LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7810, 1 May 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Sydney—Vancouver despatch of March 21 arrived in London on the 26th inM>.

Dame Rumour hath it that there is u probability of (ho iiumLor of licensixi houses in' New Plymouth being .reduced by one before the end of the week.

The consolidation of the New Zealand staluus, upon which Mr W. A. Jolilfe, Crown law draughtsman, is engagcl, is expected to be ready (or presentation to Parliament in 1900.

A gen Human in this town who is constantly on the bike, and makes long journeys at that, testifies to the sustaining power of plnsinon biscuits, particulars of which appear in lour advertisement columns.

A private letter received in Palmerston recently stated that the epidemic of dengue fever in Queensland w : as proving disastrous to the various friemll'yj societies. Mirny lodgeswere paying as much as £OO per fortnight in sick pay.

While a drove of sheep, said to be from Wanganui;, was being taken over Spooncr's Hange to the Weil Coast of the South Island a few days ago, about one hundred of the animals' died from eatinjj tutu, growing on the roadside. Mr Newton King reports having sold Mr Cecil Arden's improved farm of 405 acres freehold, situated on the Puniho Road, Warea, to Mr A. C. Unrr, of Carrington Road, New Plymouth.

The Now Zealand Tourist Department, Wellington, on receipt of Information regarding the catch of liflc;?n trout weighing 1892 pound", which were on view in Timaru recently, wired instructions to have the catch photographed lor use hy the Department. The excess of deposits at tie Post Ofllce Savings Banks over tho withdrawals tor the lirst three months of the year was £142,000, compared with £3,000 for the corresponding period of the previous year. The Ouncdin district is responsible for £21,057 of. this amount. Sir ,iifred Jones, head of tie Liverpool shipping firm of Elder, JX-'inj)-ster, and Co., has offered to take engineering students at the Liverpool University free trips on his various steamers in oi-der that thoy may acquire practical experience in the on gino room, Whi

len oft Cape Deliverance on her last voyage to Hbburt, en route to England, two coal trimmers fell overboard from the steamer Moldavia. From the time the alarm was given till the men were rescued, and tho steamer again on her way, only 22 minutes elapsed.

The Union Steam Ship Company has 'decided to exchange the running of the Takapuna and Hotoiti on Tuesday next, alter which date the Rotoiti will bo the Tuesday night boat for Onehunga, the Takapuna making the run on Thursday and Saturday nights at the usual hour.

The refreshment rooms at which a number of ladies partook of afternoon tea, at Mr O. Tisch's invitation on Friday afternoon, at the conclusion of the meeting convened by him, were Miss Buxton's Burlington Tea Rooms, and not the Empire Tea Rooms, us inadvertently stated in Saturday's issue.

Two bridges are nbout to be cieqte'd on the Midland railway. The Goat creek bridge will have Ax spans of COft and a total length of milft The Rolleston bridge, wTiich will be two miles beyond, will have "eight spans of 60ft, and a total length of 484 ft. The bridges are to be completed within fifteen months of the signing of tHo contract.:

The days of good investments, says the Taller, are gone. The discovery

of America, according to documents found in the archives of Genoa, cost a little more that £I4OO. The fleet of Columbus was of the value of about £6OO, while the sa.aiy of the admiral amounted to £6O a year. The two captains who accompanied the expedition received a salary of £4O, and the lnembt rsl of the crew were paid at the rale of 10s per month each. Columbus evidently got nothing for his share of the job. Since the beginning of the your, (Wtyes a W'eslland correspondent), a yofmg lady suffering from consumption has ibeen Jiving exclusively in a tent idaced on the slopis of one of our West Coast hills. Sceptics placed very litt.e faith in this ■■ open air cure," especially in this region of changeable weather ; hut opposition to the new -modo of treatment is

being swept away as an outcome of the benefit that has accrued to tho patient after less tlion four lntnLhs' trial. 'Phe trustees of the Greymouth Hospital, acting, on" the ad,vice of the medical superintendent, recently authorised the ncFessury outlay required in the adoption of similar treatment within the hospital grounds.

When the Civil Service Club was in process of formation some time ago, says tho Times), one of the supporters of tho scheme commented on the slight acquaintance of Civil Servants had with each other. A caso in point waa brought under notice at the meeting of the Land Board. The Commissioner (Mr J. Strauchon) found it necessasy to summon the Public Trustee (Mr J. W. Poynton) before a certain matter could be finally dealt with. On entering the Board room, Mr Poynton was introduced to different members of the Hoard by its secretary (Mr (!. Wright). "1 did not even know you by sight," fjpid Mr Strauchon to'Mr I'oynton, *• though I have worked in the same building for three vears."

A long review of the New Zealand Official year Book is contained in a recent issue of the Baltimore News, U.S.A. The American reviewer seems to have been most struck by the V'ear Hook's record that 200 newspapers ure supported by the population of 887,940, which this colony possesses. The Maori titles of some of the papers arc quoted, ijjid wonderment is expressed whether the newsboys manage to call out satisfactorily on the street. The reviewer observes that the evening- papers are the largest and best, naively adding that "the Evening News of Kimbolton is one of the best advertising mediums and most Conservative papers published in the whole colon v."

An important recent addition to the Chri.sU-hurch Museum is the skeleton of one of the smaller species of tho moa family, found by Mr O. (!. Meredith recently, on the sandlunes of the Whareama Beach. Tho specimen, which belongs to the spe'•ies Emucs crassus, is that of a powerful bird 4ft (sin high. The skeleton, which is almost perfect, is distinguished from all the rest in the ' museum by showing the tracheal rings and tarsal bones in position. It is also perfectly white, in striking contrast to tjhe dark brown of the other skeletons, stained by long ages of contact with moist soil contuin'ng vegetable matter. The largest Mtoa skeleton in the collection is that f the Dinornis maximus, 10ft Tin in Weight.

