LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7721, 25 January 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

» The Sonoma arrived at San Francisco on the 23rd hist., at !3 p.m. The annual confeiv-nce of general nramagers of insurance companies doling business in New Zealand will he h<jld in Wellington to-morrow. Messrs Jlewley and Griffiths report , having sold Mr Kaymond Smith's line 160-acrc farm at Mungorei al I £lO 10s per acre to a local gentleI man. An Auckland telegram states that the results of the matriculation ex--1 animations, telegraphed on Saturday, were arranged according to examinationr centres, and not accord- " ing to the order of merit. Mr Alexander Black has resigned I his postilion as a member of the HjlSoard of Conciliation for the Tara- , naki district, and an election to Jill tho vacancy will be hcM at the courthouse, New Plymouth, on February 14th. Nominations close on tho 10th prox. The New Zealand Polo Association has decided to hold the annual tourf naiucnt in Wellington from March 18th to the 23th, inclusive. Teams are expected from Christchiirch, two j from Manawatu,, two from llawke's Bay, two from Kangitikei, and from Wellington, Auckland, and Oi.sborne. Mr W. G. Wilson, representing the Keystone File and Automatic Minder, i a very ingenious contrivance for filing newspapers, invoices, and gentral oflice documents, is in town in- , troducing the invention to public notice. The binder is simple to operate, yet reliable, and should find a place in every odice. During the last few days, the Wai- , mate Witness reports,! there have ' been immense land slips on the mountain near the source of the Kaupokonui liiver. The moving nmfssps of earth were easily discernible iron* Kapongn, On Wednesday last there was an unusually large one, a cloud of dust being thrown up which could be seen ninny miles away.' As giving an idea of tho size of the slips, it is estimated that one avalanche covered a forty acre area. It seemed af. times as if Egmont had become active and wis throwing out columns of smoke, so den** jvsr<i the

Mr Newton King sells a large quantity of fruit this morning. Mr J. A. Ma'iscy invites tenders for a residence at Wostown. Messrs Uewflcy and CirJlliths will offer 100 cases of fruit for sale at their mart this afternoon. Entries for Mr Newton King's sheep and cattle fair at Awaktao on February *2nd arc advertised. A sale of household effects, on behalf of Mr Angus CampbeKi, will lie held by Messrs Uewley and GriHiUis on Friday. On Wednesday next Air Newton King will after by auction, on account o( Mrs Mortimer, Belt Komi', her six-roomod house and furniture. Parishioners of St. Mary's are invited to attend the farewell social to be tendered to Rev. [•'. A. Dennett on Friday afternoon at St. { Mary's Hall. Messrs Hew ley and (Jriflilhs advertise a clearing sale of furniture oi. account of Jlr Angus'. Campbell on Friday next, January 27th, at his , residence, Molesworth Street. A notice relating to an application for transfer of the license of the Ok'ato Hotel from Alexander Baker to Henry John Little appears in this issue. Messrs Ambury Brothers, who have purchased the first prize exhibit of clothing shown at the exhibition,, havo a spcciail notice relating thereto, on the front page of this issue. The drawing, of the art union in _ connection with the exhibition takes place on Saturday evening at the Council Chambers. It. is notified that books not accounted for by that time will bo excluded from participating in prizes'. MrT. H. Davey, M.H.R., who recently started business in Christchurch as commission and land agent, states that it is not correct • that he has accepted the agency of " the Government Fire Insurance De- • partment. Mr Davey has no connection with the. .Department whatever. Count von liulow, in delivering his last speech, used the expression "benevolent neutrality " (wohlwolf ) lende Neutralitat) to characterise Germany's attitude towards Russia. • In the official report of the speech this has been altered into "perfectly straightforward neutrality (volikommen loyale Neutralitat).