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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 81, 23 May 1902, Page 4

A movement; is on foot to hold a second class Band Contest at Blenheim * next November. £ “Have you any children V Mr Beet- j ham asked a witness in the Christchurch S.M. Court. “ Oy, yes, sir,” s was the reply'.' r “ 1 have had. eight € children in eight years—-three lots of ( . twins!” ” * ..The rehabilitation of Johannesburg t is making rapid progress. The Water 1 Supply Board is making arrangements to establish a water supply f equal to the needs of. a population of 1 200,000. ‘ It is stated that Sir Thomas Lip ton ( is responsible for the idea of the "King’s Coronation dinner to'the poor of London. It was Sir Thomas’ wish to find the money himself, but the idea seemed such a happy one that the King decided to give the dinner at his own expense. A back-blocker recently sent in a letter to the “Minister of Defiance” for a place in the fighting contingent. The writer said he was “a bloke that fires off the ’eft shoulder,” the letter ended, “send a wire back at once, because I am just going on the wallaby.” The Minister for Public Works, addressing his constituents at Timaru, said it was matter for consideration whether the Government should not now leave the Manawatu line in the hands of the shaieholders and spend the money intended for the purchase, in pushing forward the North Island Trunk Line. A table, evidently authentic, published by “Javelin,” in the Melbourne Leader, in referring to the suppression of sweeps, shows that in 1901 “Tattersrll” promoted business on 33 races. The sum subscribed by investors was L 545,125, and the amount distributed L 490,413. It appeal's that the American submarine boat Holland never goes be • neath the waters without taking a consignment of white mice, for the engineers have discovered that these little animals soon succumb to air charged with carbonic acid. They are, therefore, sensitive indicators, and I when the mice show signs of "'xhaustion the men know that it is time to return to the surface. A colossal Celtic cross, in memory of : the officers and men of the Highland ; Brigade who fell at Magersfontein, has ! just been completed by a firm of Ameris can sculptors. The inscription on the r base reads : “Erected by Scots all over l the world in memory of the officers and

men pfitjhe Highland regiments who fell at Magersfontein, 11th December, 1899.” Xhe monument is to' be erected on a good site on Magersfontein Hill, and will* be sebn from a wide radiuk The death occurred recently at the age cf seventy-three years, of Mr Thomas Wind us of the foundry works: of Daglish and Co., St." Helens, Lancashire. Mr Windus was the inventor of the balance reversing motion-. and 1 the sliding camliftars for colliery winding engines. He was manager of the works while Mr Seddon served- his apprenticeship there. . The Manaia ,paper (Waimate Plains, Taranaki) says cattle along the coast have been fetching high prices, and it is expected that there will be a steady increase during the next few months. The opinion is entertained amongst those who should know, that before the year is out cattle will be dearer than they have ever been before. The Hqwkes Bay Agricultural Society resolved, on the motion of the Hon. J. D. Ormond, that with the object of improving the breed of horses in New Zealand, a tax should be placed on all entire horses used as stallions, and that all entires standing at service in public should be examined annually by a competent inspector. At Brighton (Eng.) on the Bth of March, two men, whose names were given as Barnard and Izard, played ping-pong in a cage containing a dozen liong in the presence of about. 2000 spectators. The lions, with one or two exceptions,, were made to lie down at one end,of the cage, and their trainer kept watch over them whilst the players got to work. The game was 20 up, for, it was announced, .£SO a-side. Play was a tiifle loose at starting, but afterwards improved. When six minutes had elapsed the game stood 19 all. It was then decided to play the best of five points, and Barnard won. The lions appeared to be quite indifferent to the charms of the new pastime, and took no notice of the players. Only when the balls were driven close to them did one or two condescend to regard the missiles with a little attention. The wandering balls were recovered by the keeper, who, in handing them to the players, was careful not to remove his observant eye from his charges. Notwithstanding the complete control under which the lions were kept, it was with relief that the spectators saw the players shake hands on completing the game and leave the cage. The event game rise to considerable comment in Brighton, and the action of the authorities, in allowing such a dangerous exhibition to take place, was sharply criticised. According to a contemporary a “cow spanker” in Mangatoki, Taranaki, on 100 acres, who is milking 40 cows, received ,£389 6s Bd, or £9 14s 6d per cow for the year’s takings. The Dannevirke Advocate states that a local farmer recently returned from a three-months’ trip round the North Islrnd. He went a great part of the distance on foot with a swag, and had a good look at all the country he passed through. He thought very little of the Kawhia block, and preferred the Dannevirke district to it. The trip cost only £2O. Certainly the best medicine known is ! Sander and Sons’ Eucalypti Extract. Test it’s eminently powerful effects in coughs ( colds, influenza—the relief is instantaneous in serious cases and accidents, be they wounds, burns, scalds, bruises, sprains, is 1 the safest remedy—no swelling, no inflami mation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflaramaf tion of the lungs, swelling, etc., diarrhoea, , dysentery, diseases of the kidneys, and * urinary organs. In use at hospitals and s medical clinics all over the globe ; patron- _ ised by his Majesty the King of Italy, and e crowned with medals and diplomas at International Exhibitions. Insist on getting r Sander and Sons’ Eucalypti Extract, or else a you will be supplied with worthless oils.

