The Wanganui Chronicle. AND PATEA-RANGITIKEI ADVERTISER. "NULLA DIES SINE LINEA." WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 24, 1890.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1177, 24 September 1890, Page 2

The Wanganui Chronicle. AND PATEA-RANGITIKEI ADVERTISER. "NULLA DIES SINE LINEA." WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 24, 1890.

Tho Supremo Couvt adjourned shortly after 5 o'clock last night, and will resume at 10 o'clock this morning. Mr G. Hutchison, M.H.K., will address hisconstituents at TJpokongaroto-niovrow (Thursday) evening, at 8 o'clock. Mr David Lundou, a vice-President of tho Wanganui Football Club, has given a donation of one guinea towards the club's funds. In France there aro about 30,000 elementary schools whero the • teachers, having first passed an examination, train the boys in practical gardening. The Wanganui School Committee hold their usual monthly mooting at the Corough Council Chambers on Friday evening next, at 7.50. Tenders, are called for work ■ on, the Upokongavo Road, and will close at the Board's office Wanganui, at 10 am. on ■ Saturday, Octobor 4th. We hear from a private source that Mrs Dudley Eyre, who is at present, in San Francisco, has lately come into property of some value, which has been in Chancery some 13 or 14 years. Mr E. C. Bruce, M.H.8., arrived in town' yesterday. We understand that he leaves for Hawera to-day, and will probably address the electors at Patea on Monday next. Our sporting notes by, •' Ooo," are unavoidably held over till Thursday's issue. This is owing to pressuro of space by Mr Ballance's speech and tho Supreme Court report. A meeting of electors favourable to Mr G. Carson's candidature will be held this evening, at 8 o'clock, in the Fire Brigade Hall. As showing the growing popularity of the Collegiate School, we may mention that one of the new boys who has joined this term is a son of Bishop Cowie, of Auckland. Mr E. Clinton Hughes, the well-known solicitor, of New Plymouth, announces himself as a candidate for tho representation of that town in the General Assembly. MrCourtney, of Taranaki. of immigrant renown, is at present ou a visit to Wanganui. Ho has lately brought out a large number of intending settlers, both young and old, who have already got settled down in suitable situations. , Somo workmen, while executing repairs in Westminister Abbey, dißCoved an aperture which led to a mysterious coll built in the wall, in which were relics, including a branch for two candles. An inmate of a Liverpool workhouse, a watchmaker by trade, who i 6 suffering from bad eyesight, has fashioned a wonderful clock out of pins, boot-rivets, buttons, knitting-needles, and iron bed- ; laths. It took three years to complete. A man named Patrick Long,, who worked his passage from Auckland to Wellington on tho steamer Tarawera, ' which arrived at that port last night, was arrested on a charge of threatening to shoot the chief engineer of the steamer with a revolver. Messrs Hogg Bror. and Brechin desire us to notify that their long-waited for millinery has arrived, and will be on vimv at Ayrshire House to-day. The firm have also opened two cases of corsets in a groat variety of shapes, particulars of which may be seen in our advertising columns ■ to-morrow. Messrs Parkinson, Rnye, and Burns, who came up from Wellington for the occasion, represented tho Press Association at MrJ. Ballanco's meeting last night. Under their care tho leader of the Opposition need have no fear of not ' being reported both fully and impartially. The following team has boen selected by the selection committee to play against tho Manawatu team next Saturday, on , our local Recreation Reservo : — Marshall, 1 full back; Poako, E. Woon, McLean, three-quarters ; Bullock, and Leys, lialfi backs; Emmerson, Shore, Clarke, Glasgow, Townsend, Grogan, Gray, Fookes, and Montfjomerie, forwards. Emergon- ■ cies — H. AVoon, J. Blair. It is a curious circumstance that speci- ■ mena of tho hair of all the American Pre- : sidents, from Washington to Pierce, are [ preserved in the Patent Office at Washing- ] ton. The custom of preserving the Presi- '. dential looks was abandoned about thirty years ago. How it arose, and why the Patent Office was the repository selected, ' is a mystery. Their Consciences Rebelled. — First ' Burglar (in dining-room) : " Faith Dinnis, i here's some foine cold mate. Oime hungry too, after goin' trough debause." Second Burglar (catching sight of the clock) : " Suro and we can't ate it, Bill. It's Friday mornin'.begobs!" First Burglar: "Well, that's too bloimed bad! Whoi • didn't wo hurry up a bit ." A novel marriage took place near Now York, the combined ages of the bridal party being 349 years— the bridegroom being 101, the best man 83, and thebridesraaid 74. The bride wore a dress made for her first marriage 07 years ago, and the bridegroom wore tho hat and gloves ' ho wore when he first entered ,tho marriage state 70 years since. > The Northern Company's steamer Gairlock, whilst going out on Tuesday morning wont ashore on the South Spit, through her steering gear breaking away. I Yesterday afternoon, just before high , water, a line was put off from the vessel 1 to the breakwater, and with this on the winch, and aided by her propellor, every endeavour was made to got the vessel out of her awkward position, but all offorts proved fruitless. No doubt, as the tides aro making, sho will manage to get off by this morning or to-night's tide.

