LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7744, 21 February 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is reported from South Africa that another large diamond has been found in the Premier mine. It is understood that the sum oi £2B was enclosed in the purse presented to Mr Chong yesterday.

The San Francisco liiailboat, Sonoma. arrived at Auckland from Honolulu, at 7.20 last evening. The plague seems to have got something of a hold in Brisbane, as yesterday's 1 cables record a fresh case.

A number of non-commissioned officers of the Permanent Artillery, who have readied the ag'e limit, are to be retired at the end of this month.

Mr 1). Hughes, senr., sold his racehorse Kaharoa by auction. The price, we understand, was £SOO. He also disposed of Kapuni for a satisfactory ligure.—Waimate Witness. The bees have proved n failure on the Waimate Plains this year. One apiarist, who last year sold several tons of honey, informs the local paper that the bad spring we ha<d is responsible for the failure. The body of M. Markofi', the groat Siberian railway contractor, has been stuffed by his widow, fitted with glass eyes, and garbed in dress clothes, a-nd it now inhabits a richly inlaid cabinet in a comer of Mine. Markoffs drawing room. A badly lacerated wrist caused the 1 »ss of sensation in the arm of a London carpenter, and the family physician feared that, amputation would be necessary. This was avoided, and the hand was cured by the grafting of th|e sciatic nerve of a live spaniel. A local 'lady, in opening a hen's egg the other -day (says the Waimate Witness) was surprised to find in the yoke, an inch nail, which was discoloured in appearance. lJow it got there is as much a mystery as how the provertjiiai fly got into the amber. On the Eltham road near Mangatoki on Wednesday, the axle of a cream cart of the Eltham Dairy Co., conveyingva-b'out nine or ,ten cans of cream to the main factory, broke when descending a hill. The cart

ran into the bank and overturned, the contents' of the tins, unnecessary to relate, being lost, the cream', which was worth over £SO, running down the hill into the creek. The long spell of tlry weather we have beeff experiencing of late has not contributed to an increase in the supplies to the local factories. From all the factories and creameries one hears of the rapid decrease, and if .moisture does not come soon it will not be long before there will be very small cheques for the farmers to handle.—Waimate Witness. It is unders'tood that the Premier and Sir .Joseph Ward will arrive in Auckland next week, and that they are likely to both address a public meeting there on the evening of Ist March. They have also accepted invitations to attend the Oddfellows' Premier picnic on March 4. The Ohinemuri County Council has decided to invite the Premier to deliver an address in Paeroa when he visits the district at the end of the month. __ The world's most valuable knife, o\vncti--by,.a famous firm of Sheffield cutlers, has sevonty-five blades, which close up like those of an ordinary j knife. Each of the larger ones is elaborately . engraved, among the subjects being views of Sheffield College, Windsor Castle, the City of \ork, Arundel Castle, ami a score of other famous scenes and places. The shafts are of mother of pearl, carved with great skill. On one side the artist has depicted a stag hunt and on the other a boar hunt. j

The deepest mining shaft has been sunk to a little more than a mile in | Cape Colony, and the deepest bore I hole has reached about the same | depth in Silesia. It is Said that there should be no insurmountable j difficulties in carrying a sfaoM down twelve miles. An approximate estimate has shown that to reach a I depth of two miles the cost would i *">00,000. Ten years would lie , required and a rock tcmp.'v iure of i 122 'degrees Fahrenheit would be | found ; While to penetrate twelve miles would cost £5,000,000, and I would take eighty-five years, the rock | temperature expected bein" 272 degrees Fahrenheit. = olletTY VaS -lr a Ver ' V P' Vtt . V CUSlom, obsmui in Venice in the fifteenth and sixteenth- centuries. On the occasion of the annual visit of the I'OKe to the Convent Delle Vergini where lie was received with great ce--1 lemony by Iho abbess and thu nuns, I I the youngest novice would present j j him with a bouquet of flowers, grown I | n the convent gnrden-and the most i

beautiful flowers in the world in I those days wen- l 0 bo found in tht convent gardens of Venice and iYorthern Italy, This bouquet had a holder Oi pure sold, and was sur- I rounded hy the finest lace that Ven- I ice could produce. From this incident, by the way, is believed to have* originated the custom of surrounding bouquets for presentation purposes with lace, and, latlerlv, with lace paper. Another case of miscarriage of iustice has been brought before the British public in the case of two voiing men, I 'a I rick Kyan and Henry Ceo. JSuxter, who wem sentenced to three months imprisonment with hard labour at the Marylehone Police Court lor attempting to pick pockets while Watching the Royal procession. Du- • tective Hose sail! he watched the ac- l" jcused from two o'clock to a quarter i 1 to three, and saw them try to pick a 1 lad,y s packet. The stipendiary magistrate thereupon sentenced "them, and refused to take any notice of Baxter's .statement that ;he could ' pall witnesses to prove he was not J there at the time mentioned. On the 1 parents oi the accused petitioning- 1 Hie magistrate, inquiries were" made

