LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7818, 10 May 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Sierra, with the Ilomewaivl mail, arrived at San Francisco at 6 a.m. on Monday. It is sta'ed that there arc 1990 less children ult.nding public schoola ;n Can. rburv than was the. case in 1895. The I'ublic Works Department has |acceptv I the tender of Mr A. I!. Burroll, (Jluwera), at £2OB, for addiItioi.s to the Stratford Courthouse. The Post hears on good authority .that Mr Newton King has effected 'the sale of property in and around ' Stratford in value over £IO,OOO, to a New Plymouth investor. ! The London Star's little joke over the Australian jam scandal : " We understand that the 12-ounce pound of jam supplied to troops in South Aflica were old stock left over from .the Trojan war. In Troy weight 12 'ounces made a pound." I The motion to exclude the press from committoe meetings was moved by Cr. llrooking, and not by Cr. , Colli.*, as inadvertently s'.atod in Tuesday's issue. Cr. Collis was in favour of the proceedings in committee being reported as hitherto. ; The Christchurch Hospital Hoard j rejected a proposal that the meiiijbers of registered friendly benefit socitics in the hospital district shonld receive hospital treatment at half the usual rales, tho mover and seconder alone supporting the. proposal. Yet one more has been added to the list of newspapers in New Zealand. Mr Frank Hyde, formerly of Wellington, having sold his paper at Winton, in Southland, has started a new one called The Otauhau 1 Standard and Wallace County Chronicle. We have to acknowledge receipt of a copy of the fifty-sixth annual report of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, which sets forth in plain figures the very satisfactory condition of the affairs of this, one of the most successful institutions in

the Australasian colonies. Wo remind our readers of the tea meeting and concert to bo held this evening at Whitelcy Hall. Tea will be served at 6 p.m., and the concert will commence at 7.30. For the latter a varied and recherche programme has been arranged, and this part of the proceedings promises to be most enjoyable. Occasion will be taken to extend a welcome to Mr H. Foston, who has been appointed to the charge of the c'narjje u! the Coast Mission.

A partv from Mastcrton who were out shooting on the Tararuas had a very good day's sport. They secured good bags of pigeons and shot al'o some mountain ducks ana pigs There was abundance of game, including pigeons, ducks, paroquets. huias, wild pigs, and cattle.

Over 20,000 acres of the Moa Flat station, Otago. has been allotted to feleqtors, leaving a balance of «>.- 000 acres that has not been taken up. The- Cliitha Free Press states that the allotment is hanging lire on account of the ailtitude oE the 1 property and the distance from the market.

An old man named Thomas Simpson was found l.\ Ing on Taupo Quay Wanganui;, on Monday mornina 1 y the poiKce. having taken sud lenly ibl. He was conveyed to ihi hospital or medical attendance. The Wans«wuii Herald states that the police would be glad '.f nnyon; could them information concTnißi} ilr> man's relatives, ui h i: view of procuring assistance for him. Ho pieviously resided in OpumV<e, and states that he has a relative in some part of AucWlttnd city.

The Ttov. A. iO. Williams, who has charge of the. Anglican Maori Mission an Wnnganui and Jtangitikei, writes to the Church Chronicle to correct an apparent inaccuracy in the. pfaamphlet on the mission published by the llishop of Waiapu. He writes :—" It reads as though during the past twenty-four years onlyISO Te Whitiites have returneM to tho church, whereas the number would be nearer 1500, and as though only ono church had been built during that time. Of course, this only refers to the present year (1904). The number of churches built in this i district during the past twenty years, is nine, also ono parsonage and one schoolhouse."

At a meeting of the Wellington Philosophical Society a member (Mr Christie) gave details of a remarkable struggle between a spider and a hairy caterpillar. The spider attempted to devour the caterpillar, ta-king one enid into his mouth, but was incommoded by the creature's coiling round Wis body. Then .he tried the other end with a like result, 'tfh'c observer went for his camera, buC on his, return found the combat over, the caterpillar retiring with the loss of one or more rings and "a lock of Wis hair." Professor Kirk said the observation regarding tho caterpillar was very interesting. It had not hitherto been known to naturalists that any spider would attack creatures of this iclass.

The experts in wireless telegraphy have been greatly puzzled by the following incident, says a London paper. The captain of the steamship llermudian, when 380 miles out from New York, sent a wireless message to the agents, in spite of his operator's protest that it would be usoless to transmit it, because it was impossible that it could b.e received. The agents got it, however, but onJy by mail from Cleveland, Ohio. The message had skipped every other wireless telegraphy station, and chosen an operator 900 miles away,, who had no idea of itt coming, but who received every signal with the utmost clearness. Mr J. A. GJlruth related rather a funny incident, to show the Ignorance of the average farmer concernind* diseases in stock, in the course of his address at Eketahun a on Saturday last, says the Express. lie said that ho had been summoned to the north by a report that cancer was spreading amongst stock with alarming rapidity. He went up post haste, and on Iris arrival was shown a beast with something wrong with its eyelid. .This was really a small! wart, .whicK he (Mr Uilruth) removed. Tho owner of the animal, howaver, then pressed the eye and disclosed what 'ho declared to he genuine cancer. Other animals were examined, and each presented the same symptons. The " genuine cancer," in this case, was nothing less than the third eyelid, which, apparently without the Knowledge of the farmer, I was present in every beast !

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In compliance with the request of a. large number ol local playgoers, Mr George Musgrovo has altered his original plan ol playing two nights of "Sweet Nell of Old Drury," o\\ May 22 and 23. "Old 1 leldelbcrg" will ho played on Tuesday, May 23,

A story is going the rujmris of diplomatic society in Herlin concerning Count the, .lapanese Minis ir, and Count von llulow, the German Chancellor, reports M.A.I'. it, arises out of a conversation! which took place at a dinner party. Count von Hulow, who occasionally indulge!! in light banur, addressed the .lapanese diplomat somewhat as loMows :—'"Yon must know, Count Tnouyoi," he said, "that wo Germans are beginning to be quite inordinately proud of the Japanese. You are the most apt pupils we have ever had. You lr.ive gathered from us your tactics. Your strategy is .Vso German, and so is your artillery. Nearly all your doctors have studied in Cirmany. You have even imitated us by inaugurating a social democratic movement in Japan." "Most true, Count von Hulow," replied tho Japanese Sinister. "Hut there is one tilling we do not share with yon." "What is that?" the German Chancellor was rush enough to inquire. "Why, the fear of Russia," was,the diplomat's reply. W : oods' Great Peppermint Cure, lor

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