THE Waihi Daily Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1905

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1307, 20 April 1905, Page 2

THE Waihi Daily Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER

THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1905

■Hore shall the Press tho .People's .Right maintain towed by influoaoo and unbribod by gain | Here patriot Trut'i >o ((Inrioug praoopts <lni* PleilHd to HelifloD I.tbtrty, and Law

A SERIES of trntbs were ntlßred in i Sydney the other, day by Professor David, of the Sydnty University. The siibject of his lecture was Savagery and Civilisation : Some Advantages of the Former," The professor traced oar evolution from pre-historic times, and showed how primitive man had beeii distributed over the earth. In our raotlnrn civilisation we wero getting away from Nature, with consequent loss to our health and lessening of our enjoyment of the highut pleasurej of bfiir>£. Most, of us boxed ourselves in houiei mostly, in compari son witli Nature, hideous and un - , h&ilthy, and often death traps The man that inventml g];mg bail brought so far more curse than blessing to the human face. Thw source of nearly all the lung trouble in Ihe world had arisen from the simple fact that man had shut out the priceless pnra air so fatal to germs, and jammed himself into those stuffy, ghuw-covered devices nf the devil callf-i'l rooms. Tbo abuse of glass cost ih> O mmon weath in hard cash eveiy year many thonsands of pminds, and no less than 3571 lives in 1903, '0 say nothing of the untold miseries and flhffierings to which unfortunate phthisical patients were snbjpot, Tho open air treatment for eon fliimpfives was, to his mind, one of the most Bignal triumphs of modern medigtne, and we should feel rho better jfor practising the fresh air breathing so .essential to that ays' em, Most of us ceased, to use our muscha to anything like tho required extent i in order to preserve health. Wu ' had no longer, as the savage man 1 had, to catch our own food. Hunt' 1 ing and fishing were don" for lis by j j proxy ; wo got our beefsteak; by a , whisper to a waiter j instead of chas- 1

irig our bull across the field, When we wanted to move horizontally along the earth, we went by train or tram, op 'bus or steamer; our vertical movements we trusted to lifts, As a consequence, we ran the risk of developing into "the toothless, bald, toeless creature, with flaccid muscles, and limbs almost incapable of locomotion," quoted by Carpenter, The practice of outdoor sports happily saved the physique of some of us from going utterly to ruin, but unfortunately even at the University the labourers in the athletic field were few, As a result, there was an overstrain of the nervous system and cousequ&nt overworry about small trifles, and we get that "tired feeling," to. remove which we were recommended to try schnapps. We accordingly " tasted," in the Scotch sonse of the term, and the drink bill for the Commonwealth for 1903 was £14,217,000, Surely there was room for vast economy there, with added wealth and 'energy to the population. It was the same with food, and he related the result of experiments made at the Harvard University in this direction. The averagn cost per head of food consumed was put down at lid per day, exclusive of wines, beer, etc., the total being £65,499000 for the whole Commonwealth, Therefore the saving in the food bill would be over 20 millions a year if they reduced the food consumption by one-third, as was done at Harvard. He was convinced that we were on the eve of a great revolution in this respect. It was not only on the physical side that we could benefit by a partial return to a lifo of savagery, In social and political matters we seemed also to be getting away from .Nature. There seemed to be a growing jealousy among the many of the intellectual superiority of the few, with a desire to make wowe what is better, instead of to better what is worae—a tendency to level down instead of level up. If we were to keep in the van of national progress we must deny ourselves, and acquit ourselres like free men, as our fathers did.

Tho Telkoriph will not be published to-morrow (Good Friday),

A meeting of the friends and supporters of Mr 0. J, Saunders in connection with tho Mayoral olection is convened for tomorrow (Friday) evening, at 7.30 o'clock, at the Foresters' Hall,

Readers Bre reminded that the Fuller Empire Oompany of vaudevillo artists appear for tho hm time in Waihi on Saturday night at the Academy of Musio. The company are too well and favourably known to require any praise,

Mr, C. E: Adams, brother of Mr, O. G, Adams of Thames), who for some years past has filled tho office of computer in tho Lands and Survey Department, has been transferred to the Mines Department's ecological staff, with orders io join Dr Bell us assistant in his survey work in Westland.

