LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7838, 2 June 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Applications for various positions at tho Durham Road, Matau andPurangi, Awatuna, and Xon'olk P.oad schools are invited by the Education Board until Saturday,, Juno 25. j A northern contemporary points a moral: It says that ii'large "wholesale firm doing business in'the colony is issuing postcards with an illustration of the article the.v manufacture, and bearing the words—"Patronise local industry." 'lhe card itjself hears (he imprint—"Printed in Germany 1 "' The proposed development work at the Westland reefs is looked upon in AVc.'tport as lik#]y to result in permajiKnt good. TJ\e Westport T!irjs reports that a Kanieri lirm has already pegged a couple of busiiness sites on the upper route to the Westland reefs, near the place where tin township of the future is likely to be reared when development work is under way. Ai\ incident al Cornell University (U.S.A.') has attractod attention all through the country. lioljert .Vc'iurman, a son of the President, did not show proficiency in his ntu-dies. and; his father placed him under the sanu di-.ciplino us the other students. lie was subsequently expelled, and told to earn his own living, as unworthy of further assistance. He is now at the Groton Bridge works working at a wage of 3s a day, and studying mechanical engineering at the same time. The ne\w steamer Arahuro,- which was launched on the Clyde last week, has been built to the order of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. The steamer is intended f u r . the Island trade. She is similar in design to the Navua, and will have accommodation for 90 saloon and 40 second-class passengers. Her dimensions are : Length 320 ft, breadth 44 ft, draught 20.8Sft, gross tonnage 1500, and with a speed of 12J knots an hour.

On May 15 David Scanlon, who was' employed at a sawmill in the Incerell district, N.S.W., met with a tumble accident, which resulted fatally at the Inveroll hospital. He wus engaged chopping off a log which had fallen across.a gully. The log suddenly gave way, throwing him on some rocks, injuring t,he spine, and paralysing him completely. The accident happened! ini a Jonety. i«]ace in the hush, and Scanlon, perfectly conscious, lay helpless for over three hours before he was found, j V Colonel of Volunteers at Christchurch was able to tell an audience the other night that J>e could,' lay claim to what wus probably a uniquo experience. He was at the sham light at Hillsborough in 1864, and at the battle of Shctlield in AiWfl, ,iaving had forty years of volunteering in and around Chrislchurc'h. Ho could claim even an earlier connection with the movement, for when the lir-;t company was formed he lent it the latist drill-book,- brought by him .from England in 1839. During the post live years the. trade at the Masterton railway station is staUd to have just about doubled. When a deputation of loea,' business men waited on Mr Arthur (Traflic Suicrintendent),. comparisons wore made between freights received in 1900 and 1905. For a given jeriod in 19uo the amount was £15:17, and for the corresponding period of the pre em year £»2IK), or a little more than double. Commenting on this fact, remarks a lorc.J paper, Mr Arthur said that if Masterton Continued to progress a s it had done in the past few years, it would soon be numbered among .he cith's of ISew Zealand.—Masterton Times. Referring to Private Humphries' ;coro in the Government shooting, ihe Inglewood Heeord says.—lt is merely history repeating itself, as has father and two uncles, in the old. days,- invariably figured—and figured ••liglily loo—in all firing contests of importance, foia.ving on inure Lham one occasion been very close to the) champion belt in particular, ' when Air T. Humphries lost it by an unfortunate error in instructions, by A'hich he lircd at the wrong targc'i, and though scoring bull's -eye, had unfortunately to be credited onij. w ; ,th a miss and so lost the belt by a point.

When ajipi'oachiijijgt Whaiigaino'niona on Tuesday evening, says the Stratford Post, the buggy containing the Chairman and several members of the Laud Commission, Mr Stfiipson (Commissioner of Crown Lands), Air liarron (Crown Lands Hanger), and nhers, met with ~ slight ini.*ap, the pole breaking off. As it was too dark to effect repairs it was decided lo leave the buggy on the roadside, and the party tramped three or four mil.s th.-ough the mud to Whangamomona, arriving there one and a half hours after the others, u nd just in time to stop a relief partiwhich was setting out to render assistance.

