LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Western Star, Issue 2220, 8 July 1898, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Warden's Court sits on Tuesday. Wrey'a Bash ploughing match next WedLesday. The Lands Department sp)l sections in the township of Oraka on August 4th. A speoial meeting of tho Riverton Cycling Club on Monday night at Mr Whiteford's pharmacy. Mr W. Haiti, who is leaving Orepuki, is to bo accord d a farewell social in the Presbyterian Church to-night. Theyouneest daughter of Mr and Mre Robert Wallace died nt Waianiwa on Tuesday. The fuoeral takes place to-day. The next stock sale at Thombury will not be h*U until July 29th, owing to tho Drummond plougbiog matoh being on the 15th. Lieut-Col. Webb inspects the Riverton Rifles on Thursday next, and a prooaratory parade is to be held on Tues Jay craning. The vital statistics for the Riverton registration district for th« quartor ended June 30ih are as follows: Binbs, 29; deaths, 15 ; marriages, 2. A notification in this iesae shows that application has been made to the Minister for Mines to have the Ourawera stream deolared a sludge channel. A man named Lancaster murdered his wifo at Perth,and then comcoitted suicide. Tho son delayed to gi»e information to ibe police, and tried in th? meantime to sell it to the newspapers. A gentleman named Julius Csosar, and who resides at Orotnond, has been roado a J.P. There is considerable astooisbm-nf, for everybody thought Jalins C»sar was dead. "As dead as Julios Caesar " will no longer be a happy phrase. As some unoert:in<v to exist (sava a oo'respondent of tho Standard) as o the correct pronunciation of the newly acquird station on the Chinese coast, may t a.iy tfnt, although it is rightly writtan—Wei-hai-wei—-t shoiill to pronounced Wav.'aigh-way?

Mr Ashby, the mining registrar, has bad a busy time the la?t quarter, the one ended Juno SOtb, duriDg wbioh 121 applications of all kinds were dealt with. This ia a large inoreaae on tbe preceding quarter, when the number was 61. For the forrn«r period 29 objections were lodged and dealt with, and for the latter only 4.

The headquarters of tbe vioar cf the Winton and Riverton Anglican churches is henceforth to be at the former plaoa. The Rev. M. W. Botterfield leaves next week to take op his residence there, which will be regtetted by his many friend*. He will, however, continue to discbarge bis pastoral duties in this poitbn of the pariah as usual.

After a sitting extendiug, with a short interval, over three and a-half weeks, th* sea. sion of tbe Supreme Court was concluded on Wednesday, the defence in tbe last case— Turnbull v. Relator, for re»ocaiion of a will —being abandoned. The record for Inveroargill was put np in the Wyndham libel action, wbioh lastsd six day?. The deaths are announced of two old Canttrbnry residents—James Tait, formerly City Councillor and the first mayor ot Sumner, and James Milee, of Raogiora, aged 88. He came to the colony in 1858. The descendants number 12 ohildren, seventy grand-children,and sixty great grand obildren.

There was a tremendous rise in the quantity of grain carried last week on the Southland railways as compared With the oorresponding period last yeHr, the figures being 22,761 saoka against 9273. This brings th» total for the aeasoa np to 506,126 saoks or about 4000 less ihan the previous season, when 510,165 sacks were truoked.

Australian football reporters have refencd to a football as the oval, the infixed bladder, tbe sphere, and the leather. Then their stock of terms runs oat. But in America the writers refer to tho football as the •• pigBkin bag of wind " and •« the leathern egg." A s ade is certainly not a spade in Amenoa, but an implement of agriculture !

Some timo ago Sir Rupert Clarke (says a Sydney cable) purchased a pony through his agent, and before descry sua was, unknown to him, run at an unregistered meeting. This led the Victorian Racing Club to disqualify Clarke, and though the pony's disquolißcation was subsequently removed, all Sir Rupert's nominations, including Paul r*ry for the Grand National Hurdles and two Cups will be debarred from fulfilling their engagements. Clarke deokres that he will never again race in Viotoria. On July 4th a crowded public meeting was held in the Opera House, Wellisgton, the Mayor presiding. " God Save the Queen," and " &.merioa" were sung alternately. An address of congratulation on the anniversary of the Republic and expressive of a feeling of kinship with the oitizens of the United States, was presented to Consul Dilingham. who returned thanks. Patriotio boors rf Britain and America were snng with enthusiasm, and speeches made.

The test selection, " Lea Hugonots, for the country bonds' contest, has arrived, and Mr J W Moore, the enthusiastic bandmaster of the local band, is hard at work manugraphing extra parts for the first cornets. It appears only one part was sent out for eeoh band, so that a good few extra copies are required. When these are ready the selection will be sent to each band.

