SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 275, 12 June 1874, Page 3

SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

pZ%e folloioing appeared in our issue of Saturday last:—] v Dunediii, Friday, 8.30 p.m.

The House sat till four o'clock.this morning, discussing the item, "Goldfields Secretary, £400."

Messrs. &e Lautour and Brown were dividing tlie House every minute—urging that the amount .was held out as a dangle-bait to certain members.

It is likely to he a case of another vote of. want of confidence.

Upwards 30 divisions carried four o'clock, when de Lautour engaged. speaking another' member. (?) ■■■>'

, The Tichbome jury received 300 guineas each,for their services.

Stanley, the discoverer Livingstone, asserts that Miss Livingstone is in possession of. her fathers diaries for six years, to the 2nd August, 1872. The Revising-. Officer, W. M. Jlodgkins, Esq., held a Court of Revision - yesterday at the Naseby Court House. ' Ifearly all the names objected to were struck out.

■ Wb have been sorelj puzzled in the attempt to decipher our telegram-of last evening, the last portion of whijh, with all its ambiguity, we give to our readers*, as we received it.r -■' The Clyde Town Council have decided upon destroying all unregistered goats found within the Municipal boundaries. The Naseby Council should take the hint, and include curs as well.

Messrs. Maitlattd Bros, have disposed of their valuable freehold property on the banks of the Clutha for £52,000, to Mr. Adam Begg, of Anderson's Bay. , This property, which comprises about 17,000 acres, is one of the finest on the river.—' Tuapeka Times.'

. . We have seen a letter from Mr. Hugh Cameron, previously of Carrickton, who, •writing from Cooktown on March 6, says of the Palmer rush, "It is the greatest failure of a rush ever was known in Queensland." And he says, "I see no part like Otago as far as I have been." • This is the only news we have heard of as coming from any Cromwell " "Rushians."—' Cromwell Argus.'

John Oughets, who was in the employ of JED. Sinnamon of Ida /Valley, died in the Dunstan hospital, on Saturday morning last, from the effects of a kick, from an entire horse, the property of bia employer. Deceased went into the paddock for the purpose of drivings the animal into the stable, when it kicked out and struck Orger on ihe head with one of its hind feet, fracturing the skull and inflicting other injuries.

We are sorry to have to record one or two fresh cases ' of fever during the past week or two. It was thought that the advent of. the cold, sharp weather would hive gone far towards removing the unwelcome visitant from our midst, but the occurrence of these fresh .cases show strongly what a hold the epidemic' had upon the town. In a= kind ; of connection .with . this subject, although neither of the deaths were, caused.' by the fever, we 1 may mention that two funerals, both of adulfrpersons, took place on Thursday. One was that: of, Mrs. de Bettencor, of. the Five-Mile; and' the other of Mr. -Michael- Shanly;> ; of Groin- 1 well; Both funerals- were well' attended.— ' Cromwell Argus.' ' '

Private telegrams announce the death, of;an old and esteemed settler, Captain Howell, at Sydney, to which place the deceased gentleman liad proceeded for the benefit ef is health. ,The deceased was about 65 years of age, -we understand, and was captain of a -whaling ship hailing from Sydney about 49 years. His career in these -waters was a most eventful one,, and he was, with thelate Captain Johnny JonesT-as he liked to be called-—one of the early pioneers of settlement in New Zealand Witli the latter named geutkintm he was at one time associated. Captain Howell was well versed in Maori customs and habits, and at one time played no insignificant part in the early days of New Zealand, when the Maori tribal wars and wars of conquest were amocg the customs of that period. We do notknow if the deceased gentleman has left any written record behind him of those times. ' He possessed, while living, a fund of information' upon these and kindred subjects, and was often pressed to commit his reminiscenses to paper. Mr. Barry,,of this town, was a mate in one of Captain Howell's whalers some 30 years ago on this coast. It is' much to be regretted that our early pioneers leave a blank behind them in the matter of recording the early history of the Colony. Captain Howell has died on the scene of his opening Colonial career; and; so far, that was a fitting close to his adventurous life. His home-station, the last two or three years—l'airlight station—is near Kingston. Captain Howell's loss will be deplored by a numerous circle beyond his own immediate family, and in him the Maories of this island have lost a warm friend.-—' "Wakatip Mail.'

We ('Tuapeka Times ') extract the following from our contemporary the 'Guardian,' ;both for the purpose of., giving publicity to the recipe, and of correcting the mistake into which the ' Guardian,' has fallen. The prescription was not given to the commander of the Great Eastern, hut to his father, who likewise bore the name of Yine Hall. Whatever may have been the habits of the commander of the Great Eastern, we arenot informed ; but the effect of the father's peril in the first instance of becoming a moral v, reck, i and his exemplary life afterwards, influenced other members of his family in an opposite direction. They were zealous • teetotallers. " There is a famous prescription in'use in England for the cure of drunkenness, by 'which thousands; are said to have been as- i sisted in .recovering themselves. The pre- i script ion came into notoriety through the efforts of John Yine Hall; commander of the Bteamship Gieat Eastern. He had fallen into such hahitual drunkenness that his most i earnest efforts to reclaim himself proved unavailable. At length he sought the advice of i an ancient pliysican, who gave him a prescription, which he followed faithfully, for seven months. . At the end of that time he had lost all desire for .liquor, although lie had many times been led captive by a most debasing appetite. The prescription, which he had afterwards : published, and by which so many drunkards have been assisted to reform, is as follows : —Sulphate of iron, five gr'ains ; magnesia, fen grains; peppermint iwnter,. eleven dritphms ; spirit of nutmeg, one drachm ;, twice a.day. The preparation acts as a tonic and stimulant, and so partially plies the plrico .of the accustomed liquor, and prevents the absolute • physical and moralprostration'which follows a sudden breaking off from the use of stimulating drinks.