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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9802, 23 July 1903, Page 1

Mr H. Barraclough, of Wellington, has given £5 5s to the New Zealand Literary and Historical Association, as a prize for an essay dealing with original research m natural science. With the view of encouraging troutfishing and deer-stalking, the Government are reforming the regulations relating thereto. It is intended to issue £1 fishing licenses available all over the colony, and £1 deer licenses will enable the holder to take four heads, whilst £10 licenses will enable the holder to take eight heads. Many sportsmen from England and other countries now come to the colony for shooting and fishing. One of the victims of a recent railroad accident m New York, a man named Fredericks, who was scalded from head to foot, has undergone a process of skin grafting, m which 1600 pieces of cuticle were employed. Fredericks was a Mason, and about 50 members of his lodge sacrificed bits of skin for their brother Mason. Fredericks, who is now pronounced to be certain of recovery, practically possesses a new skin. . To Pipiwharauroa vouches for the truth of the following story : — "A white settler for a long time had suspected natives of robbing his orchard, but he could never lay hand on the thieves. He, however, conceived of a happy idea for the protection of his orchard. He stuck an old human skull on the fence, and it proved very effective m stopping the nocturnal depredations of the fruit-loving, but ghost-frightened, natives." Te Pipiwharauroa approves wholly the step Maliuta has taken m laying aside his kingship and m accepting a position m the Government, where he would be able to do much good for the Maori race. The Maori journal also thinks that if power was granted to the Maori Councils to deal with sly grog-selling m the King Country it would be put an end to m a very short time. At an early hour one morning recently an Assyrian, who was m a delirious state from illness, broke out of the hospital at Colac, Victoria, and tore through the streets shrieking. On arrival at the railway station lie dashed m amongst a number of commercial travellers and others waiting for the early train to Melbourne. For several minutes there was intense excitement, which became doubled when the lunatic secured a knife from the refreshment room, and tore among the occupants of the platform m a wild state of frenzy. Finally he drew the knife across his throat, and was picked up m a .state of collapse. His life is despaired of. In the Eeview of Reviews, "A Tired Australian, under the title "On the Laughter of Mankind," declares that some performances m Australian poITHcs come perilously near making Australia itself an object of ridicule to civilised mankind. He refers especially to the attempt to keep out dark skinned laborers, and the efforts to. increase wages under the Arbitration Courts. He says that logic ought to prevail, and, assuming, that it willj pictures the time when everything will be regulated by Act of Parliament — the hours a man may work, the task at which he must work, the wages lie is to . receive, the price he is to pay for everything.