LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7912, 30 August 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The London County Council is offering, domestic servants scholarships for three months' training in schools of cookery.

Provided the weather is fine, Mr West will take an animated picture at 12..") to-day at the corner of Devon and Kgmont Streets. The picture will be developed and exhibited here during the neck.

A country player travelled Arty-sev-en miles on horseback on the "offchance" of playing in the WcllingtonWairaiapa hockey match at Carterton on Saturday afternoon. He was rewarded for his enthusiasm.

The farmers on the Darling Downs, Queensland, are making great preparations to cater for the export lamb trade in the coming season. They are going chiefly for the Shrop-shire-merino cross, which they have ascertained gives the best results in size and early maturity. The tea industry (says Grocery) is essentially a growth of British energy and enterprise. Few countries consume per head of the populatioa as much of the flagrant leaf as <lo the inhabitants of the British Isles, and what is consumed in foreign countries is mostly supplied.by the British Empire.

The sale of work and musical programme, etc., at the Queen Street Primitive Methodist Church to-mor-row afternoon has been promoted in aid of the church funds. The church, which has celebrated its sixty-first anniversary, is one of the oldest of this connexion in New Zealand. The I present building was opened for public worship some twelve months ago.

Among the scholars who obtained passes in the Auckland Sunday School Union's examinations were : Constance E. Maisey, Arthur J. Healey, and Mita MacDiarmid (se-Icond-class, intermediate grade) ; Evaline J. Maisey (first-class, junior grade) ; Alico Cocker (first prize) and Annie M. Hawkes (bracketed second prize), in the primary giv.de, first'■lass. The threo first named are scholars at the Presbyterian School ■md the other three at the Baptist School. '

We regret to record two deaths at ho New Plymouth hospital this a eek. Mr Charles Clare, eldest son ■f Mr Thomas Clare, of Waihi, Wainra, succumbed to illness on Mon'ay at the ago of 40 years. Tho -mains were taken to Wangnnui for nterment. On Tuesday Mr Herbert Mcintosh, who had been admitted to the hospital two days previously from Itohotu, expired from exhaustion after a severe illness. The dc "-"ascd was an Englishman, it is understood, without relatives in the colony.

The remark* of the Chairman of ihe Taranaki Education Hoard concerning the dearth of qualified teach■rs desiring appointments appear to he well borne out here in common with other partn of the colony. The Hoard recently invited application* r or dome good posts, including nssistantships at the Central, Stratford, and Inglewood Schools, and ■<olo charge of three other schools, ut only about a dozen or sonpplintions have come to hand. The -election* of the committee will come p for confirmation at Wednesday's neeting of the Hoard.

The funeral of the late Mrs Renell, wife of Mr Clarence Hennell. ook place on Tuesday afternoon, nd was attended by a large and rercsentative gathering. The coffin •as covered with a beautiful array f floral tributes, wreaths being sent mi behalf of numerous friends and ympathisers in the town and disrict, in addition to the Inst sod ribute of members of the family, he pall bearers were Messrs \\. (.'. feston, C. I". Foote. 11. C. Hughes, r. Furlong, jun., W. 11. Skinner, niul 'aptain Hood (Harbourmaster). The ortego also included representatives >f the Harbour Hoard. (las Coin, tany, and other institutions with vhich Mr Hennell is associated, ami lie Harbour Hoard employees. Mr '.Vilfred Hennell, of Auckland, only rolhcr of Mr C. Rennell. and his vife. sister of deceased, also atteml■d. The body was interred in the 'hureh of England portion of the Te lenui Cemetery, the Itev. F. G. •'.vans reading the burial service. Mr 'tcnnoll and family have been the reipients of innumerable messages of •ondolence in their bereavemenl. A ease was heard at the Police 'unit on Tuesday in which a lad of Hi from the country was charged •vith forging and uttering a cheque or £l. The evidence disclosed that l cheque book was missed from the ■iwner's dwelling on his return horns ifter a fortnight's absence. Subsequently a cheque for IC\ was cashed by one of the hotelkeepers in Xew I'lymouth, and inquiries by ltetectivi lloddam traced it to the 'accused,who <aid that he picked up the cheque book anil filled in one of the forms. He gave this to a man who was go>ng into town, with instructions to buy .">» worth of cigarettes. The commission-was duly carried out but Ihe lad became frightened with the success of his thoughtless trick and threw the change into a river. It was further elicited in evidence that th» hoy was of highly respected parentage, and had always borne a very good character. No reason could be assigned for his committing such a oolish act. The S.M.. after hearing the evidence, said that the boy had evidently acted with no intent to defraud, lie had not mnde the slight, •st pretence or design to imitate any signature. On finding the chequi/ book he had acted in a very childish manner, not knowing the consequences that would follow. The Magistrate, in dismissing (the case-, pointed out to accused that he had placed himself in a serious position, and 'rusted that the experience would be a warning to him.