—The TimesThe Christchurch City Council has received a letter from the Education Hoard stating that it had nrI. ranged to carry on technical classes jfor tho first term of the year, in the hope of receiving an offer from the 5 City Council or some other local bodies to undertake the management. The council set up a special committee to inquire into the matter. " Thora is considerable speculation >. as to whether the insurance com- — panics concerned will proceed against ._ the contractor for painting Nelson ' College because his foreman used a flare in burning off, to which is attributed the recent fire. Business circles feel strongly that the contractor • was innocent, as owing to him sole--0 ly the clause prohibiting the use of u flare was inserted in the contract. A point has arisen as to whether insurance companies accepting risks ' arc justified in sheeting home to _ employers unavoidable defaults of j workmen on building jobs. The matter is now under the consideration of , the Underwriters' Association. I, The detailed plans havo been pren pared for the two motor-cars proI- posed to be employed by the ltail- :. way Department by way of experii- ment in the handling of passenger i- traffic. The first car will be built t at Aldington. It will be 00ft long if and Bft fiin wide, and will furnish t accommodation for sixty-four pusi\ sengers. There will be two "conis partments—one for smokers, the othe er for non-smokers. The smoking y compartment will seat twenty-four n passengers, and the other forty. t There will be a place for light bagil gage, and wide overhead racks for d packages. d Recently it was stated that a gang n "confidence men" were posing in d Sydney as representatives of the <- New Zealand Tourist Department, it and fleecing New zjealamlers- visiting ic Australia. The modus operandi s was to accost-', arrivals from New hj" Zealand, represent themselves as rel- proscntatives of the Tourist. Agency in appointed to put young New Zeuit landers on their guard against unia scrupulous confidence men, and then J- offer to take charge of any money or td valuables and return the sa.me on l>- the victim's departure from Sydney, le making only a nominal -charge for \- safe custody. The Sydney police >r have written to Sir Joseph Ward is discrediting/ the whole story, and 1- stating that after careful search and is inquiry they can lind no trace of anye. one representing himself as alleged. ly n At a meeting of the Battleship l( ] New Zealand Fund Committee at l c Timnru the Mayor reported that , ti there Was £7lO in hand, and £2." j(. more promised by the Government. ■ m The children's peace fund for a pre--0 sent to the ship amounts to about s . £430 from 700 schools. The adults' ly fund for gunnery prizes (the balnncc) jj_ is much smaller than was hoped io for. After reading correspondence )c from Lord Ranfurly on suitable prcr_ sents as suggested by presents tc IS H.M.S. Kent, it was resolved to prori_ cure, from the children's fund, a Hi'.) j. lb bell (probably metal silver-plated i c and inscribed) £OO, a gunnery shield in £l5O, album for records £lO, silk lc ensign £3O. The committee attach much importance to gunnery prizes, _ and will omit the piece of plate and jj hope to invest £SOO for cash prizes. w The question of pictures of the ship w for the schools was postponed for u_ the present for further inquiries, , s quotations from Home being quite |.l beyond their moans. Speaking as to the possibility oi h an industry in dried figs being i- started In the colony, as was sugIf gested tho other day by Mr Solnri, id of Smyrna, Mr Jaques, the fruit-ean-ie ning expert, says he thinks tigs o would grow well in many parts of ie the North Island, but they would o have to be protected from the rav--0 ages of birds. Mr Jaques, who has 'o been on a visit of inspection to the >i orchards of Nelson and Marlborie ough, leaves for Christchurch this n week, and will, whilst in the Southit em districts, visit (hose interested in >' the canning industry. He is actn ing in conjunction with the Govie crnment fruit-growing experts in se- '- curing the planting of the right sorts of fruit for canning. He is, he says, giving most of his attention at present to apricots, pears, peaches, and apples ; but ho is ready to give information thaU may assist in the establishment of any canning industry, including vegetables, fish, etc. The Tfnmru Post states that at a meeting of tho directors or the South Canterbury Dairy Company held recently a most satisfactory state of affairs was disi- closed, the month being the most successful yet experienced, the money 1 paid out by the company during the past month being £,'Sll(>, as against ,| £lO a month—the pay-sheet at the initial stages of the enterprise. Last month some £3OO more than the |'t previous month was pajd to milk s suppliers, and the Jopal saleg of bullt ter amounted to £863 In HI, and v- butter exported to £1713, whilst butter, cheese and milk exported and it sold locally reached the large sum t- of £3005. That the company has r- made large strides is most gratif.y- -- ing, and speaks volumes for the 1- directors, through whose care and business capacity much of the suc--4 cess of the