LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 790, 5 April 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Things were a bit mixed in the Daily News oflice yesterday morning, consequent upon the pio-ing of a forme just before going to press. But worse remained behind. Alter i the paper was printed both the inside pages were completely broken up by a curious mishap, ami although our staff set to work with zeal to repair damage, we have to omit a few advertisements from this morning's issue. Three pages In one day ! Jt is a record "smash," but wc have made a record recovery, and hero we are again. At tho present time the number of patients in the New Plymouth hospital is larger than has been recorded for years'. There are 42 inmates, consisting of 29 males and 13 females, and the accommodation is Ipretty 'well taxed. There are ten I nurses on the staff, whose work" is most highly spoken of by all who have had any experience of tho In- j 6tltution l , \

China lias arranged an opium nonopoly, producing 100,000,000 yon annually.

Seven hundred deaths have occurred in New York in three months from mysterious cerebrospinal meningitis. While coming up tho Patea river on Monday the Kapiti grounded on the mud spit) near the guide pier, but was got oft shortly afterwards. , Work ia still very scarce in Australia and hundreds of men are leaving monthly fir ot'hcr parts ; most oi them are coming to New Zealand.

The New South Wales Government has appointed a Royal Commission to inquire into matters arising out af the recent Land Department disclosures.

The drawing in connection with .Mrs Harding's ait union, I'itzro.v, will tako place at the While liar HoWl on Saturday evening next, April 8, about 8. o'clock.* . A 200-acrc lease-in-perpclu ity section in the Waiau district (Southland) recently changed hands ut £IOOO, equal to £3 an acre for im- . irovements and 'interest in the lease.

A London cable states that the Koyal Life Saving Society is willing to pay Half the expenses of the visit of Keren, the Sydney swimmer, to England, provided he competes in I the King's Cup, and will also treat him as a guest during his visit.

To show how the heavy clay soil in tho Uruti district stands the drought, it may be stated that throughout all tlio long spell of dry weather, the grass was as green a* ever, and the supply of milk to the factory showed no appreciable sign of falling off. Apparently the district could have stood a much longer period of dryness and have been none the worse. —Mail.

Owing to the Government taking over the catering on tho Southern railway lines, the various bars for the sale of liquor at railway stations will bo closed as from April 1. At the door of the Oamaru refreshment rooms tho following amusing notice, written on a bit of brown cardboard, 'was 1 posted : '''The ■dispensary closes to-day, 31st March, by order of the Tsar. No more medicine !*'•

The Russ learns from Moscow that for the second time within the last few modt'hf) the employees of a large paper mill there, which buys up quantities of old paper, rags, etc., have discovered among the rubbish-heaps a large number of watches, passes, letters of all kinds parcels, cheques.

money orders for sums of upwards of 2000 roubles, and various other articles of value, all of which had been sent through the post, and had been either lost in transmission or wilfully thrown away among the waste paper,-

The Transvaal Leader suggests the purchase of the Premier diamond for presentation' to the King as a Crown jewel |)jV moaais of a subscription throughout the Empire. If we take our white population at something over 50,000,000, a shilling subscription per male adult wou,ld scarcely purchase the gem, but if the native population were to join in a smaller IXT capita sum would' he sufficient. llt j.s at any rate a brilliant suggestion;.—St. James's Budget.

The dairy inspector for the New Plymouth borough (Mr Stone) has been instructed that the dairy regu-

lations ara to be strictly enforced, and notification has been received from headquarters that no license is to bo granted where dairy premises are not in a thoroughly sanitary

condition, and where the imilk is not properly treated and stored. The process of cooling milk, specially provided for in the regulations, is also referred to and will lie rigidly .insisted upon, as it is complained that the lack of coolers in New Plymouth district is very marked.

A serious riot has been caused at Madrid, says an exchange, owing to a baby being run over and killed by an electric tramcar."' A number oi persons who had witnessed the accident, incensed with the driver of the car, made a furious attack on hit?, with stones, one of which struck him on the head and killed him. This fatality only inllamed tho mob the more, and some among the crowd, providing themselves with burning faggots, set fire to the ear and burned it to cinders amid cries of "Down with tramcars ! " The rioters were finally dispersed by the poliac-, who took fifteen of tile ringleaders, three of whom were seriously injured, unaer arrest. Four policemen also sustained serious injuries.

