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JtïEWSwAND NOTES.
WE have received from Mrs. E. R. Brockman
the sum of 10s. towards the St. John's Relief
Fund..
MESSRS. DENT & LONG, estate agents of
Hay-st. report having sold during the past
week : Perth Town Lot 49, Lamb and Fran
disaster at a satisfactory cash figure, Lots 2
and 3, section A, Prospect Hill estate 120
cash. Perth sub. lot 314, 10 acres £260.
LETTERS on the following subjects are published
in to-day's issue Aboriginal Folk-
Lore, a Railway from the Midland, Scab in
the Victoria District, that Brookton Sheffield
Handicap, the Premier and Dean Swift, a
Boxing Exhibition, and the Relative Cost of
Gas, Petroleum and Electric Lighting.
THE telegraph is to be extended immediately
from the Vasse to the Hamlin. During the
recent Agricultural Show at the Vasse a
start was made, it is stated in honour of the
visit of the Governor to the South. It is
understood that the line' will be finished
about Christmas time.
THE Young Men's Christian Association, intend
making their first annual tea and public
meeting a pronounced success, and on Wednesday
next, in the Town Hall, a musical
treat is to be anticipated. The programme
comprises the names of some of the best and
well-known musicians of the city including
Miss Gillett, A.L.C.M., and Mr. W. J. P.
Taylor, of South Australia.
OFFICIAL returns show that insanity is
greatly on the increase in Germany as elsewhere,
so that during the last twenty years
it has been found necessary to double the
number of asylums established for the reception
of lunatics. No less than seventy per
cent, of the cases are stated to result from
physical privations, and about seventeen per cent,
to intellectual over-work.
GOOD progress is being made with the construction
of the Fremantle breakwater. Although
the work was only commenced last
Wednesday fortnight, and a limited number
of cranes and trucks are at work, the mole
has been pushed over 100 feet into the sea.
Some more cranes are in the Nairnshire,
which is expected daily. When these are
landed still more rapid progress will be
made with the undertaking.
THE recent fall in the price of sandalwood is
a serious matter for this district, writes the
Geraldton-Murchison Telegraph, where quite
an army of cutters and teamsters are engaged
in the trade. The present depressed state of
the market is not, however, likely to continue
and by a little finesse the local traders may
not suffer seriously in what is no doubt a
little dodge on the part of the sandalwood
ring, intended to frighten those not included
in its sacred circle out of the trade.
To-NigHT, Hardy's Serenaders will open
their Fremantle season, of four nights, at the
Oddfellows' Hall. The plan of the reserved
seats is rapidly filling, and the management
expect a crowded house. This company has
just finished a successful season of six nights
in Perth. The entertainment is of the
"variety" type, and is very amusing. The
company has been selected by Mr. Hardy
from the ranks of the theatrical profession of
Melbourne and Sydney.
SOME anxiety has been occasioned in Fremantle
concerning the fate of three men,
named respectively Carl Jensen, John Anderson,
and Frederick Paterson, who left Fremantle
a week ago in a fishing boat for
Penguin Island. The police cutter went
down to the locality of the island ©«¡Friday,
and a search was made by Water Police-con-
stable Simmons and others, but without
result. It is feared that the men have been
drowned through their boat being upset, and
all hope of their discovery is now abandoned.
SOME new regulations which are about to be
adopted in the German army are significant
of the directions in which the next war cloud
may be expected to arise. The Russian and
Polish languages are to be taught to the
troops in all garrisons to the eastward of the
river Elbe, and the French in those on the
west. Examinations are to be held at the
end of March in each year, and officers who
prove themselves to be exceptionally good
linguists are to be supplied with means of
visiting contiguous foreign countries.
THERE is every probability (states the Bun-
our/ Herald) that the Perth-Bunbury railway
will be completed by April next, as stated by
Mr. McNeill at the Agricultural Society's
dinner. Platelaying is now finished to
the Collie Bridge, about 12 miles from
Bunbury, and at the rate the work is
being done we may expect the line to be
finished within the time mentioned. It is
likely tenders will be immediately called for
the erection of the terminus which we understand
is to cost about £10,00 or £12,000.
The Government are doing their share for
Bunbury, and it is to be hoped that the new
council will do their's, and spare no expense
in making our town second to none in the
colony.
A COPY of "Bush Luck, an Australian Story,"
has reached this office. It istheseeondattempt
in the domain of letters, of Mr. W. H. Timperley,
the Resident Magistrate of Banbury,
and marks a decided advance upon his former
effort. The tale is told in a very interesting
form, and the sketches of Australian bush
life and scenery are graphic, lively, and above
all accurate. The scene is supposed to be
laid in Western Australia. Almost every
chapter is worth reading for itself. Some of
the incidents of bush life are really exceedingly
well told. The book was we believe
originally published in a Royal' Magazine, and
proved most popular. The present volume
is published by the Tract Society.
THE late Southern Districts' Agricultural
Show was quite the most successful show
which has ever been held at Basset.
ton. In farm and garden produce the
exhibits were remarkably good, while
the stick was excellent, both in quantity
and quality, especially as regards horses.
The attendance was very large and included
a great number of visitors. Among the
the attraction of the show time was the Wild
Flower Exhibition, the first held in those
parts, which took place in Hovell's rooms,
and was most deservedly admired. The first
prize was carried off by Miss Price of the
Vasse, the second by Miss Mitchell of Bunbury,
the third by Miss Lockhart of the
Vasse, while a special prize, the gift of Mr.
P. Davies, was awards i to Miss Baskerville
of Karridale. Altogether the show was a
marked credit to the district.
