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Waikato Argus, Volume II, Issue 135, 18 May 1897, Page 2

Another shunter, named Thomas Butchart, has been killed at Olakia. The meets for the Waikato Hunt Club, up to and including the 2nd June, arc Advertised in this issue. Mr Loting, who was recently appoiuted Traffic .Manager on the Brunner liiiilu-iy, died shortly after his arrival at that place. The Colonial Secretary estimates that the Rotoiua Cisbotne line can he c'Jiisttuctcd for a Mini of (J 1725 a mile. The distance is 100 miles. This means an outlay of U 72,500. Mr W. •'. Hunter intimates that. (he bullocks from Gisborne advertised to be sold at Chaupo to-day, will not be forward on account of the bad weather. They will be sold at the Cambridge i'ards on arrival (probably next Friday afternoon).

Archdeacon Dudley, Bishop's Commissary for the Church of England in tlie Auckland diocese, requests the clergy, lay readers and church officers nt the diocese to postpone completing their arrangements for celebrating JI er Majesty's Accession Day, 20th June next, until the receipt of a letter from him, to be sent after Thursday next. Tt is notified that tickets ;it excursion fares, viz., at 2d and Id per mile return for first and second-class respectively, will be issued on the 22nd and 24th May, available for return up to and inclusive of Ist June. The journey must be commenced on the day the tickets are issr.erl, but may be broken after travelling 25 mile. I '.

The Birmingham jewellers are working night and day in connection with the Jubilee. They have made fifteen million medals and six million brooches, their orders coming from all over the world. If the medals made were placed rim to rim they would extend 293 miles, and if placed one above another would form a column 30 miles high. Jubilee medals made in Germany are also coming into the country.

At a meeting of the ladies' committee of the Waikato West Vicarge Fund, held on Thursday last, it was decided to hold a sale of work in the Te Awamutu Public Hall, on Thursday, 10ih June, with the view of disposing of the whole of the goods now on hand, comprising childrens' di esses, dol's, cushions, etc. Admission on the afternoon will be free, but in the evening there will be plenty of attraction in the shape of songs, tableaux, etc., to which there will be a charge of Is for admission, family tickets 3s.

The promoters of the ball in aid of the funds of the Hamilton Public Library are receiving every encouragement, and there is every reason to believe that the fmicroti on Fiiday evening will be a great success. Thesale of tickets, especially in the out districts, has been larger than was expected, and given line weather the attendance should be large. The music will be such as is not usually heard in this district, and will lend considerab'y to the enjoyment of the ball. The children's dance which will be held on the following night will, we are sure, prove a source of gieat delight to the young folks.

In connection with the wounding of the rabbitcr Nicol at the Lochindorb Run it is understood that on the hut being visited no trace cound be found of the revolver, and Nicol's money, some £l4 to £l7, was gone. His mate, Reid, paid a visit to Stirling about 11 o'clock on the night of the shooting, but he cannot he found at present. Nicol, though very weak from loss of blood, is progressing favourably. He states that on being shot the flow of olood was so great that it nearly choked him. He realised that he must get assistance or bleed to death, and therefore made no search for the revolver, nor did he look where the shot came from. It is believed the police have recovered Reid's revolver.

According to the Vienna correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald the latest laurels in the department of clcetris research have been won by AJ. Dussand, professor in the University of Geneva. It will soon be possible to " hear the grass grow," as one says in German. JNJ. Dussand has invented an instrument which he calls rv.icrophonograph, and which is Lo be for the car what the magnifying glass and the microscope arc for the eye. Every sound, even the softest never hitherto heard, will be audible ; our own voices if sounded with this instrument will be heard a long way off, as thunder is. Astonishing experiments with it have already been made. The instrument consists of two parts—a phonographic registering apparatus, that receives and fixes the sounds which are to be heard, and of a sound-angmenter, which repeats and enoimously increases then l . For example : If it be 'desired to determine the variations in the beating of the heart, the procedure is as follows : —The microphonograph is simp'y put over the heart. Then it faithfully records the rhyTun and force, and it can be made to reproduce the sounds distinctly. In this way Professor Dussand could make a huge audience hear the variations which take place irr the heart-beats of a speaker when he begins to speak, and those of a singer when he commenced singing. When anyone begins to read poems aloud passionately, or an actor speaks a pathetic passage, a certain excitation is caused in the listener!', tho'r hearts beat faster and moic strong'y. The microphone makes what had liitherto been inaudible in a mau's breast distirctly audible to all. Nay, the inventor is already thinking of enabling one man to hear theother thinking. When our minds are intensely occupied with anything more blood flows to the brain, and that produces sounds t'i which the brain-pan acts like a soundboard. No human ear has ever heard those sounds, but that marvel is expected of the microphone. But the climax is yet to conic. Persons who have been present at the experiments assure us that the deaf and deaf mutes hear when the ear trumpet of the new apparatus is put into their ears. The effect of tire soundintensifier is said to be so great that M. Dussand hopes it will in future be possible to educate deaf mutes better than liitherto.