THE Western Star AND WALLACE COUNTY GAZETTE. Established 1868. Vincit Amor Patriae. TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1898.

Western Star, Issue 2219, 5 July 1898, Page 2

THE Western Star AND WALLACE COUNTY GAZETTE. Established 1868. Vincit Amor Patriae. TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1898.

Returned miners say Klondyke is a “ frost.” The s s Star of England, which left the BlnS last week for London, took away over 300,000 frozen rabbits. The Police Commission have decided that they have no power to call the Premier to give evidence, or any of the Ministers. The ship Galatea, of Greenock, 1753 tons, bound from Hamburg to Sydney, is ashore near Yarmouth and has been abandoned. A solicitor named J P MoAlietor disappeared from the steamer Waiotahi on Friday night on the voyage from Auckland to Tauranga.

A little girl is reported to have written in her examination paper : “ The Arctic Ocean is chiefly need lor the purposes of exploration.”

Safeddin, cousin of the Khedive, has been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for attempting to murder Ahmed Fuad, son of Ismail Pasha, at the Khedival Club, Cairo. Newspapers say (hat when patriotic American audiences sing national songs in the theatres, the scenes become like a lunatic asylum. Taieri Advocate reports the case of a farmer who, holding for a rise, refused 5a Id for his wheat, and last week accepted 4s 7d.

J. E. Mills and Son sell stock at Orennki to-morrow and at Otautau on Friday, and mining property at Orepnki on Saturday.

The action for the revocation of a will, John Turnbull and Harriet Forbes v. Harriet Ralston, commenced yesterday in the Supreme Court before a special jury of 12. Owing to the breaking of a handle bar a quintette of racers overturned at the Crystal Palace. Platt-Belts, the cyclist, who was following, sustained a terrible fall, his jaw being broken in five places.

At the Supreme Court yesterday morning in re Dr Nelson, deceased, late of Riverton, letters of administration were granted to the widow, upon the motion of Mr E Russell.

Lord Hcrschell, Sir Wilfred Laurier, Sir Richard Cartwright, Sir Louis Davies and Mr Charlton havo been appointed British commissioners to settle the Canadian-Amori-can differences.

At a meeting of members of the House of Commons it was decided to introduce a bill for suppressing the extreme ritualism practised in some of the Anglican churches.

There arc seven Admirals of the Fleet in the British Navy on the active list, ten admirals, twenty vice-admirals, and thirty-five rear-admirals. There are also 190 captains, 285 commanders, and 933 lieutenants. Important changes arc in progress in the higher education system in China. The Government havo ordered an examination for official degrees in modern subjects to be substituted for antique classical essays. William Bolton, a farmer at Wanganui, has been fined Ll7O 8s for breaches of the Stock Act, the principal charges being defacing rarmarks of 31 sheep. The minimum penalty of £5 per head was inflicted, A young man named John Dooley went to a concert at Oteramika on Friday night and appeared in the best of health. Before the dance, which followed the concert, bo went outside, and did not return. His body was found next morning a mile and a-half away. An inquest will be held.

The net Customs duties collected at Invercargill daring the month of June totalled £4255 or £220 11s lOd more than in Juoe, 1897. The beer dot? cnl eoted amounted to £146 0s 3d, being £3 12s less than in the same month of last year A drastic measure directed against the evils of juvenile smoking has been drafted by the Social Committee of the Norwegian Storthing, and, it is expected, will be passed into law. It absolutely prohibits the sale of tobacco in towns to persons under the ago of sixteen.

Professor Bonehard, of Paris, claims that he has, by means of the Rontgen rays, discovered a new movement of the heart. It is a rhythmic dilation with the ordinary movements of the heart. It appears to arise from a dimminution of pressure in the interior of the thoracic cage during respiration. An expert dec'arrs that a sixty-minute engagement between two big fleets of o modern typo would involve a cost of over £IOO,OOO. And this estimate takes into view only expenditure of ammunition and wear and tear of guns—leaving ont of consideration damage to and loss of vessels. The Marquis of Salisbury has informed the Geographical Society that the Government is unable to undertake the formation of un expedition to the Antarctic, The Times deplores the decision, and urges the country to respond to the society’s appeal for £50,000 with which io equip an expedition.

At Bega, New South Wales, a little girl named Blanchard, aged two years, was chasing a little kitten while her parents were absent. At this game her clothes became entangled in a pothook, and she was suspended over a fire until her clothes were burnt off. She died two hours afterwards. Mr W A i'owe, who has been appointed head teacher of the Otautau school, received two addresses, one from Waianiwa residents and another from old pupils, besi lea several handsome presents oh leaving Waianiwa, where he had been head teacher for 21 years. The addresses spoke in high terms of Mr Ecwe’s qualities as a man and his anilities as a teacher.

