LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8142, 27 June 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Cancer was responsible for twcnti deaths in the colony last month, am phthisis and other tubercular disease; for eighteen.

A man down south had buried with him a copy of his favorite newspaper. Most people like to leave minus anything inflammable. It is said that domestics leaving Home have belter pro.<|c'•(s at CapColony than in New Zealand, the wages offered being liirrlier, and it b not so remote from the Old Country. Some idea of the extent of the Canterbury Inhibition buihlinss may be obtained from I he fact that the decorative committee are considering the question of procuring eighteen miles of decorative material.

A AVellington firm lias imported from Denmark two Danish reel bulls on account of Messrs Anderson and Donald, of Fcatherston. These are said to be tho first bulls of Danish strain to be imported into the colony. At Frim'cv, Hastings, during the last fiuit season, nearly 200 acres were unlor peaches, aud in three years' lime it is anticipated that the orchard will produce a thousand tons of this fruit alone. In 1008 it is hoped to have 280 acres in poaches at Frimley. If you still stick to yo'ir summer suit you must have a light overcoat for

mornings and cven'ngs. Every good sort of light top coa 1 , rainproof or otherwise can bo found at the Melbourne at these prices: 27s 6d, 355, 9s (id, Come imd loik iliem over,— Advt-.

A mon grantoy is to bo made to Mrs Seddon during the coming session, Mrs Ballance and Lady Atkinson were each voted £3OOO.

Work has now been oommenced in j earnest at the terminal end of the New Plymouth railway deviation, a large gang being at work on the heavy cutting, which traverses the i Sash and Door Company's timber yard. The condition of Miss Clayton, who sustained very serious injuries through a riding accident on Saturday, at Strat ford, is now more hopeful, a marked improvement being reported yesterday. The Agricultural Society holds its next meetiig of farmers at Rahotu on Wednesday, July 12th, when Captain Young, at the request of the settlers, will give a lecture ou a subject to be decided later.

A young fellow who loft tho Wynd ham district a month ago for the North Islaud is baok again (says the " Farmer "), He says he found employment very scarce there, soores of men being j after every job. He was glad to get baok to the prosperous South..

The Education Board has declined the application of settlers for the ereotion of a new school on the Eobson road, but enquiries will be made as to the feasibility of arranging for the carriage of the ohildren to the Bird road and Ngaire schools. It has been decided by the Education Board, acting on tho advice of the architect, Mr Jas, Sanderson, that the steps leading from the level of the street to the New Plymouth Technical School shall be out from the corner of Lemon and Liardet streets, rather than from directly before the Liardet street front of the building,

■ The Education Board has confirmed the appointments of the following probationers : Miss Elsie Andrews, Waitara j Miss Nora Ford, Central; Miss Graoe Coleman, Tanki; Miss Edith Evans, Wost End; Miss Florence O'Brien, West End. The engagement of one probationer was determined. There will be a " ceremony " at the laying of tho foundation stone of the New Plymouth Technical School, and the Minister for Education will bo asked to | lay tho stone. Mr Wade, chairman of the Education Board, is authorised to make all the necessary arrangements.

Colonel Loveday arrived in New Plymouth last night and confers with the Education Board to-day respecting the resignations of the officers of the Taranaki Cadet Battalion. Major Dempsey met the Colonel last night, tho majority of the officers being at present absent on vaoation. School cadets were represented over one thousand strong at the funeral of the late Premier. They were given the most difficult portion of the road to guard, i.e., alone Lambton Quay, and the excellent way the youngsters carried out their duties is commented upon by many of the visitors who passed along tlie route It is understood that Captain Seddon would have boon a candidato for the Westland soat, but for the fact that he was a civil servant, and could not, therefore, if successful, have assumed the office until six months had elapsed after his resignation of his present position.

It has boon mooted tliat the whole of the cadet battalions may go into camp for a week at the forthcoming Exhibition at Christchurch. As the cadets have now a total roll of 40,000 odd, the demonstration, if given effect to, should bo well worth seeing. Apart from this the cadets would learn much that would bo of use to them later, if they should ever be called upon to take part in mobilisation. The Egmont Lodge, 1.0. G.T., held a very successful concert in the Primitive Methodist Schoolroom last evening. The hall was well filled, and a varied ami entertainihg programme consisting of pianoforte, cornet, and euphonium solos, instrumental quartette, songs and |recitations was given. Refreshments were handed round, and the Lodge then held n short session, three members being initiated. "What is your ageP" asked Mr Graham, S.M., of a young fellow who pleaded guilty in the Dunedin Court to a charge of disorderly behaviour while drunk. "Nineteen past,' was the reply. "It iB very sad," remarked his Worship, "to see so many lads brought here for drunkenness. At one time it was the boast of New Zealand that her young men did not drink, lam afraid we cannot say that now. It ia a disgrace to you to be here on this charge. The following resolution, proposed by the chairman and seconded by Mrs Dougherty, was carried at Tuesday night's meeting of the Taranaki Education Board, the members and officials standing in silence; " That this Board desires to place on record its sympathy with Mrs Seddon and her family on the death of the Right Hon. R, J, Seddon, late Premier and Minister of Education, and its appreciation of those Acts that have been passed by him for the benefit of education; and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Mrs Seddon, and to tho Minister for Education."

