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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue XIV, 1 April 1879, Page 4

A German physicao bas started a new theory with regard to food. He maintains that both the vegetarian and meat-eaters are on the wrong tack. Vegetables are no more wholesome than meat, or meat than vegetables, and nothing is gained by consuming a compound of both. Whatever nutri- ' tive qualities tbey may possess, be says are destroyed io great measure, and often entirely, by the process of cooking. All food should be eaten raw. If this practice were adopted, there would be little or no illness among human beings. Tbey would live their apportioned time and simply fade away, like animals in a wild state, from ol i age. Lat those afflicted with gout, rheumatism, or -indigestion try for a time the effect of a simple uncooked diet, such as oysters and fruit for instance, and they will find all medicine «nn ctssary, and such a rapid improvement of their health that they will forswear all cooked articles of food at once and for ever. lotemperance would also, it is urged, no longer be the curse of civilised communities. The yearning for drink is caused by the nhnatural abstraction from what are termed "solids" of the aqueous element they contain — uncooked beef, for example, containing fi">m 70 to 80 per cant., and some vegetables even a. larger proportion of water. There would be less thirst, and consequently less desire to drink, if our food were consumed in its natural state, without first being subjected to the action of fire. Clothing, our adviser also thinks, is a mistake, but he admits that tbe world is not far enough advanced in civilisation to go about undressed. Whatever differences of opinion may exist as to this anti-cooking theory, j there cannot be a doubt that in getting rid of the kitchen with all its abuses — including the cook — house - keepers would be spared a vast amount of worry, and probably on this account alone would live to a greater age than at present. The following account of the prompt retribution visited upon the black, near Codktown for their unprovoked and wanton attack upon Messrs Hartley and Sykes is supplied to tha Sockhampton Bulletin by Mr W. H. Campbell: — " Your readers have already been made acquainted with the particulars concerning the recent outrage of the blacks at Cooktown, when Captain Sykes and Mr Hartley were severely wounded in an attempt to bring off a cedar log from the North Shore of Cooktown harbor. On Thursday, the 14th February, sub-inspector O'Connor, with six troopers, crossed the harbor io a boat at night, and by moonlight picked up the tracks of the blacks. Tbe latter, however, discerned tbe approach of the troopers, and retreated across the range to tbe ocean beach. Tbe inspector then divided bis forces, and with one party made a detour in the direction of Cape Bedford, and by Sunday morning bad hemmed tbe blacks within a narrow gorge, of which both outlets were secured by the trooperß. There were twenty-eight men and thirteen gins thus enclosed, of whom none of tbe former escaped. Twenty-four were shot down on the beach, and four swam out to sea. The inspector and his men then sat down on tbe beacb, and waited for the swimmers to return, but without success, and as after several hours they were lost sight of, it is conjectured they were drowned. One woman also swam out from the land, and after remaining four hours in the water was captured by a trooper, who went iu after her. The men hunted tip the remainder of the gins, and having found a meerschaum pipe and a tomahawk in their possession belonging to Mr Hartley, the inspector was satisfied he had not killed innocent people. This was chained to the fubras, and they i were then permitted to go away. Mr

O'Connor returned to the norih shore on Monday afternoon, and lighted n largo fire aa a sigual of success. A boat was sent across the harbor to bring him back to Cooktown."