LOCAL AMD GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7800, 17 April 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AMD GENERAL.

The first Maori was returned t > the New Zealand Parliament forty years ago yesterday, Messrs Rowley and Griffiths report having sold Mr ,Youngiunn's bush farm of 220 acres, at Urenui, to Mr Jas, of Fielding. David Hogg, aged 1(> years, amused himself with a, revolver. As a'result the Wanganui Hospital has a patient suffering from a bullet wound in the thigh.

The eie-tion for two members to serve on the Waitara West Hoad llonrd will bo held on Wednesday, May 3, nominations to close nt uoon on Wednesday, April 26. Amongst tho proceeds of t.he last weekly wages clujque f< r this ollice was a note on which iva.. endorsed —" Good-bye, my true and faithful pal." . .. Neixhess to say the pathos of thy Hentimcnt was keenly felt by this proprietor on the note over to one of the stuff. A recital of the magnificent new organ of St. Mary's Church is to be given on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 2(5, by Mr .J. M. Harnett, of Wellington, one of the leading organists of the colony. The recital, which has Iv.'n timed to enable country visitors to attend, sbould not be missed by musiclovers.

A farmer near Dapto, New South Wales, had to burn a haystack beeau.se it had become positively alive with black snakes. Alter the lire the remains of no fewer than 110 snakes —ranging from eighteen inches to five feet in length—were counted. Other farmers teil of a plague ofi snakes appearing along the Australian coast. The Wellington staff of the Hemp Grading Department hus been kept exceptionally busy throughout the summer season, and there is little or no sign yet of any slackening in th 6 volume of work. Eight thousand bales of flax were dealt with last month, and there are now between three and four thousand bales in the Harbour Board sheds awaiting grading or shipment. In regard to the case heard in tha S.M. Court recently, Roberts v, D. Alexander, in 'which the defendant was fined for striking tho complainant with a horsewhip, we under-

stand that the total amount of the fine and costs, £7 Is, has been publicly subscribed by the ICont Road residents and presented to Mr Alexander at a mark of sympathy at the result of the legal proceedings. The system of indicating by a cross on tho ballot paper the proposal or proposals favoured by the voter, was tried for the first time in Wellington in connection with a poll on loan proposals. Within an hour and twen-ty-five minutes from the closing ,of the I poll every result had been noted, and five minutes later the totals had been made tip and checked. The Returning Officer (Mr James Ames) said the system had proved to be an unqualified success*. During the last month Mr S. Rout), of Auckland, mude a collection of donations in the town to provide

school libraries, etc., with books. As a result of this effort, 4(10 books have been forwarded as follows : The High School, 10 ; Central School, 90 ; South Road School, 60; Church of England Sunday School, 40 ; Methodist, 40 ; Primitive Methodist, 35 ; Presbyterian, ty"> ; Baptist, 33 ; Salvation Army, .15 ; Carrington I toad Sunday School, 20; also gifts to the public reading room and the Old Men's Home. The Ilawera Star states- that the following "doggy" yarn was told by Mr Davis at the Dog Trial social on Wednesday night ; At a trial not long ago three men made bets as to whose dog could most satisfactorily pen some sheep. The first performed and after getting, the sheep in the pen placed his en the. gate and closed it. The l>ets™ere increased. Thi second dog similarly closed the gate, and picking up a pog fastened the gate. Tho third dog did similar work but after putting the peg in its hole rapped it three times with his head to make the peg hold firmly ! In a recent issue of the Wangnnui Chronicle appears a reprint from Truth of "a bona fide, vcrdatiin (sic) et literatum" reply sent by an illiterate writer to an advertiser for lodgings. Even such a trifling yarn is made to do duty Tor political purposes, for at tho foot it is stated "We understand that the tourist is slowly recovering, and that ho has written to Mr Seddon In praise o four

(sic) perfect education system," etc. There is some excuse for the errors of the ignorant, but it is evident that the mighty can err just as badly as the lowly.

The examinations conducted in Xew Zealand by the Education Department on behalf of the City and Guilds of London Institute and the Hoard of Education, South Kensington, will be held in the various centres about May ami June next respectively, The subjects of examination include, for the City and.Guilds, plumbing, electsic lighting, telegraphy, gas manufacture, carpentry, and joinery, also woodwork and cookery for teachers, and for South Kensington, tho various branches of drawing, painting, modelling, machinery and building construction, geometry, applied mechanics, physiology, and botany. Full particulars can be obtained from the chief inspector of the Taranaki Education Board (Mr W. E. Spencer). Applicat ons must reach tho Education Department, Wellington, by Aprif 80, when, according to the number i)f candidates entered, arrangements will be made for holding local examinations.

