NEWS ITEMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7664, 26 June 1896, Page 4

NEWS ITEMS.

||||;;;Coplgaitoi<i hospital now contains 105 g|||»tietits,' B6 being down with fever. g||-JEobert^McOallucQ, the youth who is to §P«s>4i§!i*'?fcjP. across the Atlantic in an open has -.' set sail on his adventurous IS^Three,, thousand men and boys con|Kne^ttd^itK tn.6.Propriel: »ry mine, Broken |||BKU, received wages last week. It was a ' : |?^?AVd~ivorce has been refused to a Mel|y?bMrni>' i ,Baddlei' on the ground that by §iillb#ing his wife to become a star of the lF|¥ati4ty*!jEage/he was a ; contributor to his |4^S?ThVsH«p -Knight of Thistle, just arrived Kf^fcjSljjdney. was. struck by lightning in the ■■'Vc'North Atlantic, but no serious damage tmrn'tone: :-';.'- * jfi^'Pairo," Egypt, where cholera is raging, ifi isiaid to be a city little better than a vast iffswßjgebed.' <; /^Hirat,. who dismissed five of the Aus- : - traliah batsmen for 40 runs in the York£^aiiire riiatch, is one of the best left-hand irSljowjera of the day. Edinburgh has completed j£v*' protracted voyage of 162 days from ?^|(janey . to . London. := v The main street of Coolgardie has just lit by eleotrioity. i^-V ii.Nearly every town of 6000 inhabitants \ and upwards in the States has its electric '. lighting system and its eleotric cars," said " .Professor Forbes, the eminent electrical engineer, in the course of an interview :. the other day. '■ ':. Aman named Millane committed suicide by hanging himself with his riding whip a tree stump at Brookwell, N.S. W. 'Coolgardie hospital was robbed of L2OO i! ■iUßt.week. '-vijiln round \ numbers the first and second ■'V .cabin passengers who went from the United States to England and returned :' .last year were 100,000. It iB estimated •that they spent; on an average L2OO ■>' eabh. -■ :"■.->;: The export of sugar, from Cuba for the current season is estimated at under i ,200,000 tons, as against 1,000,000 tons in 5 : /1?9495. If this sugar were worth Ll2 a -ton, the loss to the island would amount vj> t0. 19,600,000. :'r"-jV'-i The i''Ameer of Afghanistan has eenfc ffvpresenWto the.Queen valued atLI2O,OOO. i-\. ,';i-The Eatson-Playfair suit, which was . "the sensation of London a little while ago, - iiaa-beeb' settled by Dr Playfair paying ;> >LBoooof the L 12.000 awarded her, the ; appeal to be withdrawn. A stiff price to i; -Stare to pay for divulging professional J'--. Beorets.. ' : .:;■::. - ; A' magnificent present has just been made by the people of Bengal, India, to the Duke and Duchess of York, as a t; wedding gift. ' It 'consists of an immense ■ ; eilver casket of beautiful design and workmanship, the whole supported by :i four. massive elephants. The sides of the Vioaskeb are richly chased, and represent V'friotable views of India, and various other |-; emblems. '*-"-■ ;>.. ;V:'An old, man was found dying from ~; in a shed in Geelong West, •Victoria, the other day, and died whilst being conveyed to the hospital. A search ■••ota^p'gst his" belongings disclosed that ■ths 'deceased had L 1079 on deposit in the r ~ Gteelong branoh of the Bank of Aus- : >The Canadian Government is steadily psj; pursuing its policy of subsidising steam- x f; chip companies in order to develop the ! -i- foreign trade of the country, and has i/contracted with the Franco-BBlge Steam- " ahip Company of Canada for a fortnightly service between Canada and France - rand Belgium, .agreeing to pay an annual LIO.OOO. .. ;.i'' 'Good hotels have now been opened at /.Mount Oarmel, Nazareth, and Tiberias. '^rTJiis is only a sentence from the official ■ report of the British Consul at Jerusalem. ■, : ; But what a reminder of the distance the :"' world, has.travelled since the days of the ; ;. :>VKudyard Kipling, the story-teller, at .-;< present residing at Brattlaboro, Vermont, vfcaa been going through a family row. --i On May 10th, he had his brother-in-law, >; : Beatty: S.Balestier, his wife's brother, ■ arrested because he used' indecent lan--guage towards him, and threatened to /^Msault himon the Brattleboro highway. r'-'Balestier is very angry because Kipling, he' alleges, has been circulating fake and injurious reports about him. ;i.-\ '^Further -reports, showing the ufgenoy ■%~<>f : continued aid to the sufferers, have -been received by the Duke of Westminster . .fc'oai the agents of the Armenian Relief ; ; y.Pund.; In Harpooli there are 7000 ' -Armenians depending upon the fund for rk their daily .bread. The agent at Marash ;. : eaya';--" We hnye relieved 27,000 persons. ■;%\W!B ara.also supporting 50 -prisoners who ,;; -are ,'Buspeots,' and not yet tried upon any charge. _ As the season advances the i destitution increases. In the surrounding ';:,;;ViHages forced' conversions will go on, and :•■ there are now 15,000 from the district in .;; this town who have come in for bread and ';•" clothing.- Typhus, ,dyaentry, and small-:..-^pbx*"are- now following in the wake of "hunger, and emaciated patients cannot ■-. withstand the inroads of disease, We ; ; I earnestly plead for more aid."

