LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7795, 11 April 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

I Tho Taranaki Guards will hold company parades to-day and next Tuesday. In future the control of the local museum will be in the hands oi the Borough Council. The town clerk wiil acknowledge the receipt oi exhibits. Speaking; on the noxious weeds quistion, the Mayor mentioned that he had been informed by a sheep farmir that docks could be got rid of very easily by feeding down with sheep. Since the beginning of the year only four bankruptcies have been filed in Wellington. Of this number two carried on business in the city, one in Johnsonvillc, and the other at Taihape. The Education Department has made a grant of £IOOO to the Masterton district for the erection of a brick building containing sccondury classrooms, science laboratory, and rooms for the cookery classes. A parcel of butter sent to Patea on April 5 from tho Mells Co-opera-tive Factory is graded 94J, the grader's remarks being "choice line." i 'lt would be interesting to know I the price obtained for this line '' on the London market. " Though I am nn Irishman and should not admit that any country is better than Ireland," said his Excellency the Governor at Temuka, "yet I am compelled to admit that New Zealand has a better climate than cither England, Scotland, or Ireland."

At the Police Court on Monday, Cheffalo, tho trick cyclist at Worth's Circus-, was fined 5s and costs for boarding a train whilst in motion. The charge against Charles and Walter Hoskins for alleged rescue of cattle while being driven to the Bell Block pound was adjourned for three weeks. The s.s. Corinthic will bo the next steamer for dairy produce leaving Wellington, April 27th, and will be followed by the s.s. Turakina, leaving Wellington, May 11th. The closing days at the Moturoa Freezing works will be for the Corinthic April 19th, and for the Turakina Wednesday, May 3rd, both days at 3 o'clock p.m. .■ In the official " Hand-book for Australia," recently issued, arc twelve pages of information on New ;Zealand, and in addition: there are isix full-page process photographs of Now Zealand scenic views—the only illustrations in the volume. This is the lirat occasion in which New ZealaißT has been given space in an Australian (not Australasian) handbook. At the adjourned annual meeting of the Taranaiki Rifles, held on Monday evening, the balance sheet was adopted as read. Votes 1 of thanks were passed to Messrs Riddell and Xewton King for waiving objections to the new riflo range, and to Mr 0,; Hoby for allowing access. Tho question of obtaining a new uniform was' referred to a sub-commit-tee to report at the end of this month. The election of a captain was also deferred The waterworks scheme being sufficiently wa'l advanced to cnablo, the water to be tinned on, arrangemants were made at the Borough Council to hold an olficiall opening ceremony on Thursday afternoon. A number of invitations aro to be issued to representatives oi l the various municipal and local government bodies, etc. The ceremony will take place at the works about 3 o'clock, and the partv will leave for the scene about 1 o'e.loc. There will be no set luncheon, but refreshments will be served.

In the course of remarks made at Oamaru on the subject of New Zealand butter, Mr John Holmes pointed out that " Newcastle-on-Tyno has been used 'to buying its butter put up in casks, and has no use for it in any other shape. Why should we not cater for their custom ? Goodness only knows, but tho fact remains that we don't. Conservative Newcastle sticks to its casks, and wo to our boxes, and the result is that Newcastle loses our butter and we their trade ! " Among the many election rumours now current is one to the efTect that the Hon. Jas, McGowan, Minister for Mines and Justice, will contest the Bay of Plenty seat in opposition to Mr Herries, the silting member, and that Mr W. McCullough will run for the. Thames in the Government interest. It has also been jocularly stated that Mr Cieddon himself has some inclination to seek the suffrages of the electors of the Bay of Plenty. Whilst in Tauranga recently Mr Scddon jokingly hinted at the building of a Ministerial residence there, and probably this has something to do with the origin of the canard. There is no intention whatever on the part of the Government to introduce the metric system at any definite _date. Tho authority of the Weights and Measures Act, 1,903, is merely permissive, enabling the Government 'to proclaim the decimal system at any time after- January Ist, 1906, that it may think lit. But, as Colonel Pitt explained when the bill was before tho Parliament, New Zealand would not be likely to set up an isolated decimal system without, say, Ehgjand or Australia doing the same. The action which the Commonwealth now proposes to take may forward the object in view, but at present the proclamation of the metric system is nuite indefinite.

