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Kaikoura Star, Volume VII, Issue 85, 21 October 1887, Page 2

The committee appointed by the Local Government Board (London) to inquire into the efficacy of M. Pasteur s treatment for the prevention of hydrophobia have delivered their report. It is a unanimous and complete expression of confidence in the system, and it goes so far to assert that rabies aud hydrophobia might, in the opinion of the committee,(be stamped out altogether, both- in animals and man, if suitable measures could be stringently enforced.

Here is a story about Lord Tennyson, who, it is well known, consistently refuses his autograph. A collector, knowing the tact, though to circumvent him by the shallow artific ofasking by letter, ‘ Which do you think the best dictionary—Webster’s or Ogilvie’s ?’ a question which lie believed the poet's courtesy would compel him to answer. The return post brought a single sheet of note paper, on which was neatly pasted the one word clipped from the writer’s own letter, ‘ Oligvie's.’ The eletriff light is being tried in the Scottish fisheries. As fish are invariably attracted by a strong light—witness the flaming torches used in the night salmon fishery—a powerful electric lighting apparatus has been fitted to a steamer plying on the fishing grounds round the. Isle of May, at the mouth of the Firth of Forth.