The plague of rabbits, from whioh Australia has suffered so severely, is becoming j a very serious nuisance in California. It i is stated that in one county the loss to farmers last year from the damage done by rabbits — and hares — amounted to L 120,000. They have tried poison, and they have tried large " drives." In some 140 of these they reckon that 356,000 head were killed ; but the numbers of the pests seem as great as ever. Lord Kelvin, the famous scientist, celebrated the jubilee year of his professorship last week. His inventions range from a domestic watei'tap to scales to measure invisible weights and a system of recording the weights of the planets. Bub it is in connection with submarine telegraphy that Lord Kelvin is bast known. His inventions in this direction are the mirror galvanometer and the siphon-recorder, which, owing to their extreme delicacy, can bo worked by very low battery power, a condition that tonds greatly to the preservation of the cables. "Trilby" has not been such a great boom in Sydney as In Melbourne, but still it has drawn big houses. The proprietors of the copyright have to very carefully guard their rights against piracy. The other evening two men were caught in the act of making shorthand and longhand notes of "Trilby" at the Lyceum. One was writing the dialogue in Pitman's shorthand, the other taking notes in a round, bold hand of the lay-out of tho scenes. They were sitting in the front stalls, and while busy at their work were remarked by Mr Williamson. At tho end of the first act both reporters were officially called upon to deliver before standing, and their notebooks wore taken from thorn. Football matches are livelier on the other side than in New Zealand. In a match at Homebush, N.S. W., the other day, the visiting team, tho Orientals, from the start made the game very " willing," and the referee, Mr H. Hazel, with a commendable determination to enforce the rules regarding rough play, ordered j two of the visiting team off the field. This action, coupled with the subsequent defeat of the Oriental team by 12 points to nil, bo enraged the players and their supporters that they proceeded to " deal it out" to the referee at the conclusion of the match, kicking md striking him in the most brutal manner, and showering upon him mud and other missiles. In self-defence Mr Hazel was compelled to draw a revolver, with which he had come armed. This, as might be expected, had a salutary effect on the crowd, though the Horaebush players and supporters found it necessary to escort the referee to tho railway station. We have some pretty big bugs in these colonies, but none come up to the giant beetle of Venezuela. The creature is know as the "elephant beetle," and when full grown weighs nearly half a pound. To be struck in the face by such a bug, flying at full speed, would make a man feel as if a mule had kicked him. The beetle, like others of its kind, both small and large, is olad in a complete suit of proof atmour. This armour is made of a material far more indestructible than steel — namely, chitine. Chitine cannot be destroyed except by certain mineral acids ; in other words, only the artifices of chemistry avail against it. Thus the shells of beetles that died thousands of years ago have been preserved perfectly in the rocks, so that we know to-day just what these insects of antiquity looked like. A sensational alligator story, verified by a resident missionary, comes from Yetle Island, New Guinea. The missionary reports that the native village where he resides, is living in mortal fear of a monster alligator, which has taken up permanent quarters on the reefs adjourning the missionary station there. Three of the members have recently fallen victims to the monster. Two young girls were disporting on the reef, and one jumped on the other's back, when the alligator made a dash, seized both in his jaws and made off. The natives chased him in canoes, and at the end oi two hours' hunting, the father of one of the girls managed to wrench the multilated body of his daughter from tho alligator's mouth. The body of the other girl was subsequently recovered. A few days later a party of natives were fishing from a canoe near the reef, when the alligator sprang at them, overturned. the boat, and made off with one of the occupants. The body was found next day amongst the mangroves. Now is the time to buy a reliable watch or clock ; 25 per cent, can bo saved I The time to buy an article of use and beauty for the home, for personal wear, or for a present ! Au immense stock to select from. See advertisements of S. McLernon, jeweller and importer, Gladstone road, Gisborne, and Emerson street, Napier. — Advt, The D.1.C., Wellington, is a deservedly popular institution. Many of our thrifty and fashionable people find it to their advantage to order their requirements in drapery and house-furnishing Irom the Company's Wellington Warehouse. Reliable goods, at moderate prices, is the feature of the D.1.0. Samples and catalogues are mailed post free to any address. — Advt.