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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3150, 2 August 1881, Page 2

We learn from Wellington thafc the Karaitiana will case has been finally settled in favor of the first will. Under that will Mr John Sheehan is sole trustee. We understand that the Gaiety Dramatic Club have decided to give a performance on Friday, the 12 th instant, in aid of the Page family. " Tho Lancashire Lass" is the piece selected for presentation on that occasion. The following are the names of the Gisborne football team that will meet the Napier men: — Messrs Berry, Bourke, Arthur, Albert, Pavitfcs (2), Barnes, Bloomfield, Mills, Whites (2), Tekani, Wyllie, Ewell, and Cooke. A Maori named Winiata Pau, who was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment for horse stealing afc fche last sitting of the Supreme Court in Napier, died of consumption at the gaol last night. An inquest will be held before Captain Preece, R.M., to-morrow, afc 10.30 a.m. Wb are glad to learn thafc Mr W. Villers has entirely recovered the use of the eye thafc was operated upon by Dr. Wilkin. Mr Villers had long been blind in that eye, and the cure tbat has now been effected adds one more to the long list of Dr. Wilkin's successful operations.

. The entries for the Poultry Association's show closed last night. The show promises to be a great success, the entries in poultry being considerably in excess of those of last year. There are more entries for Mr Allen M'Lean's special prize cup than for any other class, and ifc appears to be the great attraction to owners.

Cigarette smoking is now so common that any invention to facilitate fche making of the seductive cigarette must be welcomed by all smokers. Mr N. Jacobs has imported a simple and cheap little invention, that does its.work expeditiously and thoroughly well. Anyone can use ifc without any practice.

A correspondent writing from Wellington says thafc the cheers of Sir George Grey were the loudest thafc greeted Mr Ormond's attack on fche Government, and that throughout the debate the old ex-Gover-nor's " hear, hear" always quickly followed anyretorc in defence of Mr Ormond's action that might be made by a member of the Opposition. Although Sir George has, apparently, been anxious to show thafc a personal feeling of political enmity towards Mr Ormond no longer lingers in his breast, the two men have never exchanged a word with each other during the session.

At a meeting of the Public Works Committee, held last evening, the following recommendations to the Council were decided upon:—l. That a sub-committee, consisting of Crs. M'Kay, Monteith, Wall, and M'Dougall be appointed to decide upon the upset prices and conditions of lease to be fixed upon all reserves within the borough ; Cr. M'Kay to be chairman. 2. That the engineer's report herewith forwarded be adopted and authorised. 3. That as no authentic map of the town was in existence at the time this borough was proclaimed the General Government be applied to for assistance in making a resurvey of the town. 4. That the engineer be instructed to order the removal of any buildings encroaching upon streets and footpaths. 5. That the vouchers for expenditure for July be passed and ordered to be paid.

Railway employes, on the Hawke's Bay section at least, are not permitted to enter a public-house during working hours,nofc even to get a meal. This cast-iron rule bears very hardly upon drivers, stokers, and guards, who may have brought a train the whole length of the line. While we quite agree with regulations that enforce the strictest sobriety we do not believe in grown men being treated like children. There is a littleness in a regulation that exhibits a horror of a public-house. It is said that a burnt child dreads the fire. Are all the heads of our public departments reclaimed drunkards ? It would almost seem so f rom the fear lest the slightest temptation should be put in the way of themselves or of others. Of late years there has sprung up a party that has resolved to make life run in one groove, to make life uncomfortable, to take from the liberties of the human family. This party sprung from the ranks of teetotalers. We see its work in our proposed licensing laws that would interfere witb clubs, and which would like to intrude into private houses. We see its work in the proposed Gambling Act thafc will debar men from spending their own money as they like. We only want a Curfew Act to make people go to bed at eight o'clock to convert men into the drivelling state of idiotcy that lies at the foundation of these doercive measures.

In all the large commercial towns in China the traders from any given province unite together to form a trade guild. Tbe object of this guild is to protect aud punish its members, and to withstand everybody outside the brotherhood. Anyone from the province in question may join without the formalities of proposal, seconding, or balloting. He simply gives a present in addition to certain small fees, or promises to do so when he is richer. The guild fixes the tariff on all goods, so arranged as best to suit the market and at the samo time " cut out" rival societies. Hapless is the man who sells under the guild rate. He may be flogged ceremoniously in tbe hall of the meeting bouse ; he will certainly be fined according to tho extent of his misdemeanour. The guild also advances money to its members ; buries them if they die poor ; sends widows and orphans back to their native provinces ; and finally each guild keeps a fire engine of its own which all the guildsmen must turn out to work in case of alarm —although they would as soon think of selling afc a loss as of putting out the fire in the houso of anyone who was not a brother,—St. Jame's Gazette,

