LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7856, 23 June 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

in the course of his remarks at the conversazione at Te Henui on Thursdav, the Rev. Fowler mentioned that aniongst those present that day was Mrs Devenish, who was married in the old church 50 years ago, being conveyed to the ceroImonv. in a bullock cart her bridesmaids following in another vehicle of the same character. \t a committee meeting of the. local Poultry Sooiety it was reported that for entry forms had »* in !rom many residents oi Wellingr ton, Auckland and other parte of i\ejtf Zealand. Arrangements were made for hiifng extra pens, as it ts improbable that the Society's plant would be sulllcicnt. Instead of the giant cheisc " that was so prominent a feature last year, an order for a "mammoth cake" will be placed with a local confectioner, and gjold and silwr co,ms will bo part of its ingredinls. Sixpence each will be charged for school children on Saturday afternoon.

During the week Mr Mcintosh, district engineer to the Railway Department, and Messrs J. Skinner.and T. C. Mills, engineer and clerk of tin* Tar'uinM County Council, visited the foreshore for the purpose of determining on a site where gravel may be removed by the County Council' in the maintenance of the South Road without endangering the railway line. Mr Mcintosh will report to headquarters.

Mr Jol* McCullagh, late of Australia, who, through sickness, and be'ng without friends here, was compelled to, go to the Old Peoplo's H\mic, has written in very eulogistic strains of the Cori.luct of that institution. He feels it his duty, prior to returning to Australia, to express | his sincere thl.vnk's to the Board and the manager (Mr Fnrrar). "I could not," ho writes, "have been better treitcd." Herofess to tha clcnnlines-J and accommodation of the Home, and adds : "Mr Farrar deserves grcjit credit for the way he studies the needs of the inmates and their welfare."

Tiio Taranaki Education Hoard has received the following results of the i elections of school committees postponed from tho statutory dfitfi :—• Waitara : Messrs George Peascc, (chairman), W. P. Newbery, ll.' Spurdlc, A. Klenner, R. Tate, J. D. Wyllie nnd H. White. Mutierc : Messrs Thos. <ic vere Hunt (chairman), H. lleresford, H. Whisker, Thos. O'Urien and D. Hyde (secretary). Tho now election at Stratford resulted : Mesdamcs Monkhouse and Mackay, Hcv. Watson, and Messrs p. F. ltiilfe, J. D. Morison, C. D. Sole, J. W. Curtis, A. W. itcid, and It. H. Cameron.

The Canterbury Shop Protection Association has sent to each nienil/er of liolh Houses of Parliament' a copy of the following jwUtLon :—• "The shopkeepers of Canterbury respectfully request that you .will endeavour lo amend "The Shops and Offices Act" by repealing; Clause 3, and making Clause 1 applicable to the wholo colony. Your petitioners *now that under Clause 3 they cann.it profitably carry on their business, and Clause 21 will place all shopkeepers In New Zealand unde; the same law. If you grant this request you will remove an injustice and confer a lasting benefit to the traders of ?iew Zealand."

A reminder is given of the unreserved', sale of boneduxt and gu a no by Mr Newton King nt the Haymarket yards to-morrow uflerboon. The planting season is rapidly approaching, and gardeners should not miss this opportunity of procuring good fertilisers at their own prices.

Messrs Nelson, Moato and Company insert a now advertisement relating to their celebrated pure Indian and Ceylon blended teas. The firm have established a splendid record—extending over a quarter of a century—for the uniform good quality of their teas 1 which' are on sal« at all stou'/B, etc., throughout the colony.

Private advices reeejvfld in Melbourne from tho band of Christian Israelites who left Melbourne under the leadership of "Mary" and ''Benjamin," 86 in all, announce their installation at the headquarters of the sect at Benton Harbour, Lake Michigan, America. Accordfing to the rules the married people 'are to he separated, and all are to live a '>f p of celibacy, while preparing to meet the Saviour in His second coming, which is expected in 1916, or perhaps a -little sooner. The Australians aroused great curiosity at lient. on Harfyour.. They were. iwtltwmod with a brass band and procession, and entertained at a vegetarian banquet of sixteen courses. It is stated that the party took away J£!57,000, which' wa/a "nnfffc in a<Q»inmon fund.

