FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 126, 5 March 1879, Page 2

FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

The Hobart Town ' Mercury' states that the body of Tauganini, the last of the Tasmanian aboriginals, which was buried in the graveyard attached to the Cascades factory has been exhumed, the bones denouded of the flesh, skeleton handed over to the Royal Society for scientific purposes. The following paragraph from the ' Lyell Argus' is short, yet it contains a good deal of meaning ; —" The Inangahua County Council has decided to dismiss Messrs Careras, Pitzmaurice, and Stewart, for what reason we know not, but we know this, that there are men governing us in the County Councils who would be more at home driving a costermonger's donkey. The arrangempnts at the Court-house, Ashburton, have never been noteworthy for their satisfactoriness, and though it was expected that an improvement would be made when the Court shifted its quarters from the Road Board office to the Templar Hall, the expectation does not appear to have been realised. At the opening of the Court recently, which i did not take place till considerably after j the usual time, it was found that none of the furniture had been placed in order and. position, and those present were treated to the spec l acle of a Court wait- 1 ing with its business until these paltry | details had been duly attended to. Some- { one must be culpably negligent in these j matters, which, though small, are not un- i important. —'Mail.' j A miserable little specimen of humanity I named William Carter was brought before I the Melbourne Cicy Court recently as a neglected child. This waif of the streets is described as being about six years old, three feet high, and already a confirmed drunkard aud thief. Mr Hill, the city missionary, informed the Bench that the j child was employed by some women as a j messenger to fetch their beer, and that in 1 .the course of his professional duties he I was in the habit of gettiug intoxicated about three times a week. At the time, however, it was brought into Court, he had been practising abstinence on a grand scale, not having been drunk for a whole week. As to his larcenous propensities, the arresting constable said that he had taken him up as people complained that he was in the habit of purloining ducks and fowls from back yards. Surely, says the Melbourne l Argus,' the sight of this wretched and utterly neglected child, in such a position, was a disgraceful spec- ; tacle in a country professedly Christian. \ The churches are appealed to in powerful ' language on behalf of the young heathens \ in Fiji, the New Hebrides, and a host of j other places throughout the world, and I they respond liberally to the calls on | their generosity. But is it not a disgrace j. and a sin for them, to be compassing sea j and land to rescue strangers frotn sin and j degradation when there is similar work ' awaiting attention within our owii gates? Is it meet " to take children's bread and cast it to dogs?" When the soulstelthe. __ children of our own race are them, will it do to present the spir'.L* of Fijians made perfect in their place 1 On the 25th February a serious acci- ;, dent occurred at the Kawakawa coal , mine, Auckland. A miner named "Walsh, who had only recently come to work iu / the mine, was engaged putting a shot ; in some working, and the shot r-eing "i lighted not going off, another shot was j put in and lighted. It also failed to ex- "; plode, aud it was decided then to draw ,' the shot. Walsh drew the tamping of \ one, and instead of taking the powder J out carefully, fired it in doing so, and it f exploded the other charge, which hit | Walsh in the face. His comrade con | sidered that he had been blown to pieces, j but when the smoke cleared away was j surprised to find him alive, though badly f wounded and insensible. Walsh was I conveyed home on a stretcher, and at- j tended by Dr Turwell, and is doing as I well as is to be expected. Over a hun-. dred miners are at present engaged in, these mines. Holloway's Ointment and Pills. — Bad legs, bad breasts, ulcers, abscesses, h wounds, and sores of all kinds may be[ . thoroughly healed by the application of- \ this Ointment to the parts affected, after • they have been duly fomented with warm I water. The discharge should not be \ checked at once, but rather encouraged, ; for and sudden check must of course be always dangerous. Nature is the noblest of physicians, and must not be opposed, but seconded. All sores are for a time the safety valves of the constitution, and should not be closed or healed until they assume a healthier character. Under the action of this powerful Ointment, aided by the Pills, the depraved'humours of the body will be quickly removed.