Speaking tit Shannon (savs the f'almerston Standard), Dr. Chappie, a director of the Makcrua Estates Company, said it might lit news that about six months ago a consignment of half a ton of New Zealand flax Was sent home to England by the company with which he was associated in order to have it experimented on with the new patented ixi-chlorido process for making paper. The first experiments were so successful that an enthusiastic, report was sent out to New Zealand. Since then there had been silence, hut hy n circuitous course it had come to lie known that the paper produced was or such a nature that 'the whole thing had been kept-(||uiet. and, moreover, an offer had gone Home from New Zealand to purchase the whole of the patent rights of the process for N e w Zealand. (Loud applause.)

An interesting storv of (he late Grand Duke Sergius is told in the Morning Advertiser. One dav a poor moujik, clothed in rags, entered one baker's shop after the other in Moscow, and asked for bread of the valii6 of a few kopecks, as he had not sufficient money to purchase a loaf. Everywhere he mcl'wilh a refusal. No baker would sell brood in so small a quantify. One baker pushed him outside the shop in a violent manner. Ihe moujik then full into the hands of a policeman, who handled him roughly. Suddenly the moujik took off his old man's wig and removed his dirty beard, and with a well-di-rected blow sent the policeman on the pavement. The moujik was no other than the- Oram! Duke Scrgius, Governor General of Moscow, who had assumed the disguise in order to convince himself of acts alleged •gainst some bakers. On the following day the policeman was dismissed land the bakers received orders .to ploS9 tlwir siipps temporarily.

Through' the agency of Mr T. E. Donne, at present, in England, the Tourist Department ha» placed an order with the famous Doulton Company for twenty porcelain baths for the Government Sanatorium at Rotoi'ua.

An experiment recently tried by a, Fire Brigade was using a new hose nozzle, the effect of which is to allow a straight jet to be directed on to the flumes- while a circular spray is forced out all round forming a [watery shield for the ninn behind it. The experiment was a decided success.

Thirty applications have been i\;oeived by the Wellington Education Hoard lor the position of third inspector. Out of this number twelve are from the Wellington province, Hid the teniaindor from, Otago, Canterbury, Auckland, Southland, West Coast (south) and Hawke's Kay. Ihe Hoard referred the applications

10 a kii-I.\ ommiltec, who will make a ric.iiiiineiKlalioii to u subsdiuent meeting of the Hoard. The lirst concert ;;f>en l.y the St. Jeciliu Choral Society will be held n St. Mary's Hall to-.norrow evennig. A most attrtu 'Vc programme f glees, part songs, madrigals and olus has- been arrange:), the whols tm be under _the direction of Mr G. 1-1. White. The performers include several iocal favourites, besides same well-known outside vocalists, and a large audience should

assemble to hear them. It is not generally known that' the linilis-h- Museum owed its origin to a Stole lottery. Mr l.ecky, who was himself a trustee of the llritish Museum, states that an instance of the employment of lotteries is deserving of speciul remembrance, as it is connected " with the origin of one of the most valuable of London institutions!. In 175 a lotteries were established to purchase the Sloane Collection and deposited in Montague House under the name of the Brittisn Museum."

Tho following is. one of the latest of American tall yarns :—A farm labourer in liarton township, Minnesota, while drunk, swallowed some liquid supposed to be nitroglycerine. On -his way home (says a telegram in a New York paper) he froze to death. Bis employer, finding his body, dragged it into .1 barn, where he lit a lire in the stove in the hope of thawing the man out. A little later the corpte, which had been left alone, exploded, completely destroying the barn and killing several animals ! A few months ago, says the Marl-

borough Press, St. Clair, the finest residence about Blenheim, was burnt to the ground" while the lessee was engaged a little distance away and his wife and children had gone for a trip down the Sounds for the day. A new residence on the sito was nearing completion, the builders were sleeping in the dining-room, one room was furnished, when, on Thursday morning between one and two o'clock, from some mysterious cuuse it was found to be all ablaze, and the, builders had only just time to get their tools out before tit was past saving. Mr George Edwards., the proprietor, will soon begin to think there is something uncanny about Sti. Clair. Mr ami ilrs Edwards are well known in .South Taranaki.

The Manaia paper says that Mr J. W. A. Bertram, brother of the Rev. Bertram, formerly of Ilaweru, who is the discoverer of a greenstone mine near Milford Sound, paid a visit to the district during the holidays. He had with him several specimens of the stone, which is of the rarest " tangiwai," or '•' kokotahgiwai." In kind, it being called by the natives the olden days, it is said, the Maoris priasd the small pieces of tangiwai that wore in circulation more than anything else—even human life itself. Mr Bertram, with a staff alt live or six men, has /bjeen working at the mini! for over two years, and possesses a schooner which keeps him in touch with civilisation. He is desirous of extending his and for that purpose is flonting the concern into a company, and in that connection is meeting with success

The annual meeting of the congre- | Station of St. Mary's Church will bo held tins evening in St. Mary's Hnl| at ..so; of Holy Trinity, Henui, on luesdny evening; and of St. Luke's Bell Block, on Wednesdnv evening' both ut 7.30.*

Shareholders of the Ktfuitabk. Ituilding Society (first and second group) will note that subscription* will be payable at the Society's office, Currie Street, to-dav, Moiulnv between the hours of 9 a.m. and V> 30 p.m., I.IiO p.m. .and .". p.m., and i p.m. and Dvp.m.*

Shareholders in the Sec-r.d Group of the Equitable Building Society (Star-Bowkelt) of New Plymouth ure notified that, subscriptions ure dm! ami payable at the society's office Currie Street, on Monday,' Jst Mav" 1905.* d '

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