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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4624, 30 October 1883, Page 2

Fob several weeks past the number of patients in the Hoepital has been atnall, and the authorities therefore decided to take advantage of Ibis to have the inferior of the building re«painted and otherwise improved. The painting has been done by Mr F. Birch, and the wards all through now present a much more pleasing appearance. In response to a request from the Dispenser, a number of pictures, some, of them very handsomely framed, have been given by various Thames ladies and gentlemen, and these have been hung up ia the wards, making the rooms look much more comfortable. Altogether we must congratulate the Hospital authorities on the improved aspect the interior of the building now wears.

The sawmill erected at Te Aroha by Mr T. W. Carr and Sons has agaia change i handsj it having been disposed of to Mr J. Gibbon*.

The Northern Wairoa : Gazette of Saturday has the following :—-A large sperm whale has been washed ashore on the West Coast beach. It haß been secu ed by MrSavill, of Aratapu, and others, and arrangements are being made for extracting the -oil.- It is estimated that from 80 to 90 barrels of oil will be obtained. The teeth and the whole of the lower jaw are missing, 'giving' the appearance of the mammoth having been dead for some time. It has several harpoon wounds, ample evidence that it 'must' haveescaped from some former captor, ana died eventually, from the effects of the wounds received. As the oil will average about £25 per bjrrel, it is a fortunate thing for the finders.

A_sbbiot:s accident occurred, at Pprtpbello on Sunday, when a bull attacked a boy named Francis! The lad's mother very courageously came to his assistance, and succeeded in diverting the animal's attention from him, but, unfortunately, towards herself; with the result that two of her ribs were broken, and two teeih knocked out by the brute.

A viOLEH-r hurricane passed orer the interiorof Ofcago in the - early hours of this morning. Ac Clyde several old houses were levelled, a number of roofa wore blown off, trees were torn «p by the coots, gardens completely wrecked, &c. The damage to buildings alone in Clyde is estimated at £500. The telegraph wires between Clyde and Cromwell were'earried away * by: the^falling trees, bat were quickly restored. Crom well alio suffered some damage from the storm.

THE New Prince Imperial directors to-day completed negotiation! with the Alburnia company for the purchase of the letter's battery, for the sum of £1200. We must con* gratulate the directors upon the acquisition of the plant, which is as serviceable as could be desired.

A c JBBBSi'oiTDENr to the Australasian says. —r" We run onerni'in-'to.tha:Bquar.B.ini|e,;in ith& Australasian colonies—three millions of men to three millions of mile? (and of rabbits we don't know bow many). Now, this Bounds like elbow-room for the men, which in the abo re eslimate includes women and c' ildren. It does not follow that.every man. has, a square mile, any more than that every square mile has a man. But it is quire certain that, although; we want New Guinea and an archipelago or two to spread ourselves over, there are still some square miles of continental lands available for men from t'other side the globe if they choose to come, and win them with peaceful weapons —swordoohverted sickles, and the like." ■ ;

It has been arranged to celebrate Luther's fourth centenary in Duuedin.

At the inquest hold on the bady df the chil I Whitely, which wub smothered by ita mother on Sunday,' the evidence showed that the mother and father had both been druuk on Sunday afternoon. The death of tbe child had been caused by suffocation, either through the mother overlaying the child, or in some way heaping the clothes over it.. A verdict of f manslaughter was returned against the mother, ' and the lather was severely reprimanded by the Coroner and jury.

Mit Hay, of Dunedin, referee in the recent chess match between Christchurch and Wei* liogton, has decided as follows with regard to three games which were submitted to him :— No. 1. between Mr Hookham (Cbriatchuroh) acd MrJßenbow (Wellington), drawn game j Ho. 3, between Mr Moore (Christchurch) and Mr Whittem (Wellington), drawn game ; No. 8, between Mr Smith (Christchurch) and Mr Searle (Wellington), won by Mr Seurle. The. final score therefore, shows Wellington to have won by two g-imea.

Thb Agent«Ghneral, uuder date London, 27th instant, wires the departure of the ship Waitangi for Lytteltoa with 304 Government immigrants, and the Victory for .Port Chalmers with a complement of 330.

An old man was arrested by the Christ* church police oh Saturday helplessly drunk. On being examined he was found to have £109 in bank notes in his possession. Edwabd3 has been challenged by O'Connor, of Timqru, to walk from one to twentyfive miles for £50. - A aißi named Agnei Crook, nine years of j age, was run. orer yesterday afternoon by a train- on the Shse Point branch, Dunedin, and killed. Mb M. "W. Gbeen addressed a meeting of Dunedin electors last night, in Me Queen's theatre. .He spolte for over two hourß^and was tendered a vote of thanks tind confidence at the close. A pew days ago a boy named Bryson was riding bh' a load 'of timber betweeni Paerba and Karaugabake when the dray upsefc and j the timber fell on the boy, who was severely crushed. He is now lying at his parents' ' home at Paeroa in a very critical condition. Abchdkacon Stock, of Wellington, has been nsked by Mr Stone, 'the director of the Badcliffe Observatory, Oxford, to forward his observations and work in connection with the late transit of Venus. i A coAt eeam, Bft. thick, has been discovered at Baglan. ' \.,J' ' -A., ■s-'.i s-,.^ A native woman at Aotea baa given birth to a child with two .■face* andSonly one ..head. It is three months old, but not expected to live. Indigestion.—The main oauso of nervous^ nsss in indigestion, and that is caused by weakness in the Btomacb. No one-i can sound nerves and good health without /using Hop Bitters to strengthen the stomach, purjfy the blood, and keep the liver and kidneys active, to carry off all the poisonous and waste matter of the system. See.