LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7848, 14 June 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A deputation consisting of Messrs J. A. Parker, T. 8. Weston, G. Co* ney, G-. A*"Owsiuith, J,i I'aul and Dr. Whitton, asked the Borough Council on Monday evening to place the ratepayers of 'the west «nd of the towfl on similar conditions to those jn tho east end with regard to drainage,. In view of the uncertainty as to when the septic tank would be completed, they asked that a temporary connection be made from the end of the sewer to the Huatoki to allow the hospital and, all thpso Who had already made connections with the sower to make immediate use of tho scheme. The deputaion. for whom Messrs Parker and Weston: were the spokesmen, had medical evidence available to state that no objection from n' sanitary point of view could be taken to this work. It was pointed out that) the work could be done very cheaply and that it would be an improvement on the present unaanita'ry condition of affairs, which Mr Weston .described as '•'•disgusting. The engineer informed the Council that thcro would bo no trouble in carryinsr 01U. the work at« Cost ° £lO but he objected to the seweiage being emptied into the si ream. After further discussion for ano against the proposal, it was decided on a vote being taken to grant the rdquest of the .imputation.

A Paris cori'esnoiidciu tells the, story of liow a young poet named Paul Loco in refused the chance of a. fortune rather than "'iss an appointm«nt with his swcetlmart. He had, at the 1 imminent risk of his life, stopped- a pair of b'olting horses, ant? rescued a child from bemg. knocked down by the animals when M. Jaiincaud, the child s father, nurricd to the spot. After thanking Decoin for his brave acU, he invited) I him to .accompany hint to his house,, promising—as he was a rich man—r that he would make his lor him. The poet declined the oner, sayi»g that he Could conceive of no creator fortune than to enjoy the! society of his sweetheart, who was waiting for him. He then hurried oil to keep his tryst. A party recently went out uuckuhooting' near Dubbo, New South Wales, where birds are now plentiful, and sport is (food, except for the fact thai there- is- so much water that tho inevitable result of a good bag is ia day's hard walking, and wading. The buggy in which tho party were drivrtng became bogged in a cownl'. The horsa got clear of tho harness, and the necessity arose for one of the party to get out and catch him. in the argument that ensued one of them fell out of Ithc trap and got a thorough ducking. He thercupen caught the horse, and wnen they reached dry land hung his qlolhes out to dry, and, picturesquely attired in a chaff-bag, went out for sport. On his return, his clothes being still wet, and preferring a dry ch'afT-bag to a saturated' .suit, he drove into Trnngle In this primitive attire, much to the astonishment ol the inhabitants and consternation of those at his home, who saw a strange-looking figure emerge suddenly from the depths of tho Ib'ugigy and sprint across the intervening spacu to the Itause. Captain Nordstruin, who has recontly retired from the Union Company's service 011 account, of the age limit, had a farewell interview with the' directors of the board meeting on Thursday afternoon. The chairman' of directors' expressed Uio Company'# appreciation of Captain. Nordstrum'ss twenty-seven years o(| service, antl presented him, on bohalf of the board, with' a watch, pendant, suitably inscribed, and at case of books. Captain Nordstrum expressed the pleasure lie had alwajs experienced' in serving the company, and regret that the time had.come to sever his connection with tho service.

In proof of the value oi litme as manure, the experience of a Milton (Otago) farmer is quoted by the late Mr Undone, in an article pubSished in the New Zealand Dairyman. It is as follows "illefore liming my land was red with sorrel ; now you cannot find a blade. Before liming I; could not grow more than 30 to

40 bushels of wheat to the acre since Jiming from (SO to 70 bushels, and I wo did call 50 bushels ai small crop. The sample is now Incite different, being well matured, and no seconds. Oats, before liming. 40 to ">0 bushels : now 80 to 200, and ;>s hufh as 110 bushels. Turnips, before liming, were very poor—in fact, could not grow for eorrel ; now I grow [nothing but swedes, as they grow I bigger than the ordinary sorts. I also find that the turnips grown with time fatten stock quicker than [when no Jime has 'been us.'d. I can I now carry two sheep for one before. li, consider my farm it doubled in value."

