THE COLONIST. Published Daily—Mornings. Nelson. Thursday, March 10, 1892.

Colonist, Volume XXXV, Issue 7266, 10 March 1892, Page 3

THE COLONIST. Published Daily— Mornings. Nelson. Thursday, March 10, 1892.

Horticultural Society. — & meeting of the Committee of the Nelson Horticultural Society will be held at the City Council Chamber this evening at half past seven. All members are requested to attend. Deer Shooting. — We learn that Mr H. Newport, butcher, of Bridge street, shot a Sine stag yesterday morning at Wakapuaka, its weight being about 250 pounds, and its Matters having- eight points The stag may be seen at Mr Newport's shop. ' Kindergarten Concert — We have inn oh pleasure in oalling the attention of the public generally to the highly interesting Kindergarten concert to be given in the Theatre Royal on the 18th inst. by the infants and [uDioir soholars of Hardy St. Qirla' School. i similar one wan given in the Provincial Hall three years ago, whioh gave much 3elight to all who were able to gain admission, md from the painstaking efioita of both teaohera and children, this conoert should be squally sucoesefal. The proceeds will be levoted to the purchase of drawing materials and other school requisites. An unolaimed letter is lying at the Post Office for A. Molineaux. Pbobats — In Chambera yesterday before L. Broad E~q., Mr Fell moved for and obtained letters of administration in the Bstate of Elizabeth Glover, of Motueka, deceased, to George Glover, husband and next of kin to deceased. Election foe Education Boabd. — We are informed that Mr William Bout, seeing thatMrs Evans is a candidate for tbe vacancy oausedbythe death of the late Mr Clayden, has retired as a candidate, and will seek Election on a future occasion The Wairarapa correspondent of the Wellington ' Press 1 states : — Archdeacon MoLean, of Greymouth, is spoken of as the new incumbent of St. Luke's Churoh, Grey town. TherS are in Chicago three " Bi- Chloride of Gold Clubs," whose members have, it is aaid, been delivered from alcoholism. One of the aides-de-camp of an Australian Governor has been so shooked at the irreligious state of the oontinent, that he is going to -England to study for holy orders. Balk of Horses. — Messrs Sharp and Sons will sell by auction on Saturday next, at noon, a consignment of broken and unbroken horses, and under instructions from their client in the North Island, they will be disposed of absolutely without reserve. The • Wanganui Chronicle 1 . Btates that settlers bib complaining very bitterly of the ravages amongst' their flocks by'aportiog dogs. In one case a gentleman informs us that be lost sheep to the value of £20 in one night, the unfortunate animals having been worried to death by dogs. Bishop Julius says that he considers swimrmng, an absolute necessity for; .everyone, both young and old, but if any present felt themselves too old to learn they should see to it that their ohildren were able ;tOBWim. tf pa following advio'e appears in" the'Wanganut .Chroniole • to' shootists going to the New "Zealand Bifle Association meeting:— •' One thing I would like to impress upon all the Wanganui "reps," is to bear in mind tbat they go to gain one prize ; that all the other attenders covet the same trophy ; and that therefore every man ia afoeman solo speak, because he is fighting against them for the belt.' So let there be no asking of 'How's the* windage," or" how's the elevation ; eh!" ' foryouoould hatdly blame a man if he pat you off tbe' r ßo6nt. ! Rely only' on' yourself, H yon prdve^viOibriouß you have ouly yourself tolha'nk v , and are not indebted to others for & singlepoint. The ohanoes are you willnot benefit by asking suoh qaeslionß, and besides if the matter is looked at in a proper light, they are not fair questions to a|k,"

