LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7735, 10 February 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

c Olio firm alone is constructing 400 motor omnibuses for London. ' , Canada shortly appoints commer- s cial agents in the chief centres of the United States. The Transvaal exports for 1901 were valued at £17,770,1)88, includ- a ing £1(5,054,809 gold and £901,745 j diamonds. u Automobile dustcarts (says "the c Matin) are to be used in Paris s henceforth. c For a line first statu of Volenti le I : Green's plate, "The Ladies Waldo-' grave,'' after Sir Joshua Heynolds, n £4(50 was given at Messrs I'ultick t and Simpson's rooms. • j At the Works Committee on Thurs- . (lay a formu'i resolution was pas;.., . I informing conti actors for . h: 1 wtitnworks and septic tank that all corivspondeuce should lie address-, d to , the engineer. I A special meeting of the. Horoitg'h ' \ Council 'w-di heaid on '1 hursJay ! « nitfhtMu confirm res. ilulmr.si pas f .-.<| 11 for stopping up portions of Fuller I ( andHulteel Streets. The necessary'l confirmatory resolution was passed. \, Kxcusing himself for shooting and J seriously wounding two employees, a dipso-inaniac at Le Alans, in Krit-p tuny, declared (says the Journal) < that he intended the shots for his 1 wife, who had been putting water in |< his cider. I Instructions have been given by the ' Midland Railway Company (says the ' Daily Mail) to the Muff at all sta- ! tions that in dealing with live stock J of any description care and patience must be shown not only in the load- ] ing and unloading but also in the reatment of the animals. "Many public men,'' said the Premier in an outburst of frankness to 1 u deputation from Wanganui recent- ] i ly, "do not understand the intrica-j----cies of the Government's finance, but : this does not detract from their in- '. telligence. There are even members'' of Parliament in the same position." , Two noughts on a piece of blotting paper were brought forward us ' evidence at Hally-mote (England) ag- ' ainst a mother and daughter, who t ' were committed for trial on the charge of stealing and filling up a * cheque and endeavouring to utter it. Some discussion look pilacc at the Works Committee last night re'la- '• itive to the foot bridge near the ,I'aranaki Hotel. The Mayor stated that he considered as there was no public interest evinced in the ipies- . tion of retaining the bridge, the , |council might allow the structure to I be taken down, and only a pipe. \njil-c constructed. | At Corowa, New South Wales, a .

;oung married woman named Florrie [''romholtz was standing over a stove ,vhen her clothes fire. She nadly rushed about in the open air, i md eventually got under the tap of I he tank, and the flames were exlin- i ruished, hut not before she had been shockingly burned about her lower imbs and other portions of her body, j ■ihe lingered in great pain until live ■ /clock next morning, when death ook place. heaving his cart in charge of a boy lear I'onts-nrn, in niainorganshlre, l milk-seller named Alfred Wakefield disappeared in June, 11)02, and no [race of him could be found until i November 2.">, 15)04, when the man , presented himself to his former mas- , Ler and claimed JBlfi, which was duo . Lo him. lie had been in America. No explanation of his disappearance I :ould be round at the time. The i ivhole country round was scoured and ill deep water dragged by search : jarties, the only thing found being a jag containing the takings for the , lay. Reports from Lauloka, Fiji, state I ,hut a somewhat serious accident i las happened in that district. One >f the European employees on a plan- j .ation, so the story runs, decided to r irouse his fellow employees for their ■, norning cup of tea in a new style. , He accordingly fired a shot gun intc ; heir room at daylight. lie forgot, towever, to remove the charge previously, and did not note that a bed vas jn 'the line of fire. The result vhs thai 3Hj- Connelly received a lose of shot in his thigh—a serious erminalion for what was evidently i practical joke. Mr Connelly was it once removed