The tiling that most impressed Mr A. I). Wiilliis, M.H.lt. for Wangunui, during. hi» r'JcfcnL viisil to the Old World, so ho told an Auckland Star reporter last Tuesday, was thai New Zealand was not advertised enough, in England. Our colony is too much •onfused with Australia in the English mind, and the people have got the idea that New ZyaJand is in the same chaos of labour, troubles as Australia—the impression hus got abroad that the colony is dominated entirely by the Labour Party, Still at the stunci time our material products pre increasing in popularity more especially our lamb—everybody wants New Zealand lamb in London now. Mr Willis spent some time in (rormanvwjnd *-as astounded to Bee thto intense activity in manufacturing there. Everywhere could be seen stacks of chimneys' belching forth jjiuokc. lie visited Manchester, and w a s hii»hl.v impressed with the extent of their "docks. The place. \v u s the most go-ahead Sn England, he

thought, and there and in Liverpool! Ufo people were keenly alive to the necessity of meeting the competition of the outside worjdj 'Scatter your minions !" said disease one day, To the demon Cold and his friend | I Vrny ; 'Winter's here to give you a hand. Out ! friend, out and ravage the lanil." 'I can't," said tlio Demon, ''-I'm •jjlujto out of worK, A mortal named Woods pulls mo up with' a' JerK | lis Croat Peppermint Cure Ss HaatS to my host.-"Good-fcye," said the Demon and gave up th« gKost ! 10

The unusual occurrence of a Voir/anf strenuously grappling .with a Man i" 1 { ii, pulilie thoroughfare was witnesscd| i in Chi'iatcimrcK. She gripped himi , by the collar, seized a bag ha jsaa i carrying', held a bicycle In; mid bii-n . j wheeling, and called for help simui- . taneously. The man managed to wrench himself away, and then fled. Inquiries ejicited the information that the woman had a litUa dairy i shop, and hud placed her bag under the counter, A man came in and. asked if she had any (jJUtter for sale. Hcpiying that it had not yet arriv- . ed, she retired into a room at tha back of the shop. When she return- j ed to the shop she saw the man walking away, with a bicycle and her bag, and she had tackled him without hesitation. The spoils fori the victor nullified the man's bicycle which the woman wheeled triumphantly into her shop. Later in the day the man returned, and ns'-cl t be "let ofT," but a policeman laoU him away. The other day the head of an eel was seen sticking out of a shallow pool in an armlet of the Wyndhaim Hiver. Investigation disclosed a swarm of eels twisted up in a sortof torpor! With a shot-|giun and soiiK'v pitchforks forty-six eels were desi troyed, Ihcir aggregate weight being 7001b, .and their average weight 151b a piece,. An autopsy of some of the lliggost, which were up to 25!b in weight and 4£t fiin in length, reveal-* ed that they were gorgi'il with small eels. The contiynjjorja.ry which tells I this listi . story with much circuni- j stantial detail, does not explain what the eel with his head out of the water was doing. Perhaps he was calling for holp< A remarkable sceno was witnessed lately w Warwick Road, Earl'a Court. Two motor-cars came into collision, and in an instant both were in flames. The drivers did all they could t<Koxtingtiish the fire,but without avail, : the machines burning like a furnace. Tho fire brigade was

