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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9638, 13 January 1903, Page 2

The. timetable of the special train for Thursday afternoon next is advertised. The plans far the Willoughby-Geach season will be opened at Mr W. Miller's at 10 to-morrow morning. Mr A. Green, ophthalmic optician, from Auckland, is visiting Gisborne, and may be consulted at Gladstone House. Attention is directed to a change of. advertisement from Messrs Williams and | Kettle, appearing m another column. Mr Roper's sawmill has been placed m position m the Waihoia valley, and a quantity of timber sawn for the purpose of erection of the mill buildings. In his new advertisement m another column Mr Thos. Adams enumerates a number of the new books to be found on his shelves. Our readers arc reminded of the lecture to be delivered m tlie Academy of Music al 8 o'clock this evening by the Rev. limes Hopkins, of the MeJanesian Mission. Mr H. R. Smith of Goldsmith's Hall, notifies that his 10 per cent, discount sale will continue for ten days longer. The opportunity is one that should not be missed. The New Zealand Loan and Mercaiir tile Agency Company announce a clearing sale, to be held on the 22nd inst. at the property of Mr Hingston, Mangapapa. who has sold his farm. Amongst tlie stock are 25 first-class dairy cows. Miss Roxy Barton, of the WilloughbyGeach Company, is said to be the prettiest girl on the. Australasian stage, and possesses a personal charm and grace of manner thai completely captivates her audience. F. Hack, tlie well-known South Australian representative cricketer, is about to take up his residence m New Zealand. During the last two or three years Hack has shown himself one of South Australia's best batsmen. The trade statistics published m another column show that over three million feet of timber was brought, into- Gisbornie hist year. This represents an expenditure of over £25,000 on building material, which we trust, if the railway is pushed on to the Motu will before many years have passed, be saved to the district. M. Philipp, who has suddenly acquired a reputation as the hypnotist behind tlie .throne of Russia, is a Frenchman and a citizen of Lyons. He was a medical student who failed to pass the qualifying examinations, and has been prosecuted by the Faculty for practising without a diploma, but has nevertheless obtained local celebrity for cures effected without. the use of medicine. His age is sixty. At the Police Court this morning John Arthur Hamilton, was charged with llmsotening behaviour on Boxing Day last. Mr Jones, for defendant, stated that Hamilton was more sinned against than sinning. Another man had been quarrelling with defendant on Boxing Day, and abusing him, and it was really ii case of one man bringing another out into the street to gain satisfaction. Sergeant Siddells said that defendant had been interfered with on Boxing Day. His Worship said this was no excuse for disorderly conduct, but considering his past good behaviour, he would inflict the light petialty of 10s, costs 7s.—^John Garner pleaded guilty to using insulting language m Lowe street on New Year's Day. A fine of £1, costs 9s, was imposed. —Thomas Palmer pleaded guilty to threatening behaviour, under great provocation, m Lowe street on New Year's Day. Sergeant Siddells stated the case arose out of tlie charge against Gunner, who had called defendant an insulting name, thus commencing the trouble. A fine of 10s, costs 7s was inflicted. Gisborne is promised a visit later on m the year from M. Jacques Inandi, '"the mental marvel," now appearing m Sydney. His exliibition created such a sensation m London that even his Majesty the King commanded a performance. Many efforts have been made to give M. Inandi a poser, but up to the present no one lias succeeded. On one occasion, when M. Inandi was giving an exhaustive demonstration of his powers before M. Bourgeois, the Minister of Public Instruction ia France, a well-known mathematician, M. Poinearre, thought to disconcert him by giving liim a problem which it was thought incapable of being solved, but M. Poincarre failed. Inandi detected it at once. Again, M. Liard, a high official of the Ministry of Public Instruction, gave M. Inandi a problem from the most advanced text books. Inandi's almost .immediate solution was different from the text book, and Inandi's was found to be correct. His most surprising feat is that of solving mentally four problems at once (addition 1, multiplication, division., and finding the square root, each sum being of several figures) while he is answering a file of questions I from the audience.