That a "conversation lolly" should he thc beginning of a courtship whe ultimately ended in marriage reads somewhat ljke romance. Such, however is thu casp of a couple residing In Southland. Mretinc at the house of a friend one night, the pen tleman -during the course of the evening tendered a lady a lolly, on th> surface of which was a question. The lady returned one containing the reply, and thus commenced their ccquaintance. After marriage it was discovered that both parties had icaretully treasured the mementoes of their first meeting.

At Wellington on Saturday morniag just before nine o'clock the trolley head of a car caught in the overhead wiring, and caused the cir-cuit-breaker at the power-house to bloff put. The result was that the current was cu{ off from Manners street, Willis street, and LamMon quay, and traffic came to a standstill. Quite a collection cf cars, loaded with "9 o'clock people" for the city, gathered at the Royal Oak corner during the quarter of an hour which it took the workmen to remedy the. mishap.

The Hawkc's Bay Woollen Company, which' was only, established four years ago, hail decided to ''wind up." Efforts to raise more capital or to sell the mill as a going concern were not successful. During the four years of its existence the company has lost £C7I3. The Chairman (Mr Henry Williams) states that there has heen a great struggle to make both ends meet, ami throughout the whole of New Z>>aand the same difficulty lias heen experiences! by those engaged in Hit woollen industry. One o[ the causes of the pressure has been the importation of shoddy and the low rate of duty imposed upon it. Possibly the Government has considered the duty sufficient, but still the. importation of such goods under sueh favourable conditions militates to a great extent against colonial industry. Other adverse circumstances have heen the price of wool and the legislation interfering with labour conditions.

Messrs Morcy and Moore have e,ii special advertisement in this issuo dative to lodics' rnackintoshe3<

Messrs McEwen Bros, announce a valuable free offer of prizo poultry to purchasers at thoir shoe sale.

Mr G. Tisch announces that he will give his views on the political questions of the day next Tuesday evening at the Theatre Royal.

A final reminder is given of the reserved sale of. furniture by Mr Newton King t'us afternoon at Stt'andon, near Te lenui, on account of Mr E. Wasl y, who is leaving the district.

A press 1. ;sagc from Hokitika j states that '1 .omas George, hailing j from Otago and employed on the dredge Mikonui, was committed for trial on Tuesday on a charge of attempting to discharge a loaded pea ■ rifle at James Nelson, the man in charge. Pleading for practical education, Mr Walter Long, speaking at Bristol, said it was no good turning out of their schools every boy so educated that he could become a clerk, or every girl so educated that she could becoino a teacher, unless they provided sufficient employment for all I those boys and girls,

At Warea, on Thursday, Mr Newton King will hold a clearing sale of dairy cattle, implements, and furniture, on account of Mr J. J. Elwin. The cows are an exceptionally good lot, having been carefully bred and culled for milking. The average test for the whole herd of 110 cows has been one of the highest at the factory for manji years. The sale will commence at 11 o'clock.

