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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1062, 18 April 1882, Page 4

Major Grant’s wife, who eloped from Plymouth with her brother’s groom, has not yet been heard of. The following extract from the British Medical Monthly will show what the pipe does for the boys - “A medical man, struck with a large number of boys under fifteen years of age he observed smoking, was led to enquire into the effect the habit had upon the general health. He took for his purpose thirty-eight, aged from nine to fifteen, and carefully examined them. In twenty-seven he discovered injurious traces of- the habit. In twenty-two there were various disorders of the circulation and digestion, palpitation of the heart and more or less taste for strong drink. In twelve there were frequent bleeding of the nose, ten had disturbed sleep, and twelve had slight ulceration of the .mucous membrane of the mouth, which disappeared on ceasing the use of tobacco for some days. The doctor treated them all for weakness, but with little effect until the smoking was discontinued, when health and strength were soon restored. Now this is no ‘ old wife’s tale,’ as these facts are given under the authority of British Medical Monthly. In reference to the foregoing a correspondent says: ■“ I think that the evil prevails to such an alarming extent that our General Assembly should be asked to pass an act prohibiting boys under a certain age from smoking.” ■“ The Physical and Social Capabilities of New Zealand for Tea and Silk Culture” was tlie title of a paper read before the foreign and colonial sections of the Society of Arts, on January 31, by Mr William Cochran. He poiuted out that the climate in many parts of the Middle Island closely resembled that of the tea and silk districts of China, and he believed that but for the apparent apathy of the New Zealand Government chaserieulture might at the present moment have been of great importance to the colony. It was ills opinion that the higher grades of silk and the better class of teas could lie successfully cultivated £u New Zealand.