LOCAL AMD GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7840, 5 June 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AMD GENERAL

Last year the ratepayers of A.shburton paid 2s in the £. The Council have just decided that a rate of Is i<sd in the. £ Will be'sufficient for this, year's requirements. A German professor of gymnastics maintains t>hat deep yawning practised as a regular exercise; is the cheapest and surest road to perfect health. The exjxinsion of the breast-bones and the stretching of the arms which accompany- a whole-hearted yawn, together with the fillipg of the lungs, forms a splendid dally exercise. The motor boat has invaded the romantic canals of Venice. The City: of VenHV has just established a transportation system of its own, and is operating fifty or more motor hosts through the eanals and lagloons, much as London might own street cars. , lent to on# halfpenny. •

" Speaking of sign-boards/' observed the Mayor of Christchurch recently,." that reminds me of a sign that Was erected in Colombo Road, Syd-„ entrain, over thirty years ago. It was. ovidontiy the v work of an amateur, was entirely innocent of punctuation marks, and read* as follows—- ' A Fish Tooth' Extractor and Well Bores;' " The Utter lack of fa-ith of many of the British working men in the churches and things religious (say a the Rev. L. M. Isitt) is undoubtedly due to tHe fact that the church a# a whole has been criminally coward and; srilofft with reference to their 'wrongs. : Tfic British working man may not bo. what he ought to be, bub the ccon-' omie conditions that hundreds and thousands of these people live under, arc absolutely damnable. , Mr David Laing reports the sale of the homestead and 17 acres on behalf of the Shuttloworth estate to Mr Hageusen, of Hawkc's Bay; 40 feet of frontage to King Street to Mr Jefteries, of Feilding, at £lO per fopt-; ; and the building site situated at the corner of Oover nnd I.emort Streets, on behalf of tho Kibell estate, to Mr Grant, of Inglcwood, who intends to erect an up-to-date? residence.

- 'Every effort is being made to ensure'the Fitzroy Fire Brigaae ball at the Drill Hall next Thursday being the great success of the season, 'the rapid way in which the brigade has come to the.front, coupled witty the fact that it has had to meet all the heavy expenses of equipment; gives it a good claim on public synVpathv, and the ball afTords a means :of giving that sympathy practical shape.

After the recent battle ol ITjda, on the Franco-Moroccan frontier, ber ween the Sultan's troop 9, who gar, rison the town, and the forces of the Pretender, eighty-six heads of th 0 latter's soldiers were brought In by the Moorish troops. 11>e Cfovernor of the town having promised a premium of 8s for every rebel head, the Moorish soldiers were sbon busily M}gag* od in decapitoting the insurgents-teft dead oft the field to obtain th<j bounty. The Pretender's force was (epuSsed, to the aid, of a hiilltiaftery of Frdnch frontier- afHllei'yi which tho Governor of I'jda sient for on hearinlg that the insurgents had guns. On Saturday morning, Mr Hutchison, S.M...gave his decision in the cases of William Corbett'nnd Archir mid CorWett, of Okato, who wore summoned on the previous dny for failing to sepfl their children.to school i-egularly. 11>«> Magistrate found thf irjl&nt inspector's charge proved in each case, and fined tho defendants 2s each, with tho costs of two witnesses,. Ilt regard to the allegation as to" irregularity .in marking the roll, Mr Hutchison remarked' that although the roll was, not marked on one occasion, the names being taken "down on a list for the reason explained by the headmaster, the denco was conclusive that it was kept with regularity.

'llie following answer was given Jby the Japanese Government to a question recently put by Mr Hanai and other mcirjbcrs of the Diet as to whether the Government recognised the-existence, of■ the lease, ol the land lon which! tho Russian Bishop Nicolui's churs» ih ToWo stands "It is the custom in international intercourse to (protect... tiw real or moveable, of a foreign legation,. Oven aftof.diplomatic relations have' been broken off and the has withdrawn. Tho Government, therefore, ~still recognises' the ground on which Bishop Nicolai's church stands as |a lot bfclon£ing\ to the Russyin Legation, and -allows tho lease ten exist."

The Customs duties colluded at New Zealand ports during the quarter end■_d March 31 last amounted to £697,187 (including £15,138 under th« preferential tariff), bringing tho total (or the financial year up to. £2.627,337. Wellington was tho largest contributor for the quarter, with £176,900, closely followed by Auckland with J017.'1,820. In the totals for the year, however, Auckland leads with an aggregate of £6<58,673, against Wellington's £666,370. Excise duties collected in the colony during the March quarter amounted to £25,921, making £100,866 for the iinancial year. In Wellington the figures are £2731 for the quarter anS £10,840 'or the year.

