Tuapeka Times. AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. "MEASURES, NOT MEN." LAWRENCE: SATURDAY, 14th SEPT., 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4831, 14 September 1901, Page 2

Tuapeka Times. AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. "MEASURES, NOT MEN." LAWRENCE : SATURDAY, 14th SEPT., 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

An explosion entombed 20 miners in Llandtradoch colliery, in Caerphilly. Mrs Sullivan died it Kingower, Victoria, on September 2a'd, at the age of 109 years. IT is calculated that there were £10,000 worth of cycles* on New Brighton Beach, Cbristcbnrcb, on Sunday. i NEARLY £600 has bad to be written off the Wellington City Council books owin^ to the poverty of persons responsible. Mb John Roberts, the champion billiard player of the world, was to come south from Christcbnrch yesterday morning, Charles John Hardy, formerly master of the Napier Children's Home, has been charged with assaulting two girl inmates. j How to get a beautiful library for nothing —use the famous Book Gift Tea and select your books from catalogue of 500 books that are given away free. Tbe West Australian Assembly has read a second time the Workmen's Compensation Bill, which is almost an exact copy of the New Zealand Aot. A Lamp-post on a bluestone pedestal is tbe memorial decided upon by the residents of Cheviot to perpetuate the memory of the late Sir John M'Kenzie. You cau depend on ridding your children of Worms with Wade's Worm Figs, the wonderful worm worriers. Price, Is. TUB " South Canterbury Times " w»s (says an exchange) to cease publication last evening. Our late contemporary was about 30 years old, and passed through many hands. It was an evening paper. It is estimated that the Pan-American scheme, the building of a railway line from New York to Buenos Ay res, would cost forty million pounds. Through passengers by this means would travel 10,220 miles. Hugh M'Gilvray has been ordered to come up for sentence when called on in connection with the death of the woman Sneyd by tbe explosion of a rocket at loveroargill when tbe Fourth and Fifth Contingents arrived. Lord Ranfurly has Intimated his desire to present a Challenge Cnp to tbe N.Z.R.U., and suggests thai tbe champion fifteen cf the South Island should meet the crack team of the North Island at Wellington to decide the possession. WORKS by Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, E. P. Roe, LyttoD, Dumas, A. J. E. Wilaon, Rhoda Brou^hton, Mrs Henry Wood, Bret Harte, Ethel Turner, Guy Boothby, Rider Haggard, George Elliot, and every other modern writer, are given away with the {■mom Souk Gift Toa. The "Elieomere Guardian" points out, (bat the barsting-up of large estates results in the depopulating of farming districts, and points to its own as an instance. Tha farms sold in farming districts are generally merged into those of neighbors. Curious articles are occasionally found in the Dead Letter Office. During the past year, inter alia, there were found ono Transvaal shilling, seven pawn tiokets, one church exhibition medal; a dog's head, a handle for a walking-stick, and a revolver. The bricklayers have now commenced rebuilding Bruce Woollen Mills. Tbe plan of the new building says the local paper will be practically the same as the original one, with the exception that provision is made for larger offices, with a strong room at the rear. Wade's Worm Figs are moot effective and not unpleasant ; children thrive after taking them. Price, Is. A curious freak of nature is to be seen at Kaitawa, near Danevirke— viz., a dwarf cow standing only abont 2ft Gin in height, ', and giving four gallons of good, rich milk per day. This strange phenomenon is the ' property of Mr Jacobs, settler, of Kaitawa. Chief Justice Stout intends to rule in f utnre (unless tbe Appellate Court directs him otherwise) that an " habitual drunkard " is a man who becomes drunk* whenever temptation is placed in his way, His Honor pointed out to counsel recently that " habitually drunk " did not mean '* constantly drunk." President Loubet is one of the best guarded rulers in Europe. A flying brigade of police agents, in civilian costume, has been created to follow tbe President step' by step wherever be goes. When M. Lonbet is about to start from tbe Elysee the Perfecture of Police is apprised by telephone of tbe place to which be is going, as well as of the route he is to take. Before he has crossed tbe gate of the palace a carriage is already in tbe street with orders to follow the Presidential conveyance, and not to lose sight of t. This is repeated several times daily. STATUTORY DECLARATION— I, F. Raabe, Ironbark, Sandhurst, in the Colony of Victoria, do solemnly and sincerely declare that on tbe 25th June, 1877, my son Alfred, six years of age, was aooidently hurt with an axe on tbe knee. lat once took all pains to teoure medical attendance. However in spite of all efforts, on tbe 27tb August, 1877, tbe opinion was given by Dr Macgillivray that an amputation of tbe injured limb had become imperative, in order to ssre life. At this I inneture I called upon Messra SANDEB & i SONS, procuring some of their PURE (VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, and by the application of the. same I had the ! satisfaction of seeing my son within a fort1 night out of all danger, and to-day be is recovered. I may just add that it was when tbe crisis had been" reached that SANDER'S ' EXTRACT was first applied. And I make this solemn declaration, etc., Frank Raabe. Declared at Sandhurst, in the Colooy of Victoria, Australia, this 17th October, 1877, before me Moritz Conn, J.P. To guard the bigh reputation onr manufacture has attained all over the globe, we state that care has to be exercised to obtain the genuine article (Sander and Spns) as the moat, appalling consequences have resulted from the application of spurious product*— SAN DETv & SONS. >