The Government last year saoured, at a cost of £IO,OOO, the patent rights of the oyanide gold extraction piooess. A return has been laid on the tabic showing the receipts and expenditure for the year onding 31et March. The receipts in form of royalties amounted to £676, and the expenditure to £11,414. The kwyera obta'ned by this " gold extraction" process no less than £1173 19s 6d.

Captain John Fairohild, who for 30 years was in the employ of the Government, and master of the T itanekai, was superintending the loading of cargo oo Monday at Welling, ton wuen he was struck on the head by a chain. His skull was fractured and he died half-an-hour atterwards. The last thing to he taken in was a donkey boiler, two tone in wight, which had been slung and lowered into the hatchway to within a few feet of the bottom of the hold when the pin of a heavy iron shackle at the masthead snapped and the whole of the gear fell.

There is likely to be litigation between the Freights Keduotion Committer aqd Messrs Stanley and Co., of Danedia, who undertook to provide tonnage for a guaranteed amount of wool last season. It is alleged thot they failed to carry out their contract, aDd the committer now suggest to those who suffered loss thereby that they should empower a committee to sue for damages under a clause in the agreement. Several Hawke's Bay gheepfarmers are stated to be heavy losers.

Mr Payn was the occasion of one of the neatest and aptest of punning quotations. Hie disinclination for exercise or pbyaioal exertion of any sort was well known. He wrote his " Guide to the Lake District" without climbing any of its mountains. On one oooasion, however, a couple of intimate friends persuaded him to trv a little mountaineering. A very little was enough. The novelist tat downtxbausted while his friends went on, one remarking to the other that "Thelabor that we delight in physios Payn."

When the warship Mohawk was at Utupua Island, one of the Santa Cruz group, a Kanaka olaioaed protection. He stated that be was the only survivor of the crew of Turner's trading cutter and that a fortn-'ght previous, while bartering with the natives, the litter had attaokod them and killed bis companions, two Englishmen, as Tom and Martin, and an islander. The nntives also destroyed the cutter. The Mohawk discovered the bod is of the three men, terribly mutilatod. The murderers fled to the bush and the warship burnt their village.

Another expedition has started for the North Arctic regions. It is organised by an American journalist, Mr Walter Williams, and started from the most northerly part of Norway. A poniooofthe expedition is to push on to the North Pcle in February, 1899. A party of Swedes accompanies the expedition with the view of searching for Andree, the balloonist, in Franz JVsef land. It will be reoolleotoiJ that Andree started on his voyage to the Nort'i Pole in the balloon Eagle at 2 30 p m on 11th July, 1897, nearly a year ago.

The subject of relieving Crown tenants of the burden of rent for 999 years is finding favour with prominent members of the Opposition. Mr Mason drew attentioni to tbe matter pointing out tbat loans to looal bodks were issued at 5 per cent, extwguithiuK pr.ncipal and interest in twenty-six years He therefore asks the Minis er for Lands if he will put eettl-rs under the Lands for Settlement Act in an equally satisfactory financial position,so that in process of time they would he relieved of tbe ueoossity of paying reDt. Wiiting on funeral reform the Duncdin Star eays: It may at least be suggested that the trappings of convention are scarcely in consonance with Christian hope. We hav funerals that to speak of annihilation rathpr than immortality—so op. pressive was the weight of b'aok surroundings. It is notorious, too, that people in poor ciroumßtancfß ofteD spend far more thaa they can afford in funeral display—pathetically anxious not to be behind others in this respect. Let the well-to-do net a beneficent example of decent simplicity !

At t,fa» social in conneotion with St. Mary's Guild salt of work at Orepuki a mus ca' programme was performed in the share of gltes and songs, the performeis being Misses Stephenson and Walker and Messrs Monokton, Pickett, and the Vicar. The thanks of tbe guild are due to those ladies and gentlemen of Orepuki who lent such valuable a«Bistanoe, especially to Mr Hermann Sorensop, as also to Messrs Sinclair, Monokton and Hojrsr. gentlemen kindly placed their services at the Guild's disposal, and contributed some very enjoyable items to the programme.

A de'perate burglar succeeds in creati°B a London sensation. William Foster, who! avocation appeari to hare been the accumulation of property that did belong to hitni was caught by representatives of the law, handcuffed, and placed ia a cab. On the way to gaol Foster, in some ingenious manner, got his bands free from the " bracelets," and producing from some unsearched hiding place a revolver, commeneed a fusilade oi» his captors, three of whom be wounded, oue of them very seriously. The prisoner then attempted unneoessarily to oomtnit suioido, but was disarmed and secured.

