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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 48, 24 July 1885, Page 4

. The " stinging -tree of .Queensland istailxijcnmous shrub, pleasing to the eye but dangerous to the touch. It grows from two or three' inches tq ten or fifteen feet m height, and emits a disagreeable odour. Says a traveller. ' Sometimes while shooting 'turkeys m thescrubs, I have" entirely foigot'ten the stinging tree Until 1 was warned of its close proximi y by its smelH and liave of leu found myself m a little forest of them. I was. only once stung 1 , and ljuat very lightly* Its effects are curing : it leaves no mark, but the pain is maddening; and for: months afterwai d the part when', touched is tender m rainy weather, or wh<>n : itgets wet m .washing &c. I have seen a man l who tre its ordinary ■ pain lightly roil, on tlie ground m agony after bping stung, and I have ■ known a horse so com pletety-. Qiad after scetting into & gro.ve of the trees that he rushed \« opejf^moii'theU at cvL^'y one vrfeo apiM'Oached him, and had to? ifee^hotV Dogs, wh en stung, will- "rush about whining 1 ' piteonsly, biting pieces from the afflicte") part. A. correspondent writes to The ;■ firnes of March 6 from Erith : — There died hear .last Tuesday morning ■ and-bld man m hi* 97th year named Johh.Flubbard, whose biography may beiriteresting to many of yourreaders. At the age of 22 lie was on a farm at Yexham,. Market l)ereham !S"6ffolk,when , he" received the xxyai of sixty-five guineas from enlistinsr'iu the West Norfolk, Militia. T^o jyeara- afterwards he enlisted m theFusiliers Tor seven* ;years, and'wa.s:shipped forthefPenin--Bula, where he landed at JPassay. A few days after landing the regiment was paiaded to' supply 1 100 volunteers ifofcthe forlorn hope at the storming !of St s Sebastian 30» 1813). jHubbard/waß ono of the 100, and had ;tlie good fortune escape unhurt. .After being setat to England as one of the guard m charge of prisonw's he, retnrne d ; to the Peninsular, where he fouud* his regiment m the Pyrenees. He took pai't.,ih the battles there, pud engaged at Orthes, ■Tpnlq^se, and Waterloo. *" As ho was only a seven years man, and was never wounded, he had no pension until' the Royal" warrant of Maich 17 1874* eutitlecl him'lo Is 3/i'a day ?