Chicago is an lingcnious town. They have been raising money there by a ijig charity bazaar. There is nothing peculiarly ingenious in that by itself but this bazaar had a "kissing lottery." The shameless man who went in and won had the right to choose the lips of any lady out of a number. There seemed to be opportunities here for making enemies. What happened was curious. A man who had been divorced won, and he wanted to kiss tho lady who had divorced him. "Kiss you !" she cried, dramatically. "Never !" They told her that it was only a charity, but she stood by her "never," And now he is suing her for breach of contract. Or so they say in Chicago. It seems to 11c a fallacy to suppose that cither o! the plants known by the name of "shamrock" has been found in Ireland. Im reference to a statement that "the true shamrock" has been found near Cheadle. in England, a botanist writes to a Home paper :—"lt would l>c interesting to know, the botanical name of the species found, because the plant usually identified as the true shamrock—viz., Trifolium minus—is about as common, in England as lip daisy, and can be found in any gravelly fields or roadsides. I have had some correspondence on this subject with a prominent Irish botanist and nurseryman, and he assures mc that the plant I name is the true one. I have seen it come over from Ireland in quantity. Most books of re-| tcrcnec also give this plant as correct. So far as I know, there is no clover growing in Ireland which is not far more frequent in England." A strange story is told about Major von Wissman, the well-known African explorer, by the Vienna correspondent of the Daily Mail. Major Wissman committed suicide reccntlv. The story goes Ihat soon after his return to Berlin from the Governorship of German East Africa, it was noticed in the capital that he had fallen into disgrace at the Court, although he was graciously welcomed on his first arrival. The reason for this was that about a week after Major Wissman arrived in B«rlin the

Kaiser noticed the explorer taking a walk in the Thicrgarten. His Majesty at once stopped his carriage, and asked Major Wissman to enter it and sit beside him. The Kaiser then bade his companion forget during the next half-hour that his Sovereign was sitting beside him, and to sav to him, as man to man, what he really thought about German colonisation. What the explorer told His Majesty was never revealed, hut afl«r a brief ten minutes' conversation the Kaiser, in a stern voice, bade the coachman stop, and dismissed the explorer without ceremony. From that time onwards Major Wissman never again enjoyed the Imperial favour.

The curator of fisheries (Mr Av .sou) stated recently that whilst he had not personally made any investigation into the prevalence OK disease amongst the fish, it scorned to him that it was a question of how long Lake Rotorua could maintain it" present very large stock of fish. Reports, lie said, would indicate that ihe fish had been in poorer condition last season than in previous seasons. The number of fish in the lake, he said, w a s constantly increasing, and it was a question of whether the number might not become too great for their natural food supply, He was not, he said i» a position to s a y that the food supply had decreased, but from Inquiries which he had made from the natives at Ohincmutu it was evident that in regard to the kora (one ot the principal sources of the food supply of the trout) there had been a diminution. If the. supply of food was decreasing, he thought It might be possible to supplement It by the introduction of other small fish The matter was one which he thought !j? u t " I* 'Bvwtferted, Mr Ay^ n pointed out that the Rotorua fisheries were certainly the most valuable » the colony, and perhaps among th. most valuable In the world. U rrrkV m H l ,m . porlant adjunct to the louribl attractions of the place and wa,* nf"L°' itS < nallonal Importance it was of course, to the Interests of the satlonS !C p-\ t0 , assist the Acclimatisation Society in maintaining these coniifiof °7! ds in thc best condition. It was therefore verv imshould Con " nenccd liy Mr Gilru t h should t c systematically followed up. JinT""?.' 8 ° n th ° loOk ' Ollt to 'tov' m Clocks, watches, jew*llety, solid sil,nli -f T by J* st mnkors ' m «y>» *<>- * ."* J - "• I'arker-s, next railway crossing .Devon Street, .New rhr"« iJi ot f cal *" , a fe'w Cases left „f very fine American 8-day striking dockg at 12s 6(1 rach . HAVE YOU TJSKD THE GENUINE and experienced the delight of immediate and permanent roliof ? Medico I authorities nil over the globe announce that thc genuine SANDEH & SON'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT out distances all known remedies- in cold», influenza, all fevers, diarrh 0 e a , dysentery, rheumatism* etc. A local application will at once stop neuralgic pains ; skin diseases, wounds, uloarri. it heals without inflammation. Inhalations (5 to 8 drops to a cupful 01 boiling water) give Certata i-elief in dipthoric, throat and bronchial troubles, asthma, pneumonia, consumption, etc. Thirty years' use has proved thp m D r|ts of SANDER and SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Th f ill-effects following the use o/ tijo common eucalyptus products need not l>e feared ; tho nn-es ar» legion. Try It ! But, to avoid disappointment, be sure and get SANDER & SONH' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.