THE Western Star. AND WALLACE COUNTY GAZETTE. Established 1868. PUBLISHED WEDNEDAY and SATURDAY. Vincit Amor Patriae. SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1895.

Western Star, Issue 2019, 8 June 1895, Page 2

THE Western Star. AND WALLACE COUNTY GAZETTE. Established 1868. PUBLISHED WEDNEDAY and SATURDAY. Vincit Amor Patriae. SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1895.

Alteration of Date— OrepukiJ readers will note that the date of sale of the late Mrs Morrison’s effects by Messrs J. R. Mills and Son has been altered from llth to Saturday 15th June.

Biechwood Hunt Club. —The next meet takes place on the 15th at Thornbury at the Bridge, not Fairviewas advertised.

Cancelled— We have been advis'd that Mr Lyster, the monologue entertainer, who was to make a tour of this district, and to appear at Riverton on Monday, has had f.o cancel his arrangements owing to sickness. Trt Hot Water During dangerous weather of this sort the most careful persons are likely to oalch a cold in their chests that will extend swiftly to the lungs if not attended to. It usually makes its presence known by a constricted sensation just under the breast bone, where the flesh is thinnest. When a person experiences this feeling ha can rest assured he can procure almost instant relief by drinking a cup of water ns hot as he cap. bear to take in the month and te swallow. There is no better medicine in the feerld to arrest the progress of a cold than hot water, and besides its effect upon the stomach and the system generally, is beneficial in the highest degree. And in sore throat the same remedy will be found almost a specific.

AnoTHBE Discovery— “ The microbe of death ” is the startling name applied by Dr Wheeler, of Chicago, to a germ be is said to have discovered. According to Dalziel, the microbe can be’ destroyed even as other microbes perish at the hands of the exoert. It resembles the microbe of consumption. If it can be destroyed nothing short of actual violence can put an end to anyone’s term of existence. It has been experimented with on animals and it has been demonstrated that, the bacillus of death destroyed, no known disease can obtain any hold at all upon the system. The discovery has created a great sensation in Chicago. Morton Mains. —lt is gratifying to learn that, although the sals by auction of land at Morton Mains recently did not result in a boom, a considerable quantity has since been disposed of by private bargain. Up to date, in addition to what was sold under the hammer, seven buyers have taken up eleven sections, all of the unimproved land, at prices fairly satisfactory. This clears fully a half of the 6000 acres offered, and the best part of the transactions, so far as Invercargill merchants are concerned, is that the whole area sold is for bom fide settlement in moderate-sized farms. The very liberal terms offered by the vendors are evidently attracting purchasers who preler the simple old-fashioned title of “freehold” to any of the modern fanciful tenures.— Times.

Quick Travelling. —The American Transportation Commission arrived at the Bluff by the Talnne on Tuesday, and left by rail for the North after inspecting the railway system. After reaching Auckland on the 13th inst., they are due in Russia early in September, travelling over 3000 miles of railway there. The trip from start to finish lasts three years. Sad Occurrence.— A very painful case of suicide occurred at Balfour on Tuesday night, when a man named J. L. Fraser cut his throat with a razor. Fraser was a farmer, living in a small house by himself, and for some time past the neighbors had observed snob peculiarities in his demeanour as gave them some uneasiness.

Licensing— The annual meeting of the Wallace Licensing Committee was held on Thursday, when all the applications for renewals were granted. There were no complaints against any houses, except an informal one drawing attention to bad liquor which was being sold at Mossbnrn. A report appears elsewhere.

Circumstantial— A well-known American lawyer was defending a young fellow for larceny, the evidence against whom was only circumstantial. He urged that circumstantial evidence ought never to convict a man. “ Why,” said the counsel, " when I was a boy I remember a playmate of mine who, while his parents were away, went to the pantry and nearly devoured a big custard, before he thought of the parental strap. When he did, he looked around for some means of hiding the traces of his gnilt. He saw the family cat in the corner, and taking puss by the neck, he carefully smeared her paws with the custard, took the guilty cat out into the yard and shot her. As the shot gun rung out, the boy observed to me with a chuckle “There goes •me more victim of circumstantial evidence.” The jury disagreed. Tijiber &ADE —The editors of the two best timber trade journals of the world have been making a series of exhau-tive inquiries at the Home Government office as to what our timbers are really fic for, their oanabilitiee, price, possible supply, in fact all commercial details. Mr Froyberg, the Government expert, was employed a long time in satisfying these two able business men, and the result is now apparent in the articles inserted in the trade journals, which are highly flattering to our timber, and may lead to important importations. Coj’titinly it has cleared away all doubt about our resources in this direction.

