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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2298, 2 April 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

An Irresistible Ai'real.—Nigger (to Swell)—" Ain't you gut a copper, sir?" Swell —" No, I'm broke." Nigger—" Well, youv'e got the ' pieces,' sir."—Fun.

Treatment op whooping-cough.— The following method of disinfection of sleeping and dwelling appartments and clothes is recommended by M. Mohn in the.treatrnent of whooping-cough. It is said to cure the cases immediately. The children are washed and clothed in clean articles of dress and removed to another part of the town. The bedroom and sitting room or nursery are then hermetically sealed; all the bedding, playthings, and other articles that cannot be washed are exposed freely in the room, in which sulphur is burnt in the proportion of twenty-five grammes to the cubic metre of space. The room remains thus charged with sulphurous acid for five hours, and is then freely ventilated. The children return the same day, and may sleep and play in the disinfected rooms.—Lancet.

The Hokitika Guardian ha", the following sarcastic paragraph :—The latest human efforts and leaps and bounds" is a remarkable one. No less than 28,000 feet of kauri timber, taken probably from off the land of some Auckland supporter of the Ministry, arrived by the Charles Edward recently to be used in building the railway bridge at Arahura. The cost <>£ shipping this cargo to a place so destitute of timber as V/estland is, is great, but the expense was unavoidable. There are some who contend that heart of red pine is preferable to kauri, but the Ministry considered no doubt that the few pine trees there were once on the West Coast had been cut down long ago. By spending money in Auckland, wealthy community like this is not requiring any expenditure of Government money to assist it along. Probably the member for Hokitika will see in this kauri business another of Mr Richardson's "superhuman efforts,"