The s s Waikare sailed from Sydney on Friday afternoon on her excursion to the Pacific Islands with 85 passengers, including leading people from all the colonies and an English contingent. The whole of the steerage accommodation has been fitted for saloon passengers m a sumptuous manner, reflect•ing credit ooUSS Company. The value of the cheese exported from the colony totalled £154,144 for 1808 and £135,711 for 1897 ; North Island, £81,289 and £56,718; South Island, £72,855 and £78,993. t'ho increase for the North Island was 43 per cent. ; woila the South Island showed a decrease of 8 per cent.

The system of fog-signals at Pencarrow is | to be brought into operation early next I month. Explosions of guncotton are to be ) made at intervals of 15 minutes whenever the land is obscured. The Marine Department considers that the experiments made last week show that the invention possesses all the merits which the patentees claim for it. New Zealand is the first of the colonies to adopt the system. Thus the Tapanui correspondent of the Dunedin Star :—There is quite a boom in land here. Buyers from all over New Zealand attended the sale of Cooksion land on Brooksdale Estate on Wednesday. The highest piioe was £l2, and the average £lO Is. The previous highest on the estate was £7. An immense area of grain will bo sown this season. The weather continues seasonable.

The pinch of poverty has been very severely felt at Brunnerton since the mine was closed down. Some of the most neoessitous families have starvation staring them in the face, being quite without means to_ obtain the plainest necessaries of life; while the storekeepers of the place have given credit as far as they dared go, some of them not improbably to an extent scarcely consistent with due regard to prudence.

The following item, clipped from a far away exchange, has commenced the newspaper tour of the world:—A member of the Invercargill Athenaeum received an effective snub lately. He made a complaint of incivility against the librarian, and this was the reply given by the committee after investigating the matter; —Resolved; To refer th« writer, whoso subscriptions are several months in arrears, to the rules. Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co. report having sold, on account of Mr Wilson Hall, Watson’s well-known farm near Rivcrsdale, being sections 19. 20, 21, 22, and 26, block 111, Oiama (1180 acres), to Mr Alexander Murdoch, of Ngapara, the noted breeder of Border and English Leiceiters. Mr Murdoch takes possession immediately, and brings with him his Leicester stud stock. Mr E. T. Coates shipped from Auckland last week by the Westraliu 80 pedigree Shropshire rams to Australia, for disposal at the Sydney sheep sales next month. Th shippers, who first imported Shropshires from England, have found the Australian market is more profitable than the local market, as they have already obtained 3gs per head for rams in New South Wales as against Ig here. Other stud sheep were shipped by Messrs Rhodes, Ballard, Hall, and Hawke. The greatest Empire of the world is the British Empire, extending over one continent, 100 peninsulas, 500 promontories, 1000 lakes, 2000 rivers, and 10,500 islands. It sur-

passes the Assyrian Empire in wealth, the Roman Empire in population, the Spanish Empire in power, and tho Peraian Empire in area. The population of the Empire—--402,815,800—is 27 percent, of the population of the world ; the 11,339,516 square miles of Imperial territory is 21 par cent, of the land of the world.

Spanking by electricity is the latest aid to education in the States. It has been adopted at the Industrial school for girls at Denver. The apparatus consists of a seatless chair, high enough from the ground to enable paddles to bo operated below by electric wires. The patient is strapped down, the schoolmaster touches a button, and the chair does tho rest. The anli-regulation and proregulation of corporal punishment parties in Southland could surely agree on punishment by electricity. No fear of the master making mistakes then.

Lord Salisbury, speaking at the United Service Club, said that apart from the great sorrow over the Spanish war, the worm politically looked smiling enough. British interests everywhere showed signs of growing prosperity and under all circumstances, ho said British treaty rights in China would be maintained. He hoped to convince China that her best safeguard was to accept British aid in her reforms and the development of her resources.

The Otautau Literary and Debating Society opened their tv inter session last Tuesday with a musical evening, Dr Todd, one of the vice-prasicleuts, presiding. Miss Swap commenced tho programme of the evening by playing a violin selection, which was heart.ly applauded. Mesdames T. Guppies and Smith, Misses McLeod, Meek, and D. Saunders, and Messrs Gilchrist and Todd contributed songs, and Mr Meek recited “Tam o’ Sbanter.” - : isses Campbell and McLeod acted as accompanists. This pleasant evening was brough t to a close by singing a verse of “ God Save the Queen.” —A correspondent. In an interview with a Post reporter, a Wellington merchant, Mr L. M. Harris stated that his firm had bought 20,000 tons of flax during the past few months. Millers are receiving £l9 a too delivered in town, which gives them a piofit of about £3 The fibre is at present worth £2B a ton in London, and if the war between Spain and America continues it is bard to say what price it will roach. As a result of the boom hundreds of men are finding steady and remunerative

employment, who would otherwise be ex periencing hard times.

