LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 788, 3 April 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Fruit throughout tlio Airow district is very plentiful this year, and tons of it ore going to wnstu. The sum of £ISOO has been raised -i in Dunedin towards the erection of , ' a public art gallery. I There is a possibility of a motor I 'bus service being started in Master- , ' ton towards the end of the prevent • year. " i An enormous number of eels (says ' tlve Akaroa Mail) were found ill the 1 drains cut xo take off the Lake I'orsyth overflow. ' The Taranaki Maori Council disJ trict is gazetted as a district with--1 in which liquor must not bo supplied to Maoris. 1 A West Coast paper states that u - gold mining claim on Middle Branch j Flat is paying a dif vidend of £25 per week per man. A contemporary states that 1 Bell. Governmont geologist, who rei--8 cently visited TaranaKl, is much im- '- pressed will* the prospects of th» lC company which is boring for o» near 0 Plymouth. He also . thinks B there is a great future before the 0 local ironsanid industry. t A raid on a Chinese gambling den in Sydney last week resulted in the * arrest of 17 men.. One Chinaman . was so excited that he jumped from a window of a top floor. A con- ® stable caught him by the leg, but the man fell about 12ft on to the roof of an outhouec, from which he rolled to the earth and got away

l;.c London Telegraph recounts a daring abduction an Berlin whr.e a soubrette of striding beauty was using her turn at a imu.si"-hall the'e, a young- man iirom the body oi the hall sprang on to the stag?, seized the laxly, and, with the aid of two friends, bore her swiftly away to a carriage waiting outside before the audience could inter?ji*?. With the object of encouraging the study of Scottish literature. Mr John Lambie, Chief of the Ashburton Scottish Society, offered £lO divided into three prizes for the best translation of Hums' poem " The Twa Dogs." The competition closed on March 31st and 158 papers will be received from competitors in all parts of the colony. The Greymouth Harbour Board has certainly reason to congratulate itself on the result of obtaining tenders from tho lire insurance offices for insurance of tho board's offices. Tho rate previously paid was 10s per cent., but now tho rate asked for by the Alliance office is only 2s Bd. Other offices ciuotod from 3s 8d to 7s, the State Department asking 4s 4d. This should bo a wrinkle for other public bodies. Judge Charles M- Walker decided oiv December 29 Vha( the Oily of Chicago is not liable for damages growing, out of the loss 1 of life in the Iroquois fire. Judge Walker declared the city's position on all points considered in opposing the litigation in sixty suits isj well taken. He sustained tho city's demurrer in two of the suits at the bur. Wnc of the cases will be taken to the Appellate Court for final decision. vai'fstchuich docs not suffer from any lack of music. The workers on the LyttcHon Times office, before eight o'c'locli oil a recent evening, were entertained by the Colosseum 'lyaind, the Cuthedral tells, a violin-' isit, a pianist, and a singer, all worKing simultaneously. At intervads the claing gf the tram bell was added to the mcJley, and presumably it was only the wet Veather thut kept the Salvation Army away. In acknowledging a telegram from the Wcstlund Railway League nolifyinga meeting of the Canterbury reprcsentut ives to discuss the position in regard to the East and West Coast railway, the Premier replied that the League may rest assured that, consistent with the moneys available for each and every part of the colony, it will have justice done in respect to railway expenditure out of the Public Works Fund, and the claims of Canterbury and Westland would not be overlooked. " When I was a young man I was an athlete," Lord Charles Deresford said at a recent public meeting. " I used to box a good deal, ride steeplechases and races, play foot'ball, and go through a; number of competitive sports and pastimes. When I put mysd.f in training, which was a continual occurrence, I never drank any wine, spirits or beer at oil, for the simple reason, that P folt I; could get fit qiiickcr without taking any stimulants. Now I am an old man, and have a position of great responsibility, often entailing quick thought and determination and instant decisr ion, I drinlc no wines, spirits or been, not because I think it wrong to drink but simply because I am more ready for any work imposed upon me day or night, always fresh, always cheery* and in a good temper. i

Tlie Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Ohristchurcb has written to the Automobile Association drawing attention to the necessity for greater care being exercised by motorists when overtaking stock on country roads. Complaints have been' receive:! thai motorists impatiently domand from drovers of stock an unreasonable share oif the road, in consequence of which sheep, calves, etc.. had been injured. At a meeting of the association a member said he had heard of a motorist Knocking over calves, and thinking, it rather a good l joke and, Ihouglt members present might show every consideration to stock, he was afraid some others did not show much consideration. The association was not responsible ii'or otl motorists, but he was afraid there W'as ground for complaint in the direction mentioned in the society's letter. It was decided to bring tine matter under notice of Ihc members.