A feature of tjje show at Palmo'rsiton North isafl exhibit made by the National Dairy Association- It consists of butter from Canada, Siberia, Denmark, Normandy, Ttaly, Argentine, and Australia, and ' s shown by the association as thu best produce of these countries procurable. The exhibit wan bought in London about March 36 of this year, and was brought to New Zealand in the refrigerating eftaniber of the Runpehu, which arrived ip Wellington on May 8. The exhibit is doubly interesting because- It has passed through conditions - similar to those encountered by New Zealand butter exported to London. The Italiun sample is done up in small round moulds, carefully packedln a new box. The Hussion exhibit is shown in a capacious keg something after the style in (iso in New Zealand before.the white iiine box came into use. Another exhibit which has attracted coniideralile notice is 'a display of .New Zealand winos, from the Urccnmeadows vineyards, Ij&wkc's Bay. At the Stratford Magistrate's Court on Wednesday, two little Jv?,v*. one 10 yoars old and the other "i.i. jvt'f o (harped with that on June 8 they did lineal; and enter the dwell-ing-housk! of Henry, Kensington, ol

Stratford, and did steal therefrom one silvc* oi'aAch box. Both; ho.\A pleaded guilty, Accused also plended guilty to bn-vinfr hroMn into the' dwelling-house of Wilfred Black, and stolen therefrom a pair of sVvo link-sand coins. Constable Ttyan said nothing had been known against the boys previously. They were the children of respcctabla parents. Therj had been a good deal of w ndow breaking lately and another house had been broken into.- All the stolen property except one sleeve link had j been recovered. Hi# Worship lectui[ed the boys on tha seriousness of iMeu ffßpuvet ,|stf .SJseliargeg t&>».

Mr Carnegie has Wit upon something 'better than "'free" Wbruriett this ] time, says a London paper. His gift i of £2,000,000 to .provide retiring ( pensions for professors ought to be 1 a real boon to education in the TJnl- ] I ted Statics, Canada, and 'Non-found- i I land, to whoso colleges and schools i it will apply. As the donor points out, the lack of a pension system acts detrimentally upon 'the educational system in more than on" way. It makes 'many able men teachers, who are really past their work, to I stick to their 'posts, from which the authorities, with no compensation to offer them, can hardly venture eonv ] pulsorily to remove them. The gift will remedy both evils, supplying the missing stimulus, and allowing the infusion of new 'Wood -whenever it ii" warned. So' far, it looks the most, genuinely benelicial of Mr Carnegie's many benefactions. Mr Harry Winks, Victoria Avo*io,Auckland, ' announces that ho is prepared to buy and sell on commissi; in all kinds of dairy produce. Farms are sold by him.-

The death occurred at the New Plymouth Hospital on Thursday morning of Mr William Luman, carrier, of T n rata, who was admitted to the hospital on Fel ruary last, suffer.ng from injuries sustained through ibeing thrown from a horse. The mishap resulted in a fracture o( the spino at the lower portion of Vote neck, and paralysis followed. Luman, who was 54 years of age, leaves a widow and two grown-up childron. On Thursday a local resident, a tradesman, walked a ll the way from the West End and took a circuitous route up Gover Street in order to get a back door entrance to the Recreation Ground and so avoid paying the "tanner" admission' asked at the gates. The gatekeeper who discovered the ruse reckons the individual, who was 1 well able to pay, deserves to ibet classed with the ■ahampion mean man.

The eon'traets for the crecXioli of a cottage for 'the caretaker at the reservoir site, and lof the fencing and caretakcri's cottage at the abattoir, ara in progress. Considering the weather, the Contractors for the septic tank have made good progress. The lanK has been covered m, and the inlet and outlet chambers' are neojring completion. The borough engineer expects that tho whole work wall be cempleteja" during the coming fortnight.

As the outcome of the repent deputation, the sowers on the western side of the town have been Connected up with the Huatoki stream', and the pipes in question are consequently available for service. The sewer pipes have boon laid to within a short, distance of <iover Street, so that this section will soon be available. A considerable number of conn'C'ions have been made, and applications are coming in steadily. The engineer has had all the pipes flushed out, and reports thai so far the flow, of the sewage has lieon oven and' satisfactory.

