LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXII, Issue 2781, 26 April 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A good general servant is advertised for.

A six-roomed kauri house in Paeroa with all conveniences is advertised for sale. .

A reminder is given ot the performance by the Colonial Picture Company in the Criterion Theatre this evening.

Messrs J. and W. Harp notify that they have just received a iresh supply of Edison phonograph records. Hetheringtons Limited, the well known importers and drapers, ot Thames, have a new advertisement on our first page to-day. .-,. An auction sale ot fat and store cattle, sheep, pigs, etc, will be held at Hikutaia on Monday next by the Farmers' Cooperative Auctioneering Company.

A visit to Paeroa will be made on Friday evening by Montgomery's Famous Picture Company, when an entertainment will be given in the Criterion Theatfe. Some splendid films by the world's best makers, and direct from the King's Theatre, Auckland, will,be shown. The pictures will be ot a varied nature, and are bound to please all tastes. Popular prices will be charged for admission.

We were shown on ihursday last a fruit that is entirely new to Taranaki, says the " News." It is called the Spanish toronga or grape fruit. Mr T. Rowe, of Bell Rock, imported the young tree four years ago from California, and this year a splendid crop of fruit is on the branches. In appearance the fruit is very like an orange, but about two or three times as large. In place of only one fruit growing on a stem there are clusters of from four to eight. In flavour the fruit, when ripe, resembles that of a luscious orange. The plant or tree is about four feet high, grows very sturdily, and appears to suit the Taranaki climate.

For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, i./6, 2/6.

We acknowledge with thanks the receipt of complimentary tickets lor the Catholic social next Tuesday evening from the honorary secretary, Mr' G. Dean.

Mr C. Bray (engineer to the Ohinemuri County Council) invites tenders ior,a large number ot contracts. " Tenders close at two o'clock on Thursday, 4th May.

An important land sale is to be held at Paeroa on Wednesday, May 10th, when the Farmers' Cooperative Auctioneering Company will sell by auction, on behalf of Bagnall Bros., Ltd., 2000 acres of the famous Turua estate. The land will be disposed of in convenient sized dairy farms. Further particulars will be given at a later date.

The Railway Department has a notification in this issue regarding the new system of despatch of goods from Auckland, Newmarket, Mount Eden, Frankton Junction, and Hamilton stations. Goods tor transit to the various stations will be received at the above-named stations on specified days only. Shipping and perishable traffic are exempt from the restriction, and consignors of a truck fully loaded may consign a truck on any day. Full particulars regarding the new system may be obtained on application to the stationmaster.

The last number ot the Journal ot Agricultural again serves to emphasise what those farmers who fail to subscribe to it are missing. It is only half-a-crown a year post free, and the cost is saved over and over again by the valuable hints given and advice and information furnished. Take the experiment in ploughing for turnips. A farmer sows two rjlots and ploughs one in September and the other in December. The former gave nearly a hundred per cent, better crop than the latter. Another farmer manured his turnips when sowing, and found one fertiliser gave io4lbs of root per plot, while the other only gave 22lbs. Half a crown a year for such information as this is not an unprofitable outlay surely ?

Whether it is easy to procure liquor at Gore is a matter that is often debated, says the Mataura Ensign. A patientlooking individual, who had spent the previous evening under lock and key, was fined 5s for being drunk one morning this week. When discharged from custody at \\ a.m. he was sober and had odd in his possession. At 12.30 p.m. he was lying hopelessly drunk in front of the courthouse with °s 8d in his pockets. For quick work in the " lambing down" of a victim, a prohibition town is, it would seem, equal to a mining township in the old gold-min-ing days.

Norwich, in the eighteenth century possessed a club known as the Gregorians, who pursued drinking in a most business-like spirit. Coke of Norfolk was taken there by some of his friends and elected a member at two m the morning. Just alter he had taken his seat at the club table, a basin full ot toast swimming in oil was placed before each member. Coke wished to decline, but Sir Edward Astley, the president, informed him that every member was expected to consume his portion. "It is the finest dish in the world for dispelling the fumes ot wine, and is always brought in at this hour so that we can continue drinking as freshly and freely as if the evening had just begun."

Legislation in the Isle of Man is at a standstill because the House of Keys has gone on strike. Manxmen can afford to mark time, for their law has long been in advance of ours. Every woman, widow or spinster, in the Isle of Man, whether she be owner, occupier, or lodger, enjoys the Parliamentary franchise. Every widow enjoys half of her husband's personal estate, and has a lite interest in his real estate, and she cannot be deprived of this by will. The sale of cigarettes and intoxicants to children was Unbidden in Man for years before such a prohibition was enforced here. We have legislated, mildly, against moneylenders. The highest interest that can be charged lor a loan in the island is 6 per cent., and that has been the law for over 200 years.

For Influenza take Woods' Great Peppermint 'Cure. Never fails. 1/6, 2/6.

Sea elephants' tongues and livers might not seem a very tempting dainty to those whose palates are tickled by the appetisng delicacies ot civilisation. Yet one of the returning Macquane Islands party informed a Southland Times reporter that they were very wholesome and palatable fare. When properly cooked they cannot be distinguished from sheeps' tongues and livers. '* As a matter'of fact," he gravely added, " I could do' with a feed of sea elephants' livers now." Our contemporary fails to say it the reporter took the somewhat obvious hint and suggested the next best thing.

Perhaps some will say that it is only a logical development of the Women's Suffrage agitation when they hear of the latest declaration ot the Rev Anna Shaw, one of the American leaders of that movement (says the Westminster Gazette). She is reported as saying that she has wanted to be a member of the police force all her life, and that as soon as women get the vote in New York she will seek an appointment. In the American Press there seems some inclination to take her ambition seriously. It is pointed out that, while no one would think ot sending women to storm a den of burglars, there are some kinds of work, especially in relation to their own sex, which women guardians of the peace could do to advantage. It is even suggested that a policewoman at a street crossing could stop the tracffi by an uplifted hand as quickly as a policeman. DOCTORS BAFFLED. All aged people should read this remarkable letter from Mrs Patience Thomas, ot Belmont Road, Geelong, Vie. " Last winter I got a frightful cold on the lungs, and, being 8r years of age, the doctors refused to prescribe for me, saying that at my age medicine would be dangerous ; but, knowing that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy bears the Government analysis showing that it contains no poison or narcotics, 1 tried it; and three bottles were the means of giving me back my natural health. - I am so old now that I cannot use my pen, so am getting my niece, Mrs E. Wyhe, to sign this." J. and W. Harp, agents, Paeroa.