LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 4, 3 November 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Intcrc.-ting reading will be found on our fourth page. Wo publish with to-day’s issue, as a sup* {■lenient, the full report of the Fiuancia 1 burlement. The I’lovincial District Auuioi is af present on aa cllieia! vi-it to this town, auditing the various public accounts under his control, Members of the i'a'oa Cricket Club, and otiicis dcsiious of joining. meet at the Centra! Koti'l, oil Saturday evening next, to discus.--matters ctlecting the club. V\ e would remind members of the I’..tea Athletic Sports Association of the meeting which takes p'uec tins evening, in the Central Hotel, at hall past se\cn. Iberc is a watch in a Swiss museum only thioo-sixteenths i f an inch in diameter inserted in the tup of a pencil case, its little dial not only indicates the hours, minutes, uud seconds, but also days of the mouth,

3 he pivnofmte was invented bran organD f Dresden in 1717. but the instrument wa rot made in England until 1700. A man named Arthur Marshall, storemar o Macmillan and Hunt, Awahuvi. hacker himself to death last >undny night. NT ■au.se is assigned, Emma Fre-d, widow, committed sui c i t le bv drowning in the Auckland Donum ■mid on Sunday! She had been low spin e; •m-c the death of her husband three week; ago. About -100,000 snake? are killed every yeas ■; n Briti-h India. The fees paid as rewardaimuady for the destruction of beasts of pret -.nd vom n.ous snakes by tin; Govcrninent ol India amount toaoout Bdu.OOO, A 1 adv of n ceriain age says that the rcasot an old maid is genera:ly so devoted to hm cat is that, not having a husband, she naturally takes to the neat most treacherous animal. An authority on the subject says that tin whole secret of political success is to knov. how to treat men properly. In that case the teetotallers can never hope to succeed, ahey never show any skid in ■■ treating people at all. Don’t vou think you have a good mamm to spread such nice large slices of bread am jam for you .’ sa.id an old lady to a little bo; who was enjoying Ids tea. Yes. was the reply ; but she would be still better if she’i let me spread on the jam niyseif. The European Mail says ; The new halfsovereigns are being called in, and very li;th new silver is being issued. Two-pound piece arc likely to become valuable, at the die at die mint has been broken up ; a Haw in shapof a tear on Her Majesty’s Lice having bee. discovered. The first appearance rf Father M ; Glyrm since his excommunication by the Pope tin; disobeying the summons to appear at tin Vatican was made at the New Yors Aciidonu ■,t Music on the night of July 10. Th theatre was crowded by an < nthusiastn gathering of people, who cheered M*Giyn for several minutes, and hissed the name o the Pope. In the course of his harangm Father M Glynn spoke of carring a crasad, into Italv for the principle of " the land foi the people.”

A singular revelation was made at at, inrpiest held at Wolverhampton Ihc other dav on the body of Susannah Vernon, a marriei woman, who after cutting her throat with r. razor, was removed to the hospital, where she died. Upon her admission to the hospital the woman was found to have a sum of £-18, 7s. sown up between two pieces of linen which were tied to the sole of tier foot. Tlu husband of the deceased, who said ho wa unaware that his wife possesi-c i s j muck money, on the money being handed over L him. gave £5. to the funds of the hospital.

Twenty years aoo, remarks the IVorhi. the announcement of the death of Mr Lindsa;, •Sloper would have created a stir in tin musical world, in which he was then a prominent figure ; but though he hid batch turned threescore, through cireumsaneeover which none but himself had control, hi had gradually slipped out of memory, atm we have seen scarcely one ref3> once t > tin fact that ho has passed away. The pupil <■ Moschelcs, Lindsay Sloper made his debut it London, in 18-10, at the Musical Union, unde; the direction of John Ella, who as an octo genarian, still lives.

In Auckland the Salvation Army is in trouble. A very pc-dmcn of flu donkey tribe has been located in a yard almost abutting on she barrack's in Albert stroe and has proved most annoying to the soldier The donkey may have a grievance against the Army, butatal! events the competition i keen, ana it is a matter of doubt if tiic (I n key hasn’t had the best of it so far. The Army complained to the police of the nuisance, and it remains to he seen whether th Salvation Army Barracks or the donkey wi! be shifted. The doukty belongs to a Jis! hawker.

The divorce case Ifsyd (petitioner) v. Lloyd (respondent) and (Jamill (corespondent) was on Tuesday morning adjourned t next session, on the application of *Mr .Muthews, who appeared for the petitioner. L was adjourned heeau.se the other .side wanted costs paid in I eforc the case was proceeded with, which lie co dd not do, as lie was : pauper. Mr T Much Lon, who appealed lb; the others, did not oppose the application, but asked for the costs of the day, which however, were not allowed.—Taranaki Herald.