Speaking at Woodville a few days ago a Hindustanco missioncr said Indians were rapidly increasing in Fiji,

wh/ilc the Fijians were decreasing. He expressed the opinion that by-and-bye rtho islands -would be entirely populated by the people from India.

Some of the American papers are regretting the lost handy man. We are told tlie present excessive division of labour is gradually abolishing'that [Niculiarly -American character. Within the memory of man every community had its quota of Jack-of-ull-l fades—and very useful fellow citizens they were, clever with all manner of tools, and resourceful before novel and difficult jobs, I'nionism unquestionably has done more than any one thing to crump the artisan within the narrow round of minute employ- | ment. The carpenter, who sets a rung in a chair or puts up a few, book shelves cannot apply the necessary stain : that is a varnlsher's business. .Nor can a plasterer who displaces a hearth Jile reset it'; that is a mas-

on's or tilelayor's job. Meantime, this specialisation, whjch theoretically ought to carry the highly divided handicrafts to the point of perfection, practically docs nothing of the kind. It is harder thun ever to get

a workman who can saw to a lint unless it be some German lately ai lived, or other untutored foreigmcr.Argus.

Mr Tcgefcmeier, the great animal collector, is in his 80th yen'r. When a Daily News writer lately asked, him about the wonderful instinct of the homing pigeon,; hq declared that a fhomiup" instinct_was all stuff and nonsensa. A pigeon goes by sight and reason, as we do. Take it. from home 'more than*fifty miles and it is completely lost. But if you train it by degrees, beginning a few i miles, it will learn to find its way 'over long distances. It can see 50 miles, and so /by taking longer and | longer flights has been taught to fly from London to Brussels. Tegetmeijer was largely consulted by Darwin, | from whom he received over ISO letters.

The steamer Akabo, which arrived at Plymouth on April 5, brought a baby giraffe, the first of its kind over landed in Europe. It was captured some six months ago by Captain H. C. B. Phillips, D.H.0., Ilritith Resident at Katagum, West Africa, who has himself brought it to England. Its distinctive features are the colour of its s pots, wdijfch are brown, and tho shape of its head and homs. It was captured about 1000 miles from 'the coast, near French territory. Tlie giraffe was despatched to London.

Maoris pave a great habit, when in a stosekecper's shop, of making a raid on the cheese.- On Saturday, saj'S the Opunako Times, a. local assistant thought he would have a joke and he put a few pieces of soap by the side of the cheese. The natives marched in, gathered up the crumb*, and also the pieces of soap. They chawed, pulled wry faces, gasped with mouths half-open, then' beheld themselves in a looking-glass, with soap stuck to their teeth, They they ex-

pressed themselves in language between English and Maori, which is not to be 'found in our dictionary.

Against all precedent, tho members of a .working men's club at Interlaken, (Switzerland), recently refused to lake their wives with them on their annual picnidj, and were punish, ed by the offended ladies in the following manner. Discovering that tho lunch had been ordered for (ifty-two at a certuln cafe, they secretly ordered tho meal to be served earlj while their husbands were away climbing in the mountains. When the hungry men returned they found their wives at desert over an almost empty table. They took the joke in good port, however, and pnid the bill.

A few days ago Mr 3c B. de Lisle gave an exhibition of painless branding at Mr K.J. Hoopor't, Hasting*, before aj number of farmers and other people interested, the fluid used being the Lislc-LutH-ell painless branding mixeure. Several young horses- and a number of calves were branded. The case and simplicity with which' this was accomplished was a great improvcmvnt upon the pld-fashione'd and cruel method of burning with irons- It was specially noticeable how quietly the young horses (one of which hud never had a !<i>pu on before) took thf branding. There was no shrinking or fright/as there ijs when a hot iron is applied to pie and Mr de Lisle claimsto produce ' a clearer and more distinct brand with hj« mixture.

