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Manawatu Herald, 2 June 1892, Page 2

Messrs Stevens & Gorton's stock sales at Palmerston and Bulls are advertised An error in the date fixed for holding the adjourned annual meeting of the Fozton Butchering Company appeared in the advertisement in our last issue. It is corrected to-day, the date being the 15th not the Bth of June. The Grand Jury found true bills against L. A. Langley for horse stealing, and the trial is fixed for Monday. The Horowhenua Licensing Committee sit at Otaki on Saturday when the applioation for another public house at Shannon will be made by T. O'Loughlin. We understand that the police will oppose its being granted. A discovery of great importance to South Africa is a stone capable of being turned into a natural cement of good quality. The deposit covers a thousand acres, and varies in thickness from ten to twenty feet. An extraordinary gold find occurred at Hokitika. In washing some potatoes a fair prospect of gold was obtained ; the dirt was then taken out and washed, and found to be payable. The potatoes were grown at Kokatahi, about 12 miles from Hokitika, and several diggers have gone to the locality. Mr A. W. Hogg haa severed his connection with the Wairarapa Star. Malingering is not unknown at the Wellington Hospital, says the N.Z. Times, and therefore the patients may be assumed to be in comfortable quarters there. The Chairman of the Hospital Trustees at yesterday's meeting entertained his fellowmembers with a very amusing account of a reoent case in point, which certainly proolaims the malingerer in question to be quite an artist in his way. The doctors were nonplussed in the effort to diagnose the man's malady. He appeared to be quite well and of a normal temperature of body during the day time, and yet at night, after a fresh poultioe had been applied to that part of his anatomy which he alleged to be the seat of pain, the thermometer invariably registered a temperature of about 140 degrees, thus indicating quite a feverish condition on the part of the patient. The murder came out at last. It was discovered that the ingenious sufferer resorted to the trick of inserting the thermometer underneath the hot poultice. The patient was not apprised of the discovery, but to his complete astonishment lie was congratulated on his rapid convalescence, and on the following day he wa<s discharged, despite his protestations that he was as bad as ever. A night or two since he returned to the Hospital with a lugubrious face, in order to obtain re-admission. Tii3 medical officer, however, smiled significantly, pooh-poohed his pretended fears, j and advised him to address himself to j some honest employment. His ingenuity ' ought certainly to suggest some better reaouroe for a livelihood,

Regarding the death of Warena te Ea we notice that the Palmerston papers re presont that no inquest WftS held because Constable Gillespie was away. Of course this is absurd, as even if th 6 man usually resided in this district the accident was noted to the police at Palmerston an hour after it had occurred, and they must have been aware of Constable Gillespie's absence. It happens, however, that though th* ""-" "* happened in thi° ri: ■' ' _.««uiuent -ißt,riet the deCeftsed was immediately Conveyed to his Residence SVhicli is in the Palmerston district being at Ngawakerau. Anyhow it is {singular that they never interested themselves in the rnatteiV We regret to ieai'n that another fresh case of diphtheria was announced on Tuesday, the patient being Mr McCloskey, whose shop is bat one building removed from Mr Walsh'B, where the first cases occurred. Mr, G. N Baggdt Was before the Court in Wellington on Monday and was remanded till the 7th June. Later in the day a further information was sworn against the accused and the Hon. J. B. Whyte, of Auckland, charging them with having jointly conspired between the years 1889 and 189 ito defraud the Government of £900. It is alleged that Baggett received the various sums of money making up that amount, and substituted it tat Whyte's request for certain land scrip belonging to the latter accused. The Government have purchased the Terranoa and are fitting her up for cable lifting and repairing. Mr McKerrow, Chief Commissioner of Eailways, in Auckland, at an interview said it it was the steady policy of the Railway Commissioners to encourage the productive resources of the country. The railway traffic was steadily improving throughout the colony, and the revenue was increasing gradually and steadily, For the current year, Mr McKerrow says the grain traffic will assume its former dimensions at least. The Commissioners anticipate a very good year. The passenger traffic last year was the largest ever recorded in the Colony. These results Mr McKerrow attributes to the general feeling of returned prosperity throughout the Colony, but chiefly in the Country districts. On Sunday a heavy thunderstorm broke over Melbourne. An electric light wire at the corner of Russet and Lonsdale streets was broken. A man named Andrew seized the wire, and was knocked down. Another, named Herbert Wells, attempting to assist Andrews, caught him by the wrist and was struck dead. Andrews escaped with a severe burning. The force of the electric current was 2000 volts. The re hearing of the Eketahuna murder case before the Chief Justice has been fixed for Wednesday week. Major John Wilson, of Cambridge, one of the oldest and most esteemed settlei'3 in Waikato, died on Monday, May 24th Major Wilson has been for many years a conspicuous figure in the Waikato. He was captain in the 3rd Waikato Militia, which was formed in 1863, and in that capacity he served with distinction during the Waikato campaign, having been engaged in most of the leading fights. On the conclusion of the war he settled in Cambridge, and continued to reside there up to the time of his death. He married a Native wife of high rank, and through her acquired a large amount of landed property. By this wife, who died seven or eight years ago, ha had a family of two sons and two daughters. One of the sons — the eldest — is a well known oricketer, who, a couple of months ago, was one of Auckland's representative cricketers in the interprovincial match against Canterbury. After the death of his first wife, Major Wilson married Miss Grey. Major Wilson speculated largely in land, and was at one time reputed a very wealthy man. He was the owner of one of the finest residences in the Waikato, a handsome house, surrounded by beautiful grounds on the banks of the Waikato, just outside Cambridge. Lately his health has been failing, but few anticipated that the end was so near. — Budget The North Otago Times says that the sparrows this season have taken to eating the blight on fruit trees and hedges.