A fistic encounter has taken plane in America between Joe Goddard, of Broken Hill, and Peter Maher, the Irish. American. The cable tells ns that tho Barrier champion knocked Maher out in the first round. There are so many champions nowadoys that the uninitiated get puzzled. Retired champions, champions who have fought everybody, champions who have fought nobody, champions who want to fight, and champions who don’t. New Zealand champions, American champions, Australian champions, Pacific Slope champions, and Inst but not the least, champions of the world, form a bewildering medley. VV o even hear of champion pigs and champion horses. It is a largo and compiehensivc class.

The faiest Atlantic liner is to have her record broken, fo r tho Vulcan Company, ■Stettin, have been instructed to bui’d a boat for the Humburg-Amerioan Company, which is to excel in speed every liner yet afloat. The new vessel is to be close on 690 ft long, wilh a beam of G6ft 6m, and she is to have a guaranterd speed of twenty-three knots on the Atlantic and twenty-th ee and a-balf on trial. She is to be propelled with two sots of quadruple expansion engines, collectively equal to 36,000 hp. The boiPrs will be woiked under the Howclen system of forced draught —Shipping World. A sudden death, under peculiar oirenmstances, occurred about a couple of miles on the other side of Balolutha on Tuesday evening. Mr Mark Charles Gatchell and his wife, wore driving in the direction of Clinton, and when going down one of tho hills the torso began to (rot rather rapidly. On reaching tho bottom of the bill Mr Gatchcll pulled up and got out and spoke to tho horse, presumably to quieten it. Ho then resumed his scat in tho tra r >, and almost immediately told Mrs Gulchell that he was dying cod expired. On the body being taken back to Balcluthn ; Dr Fleming pronounced life to bo cxiinct. Deceased formerly resided at Papauui, Christchurch.

At tho Police Commission, Inspector Tunbridge, asked for his opinion of tho relative value of colonial and municipal control over the police, said that bis experience was that the police force under a local body was not advantageous—or he might say such Peal bodies as existed in New Zealand. In England there was very little interference on the p irt of local bodies with th* officers th u y appointed to administer the police forces under their control. Out here, from what he had seen of it, he did not know about the inclination, but if appeared to him the recognised rule for even the highest in anthority to be appealed to on the most trivial matter. He was of opinion that if local bodies had control of tho police performing duty within their particular jurisdiction the police would be subjected to many mom outside influences than has been lodged against the force of the colony as a whole throughout this Commission. WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS Blend* readilv with t ie gastio juiae? which ' ct impels the cellular (issue to si Crete in he Ith iul quantity. Shun imitations.

'lhe Evening News, Sydney, says in regard to the application of Eucalptus iu influenza: — "We have to exercise caution to get an article freed of its astringent constituents or else it will prevent the excretion of the disease-pro-ducing germs. A preparation known as 1 Sander & Sous Eucalypti Extract was found to be the only refined one, and proved to be possessed of the highest garm-killing qualities Dr H. H. Hart, New York, says:—ft goes without saying that Sander and Son’s Eucalypti Evtract is the best in the market. It is an excellent local application in inflammation cf niueous membranes and will cure influenza, diarrhoea, dyphtheria, infectous fevers, etc. The return match between the Pirates and Orepuki Football Clubs, played on the Invercargill Reserve on Wednesday, resulted in favor of the home team by 5 points (a goal) to nil. The visitors strongly protested against the score, contending that during the rush which led up to Curtis obtaining the try, tbe referee’s whistle distinctly sounded. While admitting that the sound of a whistle could be heard, the referee, Mr K. Cameron, denies that it was his. Thinking that they were being unfairly tre »ted over this matter several Orepukiaos left the field, and it is said that in order to prevent any unpleasantness the captain of the Pirate’s Waived all claim to tbe score and play was resumed, the incident having occurred at the start of the game. The ground was more like a stockyard than anything else and as regards football nobody seemed to be attempting to play, both sides being covered with mud and slash from head to foot, the ch?ap paint being so freely laid on in several cases as to make the wearers unrecognisable.—Southland Times. The North Otago Times extracts the following from a letter received in Oamaru by the mail from one who arrived in New York from Auckland in the barqus Alice: “ The people of New York are in a terrible state of excitement on account of the war. They rush hither and thitherto hour if there is any news from Cuba or Key West. We knew nothing of the trouble between Spain and America uaiil the pilot came aboard. The captain remarked that, had ha known of the war sooner than pass Cuba ho would have put back to New Zealand, as be had a valuable cargo, principally of kauri gum aboard. Had we been sighted by theSpaniards we would have been eaptured or blown to atoms. Ships are not allowed to leave New York unless they are sailing under English colours. Our barque is just waiting for papers to come from England before she soils. New York is a rough place to live in, i and if I were bard up I would prefer to be in i raid-Atlautic in an open boat than in this , place.”