LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7889, 3 August 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tixluy's footljall fixtures locally co isist of the "Soccer" match between New l'lymoutli anil Waitarn on .he l{ec,realion (!r o tmcl, commencing it IT.-lij, a,-id tilt* .second junior prac 1 ice match on the racecourse for the election o 1 the team to meet the' Marion juniors. As the mail train was slowing down at the station on Wednesday evening a pasKenqer isnncd Jo 1/1 Kwiian, an elderly man, sustained painful injuries by either stepping or falling off the train 011 the wromt side. The impetus threw him on his face between I;ie second set o' rails, und he was picked up in an unconscious condition, suffering from shock and extensive laceration of tile face. After attention 1)\ J Dr. Fookes tie sufferer was removed in a cab to his in I line Street. Mr Keeliftn's injuries are im no way serious. During the month of July there were registered 22 births within the New Plymouth borough, lout in the .suburbs, ami .seven in the counU) included in the registration district. For the first time for some years not a single death in the Horougli was recorded, though there was one death in the suburbs ami eight in the country. Hospital patients who, previous to their demise, were resident of other districts, are, o! course, not. included in the above figures. There Were eleven marriages registered in the district during the month. "Wc are doing very well in this district," was the comment of the Registrar (Mr J. C. Smith) to the reporter. "In spite of the bad times the number of marriages per month averages as many as have been recorded per month lor the past four or five years."

The hockey mutch, Probables v. Possibles, in connection villi the selection of the Taranaki rep. team will be play*xl on the racecourse : ground this uiternoon, commencing' at 2 o clock. Tlii- Probables* colours j will be bin,, and white, and their opIponent.s' amber ami black.

'f'he (j ivy mouth Star says there appeals to be a great deal of sickness in iow':i at present,, influenza being the prevailing malady. There are also several caws of diptheria, fortunately of a rather mild eharact-er. The winter had gone very hard with manyold pioneers. One minister has hai\ to perform the ><ad funeral rites over no less than ttn of his flock. .

The programme of toasts printed in collection with the farewell of lite -\ew /i-al.ind footballer was embellished with a sketch that is emblematic, and no doi(bt sivks to be prophetic. A lield is represented, aivi a pair of goalposts. The posts are evidently Hritain's, for a small map of the llritish Isles is parntc<l, he. ttvcun them. On the opposite side of tho field. Now Zjjaland is pictured. 11pstretched on its iinv base (Stewart falantf) with Te ifeinpa stretching forward as though seeking for # departed soul or for a, try. The picture is <(ompleted by a football, wiich is sailing' clear through the llril i-ll goalposts and above the crossbar. "Your goal—kia oru" is the accompanying inscription. iNuw Zealand is 'nothing if not .modest. Some diversion was caused at Pro lessor Rutherford's lecture at Christchurch when the lectua'r misplaced his precious piece of radiumi. The lecture had t/i come to a standstill while the precious substance was ii.il- - and tho audienri' was rather amused by -tie efforts of the chairman and the lecturer to find it. '1 h< radium-hunt continued for about live minutes. Alter insjiectini; every inch of the long table and under it and on the floor, it was found in a spot where it had been placed only too carefully by its owner, \vh.> bewail to look rather anxious.

Kccenttly a number of scandalon* and libellous anonymous letters have been received {by residents of the ,sub urbs of lHinedin, the contents of the letters being" of such a nature as to justify prosecution of the writers for criminal libel, a crimii punishable by imprisonment. oi the IWUts bear the Mosgiel postmark, and others were posted in Duncdin. After camfu! and patient. inves'ligafion by tho recipient* oi the letters, and a close uxaini'.'Hition of thy letters and other samples of handwriting by fxjn-rts, there seems every possibility that tlui olTonces will (be home. In.one uusc, il i* .staled, not only did the writing oi an anonymous letter tally with that in samples of letters written by ,mispect«xl ]>ersons', but the perforations of the stamp on one of the anonymous leUOjr.s June be«-7i matched with the''stamp on an «'nveiope legitimately addj'cs.s.e*) * posted at ihu su-mo time.

