LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7741, 17 February 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The London Daily Telegraph states that the Navy Estimates will be reduced by three millions. _ The People's Day at the Masterton .Show attracted between six and seven thousand visitors— a record. A cable from Sydney states that the case of plague at Hallina has proved fatal.

At the Premiers' conference at Hobart it was decided to approve tjie Observance of May 21 as Empire Day.

The Executive Council will, it is said, meet on Monday to consider the sentence on Ellis, the Te Awaite murderer.

Mr James H. Luc-kings, formerly of South Australia, has bequeathed a sum of £IOO,OOO to Nonconformists' charities, and over £30,000 to London hospitals.

The enquiry into tile loss of the barque Jlaytiehi resulted in the exoneration ot the otlicers 1 , there being no evidence to show on what the vessel struck.

the Australian cricketers arrived in Wanganui yesterday, via the river, and expressed their great delight with tile scenery and other pleasures ol the trip. They left at noon for W cllington.

It is reported from Gisborne that u number of laud liujers (roiii the south are at present inspecting the lands of the East Coast .Native lust, with a view to the purchase 01 area;; at the forthcoming sales.

We learn from a press me.ssa"V. from Nelson that the lode of copper in the \o 5 level of the initio in Aniseed valley has been proved to lie ten feet wide of solid ore. This monster lode shows .T_> feet of ore in the face, ami Jl>:» (eel above the drive now being put in.

there will he an exciting howling match at Wellington next week, when will play against those of the Newtown Club. 'J he forinur are the winthe Gisborne Club representatives Hers ol' the recent rink tournament of the Xorth Island ami the latter hold similar honours tor the South Island tournament.

| Correspondence relating! lo the Dogger Hank has been published. it shows that Count Lamsdrolf (Hus-i-ia<n Foreign Minister) assured .Sir" Charles Hardingc (British Ambassador) that punishment would most cei t a-inly follow ii it wore discovered | that responsibility <fr Mime lested on either of the "four ollicers testifving in Pans or oil any other. Stead has a poor opin- -; r " 01 London editors. Twelve of them, out of twenty-one, at least, he thinks, ought to be beheaded ; but in consideration for their feelings he has generously refrained from "mentioning the names of the twelve. I hey merited this sad late because, in Mr Stead's opinion, they had, figuratively speaking, lost their heads over (he recent North Sea outrage. Karl Huberts has been appointed Master <1 miner at St James's Park 111 succession to (he late General Sir Collingwood DicEson, V.C., 0.C.11. Ihe post of Master'CJunner is a I purely honorary one, with the exception that the holder of the od'ice draws pay lo the extent of 4s .'id per day. The money is derived from an old Court fund. The Mastei Gunner was foi'niallv responsible for royal salutes.

It appeal's that the bugi,- nuisance is not peculiar to the suburbs of r N.'/.. Times a correspondent. who resides at Woolcombe street, writes :

A liend of a boy every morning and evening makes life unendurable in this district by assiduous practice on a bugle. The neighbourhood is awakened about. a.m. by tierce blasts that might mean anything from the approach of the enemy to dinner oii a steamer. The same thing occurs in the evening. The police should arrest him its it disturber of the peace, for the boy is a serious annoyance to the public, and a cause of torture to more than one sick person in the localitv,"

'I here was a large gathering at | the garden party -yesterday in Mr Honeylield's charming grounds at JioLuroa, which had been kindly placed at the disposal of the Women s Guild in connection with the [Anglican mission church in the vicinity. A capital selection of music was played by Messrs Garry. There were several . stalls for the sale of | fancy work, produce, etc., also afternoon tea. The object in view was he reduction of the debt on the mision church, and the result of the party should assist in attaining the desired end.