dairying industry in c South Canterbury is due. l " According to a London paper of 0 December 16, Mr Donald Murry, forie mei'Jy of Auckland, announces' that, '" after 18 monthV trial between Lonn don and Edinburgh with actual traffic, the British Post Office had den cided to adopt his invention known ■- as the Murry printing telegraph. h|T-ho apparatus, which has -been tried ,s in America and Germany with suco Cfss, and for which the Russian Gov's eiMiment has placed an order with n Mr Murray's firm, is n most irigcnj- . ous one,. A perforate*} slip is pro, 10 pared by a perforating- "apparatus i-jwith an ordinary typewriting key- „. hoard, which requires no spcci'.al skill ! beyond that possessed by a typist. ~ The slip is run through a modified ic | Wheats-tone transmitter at high speed ,_ and at the receiving station prorl.duces a perforated -slip similar in all | details- to the sending, slip. If a rc--Jtran'sinislrfion lo a further station is . e |requi-rod, this second siip is merely 0 pnasoil om to another transmitter, ;c .but if it liaa arrived at its destina- _ ,lion! it is run, autom-atioaMv through la motor-driven translator,'which opy | crates an ordinary typewriter, and ' e turns qut the message in the ordinary typewritten clinuacters, During , s |its trials the apparatus succeeded in c I passing 350 messages n n hour over. L a Mingle wire between London and lEdinbuigh. d I Automobile prison vans are to be t ,introduced in Pans, sajs the Gaue i lois, by M. l Leptne, the Chief of

I It is proposed to organise a band I contest «is one of the attractions | for the International Exhibition in Christchurch. The tepid bath committee of the : , Christchurch City Council has tabled a report which has horn referred . back for their consideration. > I At the Foxton races on Monday a man named Thomas Lenehan was arrested on a charge of' .playing , ''Yankee sweat" un the course. 4 | Three settlers in the Wahnrahara ! district (Uawke's Bay) received £o2, 1 ' £SO, and £47 10s respectively as , their milk cheques for December. , I Spontaneous combustion is said to be the cause of a fire which has broken out in a 20,000-ton stack of ". Welsh coat in Portsmouth Dockyard. • j The advent af caterpillars on the | Waiiuatc Plains is recorded by the . Mlawera Star. Steps are being tn!ken to prevent their inroads upon , i the grain craps. 4 The 'Stipendiary Magistrate at Auckland last week sent to guol for live months a blackguard who had j used particularly filthy language in ~ one of 'the city streets. 5 The night express between Dunedin anrtlnverciirgill has been equipped with an electric headlight of "000 ; . candle-power. The shaft of light 1 projected in front of the train is of '• great brilliancy, and illumines the " track for 2'lo to 300 yards ahead. The Canadian correspondent of the 1 Otago Daily Times, [writing rcgard--5 ing the recent Parliamentary elec- ' lions, says :—" There was- not elect--1 ed a single faddist, Socialist, Lab- ' our candidate, single-tnxer, or pro--1 jhibitionist. The members are all straight party men, which will be ■ i regarded as extraordinary from the - I "New Zeninnd point of view. Canada 1' is a poor fiold just now for reform- > ers." f At While Cliffs (X.S.W.) recently " a man named Thomas' Davidson wns " found partly buried by the sand on " the Wilcannia Road, by Sir Rarraclough, the licensee of the Victoria 5 Hotel. The man had become exit Jmusttal from thirst, and had fallen f by the roadtside. There was a severe e |dtiststorm blowing when Mr Kurrn- . .cloug-h arrived, and in a short time i I the man would have been completely r smothered. Mr Bnrraclough conveyed - him to- White Cliffs for tii'alment. ~ Davidson was on the way from the , Paroo River to the opal fields, and . iWas carrying a swag. ■- I An escaped lunatic, when caught s I the other day had, says our Christe church correspondent, -adopted a nove el kind of footwear. He -had arrang- ,- ed n number of pieces of sticks the , length of each foot, on which he - placed layers of paper, and after encasing his feet in two sparrows' nests, had bound the sticks and paper to answer as soles io his feel '"|\vit'h long cocksfoot grass. In these I moccasins he was found by a plnin- " clothes constable, who 'learned that the patient was looking for work '._ on a farm. The man seemed quite ~ happy till he found the prospective | farmhouse had a sign of black and I J white, "police station,.'A rather rare spetacle was witnes- ,,. ■ sod by severail patients at the Itanga:s ; tira Hospitall recently. A domestic 0 cat captured a young' blackbird, and ,C was preparing to devour its prey _ | when the parent birds