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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10614, 14 May 1896, Page 2

The Post and Telegraph officers' subscription to the Brunner Fund amounts t» £879, and will bo closed at £900. Mr Samuel Costal], Government Printer, has resigned from Menday next. No reason is assigned. The Education Board mot the High School Board of Governors to day to confer over the question of scholarships. I The ceremony of crowning the Czar of Russia takes place to-day (Thursday) at Moscow. At tho Mutual Improvement Society meeting this evening, a debate will tako place on the question " Whether tbe sources of wealth should be nationalised ?" The Rev. C. H. Garland will introduco the debate. As a result of the late rumpus on the Auckland Education Board, Mr Udy has resigned tho chairmanship, and will not again bo a candidate. From advice received in Auckland the Mr Seymour Thome Georgo, it appears as if Sir George Grey has abandoned his intention of returning to the colony. The Hon. J. G. Ward addressed a large meeting at Hawera on Wednesday evening, speaking for two-and-a-balf hours. At the conclusion a vote of thanks and confidence was carried. There aro fifty_ cases of typhoid in the Auckland Hospital, from town and country, and the authorities intimate that they cannot tako further cases, as the accommodation is absorbed. The abnormal increase of typhoid is unexplained. A correspondent of the St. James' Gazotto says— " I often hear English people vainly endeavouring to pronounce the name Kruger. Sometimes it ia ' Krooger' (hard g), sometimes ' Krojer.' The South African Dutch g is more like a guttural h than anything else, and Kruger is'pronounced in the Trausvaal something like ' Kreehyer.' " Judge Denniston, who held a sitting of tho Bankruptcy Court at Wellington on Wednosday, told one applicant for discharge that a more deliberate attempt to swindle a particular creditor he had never seen. The bankrupt, whose name was W. F. Smart, had paid all the creditors except Nelson, Moate & Co., who refused to make a reduction in their account, while the others did. He had also spent £38 in supplies for his family. Tho application was refused. Mr W. A. Collis writes :— "In tho hurry of writing out the letter I sent you yosterday I omitted a few words at the end of it, which somewhat spoiled the meaning of it. Instead of finishing off abruptly in the way it did. it should have read : ' The Government, who have treated us very shabbily over the whola harbor bfasiness, repairs to the wharf, and railway charges to the town included, instead of being brought to book over it are accorded a vote of confidence.' " A special general meeting of tho Amateur Athletic Club was held in tfeo Council Chambers on Wednesday night, the principal business being the consideration and adoption of rules. There was a large attendance. Mr J. Paul presided. Rules were adopted, and it was decided bavo two hundred copies printed. Mr Harley, the hon secretary, read a letter from the New Zealand Association ,r«lative to the re-instatoment of professionals in this district. The letter was considered satisfactory. The Government steamer Hinemoa returned to the Bluff, from the Auckland Islands on Wednesday morning. Captain Neil took special observations to verify the position of the Islands, and found them substantially correct as laid down in the chart. Tha only wreckage found was a spar and a piece of copper sheeting stamped "Pascoe, Grenfeil and SonSj" which is believed to be from tho Marie Alice, homeward bound for Sydney. When landing at Adams Island a boat containing nine capsized, but all managed to scramble ashore, ashore, some after a hard struggle. According to the Post, the opinion is held by more than ono person in Wellington that the " ghost which has been startling some people at Newtown of late has been produced by means of a lantern provided with a specially constructed slide. One gentleman states that he has known of some very peculiar tricks played in the Old Country with such apparatus, the representation of a figure in white being produced at the will of the opprator. Since the publicity given to the aifair, " playing ghost " has become quite a fashionable amusement with the youth of Newtown, and the demand for white sheets in some households is enormously on the increase. Sleeping and dreaming in a barber's chair cost a man the tip of his nose in Napier the other day, says the Telegraph. The man dropped into the barber's shop to get a shrve, and as his face was being lathered fell asleep. The barber aontinued to shave the sleeping customer gently. Suddenly the sleeper struck out right and left with his fists, presumably at some dreamland foe. His right fist struck the razor and drove the keen blade through the end of his nose. This ! awakened him with a start, and after a j hasty explanation the man picked up the ! piece of his nose and ran to a local doctor's. The medico stitched the piece of nose on where it belonged, and there is a fair show of its growing in its place, or j more or less in place. The Hokitika Guardian says :— An "expert" who announced himsolf as employed by the Ziman syndicate arrived in town some time on Saturday, introduced himself to several of our leading men, treated them to champagne and discoursed fluently on the mining prospects of the West Coast. He cashed several cheques drawn on the Greymouth branch of one of the banks, and on Monday morning quietly slipped away. About Tuesday it transpired that he had no banking account and was unknown in Greymouth. The police are now looking for the distinguished visitor, but as he has got somewhere about four days' start the chances of his being traced are about as slender as are the chances of those who cashed the cheques ever seeing their money again. Positive Cure for Neuralgia. — The Rev R. Chew, Free Church Minister, of Norwich writes :—": — " A New Connexion Minister — a friend of mme — suffered severely from Tic for some time. He took one or two of youi ' Anti-Neuralgic Pills,' and next morning he was quite well. The ' Quinine Pills have been of great service in our family.' Sold by all chemists and storekeepers. Post free from the proprietor, J. Baxter, Chemist Christchurch, for 18 postage stamps. — Advt Mark Twain's toast, "The ßabies" :— "We have all been babies — Heaven bless them— to make them healthy and strong," use Dr. Kirks' farinaceous food. Wholesale by Burgess, Fraser and Co.— Adhv