A WANGANUI LAWSUIT.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10970, 9 June 1903, Page 6

A WANGANUI LAWSUIT.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, — May I be allowed to draw attention to a little child's inquisitiveness or sensitiveness re the meaning of a word the vise of which has been brought jDrominently before the public of late, as the outcome of the Wanganui lawsuit. The child commenced by saying: "Grandpa, the girls asked me to-day at school what does your grandpa mean by putting 'pauper' to his name in the papers, and 1 didn't know what to tell them?". "Why," I replied'; "surely you know it was through the actions of others that your grandpa is made a pauper." "STes', said the little one, "but 1 couldn't say what it meant." "Why? Don't you know?" I continued;, "you have had to knock off your music lessons and grandma has had to do- without a servant, and that is how you and grandma have got to work so hard and your brother has had to go to work instead to school for another year and perhaps might have gone to College after that, and we have had to sell our cow and pony,, and have got to be so careful how much firing we use this cold weather." ■ This much explained, the child understood and could 'enumerate herself 101 little luxuries we had to learn to do without, and at last added: "That is why we had to have the telephone cut off. But I don't like to see it in the papers, grandpa, for all that. • Mind and don't you put it in the papers again; mind, if you do, I- can't go to school." It was then I saw, by the tears in her eyes, that the child's dignity was touched and her feelings very much hurt; and' when my attention was drawn to her side of this picture I had to promise I would never put it in the papers again. The change of the child's countenance was like 'magic, and at once ahe was able to exclaim, in a ringing tone, ''Never mind, grandpa,, if you win your case you will buy me a bike, won't yoii?"' If you think this little incident, among many, worth repeating, I will thank you to do so, and perhaps save the child's feeling's from further explaining this matter to her school majes. — I am, etc., THOS. MITCHELL, Aramoho.

The certificate* for tlie five river packet licenses were signed by the chairman of the Licencing Committee yesterday, under

The committee of the Children's Home will be glad of a donation of rugs or blankets.' Will any intending donor be good enough to communicate with the inatroii at thr Home or with any member of Ihe committee.

A lad named Gard was admitted to the Albury Hospital (Victoria) a few days ago in i pitiable condition as the result of un explosion of a nitroglycerine cap. When going to school the boy set abouot lighting a fire, using the cap on which to strike the match. An explosion followed, which literally shattered his left hand into fragments. The boy ran home, and the wound was bound up without the arteries being ligatured. On the way to the hospital the sufferer nearly bled to death, his clothing being saturated. He Avas absolutely bloodless and in a state of collapse when admitted after a journey occupying ten hours. The remainder of the hand was amputated at the wrist.

The Greymouth correspondent of the Christchurch Press reports that an Wednesday the Lake Brunner Oil Company struck a heavy feeder of gas, and shortly aSterw&tAv a tremendous gusher of sAlt water, largely impregnated with oil. The force underneath can be gauged by the fact that the water and oil is thrown to a height of nearly 100 ft., and presents a splendid spectacle. It is intended, as soon as the heavy flow reduces somewhat, ■to endeavour to drive on the inside casing, so as to shut off the water from the oil. T'he^ oil appears to come from a large layer of pumice ot something akin to that. The flow is. now as strong as ever, and it •may be necessary to put down another bore close by. The prospects are considered excellent.

In the course of his speech at Hokitika on Friday night the Premier stated that Bills would be introduced during the coming session of Parliament dealing with the, following subjects: — Shops and Offices, Intestates' Estates, Local Bodies' Loans Amendment, Payment of Members, Land Act Amendment, Orchard and Garden Pests, Crown Tenants Rent Rebate Act Amendment, Local Government Franchise, Land Agents, Weights and Measures, Legitimation Act Amendment, First Offenders Probation Amendment, Law Practitioners, Government Valuation of Land Act Amendment, Rating on Unimproved Values Amendment, Sand Drift, Wireless Teletraphy, Roads and Town Districts Rating, upreme Court Judges, Streets Betterment, Public Revenues, Harbour Boards, Public Health Amendment, Referendum, Public Works, Land for Settlements Amendment, Municipal Corporations Amendment, Shoddy, Medical Practitioners, and Bank Note, Trusts and Combines, State Fire Insurance. In addition, there would be an amendment of the labour laws to meet such cases as had been dis»}os^d in a recent cabinetmakers' dispute at Auckland.

What is a Cough? — A spasmodic effort to cypel- the mucus from the bronchial tubed. A cold causes a more abundant* secretion of mucus, and when' the lungs ancl bronchial tubes are inflamed, they are extremely sensitive to the irritation. Unless care as taken, the' cold may result in pneumonia, .which is swift and deadly. If the "cold is a lingering one, the more leisurely but equally fatal consumption may set in. Do not neglect a cold or cough. Take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It always cures and cures quickly. — United Farmers' Co.-0~. Association sells it. A Friend's .Recommendation., — Thousands all over New Zealand use ,and recommend S^ykcs' Cura Cough for corigha and colds. Do you? Sykes' Cltra Cough cures asthma, bronchitis, ,catiurh, etc. It's a acyxhing and healing balm for all affections of tho throat, cheat, and lungs;. Our respected citizen W. Andrews, Esq.', Technical School, says: — "During a recent singing competition I was suffering from A relaxed throat, and being recommended to try Sykes' Cura Cough by a friend, 1 foun< it gave mo almost instant relief. Tnu aafelv rewmataiad it to all sine* pi "