of the weather. In 1888 the Australians beat a very powerful M.C.C. combination by 18 runs. In this match it was that the bowling of Ferris played such havoc amongst the Englishmen. The contest in 1890 resulted in victory for tho Englishmen by seven wickets. When the Englishmen went in for the second time they required to make 111 in eighty-four minutes, and this they accomplished with seventeen minutes to spare. In 1893 two matches were played. In the first match the M.0.0.'s went in first and put up the handsome score of 424, to which the Australians replied with 243. The follow on of the colonials was remarkable for the most wonderful display of batting ever recorded. They wore 181 runs to the bad, and in an hour and thirty-five minutes that number had been obtained without the loss of a wicket, Lyons and Bannorman being the batsmen. In the first hour 124 runs were scored, and of these Lyons put up 100. The Englishmen were eventually left with 167 to win, and although tho first wicket did not fall till 80 was on the board, they had to work hard to avert defeat. When time was called two wickets had to fall and 14 runs were required. In the second match with the 1893 team a month later the M.C.C won rather easily by seven wickets. Now is tho time to buy a reliable watch or clock ; 25 per cent, can he aaved ! The time to buy an article of nso and beauty for the home, for personal wear, or for a present ! An immense slock to select from. See advertisements of S. McLernon, jewoller und importer, Gladstone road, Gisborne, and Emerson street, Napier. — Advt. Tho Singer Manufacturing Company, which originated in a humble venture, backed by tho modest capital of 40 dollars (£8) borrowed money, now commands a working capital of £2,000,000, and threafonrtliß of the sewing machine trade of tho world as well. An army 53,000 strong represents its employees throughout the world (with 4000 vehicles and 6600 horses), 12,000 of this host being employed solely in manufacturing machines. E. Chriup, resident agent. — Advt. The famous Victory Sewing Machine is the latest and most perfect of Sewing Machines, It is adapted for household and work-room use, and ia capable of performing the most artistic fancy-work, Tho prices vary from six guineas, and any of tho machines can bo purchased on the easiest i of time payments from the New Zealand I Clothing Factory, the local agenoy.— Advt.