LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7745, 22 February 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Melbourne despatch by the Orient on January 18 arrived in London on the 19th mst..

Postcards made from peat are now being (manufactured at Colbridgo, County Kildare (I.), where papermaking from peat has been in progress for some time.

An old Maori at the Clialh-ams, after being blind for nine years, has just recovered his sight, and can now recognise his friends, and can also see to read.

" I do not know much about, cricket," said the Premier at th-e reception tendered the Australian cricketers in Wellington on Saturday, " but you will all admit that it takes a long time to bowl me out." Mr C. Kennell, returning ollicer to the Harbour Hoard, formally rot Hied at yesterday's meeting that the following gentlemen had been elected to the Hoard :—Messrs J, 11. Connett, E. Maxwell, G. McLean, Jus. Thomson and J as. Hiiue, jr.

At the Harbour Hojkl meeting yesterday a loiter was read from the Railway Employees thinking the Board for remitting the passenger tax on the occasion of the recent excursion to Mokau.

Communication -with the Dawsons Falls' mountain house by heliograph is about to Ire commenced from Kaponga, instruments having been fixed at both places. The Morse code will be used for the 'translation of messages. If effective, the service should prove a great convenience.

At the Masterton Court a defendant in a noxious weeds case said that the reason why a certain patch of California!) thistle 'on his station was not eradicated was ljecau.se he could not get anyone to do it. On three occasions he had sent men to do the work, but as there was a public house close handy they had got drunk instead.

! During the past four weeks, the 'Harbour master reports, 45 steamers were berthed at the wharf, the | aggregate tonnage l>eing 43,527 i tons'. Imports l amounted to 3,630 tons, and exports 1,3fi1, making a total of 4997 tons. The dredge worked 20 days„ making 530 trips and removing 32,160 cubic yards of sand. I This is the first time for IK months that the dredge couM work at the spit owing to the heavy swell. | A firm in Christchurch is exhibit jing a novelty which certainly ap- . peals to the average man who has ino one to get up and make him a | cup of tea in the morning. It is in i the shape of an alarm clock and ton .kettle combined. It wakes you up, I tells you the time, strikes a'match, lights a spirit stove, and boils the kettle, and when boiled the kettle empties itself into a teapot and I makes a pint of tea. I A Clifden correspondent informs the

< Southland Times that a stag which, along with some deer, was liberated beyond the Waiau river some considerable time ago, has chummed with the miners at Tt'waewne Beach, and follows them about like a dog. For sport they sometimes make him .jump, and surprise visitors with his j performances-. At t mos, without effort, he easily clears obstacles 7ft or ,Bft high. Hir antlers at the present , time are in the velvet stage. i A tailor diid in Chicago at the age of thirty-three, and the doctor gave the cause of his death as " premature senility." In other words thy tai'lor died of old age ! A resident of a college settlement made an investigation and found that the tailor had beon running a sewing machine ever since he had been a .six-year-old boy. Hard work had stopped " his growth and made him an old man at a time when Ire should have been in the prime of his manttood. ! B.v taking out each eye separately it is not didicult by careful manageI ment to raise 1001b of potatoes from lib of tuber. This, however, is not | by any means the limit to which dejvelopment may be extended. The | eye of a potato generally contains . two to four shoots, and it is possible to .make use of all of these.. If .a potato is sprouted as in the ordinary course of " boxing," and the •shoots are. allowed to grow three or four inches in length, these nmv be .pulled off, and if careful I v plimled will produce plants. The develnp.'meiit of a large stock of potatoes from a single tuber can, therefore, be quickly carried out. | I'aeroa is stirred to its depths by an amusing trouble in which an old lady, her donkey, and the local : poundkeeper are the chief actors. The poundkeepor having seized the donkey 'on a charge of straying was endeavouring to convey him to the public ; pound, with the aid of three road when the old lady appeared on the scene with a piece of bread in her hand. Eager for the bread,the donkey overthrew his captors as if they had been skittles in a bowling alley, and trotted off with his mis--1 tress, to the chagrin and discomfiture of the men and the amusement '!of the crowd. Now. it is said, the :|oW lady is being .summoned for " rescuing ". the donkey. During his recent trip to America Mr E. E. Lelievre, of Canterbury, . purchased four standard-bred trotters—two entires and two mares. He was unfortunate in losing one of the (mares, which died on the train from ..New York to San Francisco from