Speaking of tho Roman Catholic Church in Fiance, Archbishop Redwood, in replying to the address of welcome presented to him at VVellingtoln, said lie had heard the Pope declare—not once, but on several occasions—that the day is coming, and it may not bo far 0(1, when there will be a great reaction in that country, and then liberty would be restored to the Church there, ami she would take her true position. Referring to his visit to Ireland, the Archbishop said he ypoKe with knowledge and experience of that country as he had spent 10 of the most useful years of his life there. The people of Ireland were beginning to look up, to be better in many ways, and lie saw evidence of improvement and comfort. lie was in the east and south of Ireland, but not in the west. The west was a most unfertile country, and, strange to say, that was whero the population was. The people should be Jm ought to the fertile part, and when this was done the western people would be prosperous, because when they were on good land they would make progress. They wero also makl JLi T Wlth industries in Ireland, but he was sorry to say the country was still ,v CTccdiniri,. the youth of Ihc country were going this o** 0 ** u AttanUc '' The remedy for this would be found when the nnonlf* Vont on the land again The'Zt bishop was delighted with the virla'nd Jf, I,CoP '°' nlKl desc, ''t>ed< Iner land as the most innocent, most moral, and most holy land on the ot tho earth.

A CLOTHIER'S CONVICTION,

Mr F. Cohen, of Willis-sti-eot;, Welingion, is, & busy business man, with no time to waste on letterwriting for fun. He tried Hheumo, nd was convinced. Mr Cohen says : '.Last Fiday I e.xporionced a very bad attack of rheumatic gout, in let so bod that I had to leave business, and being unable to walk I 'fts assisted to a cab. Oil arrival at home I immediately took a dose of your Rheumo, repeating same ivery four hours. The pain soon loft, and in the morning I came lown to business as usual. 1 cannot say too much fin- the prompt ind effectual manner in which your Itheumo acts on pain." Hheumo urea every time. Chemists and stor- », 2s Gd and 4s 6d per bottle. Wholesale asonts>, Keiuplhorue/ Frosscr <W4 9»f* $

Another fatal case of plague lias ' iccurred at Newcastle,, New. South iVales, Tho convicted aliens in Groat Britain last year numbered 4397, an Increase of 2&80. A ChristchurcK telegram states hat the, Britisth-New Zealand Meat Company has obtained the contract 1 or tho supply of the London asylums of New Zealand meats, and has secured a stall at Smithlield. Sensational details of another scandal connected with the King of Saxony's divorced wife, the ex-Prin-cess Louise, aro published by the Lo-kal-anzeiger. It is stated that the ox-Princess, who is now residing at the Villa Papiano, in Florence, is seen so'niuch in company with Count Carlo (jiociardini, an Italian nobleman, that t'hu local society is scandalised. Tilt: Count accompanied the ex-Crown Princess on her recent surprise visit to Dresden, when she, attempted to enter the King's Palace. He is thirty years of age, and is divorced from his wife, who lives in Home. His father owns the Villa Papanio. The King of Saxony has in consequence despatched a special emissary to Florence to ascertain the i ruth of the case, and it is stated that, if the reports freely circulateo tre proved authentic, he will take steps U> regain possession of the ba'*y» who is now entrusted to the caro of ttie ex-Crown Princess by mutual arrangements. The New York police are investigating a ghastly incident, which is

