LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 177, 3 July 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

_._^— On our fourth page will i o found an interesting article entitled " The Chinese Army and Navy." An addition to the Telephone Exchange is No. uli: Messrs. Wright and Hiitehen, Solicitors, Brougham-street. Trains will leave for the Breakwater today, connecting wilh stointers mentioned below, as follow:—11 a.m., Roloiti (from South); 9.30 p.m., Jiotoiti (I' r North). A passenger-car will be attached to the goods train leaving; for breakwater about S p.ns. The rainfall in Wellington fur the month was 317 iucbes. This is under the average, but exceeds last year, which was 2CC, A very heavy sea has been running at the b-eakwater during the last few days, and the force of the waves has displaced a block at a point where a subsidence Jjad taken place in the apron work. It is expected that it will be four or live weeks before the Huia, which is ashore at Patca, will be iloated.

Mr. Sain Hill, Government Valuer, who has been through tin: Mnkau-Tc Kuiti country on derarlinenial business, returned to New Plymouth by the tiairloch on Monday. Mi: Hill was very pleased with the country through which he passed. Brakes for Mr. 0. If. Atkinson's sile at. I'ukearuhe on Thursday next will leave town on Wednesday evening, and will start from Wai ara the following morning at U sharp. Buyers from New I'lvn.mutli will require to either go as far as' VVaitara on Wednesday night or leave New Plymouth by train on Thursday morning.

Owing to the prevalence of enteric fever in Natal, every man ordered for military service in the colony has, says the iinier'l, been given the option of being inoculated with unl i-fyphoid serum, and 1-s per cent, of the troops have accepted the offer. As most of the colonial casualties have occurred through enteric (or typhoid fiver) we arc pleased to learn that the Oovernioeiit arc even now taking steps to supply the above want, I

We have been requested to state that the Hawera Hospital Ball Committee wish to thank the following for the loan of flags:— Messrs. Cock and Son, J. Butterworth, H. Gilniour, R. G. Knight, and A, S. Hasell. Some time ago, the London Art Fashion Journal offered a prize for the best draft and descriptive essay on "The Cutting and/ Making of Covert Coats." A prize valued at one guinea was offered, together with diplomas of merit. Mr. R. E Dowle, of New Plymouth, was the successful New Zealand competitor. Mr. George Hutchison, M.H.R., will leave for South Africa towards the end of next month.

Mr. J. B. Connett, who was a delegate at the Agricultural Conference at Wellington, returned home on Monday evening. He informs us that 29 samples of wheat, consisting oi varieties not hitherto seen iuTaranaki, which were exhibited at the Conference, were secured by Mr. Q. V. Tate, and will be on exhibition at the Farmers' Club rooms shortly. The next Conference will be held at Dunedin in two years' time. The Minister for Public Works, replying Ito Mr. B. M. Smith, said the site of a dairy school for the North Island had not yet been made.

In the Theatre Royal this eveniag one of the first of a series of orchestral and instrumental concerts will be given under the direction of Mr. George Garry. The programme appears in another part of this issue. The orchestra includes the best talent in the town, as the following names will show: — Messrs. R. Cottier, J. Garry (violins), 8. Cottier (clarinet), H. W. Cottier, J. Birch (cornsts), J. Sturmey (bass), G. Garry (piano). The concert will be purely instrumental and orchestral, and those who attend may reßt assured that they will spend a most enjoyable evening. At the Agricultural Conference Mr. J. B. Connett, of New Plymouth, put the case for the co-operative dairy factories in regard to the imposition of income tax on their profits. It was pointed out that the imposition was unfair where the company was purely cooperative. It might be mentioned, however, that there are very few purely co-operative factories in the colony, for, where an original shareholder-supplier may leave a district, it was not always that he could sell his share in the company, and, should he not be able to do so, his retention of the shares (companies not being empowered to take over such shares) would violate the co-operative principle. Oases are said to be by no mems common. Mr. Connett made a strong point in favour of the supplier when he showed that a dairy farmer was encouraged to cooperate in order to improve the quality of i dairy produce and then was taxed for doing so, whereas if the supplier ha-1 continued to work on more primitive methods he would have escaped the taxation.— N.Z. Times. The gold returns for May show an export of £111,860 worth against £100,161 last year. The return for the year so far still shows a decrease compared with the same period of last year of £28,757. Sir William McCormac, the President of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, is at times quite absent-minded. He is an indefatigable worker, and often to s&va time when studying in his laboratory has a light luncheon served there. Once, his assistants heard him sigh heavily, and looking up, saw the doctor glaring at two glass receptacles on his table. "What is the matter, doctor 1" asked one of the youngsters. "Nothing in particular," was the reply, " only I am uncertain whether I drank the beef tea or that compound I am working

