General News.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2026, 4 February 1887, Page 2

General News.

Two sons of Mr Charlea Oliver wer* attacked by cels this week while bathing in the Mangorei Hirer. The eldest, a lad of sixteen, called at our office (Taranaki Herald) today, and displayed a very nasty bite just below the calf of the left Irg. Th* murks of the bite are on both sides of' the limb, and tbe outline of tbe eel’s moutb is most clearly and unmistakeubiy imprinted in the flesh. The wounds on each are about two inches long, ivid are in shape like tbe half of an ei' 'is. Tbe other lad was seizedIn r. g, while wading in water lese i out in depth, and the mark* of .... jite are, as in the case of hie brother, most unmistakably defined. “Dr" Gilbert, who some time ago raked in a lot of money in New Zea-~ land by lecturing in favor of religion and morality, and was afterwards sentenced to a term of bard labor in Australia for the trifling indiscroiioo of having married several wives, is now out of prison, and “tunning tbe same old racket "in America. He is r announced in the San Francisco papers as “ Dr J. Gilbert, late of Australia, the celebrated lecturer, traveller, and demolisher of Freethougbt." The American Good Templars are run* ning tbe much-married “doctor.”— Press.

The aboriginals in Qippsland intended to welcome the Governor of Victoria with a corroboree; but Tiia ticellency refuses to countenance so demoralising an exhibition. Summonses hare been issued against several people for standing in the Theatre ifuyal, Melbourne, during tbo performance of the pantomime, and one of the proprietors has also been summoned for permitting the same. It baa been reported to the Dunedin police that a travelling saddler, known as “ Fred,” committed suicide by jumping into the Clutba, near lipori’s mill, on January 20. The unfortunate man was over 60 years of age, and a German by birth. The body has not yet been recovered. The school in Canterbury for teach** ing deaf mutes is the only one of th* kind in the Southern Hemisphere, a* it is conducted on the pure “ end ’ system, whereby the children are not only taught to speak in a fairly intelligible manner, but they become very expert at “ lip reading,” and can be educated without the use of the finger system. There are now over 40 pupils in the Canterbury school, from ail parts of tho colony, and one or two pupils have been from Australia. Sir George Grey has sent a large number of Maori carvings and ornaments to the Auckland Free Library. v

During the half-year ending December 81,1886, there were 707 failures in New South Wales, with liabilities amounting to £923,154. Samuels, the Queensland blackfellow, who beat Hutchins, the English spniiii., in their 150 yards race recr"' y. '•* regu ar uyer. He trains oil i I. u y aud cigars. i. v. „avo received Bishop's Monthly Time Table, and Diary lor February. It has the corrected time table of both Hues of railway, including the extension to Mangamaboe. “ The Jdi»hop of Melbourne baa ordered prayer* to be offered that rabbits may not become mothers, all endeavors to exterminate them having proved fruitless.” So says an Amen • cau scientific Journal. The distances to Australia from London are as followsTo Melbourne, via Sues Canal, 11,245 milss; ditto, via Cape of Good Hope, 11,625. To Sydney (direct) via Sue* Canal, 10,846 ; ditto, via Cape of Good Hope, 12,644,