LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7761, 13 March 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

One of the most praiseworthy in- | stitulions is the Victoria School for ' Maori Oirls, in aid of the funds of [ I which a promenade concert "ill be ;held on Thursday next. T-h-e good programme arranged and the worthy object, should attract a bumper house. j | Owing to the application from the j creditors of the Co-operative Sojciely, New Plymouth, u. He S.i- ! preme Court for the appointment of jnnolhcr liipiidntor luumi: i e.-a iv.iised, the principal er.diti.rs are to I meet at the Council Chain'l i-rs "•! Tuesday next at 4 p.m., to tlis.cuss matters. ' !i ~(■ In the case of H. J. Ilolrfis v. I'Mlecii. in which an application was , 'made to the Supreme Court for the I appointment of an ai-biiialor to as-Ises.-i com|>eiisat;oa for claimants'loss of employment as store manuirer for the residue of a term of two.veals, 'Air Justice Kdwauls ha» appointed Mr V.. P. Corkill as arbitrator in the event of the case going to arjbltrnlion. It is likol.v that the tnat,ter will be amicably settled without recourse to these proceedings. An .11 ford man experienced a tragic | Christmas. His four children weie laid up with whooping cough aan-J pneumonia, and one child died on Christmas night, another on the following Tue.s.lay, and a third on the Friday. The man had got into monetary -difficulties, and when a bailiff put in an appearance he found two children in their coflins and the other two in a- .dying state. The three children were buried together, and the fourth child has since died. About half past ten on Saturday night the perhistenV ringing of the lire bell aroused some commotion, and set a large crowd running in the dircc.ion of lline Street, from which the outbreak was reported. The brigade had the hose reel oul in creditable time, but soon found that there had been "much ado about nothing." A small conflagration had I'i'okeit out amongst the lupin scrub along the foreshore, but without endangering any property in the vicinity, and the flames were (j'uickly suppressed. The Hussian Government has lately been trying to mobilise the reservists in the Kingdom of Poland. The men (according to the Times) ■do all they can to escape being drafted into the ranks, ami il.c police drag them out of their hiding places, sometimes in the middle of the night. They are treated like criminals trying to escape from justice, are led out of the towns under escort, and are often kept for sever- • til days with no shelter i,n-.l little food in the fields until trains are ready to recci\e them. At the great manufacturing town of Lodz, the reservists had to be forced into the railway carriages and they then broke tins windows. At the station ol I abianice an attempt was made Co desI Iroy the rnil'wa.v bridges on tlie line from Kalisch to Warsaw. 'IV.o inin-le-i were laid, one of tt'hiv'h exploded, liniuring the iron supports ~f ibe 'bridge over tlte river Xer. There |wo:e also several >l-her expio:-i.ins

at. various points of r.he hue, ilili.li, j 1.0-.vever. tfid not cause m.ic'n damage. It appears that in Japan, as well as in Australia, the Customs authorities have power u> confiscate goods they deem to be dechned be importers at too low a value. Mainyears ago the Customs officials there considered that a consignment of boots was declari',l at loo' low a tigare, and conlisiiated it. paying the importer the declared value, with a percentage added. To thcV dismay, il was found by the Customs' Wliicia'ls when the boots were put up for sale that the boot.-, were all riehifool ones. They -were sold i.o i.l r importer, the only bidder, at. much less than the Gourmnenl had paid him for them. Some niomhs nftcrwarlls, another consignments- of boots. invoiced at the same.low figure, came ■ for the s«nie importer, and the authorities, having their facultif's made [keener by their previous experience, |discovered thai this lot were all leftfoot ones. This time the Customs did not see the force of confiscating Ihein, and one pictures tho broad, Oriental smile that must have overspread the features of the importer wlk-ii he secured delivery of his lowpriced consignment. Tsi An, the .Empress of China, is thus vividly described by Lady "Susan Townley, in "her "Chinese Note-1 Book" : "She sat down upon a divan covered with figured Chinese silk of a beautiful yolk-of-eg'g colour. Heing low of stature, her feet (which are of natural size, shelving a Manchu) barely touched the ground, and only her head and shoulders were Visible over the table placed in front ' of her. She wore a Chinese coat of i diaphanous pa'.e Wue silk material \ covered with the most .exquisite ' Chinese embroidery of vine leaves and grapes. Hound her neck was a pale blue satin ribbon studded with , large, lustrous pearls, pierced and sewn to the ribbon. Her complexion I is that of a North Italian, and being a widow her cheeks are unpainted and unpowdered. Her piercing dark eyes roved curiously about among her surroundings. Her age is sixty-eight, but her hair being I dyed jet-black and most of it artificial, her uppearance is that of a much younger woman. Her hands are long land tapering, and very prettily shaped, but they are disfigured by the carious national custom I of letting the nails grow inordinately, long. The |1 nails of tho two . smaller fingers of the right han.i were protected by gold shields, which | fitted over the finger like a lady's thimble, and gradually tmpeied off to a length of three or four inches." The following is taken from the Auckland Weekly News of the 18th I February, 190-1 : Settler, near Inglewood, Tnranaki, writes : " In an isue of the News a little while back noticed inquiries about sick pigs, and thought I would take the liberty f giving you my experience, which j you can pass on to your readers if you choose. In the early spring 11 had five young pigs, seven months old suffering from what appeared to be I severe colds. Their heads were swollen, their mouths open and their breathing thick and whistling. 1 had by mo a packet of Sykes's Drench, which J regularly use for cows at ' alting time. 1 made a pailful of •arm oatmeal gruel, put into it three arge cupfuls of sugar, and half a packet of the Drench, anil 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 j' right: in fact, they have done well ! ever since, i generally get. Sykes's ' trench at the store, but it is maim- J factured ut New Plymouth." - '

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