LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11029, 19 August 1903, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

*— ~^.» .. . -.- i.< .-.-. fc*« ...... ! No. 415, Mr J. H. Falkper's reeidejaee,,?,:, \ Heads. Road, is the latest" addition .toiiwia 'b .< Telephone Exchange.- »- -.* , : .{<vi' v V'«.'< ; The death. ib< announced of Wff&^a^" 1 ' Campbell, a very oUi. and welHmomi% •>' / dent of Napier, at- the. advanced ifff-'oWj "' years. He arrived' in.tHe'.caitßtayfin }&j& ' with the 65th Regiment, and/ after . Mite,, <?fervice.in the New Plymouth aUd V;^B|)^ . ■ ganui districts, sejttled 1 . Like most vegetation, -the! hair gjmffc;*' "better in light than in darkness, WSE»UfS.^f ; , the stimulating %tfeqt oi light and ;fgP£,' .- qhine. -It irtßaofteta been notieM' &' T w* - case of mtstc Wfe&'Bfls'in f «ffifce* with 'on* wdfc ' .always turned towards the %ht ftaPjgfe,;. , moustache or toeHra 'of that side $«*s» . ,' longer than- on^ihfe'tither. * ; -* ( «^ In the House asked : its "ft $& > , j intention, of: jtlfj^ernmeht to . spettors of . awarj&j appointed ,jn, concUian. i . . tion and , arbitration .districts -.V>;..,W^i ■■< ' ! colony, a.t an L earh sse? soon as.iihe lqw.^is f £mended to enable U| ; ., ' to do this, so.,Boqn.,we will appoint y an " inspector, of awajfds^f . . . •• . xty ■• ' A story vouohediibf t>y '>T£t Latttetf»o#V f - ' A man suffering Jrom an 'internal- fsomy ' plaint. The doctor^'Said <it was cabeet; ] then he saiditwa^^liver'teomplaißt; Va^ji '* ", when the man died the postmortem 7-ex-amination showed i^tjwasjsn^thet, bttt;*n- A ofSthe boweJH.^^ittdcthe <i«w& ; >! ' " a much-lettered jypfevpnt.ia. anfcill ittir £410./. j, v , <,-•;» '• •-:>..'/ ...^.M."*." I ' /»>«f A contemptible robhery occurred- ktf , lington on ' Friday night, "when 1 !; man on a short holiday '*6 ; tfcfe :citW# ls<u robbed of- between .£4 'arid ' £51 ""'White ': walking; about ,thW towfc he made tHe k&i y ; quaintance of a. stranger, for w%»& bfed he paid at one of the hotels, the twbjmen v : ' being put in one -room. In the" mo^^ L * ', when the .young man awxi]ce,_lie'foii£jjhnat ' . the stranger, had disappeared, and .*■*)* him had gene the jdang man's money.^ * . Mr Pjvt Finnerhan, of NoTthwiHb*, \s« " former Manchester City footballer, hail ji|st 'iad what is probably a unique homing, experience. Five yeard' ago] while traitffcnijyoung birds from Stafford, he lost a. well- >' ' bred bird. The other day the v homer-"re» L urned, whence no one k3apwji,.t©Lita ott home. *t$ Tins flhoTra that it had Ijeen «Jb« gent since 1898. The experience does <H2d here, for by .ait odd hird's bother, belo&rKtalc^t*^.', ;, R rooks, returned a'tsexactly the same tUjjs^u , after being lost for three years. v

Hongkong advises thai three lines to Swatow are working alright. ,At an auction sale of sections in the Buick estate at Petone, 5 acres 2 roods 37 perches, divided into 'small sections, reaHied a total sum of .£8042 Is sd. The average price per .acre was over ,£I4OO. - A schoolgirl at Lee has been awarded a medal for a seveh'years' perfect school attendance. All the members of the family — nine in numberr- "attended the same school, and not one of them missed a single attendance.' The famous Excelsior diamond, which w^ discovered "by Captain Ed. JoTgansen in 'South Africa, is now at- Amsterdam, whjpre , ( is. wjll t be cut_ and,, polished;- . Ifcweighs 971 carats, and is the largest in the world. Its valu^is^lj^p^opo,.,^, „ A Government . surveyor is " responsible ihde s lS&b*"iAtiH pigeons were forwarded from the Ohurer-ooxmtry to Auckland in ©he >v jlp^ tl^e. other, day, and he-,, protestsagainst thiß wholesale slaughter. The gyrations of a motor. bicycle caused. sorirfr exort»me"rffc' c 'in' f A I shb«rto(n l recently. ftteifyfmiMh had left. it"'i>utßide the Post fo^fi^3^ai; ,it ,auddenjyj>« for -.some unexreason^ went, oj|. Luckily the -©wnter -appeared 'oh the scene "and storied before any daniagk was done. «F,'4fife- fijfftt •contract for- "die' Forth naval' ba|e^t {Sjp. Margaret's /Hopfci ins now been 'let, tt is^or* a range qf 'buildings, for the ilttf"liisfrfin&ht of tlie staff "required to P«y otft the various' - worts'/ 'and it is to ;%©■',. executed., with the utmost 'possible despatch. „' I >^xj Vtl ' i A, v ,ctirioua^occurw,nca from I Ayr., An electric li^tiivecftbje crosses, the toaiS near Tain's ' Blip, and through borne defeat the- electricity JeaKfett fcfot; throwing down three horses, two men, ;and three lads,, as they unsuspectingly crossed the spot. Happily^ they were more astonished thatf'hurfc *!'