LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7853, 20 June 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

■ When Mr W. Eraser's name was called as a gi'and'juror at the Supreni# Coui ton Monday 110 response was made, but after tho foreman liud been sworn he appeared in Court, but was not allowed to jO|:n the jury. On feeing called upon by Ms-Honor to- an explanation Mr Eraser attributed his late arrival to his watch being slow.

lJis Honor said he would not impose a fine on this occasion, but the leniency must not betaken as a precedent.

It was decided ftt Monday's- meeting of the Hospital Board, on the recomr mendtttion of Mr Ttsch, thne tho captain of the Now Plymouth Fire Brigade bo asked to inspect and report on the fire hose appliances at the hospital and Old Peoples' Home. If ihi'se are deemed insufficient to cope: with an outbreak of fire, the captain ,vill be asked to give an estimate of cost for adequate appliances. Dr. Leatham reports that for the .no 11 til of May. H 6 patients were admitted to the hospital and 85 discharged. The. e was one death; (due .0 intestinal obstruction), and 40 oatients remained in tho institution. I'wcrity-one operations were performed for the month.

tho Barristers present at the opening of the Supreme jCourt on Monday vere Messrs O. Samuel, T. S. JVestm senr., Kerr, J. 'E. Wilson, iiam, Hutchen, Wright,,tßoy apti Fitoherbert..

The Government has contracted .villi John Anderson, of ChdslMur.h or the erection of the Makatotc viar duct, the biggest work o< the kind (i, •onncction with the 'North Island ilaiii Trunk Line. 'l"hc co/it I'act provides for the imanufactuve all the iteel Work required wii-hiii tile cotny. Roughly speaking, Makatote is ibout midway between TaUmarunui,

the northern terminus of the permanent way 'Already Constructed, . and t'aihape, in the South. The Makatote viaduct and the Mataroa tunnel are ihc -chief obstacles to completion of

his great public .work, fn regard to the latter it .was reported' % fvnv days ago that it w'ai hopod to ciomjlcte the work by Christmas. " I know places in' the North ls-

land where women on the land havo been thice years lyithout seeing, another woman," sahl Mr J. G. Wilson in giving evidence before the Land Commission. Such hardships', he thought, ought sto entitle tlie back block settlers to every consideration. At a meeting of the Waimatc Road Board, Mr Wells, in referring to the Waiokufa bridge on the Normanby Road, stated that the structure was erected' by the " unemployed " —the Armed Constabulary—2u years ago, and never sinc(/,has £5 been spent on it.

The Waitara Mail is the authority for saying that Mr T. Hutchinson, S.H,,does not believe it possible that a farmer can make anything out of land when paying! £2O or more for it per acre. In giving these prices',says his Worship, the people are making rods foil theif own backs. : ! It is reported that the Vnion Company has made another addition tojils fleet by purchasing the steel steamer Matoppo, 3942 tons gross and 2520 tons net. The vessel was built last year by Messrs Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Newcastle. She was enigined by the Wallsend Slipway Company, and is capable of steaming about 10 knots at sea. The vessel was purchased from the Bucknall Steamship Line, Lamited.

According to the West Coast Times there is a considerable falling off in the northern coal trade, and a number of hands are to be discharged from the Tyneside mine, in which it is probable there will be only one shift worked for some time to come. At the State colliery also, hands will be shortened.

What appears to have been a narrow escape from phosphorus'-poison-ing took place at Huntly the other day. While Mrs E. B. Shcchan was absent from the room hcrtwo-year-old son, Douglas, got hold of a inatchjbox, and swallowed 17 match heads before he was detected. jVhile Mr Sheehan at once went for the doctor, emetics were tried, with good elTect, so that when the doctor arrived he I pronounced the <3hjl(J safe.

For some time past there has been a jjeculiar character named Hilly living in. the neighbourhood of Elthami He was looked upon as being somewhat deficient, mentally, but not sufficiently so to warrant police interference. It was known that, he was living 'in his wharc in a state of scniistcfrvation. Neighbours were always willing to help h|im, and did so when they had tho opportunity. Hilly is now missing, and the police have 110 trace of hnn. On visiting his wharc it was discovered that he had taken his blankets, clothes and food outside ajid burned them. It is feared that he ha# made away with himself.

