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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1082, 31 July 1871, Page 2

We observe from the Auckland papers that it is intended to open a news-room in the New Zealand Insurance Company's Building on the Ist August (to-morrow). The room will be supplied with chess and draughts, and pens, ink, transfer forms, cheques, telegraph forms, &c, may also be obtained. A very moderate subscription fee of Is per month has been decided upon, but captains of vessels and mine managers will be admitted free. A refreshment room will be added, and the place made as comfortable and convenient as possible. The New Zealand Herald, July 24, says:—An inquest- was held on Saturday afternoon at the Star Hoi el, Karangahape Read, upon the body of the unfortunate man Fotheringham, who met his death by being run over in the Kyber Pass Road on Friday morning. Several witnesses were examined, after which a verdict of " accidental death " was recorded ; and a rider was added, "Requesting the Government to lake steps to improve the road where the accident occurred" In connection with this matter we might remark that it is somewhat singular that at the Grafton Road meeting, on Friday, the Chairman said that unless something were speedily done to this very spot, there would probably be a fatal accident before lon j. At that very time, though he knew it not, the fatal accident had taken place, and poor Fotheringham lay dead. —The same journal also has the following : —Subscription lists have been opened in various parts of Auckland on behalf of the widow and orphans of tho unfortunate Mr Fotheringham, who was killed on Friday last in Kyber Pass Road. We need only mention the fact, in addition to her bereavement, Mrs Fotheringham is in a very delicate state of health, and has two little children to support, in order to enlist the sympathy of the charitable people of Auckland. This is a case calling for the utmost stretch of their purse strings. A list lies at this office, where the smallest contributions will be gladly received. Mr Crombie, photographer, has consented to act as treasure? in this matter. While the schooner Storm Bird was receutly seeking labor at New Hebrides, the natives attacked the boat's crew with poisoned arrows, and wounded Mr Gruedie, the mate, Mr Wallace, and a Kanaka seaman. All three died of their wounds. The Mercer (Waikato) correspondent of the New Zealand Herald, under date July 25, writes as follows : —On the 19th June last, a man named James Berry left the house of Mr R. B. Underwood, situated on the left bank of the Waikato, for the purpose of proceeding to Mercer, which place it is not known if he reached. Two days after, the canoe in which he left Underwood's was found bottom up near Tuakau. Mr TJnderwood, with whom he had resided for the last eighteen years, by the advice of C. Mellsop, Esq., 8.M., offered a reward of £3 for the recovery of the body, or any information about him. On the 20th of July (a month after), the body was found by tlie Kohanga natives, floating amongst the sedge, in a very decomposed state, near Koha* nga, about seven miles below Tuakau.