! ' w v '" ; " Thff German' Empress' possesses about 4}100>,000 worth -of jewels of 1 her own. But for estate occasions,., by virtue .of her position^ has a caIJL upon any gems in the Prussian Treasury.' and if. is estimated that the jew«lß ; 'h'e*' I Majesty can select from are worth: £250,0.00. • - . The .walking, eras© >rampant in England iufi^now.has .nob caught on .much, in Scofc-. land as yet." In Dundee- However, the boys haVe been 'seized with the fever,' and .bands of * them spend their evenings in walking qonteetst W,hile still heated after one of thejse, two, boys drank water copiously, Sy©re''soo'ii takeii 1 ill,, find died. Fo'r'sonie time there has been considerable tUfficiilty^in -finding buyers for secondhand tonnage .(says a Home Bhipping joutnal).. Durinc the past few weks,. however, a/ considerable number have changed hand's, principally" io Norwegians arid Italians.- One laree firm has disposed of jjqvera,!' vessels building. ■ while it is said that another- firm , has disposed of 16 sailing jlhip? and. sijeamers. ■> Sir Oliver Lodge, speaking 1 at a meeting bf.'ttte Society, for ' Physical Research on a recent -occasion/ said -that the sending of elecsic,meßsa£es-without wires had induced people to- say:' '.'Now we>,can begin to betfWii^^elepfethy.'' There was absolutely #6 ! jcQ»frection between them.'- As to signalling to "a .distance by physical agency, leyqsty -savage .and every, dog knew it could 1 ' Barking, chirping, or producing "a^QiM^or in some way making an appeal to .we;' teCtiße H of sight, was- signalling to' a. cUs^ncij.vor wireless telegraphy. The eye wo^Jre ally, an* electrical receiving instrujh'fcni, a»d one of the best, too. Telepathy they^rausti'.call a -psychological process, the tiettiite of which remained to be discovered. , ' ,i Never, was a- stranger dinner than was eaten recently in Liverpool. Both host and guest— the dinner was served fof two-r-were antiqii&rians, ahdHheir fare consisted of, apples, bread, butter, and' < wine. But the astonishing part of it ( was that .the apples were, at least. 1,800 years old, having been taken ifrom' a hermetically-sealed jar uneartlrttl at Poinp'eii. Tne bread was made from wheat looted, from a- recently-opened Egytian Jtomb, ,th,o hieroglyphics thereon showing it to haye been grown in the reign of i&otr PhaWah "who knew not Joseph" and afterwards Berished, together with ' his armies, in. the Red Sea.' The. butter, discovered on & stone shelf in an ancient and iong-disused well, dated from the days' of Queen Elizabeth; while the wine was old whenlColumbuß was a boy,;and' came -from a. v^nlt.i^i CJqtintli. - „-v. -v » , t is, Kansas,, sti] 1. ,It .has been so £amp ptlat^,that tne, getting wbrrTed. Happily Mrs John B. Slaughter has now ' appeared to' set evetydne's ; niirid at rest. Jifr Slaughter, it seems, brouehi an- action some time ago for, diyprce. Hie wife .filed a., scorching f counter;petition — so scorching/ in" fact;' that' her husband offeredto compromise. Mr and Mrs Slaughter remembered: -'the reputation of her State and declined 'his proposition. Sho said that sheTbad been mamed and divorced- itoicp befoYe; but in b'olh' cases she had' unselfishly accepted compromises ; that she was 'tired of so 'much magnanimity, xwaß'-nowx waB'-now set on 'seeing i a divorce trial for once in helife straight tft!asrf¥ rofi?lt&rt f io "^finish . Slaughter. took- her-at-her— word,, and the Supreme' Court of the .State are about to 4e t ci<lft,'Wn >f their case!!; It comes before' the public *i«-i ihdpd t*at only £3?ai&as diVbrcV cafe" could possibly asaume-^the lowi>r c^uii^B-^a^n^'i granted Slftugjiteti a divorce, ahd^^h^^pametinie. allowed this wife, sub- < stan^al^iiUimony.fV . , . . ■'lififtn. instructive aritcle in the 'Catholic CitjjEen' Mr- Jerenkiah Quin throws Some insidelights on the Fenian move-irient."iii.-the* United States a 'couple' of decades,, ago,. JHe;attribujtes. -the, failure. p f the, policy of' A assassinaiion.,a.nd^ dynamite to the lack* of funds, and pa^flidly/tplls, of a great hiuf£,that, witK,'tpe,,^ o|,^ee^merican PrJ-sSi was,,w,9rl?ed,, w^th.