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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 5, 6 November 1883, Page 2

Mr D. Page has imported three emues, which can be seen at the Masonic Hotel. A timely use of Hop Bitters will keep a whole family in robust health for a year, with very little care. Read. The consecration of the Meth ven Masonic Lodge, took place at Meth ven last Tuesday, the 30th ult. On account of the unfavorable state of the weather, the attendance at the places of worship was somewhat limited on Sunday last. A fretful mother and cross child indicates ill health, requiring only Hop Bitters to remove, see

A daylight parade of the J Battery will ta held on Friday, the Prince of Wake Birthday. On our fourth page will be interesting article entitled "The Blunderberry’s at Breakfast," and several other interesting items.

Telegraphic communication having been entirely interrupted since Saturday last, we are unable to supply our readers with the usual budget of outside news.

In another column will be found a numerously signed requisition to Captain Porter asking him to allow himself to be nominated as Mayor, together with that gentleman s acceptance of the proffered honor.

A notification appears in another column from the Beturning Officer, Mr F. J. Please, to the effect that the election of Mayor will take place on Wednesday the 28th.instant. Nominations will be received at the Town Clerk’s office on Wednesday the 14th instant up to 12 o’clock noon.

A remarkable contrivance ' t b Che Arth U « Beorgb, the ,nv ™ tor of the tele r . >4ie b ears y s nahie. This invention * a supplemental to the telephone, and will enable every description of conversation carried on through the instrument to be not only recorded but reproduced at any future time. Another of Mr St George’s electrical discoveries, even more wonderful than that by which telephonic conversations may he photographed, will shortly be patented

When the Chinese gardeners drove the European gardeners out of the Auckland market in the mattet of supplying kitchen vegetables, by Supplying a better article at a lower price, was jubilant. It appears that her joy has been short-lived, for “ John,” having succeeded in creating a monoply, now supplies an inferior article, while he has gradually increased his prices to the former scale of his European rivals. Human nature, it seems, is pretty much the same in the heathen Chinee as in the playedout Caucasian.

The “N. Z. Herald” says j—“ His Honor Mr Justice Gillies proceeds South to-day, to attend the Court of Appeal to be holden at Wellington on the 12th of November. He holds the circuit sittings at New Plymouth on his journey down. There are five cases of appeal from Auckland, viz.—Bloomfield v Coleman and others, Scott v. The Northern Steamship Company, Creditor’s Trustee oi Bray v. Cant and others, Stone v. Atkinson, Grice and another v. Ani Waata. His Honor will hold the Circuit Courts at Napier and Gisborne on his journey homeward. The next sitting in banco is fixed for the 19th of December*

A puzzle to total abstainers has just died in France at the ripe aga of 70, leaving an account in a log-book of all that he had drunk for.the past 50 years. His habits in this respect were very regular, his daily allowance being seven pints of wine, a couple of glasses of absinthe before each of his three meals, and 12 ponies of cognac, rum, or some other spirit to drive away despondency. The total for the half-century amounted to 127,827 pints of wine, 109,556 glasses of of absinthe, and 219,132 ponies of spirits. The old gentleman boasted that he never had a day’s illness in his life, and he certainly seems to have proved his point that a hard drinker is not necessarily a short-liver. Perhaps, however, he might have lived 20 years longer if he had been a tosal abstainer. Last Tuesday a letter appeared in our correspondence columns criticising the action of the Borough Council in removing the street lamps. Every person who, like ourselves, were compelled to face the downpour of rain on Saturday night, will most cordially agree with the sensible words. of the writer. If ever there was any necessity for lamps in the streets it was on Saturday night. The rain fell in torrents, and, as is always the case in such instances, the roads were speedily converted into a series of lagoons, and the footpaths into quagmires. The night was intensely dark and no one could grope their way along for far, without plunging over boot tops into mud and water. In this, as in many other similar instances, we believe the Council acted without due thought and consideration, and we trust Councillors will take speedy steps to remedy what is undoubtedly a blunder aud one which is interfering greatly with the convenience, safety, and comfort of the public.