There is some talk in the United States of constructing a canal from Chicago to Toledo through Indiana and Ohio, 174 miles long. Its cost has been estimated at .£14,000,000, and it would mean a saving of 1400 miles in the water journey from Chicago to the sea. The rush of European emigrants to the United States still continues. On Ist April 2692 immigrants arrived at New York in a single steamer fivm Bremen. This constitutes a record for one vessel. The Washington coi respondent of the Springfield Republican, one of the most reliable of American j mrnals, states that it is the intention of an American corporation to work a rubber concession in the Southern Philippines with slave labour. News from San Francisco states that the work done in refitting the steamship Mariposa in order that oil may be used as fuel in place of coal has effected a radical change in the fire room force of the vessel. Where twentyfour men were employed to handle coal in the furnaces, the force which will be required to care for the new fuel will be one-fourth that number. The Standard Oil Company has now under construction at Hay and W right's shipyard at Alameda Point the largest wooden vessel ever on the stocks on the Pacific Coast. When completed this sailing vessel, fitted with large tanks, will be used to carry oil from Ban Francisco to Honolulu, that ocean steamers may take on fuel at that point. Two of the high-opeed German liners have ju.vb finished splendid performances on the Atlantic. Here are the exact times. —Kronpiinz, 5 days 12 hours 47 minutes, for 3090 miles, equal to 23.27 knots; Deutschland, 5 days 12 hours 38 minutes, f*r 3082 miles, equal 23.24 knots. The French barque Ffancoise d'Arnboise, which left ’Frisco on 10th February for Queenstown, returned to port on 27th Febrvary. Six days out of port the barque encountered some terrific weather in the shape of a south easterly gale, which turned int > a nor’wester oi hurricane ferocity. Sails were blown away, boats were smashed, and the rudderhead was broken about 2ft below the waterline. When the storm abated, about 100 tons of wneat were moved fotwar.i to allow the rigging of temporary steering gear. While better than nothing, the improvised rudder chains were impracticable for a long voyage, so the vessel put beck. Considerable stir has been caused in Dunedin over the circumstances attending the death of Mrs Marshall, wife of a local chemist, who died last week in confinement. She was at.tte ided by a homoeopathic doctor, and when the case became serious, necess tating an operation, several local doctors refused to attend. M&hen at last Mr Marshall called on Dr Maepherson, who willingly went, the assistance came too late, and the patient died. According to Mr Marshall’s statement, which is published in the Star, his wife might have recovered if she had been ti e it.ed earlier. The paper also publishes the statement of Dr Davies, one of the medical men applied to, who says he had not the necessary instruments, and besides he did not consider Dr. Stephenson, the patient’s regular attendu nt. a brother practitioner, and accordingly refused to meet him.