'Scatter your minions !" sa,jd disease one 'day, To the demon Cold and his friend Decay ; 'Winter's here to give ynu a hand, Out ! friend, out and ravage Ihc lanß." 'I can't," said tlie Demon, '■' I'm Iqluite out of work, 'A mortal named Woods pulls me up with a jerk ; 3is Great Peppermint Cure is death to my Host. "Good-tijc," said the Demon an'd gave up the gfcost! 10

An English lady, MiSB Gertrude L. Benham, who recently made trouble at Mount Cook by criticising tho charges made (or guides and the treatment she had received, has replied: to the statcmekilt made by Guide Clarke. Io tho Bulletin she says :—As Mr Clarke has asserted that I could not climb up t'o the level of even an ordinary amateur, I may state that I have clluiUU over 150 peaks of over 10,000 ft, including the live new ascents in the Kockie's and several now routes up other mountains, which, I think, is consideralbly moro than he has ever done. ... As to the comparative cost of climbing Mont Hlano and I Mount Cook, the guide's feesi for the former are 100 francs (£4) for a 1 guide and 70 <>r 75 francs (£3) for • a porter, which is considerably less i than £l2, and the mountain Is over liiuOOft higher. Of course, if one en- ' gages guides by the week, ius !I generally do, the cost w 0 uld be conjsiderably less. When 1 climbed >!■ nt Mane (going up the Italian side, which is far more difficult, and down to Chamounix) it cost me only about £4. In conclusion, it seems hardly courteous for Mr Clarke eo have waited for a visitor to have left the State before attacking her. In justice to Clarke it should be stated that in contradicting the irtorics circulated by Miiss Ilenham, lie stated that he gave her every to climb on several occasions, but on each occasion &ho K*t out she. re.urnod to tho Hermitage.;

Mr Jones has discontinued the 7 a.m. bus to Vogeltown, and consequently the return journey. a MOST HONOURABLE DISTINCTION. The Western Medical Review, a medical publication of the highest standing, says, in a recent issue : "Thousands o/ physicians in this and other countries have attested that Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract is not only reliable, but that it has a pronounced and indisputable superiority over all other preparations of Eucalyptus." Your health lis! too precious to be tampered with, therefore reject oil products foisted upon you by unscrupulous merceneries, and insist upon getting Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extruct, the only preparation recommended by your physician j and the medical press.- In coughs, ' colds, fevers, diarrhoea, kidney diseases, the relief is instantaneous. Wounds, tillers, burns, sprains, etc.. it heals' without inflammation. As a mouth wash (5 drops to a glass of water) it prevents decay of teeth, and destroys all disease germs.* WHAT CAUSES RHEUMATISM. The real cause of Rheumatism is to bo found in the blopd, which has become poluted through exews of uric acid, and in order to cure the disease the blood must be purified and restored to a healthy condition. Liniments und plusiers may give tem,>ory relief, but can never remove the ! Ciuse of the di>easc. The ival roui- , edy is RIfTCIiMO. It has cured ! thousands of sufferers from Rheumatism, Rheumatic Gout, Sciatica und kindred diseases. Ii will cure you. 1 .lust givo it a '""* trial. There is ' nothing equal to RIIEL'MO as an > intidote to Rheumotism. A'll chom- ' ists and storekeepers sell it at '-:s (id - and 4s t:d a bottle. Wholesale agents ' Kenipthorne. Prosser ond Co.* 2

It's good for the lluteher, the Baker, the Brewer, The Carpenter, Hricklayer, Blacksmith and Shoer, The Mistress, the Servant, the Maiden demure, The Toiler, the Clerk, the Disconsolate Wooer. It's good for the Wealthy, it's good for the Poor, Of tlie system cold-stricken o perfect rencwer. When the air of Australia is cold and impure It's Infallible—Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.* 3

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Henry Winks, Auckland.—Sells and . buys dairy produce on commission. Newton King.—Sale of boncdust and guano at the Haymarket 10-iinor-row. Horough Council.—Advertise particulars of proposed loan. Newton King.—Sale of furniture at corner of ' Devon Street and Hell lload to-day. Nelson, Moate, and Co.—Teas have stood the test of ttone.

M. Jones.—Alteration in Vtogcltown bus service.