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New Zealand Mail, Issue 12, 15 April 1871, Page 16

Fatal Accident at Ngaeuawahia.—A correspondent reports to the " Auckland Herald" :—An accident occurred at the Ngaruawahia flax mills on Saturday night last, which, I regret to say, proved fatal. It appears that the deceased (John O'Eelly), while standing on his cot reaching down some blankets, his foot slipped and he fell across a broken table, which entered the lower part of the abdomen. Dr Jones attended the deceased, but his services proved of little avail, and the poor felljw breathed his last yesterday. The body was interred here.to-day, and was followed by the whole of his late mates and a good number of the inhabitants. The deceased was well liked by his comrades, also others who came in contact with him. I believe he was a native,of G-alway. Signboard Exteaobdinaey.—An American paper publishes the following as a copy of the sign-board of an itinerant showman:— " A Battel Snaick too be Shoed.—The histry of this snaick is as follars; he was kecht on tung mounting buy a poore man with a large fammely, beiug sick yers old and very wenamaus, he is now in a bocks and cant hirt noboddy, which is much better than too bee running wilde, oaase he cant want to eat nothun. Admittence is sickpents for them that pleese to pay it, and thrippents for them that dont; a liberal reduckshun for fammelees. For more partikelars pleese to cawl on Old Nick. T.N. —lake notiss it was the poore man and not the snaick that had a large fammely." De Wiggins, Inspector, at Providence, has been comparing miik with other foods as to cost, and his results are as follows :—I estimate sirloin steak (reckoning loss from bone) at 35c per pound as dear as milk at 24c per quirt; round steak at 20c. as dear as milk at 14c ; eggs at 30c a dozen as dear as milk at 20c a quart. Many laborers who pay 17c for corned beef would consider themselves hardly able to pay 10c for milk, when.in fact,they could as well afford to pay 15c. If the money expended for veal and pork, were expended for milk, I doubt not it would be an advantage both to the stomach and pocket, especially during the warm season. Belatively speaking, then, milk at 10c or even 12c a quart is the cheapest animal food that can be used. G-eem Diseases. —To destroy germs in all places of closeness, bad smells, or contagion, secure an inlet of fresh air, and then generate pure nitric fumes from dry nitre and clean sulphuric acid, aided by warmth. These fumes are diffused all over the room, and seizing all the moisture and germs, become visible as a slight fog. Fan or blow the fumes into every crevice or recess, and shake all clothing and bedding well in the fumes; every fresh article to be fumed before giving it to the patient, and everything taken from him is to be fumed. If these materials were kept at all hospitals in small parcels, quite ready for use when any patient arrived, he might be fumigated, and also the conveyance well fumed. This would remove ail objections to the use of cab.—- " English Mechanic."