LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8026, 12 January 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"Mr Goodwin, of Australia" (an interesting complete story), and other matter appear on the fourth page. A train between Port Pirie and Adelaide caught fire, ami three trucks, coutainiug uitrate of soda, were burned. The French steamer Kera has arrived at Fromantic, via Sydney and other ports. There is a case of supposed plague aboard. Four milkiug machines have been installed by Air Lysnar at his Okitu (Poverty Bay) dairy farm, where some •Jo cows are now being machiue-nnlked. Mr George White, of Taihapc, took to Gisborne 210 head of cattle from Wanganui for a Gisborne purchaser. The drive was a most successful one, not one of the beasts being lost. Fatca has decided to observe holiday on .January 25th, the occasion being the " People's Day " in connection with the North Island Band Contest at Hawera. The Eltham people close at 11 o'clock, in time for special trains Over 4500 people attended the marching competition at the contest at Hawera in August, l'JO:!. For the premier contest it is expected that the at. tendance will be double that mimbtrf Fruit is now selling very cheaply, plums realising 2s to 'ls, peaches lis to (is, according to quality and quantity. Householders should note that Mr Newton King will sell a large quantity by auction at his mart this morning at 10 o'clock, and those wanting plums for jam should not miss this sale. Mr .T. Goodman, medical specialist, will deliver a public lecture in the Whitelcv Hall on Monday evening next, loth inst.,atH o'clock. The subject of the lecture will be: "The law of mental healing," or " The power of the mind in the cause and cure of disease." Ml' Goodman lias been lecturing on the above and kindred subjects in the various centres to large audiences, and is said to have a thorough knowledge of the subject. Mr Good-, man undertakes to prove that mental healing possesses an absolutely sc.icutilic basis, and the knowledge of it furnishes the key to tile so-called miraculous cure in past ages, and those clTceeil by visiting Lourdes and other holy shrines. A. collection will be made. The balance, after defraying expenses, will be devoted to the funds of the local hospital. HE It IT REWARDED BY COURT 0 JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and success of Sanuku and Sons' EUUAI.YJ'TI ExTItACT have [nought out many imitations, and one case was just tried in the Supreme Court of Victoria, before bis Honor Chief Justice Sir J Madden, K.C.M.G., etc, Hi" lienor, in giving judgment, said that whenever an aniele is commended t llie public by reason of its good quality, etc., if is not permissive to imitate any of its features. Restraining the imitators perpetually from doing so, tie ordered tlieni to pay all costs. \\V publish this to afford the people an opportunity of protection themselves, ami of securing what is proved beyond all doubt by skilled witnesses at the Supreme Court of Victoria, and by many authorities during the last 31 years to be preparation of genuine merit, viz. Tub Genuine Saspku & Hons' PuitK Volatii.k Eucalypti liSIEACT.

Burglars at Sun Renio (Italy) stole £IO,OOO worth of jewellery from the safes of a firm named Busi. An American named Darbrough, after a series of losses at Monte Carlo, won £BOOO. Owing to the unsatisfactory season, there will be no export of fat lambs from Tasmania for England this season. They arc getting busy in ilie ICltliam Bacon Factory and plenty of pigs are coming to hand. Over eighty were brought, in last week The Military Band, under Bandmaster Garry, will give a concert 011 the reserve, opposite the Railway Station to-night., at 8 p.m. A Press Association wire states that the Chief Surveyor of Westland lias been appointed Commissioner for the West Coast for the International Exhibition. Tho Professorial Board of the Auckland University College have nominated Mr Leonard Travers Piekmcre, L.L.8., as a candidate for the New Zealand Rhodes scholarships. He is 21 years of age, has an excellent scholastic record, and has achieved considerable success 111 athletic circles. The following ghastly item is from a Frimley Canning Works article ill 'the " Hastings Standard" of Thursday last" The tins are then transferred to another room, where some six men are engaged soldering by machinery, then placed in a bath of scalding water, from whence they are put into a retort." The article does not mention if the men offer any resistance. Recently the various dairy factory companies of tho Wellington district, , in common with those engaged 111 other industries, wero cited to appear before the Arbitration Court to answer certain demands by the Wellington Engine t Drivers' Union, The demands briefly were that only certificated engine drivers be placed in charge of boilers, 1 the qualifications of the drivers to vary j according to the horse power of the boilers, that drivers be at 110 time on duty more than sixteen feet distant 1 from their boilers, and that rates of 1 pay be as follows For drivers holdr ing first-class certificates, £3 6s per ' week; holders of second-class cettifi- ' cates, £2 per week, and uncertified men £'l 14s per week, double time to be paid 011 Suudays and overtime on . all public, holidays. These were the principal demands. The > Arbitration Court sat and heard evidence in tho dist-riels affected, but has so far made no award.