This story is. told of r. doctor in a New Zealand town, who owns a n'otor, but is noli vory n» a drive?. He was travelling down a street, when ho ran into and capsized a pedestrian, lie looked behind him and seeing the man still [ pone, made a circuit and turned back, inj,eifdinß to stop behind and help him. Hut t))p motor shot n yard or two beyond and hit the man again just as he was about to get up. The doctor turned his car once more, and was eautiouiijy stealing near to the prostrate sufferer, w!)<TI all excited spectator rushed from tile si4ii vv«(k, and shaking the victim, cxtilaimpd 'i Lopk >ut, hu'M coming at you agajn ! Whereupon the mini sura milled up and started to run. In this world it's not sutlicient to have good intentions'. You mu9t also be able to jlrfvej i. ..ui i ! 'lSifll Japan is setting many fashions, not merely afj tp firess, for in that respect the Japanese are copying rt'estern styles in place of tjfeir own costumes. Hut articles of Japanese manufacture are (says the London correspondent of the Argus) becoming as popular in England as Indian ware, and the latest institution that is finding recognition here is the Japanese method of physical txcrciso. Wrestling matches in the London halls " have opened the eyes of the Uritish public to the advantages of jiu-jitsu. This is not an article of footJ of drink, but the lutcome of athletic t|'ajnjng whereby the smallest man may often defeat a rival twipe his size. One of the most romaj'kulble sights is Japan is to see two or three big European Jack Tars laid on their bu(jks and taken oil' to gaol by little Japanese policemen, hardly more than 5 feet high. These accomplishments are the result of physical and athletic training. The City of London poficc are l>ein<g taught some of the tricks and throws of jiu-jitsu. These men have an athletic club in Old Jewry, and many of them are undergoing a course of grips and throws under Japanese instruction I .' j'n onler thr better to deal w'jth thy •' enterprising burglar," and with other violent offenders against the peace of tho realm*

A singular case which arose under tiie New South Wales Arbitration Act s* st'l'il unsettled, Aji Ameiican ship, the Andromeda, arrived in Sydney, and proceed to discharge the crew who, when shipped, entered into contract to do the work in consideration of wljicli they were to receive £1 per month extra till discharged. The Wharf i.abourers' Union suitunoned the captain for breach ol that part oi the awtird which ■"ays that, "All cargo must, bo discharged by union men at union rates-." When the sumnions was served upon the captain, he calmly kicked the document overboard, for which tlio Court fined him £.">o, in addition to £3 for a breach of the common <uie, ajjd ordered him to cease discharging the ship wlfh h|s crew, alml to employ unionists at union rates. In a letter addressed to the Court, the captain said : " Out of courtesy to the Court, 1 shall comply with the oj'der under protest. I shall appeaf to my f)wj( Oqvepnment and shaid claim damages ior whatever I may suffer." The matter was referred to the American (Jovernmont am) a pliajin for damages was also made, through tl|o American Consul lon the Government of New Soutli ,Wales. Tlio affair ia still under consideration,

The recent Fire Brigades' demonstration at Dunedin resulted in a sur--1 plus of over £251), with which it ie proposed to endow six cats in the Dunedin Hospital, in tho name of the city and suburban brigades; ! During a heavy thunderstorm at Cranßie's Plains, Now South Wales, on March 23, a woman named Leonard, aged 46, whoi occupied a twoaoomcd cottage, was standing at her front door watching the storm, unother door at tho rear bt'ing open also. Suddenly tho woman wus thrown to the ground on her faco. Upon being examined no sign of life could be seen. A messenger at once went to town for a doctor, but he found thail life ' was extinct. No marks were on the body exvept a slight discoloration on the temple, where the lightning evidently struck her. Another woman in the room was also; thrown down, but was not badly injured. Pictures on the wall, and the lamp on the tublc, were smashed to atoms.

Mr (ieorgu H. Dixon, who has been selected manager of the New Zealand team to tour (1 real Britain this year, has had a wide experience of New Zealand football, lie was for over twenty years lion.' secretary to the Auckland Rugby Union, and the present satisfactory state of that body is due to the shrewd and administrative business abilities of that gentleman. He is at the present time the chairman of the New Zealand l.'nion, i and is a most energetic worker in all matters that tend toward the advvancement and development of tho Rugby game. He has an interest in the Auckland Observer and Wellington Free Lance. His business experience will bo of value to the Union in connection with the financial aspect of the tour.

In an interview in the March issue of the World of Dress, Mr George Bernard Shaw appears in the guise of a clothes philosopffcr. " I like to feel clean," he says, " and my great idea of clothes is' that they should be clean and comfortaible, as far as such a thing is possible in London. This, of course, excludes starch. I don't wear a thing ■ftirfch, after having been made clean and sweet, is tilled with nasty whHe mud, Ironed into, a 'hard paste, and made altogether disgusting. To put such a garment 6n niy person, wear it, tnovo in it, perspire in it—horrible ! The shiny white tubes on the wrist, tho shiny' front of the shirt, tho shiny black boot, the rainproof trouser leg,- the japanned l zinc sleevethat is your fashionably dressed looking like a.gold black,'taded stove with asbestos fuel. The great tragedy of the average man's life is that Nature refuses to cmifo.'Ci to the cylindrical ideal, and when the marks of his knees and elbows begin to appear in his cylinders he is filled with shame."

