LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7892, 7 August 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An old aboriginal named Snm, the ,'-- s * of th ° Brisbane tribe of blacks ■'•s just died at tuc Myora Mission ■Station. Mr (ieorge Carry's orchestra has le.'ii engaged to supply the music at :!i« Star Football Club's .siotjal on August 23. The Taranaki Uifles hold a parade at 7.30 this evening, for inspection I.V I>\U.-Colonel Webb, otllccr coiuuanding the -district, lllue uniform with leggings is the order. Tin- Hamilton correspondent of the New Zealand Herald reports that Mr Uonald Frascr, of Rangitikei, has purchased 12,000 acres of land in the neighbourhood of Morrinsville. Notice is given in this issue that' ■ ■<■ tJie next meet tug of the Xew Ply. mouth Harbour Board there will i,e .-übmitted a motion increasing the : erthage charge for passengers fr 0 m is to 2s per capita. •Messrs R. J. Carthew and Co. r,,iori having soH Mr AHott's large] ;Wo-stori\v residence, known as Cam- 1 ridge House, situated -corner of Hob- | >on nnd Devon Streets, to .Mr ami Mrs Pot Us, of llcll Illock, who will *eep it as a first-cl»«s boarding liouse. One of the results of the cutting-up .ind disposal of the Fla.Viiourne Ex'.ate by '(he' Government Jias been the purchase by a number of Uiiose who wero unsuccessful in obtaining sections u the estato of farms in the Marlborough and Nelson districts. Says a Hokitika wire :—A remarkably good view of the Aurora Australia was to be seen here'on Wedne.slay night, the display of southern : ights being very line. During the past few evenings the sunsets hive been of wonderful grandeur, the >ur schemes, being truly iiiagniliwnt. On Saturday about I.UO p.m. a fin. occurred in an old fowlhousie abut, ting on the properties 0 f Messrs Shultleworth and Scott, in the K a st Knd. Tho woodwork was evidently ignited through tho embers from, a smouldering heap of weeds close by, and the structure was quickly ciemolishrd in couseqjicnce of Ihe high wind prevailing. The brigade turned out, and their services were utilised in extinguishing the debris. Tho Napier Borough Council some months ago wrote to Mr Carnegie for £2OOO, with which to purchase the Athenaeum from the present management for use as a public library. A reply has been received, in which Mr Carnegie's sm'etnry asks :—"l) u you mean to say you would ask Mr Carnegie. l|d give £2Q(>(l foil a building, erected in 1870 ? " The Council is taking steps to acquire the Athanaeum without Mr Carnegie's aid.

The British Government have published a Blue Book containing correspondence relating to merchant shipping legislation in Australia and New Zealand. The correspondence ranges from JBU7 to the present year and relates mainly to the New Zealand Shipping and Seaman's Act Amendment Acts of 18»6 and 1903. and to the Navigation and Shipping Bill introduced into the Commonwealth Parliament in 1004. On Saturday week, while Mr William Hale was in Messrs Hewley md OriHiths' auction mart someone "appropriated" his pocket (book, containing some £2O. Mr Hale has patiently Wuiued foi- some recognition oi acknowledgment from the present possessor, of the money, but so. far without resuitf and has therefore dccdcwl io see if Sergeant] Haddrell cannot bring home to the guilty one a sense of his shortcoming. Extreme mea- ; suivs, however, are stayed until Tuesday, Aug. 15. There is, says the Sydney* Daily Tclegrap'i. a prospect that a n active Ciinpuiim will lie started shortly by Ihe imst ollice against the agent's for Tut temail's sweeps. The bulk of the applications for sweep tickots are now sent as jxirccls by certain carrying linns, while in Tasmania a nuntfiior of people are known to receive dozens of letters which are susiiected to contain applications for tickets. The whole matter is now under ti:.c consideration of the Department, and in view of the Crowm Solicitor's opinion steps may hi) takeh to cut off the postal facilities of all agents for Tattersah's.

