Daily Circulation, 1750. The Oamaru Mail. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1898.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 7372, 21 November 1898, Page 2

Daily Circulation, 1750. The Oamaru Mail. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1898.

We learn that Mr H. Aitken passed an indifferent night, but was easier this morning.

Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London office, under date 16th inst: — Since our last telegram, prices of beef and mixed tallow, lower qualities, hard and of good body, are a shade firmer. Other descriptions are unohanged. At the time of the Tuapeka eleotion we stated that a great deal of misrepresentation was indulged in to secure support for the Opposition candidate. Mr Rawlins himself does not appear to have been above abusing the hospitality of an opponent in order to enlist sympathy. At anyrate, in a letter to the Otago Daily Times Mr James Sim, who was forced by ill-health to retire from the contest, makes that charge against him. He writes :—" Referring to the late election for Tuapeka, will you permit me to correct one or two misstatements made by Mr C. 0. Rawlins during the contest. Possibly, as they have served Mr Rawlins' purpose, he has forgotten about them. He is reported to have declared at some of his meetings that at the general election two years ago I put him up for the night like a gentleman ; that I drove him to his meeting, occupied the chair, signed his nomination paper, canvassed the district, and got 50 votes for him. Truth to tell, sir, I did give Mr Rawlins the hospitality of my house for a night, and, by request of the settlers at his meeting, occupied the chair. But the other details of his story, for which it was related, contain not a particle of truth, and X have only to add that seldom, even in the ungrateful region of political warfare, is one's neighborly hospitality so completely betrayed as this now honorable gentleman has, for his own purposes, betrayed mine. The mistake of putting him up like a gentleman is, happily, one that can only be made once " This is, we are assured, only a small sample of the sort of thing that was indulged in to deceive the electors.

The following probable explanation of the desire of France to obtain a footing within the basin of ihe Bahr-el-Uhazal is given by a contemporary By Great Britain's action towards Portugal in the matter of the navigation of the Zambesi, it has become an established rule, or, at anyrate, a good precedent, that any nation which owns territory drained by a navigable river may exercise police control to safeguard its interest. In other words, the navigable river internationalised. If France were allowed to obtain the desired footing, a claim to coequal jurisdiction would soon be made, first of the Bahr-el-Ghazal, then of the Nile; that would be followed by a claim to put gunboats on the Nile and its tributaries. Perhaps the most original writing material ever heard of was that used by an American volunteer in the late war. His stock of paper and envelopes had given out, and could not be replenished. He must write to hiß sweetheart, and at last in despair resolved to indite a letter to her upon one of the hard biscuits which were served out to the troopß. This he did, and having stamped the missive dropped it into the nearest letter-box. The strange form of correspondence duly arrived at its destination and was eagerly digested (the contents, not the biscuit) by the delighted young lady. Mails for the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via Monte Video and Teneriffe, per Ruapehu, close at Wellington on Thursday, 24th instant, at 10 a.m. Mrs Miller is announced to give a free lecture upon cookery by gas in the Counoil Chamberß, on Wednesday evening, at 7.30. It is said that the Pyramids are to be lighted by electricity, generated_ by the cataracts of Assouan, the force being transmitted something over 100 miles. If they could only .fit the Sphinx with a voice at so many horse-power to the square yard the I attendance jof tonrists would, we are sure, repay the management a hundredfold. When Dr Creighton had been offered the Bishopric of London, a lady chanced to meet his daughter in the streets of Peterborough, and, being upon termß of intimacy which justified the question, fisked whether Dr Cjreighton .had accepted. " Well, I don't know," the young lady replied ; " all I can say is that papa is in the study praying for guidance, and mamma is upstairs p&oking the trunks."

