LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8160, 19 July 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A couple of young urchins endeavoured to "fool" the engine-driver on the afternoon train for south on Wednesday. Standing at a convenient distance from the Eliot street station, they manipulated a'small whistle, with the view, evidently, of imitating the guard's starting signal. The attempt failed. The New Plymoulh Gas Co. is proceeding rapidly with ihc supply of their illuminant to Filzroy. The trenches, arc now being opened, and the pipes' hud, in the roa.l leading through Claimant Kstale. Tlie matter was referred to I he Hew Plymouth Itorough Council, ami the work of raising the pipes is now complete, the present level being rather higher than the old road surface.

A visitor to New Plymouth just now had a contract recently to take a traction engine (o the hoad of (he main trunk railway works near Kaetihi. It look six weeks to travel seventeen miles! Comment on the state of the roads (: j ) is needless, but he adds that at every few yards progress shovels had to be used to d'g the engine out of the mud.

At Ngaircthe other evening, Captain Young, speaking of contagious maminitis,«hich he affirmed was first discovered in the North Island by Dr Harrison, of Kltham, said the disease was easily I'ured in its early slages by the injection of a I per cent, solution of boracic acid If allowed to get beyond the teat he thought there was very little chance of effectively removing it. Mr Young went on to remark that /some people were very careful in regard to ii*mg the milk from one cow for family us«. He thought those people ran a some? 1 what greater risk of tuberculosis than a man who got his suuply from a milk-man. If the one cow happened ito be deceased, they were more likely [to contract the disease than it the milk were mixed with that of other healthy cows. Miss Retford is giving SI in the Is on all Fancy Goods purchased during the present and following week.—Aim.

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at case; But my sadness Hod when a soft voice said, "Here's your 0. T. PUNCH, Sir, please."

Melbourne advises Brindisi despatch of June 13th, arrived at Loudon on the night of the 14th inst. At the Masterton Poulty Show] yesterday Mr W. E. Laney, Petone, won the North Island oh'ampionship barred Plymouth Books. The Treasury has forwarded to the Taranaki County Council's bankers the sum of £IOO for payment of Horrooks' Hill improvement on the Junction |road.

Owing to the plethora of attractions this week, St. Joseph's choir euchre party has been postponed till Monday next, 23rd inst. The Premier (I he Hon. W. Hall. Jones; is about to pay a visit to Timaru, where he will deliver a political address, dealing chiudy with his position since Mr Seddon's death. An analysis of about a dosen samples of milk, secured by inspectors in various parts of the colony, has just been com* pleted by the Govsrnment chemist, Mr B. 0, Aston, Several of the samples were found to be adulterated with water, Messrs Burgesi, Fraser & Co./ merchants, New Plymouth, wishes u« to contradict the published report that they had Isold their business and property to an Auckland firm, There is no ground whatever for the statement.

Mr W. Bewley, the Taranaki broker for the Taranaki Petroleum Company, reports an increased and yery active demand for the company's share!). This he attributes partly to the excellent indications at Carrington road—showing the great extent of the oilfields—and partly to the approach of the,closing date. Messrs Bewley and Griffiths held their hide, skin, and tallow sale at New Plymouth on Wednesday. There was i a good catalogue, and a good attendance of buyers, Prices reached a higher level than at any previous sales, hides selling up to 6|d per lb. The inauguration of these sales should prove of materiaj. advantage to our farmers. In connection with the gold railway parses issued to members of Parliament, ?ud which have oaused so much adverse comment Offing to their ugliness, the Christchurch " Press " is informed by an expert that if the Hon. A. Pitt has them called in, melted down, and a neiv design issued, the post to the colqny will be between S6O and £73.

Mr Fitzherberl, aollng on behalf ° Mr Henry Savage, of Wellington, ha s | filed the necessary papers appealing to the Supreme Court against the decision of the Magistrate in the recent case of Finlay John Mac Lean, of Mokau, versus Honry Savage, in which judgment was given for the plaintiff. The clerk of the TaranaM County Council has received from the Premier's office an acknowledgment of the application for £3OO towards the upkeep of the Junction road, and the I matter will receive consideration when the aun.ua! estimates are being framed.

