NEW ZEALAND: GENERAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 8, 20 February 1902, Page 20

NEW ZEALAND : GENERAL

Among the successful candidates at the recent Matriculation examination was Mies Nellie McDonnell, a pupil of the Sißters of Mercy, Greymouth. A LARGE number of foot-warmers for railway carriages have been ordered from England, and are expected to be here before winter. Mb Seddon expeots to be back from the Coronation festivities by September, and hopes ti take part in the concluding debates of he last session of the present Parlia ment. We learn on excellent authority that Mr. W. Beehan, who is so well and favorably known in Auckland, will be a candidate for that city at the next general elections. We have to thank the Government Insurance Department for a copy of the Recorder, which contains a good deal of matter of interest to those who intend to insure their lives. The Premier, who is to leave for the Coronation about the middle of April, will be accompanied by Mrs Seddon, Miss Seddon, Miss May Seddon, Master Seddon, and Mr and Mra F. Dyer. Among the contributors to the Austral Light for February are Rev. M Phelan, S.J., Rev. G. F. Corr, S.J., Rev. J. Brennan, S.J., Lieut-Colonel Ahearne, and Messrs C. J King, J. E. S. Henerie, J. H. B. Curtis, and ' Una Roe.' The reading matter is well up to the usual standard. On the 6th insb. an accident which had a fatal ending occurred a* Ahaura, when Charles P. Donovan, fourth son of Constable Dono" van, was killed through a fall from a horse which bolted with himThe deceased was returning from the funeral of a schoolfellow when the accident happened. Mr and Mrs Donovan have our sincere sympathy in their sad bereavement. — R I.P. The men clearing the large slip caused by the Cheviot earth" quake on the Bluff road unearthed a swap, which has been identi fied as the property of John Connor, a single man. 40 years of age, who worked for Mr Slobp, Cheviot, up to October 29. Just before the earthquake he was at Port Robinson aekiDg when the steamer Wakatu left for Christchurch. He was told it would not Bail that day. He shouldered his swag and left, apparently for M'Kenzie, and has not been seen or heard of since. It is surmised he was caught in the slip, passing under the cliffs when the mass fell. The many friends in Dunedin and Otago generally of Mr H. L. Griffen will be pleased to hear that he has purchased the Taieri Advocate from Mr W. C. Carncross. Mr Griffen haß been connected with the Otago Daily Times for upwardß of ten years, and has

attained a standing in journalistic circles which augurs well for his success as proprietor of a newspaper. We feel sure that Mr Griffon's experience in journalistic work, energy, and geniality will ensure for him a full measure of success in hia venture. The Government have reoognised in a practical way the value of hot dry air tor the treatment of disease, and are placing Tallerman machines for the purpose at Rotorua and the Hanmer Springs. Hot water becomes painful to the body at about 115 deg. Fahr.,and vapor or steam cannot well be borne above 120 deg., whereaß hot air, when dry, can (as we can testify from personal experience) be borne with comfort up and over 300 deg., and without insonvenience up to and even beyond 400 deg. The difficulties of locally applying dry hot air were overcome by the Tallerman apparatus, invented some three years ago. Other inventors have since been upon the track, and the latest and most perfect result of their ingenuity appears in the large apparatus which has been imported by Mr. D. Edwin Booth, S'.uart street, Dunedin, and, when seen by our representative, was quietly stewing rheumatism out of a joint with a heat not far off from 600 deg. without making the patient cry ' enough.' The following account of how a labor strike was amicably settled in Virginia. Nevada, United States, throughgthe- mediation of the Rev. Father Tubman will be of interest to our readers, as the rev. gentleman referred to is brother of the Rev. Father Tubman, S.M., of Timaru : — The long-drawn-out labor strike was amicably settled at a special meeting of the Storey County Labor Union la»t night (December 12). This very satisfactory result was accomplished through the good offices of Father Tubman. Messrs. Whipple and Perry, who have charge of the Butters Company, placed the matter in Father Tubman's hands, and requested him to use his influence in settling the strike. He secured from the abovenamed gentlemen the r terms. Then he interviewed the officers of the union to learn what were their demands. Then, through conBultation with Messrs. Perry and Whipple, he succeeded in compromising the differences and reducing them to a fermula of eight points. A special meeting was then hastily summoned in Miner's Union Hall and Father Tubman eloquently pleaded with the assembled members to accept the compromise. He urged wise councils to prevail and asked Divine guidance in their deliberations. At the conclusion of hia remarks a rousing vote of thanks was unanimously tendered him for his good services. After long and earnest discussion the union voted to accept every proposition laid before it by Father Tubman. Then the strike was officially deolared off by the unanimous vote of the union. The people of Storey County (says the Virginia Enterprise) are to be congratulated on the friendly settlement of the labor trouble. It will benefit this town at a time when it needs it most, and the Christmas holidays will be rendered brighter in many homes by reason of the settlement.