On the last day oi the Show the police, acting under instructions from the Customs Department, seized three kega which had contained beer, at the publican's booth, on the ground of there being no exoise Btamp thereon. A charge to this effect will be brought against the owner of the booth. We understand that the defenoe will be that the beer was drawn it. to the begs from pro-perly-stamped casks for the purposes of transport to the show ground. In our report of the Show the prizes won in the grain sections were erroneously attributed to the N.Z. and A.L. Company instead of the N.Z.L. and M.A. Company, Limited, who scored all the grain awards. Mr W. Gardiner, junr., of Papakaio, haß disposed of his champion two-yoar-old colt Kecord Reign. The purchasers of the horse are Messrs J. and F. Wall, of Wairarapa. Record Reign holds an unbeaten record in the show ring and is a colt of which Mr Gardiner was immensely proud, and deservedly so, he having bred him himself. Record Reign is by the champion Oedrio the Saxon, out of Helen M'Gregor, a combination of breeding sufficient to win a name for him apart from the credentials he has already secured wherever exhibited. Helen M'Gregor is already well represented in the North Island, where the champion Glengyle is upholding her honor, aB is alßo Young Renfrew, who was bred by Mr Dan M'Gregor, of Weston Park. Messrs Wall must be congratulated upon their purchase of this fiue colt, whom many judges hold to bo the best two-year-old ever shown in Australasia, lb was not without a pang that Mr Gardiner disposed of his favorite. The price has not transpired but we understand that the colt brought a worthy figure. At the last meeting of the Canterbury Land Board, it was resolved to obtain reports on South Canterbury runs, the loases of which are about t&lling in, before re-offer-ing them. The genial rains experienced for somo months past have materially assisted the young plantations on tho Cape, which are now looking exceptionally strong and healthy, and the trees are shooting up rapidly. The fat sheep used in the guessing competition was slaughtered after the Show, and its dead weight was ascertained to bo 1531b5. Messrs Murdoch, J. Familton, and W. Hedley all guessed the right weight, and they will accordingly divide the prizemoney, amounting to L 3 3s. The sheep was on view in Mr D. Dunn's shop on Saturday. We (Timaru Herald) believe there was quite a scare occasioned at tho railway yard on Friday, and not without reason, when the tigers' car was capsized, as the top of the car was in part broken adrift from the sides. There were a lot of people about, but nearly all cleared out. Mr Kane, of the railway staff, ran to the shed and got some ropes to tie the top of the oar to the sides. Mr W. Collls lent him a hand, and their example encouraged others to return and help to put matters as straight as possible. Among the correspondence read at a meeting of the Timaru A. and P. Association was a letter from Mr Gideon Rutherford, returning the cheque of Ll3 4s, the amount of prize money forwarded to him, requesting that the amount of prizas won by tbe cattle he exhibited, Lll 17s, be deducted as a donation to the funds of the Association.—The thanks of the committee were forwarded to Mr Rutherford for his liberality. The Lyttelton Times says : —An envelope and telegraph form, addressed and filled in, have been left at this office for inspection, and disclose one of the most cruel and heartless hoaxes that perverted ingenuity could devise. The message purports to have come from Wellington, and reads as follows : "Mr , Christchurch. Old Age Pension Bill passed all stages ; will be law on Monday. Many thanks for your valuable cooperation. (Signed) Ranfurly." At first sight the envelope appears to be a sample of those used by the Telegraph Department, but a little scrutiny reveals the faot that the red stamp bearing the words <( New Zealand Telegraph Message " has been cub out of one envelope and gummed on to another one, and the same method has been followed with regard to the official stamp on the lowor left-hand corner of the envelope. It only remains to be said that this precious missive was delivered, prior to the passing of the Bill, at the house of an aged oouple who have been recipients of charitable aid for some years, and whose age and poverty constitute their only crime. It is stated, on fairly good authority, that a short time ago influence was brought to bear upon a certain Church Association, by which the sum of sixpence per week hitherto received was cut off from the income of this old couple. Tho reason in this case was that the old peoplo mentioned had an objection to dying in a public home. Mr Blackmore, Government Pomologist, has informed the Nelson Colonist that he has received a communication from a Californian resident, who represents ten families of practical fruit-growers, stating that they are desirous of settling in Nelson and engaging in fruit cultivation. They desire to acquire a block of land which will give them from 30 to 50 aores each, so that they may cultivate it without danger of pests from neighboring orchards. They prefer Nelson on aocount of the existence of the fruit-presorv-ing works there.

For more than a year now the Egyptian Government has been carrying on an important geological survey in the mountains alone; by the Red Sea and in the Sinai Peninsula. Enalish geologists are engaged in the work, and their duty is to investigate the mineral possibilities of the oountry, report on matters of archmologioal intereab, draw new maps, eto. The places they explore have not, in some oases, been visited for 2000 years, and they are finding many evidences of mineral wealth, including old emerald mines.

Sir John Lubbock gives an account of experiments he made eome time ago with the object of testing the reasoning power of a dog. He found it possible to implant a single, simple idea in its mind, and taught the dog to distinguish so clearly botween cards bearing the words «• food," " out," and " tea," that it would bring the appropriate card when it was hungry, wanted to go out, or hanketed for tea. He, however, could not educate the dog to higher flights, failing utterly to teach it to distinguish colors.