The Wairarapa papers announqe the death of Diamond; a well-knov\m Maori, at Papawai. He was a tall stalwart fellow, and f ought with the Europeans through the Maori war. He was related to Borne of the most influential ohiefs at Poverty Bay, and was a member of the Papawai Native Volunteer corps during its existence. He possessed a medal for saving life at Poverty 3ay, and it is said that he had. a medal for his services during the war. • . The following are the amounts of the large stakes paid at the late race meeting at Dunedin: J. Stephenson, £1076 7s ; G. H. Cliff Drdj £707 15s; T. W. Hungerford, £361 ; D. OBrien, £255 11s ; Captain Guthrie, £255 11s; H. Dunn, £251 15s ; Hon J. D. Ormond, £190 ; W. C. Webb, £110 4s. ! Total amount of v stakes paid altogether* £3939 13s. The villain of a melodrama had to be shot. The supers came on and fired at him ac cordingly, but the property man had omitted to load their guns, and the only sound was the olink of falling hammers. The villain had to die and rose to. the occasion. Throwing up his arms, he exolaimed: "I die perforated "by a thousand bullets, and I take the opportunity of cursing with my last breath the niggardly government that supplies its army with air guns-" Great minds running in the same groove. Mr Harris, European and meteorologist, and Dr Springthbrpe, both suggest ({hat the cause of influenza is tha Krakatoa eruption. : . •.:.-. The ' Melbourne Telegraph 'says : —While tbo average expenditure per head for drink in Great Britain is £B 13s ; in New Zealand, £3 4s6dv in New South Wales, £4 53 Bd;in Viqtpria it is £6 Ca 7d, or nearly double that of Great Britain and New Zealand^ and nearly 50 per oent greater than that of New South Wales! Mme. Albani has lost some jawalß from her 'hotel in Chicago. Among them one of the mosfcjpreoious was a large emerald, surrounded by diamonds, the gift of the late Earl Dudley, 18 years ago, upon the oocasion of Mme. Albani's first Bppe arance in London. Other missing jewels are a catseye set in diamonds \ (Etnicdto her by the Duke of Westminster, l cthree or four -valuable rings. .There are two groups of spots now visible on the sun. One of them is about 100,000 miles in length. jgjjA late number of the Amerioan 'Engineering News,' received by the Sbn Franoieco mail, gives a. long and laudatory account of the New Zealand Railways, and the engines and carriages built at Addington, with copious illustrations. A tragic incident is reported from the village of Proschovitsakh, in Kielce, Poland, in the cemetery of' that village, a few days ago, a. physician interred. The funeral took place in the forenoon, and as soon as the ceremony. was over the sorrowing relatives returned to their homes. In the afternoon of the same day a second interment took place, the new grave being in the immediate vicinity of the one which had been filled in a few hours previously While the funeral service was proceeding, the mourners were horrified to hear a. succession of strange subterranean noises. Before they could recover from their astonishment, these sounds wore followed by a series of half-stifled shrieks, which plainly emanated from an adjacent grave. The officiating priest at once stopped the service, and the gravediggers, assisted as far as possible by the bystanders, set to work to reopen the grave. When the coffin was reached it was broken open, and it was seen in a moment that the unfortunate doctor had been buried alive. Succour had come too late, and he had perished from suffocation while the work of rescue was actually in progress. The deceased was found to have lumed upon his left side. In the agony of suffocation he had bitten his fingers to the bone, and had knocked his head against the sides of his horrible prison until his temples were covered with bruises. When we heard that Mr Percival'a letter was published by the ' Times ' we realised the change which thirty years have made. Some time in the sixties Mr Crosbie Ward wa3 Postmaster General— no relation he was of the present popular holder of that office. Being in London on public business, and notioing an incorrect reference to the Colony, he wrote to the * Times ' to tet the matter right. To his surprise the editor refused to publish the letter, giving him to understand that he did not led bound to inseit communitions reflecting on his leading articles. The atorms of thirty yours march of progress have taught Jupiter Tonans better manners. — ' New Zealand Time?.' In July, 1860 a danger menaced the townabip of Danville, ia Canada, wh:ch ihteateued more dea hs than are enacted by many a pitched battle. A van containing two thousand pounds of gunpowder had caught grefrom an ecgiue spark, sud waß smouldering tovvSrda fin a-vful explosion. People left their homes when tlie news was spread abroad — with that lightning rapidity which ghastiv ntw3 ever has. Ie seemed certain that ere many rcinute3 had passed a Ehock would oocur compared with which the most terrible storm would be as obiid's play, ani wLiob would hurl into nothingness life far and near. Fortunately there was with the consignment of powder a sergeant's guard of the liifle Brigade, and in that guard was a mau prompt and brave to do and dare all. 'iha van had, directly the fira was noticed, been detached from the train and run into a siding. Timothy O'Hea ran to it, opened the door, and hunted abcui amiJst the burning wood till he found where the danger origiaated, This discovered, ho hurried to a tank, obtained water, aud then, whsu any moment might have hurled him into eter^iry, with steady hand and read.y brain proceeded to drown the fir 9. Tim was awarded a Victoria Cross. American papers contain some interesting particulars regarding the late Hon. W. A, Wood, of reaping and mowing-machine fame, who died on January 15th, at the ripe age of 76 years. Mr WooJ was originally a blaok" smith, and subsequently went into business, at Hoosiek Falls, with Mr John White, under the name of White and Wood, and continued until 1852, when he engaged in business with Mr J. Russell Parsons, and tho firm name of Wood and Parsons, the firm having pnrohssed the light for the State of New York, to manufacture reaping and mowing machines. Mr Wood set about making improvements, which finally resulted in the production of the maohine which ia so well known. In 1852 only two machines were made; thus the business inoreasedfrom two machines in 1852 to some 90,000 in 1891. The first mowing maohine of American manufacture ever introduced in a foreign oountry. according to our American informant, was a Walter A. Wood mower, over thirty-five years ago, on tbe farm of the Prince Consort at Windsor, and this was the beginning of the immense foreign trade now carried on by the Walter A. Wood Company. Mr Wood had undoub edly been the makirg of Hossick Falls, wbioh grew with the growth of hia works, until from a hamlet of a few hundred inhabitants it developad into a town of 7,000. He used bis fortune freely on religious and charitable undertakings, and his death seems to have been mourned in the district a3 a public oalamity. At the Chrysanthemum Show lately held at York, England, special notice was taken of the American aloe, exhibited in flower by Lord Deramore. As there are some erroneous notions abroad respecting the flowering of this plant, the following extracts were published in the G,arden.ers,' Chronicle: -"I can't here forbear taking notice of a vulgar error or two relating to the large American, aloe, which is that it never flowers until it. is one : hundred years old, which is a mistake, since we have seen several of them flower in England, some of which were known not to exceed fifty years old, &c." . . . . . " Another common error is that when, the flower opens it makes ft veport like that of firing a gu,n •, this ia sufficiently confuted by all those who have been where these plants have flowered ; but that may have arisen through its flowering causing a great noise amongst the neighbouring inhabitants, most of whom usually repair to see it as a thing that rarely happens and as a great curiosity.' Ckrtaini/x the best meclioine known is Sander and Sons Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminently powerful effects in coughs, oolds, influenza— the seliqf is instantaneous, In serious cases, and accidents of all kinds be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it 13 the safest lemecly — no swelling, ad inflammation. Like surprising eSeqta produced in Qtpup, diphtheria, bronqhitis, inflammation of tho lungs, swellings, etc ; diarrhoea, dysentry, diseases of the kidneys ana^ urinary organs. Iv use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe! patronised by his Majesty the King of Italy; crowned with medal aud diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust taitbia approved article And rejeot all others.