alleged to have occurred in connection with the death of Mr Eduiund Goodaile, ot Watertown, New York State, a well-known millionaire. While visiting New York last month Mr Goodafie died suddenly in an apartment house in Forty-seventh street', where ho was dining with a; friend* an'd two women. The landlady refused' to allow the undertaker's Hearse to take away the body, asserting that it: would injure the reputation of the house. Mr Goodale's physician and the coroner were summoned, and the latter, it is said, agreed to keep the matter secret to prevent a possible scandal. STr Goodale's companion is said to have sent to another friend, and late at night, the two men, arm-in-arm with the corpse, walked to the nearest c;i listen (1. During their grim journey they pretended that the dead man was only intoxicated. They staggered about the pavement, and addressed jocular remarks to the corpse. Although' the streets were crowded with people coming from the theatres;. the deception was never noticed. When the Cab was reachetl the body was placed in it and convovol to the undertaker's, a generous gift •sealing the driver's lips. The Wa\ira}'apa Times says A curious story, which dates back to LBGB, is now current, and is worth relating. In March of the year quoted, Mr F. Cave settled on a property at Black X'oint, two and a 'lalf miles from Featherston. He found on the place nine hives of wild honey. With the object of ascertaining how long it would keep, he sealed down a small stone jar full, and buried it alongside a post. Subsequently he left 'the place, but two months ago ho went Irack, and received the present owner's permission to dig up the post referred to in order to see how his "plant " was getting on. He found nothing, and was somewhat disappointed. Recently Mr Cave got into conversation with a person—a Mr Heed—at a stock sale at Hawera, and they began re-' counting l their past experiences. Mr Resd told how he was replacing a broken post ttt Black Point 15 years ago, and found a jar of Honey buried alongside it. It was the very jar which Mr Cave had buried some 2i> y»ars before, and when found tlic honey was! said to have been beautifully clear and in an excellent stale of preservation. A remarkable case of mistaken identity ftas occurred at Beaufort, in -Victoria. On Friday, March 17, a man who was found lying dead under it hedge near Uurrumbeet. At the magisterial iMijiiry the body was identified at thut of James Hellyer by two brothers of deceased and by a policeman. The real' James Hgjlyer was a labourer of wandering and in>temperatc liaibits, and was well known as James Hillmnd, and while deceased was buried at the expense of George Hellyer in the Iteaufort • Cemetery on SunVTay, und the relatives went into mourning, the rent James 1 Mlyei' under the name of Jamca Milliard, was on Saturday ! sentenced to a month's imprisonment at Ballurat for drunkenness. ' Chi the following Tuesday George Hellyer visited bullarat and settled beyond the shadow of doubt that Hilliard and James Hellyer were one and the- same person, and that the corpse hud been wrongly identified. A strange coincidence concerning this case of mistaken identity* is that dci ceased and James Hilliard had each lost a left eye, that they were ex- [ actty of the same height, and the - same complexion, had tho same colI oured hair and whiskers, and that : ovcn their teeth were similarly marked through smoking a pipe.' The • magistcriujl injquiry will now be reopened.

A Home paper says that much interest is being evinced in the fitting out for S oa of the now battleship n W* Edward VII., which was commissioned on Feb. 7 as flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir W. IT. Mav, 'the now Commander-in-chief of the Atlantic Fleet. In this vessel many new features have been incorporated. In order to assist in the controi of fire, on which' it is Held tKa t tory in a naval actiqn would largedepend, platforms have bcon crecled high upon the masts. These are in telephonic communication with the barbettes and batteries below, and with range-finders by their sides the gunnery officers, observing theenemy irom a commanding height, will direct the fire of tho weapons below so as to obtain the best results. Tho anil our Ml conning tower will continue to 'be tho recognised station of tlie captain. It is realised, as a result of experiments in the Mediter- ' lhat gl ' eat ns is the Pni't which "the man behind the gun" will take in a battle at sea, there is a greater than hfr—"'the man above the gun." The officers, high placed on the gun-directing platforms, will have to order the firing, concentrating, it -may be, all the weapons on the leading ship of the enemy's column or in a weak rearguard-—in fact giving to the officers in charge of the gun's crew below, orders as to direction, range, etc. . . Tho King Edward VIT. is not only tlie largest battleship ever sent to sea bv any Power, bfjing of 16,350 tons displacement, but she is the first in which this arrangement has lA>en adopted. .ii Other novel features in the King Edward VII., which will be thoroughly tested at sea, include the boiler installation, which consists of one-fourth cylindrical and four-fifths water-tube, after the German fashion, and a bakery, so that the crew may have bread even when tlie ship has been several davs at sea. The new warship, will also bo fully pipped with the best wireless telegraphic apparatus which can be "turned" so that its messages may be picked up only by ships similarly "turned," for whom communicutiona are intended.

