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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 370, 23 April 1866, Page 2

Destitution in Auckland. —A sad case is recorded in the Auckland journals of a man named John Frost, who had died from starvation. Ho crept into a wretched shed and weakened by cold and hunger, death soon put an end to his sufferings. The Auckland papers denounce the system which exists for the relief of the destitute, and point to this painful case as an evidence of its imperfections. Female Seevants.— Speaking of the scarcity of female servants at Dunedin, the ‘ Otago Daily Times ’ says:—“ The demand for female servants is such, that the office of the Immigration Agent was “ swarmed ” on the arrival of the Helenslee ; and we understand that seventeen young women, who are of a very suitable class, have obtained places from £36 to £4O a year. There is- a great demand for farm laborers throughout the Province.” A Foundbt fob Wanganui. —One of these important additions to the industrial works of Wanganui is advertised in the local journals. A correspondent, writing to the ‘ Wanganui Times ’ in reference to the above, says;—“ If I may judge of a casting already made by the proprietors, and take it as a sample of future workmanship, 1 will venture to say that it will in a short time be able to compete with similar establishments in the adjoining colonies. I might mention that I was shown some wheels, &e., shortly after they were turned out of the moulds, and I was astonished at the workmanlike appearance of the different castings.” Poek Eatees, Bewaee !—The ‘ Pall Mall Gazette ’ says:—“ Correspondence from Vienna announces that in Wegelben, a little town of 2,000 inhabitants, 204 persons have been attacked by trichinae, the worms bred in pigs under the new disease called after them. Fifty-four of those attacked have already died under tortures so terrible that many besought the surgeons to end their sufferings. The norms all came from one animal, which had been made into sausages, and eaten, we presume, half cooked. Thorough cooking—but it must be thorough—is a preservative against the trichinae, and is the only one, for they, if left alive, breed in the human patient as readily as the pig, and eat their way through all tissues, till the injurious to the system and the consequent nervous irritation produces a horrible death.”