RAILWAY RETURNS. [TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Saturday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2145, 8 April 1886, Page 4

RAILWAY RETURNS. [TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Saturday.

»i<!.A.smAll, brazen statue, with feet.of dead, irepresenting a lad fitting asleep on an anchor, has been dug up on the. islaad of Cyprus. This proves that the telegraph Was known to the ancients. .Else why should they have telegraph messengers? , Near Austin, Nev., recently, the} Futte Indian! killed a "squaw/ anil? her child because she could talk French, * 1^ she talked r French , like 'the average American French scholar, .you -couldn't blatnff the Piutes for' feeling 1 thotigh possibly they were unnecessarily aeyere. . j * '"A celebrated preacher, • iri a sennoi* 1 nfion the duties of wives, said : "I see in this congregation a woman who has' been disobedience' tocher husband, 1 andfin order to point her out I will fling my, book- rtJaev head. l^ .Ho liftedthis » Wok,- and fostantly^- every. females nedd was ducked. \ A Paris dentist who caused the death of a patient through ni|rpus, oxisje i| b^i^jpoDsepated /or havin'gj used an anaesthetic without the aid of a doctor of medicine, as required by law. Thecorres^ pondent of the London Medipa} ,Xiipe« ''lays that the scientific ' yiteres't pi *he case lies, in the fapt that nitrous oxfde is quite as 'dangerous as chloroform, an 4 ought never to be (administered without prpper precaution* and an examination Ifato the health of the subject. '"It has been remarked among watch* makers that of l«jta years ,the steel moyei "ft'ebts of even the finest" watches Were aerioufly affected ; from some 'unknown canse, but recent experience has shown that they were magnetised through the 'wearers approaching dynamo machines in full motion, and thu"s ( their usefulness Wat impaired; if npt 'destroyed. But a snore serious casualty was avoided . recently on a stealmer plying between tßelfattand Straqraer^ when if was dis* covered that wheq a pertain passenger 'with an 'umbrella' was near the steering gear,' the compass was so affected as to be* come useless. The umbrella- was sen.t to ' Sir William Thompson, of the Glasgow, University, for examination, and that scientist was of the opinion that the steel c <rihf.thad been magnetised, by- being brought near to,a powerful[4ynamoj and hbnee the great fluctuation* of the comi pass. Sir William adds that, "In these days, when electric .lighting is becoming so common," and when anyono, without knowing it, may get the ateel ribs of his umbrella .by (going- i^tar to djmaino Bmchines'.Mt is of groat-import-ance that steps should be taken to pre< vent passengers on vessels with umbrellas 'going near the compass in use." Here is a> novel effect for a modem novelist— "the >fflasi v , jr recked the shin 'by meani pi a •^ImMss-looking umbrella." 1 ' 7>lf^

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NORTH ISLAND. f, ,? ,'f Revenue. Expenditure. Kawajcw*... £149 14 9 ,£310,8 11 Wfcangarei... 35912 0 . 257 7J Auckland ... 9,021 16 8 6,692 17 0 Napier ..: 5,314 13 9 ' 2,904 14 10 Wellington... 5,659 1 1 4,010 711 Wanganui ... 5,014 17 2 4,513 2 1 Total ...£25,567 15 5. 18,688 18 4 MIDDLE ISLAND. HnMuV ' ' Bluff ...£48,946 13 8 £31,839 5 3 Greymouth ... 1,519 15 5 786 2 1 JVlstport ... 1,545 6 0 611 15? 7 Nelaon ... 923 6 3 790 I,O SU Picton ... 444 6 9 448 19 0 -Total ...£53,379 8 1 £34,476 12,10 j "' Grand total £78,947 3 6 £53,165 11' 2 Corresponding period last year : NOBTH ISLAND. Kawakawa ...,£443 14 10 £504.13,0 WHangarei ... 450 14 287 '4 9•9 • -Auckland ... 9,264 6 3 . 5,150 0 7 Napier ... 4,332 0 5 4,023 12 4 Wellington ... 5,978 17 10 3,620 '£ 8, Wanßanui ... 4,580 411 4,469 6 7; Total ...£25,049 5 7 £18,055 6 11 MIDDLE ISLAND. HurunuiBluff V u. £53,927, Q H £?3,058 11 1 Greymouth ... 1,840 8 9" 805 2 8 Wejitport , ... 1,036 410 5J2 13..9 Nelion ... 909 10 1 " 646 12"8 Picton ... 440 19 0 515 43, Total ...£58,153 13 4 £35,538 45 ! Grand total £83,202 18 11 £53,504 11 4

TA* following 'are the railway returns for the 1 four wselu ending February 27th :—