Wo have been shown a very hand'some portrait ol the late Premier by Professor C. de C. Williams, a Weilington phronologist and writer, who is on a flying visit to New Plymouth for the two-fold purpose of calling on residents and arranging for a visit from his son, youug Conway Williams, New Zealand's youngest platform speaker, who has made a great impression' wherevor he lias been heard. Mr Williams was personally brought into touch with Mr Seddon, who evinced a kindly interest in both the professor's work and. that of his talented son, wlio is twelve years of age.

Very little paper has been recently mado from rags; vegetable substances, such as wood, alfalfa, and straw, are especially employed. But tho use of furze, wild or cultivated, has not been thought of until receutly. After a boiling of five or six hours, tho pulp is washed with water, acidulated with sulphuric acid in suitable quantity, bleached with chloride of lime, and washed thoroughly, when it is in a suitable stato tor employment ill the manufacture of paper.

Physical exercises, which have hitherto been scarcely known in connection with the education of French (says the "Rcpubliquc Franoaise "), tend more and more to tako a preponderant place. Gymnastics at first, then fencing, football, and other sanies imported from England figure to-day in the programmes of our lycces and colleges almost as much as chemistry, algebra, trigonometry, and Greek history. One of the most neglected and at the same time one of the most important exercises is swimming.

The Melanesian Mission steamer Southern Cross, which arrived at Auckland this week from Norfolk Island, a'ter a two and a half months' cruise, visited in that time all the mission stations in the diocese, which amounted to upwards of 130. Calls wore made at several new places in the Northern •Solomons. All Hie missionaries were found to bo in good health, with the exception of Bro. Bourne, of Isabel Island, who returns to England. No less than six lady missionaries wore taken to the Islands this trip—Mrs C. C. Godden to Opa (New Hobrides), Misses Hardacre and Hanks to Baga (Now Hebrides), Mrs Adams to Vurcas (Banks Islands), and Misses Kitchen and Minnet to Gola (Solomon Islands). Palestine, Jerusalem, and the Nations, will form tho subject of the second lecture on " The Millennium," to-night in tho Chamber of Commerce by Mr McClure. Prom God's word it will be shown that Jersualem is to be the Metropolis of tho earth, to which centre the nations will come yearly to worship. God will facilitate this, by making a great waterway from tho Mediterranean riglit up to Jerusalem, A short gospel message each night. Come and hca* what is in storo fcr Iho | Tew, and the nations,—Advt'

For Bronchial Coughs and Colds, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 0(j a nd 2s 64 pet "bottle,

Mr D. M'Allnm notifies elsewhere that prospectuses of the Inglewood Oil Boring and Prospecting Coy. Ltd., may now be obtained from him, In yesterday's advertisement the word

"Secretary" was placed at the bottom of his name. This is incorrect, as Mr C, P. Foote is the Sectetary. Surgeons in the Trull Hospital, Biddeford, Maine, performed an operation recently while a Are was raging in tho building. The fire broke out soon after the operation was begun. To have moved the patient would have meant death, and the surgeons, therefore, continued their work. When water began to drip through the roof nurses were summoned to hold umbrellas over their heads. When the operation was completed, the patient was removed in safety.

The first New Zealand stamp issued was a steel engraved one made in England. The head ou it was taken from the first painted portrait of the Queen. Some values of the first series, such as the penny brown with the water mark " New Zealand," ore worth about £lB, used. No unused copy (says a correspondent to a contemporary) has ever been found. Such a stamp would probably fetoh from £3O to £SO.

There continues to bo considerable interest evinced in the lectures given by Mr McClure in the Clumber of Commerce rooms, with large attendances each evening. Studonts of the Holy Scriptures will be able to spend a profitable evening, for tho exposition of the passages dealing with tho lecturers's subjects are treated in a masterly and eloquent series of addresses.

The world in gonoral and New Zealand in particular must have passed an unusually uneventful day yesterday, judging by the abnormal shortage of news from any and every quarter. The cablo and telegraphic budget is this morning the lightest we have known. The calm before the approaching storm, no doubt.

Mr H. Daymond, a settlor at the Chathams, writes to " Christchurch Truth," from Waitangi on 2nd June, concerning a statement showing " the area of C latliam Island, and the land held by the Maoris unoccupied and lying idle, and that they refuse to let it to Europeans." Such is not the caso, ho says. The laud now held by the natives is no more than they have fully stocked and cultivated. All their surplus land has been leased to Europeans for the past forty years. The fact is this, that the natives are so short of land to live upon that they are anxiously waiting the end of some of the leases to get their land baok to livo upon. The bulk of the land on the island is now in the handd of tho Europeans, and mostly in very large blocks. The natives on tho island work their land the same as Europeans; in faot, a good many ot them surpass the latter in farming.