The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1888.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 84, 14 February 1888, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1888.

Cure for Cancer We learn from our English telegrams ! fcl that in consequence of the attention j which has been directed to that fell ; w disease, cancer, which is supposed to j " have appeared in the ttnoat of the Crown Cl Prince of Prussia, the London Times has suggested a reward be offerred »J for the discovery of a cure or remedy. , There can be no reasonable objection to this, but we question its utility. For many years ihe most scientific „ surgeons in the world have been searching for it, but, beyond dis* covering certain means of alleviating , the dreadful pain accompanying the disease, their efforts have been prac. f ± tically futile. No reward, however j great, could incite these men to exert r themselves more than they have al- _ ready in the direction indicated. We t believe that a cure may be discovered, and devoutly hope so for the benefit j of suffering mankind, but when such j x discovery is made it will probably be i c the result of accident. Whoever that t fortunate discoverer may be will have I a fortune in his hand, and. will need no other reward than the riches poured j in upon him by grateful patients, < which, in a yery few years, would } would make him the richest man, as j weli as the greatest benefactor to his species in the whole world. . Railway Returns ; ■♦- i The following are the traffic returns ' for the Wanganui section during the ' four weeks ending the 7th January, ( 1888, and the corresponding period in 1887:— 1 1888 1887 ' Passengers .. 3424 6 7 3752 15 8 Parcels .. 273 14 8 242 9 6 Goods . . 2652 4 3 2201 12 6 ' Miscellaneous 305 810 314 9 0 £6655 14 4 £6511 6 8 Wool in 1888, 1159 tons; in 1887, 969 tons.