A MOST HONOURABLE) DISTINCTION,

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The British" surplus on tlio year nmounts to £1,864,839, chiefly the result of economic administration. At tho Christchusch agency of tho Tourist Department 41<33 callers obtained information during the year ending March 31. The weather proved rather warm for the opening of the football and hockey season in Christchurcli on Saturday. Two armed and masked men and gagged two employees of the Devonl mine, Kalg-oorlie, and removed twelve buttery plates of supposed rich gold. The polite tracked a Hart ten miles and arrested two men.

The Board of Returns for the yenr show that the United Kingdom's! trade in 1904 was £781,858,000 ; Germany, £571),174,000 ; United States, £512,8-15,000. Great UriUiin's export trade increased by £J 018,000, and Germany's by £7,893,000 ; und that of the United Stales declined by £(>,f)l(j,-olip. Says the Standard A Fitzherbort settler states that Mr Gus Wright, of Fitzherbert West, put up a sterling performance lust week, cutting nine cords of 2ft lata in 48 hours. The excellent work done may be gathered from tho fact thut many men cannot cut moru than one cord of rata pet' day.

A recent issue of the Greymoutli Star suys : Uecauso business and other mallet's have been dull for a littlu timo past, wo find there are some pessimistic enough to go so far as to say that "the bottom has dropped out of the place, 1 ' and 1 some years must elapse before a recovery can bo made. Tho Star considers this is not correct—ttiero is a slump, but, as in other centres, it will last only for a short time, and before very long—aa the distributing centro of the West Coast—Greymouth will, and must, hold its own.

How small a tiling stands between life and death, says the Post, was evidenced at the inquest of Mr Sviva Macdonald at tho Hospital. Two men were lending four horses each to tho paddock after tho day's work. One of them was somewhat new to the road (Island Hay), and he led tiie hors-es a few chains 'beyond the gate of the paddock. The second man noticed that they had passed the gate, and he called lo his mate to turn back. They were leading the horses four abrensU Roforc the gate was reached again a cyclist came down (lie hilt on a Mcycle, collided with the horses and received n concussion, which resulted in death. The night was dark, and the men leading the horses carried no lantern. Questioned, on the carrying of a fight, one of the men in charge of Olio horses snid liglvls werene\er curpied when draught horses were l>eing lerl lo the paddock nt night. Had those men not overlooked the gate, the cyclist would have in all likelihood esca|ied. The jury added a rider thUt in such cases as that quoted above a laatern should be '■.an';e;l l>y persons leading horses. Notwithstanding the aversion that bicyclists have for back pedalling, the Manufacture Francaise d'Annus et Cycles of Saint Etienne, France, taking as a basis the fact that back pedalling' entirely abolisihes the dead point, more rationally ami completely utilises the motor muscles, and gives greater oflicicncy than direct pedalling, has just constructed a very interesting twu-speed and freewheel machine. The two speetls are obtained instantaneously, automatically, and whilg running, with a single chain without gearing or control! ling mechanism. It is, however, an ordinary bicycle, but in whScli the chain runs over two sprockets' instead of one, and gives, without supplementary friction, one speed by iwlhJling in the usual manner und another by ba.ck podailii>g. For changing the gear, it suilices to change tile direction of pedalling, tun operation that may be performed instantane.l ously und ao easily that it is possible to pedal one revolution forward and one backward, thut is to say, to chungie the gear ut every instant without any interruption in tlie operation of the machine. The new machine weighs but a few ounces more than an ordinary bicycle, and all its purls are strong l , and of careful construction. It offers, in fact, an ideal solution of the problem of a_ bicycle liaving two speeds and an automatic change of gear which is exceedingly simple and inexpensive. Scientific American.

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