LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 100, 8 June 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dr. Home's Nursery Class meets this evening at 6.30, not 7.30 as previously announced, An organ recital will be given in St, Mary's Church on Thursday next. A cable states that Mr. Harry Trott, the well-known cricketer, who has been unwell for a considerable time, hfl.s boei) completely restored to health. Trains will Ipave for the Breakwater today, conpeptiftg with steamer mentioned below, as follow; —g.46 a.m., Wfupui (from North); 10 a.m., Wainui (for South), On Sunday a train will leave at 7.30 a.m. to connect with Takapuna (from South and for North),

The Women's First Aid Class (lectursr Dr. McCleland) assembled last evening jn the Whiteley Hall room, 2(5 members being present. At the preliminary business meeting Miss Co' stance Corkill was unanimously elected secretary fpr the class.

At the usual monthly meeting of the New Plymouth Ministers Association, it was decided to hold a united thanksgiving service at the Theatre Royal upon a declaration of peace being made, and a small committee of their number was appointed to make arrangements for the service,

A Press Association wire from Wellington says that burglars entered the premises of Umfrcvillo & Dodd, colour and oil warehousemen, Victoria-sl reet, on Wednesday night, and dynamited the safe, which contained a quantity of jewellery and cash. The explosion caused an alarm, and the perpetrators decamped. Nothing was taken, but the safe and building were slightly damagec l . Lord Roberts walked up to Lord Kitchener at the front one. day (says MA.]'.) and said; " Kitchener, J am making an andition lo my stall," "Yes?" replied the ex-Sirdar; " w|io is it?'' "JJy chief," replied " Bobs." " Who 1" inquired Kitchener, perplexed. " I am an old m u now, and 1 feel lonesome, so I have asked Lad Roberts to join me. Her headquarti rs will be in the vicinity of liloemfontein until they can be moved to Pretoria," i

".Mercutio," in the b.Z J/m-alt' ; -/ ' While we ha*. ,ui u ,. with K 1 -fi nl in liu demre to get away from •• crowd," and from the telewires, in order to escape the cares and worries oi office, aud obtain restored health, [what has really happened I A polical quidnunc informs me that this is the way he is taking holiday, namely going to the "Summer Isles of Kden," to see if he cannot bring about a South Seas Confederation, Mew Zealand taking the headship, and Bichard, of course, as " King of the Cannibal Islands." My informant is tateastates that it is just on the cards that Fiji will be asked to come in, and is not indisposed to do so, judging from her action in past times. It is even said that there is a rumour that Mr. Chamberlain is not averse to such a political confederation, and has been sounded on the subject- It will be a joke if Mr. Seddon has recruited his health by giving the Australian Premiers a " nasty jar."

" They will never print the truth about this battle (Magersfontein)," iajs a soldier, 1 in speaking of the Boers stripping the British dead. One dead officer was found absolutely naked on the battlefield, the enemy having taken away every stitch of clothing. At Spion Kop, one ufthesurgeous states that some of the officers' fingers had been cut off to secure the rings I He adds, however, that many of the Boers were indignant on hearing of the matter, and said that they did not see who did it. The true Boers, it make be remarked, do not act so savagely. It is emphatically the work of Hollanders and other scum.

The amount of wood necessary to furnish paper for one day's issue of a big newspaper is thus estimated by Professor G. H. Prescott, according to Popular Science News;— "A cord of spruce wood is equal to 615 ft board measure, and this quantity of raw material will make half a ton of sulphite pulp, or one ton of ground wood pulp. Newspaper stock is made up with 20 per cent, of sulphite pulp and 80 per cent, of ground wood pulp. The best known spruce land, virgin growth, possesses a stand of about 7000 ft to the acre. Twenty-two acres of this best spruce land will therefore contain 154,000 ft of timber. An average gang of loggers will cut this in about eight days. Ihis entire quantity of wood turned in at any one of the large mills will be converted in a single day into about 250 tons of such pulp as goes to make up newspaper stock. The pulp will mase about an equal weight in paper, which will supply a single large metropolitan newspaper just two days, so that newspapers as well as builders have a practical interest in forestry,"