to the hospital in a :erious condition. , A determined elfort has been made n Victoria of Jute to eradicate the itarling, on Hie ground, that the ijrd destroyed fruit and crops. ()p----nion, however, is divided on the pips-lion. A(, tile ilirboo Shire Council mojil jng councillors were , mich opposed lo the proposal to ' five a bonus for the destruction of ■ itarlings. One councillor stated hat a flock of starlings had been (round hjs place for months, but lad not touched the cherries on the rees, In Mardan, out of 29 birds ihot and dissected, the food in each . :ase was found to consist of insects. . linong the farmers in South Uipps- I and the starling Is looked upon as ; i great benefactor. Certainly, since he atlvent of the bird there has been I i diminution of the grasshopper pest I The Christchurch I'ress has recelv- ' *1 from Mr William Ilodivr, of Tarn- ,' ma station, New South Wales, a|' circular describing his scheme for ! oping with the rabbit pest. The ,' abbits are caught in traps patented j >y Mr Hodier, the females are killed j uid the males arc let go after they >; lave been car-marked. The reason ■ or letting the moles go alive is that i' then they exceed the females in I, lumbers they will kill all the young ' ineij that may be born. Ily this ' neans the breeders are got rid off, 0 complete extermination is brought iliout, iJr iSodjcr states that on 'ainbua station (areft (54,000 acres), : i-hcre this system hn/s bepn jn force or 10 years, one can ride over the i property all day and not see three ' abbits, while on the other side of I hi/ boundary fence rabbits abound. In; an aecidepl at Tlawera yesterday ' fteinoon, Uoorge Hpgcrs, a grocer's ! ssistant, was killed. Jteceased was ■ If'iving a, cart-load of groceries tp he hospital, and when, crossing the ailway line a traj/'n struck the coneyance fairly in the middle,' the inn being thrown ten yards a*vay. lis skull wax badly fractured, death cing practieaHy instantaneous. The orse was badly injured on the hip, ut struggled two hundred yaids way, bleeding profusely, uinl then ropped dead. The cart was smash- ' 1 to splinters, the framework beig carried on bhp cowcatcher of the Dgine Tor lot) yards, There are two ery dangerous crossings near this i>wn, the train being, hidden from ' iew in a cutting until it emerges t the crossing. The. Borough Coun* il has repeatedly petiliom-d the Inilway Department to make an • nprovcmeiilr, but without avail. 1 A peculiar incident was witnessed ' !ie other day in town (sav.s the ! mnganui Herald.) A young lad ; as driving in a trap down St. Jim .reel, and jn rounding ]la trick's l ' wiier one of tho wheels of the v.- ' icle came off. This' »t„riled (ho e »rse, which made oir along the uay the axle dragging .on ihe road, no boy sat in the bottom of the ~ !'ap quite unconcerned see-sawing at i H' reins, and eventually pulled tho t ■away up. The little chap then \ »t out took the harness oil the in-so, and patted it on the neck, ~ ■th the result that the gee-gee held s head down, and allowed Ihe bov I > jump on its neck, when it lifted , s head up again and thus enabled £ ie boy to get on its back, when the „ ™»gstcr rode away to see what id become of the wheel. ", 'i'luis |he jlungiijkci Advocate of 'i ,n 2nd ms|.. :-•' Two numbers of 8 larlon Howling Club put up a cred- « able performance on the Mario* i reen on Tuesday evening by defeat- t g two Wanganui champion bowlers 'J ler an exciting K ame, by one » Jint. Messrs Jtodwell, RO.A and "' emus represented Wanganui ' and jws I'. J'. White and I). Hogg V •-■tv tbp Marton players." In con- t! •Ctjon with jthe' above"; one of 'the al- A ged IVunsfahuj champions writes us ' miewhat warmly. Savs he : '• l b ■ver pose as a champion, even awav S »ni home, and I'm not responsible it >' my colleague's pixtensions. Hut ir ess (.racchus I that Murton skip is > kind of sport anyhow. The ■' e.xinig game ' had proceeded for six Ev \<Hv ■ heads when he, being one rf mil ahead, IllcoiiiineiiHy t . JoKt , ( , E *\ collared his bowls, and declarthat Marlon- had won ! The t, ™ ? . lNo ' «'''• I'"' not lo be m «wn into giving my opinion of .„ it lhr/ct-fiiduratetl corrugation !'•' J." The safe carriage al presents a nd instnias gifts to friends in'the Cjjd mntry is undertaken by the New laland Express Company, Ltd. Relar fortnightly shipments. Delivery address it . ' VII tis worth remeiiiliering that for ' of style and quality com- To led with large range of variety 1 d cheapness of engagement ringi ill il all kinds of .jewellery you must I to J. H. Parker's, Jeweller, next .we lway crossing, Devon Street Con-| ' il, New Plymouthj* 1

