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Daily Telegraph (Napier), 15 February 1883, Page 2

Two soldiera on sentry at the Curragh military camp were frozen to death on the night of December 12. There is no record of a similar occurrence happening , in Great Britain, and now the order has gone forth to -"t' change the sentries hourly. Advices received at "Washington state that Chili makes a claim for 20,000,000 dole, as damages against Colombia for allowing arms and military stores to pass across the Isthmus for Peru during the recent war. The belief is that Chili intends to demand the cession of Colombian territory to satisfy this claim, designing to take a strip reaching across the Isthmus. The matter is, therefore, brought to the attention of the United States Government for diplomatic action. The following is told of a Saphir, a deformed Jew, who lived centuries ago in Germany. He was travelling in a stagecoach in company with two Jesuits, who made allusions to the personal appearance of Saphir, and was disposed to make fun of him generally. He put up with it for some time, but finally he asked, "Who are you two fellows, anyhow?" "We belong to the Society of Jesus." ' : Which society ot j eslls ?_hi s first or his last ?" '' What do you mean i" " Well, his first Society were donkeys in the manger, and his last were thieves on Mount Calvary. 2n ow I want to know to which of those societies you balong?" A grossly cruel practice ou the partof Belfast (Ireland) cattle dealers has twice recently been the subject of legal investigation." The defendant in the case, a man named* Macguire, sold a cow representing that it was a good milker, but on the purchaser taking it home it was found that the animal would not give milk, and that the • passage of its teats had been stopped by the injection of caustic, for the purpose of enlartnii" , the udder. The magistrate denoxuiced the act as v diabolical one, and sent the defendant to jail for a month without the option of a fine. It was stated that there were other cases of the same kind to come on for hearing. Not very long .since (says the Argus) two Chinese were imprisoned by a fall of earth in an old mine at Buninyong, but were unearthed alive after they had been buried about twenty-four hours. Mr C. Stewart, V- Inspector of Mines, Ballarat, in a report on the accident, refers as follows to a class of persons of whose existence many colonists maybe ignorant:—"This is one of those places where both Chinese and Europeans are fossicking from one old shaft to another, hardly making a crust of bread; and if you were to turn them out of one place to-day, you would most likely find them in a worse one to-murrow. In fact, they are a class of men over whom you can have no control. They.risk their lives every day because they are too poor to get the timber necessary to protect themselves, and they would sooner do this than work for a master." In conclusion, Mr Stewart advises that it woidd be useless to take proceedings against them. The Scotch Nonconformists—who form five-sixths of the Liberal majority in Scotland—have fired the first gun in the general election. Principal Rainy, who carries with him nearly the whole General Assembly of the Free Church, speaking recently at Ayr, said of Mr Dick Pcddie's motion for Scotch Disestablishment, " This motion is not the last step of our movement, but only the next step. And the great use of it will be that the way in which it is dealt will throw the most valuable light on the wholesituation. It will show us our work, it will show us what more we have to do, and what next we have to do. The practical question is this—How to be ready for the next general election.'' The present Parliament, Dr Rainy hoped, would still do useful and important work, but he trusted his friends would now fix their eyes "definitely and resolutely" on its close. There was no Scotch question that had half the same claim for an early and speedy settlement, and in view of the next "election we must leave nothing undone now to produce mutual understanding and common action." Mr Gladstone, it will be remembered, described L this question at the last election us one which had been recognised as " preeminently" for the Scotch people to consider.—Home News. Are you troubled with any affection of the Liver ? If so send at once to Professor Moore, of the Medical Hall, Waipawa, for a box of his Podophyllin Pills. Podophyllin is the most reliable liver stimulent and alterative known within the whole range of the vegetable kingdom. Controlled and modified in action by the addition of other vegetable active "principles, Professor Moore's Podophyllin Pills arc perfection.— [Advt.] It has been years since the world first heard of Wolfe's Scuxapfs, and to-day its virtues are as fresh and its fame as unclouded as when it first flashed into public notice.—[Advt.]