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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 300, 4 September 1874, Page 2

A simple/and successful treatment of diphtheria may be found in the use of lemon juice. N^Gargle the throat reoly with it, at the s\me time swallowing a portion, so as to ra&ch all the effected parts. The Canterbury Press says : — We are curious to see the division, list on on the honorarium question, and to learn who they were tbat voted with the ayes. There aremeo in the present House who are. .known to be in needy circumstances,- of whom it has been publicly said that they dare not pass an Insolvency Act, for fear pf becoming its first victims. Their votes and influence must su,rfely have carried ,great weight. It must have been a fWoy moment for tbem when the Honsef conceived the extraordinary notion of increasing their pay by one-half at the very time that, thanks to tbe unwonted Threvity of the. session, their expenses hatibeen diminished by three-fifths. Th^Otago Daily -Times u$ been requested to publish the follow.bg Retract from a letter, dated London, 12th June, to a mercantile firm in Dunedin ; — •" We have yours of the 13th April, and perfectly agree with you that the offensive alliance with the ship brokers here is a thorough breach of good faith bn their part; but if you, the merchants, will quietly sit down and submit; to it, why then you have yourselves to blame. We are now paying 15s. to Melbourne, whilst you, from a simple want of tact in your combinations, nre paying 455. for the identical goods. Now, if you could arrange\to give us a home and secure an out-cargo, we would manage to charter a ship or a series of chips on the ground ; if two or threa of your first houses would combine, we would be perfectly prepared to work it for you on commission, giving you the advantage of ail the profits, or to take the risk upon ourselves with cargoes guaranteed.'' The Melbourne Argus saya : — " The sco pilots of the polony intend petitioning Parliament with a -view to obtaining a grant of money to the fund established in the service as a provision -for aged and infirm pilots incapacitated for duty. This fund was instituted twenty years ago, but in 1860 it was crippled by tbe defalcation! of the then secretary who absconded with some £6000. The repeated drains upon the fund since then have kept it io the impoverished state to which it was unfortunately reduced fourteen years ago, and now when twenty out of the twenty-one sea pilots have been a score of years in the service, they have the 1 prospect of approaching disability for such rough work, without tbe hope of anything beyond a miserable pittance as a retiring allowance. The misfortunes of the pilot companies have been numerous, and the set income of the several pilot companies has not been more than adequate for present wants." The Otago Guardian received the following from a passenger by the Cypbrenes on her last trip from WelHngtoqtto^ajgidavau: — The mail steamer Cyphrenes had rather a curious passage on her last run up to Kandavau. She left Auckland on Tuesday, the_ 4th of AuguaFaitcfgot clear of th"c fantfoy nigbt. On Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the sea was quite calm, and the weather fair and warm, except tbat rain in soft warm showers fell continuously day and night, and a haze prevailed over the sky, thus preventing Captain Wood obtaining anything like an observation. The ship had consequently to be steered by dead reckoning eutirely, making about ten knots an hour, until tbe morning of Sunday, the 9th August. On that day a tropical sky, without a cloud, gave a splendid opportunity for an. observation, which the captain, after being prevented for four days, was very glad to get. But the result as taken at mid-day was rather .surprising. , It was then discovered that, owing, either to currents or deviation in the compasses, and the captain not having been able to get observations, the Cyphrenes bad entirely passed the Island of Kandavau, and had got up within sight of some land far to tbe north-westward, which was seen by the chart to be the Island of Oatulele abont six miles long/ The course which tbe ship was steering had been supposed to be north by eight degrees east; but this must have been influenced in some way by currents to have carried her so far out. As' soon as the mistake was discovered, the "j steamer, which had been heading for the land on the port side, nnder the impression that it was Kandavau, was turned round, and steered back on her own course. The observation at npon showed the latitude we^were in 18Jeg. 34mio. sooth ; the longitude by the "\ f j