A Wellington resident has invented a machine which, he says, will put on labels at the rate of 100 dozen or more an hour, and it may be applied to either bottles, tins, or jars of twenty different sizes and shapes. This war may yet, even in the hour of triumph, prove the downfall of Cecil Rhodes. It has inspired a national desire for the man's past history, and his entmies are rising to the occ»sion by publishing pamphlets containing extracts from his speeches in the days when he prated glibly about' eliminating the Imperial factor from South African politics —Sydney Bulletin. Mr. E. T, Greville, Government Auditor has resigned from the Government service in order to take up a more iroportaat position in the North Island.

The talks* and biggest man living is said to be a farmer named L. Wilkins, who is arousing great interest in scientific circles in Europe, where he has gone on a trip. This giant was bom in 1874, and wh«n he wag but ten years of age, his height was six feet (says an American contemporary), He has now grown to the unnatural height of Bft. lljin., and turns the scale at 3011bs. The following is from the Fiji Times (Buva) of June 13th:—"At last some attempt has been made towards isolating the I lepers in the station at Walu Bay. The Government have just pompjeted a sub-! ataatial iron fence, so constructed as to pre-! vent the unfortunate lepers from escaping, Judging from the appearance of the settle. J ment the number of victims to tfeis dread disease appears on the increase, It is a pity a better site on some island could not have been chosen. The one European inmate, who has now been there some few years, still drags on a monotonous imprisonment while many Indians are still at j large."

In spite of all that has been written (say s the Westmitislor Gazette), it is doubtful whether the average newspaper reader realises how vast the number of our felr low-subjects now suffering from famine | really is, The mere figures of the last report— s,9oo,ooo,—terrible though they are, jdo not make a vivid impression. Perhaps one begins to understand what the nnmber signifies when it is stated that it exceeds the population of London (including "Greater London"), and falls very little short of the whole industrial population of England, It is greater than the population of Scotland and Wales, with the inhabit, ants of a big city—say, Birmingham—thrown in. There are a million ftore of the famine, stricken folk than there are people in Canada. They are as numerous as the entire population of Australia, New Zealand, Cape Colony, and Nfttal— black as well as white.

Mr. W. J. Freeth, district, representative of the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Cor: poraticn, is prepared to quote exceptionally low rate." for Accident Insurance. Contractors for bush felling for the next few months should ask for quotations at the office New Zealand Express Co , Brougham-street,— Ad. You can depend on ridding your children of worms with Wade's Worm Figs, the I wonderful Worm Worriers. Price Is.—Advt When a notorious robber was run to earth some years ago, he told the. two detectives that he would point out where lie had hidden ' most of the money in boxes in a river. One detective went in the boat with him, while the oilier sat on tho bank. When the fishers 1 thought they had honked a box the robber obligingly butted the detective in thp wind, jumped over, swam tg the opposite baijkjand made .bis escape, The detective, who/was once a smart runner, had his fir°ans, in bad condition for sprinting, and he lost his man, Had he used Sykes' Cura Cough he would have retained his wind and his reputation. All Chemists and Storekeepers—Advt.

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