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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3577, 28 December 1882, Page 2

The usual monthly practice of the Napier Volunteer Fire Brigade takes place this evening. The members of the Fire Brigades Reception Committee also meet at the Napier Fire Brigade station at 8 o'clock, when all members are particularly requested to be present. Or. Graham has given notice to move at the next meeting of the Borough Council, " That this Council consider the advisability of adopting a more efficient scheme for the watering of streets to that which at present exists, and that the cost of same be defrayed by a special rate to be struck on properties abutting the streets so watered." I In the Resident Magistrate's Court thia morning, before Captain Preece, R.M., j William John Watters, charged with being illegally by night in a house upon the premises of H. H. Wall in Shakespeare road, pleaded not guilty. It transpiring that the house in which the prisoner was found is open to the street, he was dismissed with a caution. Mr W. G-. Motley, now visiting Poverty Bay, and who has just been inspecting the South Pacific Petroleum Company's works, forwards us a telegram stating that boring was resumed on Friday afternoon, and that by last night a depth of ninety feet had been obtained. Mr Weaver, the new manager, is a thoroughly experienced oilspring borer, and if oil ie to be had by sinking he will have it. The members of Victoria Lodg% 1577, E.C., held their regular annual the Masonic Hall, Munroe-street, last night, when the W.M. elect, Bro. R. J. Duncan, was duly installed in the chair. After the ceremony of installation, whioh was impressively performed by Bro. Past Master McLeod, the W.M. invested the following officers :—Bro. R. E. McKay, S.W.; Bro, Upchurch, J.W.; Bro. Smith, S.D-; Bro. Wilkie, J.D.; Bro. Ellison, Treasurer ; Bro. Edwards, Secretary. From information received we hear that there are likely to be from twenty to thirty competitive designs sent in for a harbor at Napier. All designs must be sent in to the Board in January, when they will bo forwarded to Sir John Hawkshaw and Mr James Abernethy, who have consented to set as judges. These two gentlemen are recognised as the leading: authorities on marine engineering in London. Thare can be no doubt that the bonus of £500 offered by the Board for the design that may be accepted by the judges as the best will induce colonial engineers to compete for a reward that is accompanied by si:«a an honor. In reference to the over-crowding of trains from the Hastings racecourse on occasions of publio holidays, wo have been told that, if a siding were made on the line at the course platform, all the available carriages could be kept there and trains

despatched aB each one was filled. The Agricultural and Pastoral Society and the Jockey Club have both applied to the Government for a siding, and last September Mr F. Sutton, M.H.R., made a similar request, and received the usual official reply that the matter was under consideration. Notwithstanding these repeated applications for the prevention of over-crowding and risk to life nothing has been done. A member of the Napier Borough Council who lately returned from a visit to Gisborne frfives an amusing acoount of the proceedings of the Town Council there on the ocoasion when he looked in for the purpose of taking a lesson in municipal matters. Tbe Mayor sat at the head of a long table, the Town Ciork at the other end, and on either side were ranged the " City Fathers." The audience consisted of a few contractors and the visitor from Napier. The Mayor had a pipe in his mouth, so had the Town Clerk, and most of the councillors were also smoking. The audience likewise smoked, and kindly took part in the to enable the Council to arrive at aright decision. We have muoh pleasure in publishing the following testimonial to Mr Milner Stephen's power to cure the afflicted :—J. P Hyland, says " I am 45 years old, and been suffering for nine months from paralysis in the arms, legs, and back, through injuries received from being thrown violently from a water-cart. I have had three doctors, and been an indoor patient in the Napier Hospital about six months, but derived little or no benefit from any medical treatment. The doctors said the complaint was paralysis. Having read and heard of Mr Milner Stephen's wonderful cures, I went to him on the 19th inst, and again on the 21st, when he restored the use of my back and limbs, and removed all pains, by " laying his hands" upon me and " ordering the pains away " ; and, having taken one bottle of his magnetised water, I hope and believe that the cure is complete, as I have the perfect use of my limbs, and I shall leave the Hospital on Saturday. I live at Takapau, Hawke's Bay.