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Waipawa Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 2714, 28 January 1892, Page 2

Mr Ole Nicolaysen, a respected settler on the Danish Line, died on Tuesday, aged 63. He was interred at Norsewood to-day. A special meetiug of the Waipawa Hospital Committee will be held at Waipukurau next Saturday, at 2.30 p.m. Mr Buick repeated his lecture at Hastings on Tuesday night, and to-night he makes his first appearance at Napier. Money is not coming in freely. Mr Chew Chong’s influenza cure is proved a fraud. The “ thread-like parasites ” which he extracted from his patients turned out, on microscopic examinations, to be only portions of mucous membrane. Mr W. Parker, Receiver of Land Revenue at the Crown Lands office, Napier, is about to retire from the public service, which he entered as a cadet in 1869. The charge of murder against Raines was withdrawn and a charge of manslaughter substituted. Accused was committed for trial, bail being allowed, himself in £2OO, two sureties £IOO each. Having republished from the N. Z Times some strictures on the conduct of Dr. Milne in connection with the Pahiatua

inquest, in justice to that gentleman we now give his defence.

Mr Taylor, of Te Aute, met with a nasty accident yesterday morning, by a fall from his horse, resulting in the dislocation of his left shoulder. He went to the County Hospital yesterday for treatment.

The policemen in the various school districts are to be truant officers, and will act under the direction of the local committees, serving notice upon the wanderers’ parents in the first instance and afterwards following them up by summonses if necessary. It is stated that Mrs Dickson, whose husband fell a victim to the mysterious and wholesale poisoning at Pahiatua, is herself, even after this lapse of time, in such a delicate state of health through the shock conveyed to the system by the poison that her friends are filled with concern on her account.

Mr Gaisford left Waipukurau yesterday morning en route to England, which he has not revisited since he came to Hawke’s Bay in 1861. He expects to be away five months. Mr Sainsbury, of the firm of Sainsbury and Logan, will be a fellowpassenger.

We (I Vairoa Guardian) are sorry to learn that the crop of rye grass in this district just gathered in is not a third of what it would otherwise have been, owing to the depredations of caterpillers, and also the unseasonable wet weather. As some compensation, however, the crop of cocksfoot is large, though great difficulty has been experienced in getting labour to save it.

If the Government attempt to thoroughly enforce the provisions of the Factories Act in the boroughs, leaving the remainder of the colony exempt from any such interference, it will not be surprising to find many factories removed outside borough boundaries. A policy of this kiud, in fact, would operate more rapidly than Mr Vaile’s stage system to decentralise our population, but hardly to the advantage of the laborers. Perhaps the Government have introduced it in boroughs only as an experiment, having but little faith in the expected beneficial results.

It is something new, says the Wairarapa Standard , for cattle to be shipped from Canterbury to this district, but last week 200 yearling heifers were sold at Masterton from that province, and are now grazing at the Table Lands.

We observe by a paragraph in the Bay of Plenty Time8 t with reference to the death of the late lamented J. C. Blythe, District Engineer at Rotorua, that much dissatisfaction exists in connection with tlie verdict of the coroner’s jury, and that steps are being taken to have the body exhumed, with the object of having a further examiuation into the circumstances attending his death.

From the statistical report on the Health of the Navy, just issued, it appears that the total force in the service afloat in the year 1890 was 53,350 officers and men, of whom 30,020 were between the ages of 15 and 25, 17,310 between 25 and 35, 5150 between 35 and 45, and 870 above 45 years of age. The number of cases of illness and injury was 56,763, showing a very slight increase over the average of the last three years ; but the fatalities, numbering 458, would have shown a considerable decrease but for the melancholy catastrophe to the Serpent, which occasioned the lass of 173 officers and men. On the whole, the return shows that the blue-jackets enjoy a healthy existence on board ship, notwithstanding the climate changes to which they are subjected. Mr H. G. Seth-Smitb, Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, returned to Wellington on Monday night. He has been engaged at Hastings in hearing an application for re-hearing in respect of the Awarua Block, and having finished the hearing on Saturday he went to Wellington to consult the minutes of former proceedings in respect of this block, judgment on the application for re-hearing having been reserved till the 9th prox. An inquest was held yesterday at Puketapu on the body of Samuel Pinder, when the jury returned a verdict of “ accidental death while attempting to cross the Tutaekuri liver at Hakowhai crossing on the evening of-the 25th iDst.” Deceased, in company with a man named John George, was driving a team down country, and had successfully negotiated the upper crossings of the Tutaekuri ; but at Hakowhai, though it was considered a safe crossing, the stream was so enlarged by the junction of the Mangaone that it was dangerous to attempt to cross it. They tried first to avoid the crossing by continuing down the south side of the river ; but, finding this course impracticable, took the horses out of the dray and tried to cross on horseback, George got safely to land, but his companion, who had a heavy overcoat, was dragged off and drowned.

The interesting intelligence has come to hand that the artificial manufacture of eggs is now an accomplished fact. Mr James Storrey, of Kansas City, has taken out a patent, and is said to be erecting a factory in view of doing a large business. Mr Storrey’s ingredients are lime water, bullock’s blood, milk, tallow, peas, and a few other things, including some secret chemical preparations. The machinery for putting the egg together is very ingenious. First the yolk is run into a mould to be properly shaped, and is then dumped into a second mould, which contains the right proportion of the preparation which stands for the white. This, being a gelatinous substance, encases the yolk very readily. Then, by means of a special machine, the whole is covered with a shell, made of lime water and glue, which hardens after it is set. Mr Storrey guarantees his eggs to keep “new laid” for a month, and he says that be can turn them out at a cost which will allow of their being retailed at the rate of 3 cents per dozen.

European armaments have been revolutionised so many times since the invention of the needle gun, that the mere possibility of another costly alteration is enough to make every taxpayer in Europe wince, observes the St. James' Gazette. All the great powers and some of the smaller ones have furnished themselves with the magazine rifle, but its manufacture had hardly been well entered upon before it is announced that the Austrian Government is contemplating the introduction of a much lighter rifle, about half the weight of that at present in use. This lightness would be obtained by the use of aluminium in place of the old and heavy metals. It is really time that the powers held a kind of Geneva conference and decided not to adopt any more new inventions affecting warlike implements or munitions of war. Rifles and guns, shells and bullets, are quite deadly enough already, and since everybody adopts the new inventions at the same time it is impossible for any country to derive any advantage from them. The days when the Prussians were able to use their dark horse, the needle gun, with such tremendous effect have gone by. There are no longer any secrets in these matters ; and not to adopt new inventions at all would come in the end to the same thing as everybody adopting them, and would save an enormous burden of taxation into the bargain.