Miss May Beatty's present engagement with Mr Musgrove is for 12 months, with tin 1 option of a. renewal at the expiration of that linif. The young New Zealand autre.ss is, however, anxious to follow the footsteps of sister Maud, and may possibly lea vi' for England at the end of he.r unifageinunt. lit conversation with a representative nf tic Auckland Star, Sir Joseph Ward i-ffiTivil to i In- development of tilt tourist traffic and referred to tihe. necessity for bettt-r travelling facilities from Roitorua to Taupo. Sir Joseph favors the idea of having motor 'busses running from Rotorua tn Taupo, and from Tokaanu to Pipiriki. thus connecting Riotorua with the head of the Wanganui river. After eluding arrest fur several months, Charles F. Kelly, ex-Speaker of the St. Louis House of Delegates, who is wanted m that- city m connection with the bribery cases unearthed there some time ago, was arrested m Philadelphia last month. Kelly, it is charged, is the man who distributed the 47,500d0l boodle fund among members of the House combine three years ago for the passage of the City Lighting Bill. It is often asked to what extent her Majesty the Queen's hearing is nowadays affected. Tlie most contradictory statements (says the Westminster Gazette) have been put- forth on the subject from time to time, but- we believe the truth to be that most of these involve much exaggeration. Her Majesty is m reality merely what is known as a little hard of hearing ; the voice has to be slightly raised m addressing her, but that- is all*. Nothing vexes her Majesty more indeed than to he shouted at, while her appreciation of thi' softest music may also be cited as evidence bearing on the point. The "American Tea" wa.s introduced into (ilaygow last month by Mrs Primrose, wife of the Lord Provost of that city. The noviilty connected with the. "American Tea" is that each guest must pay a small fee a-s entry money, which sums are i afterwards handed over to a charitable institution. Between two and three hundred ladies assembled at Redholme, on Saturday, when a very pleasant afternoon was spent, and Mrs Primrose must have felt .highly gratified at the donation which she was able to make to the Samaritan Hospital, tlie institution for which the function was held. A dramatic scene was enacted m the Criminal Court at Camden, New Jersey? m November, during the progress of amurder trial. The victim of tlw murder was ulltgi-d to have been poisoned, and the pro: iciit ion called Professor Marshall, of the University of Pennsylvania, who has made an autopsy of the body, to testify as to the presence of poison. After affirming that lie had found poison m the body, .he proposed to demonstrate before the Court its potency. I)r Marshall took a live frog and administered to it some of the solution taken from the murdered person's liver, with the result that the frog died almost at one..'. The sensation m the court-room was very great. Two women were carried out m a. fainting condition, and the prisoner very nearly collapsed. As a result of recent experiments m science, it is claimed that the days of the woolly aphis,, codlin moth, and other fruit pests, are numbered. The new process of lighting, codlin moths is unique. A hole or socket is bored into the trunk, of the tree, and m the opening is deposited a compound to be taken up by the sap into the brandies of the tree. It is claimed that not onjy are fruit .a.nd tree pests thu.s destroyed, but that the tree, by its absorption of the injection, is made healthy and thriving.'* The compound injected into the tree consists of gunpowder, saltpetre, copperas, and sulphur. Pulveriseld and mixed and applied according to a patent process, the. ingredients are readily absorbed by the tree. Thoroughly diseased apple and peach trees experimented upon were purged of their pests, and the quality of the fruit improved, and the trees grew sturdy under the tonic effect of the insecticide. Professor Zueblin seems to have a very low opinion of American commercial morality, from the statements which he makes m his American Municipal Progress (Macmillan) a.s to the extent to which corruption prevails m American municipalities. Tlie deeds of Tammany m New York are famous, but a new charge is brought against that interesting institution. "Even the blankets of tin horses." we read, have been appropriated as spoils. ]?i Philadelphia, the Mayor "threw away unopened" a letter from Mr J. Wananuikin- offering £500.000 for tramway rights m the city, and then proceeded, we are told, to grant away these rights without any compensation to the public. Many curious facts are recorded. Chicago has a fire-float, the jets of water from which will demolish solid brick walls. Taunton, Massachusetts, feeds pigs upon the street garbage, and makes the experiment pay. Chicago comes out top for disregard for human life. Three hundred and thirty men were killed by railways m her streets m the year 1899