Tho fear of fire is constantly present with a large number oi people, who will welcome the apparatus advertised in our columns to-day. Minimax, as it is called, is claimed 'to be the only destroyer of smoke, besides being a firo extinguisher. It is very light, and self-acting, so tlfat a child can use it. It is always ready for use, and car. be set in working order by merely in a knob by hitting against a wall or the floor. An attractive feature is that no damage of any kind is caused by water. Messrs Uewley and Griffiths are the local agents. A demonstration will be given opposite the railway, station at 3.15 p.m. to-day.

To test the truth of a South African complaint that New Zealand poultry does not comparo favourably with Russian and American in the matter of grading, packing, etc., the Government Poultry Expert, Sir D. D. Hyde, has had a case of Russian fowls and a case of American ducks forwarded on by an agent in Capetown. The expert found the poultry, in each case, to be without anything to separate Jhem, and consequently stuck together. Those exported from New Zealand are separated with blotting paper, and have their heads and necks neatly packed in, parchment. Tho American ducks were lighter than ducks sent from Now Zealand. New Zealand fowls average slightly over 11b, and do not vary Jib ; the Russian birds average only 811), and vary fully lib. The Expert, taking this comparative test as a basis, considers that Russia und America can teach us nothing in packing, grading or weight.:

Tho notion of strengthening guns hy means of steel wire is not a new one, but it is only since 1887 that, tho system has been adopted for heavy guns. In manufacturing wire guns the barrels are made in a similar manner to those for other broochloading guns. Tlie operation of winding wire .around thctn is performed by means of a latho so adjusted as to move sideways up and down the tube as the winding proceeds. ( The great 12-inch guns of the Majestic are of this type. There arc 113 miles of wire in this typp pf gun, which takes nine months to construct. There are 14 layers of wire at the mouth of the gun, which increases gradually Jo ninpty-two layers over ihe which has to licar the force of the explosion. No less than eight miles of wlro are wound round the chamber, The main advantages to the wire system are : Firstly, for a given weight ol metal the gun is stronger than if constructed of thick hoops shrunk on ; secondly, every inch of tho material can be tested all ov-

or ; t.hiixlly, that should a flaw occur it cannot: spread ; fourthly, that for a smaller external dianiptef than /formerly. a gun of equal strength can bp obtained : and fifthly, that the material in lUt'lf is Stronger than steel fn a mass.

| It is worth' remembering that for [excellence of style and quality combined with large range of variety and cheapness pf engagement rings and all kinds of jewellery, you must go to J. H. Parke)-. Jeweller, next railway crossing, Ilpvon Street Central, New Plymouth,*

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The recent cricket match' between the Australian eleven and the Canterbury eleven resulted in a profit of £llO to the Canterbury Cricket Association.

It is announced that on May 9 a paper on "'New Zealand" will be read by New Zealand's late Governor, Lord iHanfurly, before a meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute. Mrs Margaret Morrinton, a New Zealander, lost £l4O between 'Frisco and Vancouver, and the authorities |at both places refuse to allow -her to land,, she being an indigent immiI grant*

It has been decided that the Advances to Settlors Board may advance up to half tho value, which a Crown leasehold would realise if placed in th« open markets. The' board has hitherto only advanced up to 50 per cent, of the improvements made by leaseholders.

Good entries have been received for he Blenheim egg-laying competition, including entries from all parts of New Zealand, and three from South Australia.' There are 26 entr'es of White Leghorns, 20 Silver Wyandottes, 16 Black Orpingtons, a/.ul 12 Drown Orpingtons. The cost 'of pens is £307.

- The Auckland Herald utales that | an Onehunga subscriber to the telephone met with an unpleasant experience on Friday. When lie look hold of the'receiver a strong shock was experienced, lie again risked holding it, but a stronger shock still, resulted, and the skin on the palm of the hand got burnt and shrivelled up. He reported the occurrence to the post office. A polar bear, wlvieh was captured when young in the Artie regions, and lived for twenty-three years in the Chicago Zoo, died recently, literally frozen to death. Despite its lur and an umlimited dietary the animal was unable to stand the strain of three daV» wilh the * em ~ perature 15 degrees below zero. The question of heating the bear artificially was being 'discussad when death relieved the zoo of that expense.

•' Yesterday I bought," writes a orrespomlent of a *! ,ondon paper, '.'some black jet buttons, and when I got liome 1 found on the card, 'liest Austrian make.' 1 took a pencil to write in my account book: 1 found it had * U.S.A. upon it. I •sharpened l ' the point, and on the sharpener was '■ New York.' I got out a match to light the lamp, and on tho box was ' Made in Sweden.' [ lit the lamp, and found on it, ' Made in Ilaravia,' and so on, and so on."