The; following players have been chosen to represent the Suburbs IT. Cricket Club in their return match with Katikad, a'. Katikati, on Saturday nexti-Chapmau, Tyson, Hohno-, lonian, Palmer, Baliingor, Scobbie, Hind, Rea, Tiplin, E. Johnston, Leslie, Goodwin. The eoaoli leavo.s Filling's oorner at 8 o'clock sharp, For the past three weeks the gold return" from the Auckland district mines ha»e totalled £74,848,13s lOd. On only one previous occasion has this ontpur been oxcof ded, the record three-weekly period being that ending October 21,1903, when tho total yield reached £l6 575. Tbo pas' three weeks' toml is made up as folluws: - Ohinrmur.', M,720 14s,lid; Tr.amo', £4229 1* 81; Ciro'iiatiiM, £398 lis 3d • toal. £74,348 13d 101.

At tho ordinary monthly mooting of ih* TD lines Brhowlof Mines the direo or (Mr 0 G reported at under: ■' The attnndaiicii dor nj; list month has ag,ji • 'shown an -norettse. Tho details are a-i follows: Bamr lay's soieno 27, surveying 11, mining 10, geology 4. m Mlurgy 5", mineralogy 5, iltctricity 22, draw, ing ut, oheuwtry 8, assay ng 11, mmbematics 21; individual jtudems 76; individual registered stents, excluding Saturday science, 49; total cl«s< attendance of registered students, 108; grand total, 135. In the assay department 70 assays and analyse? have been made, many of which Imvo been tested for a number of constituents,

On Saturday next the members of tho No. 3 Ohinemuri Riflns whl fire the third competition for Mr. Williams' shield. It h 10 be won throo times in succession or fivo times a-, inte'vali before it becomes the prouerty of tho winner. The range* next Sa-urdayaio 200 and 600 yard- (10 shots at each range)c"B" class t >receive 5 points, "C class to receive 10 points, The following aro the clas.-ea: -"A" class: Captain.Jackson, Lieutonanis Giltnoiir, Ready, 'Corporal Comes, Privates Samson and Clark, "B" class: Sergoaut Gardiner, Sergfatvs W Ganliner, McGouxh, Gorpor.l Comer, LanceOorpoval Mages, Lanje Corporal Goen, Privates Benner, Draffin, TUorburn, W. Corjes. "o'' class: Sergeants Dundas, Morgan, Corporal Brown Privates Evans, Icson, Moore, Netvdick, Scobie, Sranden, Williams, Alcmn, Brennan, Broad, Butlr, Carlyon, Duncan, Irwin, Perron Hannaford, Hiintor, Izzard, Morpith, McDonald, ltico, Ditvies, Leelti y, Sharkey, 0. Sam?on, T. Howiirtb, C, Howarth, Sorrenson, Maxwell, and Buylor Henderson,

An andienco of about two hundred, consisiing chiefly of ladies, witnessed tho par. forn.'ince last night at the Ao-detny of Music, Much dinappoimmont was fd . it • he ao:ion of the entertainir, Mr Mtnners, in withdrawing the competition for babi-s on the KroU'id that ihcre was not a suffi: cent number of compeiitors. The moiheri whoaitcnded for the purpose of ontering their infan/s had reasonable grounds for feeling annoyed andinlignnn at the withdrawal of ihe coaipeiition a ; the last minute, and they and their friends wore not bic'iwurd in pxprwing iheir dißappro al as they wcni lmvinj; iho competition a prizo consisting of a new go-cut, valued «t £4 or £5, was otfi'rml, Tho vehiclo wiis on vimv on tho sti«o up to wiihin a fow minutps of tlw annonnceiwnt 'lm' ilte ooinpiiitimi had bnen - who 1 d - iff. For th»othe/ parts nf me pvogrummu thcro Was a hick of competitors. »>d most of tin events lapsed in con c eque ce. In the first p n't of the programme t!'o uudienc • wore treated to some cxetll nt vocal items, somo of tho song* being particularly fim\ The I .tt>>r pnr( of tho programme wis cmfinijil competitions, an i in the btni-ea<ing and coin-finding oomestH fir boys th': audience were put. into lonvulsions of iwishtor, In the k'tor the compe'i or wa» obi g d 10 fish oui one or more coins from a l.asm of wa' r, by dipping his fic into it a d 1 izing tbo coio with his momh, and m< • 'i<-n required to peform a similar fe tt from a tin dish filled witli flour. (The appearance of the joungst?rs' faces a« they coerged from ths flour, having firs dipped diem into iho.bant) of water, was loihcons in . tho oxtreme: Ttie. only coinpetior 111 h<* accordobn ooutietitioh Wiis. Mr, E, Lnug, and be was awarded a med»l,