FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
A handbill, headed "For God and St. Patrick," was circulated at St. Joseph's Church, Dunedin, on Monday last. It was addressed to the Catholics of Dunedin, and signed by the editor of the 'Tablet.' It said that the Catholics' only strength lay in the block vote, and urged them to register. News from New Guinea states that six native teachers at South-east Cape were poisoned by Natives placing a upas tree in the drinking water. A sole weighing six and a half pounds was caught in the Waimatuka river last week. A party of escapees from New Caledonia lauded at Brisbane on March Bth, and the police took temporary charge of th-im Sub-Inspector Armit prepai-cd a written description of each, and according to their own statements four were under sentence of lengthened terms of imprisonment for murder, one refused to state his offence, and the other six gave their crimes as robbery and assault. They left Teranaba on February loth, in a boat which was used to carry provisions to the prisoners. They remained a day and a half in sight of land, having escaped during the night, and meeting with a partially unfavorable wind for a few days. They afterwards experienced a. calm, which lasted for five days, during which they hailed the British barque H. A. Pvaw'ins, which supplied them with provisions and water. The calm weather was succeeded by a gale, during which it was difficult to keep the boat free from water, and a quantity of provisions was spoilt. A point of law of some importance to auctioneers was involved in a case decided on Tuesday last in the Resident Magistrate's Court, Christchurch. In the case of Clark v. Marks, the principle was affirmed that auctioneers are not entitled to charge commission on property withdrawn from sals. A man named Thomas M'Kennn, a tailor, was found dead on the beach at Timaru on Wednesday morning last. An inquest was held, and the jury returned a verdict of '• death from natural causes." At Cooktown a Chinese mutiny occurred on the Sydney .barque Kate Waters, and bloodshed ensued. The row was caused by the promotion of one man. The captain, first and second officers, and a carpenter's hoy were slaughtered and thrown overboard. The mutineers wrecked the ship at Labuan, and quarrelled over the spoil. Shortly after the Hermione came into the port of Wellington, Captain Robinson p'aced one of ids crew, very ill, in the hospital. The seaman not having recovered during the vessel's slay, 1 lie captain wan's to leave the man still in the hospital, but to this objections are being raised, on the ground that the man is only a burden on the country ,< and as the captain refuses to provide for the man in any other way, an inquiry will shortly be held into tne circumstances of the case. At the sitting of the Christchurch Board of Health on Tuesday last the large number of thirty-seven cases of typhoid fever were reported as having occurred
since the last sitting of the Board. Thisf is the largest' number reported since tyifr* introduction of the Act. Lord Harris, Hornby, Hone, and Schultz have agreed to take part in a cricket match to-day. They will be helped by Canterbury players, and the eleven so formed will be pitted against the •eleven that can be obtained. The men are at present on a visit to thie Gorge. >^" r . The programme of the New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase is published, and being a most attractive one will no doubt bring an unusually large field of horses to the post for each event. The meeting will be held at A warn oa, near Oamaru, and the country, wl ich has been kindly placed at the disposal of the Club for the occasion by the Hon, Matthew Holmes, being the stiffest and most difficult yet selected, will make the races more open than they otherwise would have been. The meeting takes place on Her Majesty's Birthday, always kept as a public and as arrangements have been made for running special trains from Christchurdi and Dunedin that day at single fares, there is no doubt but that this meeting, which is daily increasing in popularity, will be the most successful ofthe kind yet hfeld in New Zealand. The New Guinea coast -is unsettled. Messrs Irons and "Wills, traders, were murdered at Cloudy Bay. The natives found Irons ill with fever on the beach, and speared and decapitated him, and killed Wills while cookings* The victims were then eaten by the natives. A Chinese junk was?attached ; three natives were killed and a chief wounded* The medical officer of the Board of Health in Christchurch has reported to that body that hollows within the City, where rubbish was allowed to accumulate, were fertile sources of typhoid fever and diphtheria. This fact should be bome in mind by the authorities of Temuka. There are within the town numerous depressions, which are no better than cesspools, and it is hoped that wherever these exist in the vicinity of dwellings they will not be permitted to remain in their present highly dangerous condition. The health of all is a stake in this.matter. The Association of Insurance Companies have resolved to demand an inquest upon all cases of fire in future, and the coronor announced at an inquiry in Christchurch that he would feel it his duty to see that such inquiries did not degenerate into mere matters of form. Many of the Canterbury farmers are trying shipments this season to the Home markets in preference to accepting the low prices notv ruling. "One who has Shipped" warns them, through the 'Oamaru Mail/ of what they may suffer through the practice of " bleeding " the sacks to make them stow, unless they get a guarantee from the ship agents or captain. Hollow ay's Ointment and Pixls.— The Best Friends.—ln cases of erysipelas, inflammation, ulceration, and all the varities of skin diseases, Holloway's Ointment never fails to give relief. Its very first . application lessens the inflammation, and diminishes both heat and pain. This soothing Ointment, by depuiating the blood on its route to or return from affected part, promotes healthy action. Even old indolent ulcers, which have resisted every other treatment, speedily assume an improver' appearance, healthy granulations spring up, the sore contracts, and soon closes by the judicious use of Holloway's noted remedies. In severe and chronic cases the Pills should always be taken, as their purifying, alterative, aperient, and restorative qualities place the whole mass of solids and fluids in a wholesome condition.
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Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 131, 22 March 1879, Page 2
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