Wa verify, J>ecen>l)er .is, 1901. The following is taken from tin; Auckland tVtfikfy News of the JBth February, IDO-1 : Si>uk'i\ near lnglowood, TarunaKi, writes : " Jn an isfcuu of thy j |.th: while back noticed ijuiuiries about sick pi£s, and thought I would lake the liberty f giving you my experience, which Iyou can pasH on to your readers if you choose, In the early spring I had live young pigs, seven months old suffering from what appeared to be severe colds. Their heads were swollen, their mouths open and their breathing thick and whistling. I had by me a packet of Sykes's Drench, which I regularly use for cows at calving time. I made a pailful of I -arm oatmeal gruel, put into it threo la|-ge cupfuls of sugar, and half a packet of tile llrench, and a good spoonful of dripping to make it rather greasy. This 1 f c . ( i them at six in the evening, and afterwards shut tliem in with a warm straw bed. In he morning they wire considerably | titer, und tins following day all right; in fact, they have done well ever sinep. 1 g (; neral|y get Sykes's J rench at the storp, but it is manufactured at New Plymouth,'' Thfinks.* A MOST XJDSgtIKAULE DISTINC-I

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| Whilst; the Bio-tftbleau was bo:ng exfoibftorl at Bltham (says the Arpir ) a. rubiber tube from the generator to the linn' light was wantonly hacked, causing the glow to be abruptly ter-. ininiaiiod. The outrage is attributed' to a local hoodlum. The Education Board has been notified by the Department ilia' the full grant for in ."expect of buf.dimg the Makaliu school has been vote.l. 'Hie Hour.! is awaiting a reply us to the Mansaroa and Matiere schools, According to a. pres . wire from Duncdin the rateable value of that city had increased by £.Vi3(>, t'he increase at Caver:-hani being CI i f'J. In view of t'he early opening of the electric tramway to Anderson's liuy •t has -bcim deckled to form that locality into a town district, j The Waikato Times slates that u curious freak of nature in the shape of a chicken hnvim; three beaks and three eyes is being exhibited in the saloon of the liunll.v hoirdrcsfer, Mr .1. Ilrookft. The chicken died short--ly after being hutched. It is the' owner's intention to have the abnormality preserved. The prospects for the season at the Para pa run inn game farm, says the Post, arc very promising. There are at present a couple of hundred p!ieusunt»; on the I'lirni, and arrangements are now ijeing made for liberating them in suitable localities in the district. In addition some two dozen malhind ducks have l,;iecn bred, aad a satisfactory thinning out of Stoates and weasels has taken place.

, """ piace. I from Berlin the Daily Chronicle has received the printed notice of a new hair dye, and the " composer " of it has mercifully addressed us in English. " I Oliver the hairdye from fair to the ileepest dark," iie assures us. Then with a burst of candour for which we cannot sulliciently commend him, he adds "It produces a natural colour and is thoroughly injurious." I A demonstration of spraying potatoes to guard against the potato disease was given by Mr T. W. Kirk, Government Biologist, at .Johnsonville on Monday, in the presence of about 35 of the people interested. Most of those present were of the opinion that.lho disease had been introduced by the early potatoes from Auckland, uwuiy of which had been thrown away by purchasers. In one ; case the disease was traced to pi>r- . Wawh brought from Wellington. 'irti,"-" 0 , 110111 A,ltk;aiKl under date i Jfith inst. states that the fruitgi-ow- " '. !al 'atonga consider that in a le time they will tic in a position to supply the "wh(.<:« of the fniil

Mn Zealand requires." This •sumably refers to tropical products ami it is suggested from Hie same inmost- oovt ' ,n »>eiit should impose u duty on foreign oraives -ml bananas of }d per K>, and <Jgn pineapples „f Irf per lb. There on eoirir'T' 1 " "V !Kf 11, on toftee and n tal . jn - „„ Co( . ummtK and Jinicjuictt. Knnuonga . settlers °^j n " tlves a 1 .6 not greedy, but thev want too much. 1 It is related i,y the Lyttleton Times that a gentleman who rang up the Secretary of the Canterbury .lockev Club to accept one of the races with an un-namcd two-year-old horse found, on making his appjication,' | that it was necessary to name the colt, lie was, however, already armed with a name, and desired that the colt should be entered as Cyren<\ the Secretary promptly objected to, as the name was alreadv in use, ami the owner in despair instructed the secretary lo accept with the horse and name him himself. Ills dismay may be imagined, but hardly pictured, when he found his " lso ' tl " L ' lo s, irt 011 the following lay, carry, ns 7.9, and tlx' name of . '' 1 tllc cheerful bookmaker benu ■ '<! tU ® CuHy b -V alternating iHtneen Saucer and Cusser, and unj! ono ot tlwse twin aliases he n-

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