While Dreyfus is languishing in his prißou cell (or out of it, as the case may be) his name is being freely bandied about by press, public, and stage. Recently two gentlemen well known in Paris circles entered tho surf at a favorite watering-place in order to remove the stains of toil and cool their bodies after an enervating day at the Bourse. Presently both bathers were seen to bo gesticulating wildly, and to indulge in rapid rotary motion from the arm-sockets, splashing up clouds of spray the while. Taking these for signs of distress, a relief party put off from shore, shouting to the drowning men to hold out a little longer and they would soon be up to them. As they came nearer the rescuers discovered that the supposed victims were pommelling one another about the head and body, regardless of Quensberry or any other rules. Of course explanations were expected and readily given. It Wfis Dreyfus' fault again—the pros and cons concerning his case had been brought up, disagreed upon, disagreed upon more and more, and settled sur le moment. Mr Duncan Travers, the Seoretary of tho Universities Mission to Central Africa, has Eent to the Chronicle the following extract from a letter written by a resident in Zanzibar, who at the time of writing was paying a visit to Pemba:—"The Commissioner in Pemba is doing everything in his power to make the decree for the emancipation of slaves effectual. He has already freed over 900 slaves, and is proceeding at the rate of 70 a week. I was present in the Court yesterday, and can assure you that far from any difficulty being put in the way of slaves obtaining freedom, it seemed to me that they could obtain it even too easily. The Zanzibar Government haß, moat unjustly 1 think, been called upon to pay the compensation to the Arabs for the slaves freed. As a consequence of this large demand on their oxchequer the Zanzibar Government is practically bankrupt. Nearly all the public works in Zanzibar are at a standstill, and withal the Government is not able to keep pace with the freedoms granted by the Commissioner. It seems to me that since tho emancipation of the slaves has been demanded by the Christian publio of Groat Britain, they should be the party to provido fnnds, anil not the Mohammedan Government of Zanzibar. I am sure that if the British public realised that it) was a more matter of money they would nob be slow in subscribing the necessary amount."

Miss Scott, one of the lady inspectors of factories, has been on a visit to Oamaru inspecting local factories. She left by the South express on Saturday. (The cable message which stated that the defeated candidate for the office of Governor of New York was Judge Van Wycfe, the [Tammany Mayor of that city, was incorrect. From the London Times we learn that the candidate was Mr Augustus Van Wyck, a brother of the Mayor, and that his nomination was seconded on the New York Convention by Mr Croker, the Tammany " boss." A large trade appears to be done in whitebait by the west coast with Australia. A few days ago there was lying ready for export from the establishment of one firm alone in Greymonth tome 15,000 cases or 75,C00 tins of this delicate little fish. The net value of the whitebait canned by the firm in question this season will be close on L3OOO. There is a growing demand for the fish in Australia.

A correspondent writes:—A very enjoyable free dance was held on Saturday evening last at the Athenaeum Hall, Kak«nui, to inaugurate the opening after its being thoroughly painted and decorated. The dancing, under the tuneful strains of music by Messrs G. M'Donald and Fletcher, was kept merrily going until 11.30. Mr Fyfe acted as M.C., to the satisfaction of all. The Committee of the Athenaeum granted the hall free.

The annual meeting of the shareholders of the Waimate Industrial Co-operative Association was held on Friday evening. The directors' report was read and adopted, showing the past year to be the best that the Association has yet had. The auditors' report was also read and adopted. [The election of three directors resulted in Messrs A. Philip, A. Logan, and J. O'Donoghue being returned from 8 candidate. Messrs Mansfield and Crawshaw were elected auditors. Mr A. Bitchener was re-elected chairman of directors. The Committee of the Waimate Horticultural Society met on Wednesday evening last. Letters were read from Mrs Manchester and Mrs Studholme agreeing to be patronesses of the Society. The Hon. Major Steward also accepted the position of patron. It was resolved to secure the Library Hall to hold the show on January 19th, and the secretary was instructed to write to four gentlemen in Oamaru and Timaru, asking them to act as judges. The Post states that Mr Ruddick, the chief dairy expert, is to inspect the batter and cheese factories in the South before Christmas, in company with Mr Sawers, the Agricultural Department's cheese expert. Probably the oldest known record of the kiwi is a footprint on a piece of sandstone rock supposed to belong to the miocene period which has lately been presented to the Christchnrch Museum by Mr WynnWilliams. (The rock was found at Manaroa, Pelorus Sound, and the Government have promised to send a geologist to investigate the locality, with a view to determining by means of whatever marine specimens the rock may contain its exact age. This will give a clue to the antiquity of the kiwi, of which there is at present no data. A music-hall de luxe has been originated by Mr Benjamin Franklin Keith, of Boston. One of the rules of the establishment is that no employee of whatever grade is permitted to use an oath, and no performer is allowed to sing an indecent song or speak a suggestive line. Drunkenness is almost an impossibility, because no drink is sold in the building. Benjamin Frankin has started out on a voyage of discovery, and, unlike his fellow-countryman, namesake, and prototype, has distinctly " got there."

