TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. –

Temuka Leader, Issue 1966, 7 November 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. -

| Pompey!a glue factory at Ngabau-; ranga, Wellington was burned. Insurance, £SOO. ’ • The glove : fight between Pettingill, and M. Ryan at Nelson, having been' awarded to the former by the referee on appeal, . .another match is impending. ■ } Thirteen-publicans were charged at the Wellington Resident Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday morning with having drawn beer from casks without having defaced the stamps. The defendants pleaded guilty, but said they intended to deface the stamp when the cask was* empty. A fine of 20s was inflicted m each case. ; A sample of flax fibre dressed by Hamilton’s patent process has been phown in Blenheim. The flax is com-, pletely denuded:■ of gum,' and the vegetable acids are extracted. It is by far the finest specimen of dressed fibre yet Ween.; : ,v : r ■ ,•,'v'V’f. By a fife m Grove Road,' Wanganui, r on Tuesday morning -a, grocery store belonging/ to Craig was r,burned. The shop, was insured for £l5O in the New Zealand office; the stock, valued at £BOO, was uninsured. £SO worth was saved. • Alexander Brdwii, a boy six yenrSbld;' son 'of Mr J^ohn''Brown, of Denniston, West Coast, i !was accidentally, killed on. Tuesday eveqjng. Hq was standing by the side,of a large .goods’ waggon wifh ibis hands on it, when the Waggon being pulled* away to get filled, he fell underneath and was caught by the waggon, which went over him. Death was instantaneous, In addition ■ to' the concessions already announced, the Union S.«. Company intend to. have special excursion rates at certain periods td the exhibition. A special steamer will) run once,a week run from Nelson, Wellington, and. Lyttelton,and the fares will be 30s from Wellington to,\ Dunedin for return tickets. - Similar reduced rates Will be offered at intervals from Auckland south. A /special; steamer will also be-run at ; intervals from Melbourne to Dunedin and back, the fare being £B,- and ; the Tekapo is to be fitted for the service.' When the Moaowai, the new Atekmer,, arrives early in January shp Will be impressed into the Berricp,. .' A very successful (cure of spinal complaint known as locomotor: ataxy has been performed in the church hospital lately by 1 ineans of hanging the patient for a short time by padded straps! 1 The theory of the cure is that the paralysis being due to contraction and the pressure of . the sheath of the 1 spinalcojd upon thp substance of the cord itself, hanging, causes elongation of the cord for;;the time being, and after suspension < when the sheath 'has resumed its normal length, it spreads and becomes larger in circumference, hence the pressure is'relieved. The patient who underwent the process on Tuesday, in : the presence. of - several doctors and -the press is 42, and has suffered for seven years but is now rapidly fecovering, as the process bias been repeated 41 day s in succession!, , !