At a meeting ot one of the New Plymouth football clubsi the question of funds for medals cropped up. The secretary mentioned that no gulheas had yet been forthcomihg, when -a budding jjinior, evidently destined to make his mark in the world, suggested in all seriousness tliat a demand draft for £1 Is Id (tho extra penny, he explained, being for Vie stamp) should bo made on all the £»entlemen who had been elected vicepresidents . This naive proposal caused some merriment, but members repudiated any desire to adopt this unusual qourse of -"raising the wind."-

There were last year 816,216 persons in England and Wales either in the workhouses or in receipt of outdoor relief. In other words, out of every forty-fiye persons in England and Wales, including rich and poor, oM and young—not oven omitting children in arms—one is either im the workhouse or is receiving outdoor relief. There has been a general increase in pauperism during the past four years, which became more marked in iho last quarter of 1904. The total number of paupers (exclusive of vagrants and insane in asylums, etc.,) relieved in England ami Wales are higher in Hie liiat weeks of October, November, ami December, that in t.lio corresponding weeks of any year since 1872.

Curdled milk of a special kind, prepared only on a Bulgarian receipt, is now supposed lo be a remedy against growing old. M. Xavier Dybovski has made a commnuicaiion on the subject to the Paris Academy of Medicine. The substunce is called yaghurt, and can now be obtained in tins in Paris. It is

supposed to be death to all the inimical'bacteria in the intestines, while those friendly microbes to which Processor pins his faitli positively niiore it. Hence the propertv >f yaghurt to prolong human life to whut is its normal span—a century or so. The substance looks very like ordinary cream cheese gone bad, and tastes similarly. The solid portion is mixed with a white, thin liquid, which is exceedingly sour. People who wish' to live to a hundred off yaghtirt exclusively. The London Telegraph correspondent has tried it, and, personally, would prefer to die young.

The s.s. Rotoiti was considerably delayed owing to the tempestuous weather -experienced on the coast. When the captain first essaved to cross the Manukau Bar he had to return in consequence of the signals being against him, and it was not untill 8.25 a.m. on Tuesday thut the vessel got under way from there for New Plymouth. The passengers doscribe the sea encountered on first launching out as tremendous, and the more timid almost gave up hopes of getting through. Captain Ilolford, who is in temporary charge, however, handled the vessel with- skilful seamanship, and at times had the engines slowed down to avoid the steamer boing swept from stem to stern by the mountainous seas. In the circumstances the vessel made a fair passage, though she did not show up at the breakwater until 9 I o clock. Among tho passengers were j the members of the Van Bieno Dramatic Company, who were consequently unable to fill th'oir advert tised engagement to appear at tho Theatre Royal that evening.At a meeting of the committee of the 1 aranak'i A. and P. Society held on Monday night, Mr H. Okov (vicepresident) occupied the chair, and there uero a dozen meml>ers present. 'he action of the ground committee in making arrangements with the Jockey Club for additional facilities to the show grounds was confirmed, a hearty vote of thanks being accorded the Jockey Club for the Ifberal manner in which they had met -the request of the society. Messrs Okey, J. 11. Connett, 11. J. IToneyiield wore appointed a sub-committee to attend to the improvements to be cflotftod under the supervision of Mr W. Stanley by day labour. The work] which is to bo put in hand at once! includes fencing, levelling where necessary, and ploughing and grassing, i it is anticipated that a good grass plot will bp sepured hy December, when the annual show fa tq bo held, , It w as.•decided to mako a request to ] the Borough Council for permission to use the ground included In the , borough roset'vo.

Mr Newton King will sell by auction this morning, 200 cases of fruit, including apples, pears, tomatoes, peaehes, quinces', plums, and other kind*.

If you do your own washing, then here is good news for you. Try a tin of Washine, It will help you und please you. See list of storekeepers who st,pjsk ij,.* The latest steel operating cables (tested j.o a brooking strain of 180 tons to Hie square inch), used on the Ru'dftc Whitworth, are protected by well lubricated cases l of solid metal securely attaphed to the trame, ;ifil JJierp at:o no- exposed wires liable to damage -by ruilwny porters and others when handling the machines. The front brake ha* an encased' moderator spiling : lilted over the fork", which does away with all "shuddering!," and ensures gradual application without shock or loss of power.*

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