LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 100, 4 June 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On our fourth page, under the title of " Nothing New Under the Sun," will be found an interesting account of some recent discoveries as described in Professor Sayce's new book: "Babylonians and Assyrians: Life and Customs."

Messrs. Mills & Spence's tender (£385) for school and residence at Tututawa has been accepted.

Trains will leave for the Breakwater today, connecting with steamer mentioned below, as follow 6 a.m., Gairloch (irom North) j 9.30 p.m., Gairloch (for North).

A Press wire states that Detective Henderson, of Wellington, has been transferred to Gisborne,

The New Plymouth Bowling Club willhold a " social" in the Foresters' Hall on Thursday, 11th June. Mr. R. Cock has been appointed overseer of the Recreation Grounds for the ensuing month.

A holiday will be observed at the High Scl 00l to-day to celebrate the abandonment of Pretoria.

The services of Mr. D. McKinnon Bain's orchestra have been engaged for the Hawera Mounted Rifles' ball, to be held on the 22nd instant.

Our Toko correspondent writes, under date Saturday last:—"Mr. J. Hall, manager of Twigg's mill, Toko, was thrown from his horse on Monday, and sustained concussion of the brain. He was removed to his home at Eltham to-day." At the conference of dairy managers at Stratford, Mij Ruddick said, in answer to criticisms that had been passed on his resignation, that he had come to New Zealand expecting to stay here, but owing to the state of his wife's health, he had been compelled to return to Oanaaa. No money would have kept him in the colony, even if a higher salary had been offered to him. But he had gained nothing by coming to the colony, indeed he had lost. He ridiculed the idea that he had come to New Zealand to learn; he had come to stay, but circumstances over which he had no control had prevented him from staying.

On Sunday evening, in the east end of the town, some twenty boys who were scampering on the, footpath threw a kerosene tin in front of the horses attached to a landau belonging to Mr. W. H. Jury, causing the animals to plunge forward, aud a bolt was only checked by the skill of the driver. Such practices are most reprehensible, and anyone

detected in future should be severely punished. A correspondent writes: your report of the case heard on Friday in the Police Court, when a charge of resisting the police was adjudicated upon, a thought struck me which is probably overlooked by many. It appears that the young man charged resisted violently, and was with difficulty taken to the lock-up. Supposing in his exertions the young man burst a blood-vessel or in any other way injured himself, would the constable be held to be culpable i" At a meeting of the Recreation Grounds Board it was decided, in reference to a complaint from the custodian of the wilful destruction of the terraces and of the conduct of several persons at the football match held in the Grounds on 24th May, "That the Board marks its satisfaction on learning of the capture of Pretoria by discontinuing all proceedings against those persons who misbehaved themselves on Queen's Birthday, and at the same time hopes that similar misconduct will not occur again to mar the pleasure of those who visit the Grounds for rational enjoyment." The undertaking of the Committee of the Tukapa Football Club to make adequate arrangements for the protection of the Grounds and the maintenance of order during the matches was regarded as satisfactory, and will receive the co-operation of the Board and its employees. The action of the Chairman and Secretary in sending to England for another consignment of fireworks was confirmed. Tenders are to be invited for a 21 years' lease of sections 1140 and 1180.

A livery-stable keeper in Neljon sued four men in the local Magistrate's Court last week for £5 as compensation fof damage done to a horse by over-driving, The Magistrate said he was satisfied that the contract was to drive to Richmond and back, and that the horse, by being driven to Brightwater and the Reservoir in the afternoon, was pushed to the full extent of its willingness. The defendants stated that the horse was not whipped or pushed, but was allowed to go its own pace. Judgment was given for the plaintiff for the full amount claimed with £4 9s costs.

When Mr. ICipling reached London from India in his search for fame and fortune he lodged in some small rooms in Villiers street, Strand, up two flights of stairs. One morning a friend called, and when he found himself in Rudyard Kipling's sitting room he was surprised to see a handsome mirror which stood over the fireplace " smashed to smithereens." " Snakes," said Kipling, noticing the look of astonishment on his friend's face. " I was dozing in my chair yesterday evening, and my foot slipped out of my shoe, which for comfort I had unlaced. Half waking, I felt with my foot for the shoe, and began slipping it in, when my toes touched the leather tongue. Snakes flashed across my sleepy brain. I gave one desperate kick, and when the shoe struck that mirror I realised that I was in London, and not in India."—Daily News. In the course of an article the Sydney Catholic Press gives the following list of felf-made Australian colonists: —" Sir George Dibbs and Mr. Tom Dibbs, general manager iof the Commercial Bank, left school at thirteen. How have they succeeded? They will tell you, if you enquire, and their life ! stories would surely interest our young I men. Sir Julian Salomons worked as a boy in a little shop in Sydney. Sir Charles Lillcy, late Chief Justice of Queensland, was once a common soldier. The late Sir H. Parkes was a labourer. The Right Hon. George Reid left school at the age of 14. Henry Copeland, the new Agent-General, worked before the mast when he was a boy. John Fairfax, who founded the Sydney Mornimj Herald, was a poor compositor in Sydney. Ex-Attorney-General Want worked in a coal mine. Mr. Justice Real, of Queensland, was a journeyman carpenter in the railway workshops in Ipswich, Sir John O'Shannessey was a drayman in Victoria." We might add to this a list of equally distinguished man in New Zealand, who have risen to eminence from comparatively speaking humble positions. The late Sir Julias Vogel was a reporter on a country paper, 'the Right Hon. J. Seddon was a mechanical engineer, the present Postmaster-General was a telegraphist, the Hon. John M'Kenzie a station manager, the Hon. Hall-Jones a builder, the present Chief Justice of New Zealand a country schoolmaster, and the Public Trustee a miner.

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The,i ordinary meetings.! County Council and Land Board will be h%ld to-day. There appears to be a likelihood of a split in the Society of Friends in England over the war, One of the most esteemed Quakers in the country is Mr. Joseph Sturge, iof Birmingham, and he has gone wholeheartedly against the campaign. Another well-known member of the community is Mr. John Belloc, of Gloucester, and he haß gone whole-heartedly for it. A country contemporary is responsible for the latest and most pathetic parody on " The Absent-Minded Beggar "" When you've sold your wheat and butter, when you've sent your milk to town, when you've got your cheque for bacon, eggs or hay, will you kindly cast your optic on your little printer's bill, and settle it at once without delay. You're an absent-minded beggar, and we are really tired of having to so frequently remind you, you come into the I township on every market day, and always leave this unpaid bill behind you. Cook's son, squatter's son, son of a cockatoo—twice five hundred little accounts unpaid on our books to-day. Every one could be settled at once if you would only try. Feel in your pocket for Heaven's sake, and pay 1 pay 11 pay UP

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