CARTERTON LIBRARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1959, 8 April 1885, Page 2

CARTERTON LIBRARY.

COLOR-BLINDNESS.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. The general annual meeting ofi'W subscribers was held at the Institute 1 ! M night for the purpose of electing a coft. mittee &c.,for the ensuing year.;■ In the absence of the President (MrW. 0, Buchanan. M.H.R.) Mr W. Booth was voted to the ohair, when the Secretary (Mr L. Wilson) read the minutes of the last moating, and also the.rectAMnd balance sheet for the past yoaTjrrhich showed that after paying nil liabilities thoro was a oredit-baWco at the.bank of £B4, and £l7 unpaid subscriptions to come, . The Chairman in a few approbate re< marks gongratulated the uiorobors on the healthy state of the libmry, for, having been able to add 330 DflW books ,to tlig library during the past year, besides paying £ls for having some 200 volumes re-bound and stitched, there was still a " £jood balance to credit. It. was moved by W. Philpot seconded 1 by W. Downard that the report and balance sheet as now read be adopted. Carried. 1 Mr W, C. Buchanan, M.H.R., was re- ' elected President, and Messrs W. Booth, B. Boys, E. Samuel, L, Wilsone, F; W, R. Seed, W. Downard, apd J. Picket a 1 Committee fpr the ensuing ypap, > At the meeting of the Committee',' Ml' [ W. Booth was elected Chairman, Mr L. 1 Wilson Secretary and Treasurer, andsj W. Parker Librariiui, at a salary of £l:l ' per year. 1 It was resolved that the Bum of £SO be ! expended for new books, and that Messrs ' B. Boys, E. Samuel, L. Wilson, J. 1 Picket, and the Librarian form a sub- ! committee to prepare lists of the books to j be sent for, 1 Moved by Mr J. Picket .and seconded ' by Mr T, Wilson, that all membersjfcjto 6 are twelve months in arrears subscriptions (after being notified, of the fact) and do not pay up within three months shall be prohibited from taking any more books, and their names struck oft the book. After considerable discussion on the-motion, of which the Com--1 mittee said that they were very sorry to ! have to resort to such oxtrome measures, 'but that they deemed it their ' duty to do so, .as there were 1 several members considerably in arrears with their ' subscriptions, it 1 was carried, A vote of ■ thanks ; was passed to MA Booth for his ' kindness in giving Punch's papers to tho Library during the year. A vote of thanks to the Chairman brought the meeting to a close. "i

i It has nqfcbeen % fluty qf the writer • to investigate'cas.es ftf accent which , might have been caused by., defects o'f • sight, but he lias been assuredly officials that a solution will hereafter be founjfljjU - them for those hitherto insoluble »■■ , teries where men;-.otherwise.'credible, ■ i have so flatly contradicted themselves and ; \ the: .circumstances of 'she case.' By one- • prominent officer he was told that, being. • i upon a train one night, delayed; by Borne- ■ slight accident, he himself took'a red ' lantern,, and, going a proper- distance "•' back, place himself on the track in the : '. way of an on-coming train, but, finding ' i. his light not'observed, ho was compelled i to dash it into the cab to attract 1 the en- ; gineer's attention, and arrest him in his • progress to a collision. Upon the exam- . ; ination of anothov engineer, his'superior i officer, being present and convinced of ■ i his color-blindness, remarked that but a • short time before the "man had run into ! the rear of the train properly" protected by a red light in tho hands pf a brake* .man some distanc|.jh the rear,...■thai'* i the mpafc careful investigation ]\tk% i resulted only in the suspension of the ' ;• brakeman for not having gone far : enough back,, but thathe was now satis- . ' fied that the color-blindness of tho i engineer had boenthe real cauß'e of the" ? V > accident, Some slight or minor accidents ' ; roqently led to the\ discovery that- : another engineer had by some oversight'. '" not been tested in his/division, and Jgk led |o MsexaminationanddectectionthlS; ' and to his conviction by the writer as a ■ color-blind. Still another case now prei sonts itself, An engineer some time ago ' rad over and killed a bi-akcman, holding a i danger-signal on the track in front of his : engine, and no satisfactory explanation : could then be given; but the division examiner predicted thathe would probably ■ be found color-blind, and on his examiuation this proved to hethecase.-'Popular Science Monthly' for February, Thick stomachs, bilious May Apple Pilla"—anti. bilious, cathartic. Cd and Is. fy Z. Drug Co DoNTmeiNTJiEHQUB|,- 7 «'RoughonßaW ■ ■ clears out rats, mioo, hoetles, roaches, bed-toga flies, ants, insects, moles, jack-rabbits, gophers Drug Company, Natuue is one vast QAJDBi for the utilua, Hon of science, and its products, culled by skilful 'rji hands, can be readily applied to medicinal pur- '. r poses. The meanest shrub, that grows by the wayside, hath a virtue that, intelligentlycomprehended, may be turned to profltabkacwunt The world knows the intrinsic properties of the" celebrated Juniper-berry, but itremainedto one original conception, so to extract, and compound Its marvellous essences, as to genw& that equally wondrous restorative, knowH Udolpho Wou-k's Schiedam AbomAHo*-' schnapps ■;;• It is a trite and musty provkib,' ki"S sound one, that "good wine needs no bush," io excellence is its own reward." The unmenie- " sales that have been made, and the enormous "' nuiHitifcw that have been used, prove that SSSff V «* SCHIKDAII P ARoi btuNAPPs needs no laudatory tributes. In all ases of kidney affections, inflammation of. the'" ■ ' waato, dyspepsia, indigestion,' heart-burn, j ; flatulency, gravel and gout, it is simply » mira' eulouscure, . • •;.;

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