The Daily News MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1905, LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7755, 6 March 1905, Page 2

The Daily News MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1905, LOCAL AND GENERAL.

New banking premises for the Bank of Australasia are to be erected in Taihape. On account of the counter attraction at tfoo Theatre lioyul it hail been decided to postpone the Town Hand's concert till, Friday evening next. On December 18 a Bulgarian band of 23 men, being surrounded by Turkish troops in the village of Zonfik, in the Marihoos district, to the east of Monastir, tooß refuge in a school, and, after exhausting their ammunition, set fire to the building and perished in the flames. In consequence- of the rain on Thursday afternoon, the usual sweepstake* in connectinn with the Stratford Gun Club were not fired. A number of enthusiasts from Kllham and elsewhere went to Stratford in the expectation of having some sport but were disappointed. I In explanation of the severe censure 'with which the Press of Japan visits any mistakes or failures made by its generals or admirals', it is pointed out that Japanese public opinion is intolerant of blunders or delays. An officer who did not at once atone for his failures by suicide would bo unhesitatingly called upon by his countrymen to do so. Of every hundred pcoplo in the I metropolis only eighteen go to church .or chapel, said the Bishop of London recently, at a meeting of the J fund bearing his title. Further, 40,000 fresh people come into every year, and the danger was that they would settle down into Pagan.ism, A young man named Brown, who had one of his legs cut off some months ago while employed as a ca|sual hand on the Palmerston North | railway works, has received notice | from the Government that he is to Jbe supplied with an artificial limb, l and that, when sufficiently recovered, he will be given permanent work at 7s a day.

An extraordinary Tieak of nature (says the Wanganui Chronicle) is at present on view in Uidgway street in a shop opposite the Post Oflico. The animal, which was produced by a mare at Elthain some Jive weeks ago, has the forelegs and neck of a foal, has one large eye in the centre of its forehead, hus the mouth and noso of a monkey, and in fact is in every way a wonderful and fearful thing. The British Postmaster-General has a staff under his control nearly equal to the standing British Army. The postal system keeps busy from 170,000 to 180,000 men and women, and has within its sphere of operations more offices than there are people in Sheerncss. The Post Office is among the most profitable businesses in England ; with an outlay of £10,005,000 it makes a profit of nearly £4,000,000 sterling. A lads' who owns an apple orchard at Waikawa, Picton, on taking a look round the other night, surprised a regular corps of men "thinning out" the apples. The lady was armed with a revolver, and i boldly attacked the thieves. A few ' shots were fired, and the men fled, I more frightened than hurt. The | lady is a good shot, and says she intends to shoot straight next time. ; At 11.10 on Saturday morning the peal of the lire alarm caused a little ' commotion, an outbreak at the rear of Mr C. O. Hawke's premises in t Egmont street being reported. The fire occurred in one of the outhouses connected with the establishment The brigade turned out with one reel but, fortunately, their services were ' not required, as the flames were ex- > tinguished before their arrival. The damage was only trifling. I A ploughman at Culmore, in the South of Scotland, surprised at the . number of worked flints his l share was turning up, communicated with the local antiquarians. Vpon the necessary excavations being made, an entire workshop of stone wea- ' pons, in eveiy stage of manufacture, was unearthed just as they had been left by the primitive labourers who manufactured them. There are altogether 1000 of these flint weapons, beautifully chipped into leaf-shaped arrow-heads or hammers. , In the course of nn article on the

"' Lost Art of Kicking "■ in the Badminton Magazino, it is stated that this season A. F. Harding, the Welsh international, who was in New Zealand lasU year wlth»thc English Football team, has accomplished some wonderful performances. In a jingle week ho converted every try I which his side scored—nine consecutively in fact. Two of these kicks Were little short of -marvellous and [they pecurred within the space of H minutes. A : g ft l 0 of hurricane force |wa„ i.j-nving straight against the I kicker, and each time he landed ~ a wet and greasy ball from within u foot orttwoofthe tonchlino over tlio exact middle of the cross'bai)

