HAWERA.

Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 518, 11 May 1880, Page 3

HAWERA.

[from ouu connksi>oxdknt.] The County Council expended £SO last year on the public library at Hawera. Shooting Licenses.— The Acclimatization Society held a committee meeting on Friday last, at Owen’s Hotel; present, Messrs Livingstone (chairman), G. McLean, J. Bnrleymnn, Buchanan, Finlayson, Gwen, Hunter; Mason, and Wanklyn (secretary). The meeting had been called in reference to the report that the Wanganui Society, had issued licenses inside the boundaries of Hawera Society’s district. After discussion; it was resolved 1 that the advice of the Colonial Secretary should be obtained on the right of the Wanganui Society to issue licenses w'.thin this district. It was also resolved that the rivers south of the Manunpo should be stocked with fish, if more , were obtained. The general meeting will be held in a fortnight. The Hawera Rifles met at Lloyd’s Hotel, on Friday evening. Mr C. Johnston, was voted to the chair. It was decided that, as the attendance was not very large, the meeting should adjourn for a week. Batcheldeu’s Entertainment appeared at the Town Hall, oh Friday and Saturday, and was well attended. M. Chalet; as a lecturer on the AfiicTi-: can Panorama, kept the audience in good humour, and his. talent as a ventriloquist is first-rate. There was an 'afternoon, performance on Saturday for vjnhlrcn, at; which a large number of youngsters enjoyed themselves.. , I ; A t : OimNAKE, bn Satnrday ■ a game of football took place between the Plains team and Opunake.The Plains had bnc J point : only, after a 1 well-cmv tested game. The.Opunake team bad Hie best of it till the Piains put on a "spurt, and won gamely. ! | Scenes of Drunkenness among the A.C. nieu took place on. Saturday night, at Opunake. ■’ '

CURE FOR tiIPHTHER lA . . The prevalence of diphtheria in paV’ts r qjf the 'colony causes ahum' to I parents; even when the danger is far ;■ removed.. It isi causing, appicnension. in ;lhis district at present, thc.e being several cases among; chi-dien bn the Wlienaakura block; Before, this outh’-cak; diphtheria was ra. Ely heard of in ih’S district, and the less'..the betteij for it is a dis icssirg disease, and often fatal. A simple foun of cure, which lias been tr?crl wiih benefit, is found in tlie application of bri nstone powder as a ga< glc. A correspondent detailed his _expbrichhc in a Melbourne paper some time ago, ’as follows , ! ; '

“Should 3*ou, or any of.j’onr family*, be attacked, do not be alarmed, as it is bodi easily, and speedily cured without calling for a' doctor. When it was raging in England a few years ago, 1 accompanied Dr. Field on his rounds, both in town and country, to witness the so-called “ wonderful cures” he performed,- while the patients of medical men were dropping off on all sides. Of course, the remedy, to bo so efficacious and rapid must be simple. All that he took with him was powder of sul-

phur and a quill, and with these he cured every, patient, without a single exception. He jmt a large tcaspoonful of the flour of briiuostone into a wine-glass of water, and instead of a spoon be used bis linger in stiiring it, as the auluhur docs not readily amalgamate with water ; and as the sulphur was pretty well mixed ho gave as a gargle and in ten minutes the patient was out of danger—brimstone killing every species of fungus in man, beast, and plant, in a- few minutes. Instead of spitting the gargle out, as usual, be recommended the patient to swallow it. In extreme cases, to which bo bad been called just “in the nick of time” to rescue the sufferer from death, 1 wlicre the fungus, was too i icni'Jyr to admit of sufficient bread) passing to enable the patient to gargle, he blew the sulphur into the throat through a quill, and when the fungus had shrunk sufficiently to admit of sufficient wind passing to gargle, ho administered the whole, occupying a few minutes only and lie never lose a patient from diptheria. If you should meet with a patient (hat cannot gargle,’take a live coal (stone or wood) from the fire, put it on a shovel, and sprinkle the flour of brims.bne upon it—a spoonful or two at a time—and let the sufferer inhale it, holding the head over it, and the fungus will die. If plentifully used, the whole room will bo fi'lod almost to suffocation, and the patient may walk about inhaling the fumes, with the doors and windows shut. This modeof fumigating a room with sulphur has often cured most violent attacks of cold in head, chest, &c., at one time. Now, try it or despise it, just as you like—it is simple, efficacious, and safe.