The Lyttclton Times records thai one ot the passengers who left Lyttclton by the Ayrshire for Durban is a gentleman on his way to Momjhassa, in Central Africa, "with a couple of shorthorn heifers and a bull. He has a station in "Darkest Africa," and, thought it is situated in the torrid zone, it is favoured with a climate which makes stock-raising practicable. "When it is too hot in our place,'' he says, "We go and siton the equator," He explained that the "line" ran over uplands, several thousand feet above sra-levcl, and consequently the air there was comparatively cool.

| Tho technical classes continue i () makii satisfactory progress, new pupils being enrolled each (lay. Pupils who have passed the sixth standard ant nllowed to attend the classes free, provided they take arithmetic. English, and one technical subject. Intending free pupils must deposit with Iho secretary (Mr C. T. Mills) the sum o'l £1 .">s. which will he returned if eighty pec cent. iot attendances nrn uiadii at each class!. The memlliiei's unrolled for the udvancetl building construct ion ami carpentry and joi.ii'ry are such as have induced the committed to open classes next week, The class in advanced building construction will mcfl at the Centra! School mi Wrtlncsday, and the carpentry and joinery on Thursday,

We have muck pleasure in ncknow- j lodging receipt of a' complimen- ] tary ticU-i, to the Stratford Football ! Club's annual social, to tie held in the Stratford Town llpfl; on Aug. 30-. A New York journal has a capital cartoon entitled "A Chance for tnc Czar." It represcrits the door of Norway, on which there is a placard bearing tho following :—"Wanted—A Good King. Apply within." Nicholas 11. is shown looking wistfully at the "Wanted" notice, iiijd tw is made to say : "I believe I'll apply. Anything's better than the jo'b I've got now."

A >Board of Trade return shows thai l the 'number of immigrants who have landed from the Continent at. ports in the United Kingdom between January 1 and May 31 last was 88,6">5, us compared with 58,454 during the same period last year, on increase of 20,201. Tho most striking increase is in tho number from French ports 7599. Tho figures embrace aliens in transit to America. There has 'just arrived in London, says a correspondent, a parcel of cloths manufactured by the. Petone works. Thpsj were sent to the New Zfialaird Agency-General, in order that they might form part of New Zealand's exhibit at the exhibition now in progress at tho Crystal Palace. It is a pity that the goods . did not get to London in thoe tor. the opening of this exhibition ; but even now they are sure to come in for public notice, as tho exhibition is being well attended, for visitors to London always go in largo numbers to the Crystal P.Uaoe.

Mr Andrew Carnegie (says a recent message to the Daily Telegraph w London) has been isked 'by the Universal Peace Union to contribute £6,000,000 to promote a hard and last international alliance between the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany in the interests of peace. If France, Germany, and England will agree, he is to promise £2,000,000 each lor the establishment of a Carnegie Institute in Paris, London, and Berlin. These, it is proposed, shall be run on similar lines to the Oarnegic Institute at Washington. The letter says that the gift would appeal to the intellectual element oi Ihe three nations, and inter alia, would "prove an antidote to the remnant of resent-' ment against Great Britain still lingering on the Continent." A few days ago the Sydney detectives became aware that counterfeit half-crowns were in circulation in the city, and that, with, the exception of the "milling" they were excellent imitations. It has now been discovered that another set of counterfeits, .cast from the 1900 issue, arc being passed. One coin, which is in the hands of the police, is just as Rood looking as the genuine article. The "mil.ing" is capitally executed, but direct)|y it is testejrl tor the "ring" it fails utterly. The martial of which it is composed is nearly all tin, whereas in the other sample nickel and silver predominated. To iliow how easily these coins may deceive any but experts, it should be stated that they were received in Grange from big commercial establishments.