called, but despite all efforts tho woodwork of both cars was completely destroyed in a quarter of an hour. A great crowd gathered and excitedly watched the operations .of the' brigade. Both driwrs escaped with- 1 cut injury. Two men did a round of three Stratford staples on Monday night, and stole a large quantity of harness and a buggy. They, were seen by thq fttnployees at two stalilcs, but went about their' work with so much assurance that they wero not cha'ilengved. Full descriptions have been handed to tho police, ,but no arrests have J been made yet, i Samples of the best da!ry produce procurable in London, made in those countries that come into direct competition with New Zealand in the markets of the world, are to be exhibited at the I'alnierston North! Winter Show next week. U is hoped by the National Dairy Association, which has • made the collection, that llie result of this exhibition will enable all engaged in the industry to form a correct.-idea of the quality and et-up of other, countries' productions. Tho principal matter that will engage the attention of the Association, and be brought up for discussion at its annual meeting during the .dairying) carnival week at Palmerston, will be the proposed dairy reflations, the present, high railway arid on dairy produce, tJie consideration of what action the Association will take to oppose the demands of tho Locomotive Engine-drivers'. Union upon co-operative dairy factory companies under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. and to eloct three directors.

Margaret Williams, who has numerous convictions recorded against her, was before tho Police Court on Tuesday on a chargo of drunkenness. She was fined 10s, in default seven lays" imprisonment, with hard la'mur. and being regarded as a ha hitual drunkard a prohibition order was issued ' against her, by to take effect, in the Taranaki and Egniont Licensing Districts.

A man named Peter McGough', who wns arrested', at Oiiiata by Constable Woods, was brought before the I'o>ne Court on Tuesday on the chniyo boim. r . an idle and disorderly peraotti Evidence avas given to show hut the had been loafing a limit the district for the last six vr, "ks, and' had taken* up his resiience on an unoccupied Government homestead. He had refused any offers of work, and durfng his stay several petty, thefts had been report'd. As the inan had also been ■ruiltv of indecent conduct, and did not appear to bo in uosscssion of all his faculties, he wns reinniv-U'd or a woek for medical examination*

A paragraph in the eleventh annual report of the National l>airy Association. to be submitted to. 'the annual meeting at Palmerston North on Tuesday, says Another point wortby of earnest consideration by the directors of companies is tho increased quantity of butter exported to v.ondon unsalted. Admitting . that Is Gd to 2s per cwt. more may' be obtained for fresh as against suited, s the recompense equal to the sacrilice ? Butter in this condition does not eventually find its way into the hands of tho retailer in tho original iackage it left the colony. Accordingly the factory's registered brand loses its individuality and becomes of little .value. A lurftu percentage ot insalted colonial butter is sent to the.Continent, where it lis mixed with 20 per cent, of margarine and 10 per •ent. of casein, then returned to England and) sold in largo tiuantiities. principally in tho Midlands and Wales, at a lower price that' that at which genuine pure butter can ito Sold profitably. Possibly the introduction 1 >f the Salo of Butter Kill into the House oi Commons—if it | hould pass into law—will prevent I these practices being continued, jts provisions provide that any person manufacturing, sc'ling, or exposing for sale butter containing more than 16 per cent, of water, or butter to ■vliieli any substance has been added whereby the amount of water in it is increas?d, is liable (oil tha first offence to a line not exceeding £3O.

CHKONIC RHEUMATISM EFFECTUALLY CUKED. No matter how long you have suffered from Rheumatism, no matter what other remedies have l'aileu, iUU!,UMO, if given a fair trial, will effect a cure. Thousands of other iutl'erers have been permanently cured by KIiMUMO whjm all else had been tried in vain. , Many have spent large sums of money at ltotorua aud other thermal springs, but it was tUIIGIjMO that eventually effected a euro. If you are suffering from Itheuuuxtism, or from Gout, Lumbago, Sciatica,' or kindred Complaints, give ItHEIiMO a fair trial. It has qured others and will cure you—and' that at little cost. All chemists and stores, 2s 6d and 4s (id. Wholesale agents. Kempthorne, Prosser and Co.* 1

The municipal baths will be available on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays only until tho end of the present month, after which they will be closed for two months.