chronometer, 1 77deg. 2min. El-being thus about 66 miles from Kandavau, itsJhe wrong direction, or north- west of it. The course steered on tbe ship-was south By 561eg..E. Had \ thp island not beenjthus passed, '%c Cyphrenes would have been at Kanda/ vau at midday on Sunday. As it was, she did not arrive off the island until Sunday night A curious incident in the ." Women's Whisky War" is reported in the Philadelphia Ledger of March 26th :— About fifty ladies, accompanied by the officers of the Mj^tend Temperance Alliance, and a number of clergymen of the city of Baltimore, made a raid upon. tbe House of Delegates at Anna-i polis yesterday, and/protested egains/ tho repeal of the local option la*. Tbeir appearance created considerable/ confusion, aud the Legislators fab adjourned; leaving the Chambe/Tio possession of their visitors. Art ter singing one or two hymns in the pall, the party proceeded to the First Mlthodist Church, where they heW a VaVermeeting and listened to addre^esOkeAere returning to Baltimore. V* x A new propeller for steamers has lately been introduced by Dr. Collis Brown, which differs materially from the screw propeller at present in use, resembling, when at rest, the X,^nd claimed to possess many advantages/ over its predecessors. These are stated to be absence of vibration ; red notion of wear anr? tear to machinery » ready* adaptability to any screw steamship ; I and facility of checking a ship's way, with' the: power of driving her full speed astern in a few seconds on reversal, as well as giving considerable/ increase of speed and effecting a great saving of coal. During a trial with j the steam yacht Lapwing, under a pressure of 581 b. of steam, with a consumption of Bllb. of coal per hour, the propeller made 220 reaotdtions per/ minute with the tide slack^- aufl the furnace burning hard ateanf-cdan^the measured mile beiog^mj nr five minutes. 7i Sir George Jeseel, MasterS>f the Rolls, has just decided a remarkable case which has, excited great interest in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottingham, and other counftes. The result is that a poor blind mab, living in an obscure bouse in SprinALane, Sheffield, succeeds to the tiw and estates of Carnfield Hall, and other properties situate io the counties of Derby and Notts. The plaintiff was a man named Browne, commonly known as "Blind Browne," whose wife kept a small shop in Spring Lane ; and he claimed to be tho direct descendant of Sir Thomas Revell, who waa in the reign of Edward I. high sheriff of the county of Warwick. The details of the pedigree are too complicated to be given here ; but it may be stated that" the argument of Counsel on, both sides was of the greatest interest, and occupied tb^ attention of the Court for a loog time. So clear did it seem that the. Master the Rolls did not even call|nJJon Mr. Chitty, QC, whV .appeared for the plaintiff, to reply. Indeed, thb defence was limited to the argument that the plaintiff's claim waa made too late, and was, therefore, barred by the statute of limitations. The Court has decided for the plaintiff. The estates are said to be worth .640,000 a-year. Browne has not always been blind, the affliction having settled upon him during recent years. It is rather singular tha*; -now that he 'has been successful, he will never see \his grand mansion and bis broad acres, which are at present held by a family named Radford. At the last sitting of the Academy of Sciences in Paris, a paper was received from '$&. R. F. Michel, on an apparatus recording automatically the vicinity of an iceberg. The recent loss of the Europe, said to bave encountered a block of ice, led tbis gentleman to consider whether there might not be some reliable way of avoiding such contingencies, w^hich are well known to be most frequent in the present season, when detached icebergs come down in shoals from the North Pole, and are a real danger to ships plying between Europe --and North. America. In the day-time these hinge masses are seen from enormous disj tances, when there, is no fog, and where the sun shines upon them ; they are then easUf avoided. But in the vicinity of Newfoundland, where fogs are so intense as to require constant ringing of the bell, and even firing of guns, to avoid collisions in a sea literally swarming with ships, other means must pc employed to ascertain ; the vicinity of .the iceberg. This is always accompanied by a great fall in the temperature, of the water within a very extensive radius, and it is on this circumstance M Michael founds his plan, which consists in having a bimetallic helicoid thermometer fixed to the side of the ships. When the temperature of the sea falls below a ; a certain jimit the needle that marks the degrees is stopped by striking against a small metallic screw, whereby an electric current is instantly closed, causing a bell to ring, which will, at once warn the officer on duty.—ivW York Herald: ' : (For remainder of News/see fourth page). ,