Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 21 September 1895, Page 3

Notes and Events.

• " Thejßermjtage " at Mount Cook has been purchased by the Government fot»§89OO. This amount includes the freehold, buildings, fur'Diture, stock, &c. The property up to date has cost the former owners gome JEjMKJO: Mr Adamson, who formerly^Stecf as guide, with his wife, have been placed temporarily in charge.

Dr Cornelius Herz is said to have perfected a great invention effecting an enormous 1 improvement in telegraphy, by'wbich more than 100,000 words can be transmitted by a long submarine < ctble in the same time that 20 words can be sent now. He claims thai.fiO»w<ffllfl ft»n be cabled jgHk. cost of 5 cents. The Americans y^y that when' Dr Herz was inJ California he 'wag regarded as the Munchatii?-" of fhe period. George Dean, the harbour iteam-

boat captain who was lately sentenced to death at Sydney, for attempted wife murder, but released after a sensational enquiry had been made by a Commission, has been ordered to pay 12a 6d per week for six months towards the maintenance of his wife. He had previously made a voluntary offer to pay 10* and take charge of the child. A working man says: — "The Wages Attachment Abolition Bill won't concern us long, for if the Government keep on as they are oroing, there will be no wages to draw-let aiouC attach." This is a fair indication of the feeliflg" amoilg the working men. The Past remarks! — It is rumoured that the Chinese fruiterers of Wellington are about to address a memorial to the Imperial Government at Pekin, praying that the Hon. J. G. Ward may be created a Mandarin of the Cock Sparrow's Feather in recognition of the service he has rendered them by imposing a temporary duty on imported fruit, of which they had large stocks on band. A new use seems to have been found lor the electric battery, as Abraham's malingering was discovered by means of it. He lay completely supine with his eyes closed, and had to be led. The prisoner never spoke. The doctors reported that the stupor was the result of a shock, and that it was impossible to cure him if he remained in gaol with the environ ments of a prison. Dr Shield, believing the prisoner to be shamming, applied the battery. Abrahams stood the first shock very well, but when the charge was increased he showed signs of distress. The doctor told him if he would admit he was shamming he would stop the current. The prisoner admitted the malingering, although he still refused to move or feed himself. Further threats of the battery, however, made him talk, eat, and walk about the room. Probably a Bi'milar cure will be tried with Louis Abrahams, who is still in a like condition from which his brother has been restored.