TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10302, 9 March 1905, Page 3

TOWN EDITION

The dredge John TWnley was yesterday engaged replacing the Waihora buoy. The lifted buoy was very heavily. covered with, sea growth.

A record) shipment of "refreshments" is being made to the Coast by the schooner Aotea. Evidently a busy carnival season is expected.

Mr Bert Adair left by the s.s. Manuka last evening for South. The young Gisborneite intends working his passage to England' by a Home steamer and: entering the extensive engineering and 1 shipbuilding yards of Messrs Denny Bros., Dumbarton, where young New Zealand engineers are much enquired for by the management.

A telegram from Plymouth, England, received in San Francisco on January 19, reported that the British ship Tainar, bound from Hamburg for Seattle, had put into port with the captain in irons; on account of his action in shooting at the mate and the men in the crew. No particulars are given. The commander of the Tainar, according to Lloyd's, is Captain D. Griffiths.

It k reported! that tire cricket match recently played by Canterbury against the Australian eleven has proved to be not an unmixedi blessing to all ckiss«s of the community. It is supposed that the cricketers have learnt something more of the. game, and) many farmers have learnt something, too. Those, who could nob resist the anticipated pleasure of cricket left their harvesting", and then returned to findi rain. Many of the enthusiastic spectators have suffered severe losses, through leaving their grain in stook on Friday and Saturday, when it wa s fit for stacking, and allowing the heavy rain of the succeeding days to spoil

During a heavy thunderstorm which occurred at Devonport, Auckland, last week the yacht Lillian, which was anchored between the lower wharf .and the North Head, was struck by lightning. The discbarge was an exceptionally severe one, and passed! over the residence of Mr A. Alison, and/ then struck the yacht, the current striking tine, topmast, and taking a downward -course along the wire ropes to the edge of the water, and! on to one side of the boat, entered the hull. It made a hole about 3ft wide on the port side, then passed into the bow of the yacht, and 1 out under the jib-boom. A considerable amount of dtiniage was done to the outer portion of tlie hull.

It has been recently demonstrated by leading scientists in Europe that consumptive patients who have been taken up in balloons to a lwight of 8000ft have shown improvement in their health, and it luis 2™, , shown tllut rarefied air at even oCOOft has a totally different effect to mountain, air on much higher altitudes. A French medical authority declares ' that he hna proved by experiments that balloon ascents act on the human system as the most powerful tonic kmown, and that one hours voyage in the air caused an astonishing multiplication of red corpuscles in the- blood. As these aerial journeys would possibly prove unpopular, especially with nervous subjects, Mr John Pugh, a. Sydney estate agent, has endeavored to overcome this objection by inventing a method .of 2>rociuring the rarefied air Tor the use of consumptives, Thishe proposes to do by the employment of balloons, held captive by: a cable, to which is attached a tube through which the air is to be drawn. One end of" the tube is to be carried into a room or hall with air-tight ' doors and window's.- The lower, end of the tube is* to have" a large ordi-nary-draught suction fan attached *to its end, by means of which the rarefied, dry* sterilised atmospliere may be brought down from high altitudes, and distributed to the patient's in .the room, or . hall. Mr Pugh has applied for his patent.

The wdl-knowni Cafe Monico lias been taken over by Mr Duncan Campbell, of the City Buffet, and the new proprietor notifies his intention to make it the premier restaurant in Gisborne.

The New Zealand. Esperanto Society mi-etiiiß at Auckland urged the placing of this international language on the syllabus of the- State schols, and the making of it a faculty in the University.