Adium^ Drapebt,— We commeuoe to-day , to show our importations for the autumn of , 1892, and shall b 9 receiving new goods every few days. The dress materials are most varied in style and texture, come o! the robes 1 being stiikingly handsome and effective ; pur reputation for firat-olasa dressmaking is ' established beyond all question, it being ad- , , mitted that for a real satisfactory costume , , no one can equal us. We solicit the favor of ( a visit from our customers, end especially . : from ladies who have not yet entrusted us ] j with their orders. — E. J. Warner and Co. , Clearing Lines —9s 6d boys suits for 5s 6d ; , ' 3s 6d boys Oxford shirts with collars for Is . 3d; Is 6d boys' bats (straw) for 9d; knicker , trousers from Is 6d; men's trousers and vests , ' from 9s 9d.— Jas Armstrong St. Co- \ We have a splendid stock of Manchester . goods, comprising calicoes, sheetings, tab- ( lings, flannels, hollands, &c, all marked very ( low, inspection invited. Jas Armstrong & : Co. I We have just opened another case of gir's* ; and women's hosiery in all our well known j makes. This is a line we make a specialty , of, no rubbish but good sound articles.^- , Jas Armstong & Co. ' j Just purchased a lot of ladies satnp'e un- , derolothing, which we will offer at a large 3 reduotion on wholesale prices ; come and see , them.— Jas Armstrong & Co. i The Assistants' Association appeal to the | public to show their sympathy with the , Wednesday half-holiday movement by shopping before one o'clock on Wednesdays. — * ■ Advfc. ,