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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 972, 24 August 1881, Page 3

When the two Royal Princes were travelling, by coach in an up-conntry district in Australia they stopped at an hotel. Being cold they got out, and took it by turns to give each other a ride round the yard in a wheelbarrow that was handy. When they had done, one remarked to th® other that he, supposed the owner would be fool enough to go and put that wheelbarrow under a glass-case. The danger arising from contagious diseasei being circulated through the medium of articles of food is so great that, according to the Live Stock Journal, a farmer at Reigate was summoned for having retained a cow-man milking cows when the man’s son lay ill with diptheria, of which he subsequently died. The milk was supplied as usual to the consumers, the farmer’s excuse being that he did net know (it was infectious. He knows now, as the Magistrates fined him £5 and costs. The Auckland Star says:—Mr. Superintendent Thomson received intelligence from Constable Walker of a moat determined suicide at Churchill, near Mercer. The telegram containing the intelligence was as follows : “ A man named Craig, is alleged to have committed suicide at Churchill yesterday morning by tying himself down in his bed, drawing the flax out of the mattrass, and setting it on Are An inquest will be held to-day. The deceased' is said tp be a brother of Mr. Craig, carter, of Auckland. " —, £ he , fol I lowin ® is an anecdote of an eminent Q.C., lately gone over to the great majority. While a junior he had to speak of some questionable proceeding, and said, “ Gentlemen of the jury, the defendant has been amusing himself by flying kites.” “ Doing what ?” saSd the judge. “ Flying kites, my lord ; putting his name to accommodation bills” “Why are they called kites ?” “ Why, my lord, there 18 j c n nne ction between the schoolboy’s kite and the wind ; only, in one instance, the wind raises the kite • in the other, the kite raises the wind. In these days when small-pox is in Sydney and Brisbane the question of vaccination is important. Mr. George Lacy, the able author of many reform essays, has published a pamphlet entitled “ Vaccination in the Light of Modern Enquiry.” Mr. Lacy believes that there is not sufficient evidence to show that vaccination is any help to small-pox. The need of Sydney is not vaccination, but airy houses, wide streets, pure water, and good drainage. There are many remarks in Mr. Lacy’s pamphlet well worth considering. We believe that half the deaths in our cities are preventible. Typhoid, diphtheria, scarlatina, Ac., carry off our population, and thev are bred through our neglect of the laws of nature.