! into the matter, with the result that t the Home Secretary issued a document. ordering their release from I'entonville Prison, where they had . spent eight days and received only bread and water and a little gruei. [!olh men have exceptionallv good characters, and Maxtor is a postman. The following js taken from the Auckland Weekly News of tho 18tli FebruaYy, 1004 : Settler, near lnglewood, Taranaki, writes : - ' In an is* sue of the News a little while back I noticed inquiries about sick pigs, and thought I would lake the liberty f giving yon my experience, which you can pass on to your readers if I you choose. In- the early spring I had five young pigs, seven months old I sullering from what appeared to be severe colds. Their iieads wore swollen, their mouths open and their | breathing thick and whistling. I had by I'm; a packet of Sykes's Drench, which I regularly use for cows at J calving time. 1 mads a pailful of •arm oatmeal gruel, put into it three | large cupfuls of sugar, and half a packet oi' the Drench, and a good | spoonful of dripping to make it ra- . ther greasy. This I fed them at six | in the evening, and afterwards shut them in with a warm straw bed. In | he morning they were considerably etter, and the following day all right ; in fact, they have done well ] ever sine). I get Sykes's I' trench at the store, b'ujfc it is manufactured at New Plymouth." Thwiks.* c

! - " ' Messrs AitHinson, cif .Hatf era and Feilding, report the following -Ten acres and house Ohingjiti, 100 acres Waimate, 420 .arres polvjngina, WO acres Kaupokonul. | A recipient of charitable aid resents being described as " labourer " on letters sent to him, not that he objects to the title, but that he has not risen to the distinction implied by the term, | At the Police Court on Monday j Cornelius Jirosnahan was lined ;~s and costs 2s for being drunk in Devon street—a second offence within six months. W. Sarten, for a similar indulgence, was convicted and discharged. j During the last month, according ;to I)r Lent ham's report, 8-1 cases ' were admitted to -the hospital, 28 discharged, and one died, leaving :V2 in the hospital. There were UJ operations under anaesthetics, which were also administered in two other cases.

Tile chairman of the Hospital Hoard has given notice, of motion thai the rate for next year's contributions lie 10d in the £IOO. This is a rif:e of one penny, rendered necessary by the loss of over a million in the rateable value caused by severance. A French inventor has- recently startled the scientific world by claiming to have invented a system of navigation whereby ocean liners can attain a speed of 501) knots an hour. Should this! ever come to pass it .will mean lunching curly in London and dining at New York. ! The following tenders were received by the Hospital Bourd for the new shelter for consumptives, alterations to the present Nurses' Home, etc. : H. W. liond £.")09 10s (accepted), Coleman and .Son £6ll, J. Salt £<>49, Wallath Hros. £<j(i<l li)s, Boon ISros. £O7B, A. A. INkett £O9O, A. Cliff £729, J. T. Mannix £730.

According to the amended schedule of rateable values furnished by the Valuation Department to the Hospital Board, New Ply-mouth is set down as £889,029, Ingk-wood £123,899, Waitara £04,057, Clifton County £540,111, Taranaki County £1,639,303, Hahotu riding of F.gliiont County £lsß,39B—total for the hospital -district, £3,721,399.

The Garrison Hand returned from Auckland yesterday morning. One or two of the Wel.ington bandsmen broke their journey here.i They state that their band feels anything but pleased at not being awarded premier honours, and as a natural consequence the judging comes in for censure.

, The Chairman of the Hospital , Hoard, Mr G. Tisch, is evidently . highly popular both at the hpspital and the Old i*coplc's Home. His kindly, genial and sympathetic manner (ihas sa very cheering effect 011 both inmates and staff, and evokes answering smiles even from the suffering. It would bo "difficult to find anyone better lilted for the ollice. In connection with the drowning fatality q,t Mangoiei a word of praise is due to the employees at the reservoir works, who not only gave up their time but worked hard on Monday in assistingf to recover the body. This tjwns ' matter of great difficulty, a raft having to be onstructed. and great pains- taken over the Tolerations, which were •eventually successful. I The members of the Hospital Hoard made a thorough inspection of the hospital and hom-e yesterday afternoon, and were all much pleased with \Vhat they saw. Several improvements have been effected lately, and when the annexe for consumptives is finished the board will control one of the most complete ami well managed inwtitntrd of tlve kind in the colony. A warning to cyclists was given during one of his health lectures lately by Mr V\ Iloniibrook, against the constant use of low handles*, owing to the injurious effect they had upon the system. Women, also, he .said, bring illness upon themselves in