For llronchial Coughs take Wood's Great Peppermint Cure. Is (id. For Children's Backing Cough at night. Winds' Great Peppermint .Cur*, It $£L I MOST HONOTCtABLE DISTINCr ' MOH.: The Western Medical Review, p [ medical publication of the highest standing, says, in a recent issue "Thousands of physicians in this and other countries have attested that Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract is not only reliablo, but that it has a pronounced and indisputablo superiority over all other preparations of Eucalyptus." Your health iiS too precious to be tampered with, therefore reject all products foisted upon! you by unscrupulous mercenerics, and insist upon gottiig Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract, the only preparation recommended by your physician and the medical press. in coughs, colds, fevers, diarrhoea, kidney diseases, the relief is instantaneous. Wounds, utters, tyurns, sprains, ehc.J it heals* without inflammation. As a mouth wash (5 drops to a glass of water) it prevents "decay of teelb, land destroys all disetiM gere&*

In Connection with the theft of two cold rings from the iiridgo .Hotel, Waitara, on May 26, the young man, John Slater, who was remanded for sentence last week, came before Ms Hutchison. S.M., on Tuesday. He ;>as sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour^ The aielbounie-NiUiplCM WeSpat'eh" of J mails of May 10 arrived in London on the 112 th inst. , The honomri* magistrates of Hob- , art have done a good thing (writes a i correspondent), much to the su) prist; of many who think that sports are ' privileged. A' footAjjaller at a receipt match; who was dissatisfied with an umpire's decision, knocked him down, and caujk'd a great disturbance, lhe umpire forgavo his ajisailunt, 'but the poliCL* took jiroaecdinjs, and the culprit was sentenced to soven dajH imprisonment without the option of a tine. This decision has created (juite a sensation, but it has met with general approval, for there is a strong feeling that a sport which may be called a national one must, not be allowad to go on degenerating until it has become a means for the display of brutality. In this instance the culprit has a had r<tor i, tor H> has been convicted several tirnaa ot offences, such as bad language, assaults. and disturbing the peJ=e- '"he : Football Association will de >l " ith the matter, so that we may) hope to have a reform, which is* much meded. I The eleventh annual report of the National Dairy Association, just to hand, .states that the operations of tint Association arc gradually extending, and during the past year bear favourable comparison with previous years' transactions. The turnover for the year amounts to £47,732, and the profit and loss shows a credit balance of £390 12s 9d. The membership roll now stands at 82, as. against 81 for last year. The annual meeting of members will fafc he'd at Falniorston North on Tuesday ncxtj

The adjourned annual meeting of the Taranaki Chamber of 'Commerce will be held at 7.30 this qvenin^. Mr J. W. Kurta, of tho Golden Grid, publishes in this issue a. most comprehensive bill of fare of meals obtainable at his restaurant. Mr C. O. Ilawko announces that the great annual clearing sale now being held at his Inglewood and New [Plymouth shops wjll last but a few days longer. , The executive of the National Dairy Association has entcrcdi tnto a three years' contract at a reasonable rate with tho Wellington Meat Export Company in regard to freezing charges as affecting butter belonging to iLj- members passing through the cool store. It is understood that negotiations have been completed for the placing of the balance of the borough loan. The matter was discussed by the llorough Council in committee on Monday evening. 'An argument in public started under rather mcii'iitir ci<cuirStances in 1 >evon Street on J ticsduy afternoon. An individual, evidently u brother of some religious sc«;t. warned a lec.il resident in lugubrious tones about, perdition, adding something to this effect': "Ye shall be born aguin." "1 shan't !" exclaimed the irruscible old gentleman on whom the orother hud fixed nis attention*, and a controversy waged for somo time which attracted a crowd to the spot, 'the old gentleman determine:! to speak his mind, and, not to be deterred" by the soulfyl one breaking into song, jpve vent to his views on pessimists ol tho 'i crank jrder. A nonstable Casually stroll* ed ali>ng to disperse the croivd, and the person with thie startling iraclH moved on. The same man was in evidence at the .Recreation Ground pn Monday, warning the pleasureseekers about "damnation" or something similar in store for them.

Tho Taranaki County Council invites tenders, returnable on June 17 for the supply of stone.

All sections in the Veale Estute remaining unsold ara temporarily withdrawn from sale. ' »