There are 71 companies of mounted rifios 0 New Zealand. " A CYCLIST ran down a little girl in Dane- | tin on Thursday and broke*her leg. i LAKGE qa id titles of dynamite are being imuggled into Hongkong. Extensive domi- t iiliary visitations are being made. " i Mbs Russell will, on »nd after Monday, 1 rive lessons in the art of dressontting by the I Frisoo Oatter (see advertisement). • . 1 OWING to *he bad harvest;, 12 Russian | provinces, with a population, of 30 millions, ' have appealed.-!*) the Government for relief. J Thb statue of the lute Eton. John B»l- i lance, in the grounds of the parliament ; Buildings. Wellington, is now flanked by , (wo guns from South Africa, THE bntcbera of Lawrence and snrrouad- , ing districts bays agreed to raise the price of i meat £d per lb all- round from to-day, owing , to a rise in the price of stock. An engine-driver on the Golden Point ' dredge, W»k*marina River, was terribly ! mangled last week, through his clothes get* ting entangled while oiling the winch shaft. KINC* EDWABD hart a most cordial greeting from the Cztt at Elainore. One hundred Italian police have been sent to France to watoh'the Anarchists daring the Czar's visit. Tbebe were nine patients in the Taapeka Hospital last evening— six males and three females. Two were admitted into the institution during the week and one discharged. Thb Premier bns received a handsomely illuminated address from a number of labor leaden in ISagUocl, congratulating him on the passage into law of the old age pensions scheme. The " Dunstan Times " states that Sergt. Bowman, of Clyde, has b«en definitely transferred to Lawrence and that be will probably commence his duties in that district about the 23rd inst. The finances of the Miltqn Borough Council bave been going to the bad to the extent of £40 pBr annnm on als 31 rate. In order to relieve their position the Council now propose to increase the rate to la 6d in the £. THE "Sydney Morning Heralds "report of the N.S.W. -Southland football matoh says :—": — " The weather conditions were decidedly against the New South Wales team and they failed to score." Did the South' land team have no hand in preventing a score ? • * A SIXTH Contingent trooper writes : — " We beard tbat the Seventh Contingent shot four of their own fellows by mistake. This is pretty often the case, and we have been fired on three times by oar own guns, though, for- | tunately, no one was hit." Two thousand seats were marked off in two hours »t (ho Dresden Warehouse, Dunedip, on Wednesday morning, for the first six nights of the Mnsgrove Opera season — * record for Dunedin. The plite-glass windows of tho shop were protected by boards and a barricaded avenue erected through tbe front shop. Everything w»s quite orderly, and of the first 20 arrivals at tbe plans aeveu were ladies. Lord George Hamilton and Mr Chamberlain have thanked the New South Wales and Victorian Governments for their generous and valuables services in connection with operations in China, when each sent a naval contingent. It ia added that the inspection of stores was carried out under their control so efficiently that there 1 was not a single complaint. Wade's Teething Powders for babies are soothing, reduce fever, and prevent blotches. Price, la. The Southland Trades and Labor uonnoil desire the Government to restore lbs duty on kerosene, for tho purpose of assisting tbe Orepuki Shale Works, while a number of Orepukt residents intend raising a fund _to make a test case with a view of preventing the alleged destruction of property that at present caused by the fames from the works, A YOUNG man attempted to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge on the Edwards River, Deniliquin, N.S.W. He afterwards repented and climbed up the piles, 30ft to 40ft to tbe decking, and was bauled back to tbe bridge. A brother, on hearing of the occurrence, was riding to the town when he was thrown from bis horse and had his leg, broken. Cr Bennetts, county member for Teviot 'riding, has at length, after a great deal of effort, succeeded in getting tbe County Council to eanotiou tho construction of a bridge over Millers Creek at Millers Plat. The motion for its conatrnction was passed at yesterday's meeting unonimously, and the ratepayers of that locality will no doubt appreciate his services on their account. Walter Loring, a young man, was sent to the Supreme Court, Dunedin, for trial for embezzling £337 ' Us . 