In the 61st volume of the Dictionary of National Biography, just published, the legend of "Dick Whittington" is at last dispelled. Mr. James Tait proves that Whittington, the hero of innumerable pantomimes, instead of being a poor lad whose name was brought about and fortune made by the exploits of his cat, was really the son of an opulent knight, who made his money in trade, and in interest on loans, and who applied his fortune at his death in rebuilding Newgate Gaol, and erecting almshouses. Still, the correctness of biography is not likely to prevent the legendary " Dick Whittington" from doing duty for the benefit of the yonng folk for many generations to come*

A West Coast paper states that a gentleman in the North Island, well known in engineering circles, is perfecting an improved dredge, wbioh is expected to raise double the quantity of wash at less than the present expense. If the improvement is successful it should mean a revolution in dredging. The Hon. Henry Tomoana, M.L.C., of Hawke's Bay, is stated to be so ill that he may not be able to take his seat in Parliament at the opening of the coming session.

In the course of a chat with one of the war correspondents of the Sydney Morning Herald (" BanjoPaterson) Mr. Rudyard Kipling guided the conversation into Australian politios, " I oan't understand there being so many Radioals in Australia," he remarked. " What do they want ? If they were to become independent what do they expect to do 1 Will they fork out the money for a fleet and a standing army? They'd be a dead gift to Germany if they didn't. What inore do they want than what they've got?" So great was the force of the wind at Waimaru Bay (Marlborough Sounds) in last week's gale that the iron roof was lifted bodily off a shed, and has not since been seen, though search has for some distance around.

Sir Thomas Lipton has recently given to the world his recipe for success in business. The advice is characteristic of the man who offers it, and is excellent. He says "Work hard; deal honestly; exercise care and judgment; advertise freely and judiciously.'" In a letter to the Lyttelton Times "A Grower " makes the following suggestion:— How would it do for us to send a shipment of potatoes to the starving millions in India ? We have any number of them, and there is little or not market here at present. So why could not our Chamber of Commerce arrange for a large shipment 1 The farmers wquld gjve ttje tubers, qad subscriptions could be raised fqr prodding the necessary labour of digging, eto„ and doubtless the Kailway Department, if the Minister was approached, would carry them to port free. There is a vessel at present in Port Chalmers, which, I understand, is returning to Calcutta in ballast. Potatoes would make suitable ballait, 4 record kept by Mr. Horner, of the Culverden Hotel, says the Lyttelton Times, shows that since the sheep sale at Culverden in December last |iq fewer sheep have gone through the township to the south. One of the remarkable instances that has followed the inception of gold dredging in Otago is the advance in the value o£ hotel properties, says the Tapanui Courier. We have previously rjuqted instances. Heje is anotherA property on the tanks of the Molyneux Kiver was sold so*ie years ago for £7OO, and the nominal rental was then £2O a year: and sometimes this paltry sum was not forthcoming. Now tba o'wpital value is £2500, and a rental of £5 per week is offered for the same place. By the death of his Eminence Cardinal Louis di Canossa, his Holiness Pope Leq 3{III, becomes senior tp sl} College in »ge, being nqw in Lis ninety-first year, whereas the oldest living Cardinal. Peter Jeremiah Cpleste, 0.5.8., is only eighty.six years of age, His Bmlnenoe nal Moran, Archbishop of Sydney, is the oldest English-speaking member of the Sacred College.

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Perhaps the most novel lawsuit ever argued was heig'd i(i Chicago some time bapk. One partner in' a, big 'business applied tp the Courts for an injunction to restrain hi* partner from selling the goods at ruinous prices, as the latter had developed a mania in that direction. The newspapers reported the oase at pqnsiderahlo length, and the public read, won'terefl, then rushed off to the shop to get bargains, ancf the alleged demented partner did a roaring trade. But after all it was only a smsrt business trick. Sykes' Cijrq, Cough needs no such subterfuge to sell; it has merit, All phenjists and Storekeepers.--Advt. Wage's Kigs, the wonderful Worm Worriers, never fail for adults or children Price Is.—Ad\jj

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Amidst all the letters received from the front that of Arthur Joseph (Ahere Hohepa, the Maori representative from Haw-ke's Bay) is about the most original. He is serving with Lord Roberts's column, and in a letter to his father encloses in the envelope some African soil, adding: "At present owned by the Boers, but which will be, I hope, British property in a few months." Since old Oom Paul has gone to war * We'll make it hot for every Boer, But soldiers' find there's else but lead To hurt a man or kill him dead. The hard rough life, climatic ills, Are apt to bring On grevious chills, To ward off which there's one thing sure, A dose of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 15