' consequence of riding with the seat ' too high. Women riders should be able to reach the pedals with their heels and not just with their toes, ' as was too often the case. A facetious correspondent thus ad--3 dresses the editor of the Waihi Telegraph :...As I see by posters, etc., I that the Horticultural Society intend ; having a baby show on Saturday in ! onneetion with their flower show, may I olTcr my sympathies to whoever judges tins babies ? I would suggest, that he apply to Mr Barry ' for tlw use of his motor car, and that the decision be not announced r 'until the judge hats ha-d at least I I two hours' start. | Mr George Dobbin, drover, met with a somewhat serious- accident abomt 12.80 on Satuivlay, says tlu 1 Stratford Post, lie was' riding past the s'a.leyards when his horse reared suddenly, throwing his rider off. Mr Dobbin fell heavily on his fac.\ and was picked up unconscious. He ,was carried into Lawless' stages, I where ftr Paget examined him, finding that slight concussion ha-d been eustained. Amongst the correspondence received by'the Hospital Board was a let- 1 ter from a resident at Grey Lynn, who desired to impress on the Board the necessity of placing on the medi- ] al officer in charge the responsibility for the correct treatment of the 1 patients. He quoted his nephew's ( case, which, ho alleged, had been wrongly treated in another hospital | j (tortured by systematic starvation

ihe called it) resulting in death. He made some scathing remarks on the 1 subject, which caused a smile from the nu'inbers. T)r Pomare, of the Public Health | Department, has taken a look round a number of the native villages . i around Hawera and Nomianby. Many of the natives were away at i the races 1 , so that it was rather an ! unfortunate time for the vis'it. but 'official engagements did not |>ermit jof him staying longer. It is under- , stood that as a result of his travels [about the country Dr Pomare ie not ab'ie to encourage, the hope that the native race is increasing, or that it is even holding its own in point of 'numbers'. Commenting on the unsatisfactory (residential provision for the house surgeons which existed at the Dunedin Hospitu'l;. Dr Hatehelor, speaking as one of a deputation to the Trustees, mentioned that there had been I three -deaths among the house sur- | jgeons during the last twenty years, i ( This), Hlie doctor remarked,, was a

I very high proportion, lie also pointed out that the resident staff averaged twenty out of every twentyTour hours in the building', and it .was not saiUwfat'tory to find that I that their rooms were ventilated from Ihc main -building}. into which " the air from various wards 'found its .way. : 3n Sheffield a cabman gets off his box to teach shorthand to poor\boys at night, and a second has an intimate acquaintance with Darwin and Tyndall. Brixton boasts of a cabman who speaks live languages ; a West TCnd stand numbers among its habitues a 'driver vastly learned in astronomy. Another is , a hutoblo philanthropist who is father and mother, guardian and provider, to the J live orphans of a dead comrade, j I These are the exceptions. The man ij ,of whom Sir Augustus Harris used |< to toll was more characteristic. 1 " Augustus Harris, T.K., D.L.," was !( the description on the Drury Lane impresario's bag. His cabman was < dissatisfied with the fare paid him, ] and glanced scornfully at the letter bag. " Call yourself n T.It.D.L. ?" ] quoth he. " Yer as much a T.U. 1 D.L. as I am." }

; One of the most curious law cases • on record will shortly come before i |the German courts. The lawsuit is ■ jbe.tween llerr Franz Inoczi, and his pldost s'pn who bears thp same name. |A yefir ago Inoczi, jun., incurred his I father's wrath by marrying a waitress, ami was turned out of the . I house. Having no means of hiss own, he took to journalism, and a few . |months after the marriage articles of a particularly frivolous kind, signed |" Franz Jnoczi," began to appear in | the local journals. Everyone attrijbuted these to the welKknown father, and severe comment was made on j the spectacle of a brilliant and serious writer signing his name to the I most contemptible drivel. In vain did tn'e ejlder Inoczi publish disclaim- , prs. Tho spn, finding that the arti- . ,ctos annoyed 'jvjs father, continued to I pour them forth, each boing more , outrageous and ridiculous than the J one before. n i have a lighi to sign Imy own name,"- waft lvis reply io I his rusher's protests. '.'lt is' your fauH that His the same as yours !•'• (At last the father, in despair, paid Jnoczi, jun., itl,ooo to stop the anI noyance. The articles ceased appearingl, but the scapegrace son used the money in riotous, living, and now evor,y week the honored name appears |in Mi« newspapers in the list of persons published for drunkenness and -assaults on the police. Th'e desperate father is now about to take ! toga! action to compel the son to i clwge hit? wu»e.