A daring outrage was perpetrated in a Melbourne hotel on the lsth of July, the victim bring Mr C. Y. Olnistmas, a well-known resident o[ South Melbourne. As Mr Christmas was proceeding along a narrow passage he was violently attacked by a • tiihan who caught, him by the .htaat with one hand, and with the :>lher attempted to tear a valuable gold watch and chain from his pocket. The man, however, found the task not an easy one, and, seeing that the assailant was getting the worst of the encounter, two other fellows, who were skulking close by, rushed to the first man's assistance, and savagely attacked Mr Christmas. One of them kicked him violently about the body, while, Die other put the garotite on. The thieves managed to get possession of half of Mr Christmas's chain and a diamond locket valued at 75 guineas. A parcel of lour hundred heads of keas, billed in the vicinity Of Lake L'ohiriagc, has reached the Government Buildings, says the Lytteßbn Times. For each beak the Road Hoard of tire district has paid 2s 6d, of which the Government provides M. The "bag" held the spoil ol a twelve months' slaughter, and the tally exceeded the previous year's total iby more than a .hundred. Another Koad Board in Canterbury, in the Upper Waimakarivi district, paid for about two hundred and eighty lieas' heads during the past year, and this number is larger than the aggregate for the preceding twelve months. Mr Cunningham, o[ the Stock Department, says that some of the. station-owners arranged to pay their men special rates for the heads of keas. At Mount White 5s was given for a 'beak, ami at Wharfdale Valley, Milton, the reward was 10s, hut in each case the Road Board reimburses the dispenser to the extent of 2s 6d.

An impression prevails among New York engineers that the great Assouan dam in Egypt is in danger of ■destruction. Instead of raising the dam to increase its irrigating capacity, as was contemplated, British engineers are now devoting their energies to filling the bed of the river Willi a cement floor to prevent the water from eating under and toppling over the great pile of masonry which confines the river. Mr F. Cope-white-' house, the distinguished American engineering authority, in speaking on the matter, says : "The dam is heing gradually weakened by the force of the water passing through Hie sluices, and, according to the new theory of stress to which masonry dams arc subjected, it is liable to tilt over, and a vertical crack develop. Then, again, the bed of the Nile is 'being eroded by sluices, great holes being torn by the force of water. If the mischief is left unchecked the holes will extend to the base of the dain itself, and may eventually undermine the structure. For this reason a masonry door is being laid. This is a most difficult operation, owing to the power of water. In one instance, where the block was not properly laid, water found its way in, and moved part of the masonry weighing 77 tons."

An extraordinary case of suicide of a woman named Florence Ferred is reported in a telegram of 31st inst from Bingara, New South Wales. Some days earlier a travelling showman left, his camp near the town with his eldest.child, to search for some stray horses, leaving his wife and three children-tile eldest a girl of eight, the youngest a four months old baby-in the tent. The little girl ran with the other children to a neighbouring house, and said that her mother was drinking matches and digging a big hole in the tent. Some people, got round tho/lent, and sent for the police. The woman, wno had barricaded herself in, kept digging with an adze, now and again taking a drink from a pint-mug, and sharpening a knife on a steel. She tried to prevent people from looking into the tent, and kept on working. The I police on arrival hurst into the tent, and secured the mug, which was found to contain about four boxes of matches, which had been rawed with some tea. The woman had dug out a grave the size of her body and about a foot deep. A fcnifa and sleel were lying cn the loose earth alongside, The police brought (he woman to the gaol doctor, who administered emetics. Site was cliaiged with having attempted to commid suicide, and, pleading guilty, was sen I diced to 56 hours' imprisonment. She was taken to the hospital, where she died on the 21st from the effects of phosphorus poisoning. t

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| A mild scare is now agitating the ' i residents of Portland and vicinity, :says the Sydney Morning Herald's correspondent, as some large, strange animal has been .very much in evidence lately in the scrub between here and the Sunny Corner. Several I persons of unquestjionaible reputation i l.>^ , veracity have either 'had a fleetling glimpse of tlve animal or have i'beard its unearthly noises. It is [said to be between 4ft and sft long, ■covered with brown striped fur, and its tracks arc undoubtedly tigerish in appearance, and certainly unlike those of any other animal known in the district. A cow and calf and a horse have been the latest victims of this strange animal, whatever it may be, ami armed search parties have been formed to explore, so far unsuccessfully, its usual haunts.

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