When found MrlMellsop considered that from the advanced state of decomposition of the body no useful purpose would be served by holding an inquest, and he gave a Coroner's order for the burial of the remains. Constable Gamble, of Papakura, went to Tuakau on the 22nd inst. and on the following day got the corpse interred in the cemetery at Tuakau. Tija deceased was about forty-seven years of age, but looked older, anlrishman, and a member of the Church of England. Mr Underwood, who is the only person in the colony who knows anything about him, knows nothing about his friends, or whether he has any relatives. The only thing he Ipows about him is, that he heard the deceased say that before he came to the colony he was clerk to a merchant in Cork, named James Adams. Mr Under wpod has some £2OO worth of property belonging to the deceased. The Raglan correspondent of the New Zealand Herald, under date July 19, writes as follows ;—During the furious westerly gales last week, a small sperm whale was driven on shore in the North Arm, and was made a prize by the Ngatitamiau natives. The long-expected visit of the Hon. D. McLean would scarcely have proved more acceptable to the Maoris, for the oil and flesh of the whale are now affording them a supply of food and money, without the trouble of working for them, a process to which the Maoris are annually acquiring a more rooted dislike. During the height of the gale the attention of Captain Johnstone was called to a great black sea bird, which was attacking his ducks in the Waitetuna river. As the unceremonious stranger would not take a hint to be off, Captain Johnstone reluctantly took down his gun and gave the stranger (which had a second duck under water) the reception our countrymen almost invariably offer to strange feathered visitors, though without the provocation given in this instance. The bird measured between seven and eight feet across the wings, and color apart —for even the feet are black—sembles the albatross. In skinning it the undigested remains of a diver were found in its inside. Perhaps some oi your readers can favor me with its name, for none of the Europeans or Maoris who have looked at it haye ever before seen a. bird like it. The Auckland Morning News, July 25, says :—-Capt. Lewis, of the schooner Colonist, arrived overland from Kaipara yesterday, and reports that most violent weather has prevailed at that place for some time past. The steamer Challenger, the schooner Colonist, - and several other coasters were wind-bound there. No damage of a serious nature has, however, been effected by the recent gales. The new hammer in the Bessemer Steel Works, at Harrisburg. Pa., weighs 35,000 lbs. According to the calculation of Professor Huxley, it took 240,000 years for the formation of the coal in the earth ; and he says that is but a fragment of geological time. How old must the world be at that rate ! A correspondent writing to the Bendigo Advertiser says :—Some months ago I was suffering from toothache ; a friend of mine offered to cure me if I allowed him to operate on me. I consented, but without much faith in my friend as a dentist. However, I was cured at once, and the toothache got such a fright that it has not returned. The cure is simply this;—-Blow tobacco smoke into the ear of the sufferer. The operation is performed in this way—make a small tube of paper ; insert it in the ear to the bottom ; then put the stem of the pipe in the tube, put a handkerchief .over the mouth of the pipe, and blow the smoke back through the stem into the ear; two or three stiff blows are sufficient to effect a cure. The patient will feel a little giddy for a few minutes, and that is all. I have cured a good few lately, both men and women. The Medical and Surgical Reporter estimates the cost to the people of the United States of medical services an 4 medicines at 100,000,000 dollars, aud adds 25,000 dollars for the quack medi? cines swallowed. " Let the people," it says, " study these figures awhile, and then reflect that probably one-half or certainly a large fraction of this expense is incurred by a deliberate infraction of the laws of health • that if they tippled less, smoked less, overworked less, anjj were less fast, they would save thirty of forty millions a year,"

I.r~ —■ ——— ' ' From the Hobart Town Mercury .we learn that Mr B. Wilson has established a salt manufactory in that town, which is being carried on successfully. The salt is produced from sea-water by an evaporating process. The New Zealand Herald, July 25, says:—lt is with deep regret that we record in our obituary -columns this morning the death, at the early age of forty [ years, of Mr Robert Williams "Wynn, which took place at his residence, the North Shore, early yesterday morning. %t Wynn was a settler of many years' standing, and in ability ranked high in the profession of which he was a member. He twice represented divisions of the province in the Provincial Council, having been member for the Pensioner I Settlements and for City East 0n two occasions he occupied the post of Provincial Solicitor, under the superintendency ! of Mr R. Graham and Mr J. Williamson. The immediate cause of death was rheumatic gout, from which the deceased geatleman had for some time been suffering, and which finally attacked him in the -stomach. He leaves a large family, we fear but badly provided for. The funeral -will take place to-morrow afternoon, and f .will no doubt be very largely attended by I all classes of the commnnity.—The same journal of the 27th July, says:—The remains of the late Mr Wynn were interred yesterday in the cemetery, North Shore, in the presence of a very large ! number of persons. About one hundred and twenty persons followed the remains .to the grave, among them being nearly •the whole of the members of the legal .profession. Messrs. F. Whitaker, John Russell, Beveridge, and John Sheehan were the pall bearers, and the sons of the deceased were the principal mourners. The burial service was read by the Rev. Mr Asbwell in a most impressive manner, and the exhortation which he delivered -will be long remembered by those who were present, among whom were a large number of the friends of the deceased and many of the principal citizens. Another death from the use of chloral is recorded as having taken place in New York. It is strange, says the World, how widespread is the delusion that this powerful and frequently unmanageable drug is a safe and universal panacea. Men.use it to procure sleep, and women .to calm their nerves. Its rapid action, and the fact that ; it does cot leave behind it the usual reaction .consequent upon the use of most .narcotics, has given it a wonderful popularity. And yetjboth experience and the testimony of medical men have shown it -to be extremely dangerous. The very nature of .the drug is yet imperfectly understood. The public cannot be too earnestly warned against its use except under competent direction. A Cincinnati woman has got a divorce because she has got tired of supporting ,her husband. Such a woman as that oughtn't to have a husband.