Tho public will learn with regret ' of the death of Mr Frederick Wil- . liam Holdsworth, eldest son of Mr F. D. Holdsworth, postmaster at New Plymouth. Deceased, who was 28 years of aige, had boon practical- ! ly a cripple for many years as the I result of a kick at football, and three , months ago he was forced to keep to ! his bed. His end was not altogether unexpected, and he passod away peacefully at 1 a.m. this morning. It i will be remembered that about 1.2 months ago Mr HoMsworf.li pluckily rescued a boy from drowning, fcf which he deservedly gained the Royal Humiane Society's silver medal, but owing to his illness the customary , public presentation had perforce to be abandoned. The interment will be private. When thp North Island Main Trunk railway line was being constructed at 1 Mataroa, which.is some eight miles north of Taihape, says the Post, a spring of salt wafer, was discovered. The spring, which bubbles up on a bank in the railway reserve a few feet above a fresh water stream, has formed a pool of some three or four feet in ■diameter, and four or live eet deep, which has recently been covered by the Public Works Department. The water, which is very salt and very clear, smells and tastes very much like kelp, yet the spring is quite inland. It is situated 45 miles in a direct line from the ocean and is about 1700 ft, above sea level. The water has been in ijqme demand amongst settlors as a medicine, and one sufferer from a kmdney complaint Has acknowledged relief from its use. Mr H. Lundieu, Crown Lands Haagef, brought a bottle of the water from the spring befoff the Land Board, and tho Government Analyst is to be asked to analyse the Tvacer to find its medicinal properties, At the annual meeting of the Kgamotu Golf Club held in the Council Chambers on Friday evening, there was a large attendance of members. Mr W. C. Weston, iclub captain, occupied the chair. The report and balance-sheet, which was adopted, showed that the club continued to makp very satisfactory progress. The receipts had been £2op, and tho expenditure £l9i>. Considerable' improvements had been niodo to tho course, and a new leas*! for eight years hnd been signed. The memberJ.hjp ;.7-P!nyjng pirn, (W, ladies, 38, hanprapy STQ, an (urease on the previous year of Jl. Thp inpn's cjub championship and the Ngapiotu trophy h"ad 'been won, by Mr 0, Ej Mnnneri.'USf. Tho folllcjwing oflieers were elected :—President, Mr A. Standlsh ; vice-presidents, I)r Walker, Messrs Alexander, H. Bayley, and M. Fraser ; captain, Mr H. H. Ward ; committee, ( Messrs Pv. Bayley, Hamlin, Mannering, W. C. Weston, and Wright ; | hon. secretary and treasure)', Mil J. Poton ; auditor, Mr H. A. Lennon. , It wag decided to hold the opening < day on Saturday npxt, 15th" April. ' Tho following suggestions to the £ commfttoo were discussed :—-That a f trial drain bo put down from the swamp at 'tho second hole ; that a suggestion book be kept in the club , house ; and that an interpretation be put on the rule 3 of the etiquette of golf, relating to driving from the y tee, when players in fpont have played their second strokes, and ai : e f still within distance-. ' If you 'do your own washing, then c hero is good news-for you. Try a v tin of Washine.- It will Jielp you ' end pi/ass you. Sae list of store- l keeper? ffijjlj stock" it." ' t

The Exhibition \jomnritteo willhold, a meeting at tho Council Chambers on Wednesday evening at 7 .'3O, when the Mayor will preside. A meeting of creditors in the estate of K. P. Hansen will be held at 11.30 on Friday next, at the office of the D.O.A. Mr Rufus Isaacs, K.C., M.P., when a member of the junior bar, had oc- • casion to vis'it Parliament-house, Westminister, and marched boldly . through the Palace-yard. He succeeded in getting past the policeman ' who, however, detected him a second or two later, and overtaking him, 1 confronted" him with the question : . " Excute me, sir, but are you a member ? " " Not yet," was the reply, " but I am going to be soon." " I hope you will, sir," said the policeman, " but, meanwhile, would you mind going round the other way ? " "That ' meanwhile,' " commented Mr Isaacs, " lasted twelve years." He was elected to Parliament a few months ago. A MOST HONOURABLE DISTINCTION. The Western Medical Review, a medical publication of the highest standing, says, in a recent issue : 'Thousands of physicians in this and other countries have attested jthat Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Exj tract is not 0 "ly reliable, hut that I it has a pronounced and indisputable i superiority over all other preparations of Eucalyptus," Your health is too precious to bo tampered with, therefore reject all products foisted upon you by unscrupulous merqeranoes, and insist upon getting Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract, the only preparation recommended by your physician and the medical press. In coughs, colds, fevers, diarrhoea, kidney diseases, the relief is instantaneous.. Wounds, ulcers, burns, 6prain4 etc., it heals without inflammation. As a mouthwash (5 drops to a glass of water) it prevents de- , cay of teeth, and destroys all disease germs.* Do you dread washing day ? Then . buy a tin of Washine and cheer up. , See a list of storekeepers who stock it. A 6d tin sufficient for a week's washing.* '' • ' [ NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ' Wr Jury.—Good,'quiet mare for sale. White's Good Value Grocery.— Ho- , ney fon sale. Eggs wjinted. , Lost.—ln mail train, costume > coat. f Exhibition Committee.—Meeting tor morrow night. i Taranaki Guards.—Coimpany par- - ades April Hth and 18th.. I ™^___ m