Scddon's luck " is proverbial. Here , s an jnkance. r|, ol . Mv , )C ,, oiv the big- lire at the U.I.C. in' Wellington, that firm was desirous of placing some of its insurance with the otate Insurance Department: Other offices, acting on the boycott prinXk, h r >W obstac,es 'n the way and the State was not interested to the extent of a solitary farthing. The other offices would have been delighted to see the State incur a heavy loss at the very outset „ ; f its business career, but they ],„ a been too clever, and their own action sand, h ° St f t ° o " icC so '"« *ou.sa.nds 01 pounds. ;••< Just Seddon's luck, said one underwriter,

| An oflicer of H.M.S. Enryalls savi. that the chief delight of the (lerman iMiiperor after paying visits to.EneIt u- t0 show a clcan Pair of heels with bis magnificent steam vncht to the escorting British warships much to the chagrin pf those in charge of the latler. Howevor on a. recent occasion H.M.S, Niobo was one of tho vessels detailed for this particular duty, and although her consort was hopelessly outdistanced by tho Hohenzollern, she was more than equal to the task, and on reaching Flushing was the regulation distance behind the Kaiser's ocean greyhound, but not one foot further in the rear. The feat was regarded with the liveliest satisfaction by those on board the Niobo, and al- | though on the run across she was buried in a smother of spray, the chief engineer remarked with ineffable complacency, "I thlDk wo can give her a little more if necessary." Which, lo the eternal credit of the British navy, jt was npt.

| The .notice of teachers is directed to an advertisement in this issue, I wherein the, High- School Board in-, v.itea applications for the position of junior master at the New Plymouth High School* Mr Horace White, speaking at the opening of Beloit Library, mode the first authentic statement of the total, of Ml - Carnegie's public library gifts. The amount is £6,063,050, of which three-fourths has been spent in the United States on 779 out of 1290 buildings. A South Canterbury council lias under consideration an oiVr from <i local resident to catch 125000 .small birds with patent traps. A confer|ence of the local bodies is lo be jhiekl, and i't is likely that the patentee will make an oiler to catch .400,000 small birds in South Canterbury.

Jn connection with SI. Andrews Sabbath School, anniversary se" vices will be celebrated on Sundu; next. The Rev. J. Johnston wii preach morning, afternoon, and even ing. At the afternoon service th distribution of the prizes und medal wan during the year will take plact Parents and friends of the scholar arc cordially invited to be present. The Hev. T. K. B. Woolloxal, wh leaves this week for his new charg in Westlaud, preached his farewe sermon on Sunday. There wor large congregations, both at th Queen street church in the mornin and Fltzroy in the evening". 'l'll Rev. H. Daniels, who lakes his pl«c preached at Queen street in the eve ning. At a meeting of licensed plumber held at Dunedin last week the lo lowing resolution was passed uHan mously : " Tha't this meeting suonj ly protest against the proposal i the Drainage Board to grant cei'til cates of competency 'to certain mas ter plumbers, an the ground thn such an ac,tion is n menace to th public, is a violation of clauses and si) of tho existing by-laws i the Hoard, is grossly unfair to thos workmen who have already qualifier and is calculated to seriously lowc the status of the trade throughoi the city." One of the oldest plun bers present went so far us to sa that unless a man had proved hin self a plumber he had no right t be an examiner. The folio-win's- civil "Cases, additioi |al to the list already published, hai ibceni feet down for hearing at tl Taranaki Supremo Court session which open at New lMymouth o Tuesday :—Trott and others v. Mo ey and others, claim to set aside will ; A. S. Baker v. James? Sha rock and wife, claim for possession i land and compensation for occupant I The Chambers business includes tl following new motions : —Re Jer 'miah Hunter (deceased) motion ft 'probate ; re William Uassett (decea: ed), motion for probate ; re Adminii jtration Act,, 1871), and re Williai Mortlock (deceased) motion for o: |der in terms of petition (lied. \Ve< dell and Co. v. Kgmont Farmer! Union, and Egmont Formers' I'nio !v. Fantham and Bayley, return < 'summons to show cause why the tri-t should not lie adjourned until tl June sessions. I The Daily Mail says that a J.oi don gentleman recently wrote a fac t-ious letter to the I'ostmasf.er-Gen Iral in response to a ranicst for fu ither particulars concerning a grt hen missing from a parcel of gan |and poultry sent from Scotland. Tl hen, he said, was posted at Cu Ishab'bin, Galloway, at 3 p.m. on Is November. Then followed a de: cription of the village, the numbt of its inhabitants, and other detail I concerning the drainage, water su[ j lily, and hotel accommodation. Th parcel, the writer went on to snv was posted by a game-keeper, an minute details followed concernini the man, with expressions l of regie jfor inability to state his chest measurement, the size' of his feet, and the names and ages of his children. Finally (says St. Martin's-lc-Grand). the writer offered to supply further particulars, including the reason why tho\ gamekeeper always wore knickerbockers. | A law point raised in the case recently heard by Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., was to the effect that when a dog was on the property of a person not the owner of the dog that person was entitled to destroy the dog if it was without a collar having the proper registration labels thereon. This provision is set out in section 13 of the Dog Registration Act, 1880, bill, the limit of the powers of the section had to be decided in the case tried by Dr. M'Arthur : that of Frederick

