LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 96, 11 May 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A. short story entitled "A Gentleman in the Ranks" will be found on our fourth page; also a spirited patriotic poem, " The Women's Burden."

Replying to a Maaterton deputation asking for a Technical School, the Minister for Education said he proposed to introduce a general measure next session which would meet the request. The Government has approved the purchase of the Langdale estate of 10,000 acres, near Masterton. It is understood the price is £3 10s per acre. The land is suitable for dairying and sheep farming.

Trains will leave for the Breakwater today, connecting with steamer mentioned! below, as follow 1—5.45 a.m., Rotoiti (from North); 9.80 am., Rotoiti (for South). On Sunday the train service will be as follow : 7.30 a.m., Takapuna (from South); 7.30 a.m., Takapuna (for North). The HaweraßoroughOouncilhas appointed a committee to arrange a programme for the celebration of the relief of Mafeking. The £r/mmit Settler is urging that Taranaki is entitled to another representative in the Legislative Council, and presses the claims of Mr. J. B. Connett, of New Plymouth, The following is the honorary members, list of the Taranaki Guards;— Messrs. T. Avery, 3. Abbott, O. Ahier, G. Arrowsmith, D, McKinnon Bain, W. Bayly, R. Bayley, H. Bedford, W. Bewley, C. Carter, W. Cottier, J. J. Duncan, O. R. Fenton, W. J. Freeth, E. G. Frost, H. Gilmour, E. H. Godsal, H. Goldwater, H. Goodacre, W. Gordon, F. M. Grayling, J. Guerin, T. Haywood, S. Hooper, W. Humphries, F. Hutchinson, F. H. Jackson, T. Johns, W. Kerr, J. H. Kingsley, J. Loveridge, N. K. MacDiarmid, N. Miller, D. Mullens, T. McGuinness, J. Paul, C. Pollen, Maynard Ramson, G. Ramson, A. Raynes, C. Rennell, F. Richards, F. W. Richmond, G. F. Robinson, J. B. Roy, 0. Samuel, J, Sanderson, T, K. Skinner, W. Sole, H. Stacker, A. E. Sykes, G. Taylor, D. Teed, Ben., R. Todd, H. Ward, H. Weston, J. E, Wilson, W. D. Webster.

The Dairy Commissioner has called the grading members of his staff to Wellington. These gentlemen will meet at the Wellington grading stores to-day and to-morrow for the purpose of comparing notes on the past soason's work, and, by grading together, level up their standards. The graders will, it is understood, be given an opportunity of inspecting the box of " fishy " butter recently sent out by the Produce Inspector to the Dairy Commissioner. " Fruit kept in a bed-room oven for one night is unfit to eat."—Mr. Haselden, S.M., condemning certain Chinese fruit in Court at Wellington. Taranaki was the principal exporter of butter in April, sending away from its port, New Plymouth, 6713cwt., valued at £29,845; Dunedin sent away 1233cwt, valued at £4943; and Wellington 472cwt., valued at £2009. Invercargilf sent away most cheese —sl76cwt., valued at £10,983; New Plymouth, 3235cwt., valued at £6873; and Wellington, 1901cwt., valued at £4479. Wellington shipped the bulk of the colony's export of beef—9447cwt„ valued at £9750; Napier, 7066cwt., valued at £9068; Wanganui, 5298 cwt., valued at £4945; and Waitara, 4779 cwt., valued at £6690. Wellington also sent away more frozen mutton than any other p0rt—55,333 carcases, valued at £30,854; Ohristchurch coming next with 4(2,518, valued at £23,479. Ohristchurch shipped the bulk of' lambs £51,862; Timaru coming next with 33,539, valued at £15,064; and Wellington, 21,487, valued at £9573.