7d, the property of Charles Howisoo, Dunedin. Iv a letter, Loring stated the amount of defalcations, and said they were caused by insufficient salary (30s per week), and dabbling in mining to muko up previous deficiencies. He led a detective to a grave in Burnside Cemetery where a tin box containing £50 in single notes was dug up. TOMLLNSON, tho m*n who has been Arrested in connection with tbe mail robbery from the Whitecliffa-Wiloaoia (N.S.W.) ooacb, admits that he knows something about the crime, but says he himself is innocent. He sold his bicycle, which waa found near the scene, to a man named Joyce, who gave him three £10 notes to keep the transaction seoret. Pines, arrested in connection with the robbery, has been discharged. Geo. Elliot's fine story, " Adam Bede," is given away with 6lba Book Gift Tea. Ask you grocer for catalogue of 500 good books that are given free with famous Book Gift Tea. The Coningbam divorce case was again before the public per the medium of a paltry irjquiry into tbe working of the Sydney Post Office. Allegations had been made that there had been leakage of telegrams in connection with the case from the telegraph office. Mr Crick, ex-Postmaster-General of New South Wales, denied on oalh that he had shown a certain telegram to the Cardinal, or even mentioned it to him. Henry Croat (21) and John Croat (19) were remanded for eight days at Leeston, Canterbury, on Monday, on a charge of incest with their sister. Lsnra Norria <3o»te (agea 10%), too girl is in a precarious <xm&u tion, baviDg given birth to a child, since dead, which the doctor stated won Id have lived bad proper attendance been at hand. The girl's mother stated she had no idea of what was wrong. The spirit of unrest with which the returned South African Trooper appear to bave become imbued is (says an exchange) now (lading vent, and almost every steamer plying to Capetown carries % batch of New Zralanders eager to renew their acquaintance with Bro. Boer or take a civil employment in tbe country. By the next steamer leaving Auatralia quite a number of New Zealanders propose to take passages to' the scene of operations, while others are only waiting, until tbe ready cash is available to follow them. If Dr Kress is to be believed, tobacco smoking ia a thing that should be abhored by all right-minded persons. The doctor once had occasion to give a confirmed smoker a Turkish batb, and the patient was dried on a towel. This towel was afterwards huog op on a line, and the numerous fl es that alighted on it promptly fell to the ground, overcome by tbe nicotine which had exuded from tbe user of tbe weed. This illustration was. of course, drawn from the doobor'd American experience. The team to represent Lawrence in tbe final for the championship of South O,»go at Bilclutha on Wednesday will be picked from the following :— Corrutbers, J. M'Keiob, Clarke, Airey, Vivian, Lee, Bryant, Murray, Robertson (3), Montgomery (2), Aitken, Ellis, F. Christie, Caskfo. These players are requested io meet in tbe Volunteer Hill at 8 1 p.m. on Monday night. The team will be driven to Balolutba by Mr Craig. Be Cabbfol.- You won't drink poisonous wine knowngly — why, therefore, drink poisonons tea ? Avoid China tea, which is now adulterated out of all resemblance ; also avoid blends," for tbe average is vile tea disguised with a little good. Tbe uniform pure tea, most reliable and most satisfying, is grown in Ceylon, and tho name it has is a? famous as that island itseIf— NIRVANA. We are informed that Nirvana Tea is packed under British supervision; and guaranteed pure and delicious by a responsible company. It is packed in lead in pounds and half-pounds, and tbe local agent, Mr F. On JaiHe, Lawrence, will be pleased to supply the requirements of those disposed to purchase a thoroughly pure and reliable Ceylon tea. Remarkable Cures of Rheumatism. From the * Vindicator, 1 Rutherfordton, N.C. ;— The editor Of the 'Vindicator' has had occasion to test the efficacy of Chamberlain's Pain Balm twice with the moat remarkable results in each case. Firat, with rheumatism in the shoulder from which he suffered excruciatjng pain for tea daya, which was relieved with two applications of Pain Balm, rubbing the parts afflicted and realizing instant benefit and entire relief in a very short time. Second, in rheumatism in thigh joint, almost prostrating him with severe pain, which was relieved by two applies* tions, rubbing with the liniment on retiring at night, and getting up free from pain. For sale by R. S. Poison, chemist, Lawrence, Price Is 6d, big size 3s.

