Poverty Bay Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1899.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8415, 14 January 1899, Page 2

Poverty Bay Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1899.

News reaches us as we go to press this afternoon of an accident to Mr I'elham Richardson, of Makaraka. He was handling a gun at his residence at 2.40 p.m. aud by some means shot himelf. It is not known how serious the injuries are. Dr Hughes has been sent for. We regret to hear that Inspector Emerson, of Napier, is lying very seriously ill. Mr F. G. Clayton, of Auckland, was v passenger by the Waihora for Auckland this morning. Inspector MoGovern arrived in Napier on Wednesday last to take charge of the police force in that district. The number of claims for the old age pensions are steadily increasing, and upwards of thirty have now licen received at the Magistrate's Court. There is a phenomenal crop of fruit this year throughout Wairoa County, and the Guardian suggests the establishment of a jam factory in the district. The barquentine River Hunter has boon delayed for several days at this port by dissertions of two of her crew. New men are being brought from Auckland to take their places. The new school and residence at Nuhaka lias been completed at a cost of £700, and the school has been placed in charge of Mr Pinker, who has had control of theMaketu Native school for the past twenty years. I Enormous numbers of small birds' eggs are being brought into South iMalvern for purchase by the Road Board. Over 13,000 were paid for one day last week, says a Ohristchurch paper. It will he seen from our shipping telegrams that Gisborne is about to have a visit from two warships, H.M.S. Royalist having left Auckland for this port at 11 o'clock this morning, and the Tauranga leaving on Monday. The Te Roinga bridge contractor has started operations. He has a gang of men who are first to break stones for the. concrete work, and then proceed with the road work. He is also getting the timber carted to the site. Mr A. Anderson, representative of the Harry Richards Company, was in Gisborne to-day making arrangements for the appearance in the Theatre Royal on Wednesday evening next of the company, which is at present creating quite a furore in Napier. In St. Andrew's Church to-morrow morning the subject of the Rev. J. G. Paterson's sermon will be "The Lord's Second Coining" ; Matawhero 2.30 p.m., Mr J. East ; and in the evening the subject of lecture will be " What must I do to be lost ?" Special evangelistic service. There is on view in Mr T. Dalrymple's window a bicycle of local manufacture, made by Messrs C. Crone and J. Rice. The machine, which has been designated the Huia, contains all the latest up-to-date improvements, and is specially adapted for the roads of this district. It is fitted with an half-inch pitch chain wheel, Westwood rims, Dunlop tires, and weighs when in full running order 241bs. We are requested to call the attention of our readers to the open-air service of the Church of England, which will be held to-morrow afternoon at three opposite Tuamotu Island. It is hoped that this service may not only be attended by the Wainui settlers and those encamped near the island, but that some of those who are encamped on the beach nearer to the town may also be induced to attend it. Evidently there is going to be great interest taken in the Caledonian Society's forthcoming sports. The secretary informs us that this morning he received communication from Geraldine, in the South Island, Wellington, and Wairoa. Among other enquiries was one from Mr Mackenzie Forbes, recently from Scotland, who intends visiting the various places in the North Island as a competitor at the different sports. The Windsor Magazine Christmas number, which has reached us through Mr Thos. Adams, is a splendid shilling's worth, and should have an enormous saje. Messrs Ward, Lock, and Company claim to have spent more money on this number than has ever been spent on any number of any magazine in any part of the world, and the result is 400 pages of first-class literature and illustrations, including a complete novel by Edwin Lester Arnold, and stories by Crockett, Rudyard Kipling, Conan Doyle, Bret Harte, and others. A short while ago a man serving a sentence in Napier gaol received an intimation that a legacy was on its way to him. No doubt the anticipation lightened the balance of his term. He was released, and early this month the legacy was handed to him. Tho result of it is that he is in prison again. All that he has now left of his legacy are a few shillings and a bad attack of delirium tremens, for which he tv ill have to be treated prior to resuming his former occupation of working gratis for the colony. — Telegraph. The fire on board the schooner Medora at Auckland was very similar to that on the Bchooner Aotea. The origin is unknown. At first it was thought to have been caused by spontaneous combustion in an oil tank, which contains fuel for the engine, but it was found the tank was still intact and full of oil, and that the fire started several feet away from it. The planks in the after part of the hull were badly charred, and the deck considerably burned and a bulkhead destroyed. A considerable quantity of cargo was damaged by fire and water. Negotiations are in progress between Mr Frank Farnell and a number of English capitalists, with a view to the formation of a company for deep-sea fishing on the Australian coast. Mr Farnell is in hopes that in a few months n company will be formed, with a capital of .-£300,000, on the lines of those in existence in Newfoundland, Canada, and the United States. In addition to the sale of fish, there would be fish oil extraction, the manufacture of fish guano, and smoking and canning of fish. Oyster culture would likewise be entered upon. There would, of course, be a fleet of steam trawlers, and " well " vessels, a central depot, and stations along the coast, which latter have already been secured. At a meeting of the Wellington Harbor Board, Colonel Pearce, who is leaving for England after 28 years' residence in New Zealand, was presented with an album with artistic covers in New Zealand woods, containing views of the port, and photos of the members of the Board. The Chairman referred to the fact that Colonel Pearce had been a member for sixteen j'ears and four times chairman, and his services were of the most valuable character. Colonel Pearce, in reply, said he thought the most valuable thing he had ever done was the part he took in selecting Mr Ferguson as engineer from so many applicants. He had always looked back on that with the greatest possible satisfaction. It is becoming more and more apparent that the arrangements in connection with the distribution in England of River Plate frozen mutton are vastly superior to those which prevail in connection with that from New Zealand. The steady advance made in quality has also to be reckoned with, and unless the greatest care is exercised there is some danger of the River Plate article supplanting that from New Zealand. During the first nine months of last year there were received in England 1,950,626 carcases River Plate mutton, being an increase of 330,178 carcases. Despite this increase stocks were so short at the end of October that holders were able to advance the price in London to '2Jd and 2gd without checking sales. Next year a still further large increase is expected, as three of the companies in Argentina were making extensive additions to their works. The low range of prices which have hitherto prevailed have evidently been remunerative, for the Sancinena Compauy paid an interim dividend of 5 per cent, in September. Timaru is going in for public abattoirs. At a meeting of the Council this week the committee appointed to consider the advisability or otherwise of erecting abattoirs for the borough, reported unanimously in favor of the establishment of public abattoirs, but asked for an extension of theirpowers with a view to approaching the Christchurch Meat Company, to ascertain whether the Company would undertake the erection of the necessary buildings, and do the slaughtering on behalf of the Council, on the same lines as the Wanganui Council with the local Freezing Company. The Mayor explained that the Wanganui Freezing Company undertakes to kill on three days a week for the local butchers, who pay a fee to the Corporation, and the Corporation handed the fees to the Freezing Company up to £625 a year, with a minimum of £200 a year. The Corporation has also to pay au inspector. The Committee had ascertained that the Dunedin City Council had borrowed £11,000 for the purpose of establishing abattoirs, and Invercargill £2600.

