LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7711, 13 January 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thursday was reported to lie the hottest day of tho season, the thermometer registering 108 points in the shade at Melbourne. A carved Maori stick belonging to a Maori chief has been lost, in town. The finder will confer a favour by returning to the Maori village or to the secretary of the exhibition. Tho Taranaki Agricultural Society has decided to hold u two davs' show next year. Most of the pat tie will be judged on the first day, and the second' day will be " people's day." The Maoris taking part in the exhibition will have a railway trip to Eltham and Stratford on 'Tuesday next. This is tho outcome of the representations made to the Minister for railways on Wednesday. George L. Houston, a recent arrivial from Sydney, was arrested at Auckland on a warrant charging him with obtaining £125 by false pretences from William Chambers, ol Sydney, on December 25th. He ! was remanded to await an escort. The tug, Thomas King, had to go to the rescue of five Stratford boys on Thursday. The lads had taken a boat from the harbour, and when out of the shelter of land they found the wind too strong for them, and their boat began to drift out to sea. Ail extensive safe robbery wag ! perpetrated at Sterling Hotel at Wai'hi, curly oil Thursday morning". The keys were abstracted from tho pocket of the manager while he was aslcoij. and £IOO in g'ol.l, silver, notes, and cheques wa,s , stolen.; | During Mr SMelon's visit to the ! exhibition last evening-, he was given ' a private exhibition of feats of strength by Lex McLean, and manifested so therein that 1 be intimated his intention of seeing 1 another display before he left New j Plymouth.

esteiday morning a runaway took command of Devon Street for a few moments. A horse attached to Mr C. Carter's delivery van bolted from near the White Hart Hotel, but was pluckily stopped by Mr 11. Fox, an employee of Mr G. Riddell, whenopposite the Criterion Hotel. Fortunately no damage was done.

At a meeting of the Wangianui Hospital Board tho secretary stated that a draft for L'2'J had boon received from a resident ait Warrjgal, Victoria, in payment for treatment of a brother who had died in the hospital. Tho board expressed pleusuio at the honesty of the relative m sending the money, as he was under no obligation to do so. On receipt oif tho news of tho .death 0 f the late C. W. Crocker Sir Joseph Wand at once saw Mr S. Crockor, the lather of the lad. and conddled withi him. He sent his secretary with Mr S. Hill, a fricnid of tho family, to facilitate the removal of the body to tho parentis' homo. Sir Joseph expslessed his sympathy i n very touching terms, and said he would .afford every assistance tn the bereaved family. '', hc . f o»owing officers were elected Hwnf'n i - at tI,C unnl,al mg of thcf Unity Tent 1.0 O R • Ohio, ruler, Hro. J . Butlimore D. \ 'r" So 'c : treasurer, Hro. ill-, t iri • ; secretary, . Wtotaker (re-elected); Ley. ' "ro. Moi-shead ; cash steward liro A Sadler ; book steward', Bro. I . Hopkins ; guardian, Bro. T. Frcnvin ; awhtors, llros. Goodacre and T. „r f°! e '■ n ''°' A. Cole <re-elLctt-J). 1 ast duel rulers' emblems were presented to llros. 10 Ed"eand 11. Clark. Bros.'J. T White, B. Clark, and Hopkins wili represent the. lodge at the biennial council meeting in Dunedin next month, at which the D.C.1!., liro. J WIII taker, will preside. Among the business to be brought forward i» a scheme for amalgamating all fhe branches iu the colony.

Mademoiselle L., about to be warned, has discovered, on taking steps to publish tho banns, that she is already married (says the I'aris carl respondent of the London Daily Telegraph). It must Ire so, as it is set down in black and white on the town clerk's register. Her elder sister at the same time, made an equally startling discovery. Though she had imagined herself to be the wife of the man to whom she understood she was wedded some years ago, and by whom she Jms several children, she noww-iirrus that l'tr from to • lliul( " is npr suppjjaecl husband's sister-in-law, as lie is legally united to her sister.' How the unfortunate family and tile careless registrar will worry out this inextricable situation is not known. The elder ,sister could be married again, but, t|ie younger sister must first be unmarried, and how is that to be done ? It is well known that heaven and earth -have to be moved before aji error on a register can be corrected, as in the example of a child to whom a wron ,r liaime has been given, which can nev" or afterwards be altered. The family of Mademoiselle—or, rather, Had- i mne L.—arc seriously thinking that instead of attempting to prove that' she is not her sister, aiKl vice versa it will be simpler for her to divorce her brother-in-law, after which the latter will re-marry his wife, who is now legally his sister-in-law, while Mademoiselle will take unto herself a second husband, without ever having been married before. It. is to be hoped that there is a playwright in the family to turn "the "lattir's 11 ibulations to some account.