The latest development in connection with 'the butter freights question is a move by the New /calami anil African Steamship Company. The Company announces that it has made :i further reduction in the rate of the freight from Nmv Zealand ports to Bristol, IJnrfy, Car/JilT, Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow by their service of steamers, running under contract with the New Zcalankl (!tf vernment, and is now prepared to carry butter at 3d per lb net. This brings the freight, down to the Australian level.

The Stratford Post is informed that the freight concessions on the carriage of butter myafifj a saving to the Stratford factory of between £4OO and £SOO per annum. The reductipp only applies to the members of the National Dairy Association. During a heavy thunderstorm at Sunny Corner, N.S.W., accompanied by vivid lightning and large hailstone?, Constable Hoad, who riding home from Mitchell's Creek had |an unpleasant experience. There was a blinding flash, and horse and rider were thrown to the ground. llolh we+'e soon up, how ever, and beyond a dazed faelipg, Constable Hoad was uninjured, but subsequently complained of pains in the "body. TJip ihorse violently trembled, ,and seemed iiav.e:l for some lime afterwards.)

Tlie knell of tho old-fashioned poultice has been sounded. The Surgeongeneral of the I'iiiled Stales Army has «lecidc3 that all the goo'd results claimed for their u/30 can be obtained in a more cleanly way by the employment of hot, wet compresses. He has accordingly issued an order that linseed and linseed meal) arc no longer to be included in the list of army i medicines.

" I want a 099 yearsi' leuso, with ft right of renewal, "osaidf a member of the Land Board before .the - Land Commission at Wollmgton.

Yet another heroic life has been sacrificed to the cause of science and humanity, that of D|r- Austen Clement Do Itas.sijfmot, "M.'B.'Oxon., who l for [ two years was house surgeon at' the London Hospital. During the closing | days of March he was called on to ■ perform tracheotomy on a child suf- , l'ering from diptliei'ia. The operation was successful, but some hours later 'M. De Rossignol developed symptoms of dipthcria, which he had contracted during the operation. Anti-toxin was at once administered, but without avail, and after are illness of four days tho young doctor —he was only twenty-six years of age—died.

A summary of the present state of knowledge in regard to the long-range weather forecasts - , by Professor E. B. Garriott, has been published by the Weather Bureau of Washington. Pro- ! fessor Garriott finds that at the prosent time practically no value is to be attached to weather predictions based on astronomical phenomena or observations of birds, animals, or

plants. At the same time, every attention is being Riven to the advance--1 inent of mcteoroiogyoii such a basis as may lead to substantial improvements in weather forecasting. In his prefatory report, Mr Willis L. Moore remarks "It lis to be regretted that so many newspapers not only givo space to these harmful predictions, but actually pay ;for thom. Forecasts of this l description may properly be classed wi'th advertisements of quack medicines—they aro both harmful in. the exUreme.

The value of quicksilver in discovering the whereabouts of a dead body in water waff.- recently at Brentford, England,-when a child's body was recovered from the canaV Every foot of the canal had been dragged, but thejywly was not found till quicksilver was used to locate its position.

Miss Amy Murphy, the well-known Dunedin vocalist, had an tonusual and somewhat startling experience when rehearsing the other evening with.tho Choral Society. Mass Murphy had just concluded a song In a !hjgh piercing note, when the glass globe vovering a. gaslight near where the singer was standing fell with a crashTho breaking of the glass w a s aiio to the singer's hifih note being in sympathy with the tone of a portion of tho bell of tho globe, causing a responsive vibration fatal to tho glass. A tirst and tinal dividend of 5Jd in the £ is payable in the bankrupt es u stato of Cleland and Kendall.

To-morrow Mr Newton King will hold his usual. cattle sale at Stony jKiver. Included in the entries are calves, yearlings, stjeers and heifers, bes'ides a cooking range and sundries.

