DEATH from BLOOD POISONING AT CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1672, 24 March 1883, Page 2

DEATH from BLOOD POISONING AT CAMBRIDGE.

A membkr of tlie Armed Constabulary named John McAfterty, who for some time ( ,pasfc has been stationed at, Cambridge, died at Cambridge oa Thursday night last, under somewhat nielandholy eircuinstances. Being a, carpenter by trade, he was one of the party of cbnstabuhry engaged in constructing the new Karapiro Bridge. Before 'tiie completion of that work he had the misfortune t » get a splint of wood i-'un into his. hand near the base of the thumb, but thinking the 'accident not of a veiy seiious natuic, he paid little attention to the wound until the other day, when ho began to d'omplain of an acute pain in the hand and arm. Dr Cnshny, who s^as called in, .itten'ded the patient for some time, but was obliged to leave Cambridge for a coli pie. of days on other bugiifebS. The patient becoming worse in the mrautimc Dr Waddington was called in, when he disco\ ered that the case was one of blood poinoning, but as it had been allowed to pioceed too far, nothing beyond alleviating the pain, of the sufferer was possible. The unfortunate young man, who was greatly respected by his j comrades in the force, succumbed after much suffering late on Thursday night. His remains will be interred in the Cambridge cemetery to-day. The parents of the deceased reside in Wellington.

Tun National Dj;bt. — A Home paper in an article headed "The National Debt in Ctold and Silver— in Weight and Length;" says, :— lts, weight m gold Would be 6282 tons ; in silver, 120.0J0 tons, ; its transportation in gold would require 20 ships' of 250 tons each ," 12,531 hoisc carts, each cairyin« half a ton, and forming a procession of 25 miles in length; or 251,769 soldiers, each carrying oOlbs ; in sovereigns, piled one upon another, they would be 710 miles in height ; laying them side by side, and. touching eacli other, they would form a chain of gold of 11. (MS miles in length, or nearly twice the citcuinferc-nco of the moon ; the same amaiyit in one pound notes, sewed together, would carpet a turnpike road '40 feet broad 1040 miles long, or from Land's End to John O'Groat'saud half way back a^ain ; if sawed together end to end, they would form a bandage reaching four times round the world, or sixteen •times round the moon ; divide the debt 'equally among the inhabitants^ ot tlie world,' o,nd each ' p'er'sdn, man, woman, or child, of every color, would receive as their share 16s ; it would require 476 ships of 2,"50 tons each jfco transpoitifc in silver from Mexico (piovidedthe mines in that icoun'try <-eouicl furnish it), and after reaching England 240,000 one-horse carts, carrying half a ton each, making a procession of 077 miles long, or 5,000,000 of men carrying oOlbs eacn, to deposit it in' the vaults, prior to its use for the redemption of outstanding pledges. Cheese making. — The system persued by Mr. Charles Crees, of Seymour's Court, Beckiugton, Frome, who has taken many prize 1 s, J ha& been described as follows :—: — " Th,e eyening's milk is kept for the night 'iv a shallow pan, and every care is taken that it shall not be in the cheese-making 1 , vat during that time. In ithe morning it t is mixed with the morning's milk, and the whole mass .heated to 80 depa., at which temperature the rennet (which is made at home f rota, the stomachs of sucking calves) is abided. In about an hour the coagu-' lation is complete, the curd broken up, and the.whey is then-dipped, off. , The curd is then placed in cloths and pressed for about half-an-hour, the whey being heated for scalding in the meantime. After beinpr pressed. -for this time^ the'eheese-shaped' curd is stirred up in the cheese vat, and the whey, heated to 110 deg. F., added. The curd is left in scald for 20 minutes, whnn the whey is dipped off,, and put in the whey tank for running- off to the piggery* next 1 morning/ The ! enrd' remains for another 20 'minutes in the cheese till), after which it is put on the cooler for the development of 'the proper" aaiclity. 1 ' /As soon aa'it is r just' on the tnrn — thenose being the"only guide— it' is vatte'd and pressed;' -'It remain* in the press three days, the cloth being changed 'each day. On the founth day it comes out, *and is taken to the obeese-troonvwbioh is kept at- 4 temperature, of .from t 60deg. i to 70deg., the latter being the temperature always maintained for the final ripening." This makes a good rand early ripening cheese, and one that fetahes a high price in the market, — MagneV, " Mai^y," gaid^ he, gaging into her bright ey ( es7( '%can £ you i tell me why you are ( like the weatber ?" "'I gj^ve it up,*'* said' ''Mary,' quite ' pr6mptly. " Because, "{jaaid! t Charley,' '• you are so changeable, you know." " Very good," saic) ,, Mayy/J «^mifc }can,yqu tell, me, ■why .you qre f npt. }Ik& :thp Tveathqr. t ?" Charley having failed to guessi sh^ad^etl — " Because the papsr, here says the weather.is going to dleab «off."»',G,hfijrl^y looked'seriougland began.> aeaichingi for hk-ktiiv ' ■••■,' •*'• ■ i <> y " »& v•' /« : 5.,',.s .,',.- .v - ' . • J:Ufi~A r >>& ,& ii«f kb*,',*i'j\? frit; l