Local and General

Waipukurau Press, Issue 306, 10 September 1908, Page 5

Local and General

Yesterday a heavy nor-west wind was experienced in Waipukurau, clouds of dust being whirled in ail directions, while rain also threatened during the day. _ Ihe wind calmed and the clouds vanished, however, at nightfall. The lonic, which arrived at Wellington from England on Tuesday, brought over 700 passengers. Of these 551 travelled third class, 110 second and 26 first. The new arrivals include 65 farmers. The assisted passengers number 30/, and their declared capital runs into £7809. A slight collision took place on Tuesday night between the Union Company’s steamer Waikare and the New Zealand Shipping Company’s Kaipara, just as the former vessel was leaving for the South. The two lifeboats of the Waikare -were smashed to match wood and tne davits broken. About 50ft of railing on the starboard quarter of the Kaipara was carried away. A mother, writing to an Australian paper, offers “a valuable preventive and cure tor throat troubles, including diphtheria.” it is a simple remedy 'which anyone can try. The ingredients are one teaspoonful of sulphur, half-teacup of glycerine. They should be beaten up to a creamy consistency. For infants milk of sulphur should be used ; for adults, a teaspoonful, and for children half to threequarters of a teaspooaful, should be 'taken three or four times a day and swallowed slowly. Neither of the ingredients is in the least harmful. Mr C. J. Cooke, who has returned from his holidays in Wellington, spent a week in chemical experiments in the laboratory of Victoria College. While there MrCooke met Professor Kirk, Professor of Biology. Professor Kirk denies the truth of the report that grains of wheat found in an Egyptian mummy sprouted on being planted, and says the statement was based on a misconception. Mr Cooke also met in Wellington Mr John Chilwell, sori of Mr J. Chilwell, of Waipukurau, who is employed as analyst in the Agricultural Department. Mr Louis Becke, author of “ By Reef and Palm ” and other stories of the Pacific, arrived at Wellington by the lonic en route to the South Sea Islands. He informed a reporter that on behalf of the Royal Geographical Societies in London and Berlin and the Anthropological Societies in the same cities he is to take phonograph records of the folk songs, and investigate and report upon the folk lore of the South Sea Islands. The shipwrecked sailor on the reef Was captured by the cannibal chief, Who had a dreadful cold! The sailor offered him that sure, Safe remedy: Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.’ It saved the savage woolly-haired, And in his gratitude he spared The mariner wise and bold!

A bicycle which was found on the Waipawa road is at the Police Station and awaits an owner.

The annual concert and dance in aid of the prize fund of the Hatuma school will be held tomorrow evening, in the granary.

Edward Barlow, mechanic and agent, was found shot in his shop at Greymouth on Tuesday night. He was found sitting on a chair with a pea-rifle between his legs. The bullet entered his head just above the right eye. Medical aid was called, but life was extinct. The Wellington and Manawatu Railway Purchase Bill was introduced to the House of Representatives on Tuesday evening. The Premier explained that the, cost of the line to the country would be £900,000. The line is to be taken over by the- Railway Department on December 7th. In Perry-street, Masterton, on Tuesday evening, a man named Tobias Miller fired two shots with a revolver at Ernest Hight, a mechanic,one shot entering Hight’s hip. • The victim is not seriously injured. Miller was subsequently arrested when playing a game of billiards in a hotel. Miller has been drinking of late.

At the Dunedin Police Court, Robert Powell, who did not appear, was charged with disobeying an order for the maintenance of his wife. The arrears were £B6. It was alleged that the defendant had evaded service for twelve months. Mr Widdowson, S.M., said: “ I’ll teach him a lesson. He is convicted, and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment.” The Auckland Grocers’ Assistants’ Union passed a resolution strongly protesting against the Second Ballot Bill, and expressing the belief that it was aimed at preventing the formation of a distinct Labour party in the House.