" I will sell my billet as councillor for my ward for 2s 6d," was the wearied utterance o! a city father soon after he took his seat at the Wellington Council table the other night, Edinburgh is still suffering from an epidemic of influenza, which has caused over 100 deaths in the city since 1900 began (writes the correspondent of the Otago Daily Times). Strange to say, it was worse in the Grange and Morningside districts, two of the healthiest quarters of the city, and has since extended its ravages to other parts, confining its attack, however, to the houses of people of the better classes. In the model lodging houses and among the poor generally there have been no cases. The conclusion is drawn that influenza attacks those who shut themselves up and coddle themselves, while people who are much in the open air escape it. Dr. Olouston, of Morningside Asylum, in his annual report, published last week, stated that the epidemic of influenza had " caused more insanity by far in the country than all the anxiety and even the private griefs of the war." —Councillor Pollard, convener of the Public Health Committee of the Edinburgh Town Council, in a lecture delivered a few days ago, said that about SSO persons died in Edinburgh annually from consumption. In Edinburgh and Glasgow last year the mortality from this disease exceeded all the lives lost in the war. Nevertheless during the last 50 years the number of deaths had been reduced to a third of its former total, by greater attention being paid to the conditions under which the people lived and worked. Threeijfths of the victims of the disease lived in houses of one, two, or three rooms each, and their average age was 3i years. Leslie's Weekly contains an interesting paper by Captain Mahan on " The Monroe Doctrine of Our Navy." Touching on the Nicaragua Canal, he points out that if America intends to make the Monroe doctrine effectual in resisting the pretensions of suoh nations, especially European, as are interested in using the canal, and for the support of their interests in gaining positions, she must be prepared to resist by force, if need be, any attempt to obtain adjacent territory or ports which may serve as stations for a navy hostile to her. " The Mon- i roe doctrine," he continues, " does not depend upon legal right, but upon the moral right of our indispensable interests, deriving its chief support from the fact that it is not worth while to incur our enmity, pushed, perhaps, to the extent of war." The necessity for strengthening the American navy I thus becomes paramount, and while, to make it as strong as Great Britain's in the near future is out of the question, he holds that America can easily afford to rival the navies of France or Germany," the only European States, besides Great Britain, whose interests might lead them actively to dispute the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine."

New Zealand scenery all admit Is unsurpassed in any land; One gazes till he's loth to quit Views so splendid and so grand. But winter brings its squalls and storms When everybody should inure His system with the stuff that warms, W, K. Woods' Great Peppermint Oure. 22

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! 0»r colonial cousins say that wo New Hollanders " blow " too much. But haven't, ■vt! something to "blow" about? Look at (: :r climate, our creeky and springs, our wonworland of lake scenery, our forosls, our unrivalled bay soc oiy, and a happy, contented, find healthy people inhabiting our isle. Our men away in South Africa are ■ •oßvl f or their line soldierly appearance, and ! he way they stand the tear and wear of an arduous campaign. We have other points we can "blow" about, and among them is i-ykoi' Cava Cough. All Chemists aud StoreAd.vf,

Mr. Lecky's article on the moral aspects of the South African war, in tha London Daily News, may be commendod (says the Spectator) to all who are open to conviction as to the righteousness of the British cause. Dismissing as impracticable • the methods that might have been adopted by an " intelligent military despotism" to check the arming of the Transvaal, Mr. Lecky states his belief that the war had on the English side for some time become inevitable and could not have been greatly postponed. The grievances of the Outlandara had been exaggerated, but the Transvaal Government was "detestable," and the British Government could not acquiesce in a state of things which violatod distinct promises, and threatened our whole position in South Africa. After paying a well-merited tribute to Mr. Schreiner's conduct as that of a very honourable man, and frankly admitting the shortcomings of the British—the sinister intrusion of financial speculation into the domain of politics both in England and South Africa, the baleful effect of the raid, which was a folly as well as a crime, and the adulation of Mr. Rhodes—Mr. Lecky declared that no responsible politician, in England desired the war, and that Mr. Chamberlain, if not always judicious in diplomacy, had nevertheless " sincerely laboured for peace," and that in its broad lines his policy had been just and moderate.

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