A Wellington telcgr.m snys : A canonpoint has arisen in e nneetion with the demising laws, One of the city hotels is form i since a recent extension, to stand in twi licensing districts. Them is a bar in the extension, and it is contended that a licen-e must bo paid. But as the.c is no bar within the meaning of the Act in the old i onion, i may be possible that this fact keeps (hj licensee within the law, (Most people would have thought, that the fact of the bar not being in the licensed portion of tin house, but the unlicensed, would have boon the very thing to put the licensee wither/- the law but the law is just one of those things '• No fellah can understand.” As in other places, the live members of the local company of volunteers who are arno'd with the Kemingtou-Lce rifles, find a d:lii cully with the ammunition, owing to the cartridge cases occasionally breaking in tin breach. ( n Saturdad last, while practising at the butts, Yol.T. llempton got his rift rendered useless for the time by a cartridge esse breaking, and notwithstanding an attempts to extract it with the means a 1 hand, it could not be got out. Jt is said tha a volunteer whi e tiring at the butts lias had (hj breech block blown out by a cartridge burst - ing, and there are other cases which, taken together, show that there is something wrong with the Kem:ugton-Loo Hides.—Taranaki Herald.

A moeing of the General Committee of the Exhibition, was held last evening in Mr Horner's ullico, when there wasoniy a medium attendance. Minutes of former meeting were read and confirmed. Conespundenec was read ; from Major Atkinson, relative to fra- king Exhibition correspondence, from which it was found that Major Atkinson was unable to exempt Exhibition correspo.alei.ee from postage ; from the Union s s Company undertaking to carry exhibits other tlnn Industrial exhibits, free of charge ; from Mr Hamilton, accepting the position of President .Resolutions were pas-ed, authorising advertising in certain papers at a c >st not exceeding thirty shillings for any newspaper. A committee was i.ppoiuted to ascertain cost oi erecting necessary shed accommodation adjoining the Harmonic Hall. A vote of thunks to the chair closed the proceedings, A death from hydrophobia has occurred under shocking circumstances in Odc-si. The deceased patient, was in a bed of tinware! specially set apart for these cases, and under the charge of a sister of the Bed Cro-s. He had displayed none of the usual premonit.,ry spasmodic symptoms. Suddenly.: s the sister passed down the ward, he spuing out of bed, and endeavoured to seize her. Mie fled downstairs into the hospital card, calling for assistance, and was followed by the paticut, who succeeded in seizing her by the arm and biting her in the hand. Four mule attendants came to her ass stance, ami attempted to hold the unfortunate man on the ground and bind him, but Ins stieagthj wr.s so great that he threw them oif. snapping ai diem as be did so, and escapi d into the | He was finally captured theie oy I iUow’ng a lasso around his neck, dragge i | i to the hospital, and securely bound, j d he unfortunate man died shortly afterwards. I ;av.ac m a hotrib o manner. This incident j hj s cau-ed to much cxehem nt and apnre- { hens’on that tie local p.e-s urre that those patients not lodged in the ovc; crow dud l*.»c- ! teriolo leal hospital, and who traverse the J streets twite a day fur the inoculation* should | have a police escort. Ihe sister of the Bed j Cross is now und.-r the usual treatment, as if! bitten by a rabid dog.

The chairman of the public meeting yesrrclay shewed some genuine firmness in com > ting the attempt made by a few present i> obtain a knowledge of the intended site of kc proposed meat works. Why any attemp ■) betray contidence should be made at the ncoting. isd iflicnlt t > nn lcrstand. It wa? .oronghly agreed Hint the sit;-shouhlreraai i '■solutclv in the control of Mr Oldham, an 1 ms already contributed bad been s > omised on that understanding, and it wa •■ Ipably unfair to Mr Oldham to ewk him t 1 :£cl s:- th,? intended site, before a ccr.a nlv •xi<ted < £ tho works being c-tablidi-'d. a.? a very -eiious tVilercnco might thereby be made ilie buying mice.

Ju-'t tw-.1 v.i mouths ago a young man dimed Fuun.k-rs attempted to m -riicr im -woclh-eart in t: c sticets of Ilunting-lou by or l-ing ha - with a sword c ine. For t.ia- - , ■ftenvc he was sentence! to 1-5 years pentl mvitude. After a painful illness the girl radnady grew belter, but she aow ys insted that a > ic-ce of ’.he sword blade ha I r ken eiT in her body, and was slid there. LTofesso: Humphrey, of Addcnbrooke s Ho - ,iuii. Cambridge, ha? ju-t succeeded in exiricating Lom the girl a piece of the steel >iado more than six incitei in length The •nost extraordinary fact connected with the • Iteration is that although the wound w.i- in due girl’s chest, tin; blade w. s extricated, Kokcn end first, from her back. It must have dvas turned completely round. Her vcovery is now almost certain. Some months ago a ludicrous episode occurred at the works of the Woodbury Tissue lomp.ny. says an English paper, where inn.is of paprr fer photographic use nro male Irons- avent by the use ol certain solids iissolvcd in hydro-carbons. The vapor from •die liquid had* such an effect upon the workmen employed, that thav reeled about the tu-cmHo? in a stale of jovi.d intoxication An accident of the same kind is now reported from America. At a mill there, a pipe of urge diameter was being paint-.d inside with 1 mixture of benzine and asphaltmn as a m-ecautiou against rust. Sounds of h.larky ■ ere hoard proceeding from that pipe, ami ■ hen the superintendent of the works peeped ithin he found Ins men painting each other £.ces. and otherwise behaving as lunatics. • is quite possible that a fatal accident night happen in such a case as this, and the me of such Raids ns benzine should be guard;d by suitable precautions.