AUCKLAND.

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 39, 30 July 1872, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

[From, our own* (Jorrkspondent.J . i : July 28. ( The great harvest that hag been reaped Joy the medical faculty from thfej," small-pox soare," seems likely to be used by them as a standing bugbear over the community to promote business and recruit the exchequer when low (as it has of lite-been, with many of for "doctors" in Auckland are as plentiful *■" captains."'and goodness knows, their name is legion.) Notwithstanding the assurance of the Htar, which knows everything, and the official reports from Dr. Philson (the Nebraska one not excepted), to- the effect that small-pox is stamped j out, insidious rumours are continually lloated about by this one or th« other of the medical men, thathe is treating privately, a case of small-pox, and that tliei disease is only slumbering, and will break out in the most virulent form, in the summer, uiuess the antidote of vaccination is adopted. By this means, the ball is kept rolling, and grist to> the mill in the shape of five-shilling pieces is kept upi ■ Dr. J. R. Nicholson, however, more bold than the rest, furnished one of the morning papers with the information that " he had three small-pox patients, two of whom were convalescent." This statement has not only drawn a flat contradiction from the Star and a writer signiug himself " Veritas Vincit, but is likely to. give rise to a judicial inquiry, as I understand that if it shold prave correct he has subjected himself to a penalty in not having reported the matter to the authorities. There, are cases in which the remedy is said to be worse than the disease, and such an one I take to be small-pox, if I may judge from the effects of vaccination, from the heifer or otherwise. Whether it results from impure lymph, or the state of the patient's blood, the symptoms arising from it are most '• laiining, as in five cases out of six the inoculation is accompanied with excessive inflammation and a mass of ulcers, which unmistakably bespeak, to my view, the poisonous nature of the vaccine matter used in the operation. A new paper is on the tapis. It is now contemplated starting one in Poverty Bay, the projectors, no- doubt being influenced thereto by the success which has attended the Wciikcito 1 ivies. It is certainly a bold venture in so, sparsely a populated district. ~ Habitues of the Police Court for some considerable time back must have- noticed frequent cases of "snubbing" between Mr. Beckham and Mr. J. B. Russell. The cause of difference is a moot matter. The latter gentleman, however, alleges that in consequence of the disfavor with which he is viewed by Mr. Beckham his practice in that Coart is. sufferin<*, and has therefore had a petition, presented to | the General Assembly, asking that an inquiry may I be instituted with a view to the removal or i Ir. | Beckham. lam sadly afraid that Mr. Russell has a bad case.. . «. • There is nothing fresh to report in mining affairs. During the week there has been a deal of business done in Caledonian shares, which have fluctuated between 9M and 40/. They are now selling at 31/. Other stocks are seldom inquired for. The way the brokers sustain business is very artful. Immediately there is a lull, the telegraphic wires are set to work, anl their agent at the Thames discovers that a new find has been made, and that gold is showing more freely, or something of the kind, and a buzz tikes place, amongst themselves, followed by offers of a 1/ or so in advance of last quotations ; the result is that the brokers kill two birds with one stone obtain an advance from the outsiders on what would have been falling stock, and make a commission into the bargain.. And so it is every day of tle week. The fortunes, of' CorOmandel seem a thing ol the past. Business there, has fallen to such an extent that a migration, has set into the Thames again. A large number of the-mines have been abandoned, and those thai are being worked it is impossible to get in the calls. A few weeks ago it was difficult to procure accommodation at the hotels beyond a " shake down," now the-best room in the-house can be obtained. Unless the district looks up a little ■ property h.oldcr& will sustain a big loss, as buildings have been erected not. with, a view to the growing requirements, of the. place* but evidently to- meet a. " rush,"—which has not set in. The prosecution! the: Qreen. Harp case is likely to produce- contingencies more surprising than pleasant to many people. It was brought under the notice of the magistrate by Mr. Brookfield at the hearing of the case on Saturday, that a fraud of equal magnitude with that of the case itself has been committed od the Government by which it has been defrauded of fees to the amount of 500/ through nominal considerations of one shilling only having been filled in- the body of the transfers, when it was well known from the date on the transfer that they were saleable at 6/. The result was that an application was made by Mr. * Brookfield, the Crown Prosecutor, to impound the transfers tendered in evidence, which was granted by the Bench, and will no doubt form, the basis of fresh litigation.