■Mr E. MS .Smith, M.H.R., yesterday received from the Hon. W. HallJones, Miriistcr for J'ublic Works, the following telegram "He New Plymouth post oll'ic. The plans are jinished, and specifications are in the printer's hands. The plans have to be photo-lithographud, which will take about ten days. I expect to bo able to invite tenders in a fortnight."

In his evidence before the S..M. Clourt on Friday, in cunnection with theteafttite punshasfc lease, Mr S. W. Shaw reSemod Ifo seven i ' > ped;i|fr«e J erseya, not grade Jerseys, as reported.

At the Hospital Hoard meeting on Monday it was restarted that an exIranate of the Old People's Home hud a few "days agio, when in an Intoxicated Condition, ciVuted a disturbance in front of the hospital, and that the police, when rung up on 1 r.. Walker's instructions, had declimrl to send up and remove the maij, on the ground that, they Could do nothing ill the ensu, as the disturbance did not occur in'a public place. Jlr Cock Cvvn/ndered that the hospital grounds did constitute a public place and that the police hufl been lax in their duty. Sergeant Haddrvll, when questioned subsequently by a News representa'tive, did not regard tbe hospital grounds as a public place, but sltated nevertheless that the police had taken action in the matter. Constables Woods and de Lore© were sent up tyj bring the delinquent to the lock-up if found in un intoxicated state, as it was expected he would be bundled out into tie ■street. They found on arrival that the man! had proceeded to his home, arid had no reason to' arrest h:iin.

Mr Louis Frost, of Frunkloy Road, in a letter to the Hospital Hoard On Monday, represented the superiority for use at the hospital land consumptive annexo of pasteurised milk. He was 'Willing to put in thfi necessary plant at a cost of £IOO, and supply pasteurised milk on condition that the Board increased the contract price to 3d per quart, and extended his present contract for three years, lie pointed out that the difference in the price was so small, and the advantages si many that the proposal could hardly fail to commend itself to the Iloard,< Hte was prepared to employ a skilled man and to commence the now supply on July 1. H»e Chairman thought the Board had no power to bind their successors for threeyflars, even if the members were persuaded as to the superiority of the new «\r» tide. The matter w,as left over until next year.

jlf you suder from Rheumatism, Gout, ■Gravel', Sciatica, or Lumbago, a fair trial will convince you that RHEUMO wilL cure these diseases. Tho paifyis of llehum&tasm and kindred conrpjjaints are pr.oJiuced by same cause—excess of uric acid in th« blood. Tho pafn may be alleviated by the use of plasters and liniments, but these cam never touch the real cause of the disease, • ajjd c^n. piwtfi.l relief at beat. UHELMO neutralises' hnd drives out the poisonous acid accumulations in the bto:od, and effects a speedy aind permanent cure. The best proof of its merit is the fact that its &U-S are larger to-day than, ever before. A fair trial will convince you of its marvellous power over Uohumatism ana kindred diseases. All chemists and stores, 2s 6d and Is (id. 3

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i MOST HONOURABLE DISTINCTION. The Western Medical Review, a medical publication of |hc highest standing, says, in a recent ißsue "Thousands ol physicians in this and other countries have attested that Sander and Sons' Eucalypti .Extract is not only reliable, but that it has a pronounced and indisputable superiority over all other preparations of Eucalyptus." Your health iis| too precious to be tampered with, therefore rejpet all products foisted upon you by unscrupulous mcrceneries, and Insist upoij gfttjag' gpfldcr ftud Sons' Eucalypti Extract, the only preparation recommended by your physician and the medical press. In coughs, colds, fevers, diarrhoea, kidney diseases, the relief is instantaneous. ukjers, burns, sprains, etc., it heals*without inflammation. As a mouth wash (5 drojjs to a glass of water) it prevents decay of teeth, and destroys all disease germs.*

Woods' Great Pepperniint Cure, for Coughs and Colds never fails. Is 6d.