pneumonia. The three which reached New Zealand safely include the sire Harold Dillon, of which it is said that no better or more fashionably bred horse ever left America. Harold Dillon is by Sidney Dillon, the sire of- the famous Lou Dillon whose record is linin. oSJsecs. The other sire Wallace L., and the mare Muriel Madison, are also extremely I well-bred animals. Mr Lclievre's I object in bringing Harold Dillon out is that he thought him u very suitable horse to cross with mares of a suitable strain of blood, and therein' improve New Zealand trotters. The horses came from San 'Francisco in the Sierra, and down the coast in jthe Tarawera, arriving in Lyttelton last week. | Commenting on the recent marching contest at Auckland, the Wnngjanul Chronicle's special snvs :—Wan-i ganui's marching seemed to be all right, but their playing was not up |to their best form. When Waihi finished it was generally considered they had made a bold bid for first honours, and the Kirst llattalion (Auckland) concluded the marching with a first-class effort. The result showed thai the last three bands Were all close together, Wanganui winning from Waihi bv the narrow margin of half a point. It is I understand, a fact that Waihi were penalised half a point because one of the members indulged in the small-boy-like' habit of removing an obstruction from his nasal cavity with his index linger during the progress oi the inspection. Independent of the honour of winning, this little peccadillo was expensive from a monetary point of view.

A MOST HONOURABLE DISTINO) TION. The Western Medical Review, « medical publication of the highesfj standing, says, In a recent issue : ~ 'Thousands of physicians in this and other countries have attested that Sander and Sons* Eucalypti Exi tract <* not only reliable, but Uiat it has a pronounced and indisputable superiority over all other prepwa* tions of Eucalyptus/1 Yout health Is too preciojs to be tampered with therefore reject all products foisted upon you by unscrupulous mercenaries, «.nd insist upon getting SanIjrand Sons' Eucalypti Extract,' the only preparation recommended bji your physician and the medical press. Jn coyghs, colds, fevers, dial* 1 rhoea, kidney diseases, the relief is' instantaneous. Wounas, ulcers, I burns, spraina, etc., it heals without 1 inflammation. As mouthwash (I drops to a glass of water) it pro* vents decay of teeth, and destroy! all disease germs.*

It is worth remembering that for excellence of style and quality combined with large range of 'variety and cheapness of engagement rings and all kinds of jewellery you must go to J. H. Parker's, Jeweller, next railway crossing,-, Devon Street Central, New Plymouth.* HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT. Effect wonderful cures of bad legs and old wounds. If these medicines be usedlajccording to the directions which are wrapped round each pot arnd h)ox there is no wound, bad leg), or ulcerous sore, however obstinate! but will yield to their curative propertiws. Numbers of persons who had been patients in the large hospitals without; deriving benefit, have Ween cured by Holloway's Ointment and Pills, when other remedies had signally failed. For gfrirdutar swellings, tumours, scurvy and diseases of the skin there Is no medicine that can bo used with sa good an effect, and though tho cure is rapid, it is also complete and permanent.*

| The Harbour Board meetings have be™ fixed for 'the third Friday in the month at 11 a.m. Moforc competing at Trenthnm, the Turanaki Hides Mam is going to Wnnganui to take part in the contost thero.