The following is the decision of His Honor Mr Justice Gillies, in the case of Cooper v. Coleman, Clarke, Rees, and Wi Pere, in the Supreme Court Auckland, on October 29th:— Mr Theophilus Cooper for the plaintiff; Mr Cotter for the defendants. This was a proceeding by the defendants calling on the plaintiff to show cause why the action should not be dismissed for non-prosecution. Mr Theo. Cooper showed cause (part heard the last sitting of the Court) why the application should not be granted, on the following grounds :—l. That the writ was issued out of the Court in another judicial district. 2. That there was reasonable excuse for farther proceedings not having been taken by the plaintiff, namely, the tact that his witnesses resided at a very great distance, while the plaintiff himself resided at Gisborne. That defendants resided in Auckland, and considerable periods must elapse between each communication with them. That there was an agreement with the defendants as to time and place of trial.— His Honor : I do not think that agreement is any excuse. The position of these matters must have been perfectly well known to the plaintiff. He had evidently made up his mind not to go to trial—indeed, he appears to have made up his mind in that direction from the moment the issues were settled. Let the action be dismissed with costs.

A cablegram announces the death of Capt Mayne Reid, the novelist, at the age of 65. Captain Reid was a native of the North of Ireland, and was educated for the Established Church. A taste for travel and adventure, however, induced him to set out for Mexico without any very definite aim. On arriving at New Orleans he went on two excursions up the Red River, trading and hunting in company with the Indians, and afterwards made other excursions up the Missouri and on the prairies, where he remained for nearly five years. He afterwards travelled through almost every State in the Union, and in these journeys, with his experience in the backwoods, acquired that knowledge of character and incident displayed in his writings. In 1845, when war was declared between the United States and Mexico, Captain Reid, who had devoted himself to literature, obtained a commission in the United States Army. He was present at the siege and capture of Vera Cruz, and took an active part in various encounters, led the last charge of infantry at Churubusco, and the forlorn hope at the assault of Cbapultepec, where he was shot down and reported to be killed. For his gallantry at Chapultepec, Captain Reid was honorably mentioned in the despatches. At the close of the Mexican war he resigned his commission, and in 1849 organised a body of men in New York to proceed to Hungary, to aid in the struggle of that country for independence, but on reaching Paris he received the news of the total failure of the Hungarian insurrection. He repaired to London, and once more devoted himself to literature. He was the author of a long list of stirring novels of prairie life and warlike adventures.

Mr J, East, trustee in the estate of'B. J Bromley, gives notice to ad those indebted to the Boot and Shoe Warehouse, that il their accounts are not settled by the lltl instant they will be prosecuted. Woman who has been looking over blanket; in a Main-street store—" Well, I don’t meai to buy. just looking for a friend. Clerk, politely—“ Don’t think you’ll fin, your friend among the blankets. We y looked ’em all through." Miss Chamberlain, the American beautj who has partially put Mrs Langtry’s nose oe of joint, is about to be married to Mr J. t

Cairnes, who is now settled in Wyoming Territory, where he is known as a cattle king. Mr Cairnes is also a crack lawn-tennis player. A meeting of the Hospital Committee and all those interested in the promotion Annual Hospital fete wi” ' - " r ffils Court House on — t>" BSju 111 the at 7.8° ...wsiiffihfojr, the 7th instant, — p>m- t {or the purpose of arranging the