-thj5 K o>ject ; of- be- . c9minff"financialW th&. vfMfiVrQf Britain in Ireland. /He writes: "A jPftnyention was called in Philadelphia, 'jafld f jshe.. issue of_ bpnds (knowji as Fenian bonds)- was authorised'for 1 purpose of^ttjre arms. The sale of these bonds' -was- sfim. re-; turmf • very 'meagre. j> Th¥* daSiy "Aniericaii Pres&of that time was fW^?' gloomy accounts of thfe* immense sai&ro^thesc'Feriian bonda. A'^Mertd of oursbn ? sotae Board of Trade woiild offer £50,000 i ofFenian bondp for sale, which offer woulo? <i "sß ! 'auickly ac- " cepted.bj/Wme; otbes frientd, P »'»nd thus the eschj^fluer ;of jUie-^Fenians, to run into, millions ;jjbu,t the^plain truth was thatjjy,ery littlLe ffipney w,as.i©oll«cted from this.c^o'urce,,., ( '«-.,« ,*/,) foil tivc A matter of •■considerably ntlportance to Caledonian- l ßbtfet?ieß'^aß < 'introduced by Mr ffhoß.' >Duncai< i at" Saturday's meeting of the Wairarapa Caledonian Society. He suggested . -£b, a t 4 executive ,of , the New Zealand Association of CaJedonian Societties $hquld -formulate a scheme to arrange for pnpaioV.. forfeit, list altar the, manner, of thajt in connecfeipn jv,i(;h Racing Clubs.. At' £he present time athletes can go without from .meeting to meeting. arid "never pay 'their fees, particularly hard are the nomination fees- to collect. A', nomination is sent injby telegram or post 'with an intimation that the sender will pay tip when he attends the meeting. But,, he never goes near, - and nothing further ig.heardi so there is no way in wlliiSh to"., collect, the fees. Mr Duncan's suggestion was unanimou&ly-appraved. and the -Society's delegate was instructed to support the introduction of an -unpaid forf^Uiat .

The soil of Cuba is extremely fruitful. Cabbages there arc so large that heads weighing' 201 b each are common. All vegetables do well. Radishes 1 may be> eaten from 14 to 18 days after sowing, lettuce in five weeks after sowing, while corn produces three crops per year. Sweet potatoes grow all the year. The carcase of a large sperm whale, 64 feet in length, was found on Sunday laston the beach at Otara, about five miles from Fortrose, by Mr Joseph Thwaites, jun. Tlig "find" was secured and Thwaites is understood to have dietvosed of it for & handsome sum to an Invercargill syndicate.—Wyndham Farmer. <. - . Plans were- submitted, onjuly Ist to the, city authorities of New'.'Tordk for 'the building of a great Ciiy Hdll; '"together with a railway station in Park Bow and ' Chambers Street. The .building is to have ■a great, tower on the campanile play for 45 storeys high, or fifteen storeys higher' than any New York "feky-ecrapor. 1 ' The total cost- including, the ground, is estimated at jisoo,ooo. . , Ai : \ %K ,; ,, v v If a diver at work remains quiet he ie quickty surrounded by curious' fishes f tha't watch him with 'open-mouthed wonder. . Sharks are not apt to attack a man in div-. ing armour. Many of the native divers lose their liven through meeting gigantic molluscs that close with a vice-like grip on anything that brushes the edge of the shell. The stonefish, which is but a- few inches in length, and whose bite is poisonous, lurks under the pearl shells, and attacks the unwary diver. Wiremti ' Pirihonga, better known' as' •Wirenin te . Parihi, died at Oromahoe, Auckland, a few days ago, at the a • of 90 years. " He was the last of Hone Heke'a old warriors^ and fought against the British in several battles. He was at Ohacwai when the assault ordered by Colonel Despard resulted so disastrously, the British, j losing 100 men in a few minutes. Wiremu. led the war 'dance before the Governor at Waitangi four years ago. He was greatly respected by both Maoris and. Europeans. False teeth made of paper are .certainly a novelty, but such is one of the latest in- . ventions that hail from Germany. Some of the dentista there are using them, and report them to bo highly satisfactory. 