Owing to variovis reasons no Hawke's Bay Caledonian sports will be held this year. Tiiis and other native birds, are reported to be very numerous in the forest reserve 1 in Taranaki now, as a result of the prohibition of shooting within the reserve At the Ashnrst-Pohangina meeting on December 28th, no less than £0120 passed through Ihe totalisator. This is an | enormous sum .for a country meeting. I An instance of the loss that many i farmers have sustained during the past year through not selling their wheat, when at a high price is mentioned by the Christchurch Press. A farmer refused 5s per lnißhel for his wheat and sent it into store. Mites attacked it, and it has now been sold for 2s Gil per bushel. The crusade apainst objectionable cabmen started by Inspector Cullen at Auckland, has been followed up by the Harbor Board, and all objectionable characters now driving express carts on the wharves are to be moved. Some of the cabmen in the black list had succeeded in getting, it is said, licenses from the Board. As showing the strength of the soil in the neighborhood (if Hastings, Captain Russell assures the Standard that on one occasion he rode through a crop of oats on a sixteen-hand horse, and the oats reached his (the Captain's) head. On another occasion in a crop of rape he had planted, one of his boys, riding a pony, was lost. •' Ami these are not fairy tales," said the Captain smilingly. At a recent Taranaki meeting a horse went out friendless for one race. Just as the flag was about to be lowered the owner bolted to I he machine to note the state of the poll, and seeing no investments on his horse rung on £10, with the intention of collaring all the greed in the box. The horse came in before the time to start the following race, thus saving the tote clerk the worry of figuring out the big dividend, and it dawned upon the owner he could have saved himself £9 and then have scooped the pool had his horse won. A record sale of farm horses was held by Mr Burbury, at Oamaru, last Saturday, when 130 mares and geldings were submitted, and about 100 changed hands, at auction or privately. One draft of 44, belonging to Messrs J. and A. Dalglcish, realised £1356, an average of nearly .€3l, the highest figure being £47 for a four-year-old gelding. Six others of this lot fetched £40 and over. Another draft of 20, Mr Cruickshanks', fetched £828, an average of £41 odd, a seven-year-old gelding fetched £55, and three others £50. About a score of others from different farms averaged about £29. A treatise on the cold bath treatment of typhoid, by Dr F. E. Hare, late resident medical officer of the Brisbane Hospital, is attracting a good deal of attention in medical circles in Australasia. The little work is based on the author's personal experience of the advantages of the cold bath system in dealing with over 2000 cases of typhoid fever, and his conclusions are such as to command attention in Victoria, where the disease is, unfortunately, so prevalent. The Intercolonial Medical Journal of Australia, in a review of Dr Hare's book, says that as a piece of controvery it appears to be conclusive, and that there appears to be no " loop-hole of escape from its main conclusions. The opponents of the. cold bath treatment may be many, but the facts arc against them." Somebody has been allowed to read the proof-sheets of the work on the bubonic plague in India, which Dr Mailer, the martyr of Vienna, had all but completed when he was fatally attacked. Some of the passages are very interesting, as when he describes the symptoms— exceedingly violent headache and stupor, delirium, extreme giddiness, which makes the patient walk like a drunken man. The illness generally appears suddenly, without previous symptoms. The pulses of some of the patients beat 160 and even 200 per minute. It is very difficult to make a correct diagnosis when the plague is not bubonic but pneumonic. Consciousness is generally preserved until death. Patients are tempted to leave their bed, and to seek relief by running about. The quantity of bacilli in the. body of the patient is enormous, greater than in any other infectious disease. Dr Muller did not believe that any success had been obtained by means of plague serum. He thought the greatest danger to Europe lay in the rats on board ships from India. The letter which the doctor dictated when in the throes of death contained, besides the tenderest words of farewell to his father, mother, brothers, and sister, one remarkable passage : "If no one is to suffer through me, I must be burnt. Let them collect my ashes, disinfect them, and bury them in grandmother's grave. I die quietly, and, I hope, without pain."