When the Siberian Railway is opened firstclass travellers will have no resson to complain of tho cbanoter of tha rolling stock. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Times has just had an opportunity of inspecting the first through train de luxe to be despatched direot to Tomsk over the line.whiuh in a few years more will run right on to Port Arthur. It is composed, he says, of four splendid cars built at Moscow, and fitted with all the latest improvements and conveniences, including an open saloon, a dining car, a bath-room, a library, telephones, electrio lighting, refrigerators, and ventilating aoparatus, a piano, seta of ohe s, and means of gymnastic exercise.

The Evening News, Sydney, says in regard to the application of Eucalptus in influenza:— "We have to exercise cautiom 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 Sander &, Sons Euc ilypti Exlraet was found to be the only refined" one, and proved to be possessed of the highest g«rm-killing qualities Dr H.H.Hart, New York, says:—lt goes without saying that Sandnr and Son's Eucalypti Evtract is the best in the market. It is an excellent local application in inflammation of mucous membranes and will cure influenza, diarrhoea, dypbtheria, infectous fevers, etc.

The unfortunate residents of that portion of tbe Flat near the oentre of the Ocean Beacb, Dunedfn, were again much perturbed and inoommoded on Saturday night by the incursion of the ocean. For tbe past week or so a terrifio sea has bean running along tbe coast, and some time on Saturday night the high tides swept over the sand flat which lies between the high water mark and the sand hills and effected a breaoh in the weak spot near the central battery. Tbe water swamped hundreds of housea, in many of them penetrating tbe interior of the dwellings and covering gardens to the depth of a foot—Bruce Herald's correspondent. The causes of the riots in Italy are many and lie deep down. They are tbe outcome of the crushing taxation, which averages 12s in the £ all over Italy, the despair of anv good coming out of a Parliament of placemen and office-seekers, and the ferocity with which popular demonstrations are soppressed. Oo« of thi most grievous exactions, pressing especially bard on the Italian poor, is the tax on salt, which has been raised in price to 16d a pound. Hundreds of thousands of the poorer classes are thus condemned to rat their polenta (boiled maize) without tbia necessary of lif •», and the result is that the terrible dis»a«e of pelhgra sweeps away its tens of thiusands every year.

Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Cougba Influenza etc.—The soothing propertias os th«se medicaments rpnder then* well worthy of trial m all diseases of the lungs. In common colds and influenza tha pills taken in ternally and tha Ointment rubbed externally are exceedingly efficacious. When influenza is epidemic this treatmei t is easiest, safest and surest. Holloways pills and Ointment purify the blood remove all obstructions to its free'•iroulation through the longs, relievef thorergorged air tubes, and render respiration free without reducing the strength, irri at ß » tin nerves or, or depre**ing the spirits Suoh are the ready means of saving suffering when afflicted with colds, cougbbs and broncbitus and other complaints by which so many are seriously and permanently afflicted most countries. The Nelson poisoning onae has assume 1 a new phase. The facts ar« that on Saturday, June 18th, Mrs B'istow (widow), Miss Storey (her sister), and Miss Bristow (i niece), partook of oatmeal porridge, with which was used milk two days' old. All became violently ill, and Miss Storey, who wa9 orer 64 years of age, died in the afternoon, but her death was supposed to hare been partly due to old age and a weak constitution. It was thought that the putrefaction of the milk was the cause of death, and tb* medical evidence at the inqoeat bore ont this view. The oontents of the deceased's stomach were, however, sent to Wellington for analysis. The two others recovered. The inqumt was resumed on Tuesday last. Mr Skey's report of bis analysis of the contents of the stomach and the porridge partaken of by the deceased disclosed arsenic, and thn inquiry will therefore be lengtby and searching. News baa reached Danedin of the death of

Mr George Whittingham, a business man of considerable prominence in Otapo soma thirty-five yean ago. lie died in Melbourne at tbe age of seventy-one years. Mr Whittingham was a member of the well-known firm of Whittingham Bros, of Melbourne, general merchants. He came across in the very early sixties and established branches of bis firm at Riverton, Qaeenstown and Cromwell, with headquarters far the colony at Dunedio, where he resided. He was a man of consider able energy and business experience, and though taking no part in public nffairs, he was always ready with his purse whenever a oall was made for private or general benevolence. His firm had extensive squatting interests in Victoria, and ultimately this part of the concern railed for tbe entire time of Mr John Whittingham. Thus it eame about that Mr Goorgo Whittingham relinquished business bere, Jn order to look after tbe mercantile department in it elboorne and leave his brother George free to attend to the squatting interests. It was in the year 1868 that this change took place, and Mr George Wbittioßbam baa remained in Victoria ever since.—Dunedin Star.