LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7715, 18 January 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Newton King sells a quantity of fruit at 2 o'clock' this afternoon. The Hospital Hoard wonts a married couple to take charge of the laundry and grounds. A Melbourne-Brindisi despateli of mails of December 11th arrived in London on the 11th hist, The Skoates Cycle Company has a replace advertisement in this issue to which attention is directed. Exhibitors arc notified that stewards will te in attendance to-dav at the exhibition ibuil-dhvgs to hand over exhibits. The Stipendiary Magistrate at Christchurch has decided that, a*) the law now stands, a traveller cannot be supplied or demand refreshment •during prohibited hours. A notice of thanks to those who contribute 1 towards • the "good things" provided to brighten up tho Christmas hours for the inmates of the Old People's Home is inserted in this issue. Mr P. J. Easton, who has iiad 34 years' experience ;iii the business, has commenced in business as ii|>holsterer, etc., in premises next Mr K. Todd, coal merchant, and by advertisement solicits a share of public patronage. A witness in- Mr Justice Ridley's court at London the other day was unable to answer a question because, he said, "I have not the memory of an angel.'' Mr Justice Kidley : "1 do not know that an angel has a good memory."- Counsel : "The recording angel lias." A curious prophecy, now a century old, lias been revived in Poland by the success of the Japanese in the war with Russia. Mr Stead stumbled across it the other day ! when interviewing 'Mr Lutoslavski, the well-known Polish author ami patriot. In' the words of this patriot, the prophecy was to the effect that Poland would come to life again when Russia had been defeated by a nation then unknown in Europe, and England would complete the task which the unknown nation now easily identified as Japan has already begun. In tile course of a letter to the Auckland Star on the subject of deaths from heart-failure.- lir. Bakewell is delightfully frank as to the methods of the medical profession. He says : —"Heart failure" is becoming nearly .as fashionable as "appendicitis."- Formerly we used to cure a stomach-ache With five grains of calomel, followed by an ounce of castor oil or a black draught. Now -they operate For appendicitis. ft is much more profit-able—twenty-five guineas being the usual fee, I believe. But if the patient is a poor man, then the calomel and castor oil treatment suffices,

| At Sydney yesterday potatoes sold it® £9 7s (3d per ton.

The New York chorus girls have appealed to the press for support against theatrical oflicials. They say that it is impossible to make any progress in their profession unless they are willing to sacrifice an upright life. Owing to the number of medical men .sent to the front, the Russian authorities have decided to permit, lady doctors to net in the capacity of supernumerary house surgeons in all the 'hospitals at Odessa. An eccentric old bachelor nanitxl Broil, who died recently at i'orrentruy, left a legacy of £l4O to the bears of the well-known bear-pit at Kerne. The municipality has accepted the legacy "in the name of the boars."

A solid cube of coal, measuring Ave feet each way, was hewn from the Mokiau mines for showing at the exhibition, but was unfortunately kept out as the steamer could not gat into the Mokau River to bring it down. > The Court of Cassation's imfuiry into the Dreyfus case was concluded on November -Oth, and the finding was to bo made known in a month or six weeks from that date. According to the Paris Journal Dreyfus will again lie tried by a courtmartial.