In a meadow in Devonshire may be seen a notice-board bearing the following advertisement : " Good Grass for Horses—Long tails, 3a 6d a week; short tails, 2a 6d a week." [The idea ia that horses with long tails can whisk off flies, yet not stop feeding, whereas short-tailed anirnalH spend a third of their time in trying in vain to get rid of the flies which, in this hot weather, irritate them so incessantly. Professor Koch, who made such exhaustive investigations into the cattle plagne in Africa, concludes that cattle disease is transferred from one animal to another by means of the cattle tick He was able to infect sound animate with ticks taken from diseased ones; and he had rendered cattle immune against Texas fever by inoculating them with the ova of ticks taken from diseased animals. He says that he found a study of (Texas fever in cattle of great assistance in giving a key to the origin of tropical malaria. Malarial fever, he adds, is, in many respects, like Texas fever, and he arrived at the conclusion that in the human subjects mosquitoes played the part which ticks played in cattle disease. Mosquitoes were present where malaria raged, and where there were no mosquitoes, as in a certain small island on the German East Africa Coast, there was no imlaria. By a microscopical examination of the blood the exact stage of the disease could bs ascertained, and quinine could be administered before the attack, or in its early stage. The natives are proof against infection, and he holds that where there is natural immunity there is reasonable hope of affording artificial protection, and thus rendering utilisable some of the most fruitful districts in the world.

As Emerson, has aptly expressed it, " Not in a week, or a month, or a year, but by the lives of many souls a beautiful thing must be done." And so it is by constant effort a good business 13 worked up. Good value must be given every day, every year, always. The house for the beat value all the year round is Penbose's Cash Drapery Establishment Just now they will make you a dress Free of Charge.— Advt.] You will want to know a few things before purchasing your next pair of boots. First, you will go to the shop where you can secure a great variety of styles, and where you can depend upon seeing something that will suit your purse as well as your caste. Then, naturally, you will desire to buy a neatfitting and comfortable boot and at the same time one that irill be neither too broad at the toe nor too narrow at the joints. You may not have made up your mind whether you will wear Tan or Black, or possibly you are hesitating as to whether you will wear Boots or Shoes. If you are a laboring man you will be on the look-out for something strong but not heavy; if you are engaged in business or in the office you will want something flexible but not flimsy; or if you are a lady about to purchase your summer costume you will certainly not pass without examination of the largest, finest, and mo9t select stock of Boots and Shoes in the city. [The New Zealand Boot Supply Company's Warehouse, opposite the Po3t Office, is the shop where you can secure a great variety of styles to suit your taste and your puree, where the toes are not too broad and the joints are not too narrow, where they have an immense stock both of Tan and of Black Boots and Shoes, where the strong Boots are not heavy nor the the light Boots fiimßy, where the variety is large enough to satisfy the most fastidious taste, and where everyone from infancy to manhood can be fitted to perfection. The latest and newest of euipmer goods now on hand. New Zealand Boot Supply Co , next door to Mr J. Moss Watchmaker, Thames street. —Colin Sn> WEIGHT, Manager. Thimphu Fcgit, and how rapid its Light Scarcely have the last echoes of the past season died away, and the new season dawn? upon ua -with its new hopes, its new de islands, its new responsibilities. Tempos Fcgit, and again Time proves the result of a year's conscientious labor ! Again it is our privilege to bring our announcement o a vast selection of novelties before you. Tempos Fcgit, and yet again we are able to make iho time-honored claim, as wellounded aa of yore, that the new collection 3 all its divisions and sub-divisions is once more in advance of all its predecessors that it haa kept pace with flying time, that Immense Variety, Wide Range, and Absoucc Novelty, coupled with rare beauty and cigh finish, are more than ever the distinguishing characteristics, of our Spring Show. We will nuke good the claim. Immense Variety and Wide Bange are certainly embodied in our collection. New washing materials, new stuff materials, new millinery, new ribbons and laces, new straw hats, pew everything,—John Buixbd and Co.F Oiyvergal Providers.

Spring Furnishings.—We have opeedn ex Duke of Devonshire, Gothic and Elingamite, a fine supply of House Furnishings, Sheetings, IJoor Mats, Counterpanes, Toilet Covers,. Towels, Cretonnes, Table Covers Sateen Cretonnes, Lancaster Blindings, Cur tains, etc., etc. See our Millinery. See our Dresa Materials. S e our Hosiery and Gloves. See our Men's Mercery.—Clayton Gabdtneb, aud Co , Standard House.— Advt.