The plans for n new post office at New Plymouth, says the N.Z. Tiinea, ure in the hands of the architectural branch of the Fublic Works Department'. The new building is to 'be erected on space in froat of the present building in Devon Street, and will contain post and telegraph offices and telephone exchange, the present building being retained for other departmental offices. The new post office is to be constructed of red pressed bricks with Oamaru stone facings, will bo two stories high, and will be embellished with a four-dial clock tower, the dofiie of which will be 76ft from the ground level. A flag-pole will extend another 20ft into the air. A feature that will lend impressiveness to the building is a handsome portico, to be 'thrown across the footpath before tho' main: entrance. Tenders f r the erection of the building will bo called for in about a fortnight's time.

Mr David Laing, 4aiiH agent, an-( nounccs that ho has made special arrangements with outside agents for , persons who are anxious to dispose lof their New Plymouth and Tnrang, ki properties. He also has a very cheap suburban property containing 51 acres for stile. The purchase money c.in bo arranged for.—Advt. 'Scatter your minions !" said disO'ifo one day, To the demon Cold and his friend Decay.; 'Winter's here to give you a hand, Out I friend, out' and ravage' the land.". 't can't," said tKo Demon, I'm ijfuite out of work, A mortal named; Woods pulls me up with a jerk ; lis Groat Peppermint Cure is death to my hoot,. "Good-bye," said the Demon an'd gavo up the gSast! 10

The glorious uncertainty of thc lar was once moi'e exemplified 111 #ie results of an action for libel which »;{i6 heard before Mr Justice Biftliain at lie west Biding of Yorkshire Assizis .recently,. in which Henry Baker, oniniercial traveller, of Coinsboruigti, sued the Mexborough.'and SVinon Times Publishing Cfmipany and fhomas K. Sellers, a. local school' naster.. The alleged libel was confined in a letter which Se-Sfrs wrote .o the local paper last March. Evitence for the defence was called to iro\ e that the plaintiff had shown iriiffibsity towards Sellers. The; jury iwafded a farthing damages against ach defendant, whi'c 011 a counterclaim by Sellers they awarded £3O laraages. The newspaper company, laving paid £5 into' court; His Lord>hjp gavci judgment. im tAioir favour, vith costs, anil an order for the reurn of £4 19s ll|d. At an evangelistic meeting in Liveniool, Mr Evoir lloberts, the famous' Vclsh evangelist speaking exciKjdy end almost fiercely in .English, deUred there was an English friend, jresent trying to hypnotise him. This s irittreitang in the light of this) nnouncement by the Liverpool Post ir.il Mercury " S.oroethin aKia to a ensation was caused at the Lyric Theatre when to. a crowded first louse Dr. Walford Boclle, M.l>., >.I).S. (U.S.A.), F.S.S.O. (London), he British Edison, well known as a lypnetist, mestmerist, scientist, and lectrician, who according to reports ms worked some most remarkible cures in cases" of parnlytys, iy means of electricity, declared that le took the blame of hypnotising Mr. 'lvan Roberta and breaking up the nesting at Bun HaSl. Kensington, Liverpool. A pupil at h'a—a Liverpool man—went, purposely to the nesting, the arrangement being a rearranged one."

•Some interesting relics in the shape of Maori weapons, to' tho number of' half a dozen, have Recently been found by Mr Oldfteld, of Temuka, during' the ploughing of a paddock near the coast at Seadown. The spot where the greenstone mores and adzes were obtained is in a gulty to the south' of the Opih.i mouth. It is highly probable that theso implements of savage [warfare, the result of years of patient labour, mark the position of a camp of Maoris during the time when the natives from the North Island attacked those at Arowhenna, and a fierce battle was fought in the bush which then extended upwards from the river mouth, 'in this battle the southern Maoris were defeated, and having sent their, women and children up tho Rangitata gorge they retreated before tho invaders, but were overtaken at Peel Forest. The spot, marked by an lramcnse tree, is shown at the present day, where the .s,outhem chief and his braves were annihilated after a gallant stand.

Joseph' Oilier, a North-Western Railway litter, now Vies in a' Crewf hospital after undergoing a remark.- 1 able experience. He was Imprisoned in tlio water-tank of a locomotive. and only the engine was pulled' to "pieces obd the t'ank i'ijrokon. Olliir "was repairing the englnc,' when he discovered something v. von?; with the water-tank. To get at the weak, spot it was necessary (or him. to work from the inside. With little' difficulty he managod to stjf.icpze jin tliroufcii the small aperture o® the tatik, tie worked for qi fewi minutes, and then, to his horror, found that ho .-could not, get out. Ha: shouted for help and hammered on the sides- of .the tank'. After a time Workmen came, but all their efforts! to drag him . oul wore unavailing.; 11l a little time his efforts at' re-i lease had' exhausted his energies', and he lay. in, unconscious. Arn army of mechanics soon pulled the engine apart,-;. The rivets in the tank were loosened very carefully and tho parts separated. Oilier wa9 at first thought to.jbe dead, but with,, tho aid 'of rcsjflTat iyrs he caftie fountf.He is now in the Railway Hospftal. 1 MOST HONOURABLE • ; • ' TION. - . .

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