Commenting on the fact that the Danish vessel built on the lines of Noah's Ark has behaved splendidiy at sea, the Spectator says : -- The event is probably regarded b.v the Danes as a confirmation of the Biblical account of Noah's escape ; but it also confirms the theory put forward in Herr Von Ihering's remarkable book, "The Evolution of the Aryan," in which he maintains that the Babylonians had at a very early period a sea-borne commerce, that Noah's ship was a sea-going vessel, and that it was driven', as recorded in the Babylonian annals, by a storm-wave up the Doab of the Tigris and Euphrates into the mountains. There appears to be some confusion in .the public mind concerning the effect of the issue of letters of naturalisation to an alien by a British coJony. When such letters are 1 issued to an alien in New Ziealand, for instance, that alictv enjoys all the rights iaind capacities which a natural-born subject of the I'nited Kingdom can enjoy or transmit within New Zlealand 1 , except such rights (if any) as> are specially excluded in the letters of naturalisation. The rights given by naturalisation exist only in the colony in which the alien becomes naturalised-, and should such allien leave the co-. lolly lie becomes an alien., again), an d, should ho wish to enjoy naturalisation rights in any other parts of the British dominions, must be naturalised afreshl. One of the advantages of -naturalisation is that a foreigner is then qualified to hotel freehold proi>erty. It is a standing grievance with some residents of New Ziea'land who have been i, n the colony for so long n period a«? a quarter of a century, during most of which lime tliey have been na!:TS, lh V- V ,flh " imi S residence as Bi ltish subjects counts for nothlegally when they go abroad. 11l its legal columns Lloyd's (London) published the following note on this subject : —"For a foreigner • to become a legally British subject he has to reside five years in Britain pay five guineas fee, and bring three witnesses forward to state who he is, what he is, and how he has conducted himself during the five years' residence. Tf this is satisfacl"gan"a WHY IT SELLS. . , SYICES' DRENCH were not backed by real merit it would have been dead long ago. Do you want W wl,y ]t solls ' WORD OF MOUTIt ADVERTISING. A farmer buys it, perhaps through chance, maybe a friend recommends it to lum. However lie gives it atrial. A valuable cow s life is saved • next tune several of his pigs arc sick ; no tries it again; and so it goes on until after two or three more trials he finds it can be depended upon. When his neighbours cows are sick Qvr/ri'- " \ Vhy don t 3 ' ou uso b\ KEh Drench ? Best tiling I ever struck. Get a packet old chap, and just use it accordikg to the directions and it will do the rest." This friend tries it with similar resuits and recommonds it to auother and so it grows constantly because it faithfully docs its work. Each Packet of SOKES' DRENCH contains two drenches. Price Is Od.— 4dvt. A MOST HONOURABLE DISTINCTION. The Western Medical Review, a medical publication of the highest standing, says, in a rc-cent issue : 'Thousands of physicians in this and, Other countries have attested that Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract is not only reliable, but that, it has a pronounced and indisputable superiority over all other preparations Of Eucalyptus." Your health is too precious to be tampered with, therefore reject all products foisted upon you by unscrupulous mercenaries, and insist upon getting Sanlir and Sons' Eucalypti Extract, the only preparation recommended by your physician and tlio medical press. In coughs, colds, fevers, diatn rhoea, kidney diseases, the relief is instantaneous. Wounds, ulcers, burns, sprains, etc., it heals without inflammation. As mouthwash (9 drops to a glass of water) it prof vents decay of teeth, and destroys all disease gerpis.* HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. Good Spirits. Everyone lias frequently experienced sud<? rn personal changes from gaiety to gYoom. The wind and weather oftentimes receive the blame when a faulty digestion is alone the cause of the depression. Ilollowny's Pills can be honestly recommended for regulating a disordered stomach and improving digestion. They entirely remove the sense of fulness and oppression after •eating. They clear the furred tongue, and act as a wholesome stimulant to the liver, and a gentle aporiont to the bowels. They healthfully rouse both body and mind. Holloway's Pills are the best antidotes for want of appetite, nausea, flatulency heartburn, langour, depression, and that apathy so characteristic of ihronic derangement of the digestion.* Do you -dread washing day ? Then buy a tin of Washine and cheer up. See a list of storekeepers who stock it. AGd tin sufficient for a week's washing.* Hew Advertisements. Newton King.—Sells fruit, 10-day, 2 p.m. Newto-n King—Sale of property of J. W. Kelly, January 21st. Newton King— Sale\. suburban property, Mrs Bridge, January 21st. Newton King—Sale bchali Litfuidators Co-operative Society, January 21st. Hospital Board. —Wants married couple ; and thanks contributors to Christmas cheer for Old People's Homo. Exhibition.—Stewards attend to- I day to hand over exhibits!. i F. J. Eastoii. —Commenced business as upholsterer. F. Gibbons, Pimiho.—'Wants working storo manager. Skeates Cycle Co.—New advertisemcnt. I Two furnisli'ed rooms are wanted.