LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8136, 19 June 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Excursion fares to Wellington, in conneetiuu with the funeral of the late Mr Sedilon, will be issued on the railways to-day and to-morrow. A witness told the Federal Tariff Commission that boys and girls in glue factories in Italy received only 2s (id or 3s for a week of GO to 72 hours. Owing to the late Premier's funeral on Thursday, the usual St. Joseph's Euchre Party fixed for that evening has been postponed till Thursday of next week. The Hunt Club meet, which was to have been held at Sentry Hill on Thursday, has been indefinitely postponed, on account of the late Premier's funeral, and the memorial services.

Newton King reports the sale of 8-1,0 acres of land from Mr H. H. Phillips, of Ngairc, to Messrs Tipping and Tucker, of Hawke's Bay. A r ery large entries have been received for Newton King's hide sale which takes place at Stratford to-day. They include 1000 bullock hides and 800 sheepskins.

At the usual fortnightly meeting of the Moturoa Lodge of Druids, on Monday night, Arch Druid Bro. A. R. Standish presiding, a resolution expressing regret at the death of the late Mr Seddon and condolence with the relatives was passed.

An Aberdeen carter confessed in the Feilding Court that he sometimes drank 22 half-gills of whisky in a day. He indignantly repudiated the idea that he was drunk when he had only consumed two half-gills and a bottle of beer. He was, however, fined 7s (id.

A correspondent of the " Law Clerk" mentions two clerks with a Liverpool firm of solicitors who have been in their employ for 66 and 56 years respectively. Both are still at work.

Messrs Sole Bros., the proprietors of the long established butchery business at the corner of Devon and Currie streets, have in their advertising space some interesting talk to heads of families, and others interested. In the pocket of a drunken man arres'ed in Christchurcli last week were found two dyn.imite cartridges, one with a fuse and cap attached. It is easy to imagine the tragedy that might have occurred but for police intervention.

The committee of the Nelson Institute, which was recently destroyed by lire, lias decided to write to Air Carnegie and ask whether he will be willing to give £SOOO for the erection of a new library in Nelson. More beggingt

An American Ipaper says :—" What is editorial c .lirtesy ? Why, it is when a newspaper editor is caught stealing chickens at midnight, and his brother editors kindly allude lo the matter as a ' Strange Freak of a Somnambulist,' " In the last 100 years, the longest Premiership of England was that of Lord Liverpool. It lasted 15 years. Next comes that of Lord Salisbury, 13j years. Canning was Premier for four months. An "In Memonam " service, to tho memory of the late Mr 11. J. Seddon, is to be held on the Recreation Grounds on Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock, the hour of the funeral. By advertisement the Mayor invites the public to attend. If the weather i.s wet, the service will be held in the Theatre Royal. The usual meeting of the Egmont Lodge No. 112, 1.0. G.T., was held in the Queen street Hall on Monday night, Bro. J. C. Ccgg presiding, There was a good attendance, and four new members were initiated. After general business was disposed of, the 'question box' was proceeded with. A re-union is to be held next Monday Evening. Clive is a favored locality just now. While Napier residents are paying 3jd for the 21b loaf of bread, Clive residents are getting the stalT of life at S-idjicr 21b loaf. This has been brought about by the advent of a new baker at Clive who refuses to join the Bakers' Union and is selling his bread at 3d per 21b loaf. The opposition bakers who supply the district have therefore reduced thc-ir mice to 2-ld.

It is stilted that a small farmer near Levin, whose holding consists of fifty acres, has succeeded in making £7OO in two years entirely from the produels of iiis small holding. The returns are principally derived from dairying, Imt in addition to this source of revenue every attention is devoted to the pro. duction of pigs, also potatoes and other vegetables for market. 0. T. PUNCH is a temperance drink, And all good slorcs supply it; The tipple of goils, it's called, I think, By evervone who tries it. A little 0. T. PUNCH, In a little wafer hot; A sound refreshing sleep, Yes, that is what I got. Have you heard McClure ?—Advt,

All schools in the Wangamii Education District will be closed on the day of the funotal of the lute Premier. The export of gold from New Zenland for tho past fifty years has totalled 17,188,!)30oz., valued at £67,401,649.

