AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. "MEASURES NOT MEN." LAWRENCE : SATUEDAY, 11th JAN., 1902. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
The population of tbe United States and dependencies totals 81,233,069.
The promoter* of the London and Brigh* ton Electric Railway Bill have deposited tbe capital of £12,000,000.
EABL DTSARX has conditionally tffered £10,000 towards a half-million for. the erection of a national opera bouse in London.
Mbmxebs of the Lawrence branch of the N.Z. Farmers' Union are reminded of tbe meeting to be held on Thursday next after the Agricultural Society's meeting.
Tab Melbourne Board of Health refused to endorse a motion asking Ladies Hopetonn and Janet Clarke and the heads of various ladies' societies to use their influence in doing away with trailing skirt* in tbe interest* of health. Only two members supported the motion.
Mb B. Solomon, expert optician, whose advertisement appears in this issue, cornea to ttaii colony with ■ solid reputation gained after many years of successful experience, both in America and Australia. He hu just concluded a wonderfully successful Mason extending over 10 months in Tasmania. We have been privileged to see tbe aignaturea of numerous clienta, suffering fromC various visual ailments, who hare consulted Mr Solomon during the short time he baa so far been in this colony ; they inelade olergymen of various denominations, men of j letters, merchants,* schoolmasters, farmers, ladies in varioui walke of life, etc. Mr Solomon ha* been moet apeoesafal in bis diagnosis end treatment oyOiese eases. His feea are extremely moJlrate, end we oan advise eny person tfffefiag from defective eyesight to consult him. Mr Salomon'! visit to L»w- 1 reooe wUI be limited to ooe week or ten dtya. J
Thebb were 56 frwb omm of raiHpaJC to London on Monday. There ar« now upward* of 800 patients under tre«lm#nt. Additional accommodation it being npidly built. The TMmtnian State revc&ns for Itif ymt wm £826,000, and tbe State and Oomnnwealth revendl combined. £954,000. Th« Commonwealth revenue returned to tba State ii £356,000. AT tba Liwrenoe 1 ! Court on Wednetdty, before Menrt John Thompson and B. Wioo, J.'sP., Richard Bryan, of Taviot Station, w»a committed to Seaalfll Asylam on tbe certificate* of Dn Jewell and Sutherland. Sib Robert Griffen, ex-Oontroltargtna-nl of tbe British Statistical Department, and • well-known writer on financial matters, in • letter to the " London Times M anticipates • deficiency in the revenue of ten millftnt, and increased taxation. There were five patient* in th* Totp*ka Hoapitaljast evening— three male* and two female*. Two patient* were admitted into the institution during tbe week »od one discharged. One man died daring the week in tbe person of William Rldd. OK Wednesday afternoon next a team of Citizens will play the reprea entetive* of the local Cricket Club on tbe Bacraation Ground. Tbe Citizen* team will be 18 strong, and they expect to give the Club a good " go." With • fine afternoon the game should be very interesting and enjoyable. Ma. E. Pearson announce* by advertisement in another oolumn that be he* taken over the coach and carrying business between Lawrence and Waipori which has for som* time been successfully conducted by Mr A. E. Biteman. Mr Pearson ha* the reputation of being a careful and painstaking driver and will doubtless meet *Uh a satisfactory measure of support. THftrailway hands at the Lawreooe station end a few friends presented Mr J. Saunder* son with a silver-mounted walking»stiok and ft silver-mounted pipe on Wednesday moraine at Kellener's Railway Hotel, prior to ki* leaving tbe distrrat. Mr Siunderson had for a few months been a guard on the Lawrence branch, and proved himself a courteous and obliging Civil servant. He was a member of Fourth Contingent. . > Figures connected with old»»ge pension* now available show that in the Auckland district there was no increase daring tbe nine months of tbe current financial year. There _w»« on the pensions, registered on April 1# 1901, 1017, and on tbe pensions register* oe> January 1, 1902, 1009— a deoreaso bejtween April 1 and January lof 8. Tbe mortality during tbe nine month* waa considerable, whilst during that period the oourt granted 80 new pension*. Mr J. Coxon, ironing expert, who ha* for ft number of year* been engaged giving technical instruction in Shis das* of work from Christoburcb to tbe Bluff 1* at present in Lawrenoe giving exhibitions of his work. He guarantees that one lesson under his method is sufficient to enable any one to do this important part of tbe laundry work with botb pleasure and credit to themselves. Thi* evening be will give an exhibition of hi* work in Mr C. Stoke* window. At the Masteron Court on Thursday A. Whi t»ker, who had just become licensee of tbe Royal Hotel, was fined £5 and costs for permitting a Masonio banquet to be held in tbe house after hours without a permit. \ Witnesses for the proseoution deposed that ; when the licensee found it was too late to get a permit be informed tbe Banqueting Committee be would not charge for tbe liquor *up» plied. The magistrate, however, said tber* bad been a breach of the law, and fined defeo* dant £5, raised subsequently by one shilling i to allow of an appeal. The ninth session of the Australasian Aa> sooiation for the advancement of science we* opened at Hobart on Wednesday. Five hundred delegate* are present from all the ■ States and New Zealand, and nearly 100 paper* will be read dealing with a great . variety of subjeots. Before a l*r«e and dia* ! tinguished gathering in the Town Hall th* President-elect, Captain F. W. Hutton (director of the Chriatohuroh Museum), de> livered the inaugural address. The subject was " Evolution and Its Teachings." A tkaqedy has ooourred at MaoUan, New South Wales. Jamea Dowling, living; apart from hia wife, gained admittance to her bedroom and shot her, inflicting three serioua wounds. He then escaped, . The polio* pursued, and Dowling fired at them, break* ing Sergeant Brown* leg. Constable Somerville rushed Dowling in the aot of again firing and scoured him. The woman is in a dangerous condition. Dowling is an ex-alderman. About a year ago, be attacked bis wife and another lady with a tomahawk in a fit of temporary insanity. Sinoe then bis whereabouts has been unknown. 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The dressing was removed and daily irrigation* .with SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI E£TRACT* were made. Tbe offensive odour disappeared, the fever abated within a few .days, (and the patient Recovered t in a few weeks.' We moat not lose sight of the^faot that tbe latter treatment saved the rpatient's life/'-s-Tak* care to get SANDER & SONS'— the only tennine Eucalypti Extract — or else you will be supplied with woithiess ollst
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 4924, 11 January 1902, Page 2
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1,258AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. "MEASURES NOT MEN." LAWRENCE: SATUEDAY, 11th JAN., 1902. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS. Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 4924, 11 January 1902, Page 2
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