Arthur v. Henry Sncll, claim for £2l 13s 6d on account of damage done to a greyhound by defendant, a butcher, who threw a knife at the greyhound while it was on defendant's premises and so injured it that three days afterwards it had to be destroyed. Dr. M'Arthur gave judgment in the case holding that defendant would have to recompense plaintiff for the loss of the dog. His [worship indicated that while the [section used the words " may destroy such dog," it did not, in his Worship's opinion, authorise anyone to punish or wound the dog, even though found on premises of a person olher than its owner. Judgment would be for plaintiff for the value of the dog (yet to bo assessed) and costs. Mr Wilford was counsel for plaintiff, and Mr Hertlman for defendant. The other morning (reports the Sydney Daily Telegraph) an examination of the teeth of children attending the Plunkctfc-street School, Woolloomooloo, was made by several of the members of the New South Wales Dental Association. This is the beginning of a series of examinations which are to be made throughout the public schools of the State. After the childivrt had been examined, and were supplied with a card stating the number of teeth that requiro attending to. If their parents cannot pay for the work, the Dental Hospital, in the most, commendable philanthropic spirit, will attend to it. Altogether about 200 children—l2o boys and 80 girls—between the ages of 7 and 11 years, were examined. The members * were ! delighted with the result, which showed that there was not nearly so J much decay in children's teeth ' as i had been generally supposed. The mouths of the boys were found to be in a very good condition,, but the percentage of decayed teeth was much higher with the girls. Practically the whole cause of the decav in the girls' teeth was neglect. In the great majority of cases Iho children's mouths were dirty, through failing to use a toothbrush, and thjsi was responsible for their defective teeth In no single case was there any appearance of consumption, or other dread disease, in the condition of the teeth of the children. WOKE PRAISE FOR RHEUMO . | Mr John Stevens, Hulls,, writes ■— "Some months since I had a severe , attack of rheumatism, and was advised to try the efficacy of Rheumol. I did so, with most satisfactory results. After taking two bottles it jhaa practically cured me. I have no , jhesitalion in saying that your rem- ' |edy is the best I have used." Sold by r ,all chemists and storekeepers, 2s Od land 4s Gd. Wholesale Agents, Kemp- , thornq, lVosser and Co.* 1 ! The following is taken from the i Auckland Weekly News of the 18th I February, 1904: Settler, near Ingle-1 wood, Paranaki, writes: "In an is-1 sue of the News a little while bnclc i J noticed inquiries about sick pigs and thought I would take the liberty I 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 irom 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 •arm oatmeal gruel, put into it three large cupfuls of sugar, and half a packet of the Drench, and a good spoomul of dripping to make it rather greasy. This I fed them at six in the evening, and afterwards shut them jn with a warm straw bed. In he morning they wore considerably ctter, and the following day all right ; in fact, they have done well over since. I generally get Sykes's trench at the store, but it is manufactured at New Plymouth." - Thanks.*