LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12621, 18 November 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Maori youth of seventeen years of age, named Ora Rewi has jnst died at Galatea, ug-river. Captain Edwin wired at 1.15 p.m. today :— Northerly strong winds to <rate after sixteen hours, glass fall, tides goOO* sea considerable, rain probable.

Those of the No-License Party who are interested in a thanksgiving prayer meeting are invited to meet at the Trinity Schoolroom to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock.

The Returning Officer (Mr T. D. Cummins) has received instructions from the Chief Electoral Officer, Wellington, that at the second ballot to be held on Tuesday next (24tli inst.), no absent voters' permits will be granted. Will those interested pleaee note?

During carnival week 334,597 passengers wero carried on the Chrietchurch tramways, as against 297,689 last year. The cash receipts for Cup Day were Derby Day £852, Canterbury Cup Day £474," and Show Day ,£1283.

Mr J. Johnson, of Apiti, who is an ardent soldier of the Salvation Army, returned to Wellington by the Ruapehu yesterday. Mr Johnson has been revisiting Sweden, his native land, and has spent a very pleasant time. He informed a reporter that the Salvation Army was now well established in Sweden, that the people were as usually, generally contented, and that there was nothing but cordiality and the best of feeling between Sweden and her neighbour Norway.

Dr R. H. Bakewell, who was formerly physician to the leper asylum in Trinidad, British West Indies, and whose name is not unknown in Wanganui, in a -letter to the Lyttelton Times on the subject of the Maori leper patient recently discharged from Quail Island as cured, questions the permanency of the cure. Dr Bakewell " says : "Even when a cure has been effected, the patient cannot return to the diet, environments, and habits in which he lived when he contracted the disease. I have seen many hopeful cases, when every visible trace of the disease had been removed, lapse because the patients went back to their old homes and resumed the habits, diet, etc., which had been the original cause of the malady. If the Maori who has been treated in the Lyttelton quarantine station goes back to some filthy Maori hovel, and eats sharks' flesh and other fish salted or half-putrid, sleeps in ill-ventilated huts, and generally falls back into the habits of his people, it is almost certain that if he does not die of accident, or some acute disease, he vfill be attacked by leprosy."