The startling discovery that the bulkheads in some of our modern warships are perfectly useless to resist sea-water pressure was made during a recent inspection of the Channel fleet. By order of the admiral, tho steel walls of all the spirit-rooms were shored up with battens and uprights, and water was then pumped in. Long before the compartments in several of the ships were full the water-tight doors and wa'lss began to give, and buqklod several trwles. Dad the rooms been filled with water, as they might be in event of collision, and had there been"lio shores, the walls would inevitably have burst, and tho other bulkheads gone In turn, with disastrous results. Pumping was not continued far enough to cause an actual outburst, but the movement of the walls was accurately measured from the shores which had been ••rected.

A swindle perpetrated on tho confiding section of the Auckland community as far buck as 1895 has recently been expoeoJ(says the Star). A topyKattcd and frock-coated foreigner with extensive powers of persuasion "induced a number of people, mostly of the artisan class, to invest £1 in n " Tontine Geiellschaft," organi.'ed, so he said, at Frauenlob, Magdeburg, Germany, the assets of which were to be divided every live years, tho first distribution being in Januray, 1000, About that date " mombers " tuf the tontine began to make inquiries as to their share of the profits, but repeated applications brought no response beyond a return of the letters. The tontine had no existence outside the fertile brain of the foreigner, the membership tickets had been printed hero, and with the proceeds the alleged agent skipped, having five years' start of His dupes, There is (i German proverl) to the that tho supply of fools never Jails, and this was apparently tho experience of the inventive foreigner, who is- probably nowworking the same swindle in other lands.

An impudent attempt to break into the Taihape Post Office was made early on Wednesday morning, n-liich luckily, waa tmsuccesWlul. About 1.30 o'clock Mr G. Browne, who sleeps on the premises, heard a key tumbling in the front door of the public delivery room. Hfe person, findinig fh e attemp.t unsuccessful, then went round to the back of the building and tried a window first, then the back door. Mr Browne at once went to the back door and unlocked it, and the would-be burglar fled, making his escape across the section next the Tost Oflle?. The night was too dark to ronder pursuit possible, ar even to allow the man to be identified. The matter has, however, been given into the hands (>;' the pol'ice, who are investigating. The intruder was apparently a stranger to Taihape, as, if he had opened the front door of the public rpopi, he ivould l)ave had to open an inside door, This emphastsies the need for a proper Post Office, as tho present building is not too secure. There are two safes in the building, one containing registered letters and the other -holding cash, stamps, and postal notes, etc., so that a nice haul might have been made by an experienced burglar.— Taihape Post.

Shareholder? of tfip Equitable Building Society will pot? that subscriptions will be payable at the society's office, Curric-street, to-day, Monday, between the hours of 9 a.io, and 12.30 p.m., 1.3Q p.m. and •> P.m., W d f p -. m . 0 Paj-Cela and papkagep frqjn. all centres in Now Zealand to New Plymouth or vice varsa at fixed through ates. The New Zealand Express Jompany, Ltd.

If you do your own washing, then here is good news for you. Try a tin of Washino. It will help you and please you. See list of storekeepers who stock it.*

Kheumafjsm ifi onp of tho most painful diseases. Many are bont and physically disabled b.v tho torture and suffurlngn inflictyd by this drendlul .scourge. The dißenao may settle in the large muscles of the back, neck or thigh ; in the joints of the arms or legs ; or the pains may durt from"~one muscle to another. The pains may be constant or occasional. but all are produced by the same cause—excess of uric acid in the blond. JtHEI'MO ig the best, '(.ho only curp for rheumatic pains. It neutralises and drives out tho poisonous fluid, relieves the pain, removos tho swelling, and effects a speedy and permaiiont euro. A trial will satisfy you of its merits. Sold by all chemists and stores at 2s Cii and 4s (id « bottlo, 3 A MOST HONOURABLE DISTINC-

TION. The Western Medical Review, a medical publication of the highest standing, says, in a recent issue : 'Thousands of physicians in this anil oth t ir conn}ri<-£ havp attastpd that Satidef n n d Softs' Eucalypti Extract is not o i>ly reliable, hut that it has a pronounced and indisputable superiority over all other preparations of Kucalyptus." Your health is too precious to be tampered with, therefore reject all products foisted upojjyou by unscrupulous piet'gertinio3, antj insist upftn getting Sander and Sqns' Eucalypti Extract, the only preparation recommended by your physician anc| the mgdicaj press. In poughs, uslcls, fevers, diarrhoea, kidney the relief is instantaneous. Wounds, ulcers,*burns, f>pruing|. etc., it heals without inflammation. A[i mouthwash (S drops to u glass of water) it prevents decay of teeth, and destroys all disease germs.*