Mr Bias, district railway engineer, has written to the Tarahaki County Council, asking that the 8-inch water main in Devon road be temporarily raised with the filling to be made thore, a few chains eastward of the Henui stream. Permanent provision for carrying the mam will be made in the design of the superstructure of tho new bridge, but a temporary raising will be necessary to allow of the construction trains passing underneath,

Writes our Whangamomona oorrespondenUQiir. weather of lato lan be summed up in quo recapitulated expression, Bain! Bain I Ilainl Either meteorological wet " Wragg-J" has been indulging in his forlo of predicting moisture | or Dr ■VluC'irtliy, the Yankee, of Australian notoriety, has " turned the tip on," and claiming business elsewhere, forgotten to turn it off. for it is still running, llailway deviation matters arc looking busy, at. tlic ileuui enl. Locomotives pow run from the main line with supplies to the depot at Devon, road, where sleepers, rails, and other materials-are now being stocked. The big cutting in front of Mr J. B, Counctt'i house is completed and the gangs are engaged in the big cutting at the farther end, south of Deyon road.

At Monday's meeting of the Hawera District Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, Mr Robbins (chairman) brought before the notice of the Board the case of a diphtheria patient, who last week travelled by train from Eltham to Hawera hospital. He moved, that the Health department be asked to make the fullest enquiries as to how deceased was sont down as a bronchitis patient while suffering from diphtheria. Tho motion was carried. It was also decided to write to the doctors at Eltham, instructing them to interview a member of the Board when sending patients to the hospital.

A resident in the southern portion ot Taranaki, who is liable for payment of special ratos on his sections in the Eltham road special rating area, has forwarded a letter to the Taranaki County Council, stating that his land is as yet undiscovered to him, except by tracing its position on the map. There is no road to the sections, though the map shows one. Five miles of standing bush separate him from the felled bush track, and £5 has been paid to surveyors for a fruitless search after the section pegs. Under the circumstances, ho considers it hardly fair to be called upon to pay any special rates, and more especially- because he bought the sections without knowledge that they were subject to any such impost.

Talking of compensation for diseased cows condemned by the Government vet., Capt, Young, at Ngaire, expressed the belief that a farmer should be paid full compensation, provided Jio informed the Department during (he early stiges of the disease. If he called in the vet, just before the death of the beast, he thought no compensation should bo allowed, and the owner informed that upon a similar occasion legil proceedings would be taken. He thought the Taranaki farmers the most Christian people he hal mpt—they even trusted to Providence to bury the cattle that died on their farms!

I't, itt-eins likely that another attempt will be made to have a portion of tho Oakura lload District, through which runs the Carrington road, incorporated in tho Carringlcm Hoad District. The ratepayers of the latter are, however, averse to the proposal, as is shown by their resolution at a public meeting oi| January 29th, 1901. At that meeting it was decided " that in the opinion of this meeting (he time is not yet ripe for the Carriugton Hoad Board to take over any portion of the Oakura Eating District, believing that the Government should do more to the road firtt."

During tho short aggregate tune the Birthday Well at Moturoa has been permitted to run, over 10,000 gallons of crude petroleum hare been collected, and stored or sold. To those who may have doubts concerning tho capacity of the subterranean reservoir that, has been tapped, a statement of the quantity of oil actually in sight will bo somewhat of an eye-opener. The woll is 2300 feet deep, eased with six-inch casing. The casing is always full to the top with oil, forced up at so great a pressure that on opening the tap a thick jet of oil is thrown to a very considerable height. Every rnnning foot of the bore contains 1} gallons of oil, so that within the casing there is si the present moment close on 3000 gallons of oil,. Even the unskilled can form soma estimatu of fife great pressure of oil and gas thore njusjfc be at the bottom of tho bore to maintain go huge a column of oil in the pipas without the aid of pumping. None need doubt the existence of the oil-field. •'' Faf ts are chiels that winna ding."

For Colds in *li,e Head and Influenza Woods' Great Peppermint <%a. Is Gd and 2s 6d per bottle,

Every bullet hns its billot, All the bow-wows have tlieir d»ys If I had a book, I'd (ill it up With 0. T. PUNCH'S pruwe