—J. P. Hyland. December 21,1882. Witness: W. Rapley, Napier." Commenting on Mr Sheeban's reply to the statement of Mr Arthur Mills, the Timaru Herald says:—"We do not suppose Mills will care a pin for him or his letter; but it will be a very bad thing for New Zealand if such an indecent effusion ■bould get into print at Home. The public will naturally conclude from it that a community who make Ministers of men capable of such a production must themselves be literally the lowest of the low. It seems that the Bishop of Waiapu, who travelled with Mr Mills on his visit to the Lakes, now denies the accuracy of Mr Sheehan's account of the journey. We are not at all eurprised to hear it. We never believed a word of Mr Sheehan's story, and we venture to predict that on enquiry his letter will turn out to be as devoid of truth as it is irrelevant, contradictory and discreditable in all respects." In one of the lower wards of the Auckland Hospital is a patient named Bohn. This (says the Herald) is the worst case of rheumatism that has ever come under the knowledge of the hospital staff. He has also been seen by English and American doctors who visited the hospital, and they admit that a worse case never came under their notice. The poor follow is unable to move and can scarcely speak. He has been two years in the hospital. He can only be raised in bed by means of a pulley attached to the bedding, and his hands have to be suspended in slings. His legs have dropped down from the knee sockets, his hands and arms !are fearfully deformed, and even the _ bedclothes have to be suspended over him in such a way as to prevent their weight resting on "him. It is curious to see the different classes of people in the hospital who are victims to this malady—young, old, and middle aged, stout, _ thin, and robust-looking men are alike stricken down by thia terrible disease. It is noticed with some regret that the railways generally are beginning to show some falling off this year as compared with last. The returns for twenty weeks show the mileage receipts as being practically stationary, while the working expenses have increased by over £30,000 in that period, absorbing 62 per cent of rev3nue instead of 57 per cent as last year. Consequently the net profits for the twenty weeks exhibit a decrease of £10,000. Of this falling off three-fourths is on the Hurunui-Bluff line, on which the receipts have only increased by £1 16s 5d per mile, while the expenditure has risen £52 2s 3d per mile. On the Auckland line the receipts have diminished by £6 os 7d per mile, while the expenses are augmented by £30 18s Id per mile. On the Nelson lines the receipts have diminished by £44 4s per mile, and the expenditure has increaeed from 72 to 77 per cent on revenue. On the Wellington line the receipts increased by £66 lis sd, and the expenditure has fallen from 80 to 76 per cent. The above returns are considered to show that great care will have to be exercised in doing anything which may tend either to lessen the receipts or enlarge the expenditure. A correspondent of the Lyttelton Times says :—Dr. E. Stone Wiggins, of the Canadian Finance Department, who some time ago predicted that the recent gale would sweep from east to west over the American Continent, says that a storm will strike this planet in March next. He gives this warning :—" It will first be felt in tbe Northern Pacific and will cross the meridian of Ottawa at noon (5 o'clock p.m. London time) on Sunday, March 11, 1883. No vessel smaller than a Cunarder will be able to live in this tempest. India, the south of Enrope, England, and especially the North American Continent will be the theatre of tbe ravages. As all the lowlands on the Atlantic will be submerged I advise shipbuilders to place thoir vessels high up on the stocks, and farmers having loose valuables, such as hay, cattle, &c, to remove them to a place of safety. I beg, further, most respectfully to appeal to the Honorable Minister of Marine, that he will peremptorily order up storm drums on all the Canadian coasts not later than the 20th of February, and thus permit no vessel to leave the harbor. If this is not done, hundreds of lives will be lost, and millions of dollars worth of property destroyed." The Hawera Star says:—It is too good to believe, yet the statement is made, that at length a remedy has been found for cancer. It is tbe fresh milk of the enphorbia tree. The euphorbia is a spurge shrub ■pecies, affording an acrid milky juice. This juice, gathered from the tree, and applied by a feather to the wound, causes cause great pain, largely increases the discharge, discolours the parts, but application being continued, heals the wound. It is already popular in some parts of Africa to heal ordinary wounds and to cure corns, but nobody suspected its value in cancer mfcil it was applied in Queensland. Doctors will question whether the external application of a drug will cure constitutional disease like cancer; but it is asserted that so searching is the euphorbia juice in its effect that after it Las been largely used on the Bkin it actually operates upon the secretions of pf the palate, and can be tasted in the mouth. The difficulty in England would be to get euphorbia juice, but if it turns out to be of any value its specially healing constituent will soon be discovered, and, being non-volatile preserved for use there. To laugh 'at the new drug is easy, but those who reflect that Peruvian bark was discovered by a mere accident would like to hear something more about the " milk " whioh cures one of the most painful diseases to which humanity is subject. Professor Moore, of Waipawa, has just opened in connection with his present business a Fancy Repository, and is now showing all tbe latest novelties in Christmas &c, cards, concertinas, accordians, musical albums and boxes, violins, Jadies gold and silver watches, clocks, fancy and other stationery, inkstands, Chinese lanterns, talking dolls, and every description of toys. Every person purchasing £1 worth of eoods receives a beautiful illustrated almanac grails.— rADTi.]

