Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1882.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1113, 3 August 1882, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1882.

In reply to several enquiries made as to the probabilities of a visit from Dr. Schwarzbach we are requested to state that it is that gentleman’s intention to pay Gisborne a visit in October for about a week, of which due notice will be given, but that patients requiring longer treatment, or an operation, had better come to Auckland where Dr. Schwarzbaok will remain until September. We take the following from the Auckland “ Evening Star ” t—• “ The particulars have been given us of a novel and rather remarkable operation which Dr. Schwarzbach has just successfully performed upon a patient who camo all the way from Marlborough in order to secure treat-

ment at his hands. This person is an artisan, and it seams that while engaged some time ago in hammering a piece of iron, a fragment of metal flew up from the head of the hammer and penetrated deeply the ball of the right eye, to the bottom of which it gradually i sank, causing great pain and absolute blimf- ' ness. Ordinary moans of relief proving Quito I inefficacious, the sufferer had recourse to the | best medical skill in Wellington. The doctor ! whom he consulted, finding that the case baffled him, recommended his patient to go I to Auckland and consult Dr. Schwarzbach. ; This advice was immediately acted upon. At ' the first interview the oculist perceived the rare and difficult character of the case, but, having read that in similar ones, at Homo, j the magnet had been used with undoubted t effect, he resolved to try it. Accordingly, having ascertained, by means of the opthalmogcope, the exact location of the foreign particle, ho made an incision at the side of the eye, and introduced a small electromagnet into the organ. On withdrawing the instrument, the splinter was found adhering to it, and the pain almost instantaeously ceased. The patient has now recovered his sight, and is overjoyed at the success of the experiment, besides being eulogistic of Dr. Sohwarzbaoh’s skill. Ho says that ho intends keeping the : iron splinter for luck’s sake, and as a re- ! minder of his narrow escape from blindness. i The body of the late Earl of Crawford and I Balcarres has been re-interred at Dunecht.

By this morning’s mail we reoeUed a pros--1 pectus of the St. Helier’s and Northoote Land I Company, Limited. They start with a capital , of £125,000, in 125,000 shares of £1 each. ■ The Directorate is composed of some of the leading citizens of Auckland, and combines the business of sale of blocks of suburban land near Auckland with the right of construction and working tramways in that city and its suburbs for twenty-one years, under an agreement with the City Council. It looks well. To-morrow morning, at 8 o’clock, at the Mount Eden Gaol, Auckland, is the time and place appointed for the convicted murderer ! Winiata to pay the extreme penalty of his | crime. Winiata strenuously asserts that he : did not murder Packer, but that he saw him murdered by a half-caste named Harry, and I that he ran away fearing that he might be acI cused of the crime. We hope yet to hear of i the arch-murderer Te Kooti having to undergo the same efficacious treatment at the hands iof the public executioner. If To Kooti is j ever caught and not hanged, Winiata and 1 Hiroki and Kereopa have been unjustly desI ttoyed.

A team of English Cricketers organised and captained by the Hon. Ivo Bligh, of Eton celebrity, will sail for the Australian Colonies by the Orient steamer “ Austral ” in October next.

News from Christchurch informs us that Mr Twopenny, of the firm of Joubert and Twopenny, proprietors of the Christchurch Exhibition, has purchased a share in the “ Daily Telegraph,” and joins the staff of that paper as Editor in August. Mr Clayton, the present Editor, undertaking the management.

Messrs. Robertson and McKenzie have commenced business as Livery Stable-keepers at the rear of the British Empire Hotel. Both gentlemen are well known in Gisborne, and we feel assured they will bo liberally patronised. A description and further particulars will appeal* in a future issue. During the time H.M.S Nelson was laying in Russell she met with a curious accident. It was blowing pretty hard from the eastward, and the ship dragged • she brought up with a starboard anchor, and hove up on the alack chain of the port one ; when the ring came to the hawse pipe, it was seen that the shank was carried away, probably through a flaw existing in the iron, only the ring, stock, and a small length of the shank being left. The anchor was a 96cwt. one.

Mr W. Rateliffe notifies that, having been appointed broker in the Poverty Bay District for the Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Society, all information regarding the same, and the requisite forms of application etc., can be obtained at his office.

The usudl monthly meeting of the Gisborne school committee took place last night. The ordinary routine of business was disposed of, and it was agreed to plant blue gum trees around the ground. Nothing else of importance took place. The Rev. Father Vaggioli notifies that ho will celebrate Mass in the Roman Catholic Church, at 11 o’clock a.m, on Sunday next, the 6th inat.

Wharetunoa (Muriwai) containing 1 acre 2 roods 23 perches, the property of Mr S. Locke, is advertised to be let by tender for a term of seven years. Tenders to close on the 12th of August. Tho s.s. Oreti is announced in this evening’s issue to take her departure for Auckland early on Saturday next.

Dipthcriu of a malignant typo has broken out at Wanganui.

Messrs Carlaw Smith and Co. notify the postponement of the sale of the pontoon to Friday the 11th inst-., instead of to-morrow as previously announced.

Labour at the Dunedin reclamation works is paid at the rate of 6s 6d per diem.

The Earl of Shraftcsbury is said to be the most philanthropic nobleman in England at the present time. At a late public meeting Mr Spurgeon said : “ I have one request to make. It is that your lordship will be good enough to keep out of Heaven as long as it may be personally convenient for you to do

Mr Green, M.H.R., having suggested an amendment to the Licensing Act which will give all women over 21 the right of voting for Licensing Committees ; a writer in the “ Waimate Times ” says :—Mr Green evidently doesn’t know much about women, else he would know the utter impossibility of compiling a roll of women over 21, as a woman never grows cider than 20. As a matter of course the age limit will have to be fixde at 18.