TV AROHA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1410, 16 July 1881, Page 2

TV A ROH A. ( FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

The Claims. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Waitoa Cl.iim yesterday, it was agreed to put a man on for a fortnight, and pay him €4 and a full bhare if he iinds payable gold, and then to take the opinion of the bhareholdeis whether to carry on the claim any further.

Prospecting Association. The Pioneering Association will be in full '-wing next, week. Their operations h.ive been somewhat delayed by the adjournment of the Court, but as soon tmthe Warden bungs a promise of Govuument buppoit they will begin woik.

Road Matters, &c The dcfeired payment sottleib got a bridge out of the Board across .1 cicek known as Johnson's, on the pioiniie th.it they would contribute £20, and the Board put up the bridge faithfully ; but now they decline to come down with their cash. I see that the Thunm Advertiser has remarked severely upon the case of a sick man named Beatrte, who was scut fioin this place to the Thames by steamer, for the purpose of getting admitted to the hospital, aud the name of our newly arrived medical man, T)r Harvey, is in some unaccountable way connected with the matter. The fact-, of the case are simply as follows . — The man had been ill for some five or siv weeks, and \\ as living in utter destitution by himself. A stoiekeeper here had I found him the means ot living, and a working woman had chantably nursed him. As he got weaker, Di Haivey was abked to sec him, and finding that he was, though still sufteiingfiom the aftei efleets ot scarlet fever, in more danger fioin want of nourishment and musing than tiom the illness, he said ineiely in a spirit of humanity that the bebt thing to do would be to tiy and get into the hospital. Dr Harvey is not a paid district medical oilieer, and had not attended the case, and gave no certificate of the mans health ; he meiely pionounced an opinion as to the best means of treating the condition in winch he found hin\ It was Di Haney's own opinion, moieo\ei, that the stage of the illness fiom which Beattie had suffered had passed that of being infectious, and in pi oof of Ins own conviction of tins being the case. I may mention that lie and hi? childien were passengeis by the same boat by u hii-li the .sick man travelled. Dr Harvey had nothing v hatever to do with the case as a medical man, and meiely ofleml an opinion that the man wanted nourishment and care, and that he would be better in the hospital than in a dirty old whaie all alone in a state of existence that would luvc soon ended in death. If the T/ifhius Adu) tis<r would, ■nilh its usual encigy in good objects, take up the question of the a/hibabihtv of appointing paid dishict medical officers, or making some provision foi destitute sick in remote corners like this, or even urge the necessity for having at laige towns like the Thames boine tempcnaiy refuge for sick w.aifs and strays in winch they could obtain relief until their cases were examined and they were admitted to a hospital, it would be confeirmg a boon upon many, and taking up a subject worth consideration, but I must say the 'Tiscr has, with the most benevolent object, punched the wrong man's head in blaming Dr Harvey. Ifc seems from a telegram in the Auckland Evening Star that the opinion now is at the Thames that Beattie was not actually suffering from scarlet fever, but from the after effects of it as I have lepresented above. This, therefore, justifies Dr Harvey's opinion, and proves that the man was wrongfully refused admission to the hospital.— (July 15).

A petition to the Government for shortening the school hours is being circulated in Berne, Switzerland. Two other desirable things are included in this petition for the sanitation of schools — the erection of school workshops and a more stringent insistance upon personal cleanliness. The Presbyterian Synod of Kansas may be called the Polyglot Synod, for within its bounds, which extend over the Indian Territory, the Goapel is preached by members of the Synod in no less than nine different languages — English, German, French, Bohemian, Welsh, Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, and Nez Perces. A San Francisco paper has the following : — An officer coming into' Blackfaot, I. T., from Snake river saw what to him looked like black snow or soot, several acres apparently having this black covering. Going nearer, he found the snow covered to nearly the depth of, an inch with small black ' bugs, which were moving and seemed lively enough". These bugs ato among, old -mountaineers called' snow fleas.