TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10691, 15 May 1906, Page 3

TOWN EDITION

An area of just over eight acres at Sydenlkiim, Christchurch, has been Get apart for workers' dwellings. Wellington property owners are combining to protest against the recent valuations. Tho Waihi Grand Junction Gold Mining Company at - Waihi has expended £160,000 upon its property, and has not yet received any return. The Petroleum World declares that the day when tliere will be a widespread adoption of oil'' fuel; not only in the Navy, but also in the mercantile marine, is bound to come. During a recent cricket match at Charters Towers (Q.), Mclntyre, the Sydney wickctkecper, was rendered unconscious through being hit by a ball delivered by Hopkins. The hull of the Australia, which was wrecked near Melbourne, has almost di.«e. appeared. The only part of the steamer now remaining above water is the stern, and this is likely to be knocked over by tlie seas afc any tide. Li consequence of the formation works on the Otago X'eucral railway ncaring completion, - more than 40 men were diecharged last week, and have been trans, f erred to other public works throughout the colony. The football matches next Saturday will be Takitimu and Huia (senior) and West End and Kaiti-City (junior). Great interest is attached to the appearance of the senior fifteens, and it is stated t3wt both clubs will have strong fifteens on the field, "We are^ told that people here'will-al-ways a6k for English blankets, while in England they are making blankets in imitation of New Zealand. This remark of the chairman at a meeting of the Wellington Industrial Association elicited the criticism of Mr W. Allan that no house, keeper with any degree of economy would buy an English blanket, because the'colonial article wa« infinitely 'better. A syndicate has been formed iu Nelson for the purpose of prospecting the flat country around Waimangaroa bj r boring, with a view to determining the depth of the coal-seam in that locality. A lease of 1000 acres has been applied for, and approved by the Westport Harbor Board. The syndicate intends to siuk two bores by means of the diamond drill — one near the coal outcrop, with the object of cuttinsr the coal at. a probable depth of 500ft. and the eecund in tho middle of the plain, where it is expected that coal may be found at a depth of not less, and probably considerably more, than 1000ft Those comprising the syndicate arc prepared to expend £10C0 in boring, and anticipate being able to get down to a depth of 1500ft. Persons who go out shooting would do well to remeiribcr that the- following birds are absolutely protected: — Avocet, bellbird, bittern, blue or mountain cluck, brown creeper, brsh canary, North Island crow, shining cuckoo, dotterel, pied fantail, fern-bud, gannet, crested grebe, grey warbler, red-billed gull, white heron, white-fronted heron, blue heron, . and tankeen night heron, huia. kingfisher, kiwi, knot, Antipodes lark, Southern merganser, inoho or tahuke, laughing owl, pied oyster-catcher, parrakeet, tui, kakapo, penguin, petrel plover, rail,' robin, saddle-back, sand piper, shearwater, Snares snipe,. Auckland Island snipe, Chatham Island snipe, white-headed sMlt plover, stitch-bird, swallow, tern, New Zealand and North Island thrush, turnstono, green wreu, rock wren, and bush wren. An Auckland doctor, speaking to a reporter, on the subject of surgical operations, s aid: — ."There is no doubt that there i6 a tendency to operate far too much nowadays. The result in that the art of diagnosis is being neglected or lost sight of to a certain extent. I remember the time' when the best doctors woud spend hour after hour making a careful diagnosis, arid they took a pride iu this work. Now, instead of making the same endeavors to ascertain the nature of an ailment, tliere is a widespread tendency to say. 'Open, him up and have a look.' There are a lot of people who tako a delight in having a whole crowd of- doctors round them, audi very often quite unnecessary, and which could be well avoided by a rest in bed for a little while. If a practitioner will not operate they will go elsewhere and have it done. I am quite sure that there are many eases of appendicitis now operated for, which could be equajly well dealt with by medical treatment and the real cure."