LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8115, 21 May 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board meets this morning, Mr John Home has been appointed instructor in pmtical agriculture for tho teachers' Saturday classos. Mr Newton King advertises a large quantity of timber to besoldby auction at tho yards on the reclaimed laud on Saturday next. The Oreti, bound from New Plymouth to Grcymouth, put in to Westport last night, owing to stress of weather.

Messrs E. J. Carthew and Co., Land Agents, report having sold Mr Crofskey's pretty homestead, situated on the York road, to a local investor. Enquiries into the eonduot of several Mauaia residents at the late Stratford Race meeting will be made by the Committee of the Stratford Club this evening.

At a meeting of the Eliot Boad Board on Saturday, there were present —Messrs Robt. Glegg, Home, and Bigelow. Mr Glej?g was re electod chairman Accounts amounting to £3 3s were passed for payment.

The United States' Government estimate of the San Francisco disaster is three hundred killed, two hundred injured, and two hundred thousand homeless. Tlie property destroyed was valued at one hundred million dollars. The coroner puts the number of fatalities down at over one thousand.

At] the New Plymouth Hospital on Sunday afternoon, there passed away the seven year old daughter of Mr and Mrs R. W, Dixon. The child had been ill as tho result of a fall for nearly four years, and undergone great suffering, and death cq.me as a happy release. Tkeir many friends will sympathise with the parents and family in their affliction.

In reference to the application of the Mangorei Dairy Coy. to the School Commissioners for permission to remove their Kent road creamery from its present site, a settler on the road says it is desired to re-erect it a mile and a half further up the road, in the hope of obtaining a bigger milk supply. Several of the farmers on the upper end of tho road have announced their intoution of milking more cows it the distance to the sreamery is lessened.

The City and Guilds of London technical examinations commonec at New Plymouth on Tuesday under the supervision of Mr W. E. Spencer, Chief Superintendent. There are seventeen candidates, who will sit in woodwork, plumbing, dressmaking and needlework examinations. As thcro are no conveniences for woodwork examinations in Now Plymouth., this section will bo conducted at S&atford.

Mr J. A. Jones, of Stratford, has at the Acclimatisation Society's ponds n hundred or so young fish of the true salmon variety. The fish arc doing well, and are about three inches in length. Besides these there are a couple of thousand of fine specimens of Lock Fyne trout. In .a dam on the property there arc about one hundred beautifu. specimens of rainbow trout, from three to five pounds in woight. These latter aro very tame, and will come to the side of the pond to be fed.

A paragraph recently appeared in the Tabanaki Daily News to the effect that strangles had appeared amongst horßcs in the Hawera district. Our Hawera contemporary, in a recent issue, practically says that the report is without foundation, and quotes the statements of officers of the Veterinary (Department that no such cases have been reported to them. It is therefore necessary for us to explain that our report was based on actual fact. From our personal knowledge, two of the largest breeders in the district had quite a number of their horses affected by the malady named, some very seriously and entailing the use of the lancet, while other cases also have been brought to our notice.

The " Porerty Biy Herald " says : "A syndicate of local-residents has been formed to obtain all information as to the prospects of oil boring ia this district. A meeting was held at the British Empire Hotel, at which the view was taken that Gisborne poople should be the first to] bestir themselves in what, if successful, would mean so much for the district. It was resolved as the first step to obtain 50 residents to put their names down for £lO each, the united amount to be used to exploit the oil measures of the district on the same lines as in Taranaki, and if possible to secure the services of one of the staff engaged in the successful operations. It is stated that there will be little difficulty in raising the amount required, and the promoters wish it to be understood that the proposal at present is merely for the putpose of exploitation, not for individual gaii, but for the general benefit. If satisfactory results are obtained, company proposals will doubtless follow."

A strange, and to a degree sensational, though simple accident occurred in New Plymouth on (Saturday evening. A young man named Bocock, of Egmont Village, whilst waiting for a friend, was playing with a pocket knife. The knife fell from a table, and he caught the blade between his legs and held it there, the sharp point pricking lus skin. He took no further notice of the slip until some minutes later ho felt the warm blood trickling down his leg. Examination showed his clothes were completely saturated, and tho blood was spurting from tho wound. Unable to stop it, he sent for assistance, and Dr Bleakloy was summoned. Before his arrival the flow had been stopped by means of a tourniquet, but the great loss of blood had caused him to swoon away. Dr Blcaklcy soon found it impossible to allow the patient to remain out of the hospital, and to the hospital he was accordingly sont, whero it was found that the bleeding had almost ceased, and tho whole hemorrhage had been caused by a small wound only a sixth of an inch in length. Yostorday ho had greatly improved, but Dr Walker, the medicil superintendent, states it will be about ton days before tho patient will be ablo to leave the hospital.

The Daily jNews representative recently was shown over the Egmont Butter Box Co.'s factory at Eltham. The works arc very extensive, nnd are fitted, with up-to-date machinery. A demonstration was given of the manner ot making butter boxes. From the raw timber to a fimshod butter box, the material passes through a large number of machines, the nail-driving machine particularly, being a wonderful contrivauce. The company haye manufactured something like 200,000 boxes this season. As the factory is much too small to meet requirements, it is proposed to pull the present buildings down shortly and re-erect on n more ambitious scale. With this end in vieiv, tlio hands are at present busy making adequate supplies of boxes for the winter requirements of the various factories. The Egmont Box Co. is a co-operative concern, owned and controlled for the most part by co-opera-tive dairy companies, and is probably the largest milker of butter boxes in the colony. Large areas ot white pine bush along the line of the Main Trunk railway are held by the company, and with the Taranaki supplies, are sufficient to keep the factory busy for the next fifteen or twenty years. Over a million feet of seasoned timber is always kept stacked in the yards. THE CAPSK OF RHEUMATISM Exposure to cold and damp is the chief cause of rheumatism. Through cold and damp the skin fails to throw off perspiration, and thus the poisonous uric acid cannot pass from the body. This soon accumulates, and then usually al tacks one of the joints. When thoroughly developed, the slightest movement gives agony. Whether in the preliminary or advanced stages, llheumo will quickly cure rheumatism. It neutralises and drives out the acid accumulations, and gives speedy and permanent relief Your chemist or grocer sells it at 2s 6d and 4s 6d a bottle, Try it,