The Temuka Leader. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1879.

Temuka Leader, Issue 174, 10 September 1879, Page 2

The Temuka Leader. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1879.

Miwob-o Schooc - Cowm:*j?.?b 3,—A meetiqry of the above committee was lield on Sept. 1. Present ; Messrs Walt (in the chair), Waddel, and Christmas. The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. • Mr Ensor’s res''‘nnvibri of ■he chairmanship and membership was received, and accepted. It was resolved that Mr Joseph Woodhead be elected member of the committee in place of MV Ensor, resigned. It was also decided that Mr Joseph Woodhead be chairman for the remainder of the year. Alauet was read from the Board of Education authorising the payment of. salaries for the month of July. A receipt was moduced from Mr Colville for £2O for work done. A balance of £6 remaining due to the-comraittee was not in funds. Sundry small accounts were passed for payment. Permission was granted to the schoolmaster re some trivial matter. The meeting then adjoimied, 1 ; . - .

I.O.G.T,—We publish in another coll nmn the programme of a soiree and concert, to be held in the Good Templar Hall in aid of the building fund'. ' From the excellent programme provided and the excellence of the object, we anticipate a very full l ouse.

The cost of the -Paris police force for 1878 was about £BOO,OOO, Thera’ is a force qf.,7695 persons employed in the order. The budget bf’ the municif).;,! police was withiu a fraction of £560,090, to which must be added a sum of £2o,ooofor the inspection of the markets, and a further sum o: £60,000 for ibo fire-brigade. At least 60,000 persons are employe;! in one way or another by the Prefecture of Police.

No time has been , lost (‘(he Standard 1 says) in acting upon new South Af'ican S'ave Trade Tre- iy entered into between Great Britain and Portugal, orders having been given for Her Majesty’s ship Spa-tan to proceed from Zanzibar to Mozambique, to confer and co-operate with the Portuguese authorities with the view to the suppression of tbs slave traffic from the interior to the coast. Lieutenant o‘Neill, R.N., who has had much experience in the traffic by se.i;, has also proceeded to Mozambique to take up bis ' appointment as Brill b consul. A bullet through the brain is generally supposed to cause certain if not instantaneous death. It seems, however, that this is a mistake. There are two cases now under medical treatment at Newark, New Jersey, which, it is stated, “puzzle the attending physicians and excite the wonderment of the whole community.” One is that a Dr Trevanian Haight, who on the 27th February, during a fit of melancholy produced by financial troubles, put a bullet into his head with the object of destroying himself. He was. however, doomed to disappointment, being still alive and likely to recover. The ball took a transverse course through the substance of the anterior lobes of the brain, Its :effect : has been merely to, occasion partial derangement, showing itself chiefly in absence' of mind. There has been no marked physical change, the doctor’s pulse beating at its average rate, and his temperature remaining as usual. Total physical recovery is confidently expected, but full restoration to intelligence is considered doubtful. The other case is that of a robust German, by name Charles Hoelmle, 23 years old, who also attempted to commit suicide on the 20th of February by shooting himself through the .head. The bullet entered the head a little to the left of the centre of the frontal bone and lodged somewhere in the brain. Oif the following day the young man’s inspiration and pnlse were dormal ; but nofc-so his appetite, which was wonderfully improved by his attempt at i; self-destruction. In violation of his physician’s orders to keep quiet, he got out of bed several times and went to the kitchen for something to eat. As he could not be kept in order at home, he was taken to St. Michael’s Hospital, where he still remains, and by latest accounts ’appears to be all the better.for the bullet in bis.bralm

.Daring his visit to Northampton, Mr Irving related an amusing anecdote. Ten years ago, while passing with Mr Toole through Stratford-on-Avon. he saw a rustic sitting on a fence. “ That's Shakespeare’s bouse, isn’t it ?” he asked, pointing to the building. “Yes.” “Ever bi?eu there IV “No.” “Bow long has be been dead?” “Don’t know.” “ Manyh people. come here?”,: “Yes; lots.” ■r?een; to the house?” “Been to the house ? Not dieier been to the house.” “What did be do ?” “Don't know.” “Brought up here ?” “ res.” “ Did he write anything* ! His * Family Herald,’ or anything of tb“ T’ u O, yea ; ,hc writ.” “ What wa s it? You must “ Well,” said thO i’ustic, I think ho wrote for the Bible.”