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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8411, 10 January 1899, Page 3

Complaints have readied the Public Works Department from the men engaged in laving the foundation for the East Cape lighthouse, the iron material for the construction of which is being prepared at the Thames. They complain of not being taken off by the Government steamer for the Christmas holidays, of being loft without money to buy clothes, and other neces- [ saries. The answer to t his is that the steamers were engaged upon vastly more important and urgent business ; that the Government Inspector holds moneys which are disbursed as needed, and that communication with the mainland is open by boat, while an ample supply of gooils of I all kinds can be obtained at the store. The j laborers are paid Ss a dav, carpenters 10s, and only Is a day is deducted for food, which is of first-class quality. A peculiar proce** of hatching egg* is j adopted in China. The eggs are placed in i tiers in large k\skels twice the size of an 'ordinary barrel, thickly lined with hay, ' iuid carefully closed from the air by "a tight fitting cover of straw. In three days' time the eggs are taken out and replaced in different order, those at the surface being put in the lowest tier. This is repeated every third dav for a fortnight when the eggs are removed from the basket and placed on a shelf in another room, j being carefully coved with bran. In a > day or two the chicken chips the and makes its appearance. The success of the method is attributed to the fact that the animal heat of the eggs being leUined by the basket which is formed of non-condiict-ling material, is sutlicient to support animal life and foster its development.

A remarkable accident occurred recently lo a young woman in Warrnambool, Victoria. She was returning home at ten o'clock at, night, when she 'heard a dog Lurk in the yard adjoining a gentleman's residence. She put her head over the fence, when the dog sprang at her, fastening his teeth in her eyebrow, tearing away a larnv piece of flesh and inflicting a severe wound. The injured woman hurried to Mr Mori on, M.R.G.S., who bciig her companion to search for the missing piece of ilesh. This was found, an 1 was grafted on to the uound. The result of the experiment is being awaited with anxiety, for if the lle.sh does not adhere the young woman will be disfigured for life, nearly all one eyebrow being torn off. After long and careful consideration the Senate of Abcrystwith College have decreed that the lady student who was expelled from the Ladies' Hostel for talking to a male student from the window shall return to the college, whilst the male student is to go away for two terms. The decision thus arrived at has been the cause of most remarkable demonstration's by the large students, and the Romeo of the Alexandra Hall romance was presented with iv beautiful marble time piece and silver plated inkstand as some sort of testimony to the regret with which his departure was viewed by his fellowstudents. Previous to the departure of the train the students assembled in force, and forming up in funeral order, dressed in deep black, and wearing their black gowns in the form of cowls, the solemn procession started for the station. The leading file carried open books, and the proceedings throughout were of the most solemn character. The Dead March was sung, together with Welsh funeral hymns. Hundreds of spectators lined the streets, and showed much sympathy with the students. Romeo was escorted to the carriage amid loud cheers. The case of Chube Soneya, a Japanese seaman, charged with being a prohibited immigrant, found within the colony of New South Wales in disregard of the provisions of the Immigration Restriction Act of 1898, is of some interest at the present time. Soneya had been employed as a seaman on the Kasuga Maru, and had obtained leave to go on shore. When the time came, however, for him to return, ho lost his way, and when he did reach the wharf, it was only to find the ship gone without him. He was found on the wharf crying, and was afterwards taken to the Water Police Court. Under the Act he was liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months, but the Alagistrate gave it as his opinion that the Act was not intended to apply to such a case as this. As, however, the man had been left without a penny in his pocket, and could not get away until the next ship on the same line as the Kasuga Mara arrived, he thought the best and most humane thing for him to do was to send him to prison. He accordingly sentenced him to 21 days' imprisonment, such imprisonment to cease for the purpose of deportation, or on his finding two sureties in £30 each that he would leave the colony in one month.