Fancy prices hay« bfi p»id f«r dairy -attlo .of late in the United States of A.merioa. A Jersey bull at a recent •notion i»-on«tat £700, and her calf just upon £1.000.

In the House of Representatives on Than* day a resolution wh carried expressing abhorrence at the attack on President M'Kiolry, and sympathy with the President, hta family, and the American nation. Another privilege question cropped up, Irat as the matter is nearly 12 months old the ActingSpeaker ruled tbat notice of motion was necessary, After considerable discussion, tbe Premier carried bis motion doing away with morning sittings. Tbe debate on the Financial Statement was then resnmed, bat nob concluded.

Ladies will notice by oar advertising columns that Mrs M. O. Barclay, who represents tbe Sospita Co., of San Francisco, will givo a free lecture on health in the Town Hal), Lawrence, on Thursday afternoon. An opportunity snob as tbis does not occur often, and as the subject .is jm important one, a lar?o attendance hi expected. W« are told tbat the Sospita Co., which Mrs Barclay represents, is widely and favorably known in America. 'Mrs Barclay may be consulted in rooms next Mr W. Anderson's bootmaker* shop, Boss Place, on and after Monday at tbe hours stated in the advertisement.

Ik tbe New Plymouth Police Court on Thursday morning Mr James M'Oallum, chairman of the Okato School Committee, waa fined 10s and costs for disturbing the echoolby dismissing the scholars daring the inspector's visit of inspection, The PfQse* action iraa tbo outcome of the trouble tie* tween the board's committee and tbe inspector. The case of tbe Marlborough Education Board and the Blenheim Committee was quo'ed during the bearing. In that case Mr Justice Edwards held that tba control nf educational matters was in the hands of the board. Tbe defendant pleaded guilty. '

ifoK horses which are easily excited and ran ow«y » new method of restraint has jost been adopted in Paris. Tha motor-otr ii. responsible for frightening hones, which bay« bolted and eansed fmtal aooidenta in tha gay city, and the Prefect of Police is experiment* iDg with a new invention. An extra pair of blinkers are mounted on thn ordinary blinkers and kept back by • spring, which is controlled by an extra rein passing between the ears of tbe horse to the band of the coachman. When the horse becomes restive and inclined to' ran away, the driver quietly pnll»th%min. tbe extra blinkers fall into pUOd »Dd tbe animal is completely blinded. It is contended that the most vicious or nervous borre would be cowed by finding itself in complete darkoess, and the experiments are said to have proved eminently successful.