LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7832, 26 May 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL .

The next sitting of tho. Supreme Court will be held on Monday, June 19, whence it will be adjourned from I the 1 :>t h.

"ii - Major JlcCleland and Cha Mi-Caplain Evans were n«i'>n» th- iiiceis present at t"be voluni'er In '' in Thursday.

'■ i in? operations arc being iy pushed on at the Moturoa site, land satisfactory progress made. The nature of tho stratum being pierced is hard sandstone.

In the early part of last Saturday morning the fog was so thicE in Wellington that many of the cleo trie tramcars had all their lights I switched on.

Government officials htive made an inspection of the late Mr Charles: Hid will's Tawaha estate, the pur ehasc of which is under negotiation' IjV tho Government.

Tt is reported that a £lo'-notci was recently picked up on the Ashburton Trolling Grounds, Canterbury. From its soiled and dirty a|>pearance if had evidently been lying there for some months', and it is supposed to have Ibeen lost about the time of the last Ashburton show.

Tho Wellington Industrial Association on Tuesday received tho picture presented by Mr E. M. Smith, M.H.R. It contains photographs ol |iho Taranaki exhjibit at the Wellington Industrial Exhibition of 1885, of the Titanic Steel and Iron Works, asd tho founder, Mr E. M Bmlth.

With reference to our report of the Hall-by-the-Sea deputation yesterday it was Mr Frank Roberts, 'the, promoter, who explained the scheme to Sir Joseph Ward and not Mr J. A' Roberts. We understand the formal application to the Railway Department, accompanied by the plans, were despatched to Wellington by yester'dety morning's mail.

Steps are being taken in Dunedin to form a State Schools Defence League on lines similar to those upon .which an organisation was recently established in Wellington, with tlie object of maintaining the present tfvstem of free, secular, and compnlsor.v education in the primary schools of the colony ; and at a preliminary private meeting, which was held recently, arrangements were made 'for holding a public meeting at which the league will be launchad into existOnco.

Referring to th« case exposed byMr Taylor in Christchurch.the Hon. Hall-Jones, shaking at Auckland, said the matter would have the immediate attention of Parliament. When the House met '■legislation, would be introduced providing for a njore reasonable time for the commencement of prosecutions in such cases. They must prevent su'ch scoundrels going free. The case where a young woman was strangled by a strait waistcoat in a private hospital proved that these institutions roquired closer inspection by Government officials, and this would also come before the House newt session.

Which district hat the tallest people '? The district of Galloway, in the south of Scotland, comprising the counties of Wigtown and Kirkcudbright, where tho records of stature give an average height of sft lOJin, without shoes ; while tho northernmost or border counties of England have a decided superiority over tho rest of England and Wales. With respect to the British Isles, the order of superiority in stature is land 67.;ii>in., Ireland 67.90 in.. England 67.33 in., and Wales (i(i.6<iin. The shortest slaturo is found in. Wales, the Welsh Border counties, and the south-west of England. The Midland and Eastern counties, occupied by people of more purely Saxon dercent, are of medium size.

A smart piece of work was porformled by the the Wanganui Meat Freezing Company's lighters on Saturday, Which is- worthy of placing on record. The Tyiser liner Indralema arrived at 9 o'clock in the morning and anchored in the roadstead, leaving again at 4 o'clock the following morning, having transhipped over 9000 carcases of mutton and 160 bales ot wool. The last load taken out by Captain Connor, the popular skipper in charge of the lighters', was in the facei of a heavy sea, which foat surprised Captain Hainey, th« Murine Superintendent of the Tyscr Line, who, in addition to praising the seamanship disnlayed by Captain Connor, expressed the opinion that Wanganui possessed the best lightering service in the colony.

As Mr J. It., Lundon waw crossexamining a witness who had turnd King's evidence in the Supremo Court Auckland, on Monday, aiwt both counsel and witness were exchanging. comments. His Honor insisted upon Mr Lundon confining himself to asking questions. "Really," said His Honor, "you are wasting time in a most scandalous limner." To this Mr l,undon rcpl od hat he had only been on his feel or six minutes. " Yes," retorted lis Honor, " nwl during that timo ou have wasted four of them." "That is a matter of opinion," re.liod Mr Lundon, in a low tone. Hs Honor caught the remark, and ith considerable emphasis, said,

"Go on, sir. (Jo on Mr Lundon. and don't be impertinent to me." Mr Lundon then proceeded.