A requisition is boing s : '.^ne'l H Wellington to be forwarded to Mi > Vv r.Hutchison, of Dunodin, formerly Jtujrir ot tluit city and a member of the House of Itopro-senlatu-cn, asking him to sliud for one of the Wellington constituencies. West-end Physician : " Tho lVsfc thing I can recommend for your complaint is a trip co Egypt." Impecunious Patient : " Egypt ! but whore am I to find tho Pharaoh ?" Yesterday morning Mr Wilson, one of our local cabdrivers, met with a nasty accident. Ho was driving when his horses ran away and canio into collision with a telegraph post, the shock throwing Wilfoii off his sent and dislocating his shoulder. He was at onco taken to his home in the Avenue, where Dr Tripo attended him. We hear ho is making progress towards recovery aud hopes to be about again soon. It is related of (.ho Czar that when he was staying at Gatchina, a man working in the grounds of tho Castle, every time ho saw the Emperor approaching, run away and hid himself ; this occurred so oltea that the man was taken to task and asked the reason why ho did this ? He replied, " I am so afraid that the Czar, if he sees me, will take a great dislike to me, when perhaps I should be sent off to Siberia, so I hide mysolf to keep out of danger." Thts ingenuous answer shows how tho Great Father, as ho is sometimes styled, is regarded by his subjects. At the Berlin Medical Congress, one of the most intcrfistins; speeches was deliversd by Professor Trefllor, of Grief swald, who spoke on the propagation and prevention of dipthoria. He proved that in Prussia the most numerous cases occur in in the coldest provinces. He arrived at the following conclusions : — Tho cause of the disease is diptheria bacillus. The disease is propagated by the excreta of patients. Tho bacillus, floating in tho air, gets into the clothes and bodies of healthy people. Diptheric children must be kept away from school for at least f our weeks. That Prince Bismarck isaman of many parts everyone is aware, but how many people know that he has inhis time played the part of a law court reporter ? Tet such is indeed the case, for after passing his State examination 111 law at tho University of Berlin, the erabyrc Chancellor was made official law reporter ot one of tho courts of that city. But Bismarck, the young law reporter, lacked the discretion and diplomacy ofiKismarck, Ihe Chancellor. He, ono day, engaged in a wordy war with a certain pig-headed witness, and at last threatened the object of his wrath that ho would havo him kicked out. Tho judge, however, reproved the young reporter by saying that he attended to the kicking out. "Well," said Bismarck to the ob jeetionsible witness, "be careful what |you say,' or I ' will get tho judge to kick you out." Apropos of the old German legond of the " Storks and the Babies," they have a quaint old custom in the Fatherland, when the fairy atork happens to fly down tho chimney with a baby, of giving her upon her first birthday a " hatching chest," as handsomely jcarved and ornamented as circumstances will porinit. This custom, sayo a Trans-atlantic paper, has been introduced aud is (rapidly acquiring popularity in America, and nothing affords so much pleasure to tho girl, maid, or matron as tho contents of her hatching chest, for into it go, first of all, a beautiful spoon given her each year by tho person whose namo she bears. When tho little maid is twelve yeais old a dozeu handsomo sj-oons, each differing from tho other in design, are ready for tho day of her wedding. Then the gift changes to tablespoons, and as the years go on the full coinpleteinent gradually accumulates. At the samo time some adoring aunt, skilled in tho womanly nrt of needlework, adds bit by bit exquisite sets of drapery and bed linen. Others yearly add to tho childish toys and girlish trinklets some choice piece of silver or rare dish of china, until by-and-by the hatching chest contains a weddingoutfitof unique and costly things, which, accumulating slowly, aro more valuable than one might be able to afford to purchase in quantity. The height of novel heroes continues to increase. According to tho Speaker, out of 192 of these gentlemen who were " reviewed " between October and June ■last, no fewer than 85 stood at least Gft in their stocking solos, whilst many were considerably taller. The average height of heroes ot romance has, in fact, been raised throe-quarters of an iuch during the period in question, as compared with what it was in novels published between January and September, 1889. Whilst acknowledging my contemporary's statistical diligence, I am bound to say that from my own experience of modern fiction, I think it really matters very little to what height its male characters attain. If novelists, fair and otherwise, could only be induced to make their stones considerably shorter, no ono, I am sure, would object to their lengthening their heroes. In tho course of his address to the electors last night Mr Ballance permitted himself the luxury of attributing the authorship of certain letters on harbour matters that havo appeared in this journal to Mr A. A. Browne, the Secretary of the Education Board. Mr Ballance's next step was to draw the attention of his audience to the fact that his opponent in the present election contest is the Chairman of the Education Board — the inferenco being that Mr Browno wrote tho letters attacking Mr Ballance at the instance of Mr Carson. Mr Ballauce is quite wrong. Mr Browne did not write tho letters in question, nor indeed any other letters on the subject of tho harbour that have appeared in the Chronicle. Ms Browne knows as much about the identity of the writer as Mr Ballance does himself — and that is nothing at all. If Mr Ballance is the gentleman we take him to bo he will avail himself of the earliest opportunity of apologising to Mr Browne for having fakely accused him, and to Mr Carson for having suggested that ho put Mr Browne up to tho job.