NEW ZEALAND: GENERAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 22, 28 May 1903, Page 20

NEW ZEALAND : GENERAL

A block of land on Lambton Quay, Wellington, adJoining the Union Bank, was sold last week at £.270 per foot. We have to thank the District Secretary, Mr. W. Kane, Auckland, for a copy of the annual report of the New Zealand District Board of the H.A.C.B. Society. It has been docidod by the Government to send either to Canada or to Denmark for the successor to Mr Kinsella as Dairy Commissioner of the Agricultural Department. The Government has decided to take steps to establish a cork tree industry in the Whangarei district, Auckland. About 20 acres will be planted with seed obtained from Italy. It is stated that Parliament will be opened on Moniday, June 28. The parliamentary party who are on a visit to the Islands are expected to reach Auckland on Monday next We (' Inangahua Times ') are pleased to state that the Very Rev. Dean Rolland has sufficiently recovered to admit of his removal from the hosmtal, of which institution he had been an inmate for more than a month The Australian ' Hen ' the May issue of which is just to hand, will he found most useful to everyone who keeps poultry. It is up-to-date in every respect, and contains matter of interest to the professional ,as well as the amateur poultry raiser. It is stated, according to a reliable authority, that 80 per cent, of the children in the Colony under five years — the most susceptible age for becoming infected with smallpox — are not vaccinated. A list of the winning numbers in the art union in connection with the bazaar held for the purpose of liquidating the debt on the Sacred Heart Basilica, Welling-

ton, appears in this issue. The bazaar was highly satisfactory, and resulted in a net return of £1080. n7hi T h he «^ ar i st i, Br ? thers ' new college at Auckland to which pur Auckland correspondent has frequently referred in his letters, is now approaching completion. Another week will find the Brothers in possession. Particulars regarding it will be found in another column. Hitherto the Department of Agriculture has been defraying about two-thirds of the charges paid by the department in respect to grading butter, exporters paying only 2id per 561 b box. It has now been decided to ask exporters to pay a larger proportion of the cost, and lrom July 1 they will have to pay 3£d. ... 'Accidents,' said the president of the Insurance institute in his annual address in Wellington, ' are now being looked upon in the same lifrht as the drawing of a prize in a sweep, and no doubt will be increasingly looked upon as a certain income in the event of bad or depressed times occurring.' A case of smallpox has been discovered in Dunedin, the victim being a lady who was a passenger in the V r ?f chus - The lady in question arrived on the Utn inst. Shortly afterwards she developed a temperature of 104deg., and this was maintained for four days It then fell, and a rash was noticed, which finally assumed the characteristics of smallpox. The lady had been vaccinated when a child, and has also had a very bad attack of cowpox seven years ago, the scars being still visible. These two facts would very much modify an attack of smallpox. Regarding the case as one of smallpox, the medical authorities have treated it as such, and every possible precaution is being used to keep the patient isolated. The foundation stone of the Veterans' Home at Auckland was laid by Lord Ranfurly on Monday The movement to erect the Home was started by his Excellency, who, on the proclamation of peace in 1902, issued a circular letter appealing for funds for th« purpose. The response was generous, and to-day a sum of between i,BOOO and £9000 stands to the credit of the fund The Home is situated on the Three Kings Estate, near Onehunga. The building will be of wood, and will cover about one-third of an acre of land. It is to be in the form of three sides of a square, with a large open space in the middle. On two sides there runs an extensive verandah, with a balcony overhead. There are four double rooms (evidently intended for married couples), five large dormitories, reading rooms, smoking room dining rooms, arid kitchen. A large hospital on the premises will afford facility for tending to the needs of the sick. A painful accident occurred to Mr. Cyril Ward, eldest son of Sir J. G. Ward, at Lincoln College, last week. It appears that Mr. Ward, who is a student at the college, was on Tuesday morning climbing a porchway, when a portion of the masonry became detached, and he fell with it a dastance of about 25ft to the ground. Had the stone fallen on his body Mr. Ward would undoubtedly" have been killed outright ; but though he managed to escape this, the block fell on the calf of his leg, smashing it very badly, but most happily not iniuring the bone ; otherwise amputation would have been unavoidable. As it was, 38 stitches had to be pjlt in the injured leg, and six in a wound on the other foot near the instep. Sir Joseph Ward went to, Lincoln early on Wednesday morning, and remained some hours at the college. Dr. Cook, who is attending Mr. Ward, says the symptoms are so far favorable, and the patient is progressing as satisfactorily as could be expected.