GENERAL NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1671, 5 March 1890, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

It is estimated that there are in Franca some 800,000 holders of Panama obliga- ' fcions of one sort or another. The man who invented the return ball, an ordinary wooden ball, with a rubber firing attached to pull it back, made 1,000,000d01* f rom it. A parliamentary paper has been issued containing reports prepared by her Majesty's representatives in the capitals and chief towns of Europe, in reply to h circular addressed them by Lord Salisbury, jiving information as to what lawa are in force in the various states of Europe with regard to the carrying of firearms by private ' persona in populous places. These,, reports igo tp show that of the 24 states . comprised, in the Continent of Europe there are stringent laws regulating the carrying of offensive weapons in all of jA| theni save. in Denmark, the Duchy q^B Balden, theDaohy of Coburg, Montenegro^ the 1 Netherlands, Norway and SwedJnjM Servia, and Switzerland* In Turkey^ regulations on the subject exist, ; but the provisions 'are very elastic, and are seldom oarried put. , !( . A young minister of Bervie at one tim.e asked the advice- of the local horse-dealer as to the k'indof horse he should t>uy for his gig, and- was advised to entrust 1 the purchWfl l to »~> practical dealer. BuVthe; young man :thooghfc that, with the informs} tioa hfe ; had acquired, he oould selecfdtfd for -himself* , Accordingly, at the..fiMt(faiß he bought ac horse. While driviogrjtvoflt one day soon after he, met the.de%l,er, an 4 at onoe drew up, exclaiming, " Wett^Mv Wallace, what do^yoti'thiak oiTmy. nurohase?" -•« It^looks • weel -Mtidij bSS doabt,^ replied the dealer, eurveyinlf'Vße l animal oritically,; V. but it has be a n in the-" service ;of a 'minister afore, or ekeit's religious. " r . " Religious, a religions horse f Ah, yon rogtie, you're joking m 9," cried thetaTnwter.*; ; "Nafeth : Tm no'jikin'," replied the" dealer- " B'a easy to see that the b/east'h^s a' habit of gaun d»on on it% knees, "• Th& horse was broken*

THE quarterly meeting of the Licensing Committee for the Borough of Lawrence was - held in the Courthouse yesterday at noon. P. Present - Messrs M. Fraer (Chairman), G. • J Jeffery, G. Walker, and W. Chalmers. Transfers of licenses were granted from H. A. Wioks to Ronald Montgomery for the Victoria Hotel, and from James Barclay to S. P. Craig for the Railway Hotel. —This was all the business. The annual meeting of the United Otago District of the Ancient Order of Foresters was held on Friday last at the District Chambers, Stuart-street, Dunedin. The annual report showed that the total number of members on the rolls was 1,455, being a net gain of 116 for the year ; while the total funds of the courts and district was fc23,30i 13s 3d, being an increase of £881 for the year. P.O.R. Bro. J. B. Pope represented Court Star of Tuapeka at the meeting. A IjABGB number of people assembled at the station on Monday to witness the departure of the Venerable Archdeacon and Mrs Beaumont by the afternoon train. The run Home will be made in the lonic, which sails from Lyttelton on Thursday, and, we believe, it is the intention of the Archdeacon, after business concerns have been attended to, to cross over to Ireland, and subsequently to Scotland and Wales, visiting in all three countries scenes and places that bring up reminiscences associated with many years ago. OUR Roxburgh correspondent writes :— The Hercules Co. washed up one run of boxes on Friday evening, the result for the week's work being 108ozs of gold. This gives 2480zs for the fortnight's work.— The Dunedin steam dredge, at work on the river at Coal Creek, also washed up at the end of last week, obtaining 35o'zs of gold. The yield would have been in excess of lOOozs were it not for one or two mishaps to the machinery, causing a loss of time, which occurred.— The Molyneux is at a very low level just now. Indeed, there is every probability of her being lower this coming winter than she has been since '61. AT a meeting of the Clutha County Council on Friday last, it was resolved, on the motion of Captain Mackenzie, " that the settlers interested having subscribed £200 towards the erection of a bridge at tbe Tapanui railway station road on the Pomahaka river, this Council agrees to contribute £100, and ask the Tuapeka County to contribute a like sum, and, upon that County agreeing to do so, that the Government be requested to grant £ for £ upon the sum so contributed by the two counties - viz., £400 ; and that if possible that subsidy be advanced, so that the construction of this most desirable work may be proceeded with forthwith." The engineer forwarded a plan of the bridge, which will be 137 ft in length, in four spans, the piers to be either stone or concrete, the estimated cost of the structure being £700. Hbnby George arrived in Auckland by the Mariposa on Saturday. He was welcomed by representatives of the Anti-Poverty Society, the Progressive League, and the Kni&hts of Labour, and an address was presented by the Rev. Mr Gualliver. Henry George, in