A fresh development in the cotton manufacturing industry is springing up in Lancashire. The dyeing of cotton goods is becoming almost a lino art with many manufacturers, who are sparing no expense in carrying ut improvements iu old methods. In the Walkdcn and Swin ton district, near Manchester, hundreds of well-paid workpeople are employed in the dyeing, departments in the weaving mills, and at one of the largest in the Walkden district German experts are engaged to introduce up-to-date German processes, of which dyeing is one. Keen com pet ion exists amongst makers of fancy and coloured cloths for the production of the finest effects, and high prices are obtained for the goods, many of which are destined for Turkey, Persia, and other Eastern countries. Expert Lancashire dyers may be found occupying comfortable positions in mills on tho Continent and in India.

When it was intimated at tho meetling of the Auckland Education Board .that a vacancy had occurred upon | the stall of the Newtown Manual and training School, through the marriage of the cookery instructress, Mr C. J. Parr remarked that the matter raised a very important ,i||Uestion. "Here," he said, "we are importing people into the colony at, a very great expense, and then they run oft and get married. That means of course, that when we import Mie next one wo must stipulate in tho 1 contract that they must remain in state, of single blessedness for from three to live years at least," " Yes," remarked Mr George George, director of Techina,! Education " it is very necessary that there should be some such stimulation." The Chairman (Mr S. Luke) : Of course that only applies to females. "Yes, yes," rcpjlied Mr George, u nd the subject then dropped.

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An exciting trnm incident occurredj in New South Head-road, Sydney, re-.j cently. A car which left Hose Bay for the city about 8 o'clock got beyond the control of the driver near Darlinjr Point-road, and dashed down the hill for a considerable distance. Finding thnt his efforts to bring the | tram to o standstill were ineffectual the driver sounded his gong regeat- ' edly in order to warn the vehicular and pedestrian traffic. A timl>cr cart was unable to (jet clear of the tram, which' crashed info it. and caused tile driver to be thrown into the road. A calf was) also run over and killed. At last the car whs sto'tel at the foot of the hill at the l<n.-.houtter Hay power-house. Mr Kn . shaw, train/ way superintendent, stated that the accident was caused by the driver ! losing control of the car. The brakes' were examined, and found to be in good order.

Perhaps tho most, remarkable and most diffcult trip ever made by a woman for the purpose of obtaining a divorce is that just accomplished jn, Alaska by Mrs Georgians Place, a young woman who obtained the decree of separation from her husiband on March 17th at Fairbanks, in the territory. As the slory is told in » i special despatch from Fairbanks, Mrs Place truAcllod 500 miles on a. I dog sludge, and alone, from Hetties to the place whore her petition was heard. She had a team of four dogs and nmde the trip about as success—fully and expeditiously as anybody but a trained Alaskan courier could i have made it, hut she endured severe. hardships l . She says tho trip ■ was | especially difficult becaus-e she had only her ordinary costume in which travel.' On the YuEon she came j near losing Jier life,' when she was ' from the sledge into an air hole. She saved liersylf' (tyy grusping ■ one of the slcd-runners. Mrs Place is a small siended woman, bluix>yod and | comely. She charged her 'husband witto cruelty, and as there was n<» defence the divorce was promptly granted. She stated that she was married at San Francisco on January 14th, 1892. The husband, from whom she has Ibfeen separated for some time, is* supposed lo be iry. Seattle or ono of the other Puget bound cities.;

A reader supplements an anecdote of Mjiss Maud MacCarthy which n|>peared in a, recent number of M.A.P. b .VT the following charming;, incident of the rcmankable young violinist's early days Miss MacCartiiy passed some of her earliest years in Sydney, N.S.W., ■where she was even at thai tune a diligent student) of the violin. One day, when she was still a very little girl, she was walking in tha park with her nurse, when she noticed a small ragged boy, who was trying to earn a few coppers by dint of scraping out some tune on a, vie lin. little MacCarthy, in an impetuous way, offered to play for him, as she wished to help the poor boy, and none of the passers-by appeared to notice him. The boy, however. evidently doubting the ability of the little girl, younger than hiniseli, refused to part with his violin even for a moment, l'cr.sua.sion being useless little Maud suddenly had a happy inspiration. Opening her own purse, she gave the small sum it contained to the boy, who. thus being assured, handed her his violin. Maud MacCarthy began to play, ami such was the marvellous wn.v in which she showed her power over the instrument, that first one person and then another stopped to listen, till soon a crowd had gathered. The girl played on, quite lost in her music, till the nurse (who had been too surprised at her charge's act to intcrlerc. before), made her stop playing. Maud then told the boy to take off his cap, in order to collect the coins which were bestowed freely, and the generous little girl went off with her nurse, happy at seeing that the little street musician, instead of being rewarded only by a few pence, was astonished and delighted as many silver pieces fell among the coppers in tho cap which he held in his hands. A MCTST HONOURABLE DISTINC-

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