left Onehunga for New lvmouth at 5 p.m. lust evening, rossing the bar at Mrs J,odder, \vm» oi rhe propneua* i' the City IVjflTn in Welli.igtnn, died uddonly oh Tuesday night. The (Jerman lieichstag has roatl a ill a second time to provKle for the Kcavation oi canals ill' J'russia at cost of ,U>.', million poundls. rro(e*. dinrH have 'be -u taken gainst the Itoroug'h Co\»n,cil by the ontiac'.or t\>r the l*'ast lire who claims £2O, "balance '1 account for labour anvl materxls." The action is to be defended. At the Works Committee last ight Cr. Ahier, in the (ourse ot a liscusfJ oa on a point, of law, leuirked that he was sick of amateur liwyers and amateur fcngineers, an.l f the couneii had no continence i:t heir then let them get omeone else, other wise act on lac idvice given. ' Two Levin (Wellington) jn.sake.-, ecentl.v had to deal with a case of >assing a valueless cheque. The accused confessed he was labouring unier excitement when Ive put his name ■o the document, <iml the Hench, on rearing the tacts, inflicted a fine of 10, in default a month's imprisonnent. 'lhe secretary of the Taieri Peninsula Dairy Company (Otugo) has rea cable message from the Ja)anese (jlovernmeat, asking for a quotation for H()<JO cases of butter or delivery 'during February, March, md April. T\lr Uoll states that the )utput of the company is practically lisposed of until the end o! March, nit that a strong efTort will be made .o arrange to supply a portion of .he order in view of opening up trado with Japan. "Abolish overtimes" was tho advice given by the borough engineer 0 the Works Committee last night, tidding, "for it leads to all sorts of troubjte. The question arose in conflection with the inconvenience caused to the public at times by the >orough employees rigidly adhering to tho-ir eight -hours' work. Cr. Ahrler suggested that if the men were so particular the.fr should be "knocked oil" when work was slack, and Dh'eir pay stopped. An increase of pay and no overtime allowance solved the problem. In a case bnoughi by the police against William John Gibbon*, licensee of the Crown Ilotel, Tort Ahuriti, charging ty'iii with allowing gambling on his premises!, which was recently before the Magistrate's Couru. Mr Creflßwell, who appeared for the defendant, was heard by Mr Brabant. S.M,, on a point as to whether playing euchre for drinks constituted " gambling " wilhm the meaning of the Act. His Worship said the case was rendered somewhat complicated by the fact that besides dtlink-.s having been pln.ved for a itook place in which the stake was £l. Judgment was reserved ti'il the 7th inst. A country settler who has had considerable experience of cattle informs ihe North Otngo Times that a number of people are satisfied, to feed their calves on the skim milk from the skimming stations, with the esujt that the calves remain calves all their lives, at least they never develop the calf stage of dimensions, It i,s well known that there is not much more nourishment In skim milk than there Is in water. A calf with a bulged out middle, propped up on four pipe-stem-like shanks, wearing thai " tired look " that most of tho patent pills are advertised to dispel, is not a thing that much good can be exacted from, yet many ettigies of this sort nrc to be seen in paddocks, A calf that is starved cannot be expected to develop into a good cow. The large yield of sugar in Queensland will, it i.s expected, cause a considerable alteration in the Customs revenue 'derivable from that source. In his Ihidget speech, Sir tteorge Turner estimated the