Local and General.

Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9619, 23 April 1900, Page 4

Local and General.

One of the Comtnandel ho pital nrrs-s is suffering 1 from ent> ric fever. fc>t. Alhans Cricket Club has secured both the cricket championships Three pieces of old silve -—pre-Rerorma tion chalices —recently sold :i London for Capt -hi Robsrts, formerly of the Kia Ora iucce ds Capt""n Barwe 11. in the command (f the s s. Fa'con. Something like 1,000 000 ft of railway slfepers s-e. awaitiug shipment io South Afrira from Hobarfc. Captxn Barwell, who skippered the s s Falcon, has sever \ his connection wi'h the Northern Company. A private telephone wire from the War Office to Windsor Castle conveys to the Queen news from the fiont. Mr George Ros-, of Palmerston, has h n appointsd by tho Agricultural Department mana er of the Levin State farm.

The number of person killed by wiW aniirals and snabes in India is appalling. Last year it was more than 25,000. , Our Waihi correspondent wires j—The volunteer rifle shooting match, marriofl v. single, was held »t the range this afternoon. The match wa9 woo by the benedicts. On Sunday morning ,a very beaufful waterspout was been between the breakwater at New Plymouth and Waitara, Spurious sovereigns- aae in circulation in Dunedin. A gilded farthing of George IV. was passed as a currant coin recently. As a new source of revenue, the French Government have adoptad the cultivation of fruit trees along the national high roads. Boxing the ears of so'diers and recruits is f o common a practice in the Austrian army that ?n many cates the hearing has been impaired. . A sum of not lees than £50,000^00 is declared to be lyinw at the present moment in the banks of Scotland in the shape ot unclaimed deposits. In the old ntruggling days, miners at Waihi refused to p.cc.pt shares in the ecm» panyinlieu of wages. The cVance is not likely 'o come again \ . ; The other day a Canterbury desler bought 50fO cheep at 14"« per head, and, without removing them, immediately rtsold thorn 11 Is advance, netting £250. Mr McG-owan has been connected with Ilie mining industiy for many years anl! we have strong hopes that he will prove himself an active Minis' it —Grey Star. Percy Gilctrist, a well-Laovyn authority upjn ' 'on and steel matrer. 0, was recently 'eolared by a specif'ju>y to be of unsound mind and unfit to control his affairs. Ex-Inspector Broham was presented with a handsome silver salver by the mem 1 ers of the C.nt^rbury and North Otago police force on his retirement from <h- service

A company with 10,000, CO, dollar.nominal capit :1 has been formed in New York to manufacture liquid sir in commercial quantities forhosp:ta!s and for motive power. Mrs Catherine Smith, whose husbatid ha? b joine an h bitual drunkard, is suing Columbus City, Kansas, for £15,C00 damages for neglecting to enforce the . prohibition law -i . The Southland Times undersf" .Jids that -Major Keddel is likely to fill the do -ition of Stipendiary Magistrate at Invercargil) pending Ithe appointment of a permanent magistrate. • In several Jhardware trades the workmen have been thrown out of employment' owing to the exorbitant pricp of coal, ccnsequeni upan'thej scarcity in tje Durham dis'rics and eke-Where. " . . Bendigti's champion dividend payer is the Garden Qully mine, which has paid the, shareholders £1,000,437. There was a time when many shareholders forfeited rather than pay a 3dojll. . In doing our very best to be gco 1 ourselv ?■ W6 bring 1 tremendous influence to bear on veryone; aioand us. No one can meet fi T-anwhoiransp: rently and oons*~jn'ly tries ■';* do hia duty without beinqf either spurred or shamed by the encounter, ■ -'.■- --'- . .The 'VBurning Mount»in" : of Montet, in Avejronj France,. which is often mistaken for an active volcano, because a pillar' of cloud rises fromitiby day and a, pi' Jar of fire by night, is in realUy a coal mine which; has been burning for several years. ■; .■■,:■.:. It is curious to reflect that Southarap'.m, the great portwhich now sees agroatEng ;sh army embarking to fight in ESouth Af _ca, witnessed the embarkation of a great English 'army * > fight at Crecy. and later st Poictiers, five and a half. centi r"""s ajo. . The steamship booklet -published by SiDonald iCurrie put the n- mber of, .fighting Boers at 52 O'O some monfhs since ; thi; was not counting mercenaries and disloyal Dutch The calculation was rejardei in well info. Jaed quarters as a trustworthy one. : The latt st consumption treatment is the Orotte met hod which consi-ts in driving by me ns of a hitherto unsuspected force in electricity, formaldehyde, one of the most powerful germicides known, into the lun^s from the out°ide of the body

Ihiring the hearing of a palmistiy case at New Plymouth, the"; .'prosecutor..'£ ergeant Stagpoole) statecl: that only wmkminded! girJs patronised fortune tellers. Thia -defendant contradicted this saying that adults of both sexes were her principal pj,t'onsi . .3 herd is said to be a tribe in Centra) Africi Btnongsi whom speakers in public debates; are ie quired r« stand on one le, 1, while speaking, and to speak only a- long as they can •so ■ stand. ■' Pity a simi'ar regulation is not in force in thia country. It would reduce four and a half hour harangties to four and a half minutes.- _ \ : Eefeiring to the attemptad a. s: ssinat.ion of the Prince of "Wales',-the Dunedin Star, in the course of a leading ar.icle. points out thai; " tbe Belgian people ate deploring the (let d and rating their newspapers, but they might fitly bear.in ,mind.that a, country generally has'as good newspapers as it desei veis: when public opinion is sound, unsound newspapers will not flourish."--;- — The Senior football cluds require waking up. The True Blues had a. very enthusiastic meeting on Friday evening, and it would be as well if the other club 3 followed their example. At the above meeting -the following offiders were t lech 1: W. Smith, capt ?n; E. Mckit, vic--cpt:in; .T. Car enter^Efcretary and treasurer; delegate t > the Union, W F^nshaw. Ihe alove mentioned, with B. Towprs-and'Wv Brokeiishire, will form the Coimittee. „:;.:' >