News Items.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVII, Issue 22693, 6 August 1903, Page 2

News Items.

Fioggiug as a remedy for whoopingcough is said to be a favourite style of treatment in Austria. Whoopingcough, declare U 1 dociors, being rather a nervous :,ff oYm :Inin anything else, the flog ong is a eounuT-imtant. and rouses tut*, child to an exercise of the will wli oh often suppresses the c«>ugh. The newest cure for anaemia ig to take the. sufferer up in a captive balloon and let him stay at a certain altitude for two hours. It is said that half a dozen ascents of this kind during as many weeks will effect a marvellous cure —equal to three months’ sojourn at a health resort. Commenting on a hockey f match that was played between the Addington Girls’ Club, Christchurch, and the men from the Hawtrey Dramatic Co., the Lyttelton Times thus criticises the play: —Although outpaced for speed, the girls displayed a most judidious acquaintance with the use of the . skirt as an adjunct to hockey, not only as a valuable assistance in stopping' the ball, bht also as cover. In moments of danger they sat upon the ball with a supreme appreciation of the value of this move, which was tactically quite masterly. The old-fashioned windmill stpod Germany, as well as other European countries, in good stead for a long succession of centuries, and though abandoned for a short time in favour of other applications of power, is coming back again to furnish, force to drive dynamos. For this there is demand enough to keep all the winds of the fatherland busy for many a year and generation to come, thus g . the ancient and picturesque windmill from the obliteration and f orgsttylnßse „' which have of late seemed to awaitit-. -

The Auckland temperance delegat^p';-. attended a No-Licence meeting in >: £~E Newtown, at which one of the speakers, amidst roars of laughter, read out the share Hist of the New Zealand Times / Newspaper Company. The New Zealand Times is the most rancorous and fanatical of all the pro liquor organs. Its shareholders are directly interested in the liquor business, with the exception of the Right Hon. Richard Seddop}, ami the five or six members of family whose names figure on the list. It is interesting to note, now that sweeping alterations being made to the present London Bridge, that some years ago, in the course of some excavations on the shore of the Thames at Botolph’s Wharf, a fragment of the first Loudon Bridge was dug lip. This pile was found 20ft. below the surface, and it was estimated to be eight Centuries old, as Stow, the historian, tells us that the bridge was built in. the reign of William the Conqueror. Hewn from stout English oak, the pile was still solid, though blackened and saturated by Thames water and mud. Apparently it was an oblong, not a square pile, one side being broken away.

In order to familiarise the people with the domestic uses of electricity,' and at the same time increase the demand for the current, a Chicago electric company has adopted the idea of u-ing small cottages of a portable nature, and erected at different points through the city, for short periods of iiaie. The cottage is brilliantly illuminated outside and in, for the purpose of attracting attention at night, and the interior is fitted with all the devices which can be operated by electricity that are designed for - use around the home. There are about seventj'-five different electrical con-, tri vances of this nature, including fans sewing machine motors, cooking, and - toilet utensils, and all the different kinds of lamps which are available for home use Visitors are allowed the greatest freedom, and even encouraged to handle the things on view and ask questions about their use. It is said that about 125 persons visit the cottage on an average each day.

A resident of Christchurch who was a passenger from Sydney by the Moeraki. describes as a fiasco the precautionary methods adopted by the health authorities in this colony. He states that the steamer was delayed about four hours at Wellington and two hours at Lyttelton, to permit of inspection. The spraying with formalin of passengers’ luggage, he thinks, is absurd, in view of the fact that the general cargo of the ship is not fumigated. Borne of the passengers spread towels over their luggage, and these were sprayed and in some instances none of the formalin reached the - packages. At Wellington he and some other passengers who had got their clearance went ashore, but were refused permission to go on board again by a person who appeared to be in authority. The captain attempted to get this man to allow the passengers to rejoin the ship, threatening to swing them on with the ship’s crane if further obstruction occurred. Thia had no effect, and the passengers did not get on board until a person, higher • in authority, apparently, appeared on the scene and removed the embargo., It appears that passengers, are called' upon to pay 10s to the ship for medical examination. The names of those refusing to do so are, it is alleged, not given to the Health Officer, and as neither they nor theii luggage are passed, they have to remain on board until they pay the sum demanded.