BRIEF, BUT POSITIVE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11422, 2 December 1904, Page 5

BRIEF, BUT POSITIVE.

Mr Alexander Miller, the -well-known builder, of Roslyn, is not lavish with words. He says what lie lias to say brieflj and to the point. Writing under data 19t.h May, Mr Miller says — "I suffered from rheumatism in my heel for two months, and was cured by Rheumo in two or three days. I can recommend ifc to any one suffering from the same complaint.." It is a volume in a nutshell. Two months' agony cured in two days! "T can recommend it," says Mr Miller. You can believe him. Rhoumo is sold by all chemists and storekeepers at 2s 6d and 4s 6d per bottle. Kempthorne, Prosser ami Co., Wholesale Agents.

The Gothic arrived at Hobart at 5 o'clock yesterday.

We have to acknowledge the receipt of a neatly gx>t up calendar for the year 1905 from the New Zealand Fire and Marine Insurance Company, and also one from the United Insurance Company.

The Mayor to-day sent the following telegram to Mr Seduon: — "Hon. Picmier, Wellington. — See number of South African cannon now coming forward may Wanganui expect to receive one, as promised. Our South African Memorial still waiting promised gun.— A. G. Bignell, Mayor." A Manchester' tradesman writes to the Department of Industries and Commerce as follows:— "May I draw the attention of your ohceseinakprs to the miserable quality of the cheesecloth used .by them, it being far too thin, and adheres to the cheese, so much so that it is almost impossible to get it from the cheese, .and when this task is accomplished, which is no light one, as most of it has to be taken off in shreds, it makes the cheese look very untidy. I am enclosing samples of American doth and New Zealand cheesecloth. The former can be taken off in a lew minutes, and when off the cheese looks tidy'; with the other it is impossible." Of the sum which had been invested in the world's railroads at the close of 1902, it is estimated, according to the Railway Magazine, that more than .£3,670,000,000 has been spent on 184,000 miles of European raikoad, and £3,232.,000,000 on the 337,000 miles owned by the rest of the world. On this basis it is found the roads of Europe represent an investment of ,£22,952 a mile, while those of the rest of the world average ,£11,402. Great Britain's railroads represent the highest cost per mile, the figures standing at J51,3ti8, while those of Belgium come next with .£30,048. The least expensive Government roads of Europe are those in Finland. Their cost is put at ,£6421 per mile. ■ - The barque' Ariel has arrived at Sydney after a long passage of 30 daysj from TiniaVu,-Ncw Zealand. She had a sensational experience one afternoon, when she' was 200 miles due east of Sydney Heads. At about 2 p.m. that day a southerly buster of exceptional violence made its appearance without warning, and the ship was thrown on her beam ends. For a time the position was one of great peril, and the olficers of the Ariel state that the vessel was lying over at a very dangerous angle. Eventually the barque was uprighted, and continued her journey without further incident. Tae length of the passage was due to adverse winds. The Ariel was unable to pass through Cook's Strait, and made the trip round the Three Kings. The Otaki water rights case, concluded at the Palraerston Supreme Court this week, is expected to prove an expensive undertaking for whichever party is called upon to pay the costs (remarks the local Times}. The latter, for both hearings, is estimated at fully Of this amount-- the expenses of the jury alone amount to ,£2OO. The action lasted fifteen days, during which forty-eight witnesses were called — twenty-one for ' the plaintiff and twenty-seven for the defendant. They included ten surveyors and four civil engineers. The evidence taken during the time stated covered 180 pages of briefsized paper, closely type-written, representing 307 foolscap pages of manuscript written by the Judge. And it was all over a drain, which the jury found had caused the plaintiff no damage.

The direful consequences of a fire in a crowded hospital may well be imagined (says the Sydney Herald) but although conflagrations have occurred in such institutions in England and America, New South Wales has bson extremely free from disasters of that nature. Nevertheless the danger is always present, and it is essential that those in charge of the hundreds of invalids ever present in our hospitals should be thoroughly trained in the best methods of fire-fighting. This has been recognised by the authorities at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, and it has been decided to inaugurate a system of fire drill. The iirst of these drills was held at Sydney on Saturday morning, when about 70 nurses and attendants were instructed in the use of the hoses and other appliances which are scattered about the various; floors in rase of need.

New Zealand, with a sheep capital scarcely one-third that of Argentina (writes the Pastoralists' Review of November 16th), exports nearly 50 per cent, more carcases. Loral consumption does not account for the difference; the Argentines eat more beef and less mutton than do tho New Zealanders. Argentina is not capitalising her sheep stock; on the contrary, it is decreasing. When Argentina lias exported 5 per cent, carcases on her capital stock, . and paid her local butcher's mutton bill, and strikes a balance,' she finds her capital on the diminishing side. New Zoaland exports well nigh 25 per cent., and feeds herself, and leaves her capital untouched. These are facts. Not, onehalf of Argentina's annual crop of lambs supply either the local or the foreign meat trade, or pass, into breeding capital; they die before they are a twelvemonth old.

An American commercial visitor, Mr Clementsen, gives his impressions to Sydney "Telegrapli: — I guess that your tendency to Socialism is good, and when I say that IL do not mean that kind of Socialism which says that I am to give the full benefit of my energies to the other fellow, who, perhaps, is a good-for-noth-ing loafer. What I mean is that the demand for democratic legislation, such . as you now enjoy, has a tendency to prevent a state of things such as has been built up in America being brought about. I guess the American people would consider themselves in, Heaven if they had a brand 6f politics like yours. Tliis ira my 22nd voyage to Australia, and I guess you are improving overy time. Tour people don't iiusfclo enough, and you will find that the strangers will soon learn this and come in and scoop all your good things. Yes, Australian people have grand opportunities if they will only embrace them, and they are' assisted considerably by the class of ,. legislation that is enacted.

The extreme severity of the immigration" restriction laws of the United States was strikingly shown in an incident that occurred recently at San Francisco. Amadee Horville, one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Tahiti, was denied a landing at the port mentioned because he was found to be suffering from consumption, an infectious disease. The Judge was bound for his old home in France, and merely wished to pass through the United States as quickly as possible, but this circumstance did not help him, and he will have to go back to Tahiti, and . reach France by some other route. Seeing that there are thousands of consumptives travelling about America all the time, the action of the Federal authorities bears an uncommonly good resemblance, to the process of straining at a gnat. This particular decision has been criticised for its unnecessary hardship, but it is undoubtedly within the letter of the law.