'These paper teeth; have., several advantage^ ovex the ordinary. oue& o£ porcelain, or mm- ' eral comppsition. They are very cheap, do not breakror chip, are not sensitive to neat' or cold, nor has -the moisture of the mouth any effect upon them. . . Intercolonial exchanges record that the White . Star liner Afric, which recently sailed from Albany for London, was drawing 29ft 4in., which is believed to be the deepest draught yet" attaineST "by any vessel leaving an Australian 1 port. . It may ,be interesting/however'; to note that the deep-* e'st-draught vessel which :has ev'ar left Australasian waters was the White Star liner Runic, 12,482 tons, which left Hobart in M,arch, 1901, drawing 32ft when she left the stream. The Christchurch City Council is considering a suggestion ■ to insure its own buildings and employees'." In connection with the proposition the following figures were quoted: — Total- value of Council's property, ,£75,883; total amount covered "by insurance, ,£26,585, leaving ,£49,378 not covered. • The amount of premiums paid amounted to .£291 15s, made up as follows : — Fire .£ll3, fidelity ,£l2 7s ( 6d, accident ,£166 7s 6d. Tlie estimated amount of premiums necessary to cover all risks was between £550 and .£6OO. • Among tlie Maori specimens added to the collection in the Canterbury Museum (says the Lyttelton Times) there is a net, with a rake attached, used for collecting fresh-water nrusselß, The article was obtained, from Lake Rotorua. The ra&e is carved, and is very old. The apparatus has, of cotirse, gone quite out of^ iise, and'" thp_. "specimen" Tn/ffie MuWeumris* Valuable? as^nb more can be obtained from the Rotoruadistrict. ,The net has been made for the purpose, the one originally attached to the rake having decayed. Very recently _ it has Toeen discovered that thero is connected with the' brain a small. gland the infundibula gland, which apparently supplies a chemical .sub-, stance to the brain,' there to be diffused through the brain cavities. It is thought that this brain substance is indispensable to the health of" the brain, and there ie promise that the study, of this gland iti 1 animals and man will enable physicians to understand and treat certain diseases of fche brain which are now very obscure. — ' Boston Transcript, , It is expected . (says the Christchurch r Presß) that a start will be made in ' about a month's time to fit the' remainder of the South Island railway rolling stock wfth the Westinghouse brake. A separate shed has . been built at the Addington Workshops to accommodate the men' employed by the contractors, and the necessary machinery, which will be put in position very shortly. It is estimated that it will take nearly three years to finish the contract. According to 'the Railways Statement,' 300 out of the 8000 vehicles on the Hurunui-BMff section had been. fitted with' the Westinghouse brake to '31st March 'last. Ten years on the down- grade has almost put an end to No Town (writes a correspondent of the Giey River Argus). Once a scene of life,, affluenee v and activity, with a > -population- amounting to' thousands, there is not to-day a score of people within its borders. In the Tiack gullies and elsewhere some of the old hands, at the age ..of three-score years and ten; are still fossicking awjay for a pennyweight of frold to add to the miserable pittance of the ,old age pension, which', on account of the high cost' of living that obtains on this Coast, and especially in inland townships, does no more than *.eep soul and body together, leaving' clothing and boots out of the question. The following hints on how to- avoid i tuberculosis may beof interest to our readers: — (1) A generous dietary of nitrogenous food. (2) Free ventilation of dwelling and sleeping rooms by. open windows, with wire gauze blind. (3) Adequate- house heating in winter. (4) Boil all milk or cream previous to using. ' (5^ Try and obtain eight , bours' sleep every jnight; if not sound 3lccp. contract hours to seven and rest duriner the day. (6) If . debilitated with weak digestion, take rest in, the recumbent position a quarter of an hour before and after . meal's. (7) Wear the loosest' clothing posaible, especially aronnd-the'waist'ahd lower ribs, .to afford absolute freedom in roßpiration. (8) Take systematic, daily. (exercise, ".in the open air on'Joot. (9) If means and statidh 1 in life adifait of ■ a long holiday, from time to timeMive during'firic weather 'in a tent in the open airt or- jn a-'SUmmei house for most of the, day,; and if unem-r i ployed pursue 1 a hobßy 'to' occupy 'tlie mind. — Medical record. ''\ ' ' ". ' '