of events. The co-operation of the Volunteers, Friendly Societies, and the Rowing Club is invited, A gentleman kissed a lady’s hand In a fit of gallantry. She deliberately drew her glove off and dropped it on the floor. “ Why do you do that?’’ he asked “Oh,” she replied, “I never wear soiled gloves,” “ And I,” said he, picking it up and putting it in the fire, “don’t like to see dirty things lying about,” Some very important experiments have been conducted by a German chemist, named Kuhn, relating to the digestibility of moistened and cooked fooder for cattle, from which we learn that an excess of water used to moisten the food decreases its digestibility. Boiling the food 24 hours before feeding produced the same effect. He .shows that the extent to which the same fodder is digested by the same animal may vary at different times. This is an important item, and ought to be borne in mind in all future experiments ; at the same time it will make us sceptical as to the bearing of old ones. On Saturday evening a strong N.E. gale set in, accompanied with a heavy downpour of rain, continuing through the night. On Sunday the weather improved somewhat ; but, towards the evening the wind suddenly veered round to the S.E. and freshened into a heavy gale, which continued to rage the whole of the night without the slightest lull, and accompanied with heavy squalls of rain. Towards eleven o’clock yesterday the weather moderated and the sun shown forth. A very heavy sea was tumbling into the Bay during the day. The oldest musical instrument known to be in existence is said to be in the museum of Copenhagen. It is a large bronze war trumpet, which was found in a graveyard in Schleswig, The instrument is cast of ninetenths copper and one-tenth tin, is very large, and its tube is in the shape of a corkscrew, so that it must have encircled the player. The mouthpiece is comparatively very wide, and the opening is flat, like a cymbal. The length of | the instrument is nearly 7ft ; it has a very low, full, and exceedingly | far-ranging tone.

The Stork, Commander Blennerhasset, while on her way to St. Paul de Loanda, called at Mayumba River, and a sporting trip, in whioh the Stock officers were to participate, who, with Commander Blennerhasset., Lieut. Henry Leeke, and Mr Anderson, surgeon to the Stork, were together in a boat in the river, when they, were attacked by a hippopotamus. The animal had been wounded, and made furious assaults on the boat, which, after a severe straggle, was capsized. The commander was saved, but Lieutenant Leeke, Dr Anderson, and Mr Prenslan, were drowned. Lieut. Leeke served on board the Archilles during the Egyptian war. Dr Anderson was making his voyage as a naval surgeon. A beautiful painting has been discovered sn the ruins of Pompeii, representing the “ Judgment of Solomon." Xt is said to the the first picture on a sacred subject that has been discovered in the buried cities. A correspondent, describing the picture, says Ona dais sits a king holding a sceptre and robed in white. On each side of him sits a councillor, and behind them six soldiers under arms. The king is leaning over the front of the dais toward a woman in a green robe, who kneels before him with dishevelled hair and outstretched hands, In the centre is a three-legged table, like a butcher’s block, upon which lies an infant, who is held in a recumbent position, in spite of hie struggles, by a woman wearing a turban. A soldier in armour, and wearing a helmet with a long red plume, holds the legs of the infant, and is about to cleave it in two with his falchion. The agony of the kneeling mother, the attention of the listening king, and the triumph of the second woman, who gloats over the division of the child, are all manifest.”

Messrs Brown and Smai'.o have made another addition to their extensive business premises, in the shape of a large and commodious shoeing forge at the roar of the engineering work. Another improvement in the way of saving labour is the mechanical contrivance of producing a blast. By this method the laborious process of pumping wind through the bellows is entirely dispensed with, and all that is required is to simply move a lever and a steady and uniform current immediately obtained through the agency of a small centrifugal fan which resolves at the speed of about 1000 revolutions per minute. The firm has several rather heavy jobs on hand just now, which has necessitated the sending to Dunedin for further help in the shape of a boiler-maker. They have also in use an ingenious method by which they utilize the waste steam in heating the supply of water for the boiler, thereby saving 25 per cent, of fuel. The premises will well repay the trouble of a visit, especially to those who are interested in mechanical contrivances.

