THE DANDY FEVER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2733, 25 October 1887, Page 2

THE DANDY FEVER.

As,a great many persons in. thi Wairarapa are Buffering from what i pally is spring influenza, and have got hold of the idea that their complaint ia what is variously called "denque," 11 dandy," " breakbofle." and, "three-, day" fever, the following from Dr Quaiu's " medical dictionary" will set at rent Rome of the misapprehensions: —"Denque, an infectious, eruptive fever, commencing suddenly, characterised by severe pain in the head and eyeballs, swelling and pain in the muscles'and joints, prone to shift from juint to joint; catarrhal By mptoms; congested coi.junctiva; sore throat; and affection of the sub maxillary glands. Tb<t disease may remit, and is liable to relapse. Natural history and geographical distiihu tion-Dengue occurs epidemically ind sporadically in India, Bnrmah, Persia, Egypt and other parts of Africa, North and South America, und the Weßt Indies, B is not known in Britain. Epidemic vis;-, tations of Dengue, extending over wide tracts of country, occur at concider/able, intervals, and .probably deppnd upon certain unknown atmospheric and coanuc conditions that favor its development. The inraibn is siidden, accompanied with ; a:great ri«e of. temperature, and h rash much •resembling that of scarlet fever,"

:■•:, ; .%' WEBLEYAN HOME MISSION. The annual meeting in connection. " . : with the Wesleyan Home Mission was '.; held in the Masterton. Wesloyan Churohlast evening, and was attended by about seventy persons,'the RevJb' :Nir Buttle occupying the chair. ; " Afteßt: ; the"-'-Sie'eting.'had been : . ; ;h'ymn'flnd '" : :dojae in connection^mth"the Migakb," ■'-•• '.. fund of which iumg "tha'pAat had m'cfe&ed,. the ; ' 1886-B?'' arnbiihtihg;?tQ'; r £282f8." He explained'the objects oftheinstittttipal' ]'. and said that out of the sixty-one oircuits in New Zealand, were receiving grants from the fund's^. \ besides eight' Maori missions, ahdafemstudents who were being trained at tsffl? Three Kings' College, Auckland, fori; ' - '■■ the work of-the church. -.'- •;, r . .■; The Rev J. Ward, of Greytowu.v made one of. bis usual earnest and impreaaive addresses, appealing directly to the feelings of the congregation on behalf of the mission.- He- reminded thorn that it .was a New Zealand insti-. tution, and by. supporting it they would be assisting in l a that was being done ..among™? Methodists of the Colony, ';'';-'■ The Rev. William Lee, Wejliihf ' ton, entered fully into the work of th| . Mission, pointing out Wthero'.wote several ways in which the funds'wera utilised, among which were, poor circuits', Maori Missions, Scandinavian . Missions, the Training College, and furnishing parsonages. In .speakihf ottiie contributions from the various . circuits, lie said that Masterton stodd lowest on the list with an' average of | BJd per member per annum," being \ about one sixteenth of a penny a'weejjk each,' Groytown coming next with B|l per head for the year, Napier:heading 6 the list with' lOf d, Wellington running them close with ,an average of IQd.

Last year Maaterton wa'a expepted'to raise the awn ot £lstowards tbefliud, but they had failed—with that 'even* ing's collection - to get beyond £p, The .choir rendered several solutions during-the evening, the meetingjpg closed with the benediction., : '.^jp