According to a contemporary, Lady Vogsl ia said to have been the most fashionably attired personage on the ground on Melbourne Cup day. The duty alone on her dress is reported to have amounted to £50. Dr. Coplestone, Bishop of JColombo, has dismissed a schoolmaster [for engaging himself to marry the daughter of a Met hodist. In his letter tbe Bishop wrote to the schoolmaster :—"I am deeply grieved that yon had not loyalty or courage enough to save you from the wretched fall you contemplate." Recently employed as superintendant of a large shed in the Western District, the overseer, found the men discontented with the persistently stinted rations of tea, sugar, &o; served out to them. Complaining to one of the shearers about his leaving too much wool on, Connaughfc Rory explained, " Sure, sir, it's only the tay and sugar I'm lavin' on their backs !"—__Egles. The City of Rochester Volunteer Fire Brigade has given public notice that persons requiring its services must hold themselves responsible for the following charges :— " Use of engine to non-subscribers 2/2/0. To subscribers, nil. Cleaning engine, hose, &c, 6/-. Horses and drivers, 2/13/6. Pumpers, first hour (each), 1/-. Every succeeding hour, 6d. Refreshments for pumpers extra. In sonsequence of the recent frequency of cases of absconding by the San Brancisco mail steamers from Auckland (says a Wellington correspondent) the Government have decided to send to Auckland a detective from each of tho principal cities, in order that they n_ay attend the departure of each San Francisco boat, and keep a careful surveillance, while it is presumed, that being acquainted with the personal appearance of most persons at their present stations, they would be able promptly to recognise any defaulter or debtor or criminal attempting to bolt. The detectives removed from Dunedin, Wellington, and Christchurch will be replaced by members of tbe force at present in Auckland. In connection with the foundering of the s.s. Austral, it may be interesting to explain the method which is to be adopted in floating her. Hulks will be placed on either side, and cables passed from them under the sunken vessel's keel. It is expected that she will be lifted off the ground without any great trouble either by the tide, or by filling the hulks with water, hauling the cables taut, and then pumping the water out. The steamer's port holes will be closed by divers, and when she has been suspended in these slings, she will be towed into shallow water. She will then be pumped out, and will float of her own buoyancy. It is not expected that there will be any difficulty about the operation. In a private letter to a friend in Melbourne, the Hon. Mr Childers, Minister of War in the Gladstone Government, alludes as follows to the termination of the war in Egypt :—" This has been an eventful day, closing as it has the Egyptian episode. There has rarely been a more prompt and complete act performed by an army, and that in the face of very hostile military criticism. But it has done more in the eyes of Europe, for it has proved that we can in six weeks or two months place in the field 100,000 men, fully equipped. The 20,000 we sent to Egypt were ready and in Egypt in three weeks from the date of the order, and besides regulars we had 40,000 more reservists in England ready to Fail in a week." " One of the Staff " of the Yellow Ribbon Army writes to a London paper to explain its programme —" moderate drinking," and invites its readers to carry on " this great work for the defence of our liberty and existence." The great work is the defence of England against the United forces of General Booth, the United Kingdom Alliance, the Blue Ribbon Army, the Band of Hope, and others, who, according to " One of the Staff," are about to Boycott all who believe they have a right to drink what they please. This impending national disaster has aroused one General Hicks to be the saviour of society, and all moderate drinkers are requested to adopt at once the yellow ribbon, which can be worn inside or outside the coat collar. What with the j army, the volunteers, the Salvation Army, the Blue Ribbon Army, the Green Ribbon j Army, and the Yellow Ribbon Army, England runs a risk of becoming the most military nation on the face of the globe. The Philadelphia Times calls attention to the curious history of the average oil region city, taking Pithole, in Venango County, as an illustration. " Twenty years ago," it says, " the site of Pithole, was covered with wheat-fields, and to-day waving corn and wheat and wild flowers cover the same spot. But between that day and this there rose and fell one of the most remarkable cities the world has ever seen. Twenty thousand people gathered there in a single year, and when the great oil-wells failed to pour out a torreut of wealth, the gaudy theatres closed, the mammoth hotels became tenantless and the churches lost their worshippers. Banks, newspapers, stores, and offices ceased to exist almost as suddenly as they were called into being, and the life and light of the famous city went out for ever. To-day there is one voter in Pithole, and the town may be said to be solid for Beaver, for the lone voter is Postmaster, Justice of the Peace, storekeeper, and chief man of the place. It may also be said that there is but one other man in the neighbourhood, and he does not vote. There are dozens of villages in the old oil country that exist only in the memories of men who saw their birth and death. The new wells in Warren County are strangely like the wells of Pithole and the rush to the now town of Garfield bears an almost fateful resemblance to the craz9 which was the guiding spirit of tbe wonderful city in Venango. The ultimate results may not be the same, but if not, then the rule and the law of all petroleum cities will be broken for the first time. "Out of sorts" is a very common expression, and an equally common condition of those who, troubled with the effects, are callous to the detection of the causes that generate them. These once ascertained, it is easy to avert their repetition, or ward of off their ill effects. Biliousness, dyspepsia, constipation, nausea, debility, renal obstructions, kidney complaints, are all liable to superinduce them, and UdOLPho Wolfe's Schiedam Akomatic Schnapps are sure to eradicate them.—[Advt.]