caught sight ,f .of the murderer. Uttering fierce crfvs [they flew at the cat and made such .a bravo pecking and fluttering that ■~ ,tha animal was glad to take shelter |" ,under a furze bush, while the aven- ," 'gei's kept sentry go outside!. Occas-' ionally the cat would peep out, hut L jthe blackbirds wouW at once present | such a menacing front that the prih soner was afraid to make a bolt ..for lfoerty. The birds at lust grew |_ tii'od of waiting', and retired, enab- ,_ I ling the cat to come out in the opK en agalJn. r With regard to the visit of Mr D. '. It. Shertll Galforaiith-, C.1.F.;, of Auck- ;- land, to London, our (N,Zi, Herald) r London correspondent, writing on December 16, says :—" Regarding the t principal objects of his present visit n to London, Mr Gallira'ith writes : c I "My business here is to demonstrate I, the applicability of my electric furg j nace primarily to tho reduction of lj j ironsand, and in this connection, I v i take It, I have something to say >_ <which will arrest tho attention of y steelmakers. This is my great object I- .and the issue must either be of vast ~ I national importance or none at all. ii I need not say I believe f.t will be r , tlie former. Patent records disclose. n | the fact that the Gulliraith electric ■ t furnace is an entirely new type, and , r ,«t embodies very great advantages e oven all existing forms. I have nl,l | ready been approached by a gentle,l -man connected with electro-chemical ,i; works in Europe and America', the ,-. I chemical product of which fa of great importance commercially, and who | sees the immense advantage of the p jGalbraitli furnace if applied to this t iparticular industry. I have also t I made an nppointcment to meet the 5 representative of a .big copper comt. |pany, who is most eager to know >- j what I have to say about copper it ores in connection with the furnace. i | Dno Galbraith electrical furnace will 0 |bo a portable furnace, so that we d can take it anywhere-the Continent, •e America and Japan for that matter v- -set it up, and make a demonstrao tion—that is, where wc can find sui- >- table conditions for supply Q f elec--0 ric energy," ' It is worth remembering <h a t for exceiionce f sty , e h ,'rt fc Wlth l£ "' ge ran S e o! variety ». ™fl nuTT 8 f ° f en S a So>"ent rings and all kinds of jewellery you must go to J. H. Parker's. Jeweller, next • railway crossing, Devon Street Cen- ', ti tt l, Np W Plymouth.* i, Do you dread washing day ? Then e buy a tin of Washine and cheer up. bee a list of storelieepcrs who stock it. A 6d tin sufficient for a. week's >r washing.* Buildfis may now order the highest i quality Auckland hydraulic lime and ,_ cement from the New Zealand Exs press Company, Ltd., agents for lf John Wilson and Co.. Ltd. 5 tl WHY IT SELLS. '- If SYKES' DRENCH were not * backed by real merit it would have e been dead long ago. i) 0 VO n want - to know why it sells ? WORD OF s MODTH ADVERTISING. A farmer '- '-'u.vs it,, perhaps through chance, n maybe a friend recommends it to L- him. Howcvur, he gives it a trial. - A valuablu cow's life, is saved ;-next •- June several of his pjg„ are sick; t ne tries it again ; and so it goes on e until after two or throe more trials t he finds it can be depended upon. i. When his neighbours- cows are sick e he says.: "Why don't vott use c SYkES' Drench? Best thing I ever s- struck, (let a packet, old chap, and just use it according tothe direc- „ lions, and it will.do the rest." 0 This friend tries -it with similar re- ,.. suits and recommends it to another, . and so it grows constantly Ducansp .. it faithfully does its work. Each t I'ackc.t. of SYKISS' DRENCH conv. tains two drenches. Price Is Gd.— ~ Advt. i a most honourable distinc. ;;; tion. u The Western Mediual Review, % k medical publication, pf the highest . standing, says, in a recent issue : ,l 'Thousands of physicianß in this t and, other countrlos have attested 1 that Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Exi n tract Is not only reliable, but that s it has a pronounced and indisputable •- superiority over all other preparae tions of Eucalyptus."- Youi- health d Is too precious to be tampered with, :- therefore reject all products foisted n upon you by unscrupulous mercenaries, ind insist upon getting Sanlir and Sons' Eucalypti Extract, the only preparation recommended by your physician and the medical ' press. In coughs, colds, fevers, diaw rhoea, kidney diseases, the relief is instantaneous. Woimds, ulcers. ~ burns, sprains, etc., it heals withouS inflammation. As mouthwash (jj j drops to a glass of water) it pre* _ vents decay of teeth, and destroy* all disease germs.*