sate. ,_«'ft-a!--_______a_____-__-___^ We learn that it is now possible to hear plants growing. At a recent meeting of the Silesian Botanical Society, an apparatus was shown, in which the growing plant is connected with a disc, having in its centre an indicator which moves visibly and regularly, and thus on a scale, fifty times magnified, denotes the progress of growth. Both disc and indictor are metal, and when brought in contract with an S electric hammer, the electric current being? ' interrupted at each of the dividing interstices of the disc, the growth of fchS plaht is as perceptible _.o the ear as to the eye; One of the oldest trees standing in England is the " Tort worth " ohesnut, which as far back as the reign of Stephen, in 1135, was so remarkable, (says the Gardener's Magazine), for its size and antiquity, that it was recognised as the terminal boundary of the Tortworth, in Gloucestershire. This wondrously old tree was cited by Dr. Ducard, in his controversy with,D_ii.fe_ Barrington, as a, convincing proof of the chesriut being indigenous to Great Britain. It is supposed to have attained its maturity in the reign of Egbert. In i 766 the Tortworth chesnut was fifty feet in circumference and fifty-two feet high, and many more centuries of tranquil existence were predicted for it. Professor Virchow has. recalled Attention to the subject of m.h With tails. One of the lohgesfc tails on record is that reported by Greve in 1878. This occurred in the case of a new-born infant, was 7-5 centimetres in length, and moved about 'when pricked with 0 needle. It was removed by an operation. Virchow has recently dissected this tail, and found it not to contain any bone, cartilage, or muscle; nevertheless, it was a good substitute for a tail. Michel has pointed out that in the human embryo a rudimentary tail is distinctly made ; and the discovery of men with tailseems to lend support to" Lord Mohboddo'fl theory, .that all mankind originally wore them. —British Medical Journal. The singular phenomenon of an oil flood recently occurred in Sweetwater County, Wyoming Territory. Last Beason the Rocky Mountain Oil Company bored several places in the district and the oil at other spots where it exuded the ground. They built six or seven reservoirs to contain it, and thus stored two or three thousand barrels, but they have lost part of it through an unforeseen .asually. An ice gorge formed in Popajie Creek, above two reservoirs holding 1,200 barrels. The water poured over and. into the reservoir, and being heavier than oil) displaced it wholly. The sea of oil ran over tho meadows for several miles about,blackening them as if a prairie fire had swept across. Tho farmers were incensed, but no one could be charged -with fault. After the gorge passed out, the water was pumped from the wells, which will soon fill to the brim again. . . A brain, preserved and metallised by the galvanoplastic method, was lately presented to the French Academy of Medicine, on behalf of Dr Or 6, of Bordeaux. Dr Org's method (which preserves the brain entire) is briefly as follows: —The brain, having been so arranged that the circumvolutions are well separate, by introducing cotton wicks into the fissures, and so that the preserving liquid may penetrate the ventricles, is kept about a month in aloohol afc 90 degrees, so as to acquire good consistency; the wicks are then taken out. The brain is now plunged for ten minutes in an alcoholic solution of nitrate of silver (lOOgr. per litre of alcohol), and carefully drained in air. Next, it is transferred to a case in which sulphuretted hydrogen is liberated, . and it takes a dark hue, owing to forma" tion of a surface deposit of sulphide of silver. In about twenty minutes ifc is taken out, and after exposure a quarter of an hour in air, it is pufc in the galvanoplastio a cell, where it soon assumes a fine metallic aspect. The surgeons of the Bootle (Lancashire) hospital have for some days been interested in an extraordinary case of hydrophobia. The victim is a carter named Iver, and the - disease, which is described as hysterical hydrophobia, was caused by a horse-bite; It appears that Iver had several times been bitten by his master's horses, and a few days ago hydrophobia of a most marked character commenced to show itself. The unfortunate fellow neighed like a horse, and yelped and growled in addition, snapping and biting at everything thafc came in his way. So violent did his paroxysms of madness become that it was found necessary to remove him to the hospital, and for this task the services of half-a-dozen stalwart men were necessary. Since his admission to the institution he has been more or less under the influence of chloral and chloroform to induce sleep, and so beneficial has the mode of treatment proved that whereas afc the time of his admission Iver was subject to violent paroxysms every five minutes, he is not now under the distressing influence more than once a day.

Mr E. Lyndon will sell to-morrow fruifc and forest trees, flowers and shrubs, at 11 a.m. Messrs Miller and Potts will sell tomorrow at the Spit 500 sacks Canterbury oats, afc 11 a.m.; also, on Thursday next, cattle, horses, and produce. Tenders for erection of a dwelling-house afc Meanee must be be sent in to-morrow. Tenders are invited for draying wool and stores from Kuriepapanga. A meeting of the wardens of the Petane Road Board district will be held on the 18fch instant. Rinking at the Theatre Royal has been postponed till Tuesday, 9th instant. Mr A. B. Thompson's evening class for general improvement meets on Tuesday and Eriday evenings, in the district school. Messrs Banner and Liddle will sell on the sth instant 60,000 feet of local timber. A branch of the Union Bank was opened at Hawera on the 22nd ultimo. Messrs Blythe and Co. announce great bargins. The new cigarette maker and filler can be bad at Jacobs' Repository. Notice is given by the Town clerk that Mr Brophy, turncock, has removed to Dickens-street. Owing to fche Protestant Hall being engaged to-morrow the promenade dance is postponed till Wednesday, August 10. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.