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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10616, 16 May 1896, Page 2

The Brunner Relief Fund amounts to about £24,000. The Northern Steamship Company has declared a dividend of 6 per cent. Mr and Mrs Samuel, who have been on a visit touth during tho past fortnight, returned home on Friday night. The Mayor has received a wire from the Brunner Conference that all moneys are to be paid to the Public Trustee. It will be seen by advertisement in another column that a display of the noble art of self-defunce will be given at tho Alexandra Hall on Thursday evening next. A medical man at Invercargill was fined £20 i day or two ago, and bound overf to keep the peace for assaulting a nt girl with a candle-stick, half the G::c to , o to the girl, whose teeth were loosened by the blow. The pioneer vessel of the foreign coal trado sailed from tVestport on Thursday morning. The barque Cynosure, with 1137 tons of coal, drawing 18 fe^t, left for Valparaiso, and waa taken out with out a hitch. A writ for £1000 was issned at Christchurch this morning against T. E. Taylor, on behalf of Captain Popham, for making statements on a public platform at Gore, regarding Coker'i Hotol. The alleged libel appeared in the Mataura Endgn, published at Gero. Weather permitting, the Hawera bowlers will arrive here on Monday morning to play a friendly game, and, as no selection of rinks has boon made, it is requested that as many as possible of the New Plymouth Club roll up to meet them in the match which commences at 1 o'clock sharp. A Secretary for Ireland nowadays must often think with a certain sympathy of Brigbam Young's reply. The Mormon chief was asked by a United States commissioner whether he wai a Christian. '{ Yes, sir," was the reply. " Then you acknowledge that if you are hit on one cheek, you ought to turn the other?" " I always do, sir, but if he hit* that, I give him hell.' 1 Mr J. Ginnivap, a resident of Benalla (Vie.) has experienced a thrilling adventur« with an old man kangaroo. Along with two other young fellows and a number of dogs, he set out to capture the animal, which has for a long time past defied all the smartcot game hunters of Greta. At length the kangaroo was found, and run in among the limbs of « fallen tree. Here a fight took place, tho kangaroo ultimately clutching Ginnivan between bis fore legs. A bcuftlo, lasting about 25 minutes, ensued, with tho result that Ginnivan became released, sustaining little or no injury, though not until tho ham strings of the kangaroo had been cut with a knife by one of Ginnivun's mates. Trooper Dreyer, who was the life and soul of the wounded Jamesoniana at the Kragersdorp hospital, had a story which he used to tell with a naughty little twinkle in his eye." As thus :—": — " You see, boys, it was just at the beginning of the business, and we had been fighting, and I got badly hit. Jameson missed me at once. Calling a trooper to his side, the doctor demanded, in a hoarse undertone, where the I waa. ' Dreyer, sir?' 'Yes — Dreyer, sir.' 'Sorry, sir, but Dreyer's been Bhotl' 'What— Dreyer shot ! And in his first engagement, too ! Then it's all over. Up with tho white flog.' And then the band played." The Times of March 30th published a full summary of the report of tho medical superintendents of the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board on the use of antitoxin in diphtheria during the year 1895. The total number of cases treated with antitoxin was 2182, of which Gls died, representing a mortality of 28-1 per cent. The drug was principally used only in severe cases. The mortality in the whole number of casos of diphtheria was 22-5 per cent., as against 29" 6 per cent, in 1894; and the report attributes to the use of antitoxin a great reduction in the mortality of cases brought under treatment on the first and second day of illness, and the lowering of the combined general mortality to a point below that of any former year. The value of antitoxin in the treatment of diphtheria is, in the opin;»a of the medical superintendents of the hospitals, sufficiently demonstrated by the statistics and clinical observations set forth in the report. At an unreserved sale of Maori curios held in Christchurch last week at the rooms of Messrs Bowman and Sons, competition for some of tho lots was keen. Amongst the purchases made were some on behalf of the British Museum. The prices realised for some of the principal articles were as under : Piu Piu, a shoulder cloak, 25s ; korowai of flax, £6 ss ; canoe model of Weka Taua or ancient war canoe, £4 ; mere mere Pounamou from Parihaka, £15 10s ; Patu Rakau, or wooden mere, £2 Is; greenstone adze, £2 9s ; Tiki from Waihi, £12 ; Pou Whenua, a carved inlaid sword like weapon, £3 2s 6d ; carved stern post of canoe found on scene of Te Rauparaha'a massacre at Kaiapoi, £3 ; wooden taiaha formerly owned by Wetere te Rerenga, £5 10s ; Tewa Tewa, w»apon resembling battle axe, £3 ss ; Patn Paraoa, £2 2s ; baler, £1 ; Tiki from Mokau, £7 ss ; large adze dug up at Makikihi, £7 ; Maori spade, £5 10s ; stone adze and handle, £1 16s. Croup is a terror to young mothers. To post them concerning the first symptoms, and treatment is the object of this item. The first indication of croup is hoarseness. In a child who is subject to croup it may be taken as i sure sigu of the approach of an attack. Following this hoarseness is a peculiar, rough cough. If Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is given as soon as the child becomes hoarse or even after the rough cough has appeared it will prevent thi^-attack. It has never been known to fail. For sale by New Plymouth Cooperative Society.— Advt. Mark Twain's toast, " The Babies" :— "We have all been babies — Heaven bloss them— to make them healthy and strong," use Dr. Kirks' farinaceous food. Wholesalo by Burgess, Fraser and Co. - Advt. The Band of Hope Union Musical Festival will be held in the Alexandra Hall on the 26th June. The first united practice will be held on Monday night in the Liardet-street school room at 7 o'clock. Full practice of adults and children requested,— 'Adtt,