Lead Poisoning.— The effects of this poison were made painfully apparent to a dog on Zeehan the other day (says tfcp Zeeban and IJuodas Herald.) A hole had been sank to several feet deep on a galena lode, and a good deal of dry galena dust remained on the bottom of the hole, A pump working close to this shaft stopped work for a few hours, causing the water to rise close to the surface, and a quantity of the lead dust floated on it. A dog belonging to one of the men took a drink of the water, and a few minutes afterwards he began to roll about, apparently in groat agony. Then the poor animal became quite ma.d and rushed into the bush, probably to die, for bp hgs not been seen since. This instance of the effect of loaded water on animals is worth noting by owners of horses, cattle, poultry, etc.

Government Land Purchases—Preliminaries for the submission of the dispute as to price of Ardgowan Estate, near Oaoiaru, to the Arbitration Court under tha Lapd for Settlement Act are now complete, and the decision will be binding both on the Government and the owners—the N.Z. and Aus. tralian Land Co. Mr Justice Williams is to be presiding judge and the assessor' who will act with him has yet to be selected. The Court will sit very shortly. This is stated to be the first instance in the history of the British Dominions where, by statute law, the Government of the-day has been enabled to resume for settlement private estates for the public welfare. The Land Purchase Board is sitting in Wellineton at present considering offers of several estates in Otago for subdivision and settlement.

Shopkeepers Liability —The Christchurch , Supreme Court was occupied on Thursday with the case Pyne v. Black, Beattie and Co, a claim of £3OOO damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff’s wife. In Goto- j her last she was in the defendants’ drapers shop making a purchase when a roll of coooanut matting fell through a well light from the upper floor and stinck her. She sustained an injury to the spinal cord and complete paralysis below the seat of the injury. The action war beard before Mr Justice Denniaton and a special jury of twelve, who r-tunud a verdict for plaintiff and awarded £2OO damages to 'the husband and £IOO to the wife.

Trotting Nags— Thus the Ensign : We have s?en not a few trotters at the various , rae-meetings in this district within the last ten years; but for a combination of what may be termed trotters and wfols, those who took part in last Thursday’s meeting at Mandevilla annex the cake. In some cases the “ form ” of the jocks was as diverting to the on-lookers as was the style of going of the nags. In the first trot of the day there were a f-w samples of trotters which looked as if pats were 5s per bushel and scarce at that. '1 he poor brutes, to all appearance, had never derive! the benefits of a curry-comb. To expect such crooks to trot two miles at a stretch, was bordering on cruelty to animals. Verdict of Murder. —At the second inquest on the body of the infant Dorothy Edith Carter found in the garden at Winton in May, the jury returned a verdict to the effect met her death on the 2nd May between Winton and Lumadeu through poison administered by Minnie Dean. Magisterial Enquiry. —At the Invero ar cargill Police Court on Thursday Minnie and Charles Dean were charged with having on the 2nd May last murdered a female, child named Dorothy Edith Carter between Winton and Lumsden. Mr Maclonald procoou tod, .tup Hanlon,' with him Mr Hanan, appeared for the accused. The evidence given was similar to that at the inquest. The case is still proceeding. In the course s£ the hearing the Crown Prosecutor intimated that he proposed entering upon a new line of evidence. ■ His object was to show that on the 3rd May Mrs Dean had had entrusted to her another infant which she had also murdered. Supreme Court. —At this court the following cases will be heard-.—Criminal: John Comber (forgeries), Alex McKenzie (larceny), William Soobie (larceny), Wm John Calvert (rape), and Fook Tosi (assault causing actual bodily harm). Private prosecution: J G Meikle v. William Lambert (perjury). Civil: R E Howell v Turnbull and S.evens. Claim for money alleged to have been received by defendants as trustees and not paid over. James Brokensha, G W Brodrick, and J G A Richardson v. A H Anderson (Christchurch). Claim £2OO damages for breach of contract re sale of patent. I W Raymond v. Hugh McLean. Claim £159, money lent. A R Beeker v. Robt Young. Claim £3OO for wrongful ejection from land. H Hawaon v. Thomas Roff, Claim £lO5 on promissory note. R Attwood v. Tins Martin and 0 Mavitta. Claim to set aside transfer of lands. G Groves v. Thos Prendergast, Claim £6OO for libel. Divorce :R W Beckham (Mataura), and co-respondents J McLeod and Wm Ryder.

Monckton’s Minstrels. —This combination playel to a good house last night. Our report is held over.

Otago shooting season closed on the 31st May. Southland keeps open until the end of this month

Five women, who were fined a small sura at Miami, N.S.W., for tin-beitling noaunionists, were sent to Maitland Giol, as they refused to pay. The wife of a Euroa (Victoria) resident has presented her husband with their 3lst child, and it is said that all the offspring of the couple are living. Max O’Rell, in a preface to a French volume, pays Englishmen a compliment. He says if they cannot boast of having discovered new worlds in the midst of remotest seas, the can proudly claim to hare produced the greatest genius of the earth, Shakespeare. Questioned by a reporter as to what he intended to do Lord Alfred Douglas is reported to have said that if Oscar Wilde was locked up he would take a house near the prison and live there till he came out.

