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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 4549, 25 August 1903, Page 2

Stook sales and inspection reports on Waipawa and Tamumu district schools appear on the first page. On the fourth page will be found an account of the public life of the late Lord Salisbury, details of the celebrated Humbert case, and an aocount of the seoond race for the Amerioa Oup. A rehearsal of " Jane ” will he held at 8 o’clock, to-night. The matron of the district hospital would be grateful for donations of old linen of any description. About £450 has been collected towards the cost of the proposed hospital at Danevirke. The matron of the Waipawa County Hospital reports for the week ending Saturday 22nd: —Patients in hospital M. 26, F. 6 ; admitted, M. 7, F. 1; discharged, M. 9, F. 0; died, M. 0, F. 0. The executive of the National Dairy Association has been instructed to indent between £3OOO and £4OOO worth of parchment, boxes, salt, etc., required during the coming season by the dairy companies belonging to the association. The large number of 1750 sleepers are treated at the Woodville oreosoting work? every week. As each sleeper consumes from two to two and a half gallons of creosote, it can be imagined a very large quantity has to be kept in stock. At a speoial meeting of the Waipawa Fire Brigade, held last night, Lieutenant F. Downer was elected captain in plaoe of Mr J. Williams, who is leaving the district. Foreman Sebley was elected acting-lieutenant. A schoolgirl at Lee has been awarded a medal for a seven years’ perfect attendance. All the members of the family—nine in number—attended the same school, and not one of them missed a single attendance. The famous Excelsior diamond, which was discovered by Captain Ed. Jorgansen, in South Africa, is now at Amsterdam, where it will be cut and polished It weighs 971 carats, and is the largest in the world. Its value is £1,000,000.

The Hawke’s Bay branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute will hold an important meeting at Waipukuran next Saturday. The question of forming two sub-branohes will be considered. At Danevirke, on Sunday afternoon, a man named M‘Luokie, in attempting to shoot his wife shot his daughter in the head. He then shot himself in the forehead. He was charged with attempted murder and remanded for eight day 8. A young man named Charles Frater was bush-felling at Takaka, when the butt of a tree slipped off the stump on to his left foot, whioh was left hanging by the tendons. His mates severed these, and rendered first aid. They then carried him to the Port, whence he was brought last night and taken to the Nelson Hospital. Amongst the items to be contributed at Miss Tansley’s concert, on Thursday night, are two violin solos by Mr Lichwark, whioh should be highly appreciated. The orchestral society will also play several musical gems, and in addition to the vocal items of her pupils, Miss Tansley and her brother will also sing.

The police keep steadily adding to their stook of liquor at the police station (states the Gore Standard ,, and after the prosecutions that are to come on (if convictions are recorded) the question will be what to do with it. The usual procedure is to destroy it, but some are inclined to regard that as nothing short of pure vandalism, and suggest a olearing sale, controlled by the police, on cash principles, as the most profitable and common-sense course to follow.

Mr Poynton, Public Trustee, has presented his finding on the inquiry into the oases of Dr Upham (Lyttleton) and Dr Reid (Timaru), who were asked to send in their resignations in connection with the outbreak of small-pox on the Gracchus. Mr Poynton finds that Dr Upham was blameworthy, but recommends his reinstatement. In Dr Reid’s case he finds that that officer failed to notify Dr Upham, and no recommendation is made.

A competent authority who recently visited the Auckland district states that further cases of anthrax in that part of the colony are not unlikely. Imported bones have for years been largely used for manuring purposes by Auckland pastoralists, and our informant is surprised that stock in that district have escaped so well. Anthrax is, he states, more prevalent in Auckland than the public is aware of. Very few cases are reported to the Agricultural Department, but it is certain that many animals have suocumbed to the disease without the owners knowing the real cause of the mortality. The latest outbreak has occurred at Katikati, in the Bay of Plenty, making five cases in the Auckland province within a month. '

Never was a stranger dinner than was eaten recently in Liverpool. Both host and guest —the dinner was served for two—were antiquarians, and their fare consisted of apples, bread, butter and wine. But the astonishing part of it was that the apples were at least 1800 years old, having been taken from a hemetically-sealed jar unearthed at Pompeii. The bread was made from a recently-opened Egyptian tomb, the hieroglyphics thereon showing it to have been grown in the reign of that Pharoah “ who knew not Joseph ” and who afterwards perished, together with his armies in the Red Sea. The butter discovered on a stone shelf in an ancient and longdisused well, dated from the days of Queen Elizabeth, while the wine was old when Columbus was a boy, and oame from a vault in Corinth.

A number of missionaries are coming from England by the new mission steamer Southern Cross, now on her way to Auckland from England. It is proposed to mark the oocasion in the northern city by a public reception to the captain and missionaries, to be held on some evening next week. Owing to the supply of food running short at Norfolk Island the Southern Cross will be obliged to make her stay in Auckland as brief as possible, and she will be despatched as soon as she can be filled with stores for the islands. The sending out of the mission ship evoked a great deal of interest in England, and the Archbishop of Canterbury took a chief share in the religious ceremonies connected therewith. When the Southern Cross visited Adelaide a few days ago, the greatest interest and sympathy were manifested by the Adelaide people, who remitted all harbour, wharfage, pilot and other fees.

A meeting of townspeople was held on Saturday night to consider what steps should be taken to recognise the services rendered by Mr Jas. Williams, J.P., prior to his departure for Wanganui. After some discussion it was decided to present him with an illuminated address and to entertain him at a social to be held in the Oddfellows’ Hall, on Tuesday next. The following committee was appointed to carry out the details:—Drs. Todd, Reed, Ross, Messrs E. H. Lee, H. F. Norris, W. G. Downes, H. O. Mclvor, S. Johnson, J. H. Bull, O. M. Whittington, W. I. Limbrick, A. E. Jull, W. J Pellow, W. Anstiß, H. C. Collett, G. Abrahams, M. Murray, C. H. Nash, A. Hastings, J. Mclntyre, C. Tricklebank, H. C. Rolfe, E. Bibby, H. M. Rathbone, G. Oakenfull, W. Pellow, J. Harker, A Corskie, A. E. Eames, W. D. Pattison, T. Butler, P. Cosgrove, S. MoGreevy, J. Mogridge, H. H. Ford, T. Carson, F. Shanly, F Downer, H. Gebbie, J. Brinson, and L. Grenside.The committee will meet at half-past 7 o’clook, to-night, in the public library.