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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1285, 28 February 1883, Page 2

The effect of electric lighting on health was (the Lancet any t) lately diecnised at e meeting of the Hygienic Society of Hamburg, and Dr Kruu explained hie view* oh the subject at tome length. He referred to the influence of the electric light on th* human eyeeight, and expressed hie opinion that it produces no evil effects, the light having a violet tinge under most eirenmstances. He referred to the somewhat exaggerated expectation* which had bean formed as to the distance at which the light was visible at sea; but on th* whole he considered that the safety of human life at s*a had been Increased by the use of the electric light in lighthouses. The electric light being free from the disadvantages Incidental to the combustion of gas in the consumption ot oxygen and the production of earoonic acid, he considered it* development a* being a hygienic measure of relative importance.

A shocking scene at a funeral is reported a* having taken place in Doon graveyard, County Limerick. An old man nam*d Cook, formerly in the army, was drowned but th* people objected to hie being buried on account ot hie having been a protestant, After the grave had been dug, it was found necessary to dig again in a different place. Here, also, his remain* were not permitted to be deposited and a third grave nod to bo dug in the middle of the footpath to receive them. The Burial Service was scoffingly Interrupted, and at night a stone was flung through the window of the house of one of the gravediggers, cutting his wife and child. The grave wo* covered up by the sexton and the relieving officer the people refusing to lay a hand on the coffin, and while the clergyman was reading the Burial Service, the laughing, jeering, and scoffing prevented him being heard a few feet distant. Deceased baa served in the Crimean war.

The swimming match between Hedley of Christchurch and W. Joyner of Auckland, distance five miles, for £3O a aide, which wm to come off on Saturday first, has fallen through, owing to Hedley not having staked his money. Joyner intends now to claim the deposit money (£6). As a trial he swam from Freeman's Bay Point to Birkenhead Wharf and back again the other day in an hour and 20minutes.

Newspapers become celebrated for various things. One is known for it* Radicalism, another for its Toryism, another for it* independence, a fourth for its enterprise in gathering news, and so on, but it has been reserved for a Napier paper to achieve a reputation tor something altogether different to all these. Says a writer of note* in a Christchurch paper:—"Mr Knowles, a member of the Napier Hospital Committee, at a recent meeting of that body, seriously proposed that the • names of the proposers and seconders of motions should be withheld in the publishen reports of committee meetings, and that the reports should run “It was resolved.” He gave as his reason for this, that the “ gentlemen,” composing the committoe, would be thereby spared any animadversion if any unpopular actiou were proposed. Mr Knowles is proprietor of the “ Daily Telegraph,” a paper noted for its garbled reports. It did not even report the above.