Advices received at Plymouth from Shanghai contain reports of a terrible tragedy at Osaka. A Shizoku, by name Kitagawa Takesada, living at Ajikawamachi was known to be a man of very amiable disposition, except when in liquor. He was taking tiffen with his wife and two children. Shortly afterwards one of the children went out on the back of a small girl from the next house, and Kitagawa went into another apartment, where he kept a number of swords, and, bringing them out, told his wife to sell them, as they were of no use to him. She was about to obey her husband’s order, but observing something strange in his manner, she hesitated to go out. No sooner had he drawn one of the weapons than he cut down his wife, inflicting a wound from the shoulder to the breast. She fell down in agony, and the madman thrust the blade into her throat. The girl remaining at home was frightened, and whilst attempting to escape was cut into pieces. Being unaware of what had happened in the house, the neighbour’s girl returned with the child she had taken out, and would have shared the terrible fate of the others but for a hasty retreat. Then the murderer killed the boy, saying that he (the boy) was fated to accompany him on the journey to eternity. In the meanwhile an old lady, an acquaintance of the unfortunate family, came to see what was the matter, but only to meet with a murderous assault, as falling down when stricken, she became an easy prey to the monster, who, though exhausted when she came in, rose and plunged the sword into her heart. He afterwards committed suicide. ’

The library reading rooms, were! formally opened to the public last night. There was a very good attendance. Singer’s Sewing Machines, 2s fid per week Repairs, parts, etc., to be had at the Singer Manufacturing Depot, Gladstone road. I These old people whose blood has become > thin and steps feeble are praising Hop Bitters for the good they have done them. , See. 1 We understand that the proceeds of the j “ Sable Orphans ” entertainment, which

amounts to some £4O, after pswpenses, will be equally d’-’ ’ ( —a all 6xTuranganui Lib-- “Otwessn the -<V and the Boating Club. ~ are [invited by the Committee bitlie Turanganui Public Library for, the position of Librarian. Applicants will be required to state salary. The library will bo opened daily from 2 to 5 and 7 to" 10 p.m. Further particulars see advertisement.

Not long ago a Scotch Board inspector asked the member of a class that was under examination, " What is the cause, of the saltness of the ocean P" Flushed with ths discovery whioh had flashed upon her mind, one little girl raised her hand, " You may tell," said the inspector. “ Salt fish, sir I" exclaimed the pupil triumphantly.

"Is that a bull dog sir?" enquired a stranger of the Dogman. " No, air, it’s a cow-dog." "A cow-dog! I never heard of that breed." " Well, air, if you doubt my word, just look at the affectionate way in which he’s looking at your calves." Stranger vanishes into thin air.

A correspondent mentions the case of a man of his acquaintance who put down alternate layers of green corn (cutting and letting it will) and dry wheat straw, and when it was opened several months after he found that it had not only kept well, but that his horse ate both straw and corn with great relief. He will hereafter put up large quantities of green osrn in this way. A similar system for putting up fodder in the barn in alternate layers is well worthy of trial.

The Abbd Malbec, an antiquarian, living in Charento Inferieure, is reported to have discovered a picture by Poussin with the painter’s name still legible. The picture is of medium size, and represents an allegorical subject, a strange mixture of sacred and mythological personages, For instance, there is a statue of the god Pan, a faun, two recumbent women, representing Innocence and Peace ; and in the background Justice, angry of visage, seizing the sinner by the hair. The manner of its discovery is not told.

It is statek that another attempt is to be made to swim the Niagara Rapids by a professional swimmer, named Bibbero, who was present at the attempt made by the late Captain Webb, and is known in the swimming world as •■ Marquess Bibbero." He intends to have a dummy figure made about his own weight and size, and to oast it into the Rapid before making the attempt. By this means he hopes to ascertain the strength and tendency of the Whirlpool. Bibbero has arrived in England, where the dummy is to be made, and, pending its completion, ho will practise daily against strong tides. The following quaint notice, printed in gilt letters and hung up in a frame over the mantel-piece of a smoking-room in'an hotel, is somewhat curious

xuo Landlord’s invitation, Here's to Pa I nds Pon Da S OClalh Ou Rin ha! R.M., Lea Bmir T Ha I N D Fu nleTfr; i Ends HIPRE ignß eiu, St, an, dkin dan Devil sPo, AK of Ji Ono.

N.B.—No teaching one another to read the above under a forfeiture of a Bottle of the Landlord's Wine.