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Waipawa Mail, Volume XII, Issue 2255, 5 March 1889, Page 2

Would any of our readers who have copies of last Saturday’s paper to spare please forward them to this office. Our agents will please do the same thing. By some mischance the parcel of papers for Hampden went amissing and as we had sold out the entire issue on Saturday night we are at a loss *to supply our Hampden readers and others who have- enquired for copies of the paper. The Secretary of the Waipawa District Hospital sends us the following returns for the week ending March, 2nd, ISB9 : Patients in Hospital : M 12, F 5 ; received during the week, M 2, F 0 ; discharged, M 4, F 0. We learn from Ormondville this morning that Mr J. C. Westall, the teacher of the Public School there, has been awarded the Bowen prize. The good news was announced by telegraph this morning from the Auckland University Synod, We heartily congratulate Mr Westall. There is omnious news from the States and Canada. Mr Blaine lias accepted the post of Secretary of State, and the Canadians refuse to continue the present fisheries arrangement for another year with America. With Blaine as Secretary of State, and a row brewing over the fisheries we may “ lock gut for squalls; 1

Owing to pressure of other matter the usual instalment of story is held over.

The election gf a chairman to the Waipawa Licensing Beneh takes place on Saturday next, and it is more than likelytMr F. O’B. Longhnan will be chosen. We have again to hold over matter from Norsewood, and apologise to our readers there for so doing. We are unfortunately short-handed just now, but will make amends in a little while. The Rev. Father Dawsbn has evidently been listening to all the reports and rumors of the past concerning affairs in Waipawa—he has, in fact, been “ clashin” as the Scottish people say. His letter to the Herald this morning is “founded” on the following sort of evidence :—“ Mrs Brown told me that Mrs Jones told her that Mrs Corrigan told her that Mrs Larkina had said that she had heard from Mrs Doolan that Mrs Smith’s little girl had been spoken to by the Master of the school about a monk that had to do penance who boiled the peas before puttiug them in his boots !” We boast of a very nice cab in Waipawa. and Mr A. Worsnop deserves credit for his enterprise.

The sewers are smelling dreadfully again and we trust some arrangement will be made for flushing them.

The Fire Brigade have very kindly consented to pump water into the. school tanks. During the long spell of dry weather the water has run out, and the youngsters will be thankful to the Brigade for their kindness in supplying them with water. We understand the work will be done to-night.

A “ Harvest Thanksgiving ” service will be held at St. Peter’s Church, Waipawa, on Sunday next. As was announced on Sunday morning last, gifts of fruit, corn, and vegetables will be thankfully received up to Saturday evening by the Rev. J. G. Eccles at the pasonage. That the churph will be beautifully decorated we feel sure, for these services at St. Peter’s have always been rendered signally attractive by the display of fruits, &c.

The Kaikora North Towjn Board met last night at the Mechanic’s Institute the following Commissioners being present—Messrs Clark (chair), Lim brick, Pettit, and McKenzie. The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed —Lettprs were read from the Minister of Justice, notifying the appointment of Mr Gray as Clerk to the Kaikora North Licensing District.—Frcm the Treasury Department, notifying that the subsidy amounting to £ll 11s lid had been paid into the Board’s credit at the Bank of New Zealand. From the Property Tax Commissioner, requesting the Board to revise the Valuation Statement which he had forwarded ; and from Capt. Preece, forwarding advertisement for insertion in local paper, stating that the Assessment Court be held in Kaikora on 20th March.—lt was resolved that Mr E. Gray be appointed Returning Officer for the Kaikora North Licensing District, on the motion* of Mr Clark, seconded by Mr Pettit.—The following accounts were passed for payment : Waipawa Mail, £1 4s ; Crayford, 7s 6d ; petty cash, £L ; Mechanic’s Institute, for rent, £4 ; E. Gray, £5.

The official declaration of the poll for the Waipawa Licensing Committee is published by the Returning Officer, Mr Samuel Johnson. It will be seen by it that the “Moderates” won all along the line, notwithstanding the confident prediction of the Barou ! After all the old house will be re-opened. A couple of protests were entered on Saturday against the election being taken on the old County roll, but they are of no value, and will not alter the present state of matters.

Dr C. Lloyd Tuckey gives in the Nineteenth Century an interesting account of the plan of faith healing practised at Nancy by medical meu, with excellent results in certain cases, especially rheumatism and nervous affections. He believes that this system of healing by mesmerism and ' suggestion is destined to be of immense importance to humanity, and that it will considerably modify the present practice of medicine. Treatment by suggestion has been tried on many devotees of vice—drunkards, victims of the opium passion, &c.—and with the happiest results. Inmates of the Paris Female Reformatories—women steeped in depravity, obscene of tongue, and as it seemed utterly incorrigible—have, it is stated, by a course of this treatment, been transformed into decent members of society, and in some instances, have for years held, and deserved to hold, positions of trust.

Th. j Builders' Reporter and Engineering Tivi’S gives the following account of a singular invention, entitled “ The Fanrscope.” It has been introduced by Mr George Cecil Farr, architect, cf Ship street. Brighton (a Dephew of Mr C. Farr, of Christchurch), and promises to become of permanent utility. It lias been protected by Royal letters patent through Messrs J. A. Johnson and Co., of Lincoln’s-iun-fields, London. The motif of the new instrument is instantaneous communication between the remotest parts of any building. For example, in a factory or public works the different operating rooms can be seeu by the manager without quitting his office ; messages indited on a slate can be immediately transmitted to any division of the building and replied to by the same means. The Farrsc.ope must prove a dead shot to the movements of thieves. One of the appliances (which a child can manipulate) can be laid on from the shop or office to the upper storey, a gas get being left burning in the shop or office ; the manager, by these means, even while reposing cu his couch, can watch the secimty of the basement in the event of any depreda ors being there ; he can have almost an electrophotograph of them while engaged in their depredations on any part of the premises. The Farrscopc is one of the happiest thoughtout projects of the age.