The widely-known Thomas Hall, sentenced to penal servitude for life for attempting to poison his wife at Timaru, is now, in appearance, a bent and broken old man. And yet he cannot bo more than 40. His hair is iron grey. He is said to be a good stone mason having picked up a knowledge of the trade in gaol. His wife, we hear, ia still convinced of his innooence—Speotator. At a meeting of the Presbytery of Southland an application from Limestone Plains for a five yearly grant of £SO for manse repairs was approved. A party of explorers who have been “ trekking ” in the north of Cape Colony report the discovery of some splendid fertile country beyond the Kalahari Desert, exceeding the Transvaal in suitability for settlement.

The Scotsman advises British investors not to assist the Victorian Government to found a State bank which will injure the existing banks. Tbe grandfather of Mr Gully, tha new Speaker of the House of Commons, was Gully, the famous prize fighter, who left tbe betting ring with an ample fortune, settled down as a country gentleman, and became a member of Parliament.

The Mayor of Palmerston North has informed his Council that £3150 of the year’s rates were outstanding at the end of the financial year. Experts are of opinion that the kaolin development in the Central Broken Hill silver mine eclipses anything yet discovered there. Its characteristics are similar to the find in Block Ten spme years ago, and it is thought to be a continuation of that lode. The Adelaide shareholders in the Central Broken Hill mine, in view of the new discovery, are callings meeting to arrange to prevent the sale to Mr Morton Frewen’s Americon syndicate.

Accoiding to a Home paper, one of the moat serious difficulties in the way of seour. ing a successor to Sir Robert Dufl as Governor of New South Wales, is the disinclination of suitable man to face the Sydney Bulletin.

At the annual meeting of the Dunedin Licensing Committee on Monday, all the publicans* licenses ie the city, with the exception of that for the Great Northern Hotel, were granted. Tbs ten o’clock closing hour was in every instance retained.

In 1894 the New South Wales gold output was £1,156,747, being an increase of £505,413 on the output for the previous year. The Tasmmian fruit shipments to London this season reach the total of 150,537 oases being an increase of 40,271 on last season’s exports.

The railway authorities have directed that the by-law prohibiting persons from getting on trains in motion shall be strictly observed, and offenders prosecuted. The Dunedin spielers turned out in force at Mandeville races. It was the last race meeting of the season in Ot-»go and Southland, oongequenfcly the gathering of vultures was abnormal; but they had not so merry o time as they mayhap anticipated. Two men in blue were on the alert, and prevented one or two “ little pools” attaining a successful issue.

Napier Telegraph ; In one paper published Auckland three racing sweeps are now being advertised, although- the Gaming and Lotteries Act expressly forbids that to be done. Lhe penalty for a breach of the Jaw may be as high as £sj; but if we are to judge by results, the police must bo nsti acted net to interfere in certain oases.

Though income tax ia not exacted from any person (Those income does not amount to £3OO a year, all persoua who have £l6O a year or more are required to send in returns to the Tax Department, It seems that a good many people are not aware of this obligation, or else they neglect it, and thus make themsolves liable to a penalty.

Daring last m mth 1503 persons arrived in the colony and 2359 left. The figures for the same month last year were 1336 and 2499.

At the annual meeting of the N.Z. Dairy Association it was resolved to hold the next meeting in Wellington and after that in Wellington and Dunedin alternately; also, that it is advisable to appoint two leading firms in London for the sale of dairy produce sent there by the association ; that the as. sociafion hope the Government will as soon as possible start experimental stations and dairy schools in the North and South Inland* so that makers may derive some benefit during the ensuing seasan.

A rather meagre response has been made by local bodies to the Land Department’s circular ou the Fair Kent Bill, and opinions appear to he very much divided as to the necessity for such a measure, but a good many seem to think it desirable particularly in the case of Crown lauds.

The most recent society in Auckland is the Old Chum’s Association. Anyone who has resided in the place for twenty years ranks as an old chum.

The quantity and quality of the oil obtained at Moturoa, New Plymouth, continues to be satisfactory, and Mr Fair has pegged out sites for several new bores.

In connection with the Waiareka enquiry, the Waiareka School Committee passed a resolution that the Education Board's finding -ia very unsatisfactory.;... that the position taken up as regards the mistress iiabsurd and untenable, and tbecommiitee calls on the Board to remove the censure on the mistress*

WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS. la the o mhinei result of patient research and technical knowledge. It i* a boon alike to men, women, and children. SYNOPSIS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS —Found—Two dogs. —Wesleyan church—Services. —J R Mills and Sou—Morrison’s sale, Orepuki altered. —Napier leaves I2th instead of 10th. —Notice re D Walker, deceased. Exchange of Occupation licenses. —Notice re assessment of lands, —Licensed holding—Longuet and party. —Read “ Don’t.” —Railway Department—Winter Show, —Lost—two hoises. Reward.