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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8789, 27 May 1890, Page 2

Mr William Courtney has boon lecturing in Kent, says the European Mail, with very good results in" getting young men with capital to go out to the colony.

Regular monthly meeting of the Ngamotu Lodge 2053, E.C., to-night at 7.30. Visiting brethren cordially invited. — Advt.

Anyone in want of first-class dairy stock will do well to bear in mind the sale of Mr H. N. Rowe's dairy cattle by Mr Newton King to-morrow, when a really choice lot of: cows will be submitted to the hammer. The sale takes place on Mr Rowe's farm Hcnwood Road.

Mr Ballance, who has been down with "la grippe," has got over the worst of it, says the Wanganui Herald, and is now well again though unable at present to get out.

A discovery has been made which shows that the love of our ancestors for drinks spiced with cinnamon was fully justified. What were not the Dutch ready to do to procure cinnamon and other spices for their mulled wines, and what wonders of navigation did they not accomplish in their lumbering vessels in order to fi'l the spice boxes of their housewives ? Dr. Chamberland, M. Pasteur's chief assistant, has just discovered that cinnamon is fatal to the typhoid microbe, which must infest the sluggish waters of the Netherlands.

The young lad Harold Crawford, who g)t his right arm fractured on Monday, through being thrown from a horse, passed a fair night at the Hospital. It is thought that the arm can be saved.

The local horses Vendor, Eileen, and Jenny were brought home i" 'om Wanganui on Monday evening. '

Gambling is carried on to a very great extent in Wellington, and the Nevj Zealand Times declares that in one nouse alone at " hazard" over £100 a day changes hands, and at cards, among what are known as the upper classes, over double that amount is daily at stake. The usual charge made by keepers of gambling houses, it is said, is Is per player per hour, and the keeper of one particular room will think he has made a bad day's work if he does not clear £4 to £6, besides what he may win from a throw in now and again. °

The Deputy Official Assignee in Bankruptcy, Mr R. G. Bauchope, left to-day (Tuesday) for Opunake to hold the first general meeting of creditors in the separate and joint estates of Read Bros., flaxmillers. The meeting will be held tomorrow.

Dr. Gault left en route for England by the afternoon train to-day (Tuesday). The doctor made many friends in the pursuit of his professional duties during the short time he was here, and also in his pursuit of outdoor games, especially cricket, We regret, along with his otherjf riends, his departure from amongst us, and wish him bon voyage^ and prosperity in the future.

A somewhat amusing incident occurred at St. James's Theatre in London. After a most successful performance, Mrs Langtry stepped forward to Bpeak the epilogue of "As You Like It," and when she had uttered the words, " If I were a woman I would kiss us many of you as had beards that pleased me," a deep manly voice from the orchestra stalls was heard saying, "Hear, hear." Mrs Langtry was amused, the company behind her tittered and a light ripple of laughter ran all over the house. The foregoing story is true enough, but of course it is not new, says a contemporary. In Birmingham once, when iVjdme. Modjeska had repeated the s une lines, a grimy occupant of the gallery called out, " Just step up 'ere, miss."

Typhoid fever is still prevalent in New Zealand. During April the deaths from typhoid fever increased from 6to 11. Of these 7 occurred in Wellington; 2 each in Auckland and Dunedin; influenza caused one death in April in each of the four boroughs. Diphtheria - caused one death in Wellington. The mortality from diarrhceal diseases was much the greater in Wellington, namely, 7 deaths, all of children, against 1 death in Auckland and 2 in Dunedin.

The Star, a town junior football club, journeyed to Waitara on Monday, and played the Juniors there. The game re. suited in a win for the Waitara bo™, who m*i tore* trio? (5 points; to aetbjog,