While on duly on Wednesday night Constable dc Lorce discovered that a tradesman had unwittingly ofTered a premium to burglary, by leaving open the window in his premises in Devon Street. In order, evidently, to facilitate a visitor's operations the gas was left burning, and best of nll.'the safe was wide open. The owner no doubt received a scare on going to business on Thursday morning, for the cash box was missing, the constable having considerately put it in safe keeping at the police station, This is_ not the first occasion on which tnV police and night watchman have found doors and windows open to the mtiin street.

At tho Magistrate's Court, Christchurch', lately. Mrs Florence Neville cbimc* £6O damages from S. H. Morcton, an artist, for injuries received as a i\sult of the defendant's assaulting. lior. The plaintiff's acount of the affair was .that shei went to the defendant's studio to speak to him regading her father's affairs, when the defendant became angry and dragged her downstairs, ljumpp'd her head on the footpath,: and put her face in the street gutter. When she returned to the building he emptied two buckets of wafer over her. Tho defendant stated that, he carried the plaintiff downstairs, placing one of his hands over her mouth to stop her screaming. She .had indulged in a perfect torrent of abuse, and threatened to remaii.ii on 'the landing and show him up to his pupils. Ho den'od that he had bumpled her, on the footpath or put her in tho gutter, anil alleged that she had thrown a brick at him. other evidence was tp the effect ttt'al the plaintiff and defendant had a regular fight, the plaintiff Hying a t Moreton like a cat, and Homing lo do all I lie lighting. The magistrate fined the defendant £lO and posts. Do you dread washing flay » Then buy a tin of Washinc and cheer up See a list of storekeepers who stock >t. A 6d tin sufficient tor a week's washing.*

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When the Shipping and Sean.eij's Act of 1903 was passed by the New Zealand Legislature, provision was nade for the issue of service certificules up to tho 31st December, 19t>l. The act did not receive the Imperial assent until April, 1005, and many iof those who were qualified to receive ' ei'Urc.ites did not put in their applij al/ons in Li inc. It will, therefore, I r.ibably be necessary during the ensuing session of Parliament to make provisions for dealing with applications which have come in since April Ist up to the present date. These service certificates! apply chiefly to those running small coasting sfoam•rs and those connected with, home trade, who by reason of their lengthy uxiierienco at sea, are .exempt from •xaminulion for certificates as provided by the act.

The sugar-phinters in' Hawai- iaro j trying to supplement Japanese lahouri by the introduction for ten years of tO.OOO Chin.'se coolies under an indenture labour system similar lo that by- which the mine-owners have introduced Chinese coolies into the Transvaal. The Japanese are gradiaily gaining control of one line ol industrv after another, and in .spite ol h'ir polotical disability are Japanising the country. The Californian Legislature has passed a joint resolution favouring, restricted Japanese immigration. 'J he New York Outlook says •.—'■'Hostility to a ra«e be;ausc of their skill and efficiency, and a concerted effort to replace imof high intelligence by oth- [ -is of a lower grade of ability and: character, indicate, it Beams to us, I Jot a yellow peril, but a white onehe peril of bigoted commercialism."

Quitean amusing little incident in relation to the pronunciation of the names of the Russian admirals a-nd warships happened in the Auckland Supreme Court on Tuesday, says the Auckland Herald,, when His Honour stopped the business in order that the contents of an extra edition! containing the news of a crushing defeat inflicted upon Admiral Rothdcstvenski by Admiral Togo might be read. This task was entrusted to Mr J. C. Martin, one of the counsel cngasci in the case proceeding, who [Signified his willingness. The task, however, was harder than he anticipated. The first paragraph was all plain sailing, but on coming to tr.'Q name of Admiral Nlcib'ogntoff, Mr Martin seemed puzzled as to how to pronounce it. Seeing that counsel was somewhat embarrassed. His Honour came to his assistance, and pronounced the name. However, thcro was worse toi follow—the pronouncian'on of the names uf the captured warj-hips. But Mr Martin was equal to the occasion. Instead of reading ihe names of the various warships, he announced that,so many first and second class battleships, and so many! armoured and protceied cruisers had been either lost or captured. II was thus that the situation was saved, and the honour and the dignity of the Court upheld'.

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