A CORRESPONDENT writes to us under date
December 1st "My excuse for addressing
you is that one of the reasons advanced in
favour of telephone for hospital exactly describes
my own unfortunate experience. At
11.30 a.m. on the 27th of last May I arrived
at the hospital from Sawyer's Valley sawmill
suffering from compound fracture of the
lower jaw, and the flesh completely torn away
from the bottom of my face. Dr. Sloman
and the dispenser cleansed the wounds,
whilst a messenger was (as you put it) scour-
ing the town for assistance. The result of
this scouring was that Dr. Harston arrived
well on towards 2 o'clock, and with Dr.
Sloman's assistance stitched up the flesh
wounds. He then left, and returned some-
time between 3 o'clock and 4 o'clock to settle
broken jaw. I was becoming very weak by
that time, and had been sitting in a chair in
the consulting-room all that time, losing
blood the whole time, and could take no
stimulant. Had the hospital been connected
with the telephonic system, I surely would
have been spared much suffering. No doubt
many poor fellows have suffered from the
same cause, and yet the Colonial Surgeon
will have none of it.' I, amongst many
others, earnestly hope you will succeed in
your endeavours."
YESTERDAY afternoon, the funeral of one
of the officers of the West Australian wing
of the Salvation Army look place in Perth.
The deceased officer was Lieutenant P.
Ritchie, who formed one of the second contingent
of officers that arrived here from the
eastern colonies aboattbe middle of the present
year. After his arrival he was appointed
to the Bunbury corps, but about ten
weeks ago, was obliged to come up to Perth
on furlough, owing to the state of his
health. He suffered from consumption,
and more recently became so ill he was
unable to leave the house where he died on
Saturday afternoon. The funeral took place
yesterday afternoon. The coffin was placed
on a vehicle covered with the Army flag, and
with a profusion of floral wreaths. A large
muster of soldiers, together with their band,
took part in the procession, which also contained
a large following of the general public,
while the footpaths and the road were thronged
with so many that there must have been upwards
of two thousand present. The burial
took place in the Wesleyan cemetery, the
funeral service being conducted by Staff
Captain Knight, assisted by Captains Harris
and Dickenson. Several Army hymns were
sung at the grave, and addresses were delivered
by the officers.
WE have received the first annual report
of the Church Extension, Society of the
Diocese of Perth. This society has been
started to supply the growing needs of the
Anglican Church in this colony. At present
its beginnings are humble, bat with so useful
an object in view it should increase and prosper.
The following accounts of its objects, and
of the work done, are taken from the report:
The Diocesan Church Extension Society aims
at enlisting the general systematic co-opera-
tion of the members of the Church of England
throughout the Diocese in raising a
Central Fund, from which (a) To provide
additional clergy, to work under the
direction of the Bishop, in newly formed
centres of population and remote
country districts otherwise unprovided with
clerical ministrations, (b) To aid in the erection
of mission churches or schoolrooms in
such localities. (1 A clergyman has been
stationed and a school, church and clergy
room erected at Southern Cross, the
central townsite of the Yilgarn Gold-
field. (2) Assistance has been given towards
the formation of a new parochial
diatr<cfc, under the charge of a resident
clergyman along the Great Southern Railway.
(3 A clergyman has been provided to visit
and hold regular Sunday services at the
several timber stations along the Eastern
Railway, between Guildford and Chidlow's
Well and that known as the Canning Timber
station. (4). The services of an extra
clergyman as at once a Mission Priest for the
diocese and organising chaplain of the society
have been temporarily secured, the clergyman
appointed to these important duties being
the Rev. D. J. Garland.
THE class of ladies instructed by Dr. Harston
in a' Home Nursing Hygiene" in connection
with the St. John Ambulance Association,
were examined on Saturday evening at the,
committee-room, Town Hall, Perth. The
following is the examiner's report :-" Passed
with credit : Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. Gallop, Mrs.
A. E. Burt, Miss M. E. Law, and Mrs. Robert
Sholl. Passed : Mrs. George Leake, Miss D.
Durlacher, and Mrs. Oct. Burt. No. 3 failed.
In such a wide study, where the knowledge
of detail is all important, the result of the
first nursing examination must be looked
upon as highly satisfactory.-(Sigaed) GEO. F.
MCWILLIAMS,Examiner S. J.A.A." The paper?
set at this examination will be of considerable
interest to many of our readers, and is as
follows :-1. Describe shortly the process of
digestion, and state what changes (a) search,
(of) meat, and (c) fats undergo before they
become capable of absorption? 2. What are
the most important points to be observed (a)
in the selection of a sick room, (b) in the preparation
of the same, and (c) in the cleaning
of it? 3. How a typhoid fever spread?
What precautions would you take as regards
the diet of a patient with this disease P And
state why you would administer such diet?
4. How are bed-sores caused ? What would
you do to prevent their occurrence t Li
what diseases are they most likely to appear;
and on what parts of the body would you
expect to find them ? 5. How would you,
make (a) linseed poultice; (o) charcoal
poultice and (c) how would you apply and
keep in position a jacket-pou'tice P ; (d) how
often in severe cases should a linseed poultice
be changed, and (e) what precautions would
you take to guard against a chill when doing
so ? 6. How would you change the lower sheet
for a patient suffering from a broken thighbone?
In addition to the above, the candidates were
submitted to a severe examination in practical
work, such as roller bandaging, Ac. A.
public meeting will be held during this month,
when His Excellency the Governor will present
the certificates awarded to members of
the male classes, and teams from the Ambu
taxes Practice Club will give a demonstration,
of " First Aid " work, prizes being awarded
to the smartest squad.
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