reply, said that the progress of his ideas had excelled all expectation in America. He intends to return to New Zealand shortly, his first course of lectures being devoted to the regeneration of New South Wales, and most probably the adjoining colonies of Victoria and Queensland. Sydney is the stronghold in the colonies of the disciples of the Georgian land and labour theories, a paper advocating what is known as the single-tax having been established there for some time. Whatever objections may be raised to the revolutionary gospel which Mr George is engaged in preaching, no one doubts his honesty of purpose or his force and originality as a writer and thinker. It is needless to add that the bulk of his followers are those upon whom the practice of the doctrines laid down in " Progress and Poverty " would entail no sacrifice —quite the other way. i The discovery of two cases of leprosy at Dunedin and Auckland are perplexing the local charitable aid bodies, who in their despair have asked the intervention of the Government. The responsibility of any public body authorising the introduction of a leper into a publio institution is certainly a very grave one, and if attempted would certainly arouse a very strong feeling of indignation throughout the colony. But in Dunedin there is actually a member of the medical faculty who insists that the terrible malady is harmless, owing to certain climatic conditions that prevail in this colony. But the fact of the matter is the combined opinion of all the medicos in the colony is not worth the proverbial tinker's curse on such a subject. In the matter of leprosy, which has completely baffled medical science for the last six thousand years, the doctors ought above all things to be modest, if not entirely reticent. There are, perhaps, not more than two medical men in the colony who have seen leprosy and studied it. Two things are certain : the disease is on the increase in the world, and where the cases are isolated the disease fails to spread, and dies. A TELEGRAM from Wellington the other day contained the significant announcement that there are no persons engaged on relief works in the colony. From this it is clear that the class of people hitherto known as the "unemployed" are becoming more independent and self-reliant, and every day is demonstrating more and more clearly the soundness of that principle. People no longer look to Government expenditure as a means of bolstering up the country. There is now every evidence that the improved state of things will continue. The waste lands of the Crown are being taken up with great rapidity. In the bush districts of the North Island particularly settlement is spreading in all directions ; and when these lands come, to be productive, the exports will naturally continue to expand more than ever. The rate of progress will be greatly accelarated if Parliament consents to encourage the immigration of agricultural settlers. The country, no one can doubt, has a great future before it, if it adheres resolutely to the present policy of prudence, and refuses to listen, under any pretence whatever, to the political theorist and demagogue. The Duke of Orleans, who is now expiating his folly in a French prison, is the eldest son of the Comte de Paris, the head of the Bourbons. The oldest great-grandson of the ** City King," he is, of course, regarded by the Legitimists as the heir-presumptive to the throne of France. It was, no doubt, a bold stroke on the part of the young royalist to show his patriotism by taking service in the French army as a private; but it is also necessary that the Republic should protect itself from the intrigues and plots of the pretenders who are incessantly sapping at its base. The only way to do this effectually is to deal sharply with them when they come within reach of the law. ' The Bourbons were themselves not remarkable for tenderness in their day, and their crimes against humanity and the French nation' are not likely to be forgotten. Whatever may be thought of many of the men in whose keeping the destinies of France are now placed, there is not the least doubt that the Republic is tbe form of government most agreeable to the wishes of the nation, and most conducive to its prosperity and peace. It is the factious and the conspirators and the striking scarcity of even a single man of genius or ability that are responsible for the appearance of disorder or discontent that outsiders see in the government of the country. Internally, France is prosperous, and only wants to be let alone by the knot of ambitious princelings and their Boulangist tools to grow in splendour and prosperity, and become the great country that '■*' her position and the genius of her people > entitle her to. Certainly the most effective medicine in the world is Sajtdes awd Sons' Eucai,tph Extract, Test its eminent powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza, and relief iB instantaneous. In cerious oases and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds burns, scoldings, braises, sprains, it is the safest remedy— no swelling— no inflammation. 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