LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7852, 19 June 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Supreme Court will sit at New Plymouth this morning before Mr Justice .Edwards. There iis a fairlj long cause list set down. The "vagrant," ' Peter McGough, <on remand for medical examination, was again brought before the Police Court on Saturday morning. , The doctors' certificate was to the effect that the man was sane. The a'ljcuaed was given the chance of obtaining employment or quitting the town on Monday, with a Warding that if he continued his past conduct a spell in gaol would be tried as a corrective.

The defendant in the cass commenced at tho Supreme Court on Friday, in which Richard Morrow and David Lynn are suing for £lOl 15s damages in conmpction with the purchase of Jersey cattle, is John Bale, lof Junction Hoad, and not William Hale, as inadvertently stated in Saturday's issue.

The late Sir Charles Gavan Duffj christened a new Australian' township "Carlyle" as a compliment to his old friend Ike Sage of Chelsea, who, in reply, expressed the lugubrious hope that the place would have a less melancholy existence than that of its sponsor. That township, says the Westminster Review, apparently did not take root—there are a number of ghostly townships in Australia containing nothing but the surveyor's pegs—for there js no record of it in maps or gazetteers. But in North-Western Canada there is a township called "Carlyle" that is going ahead. It is less than four years old, but it already rejoices in about four hu»dred inhabitants, grain elevators, hotels, shops, schools, end a station on the Canadian-Pacific railway.

The circumstances connected with the seizure of the steamer Harberton throw some fresh light on the ways and means adopted by the blockade rumners. The vessel, from Cardiff, ">OO tons of coal, took the outward track of the ordinary mail steamers, says the Japan Mail, calling iu at Colombo and, Hongkong, but after leaving the latter post an easterly, course was taken and continued for several days' with a view to avoid the cruisers reported at Hongkong to bo patrolling the southern Japanese waters. All went well until April 1 when entering Kungiri Channel the vessel encountered the ice. Meeting Hoc after floe she pressed onward, each obstruction striking on her Mows with considerable force. Finding the strain was making groat inroads upon her and bending the plates, the crew were set to work to straighten her up, and this proved successful until on the 18th April she was completely encased in tho ice. On that day ho was sighted by the Japanese enrser Akitsush'imia, and a Japanese officer and oight men wont to her in a boat, which they skidded across the ice.

According to news received at Sydney the following cablegram' was received in Londan last month .

"With, four dead sailors and the rest of-- r tho crew helpless from beri-beri and smallpox, the American ship Miinerva (?Minerva IU) drifted into Labuan (Borneo), the only person on deck, being the captain's servant, a Filipino, who knew nothing of navigation."

•At its last meeting, the Auckland Board ofi Education l considered a forceful letter from an Irishwoman, wanting to know why her children had not certain educational facilities provided l for them. She accused the Hoard of being "lying scoundrels, robbers of innocent little children."

"I will beat your next meeting," she added. Mr L. J. Bagnall asked: "Is sho outside?" On being assured that tho writer was not in attendance, the Board breathed freely once again, and the secretary went on reading tho letter, ■ which described the members- of tho Board as "murdering scoundrels." The lady went on to say that she would give the Hoard "a rally in the monrjng. . . .

where would' your army, be, you British dogs, without laisjimen. I lost four brothers on the battlefieldtwo in the Zulu war and two in the Hoer war." The Board seriously discussed the matter, with the intention of meeting the writer's wishes, nnd referred her application to the local committee and inspector for report. A Scaiield (Canterbury) farmer, according to the Ashburton Guardian, has a young calf which apparently possesses a voracious appetite for periodicals.. Tho farmer is |a subscriber to the Ashfofirton Mail, the Christchurch Press and the Otago Witness, but for'some time past he has not. received any copies of these journals. On making investigations he found that tho calf, when the papers were tossed out by the mail-carrier, promptly ate them up, and it is further suspected that a certain pet iamb on the farm has aided and B(b'ettc<d in his unlawful appropriation of current information. It i« stated that these misgiuided- creatures lined to await thn arrival of the papers at the gate.

In Michigan, U.S.A., a woman gardener is showing what a woman can do with one variety of flowers alone. Nine years ago Miss" Chittenden determined to attempt the culture of violets in a commercial .way. She had to contend with the usual amount of opposition, and when it comes to be understood that her first purchase of a hundred plants had to be grown indoors for lack of a' jflapsjhouse, it will he seen that the task she had set herself was no light one. Nor did sucgeus come to her all at once. 11 was not ij]l the end of the second .war that hw profits became an appreciable fact, and it was five or six years before she became what she is now—a big factor in the flower marjet of Chicago. She grows vio'lets exclusively, and most of her 'business is concerned with the sale, of the flowers fch/emselves. This year her farm is eovorai hy no less than 10.000 ft. of glass. He*' profits, she maintains have not been phenomena}, but they have been more than' satisfactory. The work, demanding her* - entire attention, offers many compensations. She is in a better financial position than any of her professional or business friends. For a woman possessing the natural qualifications she has much to say in favour of the profession of gardening, and frequently urges bread winners to realise that they could earn a pleasant and good livelihood, by specialising along some of the lines which naturo is continually offering tnoro,;

In a'dditien to thfi Iftt previously published, the following Clumu«.i matters ar» set down for hearing by Mr Justice Edwards >-In the mat-, ter of the Chattels Transfer Act, 1889 and in the matter of a certain instrument under the provisions of the said Act, dated May 12, 1905, jmade between Alexander Denhnmnnd [the Awatuiia Co-operative Dairy,Coj .Ltd.. .(notion for extention of time within which to register the Instru-

ment (Mr H. Capl-in, Solicitor, Hawera) ; re Edmund James Bullock' (deceased), motion for probate (Messrs Hoy and Wilson) ; re William Gibbons, deceased, motion for probate (Messrs Hoy and Wilson) ; Burr (Mr Malone) v. Pikett (Mr Hoy), motion for special leave to set down actiof. for trial.

To-morrow Mr Newton King will, hold his usual cattle Sale at Waiwnkaiho. Entries include 100 mixed calves, young steers and heifers. The remains of the Eliginshiro appear to be settling down, says the Timaru Herald. The ragged forward past of the wreck used to be some height above the water even at high tide, but now it is ibut little above the water at low tide.

For Bronchial Coughs take Wood's Great Peppermint Cure. Is 63.

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