NOT NEEDED TO-DAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8704, 18 August 1906, Page 4

NOT NEEDED TO-DAY.

But what about tomorrow. Coughs, colds and croup come into ev&rv Lome, so be prepared by' having Chamberlain's Cough Remedy constantly oa hand. 'Tis the housewife's friend. 6

William Hornby and Thomas M'Namar* were committed for trial on charges of theft of rabbitskins and breaking and entering the premises ot Merry and Company, Dunedin. The Christchurch. Amateur Rowing Club's bazaar was crowded last night, and excellent business was done. The Vhistling competition takes place tonight, and the baaaar will be continued on Monday night. A man who had not been before the Court for a long time appeared at the Lyttelton Police Court this morning to answer a charge of drunkenness. Mr J.- T. Brioe, the presiding Justice, convicted and discharged him. Captain Edwin's weather forecast, telegraphed at noon to-day, » as follows :— " Strong winds to gale from between west and south-west and south; glass rise; tides high; tea heavy; rain probable and weather cold." t , The 6\icce«s of 'th.c concert giTsen recently in the Lyttelton Oddfellows' Hall *by the Royal Artillery Entertainers and their friends, in aid of the Lyttelton Casualty Ward, hae caused th© promoters to decide to repeat it on September 18 for tie benefit of the same institution. j A man named E- Williams, a wellknown bookmaker, was some time ago fined for 'trespass, ***& <&* lio!t P B^He was found this morning by Detective Cox on the Riccaiton racecourse, eind arrested on a warrant that has been out since. He made a desperate struggle for freedom, but. was secured *B.nd brought to the police station. He was afterwards sent to Lyttelton gaol. The success of the pipe band contest on January 1 and 2, subsidised by the New Zealand Government, and promoted by the Scottish Society of New- Zealand, ifi practically assured. Five pipe bands have already intimated their intention of competing, and several more have opened negotiations. It looks as if the " Hundred Pipers an 1 a' an 5 a' " jrere to be literally realised. The Mayor has received a letter, dated at Auckland, from Messrs M. Iwasaki and M. Sakomoto, the Japanese touriste who were in Christchurch last month. They state that they had just finished their journey through New Zealand, and intended to leave Auckland in a few -days for Honolulu, and would then go on to Yokohama. They were deeply impressed with the magnificent hospitality of the people of New Zealand, especially in Christchurch, and with the unique scenery of the country. "The heartiest recollections of our visit to New Zealand," they conclude, " will never part from us, now and forever." Representatives from ell parts oi the United Kingdom assembled at Ipswich et the end of June for the annual congress of the "Women's Co-operative Guile!. The president eai<3 women must prove their strength, and work with, patience for the, great awakening of men to the crying needs of women. They must fight the battle on their own hearths with their own menfolk. Speaking of the Sweated Industries Exhibition, the president said it bad opened their eyes to the condition of home work, but how few had realised the power of co-operation to remedy many of these eviLs. It was reported (fchtft during the year forty-one newbranches of the Guild had been formed, making a- total of 436 branches ans 22,077 members. An, unknown admirer of Miss Vesta (Victoria, a popular London' music-hall artist, has, (through a solicitor, made the lady an offer of marriage with the prospect of a settlement in her favour of <a fortune of £25,000. The would-be bridegroom made iris proposal quite anonymously, the lady herself being kept in ignorance of his name. In* the letter received by the solicitor the writer 6aid he had for "some considerable time been a great admirer of Miss Vesta Victoria. He had found also that his nephew and heir hod the same Regard for her himself, and was anxious to meet her." Following this came a proposal for an interview, and there was a reference to the sum of £25,000. Miss Victoria refused to consider the | proposal for an interview, for in a post*- J Boript to the letter was the following oonaition, which she could not enter- ! tain : — " Contingent upon the lady in ' question accepting this offer it wouM be necessary for her to give up the, stage as a, profession." ' A parallel to the case of the live frog ffiocovered in a piece of stone in Auckland last week comes from Windsor, New South Wales. While some work-, aen were demolishing an old building known as Hapkins' Mill, and situated in George Street, Windsor, they made a peculiar discovery. ; Embedded between two solid pieces of masonry, strongly cemented together, in portion of the foundation, \ they found a gigantic frog, measuring sin/ by 4in, of a bright green colour. It was in a lethargic condition, and did not show any signs of animation until it had been in the sun for a couple of hours, when it made feeble attempts to hop away. It waa an object of curiosity until it was appropriated by seme Bohcolboys. The building was erected seventy-five years ago. One peculiar phase of the discovery was that in the stones' where the frog was found was a J recess juet large enough to contain the i body of the frog snugly, but no larger. \ A , remarkable operation was per- . formed a few weeks ago at Dundee Royal Infirmary. A boy thirteen years of age was. admitted with an ugly • wound in the wall of his heart, caused through falling oh a hayfork. Carefully following th© course of. the. wound the surgeon, sewed up the puncture, and the stitched heart is (says the "Leader") reported to be doing its lluty successfully. The operation is not quite without precedent, for there have been a few cases of somewhat similar character in England within the last ten years.i In June, 1903, the surgeons at the London Hospital accomplished an operation which became famous. They placed three stitches in the heart of John Long, who .had been terribly wounded. Though at first the local doctor gave Long only half an hour to live, the operations proved successful, and. Long recovered. Twelve months later Dr Someryille, of Leek, sewed up the wounds in the heart of a man •who had stabbed himself twice with a penknife. Here, again, the patient recovered. A few successful- operations of the kind have been reported in Pari6, Berlin and St Petersburg. In November, 1903, in Berlin, a doctor extracted a bullet from a young girl's heart.