London files just to hand give details of a remarkable occurrence which look plate recently at Dover, in connection With •tta: cross-Channel yacht race to Calais ami back. The racing yachts were to be accompanitil liy Uiv steam yacht Rosabelle, which was awaiting the .stall of the competitors not far Irom the. head of the Admiralty Pier, Just as the yachts were getting unifer weigh, two loud reports rang out from the liili, guns at the South Front H;Ulery, ajrd a couple of shells fell close 10 llit' yacht, throwing up columns ot water. In ijujck succession lour more sht-lls fell, either cjose ahead or astern of the yaelif, whjcji rapidly, commenced to steam towards the Bay. Practice from the big batteries (>n the heights hatl bwn going on all day at seaward targets towed by Government tugs, uid it is supposed that the occurrence was due to the yacht, being practically hidden from view by the pier-head.

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The thirds of the series of concerts to be given by the New Plymouth Militaiy Lami will be held in the Theatre Hojal on Friday, 4th inst. |The art union-will be drawn the same evening.

Pohutu geyser at Whakarewarcwa played on Saturday morning for Jiftyfivo minute!*, and in the afternoon for thirty-nine jivinutes. It is about seven months since a previous eruption, nvien "the i;»\vsi'C played for 10 hours. There is great activity at Whakurewnrewa at present, all the geysers erupting. Wuiroa geyser since last "soaping" hat 'l>oen unusually active. Pohulu threw water to a height of a Hundred ami -ten feet, and I'ohnlu cauldron to a height of twenty feel. The following is an exact transcript of note handed to Ur. McArthur, S. M.. in the Wellington I 'ol iv' Court on Monday : —"plcvse sir will you let mo ofT this time give me a chance to go straight the Police can t a ke a Prohibit ion onler against me. i only nrin'K tree glasses of beer an then i get lire,-,k. 'ibis is the 'Unie in three years i have been looked up. you aught to give me a ciance it is the lust t iiii..' have asked yoti lor it gel thu Ploeie to take a Prohibition order out against me. iam l)cal'. and Mind in one eye." The offender got the "chance."

Some of the Russian lliar—a s|iecies ol mountain goat—liberated on the slopes'of Mount Cook some months ago, were seeil near Ihe Hermitage recently appanyttly 'llea 11 hy and ihriv ing. A few weeks ago the dead bodies of two thar were found. They had been poisoned lihrough calling. tu : , tu.

M. Rouvicr (says the London Daily Telegraph, 17Wi Juno), is taking tire sensible course of asking Berlin to slate specifically the character ol the topics which she would like an International Conference to discuss. That is a polite question demanding a courteous and explicit answer. 11 the response is that Germany wishes the independence of Hie Sultan and tire integrity of liis dominions to be recognised, the rejoinder would be that no Conference is necessary to confirm what no one questions. Of course, if Germany wanted to discuss the Anglo-French entente, she would have to 'ae reminded that that is no business of hers, or oi anybody's except- the principals. England and France have concluded no alllamce offensive, or defensive , wehave settled some private differences, "as between gentlemen," and ws have agreed to be friends. Some silly newspapers in Germany profess to believe that England would line to sec a war between that Empire and France. Greater nonsense nevei entered into the mind of man.

Another of the popular social gat icrings —-a progressive euchre tournament, followed by a dance programme—will l;e held 'in St. Joseph's Schoolroom this evening.

Mr HicktiVan V. Russell nduTlls-s that he has a farm ol" acres 'll thu Tarata district for sale oy tender, to bo opened on S)itui'd..y, 2(ith ins't.

A Swiss requiri's employment as gardener ami grooir..

A reminder is given of the meeting of the Veterans' Association, to be held at the Town Hall on Saturdn.v afternoon at two o'clock. A proposal will be submit/led for holding an ujmual social gathering ol nil veterans in the district.

On Tuesday evening next a limelight lecture on "Six .Years' Pioneering in l'elorus Sound" will lie dilivered in Whiteley Ilall by Rev. 11 Foston.

The secretary of the Poultry Society (Mr li. I'. Wqlj.ster) asks that all accounts in connection with the late show l,e rendered til once.

Creditors in Ihe estate of the late Mrs Small are requested to furnrji particulars of their claims, in duplicate. to Messrs Govett and Quilliam, solicitors for the executors.

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