General News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7916, 23 September 1904, Page 3

General News.

Said a"London coroner the othar diy to an ignorant mother: " Tbese people will insist on buying powders, of which they know nothing, and putting them into babies of whioh they know le3<\" Improper feeJing and dosing were accepted as the cause of death.

The American millionaire, Charles J. Glidden, wh-> is touring round the world on a 24-b.p. Napier, is shortly to try & new sensation with his motor-car. From St Louis to the Pacific, he will drive the car on the railway linos. For this purpose the vehicle will be fitted with a specially-built set of lailway wheels with steel rims and flanges. The steer-ing-gear will be locked. This will be the first thnn on record that a motoriet has nsed his car as a private railway train.

A German professor has been describing a new method invented by himself of treating consumptive patients. Ii consists of hardening, by means of cocaine, the Jlarynx and the windpipe, and then passing down the patient's throat, as far as the lungs! a thin indiarubber tube, through which tuberculin is introduced'right into tnc lungs. He maintains that tuberculosis bacilli can by this method bo removed entirely within the space of two months.

A touring American who spent a week in Naples—"seven days too long a visit" writes to Harper's Weekly :— " From what I have read and have been told, Naples must he a very fine place; no one shoxild miss it; but if one cannot come over here, a drive along Avenue A, New York, and the Bowery weuld fill the bill. 1 understand the population is about 300,000,000—750,000 of which are beegars, the rest fleas. I have counted 2.367,513 fleas, and do not think I have yet reached the 'home hole' The principal products of Naples are: 1, beggars ; 2. fleas; 3, bad smells; 4, macaroni and talk."

The position of Mr H. C. Cameron) the colony's Produce Commissioner in London, was discussed in the' House of Kepresentatives yesterday, on a question put by Mr Buchanan. It was alleged that Mr Cameron had taken orders on commission for a private company. Correspondence read by the Premier, showed that the Commissioner admitted to the Agent-General that he had committed an indiscretion in doing this. The inference was that if Mr Cameron had succeeded in this private business he would have resigned his position. Mr Seddon said that so far as the Government was concerned it would have no officer in its employ who traded with private companies. _■