tinder the auspices of the Indepcnd-j ent Order of Good Templars*a meet-; ing is to be hekl this evening in ihe | . Queen Street School, at 7.80, with a view to forming a lodge. Ail j i friends interested in the movement | are cordially invited to be present. I

The Australian Viavi Company, with brunches in all the chief colonial cities, is at psescnt represented in New Plymouth by Mrs A. L. Folger, vho 'Will deliver a "l''rr.i Health Lecture" 'to ladies at the Whitoley Hull on Thursday afternoon.

i It. was a fortunate circumstance that no wind was blowing on Sunday morning, otherwise the whole of the Wanganui Girls' School would have, been destroyed. The lire had a firm hold in the eastern; classroom* before the brigade arrived, and it was) confined to that portion, which was completely gutted. The classrooms accommodated 200 pupils of the higher standards, and temporary . rrrangomavls ha\t already been made for the classes being held in

the other buildings. A large number of books, etc., were destroyed. As usual with boi ;,i schools, there is no insurance. The of the lire is a mystery, and no ore was known to be in the building after one on Friday afternoon, when it was swept out by the caretaker.

' The following advertisement appeared in The Times for Decen.'>er 15, 1.80-1 "An active, middle-aged man, whom Divine Providence lias been pleased to separate from all his flattering expectations of love, in matrimony, etc., has left his melancholy cottage in the country', and j now oilers himself as a candidate to •any lady or gentleman to manage a farm, gardening, etc., or would not. have any objection to wear any nobleman's or gentleman's livery, i:i any regular capacity. Fifteen years' character may be known from a family with different servitude ; or a reference to any trust from £SO to £2OO with profound secrecy. If any lady or gentleman will please lo direct to W. 0., No. 325 Oxford S'l., corner of Swallow street (post paid), will be attended to personally."

I The establishment of Hairy Produce Exchanges at liawera, Palmerston North,, and Maslterton has been recently strongjy advocated by iUr John Holmes, late Trade Commissioner for the colony, Mr Holmes has, by request of the Mayors of Hume towns, addressed large public meetings on the question, and certainly makes out a good case for this innovation in the butter and cheese trade of New Zealand'. lie- points out, ill detail the great advantarjes which accrue both to buyers and setters from the setting up of cen'util meeting places, wherein all business in connection with the trade could he readily and expeditiously effected. Mr Holmes emphasises the fact that the present system of conducting the dairying export trade of the colonyis unnecessarily expensive, and instances the fact that the proposa'l is grounded on well trial experence. Copenhagen and Cork, both centres' of the dairying industry, have oldestablished butter exchanges, which economically regulate every movement of the trade in Denmark and the south of Ireland. Similarly, Manchester lias a corn exchange, and Bristol a general produce exchange, and in every case these institutions have been of enormous bene®, to buyers and sellers, saving time and evIpense to both parties'. In fact, every extensive industry in Hie old world looks to its central exchange as nn indispensable portion of its distributing machinery.

A MOST HONOURABLE DISTINC. 'HON. The Western Medical Review, a medical publication of the highest! standing, says, in a recent issue :-1 'thousands of physicians in this arid other countries have attested that Sander and Sons' Eucalypti 10xi tract is not only reliable, but (.hat it has a pronounced and indisputaUkii superiority over all other preparations of Eucalyptus." Youi- healthIs too precious to be tampered with therefore reject all products foisted upon you by unscrupulous mercenaries, and insist upon getting San-l-sr and Sons' Eucalypti Extract, the only preparation recommended l.jl l our physician and the medical press. In coughs, colds, fevers, diaw rhoea, kidney diseases, the relief isl instantaneous. Wounds, ulccrsL! burns, sprains, etc., it heals without inflammation. As mouthwash (I drops to a glass of water) it prei vents decay of teeth, and destroys ! all disease germs.* j

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. | City Fruit and Flower Co.—Dado- i dif(s and choice bulbs. ! , Hew ley -and Grilliths—Will sell on Friday furniture, fowls, etc., of Mr 11. Rogers. ( R. Cock, Mayor.—Notifies date of, voting oil ."Rating on Unimproved value." Bewley and Griffiths—Have for sale! 40 acres and house close Oto Bell I Block. Mrs A. L. Folger—Will give a "Free Health Talk" to ladies, at,* Whiteley Hall on Thursday [-iftor-1 noon. i Produce.—Wants a local represen-' tativc for British and American ' manufactures. | Primitive Methodist Church—liar- ' rest Thanksgiving Services next Sun- r day. ! A. and A. If. Atkinson.—lnvite ail- 1 plications for Farmers' Budget (free)