Members of the A. and J', jibociety are lvmindcd of the meeting to-mor-row Thursday, evening at 8 o'clock, at the secretary's oftice. It is intimated by cable that at the next, IVace Conference President Kwos..\elt will submit a general scheme of international arbitration. The entries received for the Wnngauui Wie, .meeting on Thursday constitute a record. Marksmen from all over the Island will compete. Keran, the Australian champion swimmer, put up a world's record at Sydney yesterday, beating Cavill's -130 yards in untin 25 2-ssec by four-fifths of a second'.

At Pabuersion yesterday a prohibited man named Peter Jac';.son was lined £5 or a month's imprisonment for having liipior in his possession. The lady of extra generous proportions known as "Aboniah, the Giantess,"' accompanied by Professor Keilderson, Dr. Howe, and other able entertainers, will give a one night's show in New Plymouth on March 10. At Wangnnui. yesterday Frederick Seymour was sentenced in the Supreme Court to two years'imprisonment for breaking and entering, and a man nnmod MeAHnder to one year's probation for assault.

Alterations in the running of various trains in this district on and after March I are advertised in this issue. Among other chunges made the mail train will run one hour twenty minutes earlier throughout. A proposed initiul Masonic ceremony in connection with the opening of St. Mary's Church at Auckland has been prohibited by Bishop Nelignn, on the ground that the first ceremony in an unconsecrated church must be conducted by the Bishop. Corporal Sinclair, of [jDuncdin, who was responsible for laying the gun which on Jan. It nearly found the target-towing trawler, has been disrated after a departmental inquiry. His gun license, or rather, his gun layer's certificate, has also been cancelled.

It is reported by telegraph from Wellington that there is grave discontent among tho tramway employees regarding the recent appointment of a ticket inspector as chief traffic manager. The man are stated to have sent a petition to the council that the unpopular officer should be dismissed, and an inquiry is to be held into the matter.

The annual regatta, which is fixed for to-morrow. Thursday, at Wnitara, is one of tlio mostf] popular meetings in the district, and attracts people from all around, (iiven a con-

linunnce of the present line weather, there should he a record attendance, particularly as sp«cial railway facilities are provided. 'lt is not often wnt a runaway causes such amusement as that which occurred in Brougham Street yesterday, when a pair of bullocks attached to a dray, after standing a: while opposite Messrs Howe and Patterson's warehouse, stampeded. The driver's frantic efforts to check the wild career of the beasts was rusent-

Ed by one of them, who freely lashed out with its hind logs and cut such amusing capers as to produce roars of laughter. Parcels nnd packages fi om all centres in New Zealand to New „Ply mouth or vice versa at fixed through tates.—The New Zealand Expresj Company. Ltd, 1 Do you dread washing day ? Then buy a tin of Washine and cheer up. See a list of storekeepers who stock it. A (id tin sufficient for a week's washing.*

The following is taken from the Auckland Weekly News of the 18th February, 1904 : Settler, near Iriglowood, Taranaki, writes : " In an issue of the News a little while back I noticed inquiries about sick pigs, and thought I would take the liberty f giving you my experience, which you can pass on to your readers if you choose. In the early spring I had five 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 inc a packet of Sykes's Drench, which I regularly use for cows at calving time. I mado a pailful of .•arm oatmeal gruel, put into it three large cupfuls of sugar, and half a packet of the Drench, and a good spoonful of dripping to make it rather 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 since. 1 generally get Sykes's 'rench at the store, but it is manufactured at New Plymouth." Thanks.*

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Criterion Hotel—K'itchcm man .wanted. Newton King—Sells fruit at has mart to-day. Ilewley aind Griffiths—Sell fruit at their mart to-day. I'. Quinlan—Has taken the Thistle Hotel, Queen Street, Auckland. Manager for Railways—Ca'lls tenders for bookstalls. Deputy Official Assignee—Summons a meeting of creditors. Railway Department—Notifies changes in time-tablej. I K. Reynolds'—Ku'dgc-Wh'itworth bicycles.