Tn Lipland, when the door of a war.n room is opened during the winter, it is immediately followed by a miniature snow storm in the room, the condensed moisture falling in flakes. All football fixtures for Thursday '.lave been put off out of respect to the memory of the late Mr Seddon.

The human hair forms a profitable crop, Five tons are annually imported by the merchants of London. Tho Parisian harvest is upwards of 200,000 pounds, equal in value to £BO,OOO a year.

All schools within the Tarauaki Education District close on Thursday, out of respect to the late Minister for Education.

In Anglesey there arc 38 parishes together containing a papulatson of 10,000 people, which have not a single public house in them. This is considered to be a record. Japanese children are not allowed to attend school until after six years of age, as the Japanese believe that school education before six is physiologically and mentally detrimental. Many of the best managers, pattern designers, and dyers in the Lancashire cotton mills, tomptcd by high wages, arc going out to India and Japan to take charge of mills there.

His Worship the Mayor of New Plymouth requests burgesses to observe the whole of Thursday as a holiday, as a mark of respect to the memory of the late Mr Seddon.

A Blacon (Chester) farmer has turned up 13 copper coins with his plough. The coins are mostly Irish, bearing on one side a harp and crown and the date 1682. The farm in question is believed to have once formed tho ancient bed of tho rivor Dee, and the theory advanced is that the coins were probably droppod overboard by Irish fisherman who frequented the Dee estuary. Eminent Babylonia! explorers say that the multiplication table which the Babylonian child had to commit to memory extended to thirty times thirty, and that he was easily conversant with two languages besides his own. The schoolrooms have been discovered, and to-day it is possible to examine the school books, and the tablets with the arithmetic lessons still legible upon them.

The Auckland Education Board lias asked tho Mayor of Auckland to call a public meeting to discuss tho project of establishing a Seddon Memorial Technical College. Hawke's Bay farmers are losing faith in spraying for the potato blight, believing that, in that district at any rate, the earth itself is affected. Those acquainted with the Irish blight say it is not the same ; for, whereas the Irish blight turns the potato black, but leave i it still hard, the disease m this district gives the potato a frost-bitten appe irance, and when pressed it has a rotte.i, soapy feel.

The Dowager-Empress of China has decided to select a heir to the throne, and all eligible princes in China have to present themselves for inspection. Tnree or lour of the brightest-lpoking lads are to be ki.pt at the palace for a year or so, and then an heir will be finally selected. A London journalist says that in China it is uow a pathetic sight to see the young aristocrats practising bright looks before their lookingglasses.

A discovery of petroleum has been male at Waiotapu, near Kotorua. The find is upon the property of Mr Win. Borers, a well-known Kotorua businesi man, who has had a party of men em ployed prospecting and testing the groind for oil for some time past. Simples taken from the places where the oil exuded freely from the ground in several parts of the properly have been submitted to eminent authorities, and although precise details have not been disclosed, it is understood that the samples aro true pstroleum of high specific gravity,

Pill-makers arc this year (says a London paper) outdoing 'themselves in producing beautiful tints whorowith to color their sugar-coated pills. Stall after stall at the Chemists' Exhibition, which •opened last month at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, shone resplendent in mid and delicate shades. One appetising pill was coated in turquoise blue, while others rejoiced in sugar jackets of charming Liberty hues. '• We find it does not do to send pills of any color to a district," said a representative of one firm. "In South-east London, for instance, a rose-pink pill would not soli, for the local demand is for a jet bluck or vivid scarlet pill. Bournemouth, or a fashionable suburb, would not accept anything but a white pill, or one coated in a very pale shade. Poor people seem to think that because a pill is coated in some violent shade of scarlet or blue, it will prove very powerful and efficacious. Of course, the color and contents have no relation to each other."