yicM in' that State at 12*>,(J00 tons, but it uppears that the actual return was 150,000 tons. Consequent on t+iis 1 hero will be a diminution in the demand for the imported article. Sir [•eorge placed the probable importation of sugar in his ltudget speech at tons, but it is likely that not more than half that quantity ivilj be required, and the Customs revenue wil). consequently be affected to the extent of something like £120,000. The excise will, however, be increased by something over £lO,[)00, but part of this will be expended in payment of bounties .on white ?pown sHga#\ Altogether it is likely that the |vvenue wifl be affected by at least £70 ; ()00. TJip efforts 'of the Aotea Maori L/apd Councjl to dispose of the Oho,u bJock of 7-0,000 acresv near £anui, do not appear to have met ivjth much success. When the block ivap first opened for leasing a year >r two ago only two sections were taken up, afid it was stated in Parliament las|, session tjiat the fortunite iijdjviciulas who had got those .wo soctiony at a very sunall rental had bpen offered (and refused) £30,>OO for (,hp fimber a lone, It was reat Uiii-t time that the block lad b*ien put on thp market with)ut sufficient preparation, and that iuflident publicity hud not bepn dven of its being available for leasng purposes. Since their fc however, ho Council had expended money In 'oading and gerterally openinjg the dock, and cm lOth January of this >*ear it was again opened for selection. Only Ave sections, however, vere taken up, and the Native Min.ster is now in Wanganui enquiring n'to the matter. WHAT STOREICEEI'ERS THINK OF HIIEUMO. A. Northern finn writes : " Please ' ws another dozen of Rheumo * .ve are pleased to state that it is pving good results for rheumatism vherever it is tried. We have three n-anch stores, and will distribute ineumo to these branches. Sold by ill chemists and storekeepers, 2s 6d ind 4s 6d. Wholesale agents, Lvempthorne, Prosser and Co.* 6 A MOST HONOURABLE DISTINC* The Western Review, « medical publication qf the highest ij| a recent issue:-1 • Jhpusftpds of physicians in this imd otfeer have attested, that Sander and Sons' Eucalypti J0x«l tract it not only reliable, but Chat' t has $ pronounced and indisputable ?uperior!ty over fyU pther prept.rations of Eucalyptus." Yout health Is too preciojs to be tampered with 1 therefore reject all products foisted ! PPA ypu by unscrupulous mercenares, *nd insist upon getting San- 1 iJr and Sons' Eucalypti Extract, | the only preparation rec D mmended by rour physician and the medical >resß, In cough?, colds, fevers, diaw] •hoea, kidney diseases, the relief is nstantaneous. Wounds, ulcersL < jurns, sprains, etc., it heals withoui 1 inflammation. Ab mouthwash (|' irops to d glass of water) it prw decay of teeth, and destroyv 11 disease Eernis.* WHY IT SELJ-iS, If SYKES' DRENCH were not acked by real merit it would liavo een dead long ago. Do jou want 0 know why it sells ? WORD OF [OUril ADVERTISING. A farmer uys it, perhaps through chance, uiybe a friend recommends it to im. However, he gives it a trial. . valuable cow's ljfe is aaved ; next iine several of his pigs are sick ; 1 tries- it again, and so it goes on tit/1 after two or three more trials 2 finds it can be depended upon, hen his neighbours- cows are sick !r, ®?; vs : " w,l y don't you use YKES' Drench ? Rest thing I ever « truck. Get a packet, old chap, and st use it according tothe direc- i ons, and it will do the rest." his friend tries it with similar re- ■ ilts and recommends it to another, 1 id so it grows constantly because J faithfully does its work. Each i icket of SYKES' DRENCH contins two drenches, price Is 6d.— I ivt. ( Do you dread washing day ? Then f jy a tin of Washine and cheer up. - e a l»st of storekeepers who stock . A Gd tin sufficient for a week's *• ashing.* Storage In dry brick store, low in- ! irance rate, minim um firo risk, low * ites for storage.—The New Zealand 1 r xpress Company, Parcels and packages fi om all ceo* 11 cs in New Zealand to : PJy* i' outh or vice, versa a|t fixetl through i tes.—The Nsw Zealand Express | v j a