LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8141, 25 June 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At Waitarn, on Saturday morning, the sight was witnessed of a two-horse cab, unattended, bolting around tho town. Singularly, no damage was done, either to the horses or vel iclo.

A quarry in a ship's hold is an unusual feature, but it can be seen just n iw at the Victoria Wharf, at Duncdiu, says the Star. When the ship Dalcairnie left Liverpool, three hundred tons of superphosphates were shipped with other cargo. This has taken a firm hold of the sides and bottom of the vessel, and hardened like cement. It now has to be removed by regular quarrying operations and tools, Side cuts and undercuts have to be made, and the stuff detached in huge lumps,' It is work which doesn't pay stevedores. No doubt they would like to blast it out, but the ship has to be considered. A little 0. T. PDNCtI, In a little water hot; A sound refreshing sleep, Yes, that is what I got. Every bullet has its billet, All the bow-wows have their days, If I had a book, I'd fill it up 1 Wjtlj 0, X, PUNUH'B praise,

The Venlura lefl San Francisco on the 21st inst, at 7 p.m.

The weather at the Mountain House last week was beautifully flue, though very cold. The lakos betwoen the spurs were frozen hard, the ice being four inches thick.

Messrs Gilmour and l'attio report having sold six sections at Fitzroy, and Mr Flayall's two acres and dwelling in Hobson street. Tho silos, which were completed on Saturday, were made at very satisfactory figures. Miss Murray, teacher of artistic singing, voico production, aud pianoforte, notifies a chango of address. Miss Murray was a pupil of the woll known Mr Hamilton Hodges, and is a most successful teaoher.

" Diacetyldimethyldioxyanthraquinone, natural order. " Polysynthetio," This is an attempt to splutter out a tvhole sentence m a single immensely long word made up ot fragments of roots of and particles, Tho Sooretary of the Taranaki Education Board wishes us to state that the meetiags of householders will bo held on Monday, July 16th, not on June 16th, as is advertised erroneously in tho weekly editions of the local papers.

Clerks, it would appear (says the " Timaru Post") are not in such short supply as piclt-and-sliovel men, for the Board of Education received 73 applications for the position of clerk in their office at a salary of £IBO a year.

of the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society are of opiuion that unless poaching is put a stop to, there will not be a decent day's shooting in North Taranaki shortly. The same remarks apply to poaching in streams, shooting, spearing, tickling and dynamiting accounting for the death of hundreds of trout in a season.

That some teachers aro really interested in the welfare of the profession, is as undisputed as is the fact that very many of them don't care twopence, or don't appear to care twopence, about the improvement of their lot. One teacher rode noarly fortv miles on his bicycle to attend Satur day's meeting of teachers in New Plymouth, relurning home tho same even, ing.

Writing to a friend in Palmerston, a resident of Tasmania says i "Potatoes. —We are shipping all our supplies to New South Wales. They aro taking all at 16s per sack, The farmers are getting a higher price for their produce than for many years. All the mining fields are extremely activo, and Tasmania generally is Laving a good time "

Members of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (First and Second Groups) are notified that subscriptions will bo due and payable on Monday at tho Secretary's office, Currie street, from 9 a,m. to 12.30, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.— Advt,

" The busiest day I have hail in New Plymouth," is Mr Morey's verdict on the opening day of the big drapery sale at Morey k Son's. This is good news, showing tint the toivn is as good as of yore —and better—and that the firm lias the goods and the low prices wherewith to attract. The sale continues to-day, a lot of new goods having been specially marked down. ! Does anybody ever walk in Auckland P The quostion is suggested by some figures in the annual report of I the Auckland Electric Tramways, Ltd. Tho population of tho city and suburbs is about 70,000, and during twelve months the trams carried 20,000,000 passengers. That is to say, thoy carried the whole population more than 280 imes, and in doing so they received in fares an amount equal approximately to £1 4s per head of the men, women, and children in the community.

A doctor who committed suicide nt Sydney recently, left a letter to the coroner, in which he stated that he had lost heart, und had taken one drachm of cyanide of potassium, so that there was no need for a post mortem. He expressed a wish that his body should be giren to the dissecting room.

Opunake anglerihive found by ex perience that boys are as ndept fishers as adults, and that having greater leisure and opportunities for fishing, their continual presence on the river-hanks is having a prejudicial effect on the river stocks. They, therefore, wish that boys should be charged adult fee for fishing licenses. Speaking at Amherley, Canterbury, Mr A. W. Rutherford said that the producer in his relation to taxation was very much in the position of the giant tree to which tho rata had attached itself, The producer could j stand a certain amount of taxation, but he doubted whether the land could stand the whole .burden.

ikaroa and Banks Peninsula folk form such a substantial proportion of the Taranaki population that several liavo conceived the idea of holding a re-union. Old residents of " the Bays" are asked to forward their names and addresses to " Peninsula," Box 119, New Plymouth, with a view to furthering the project,

When Palmerston North was first founded, the Rev. J. Patcrson purchased a half-acre section there, which he thought would be usoful as a church site. The Presbytery, however, differed, and did not care to pay the £2O which the land cost, so Mr Patcrson disposed of it privatoly. On a recent visit to Palmerston, Mr Paterson inquired the present value of Ins old purchase, and was informed that it was worth £600! Tlie half-acro purchased for £2O in the seventies was situated in the Square.—" Wairarapa Times." Pea rifles in tie hands of youthful " Buffalo Bills," are said to be causing great stock mortality at Waikouaiti, South Island. At a meeting of the Otago Farmers' Union, a Mr Buckland stated that on Silver Teaks he had lost 35 head of cattle, seven of which he found to have been killed by pea rifle bullets. Tko remaining 28 head had completely disappeared, and no trace had since boon found of thorn. Mr Buckland thinks that the hunters mistook his tamo stock for wild cattle, but ho gave no explanation of the entiro disappearance of the sleers. Presumably the boy hunters swallowed them. Howevor, the Otago Farmers' Union intends to try and abolish the pea rifle from the district.

The Japanese Admiralty lias reclassified the -whole Imperial navy, so as to assign places to tlie warships captured from the Russians according to their relative value. There arc now nine battleships in the Mikado's ileet, irrespective of the two vessels completing in England. Of the original Japanese navy, as it existed before the war, there remain the battleships Mikasa (now being refitted), Fuji, Shikishima, and Asahi. The Russian prizes have been thoroughly overhauled, and all their defects made good. Tlio battle division of these craft is made up of tho Iwami, ex-Orel; Sagami, ex-Peresiyiet; Tango, ex-Poltava j Hizcn, ex.Retvizan; and Suo, cx-Pobiedi. The Nishima, exSemavinc; and tho Apraxinc are classified as coast defence vessels of the second class; while the Ika, ex-Niko-lai 1., is reckoned as a first-class coast defence ironckd. One first - class cruiser—the Aao, ex-Baynn—and two second-class cruisers—the Tsuguru, exPoilada, and Soya, ex-Vacyag—have been taken into the list of Japan's active fleet from tho Russian prizes. The net result is that the Japanese navy is stronger by two battleship.?, two coast defenco ships, and one ciuiser than it was before the war.

If you still stick to your summer suit you must lmvo a light overcoat for mornings and evenings. Every good sort of light top coat, rainproof or ot! erw'se can be found at the Mclbi urne at these prices: 27s 6d, 355, 9s 6d. Uom> and look them ovor.— Advt.

For Colds in the Itaad and Influenza Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6dper bottle For Bronchial Coughs and Colds, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and gs 0d per bottle,