LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81854, 29 September 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Miss Florence (.unison, whose mine ivus mentioned during tlie hearing ol iho Jlardmjj-Alacintoali ease, writes regarding plaintiffs relleciions eouccrumg herself, which, she slates, are ausulUieiy untrue. A kinematoyiaph picture of "i'eloiua Jack ' lias been taken by the sanation Army biograpn operaioi. the p.iotogiapus v.■ 1 e obtained by placing the machine oil a paiiorin .-iiispeiiited Iroin tlie bow 01 a steamer uuiing' a smooth passage inruugn 1 iic I'lench t'a.-s, in whicn locality it is the halm of ilns strange tisli t" escort passing steamcis for llli.es. The member for West'and (Mr 1. seddon) is asking the i'lcmi'T whetncr, with a view 10 a 111010 equitab.i paymi 111 of me old-ag-' pension, t.ie uoi eminent will introduce legislation at an eaily dale 10 provide tor ilie pensjun being paid to females al an earlier age mail sixty-live years; and, furthei, to make provision winieijy tun ceitilicates of two medical men as to the probable ages of deserving Old peop-e unable to prove their ages migiii be accepted. An extraordinary freak is reported iioni tne Lgmonl road. A con on ,\lr 11. liisnop s faun has given birth 10 a calf, with a body almost resembling that ci a hog in (lie ael 01 making a spring', tne hind legs aio spiead-eagea, and t.ie fo.e l 'gs doub ied up under the chin. Tne loicaitn seems a mass of joints, the face »s said to resemble a bu.l-dog 111 many iispects. the lemaiiung lectures being Uluse 01 a ealf. It IS piobable taai the fieak wili be placed on view in town to day.

Much annoyance is frequently cauI .-:L'd lo the travelling public by having to wait. i«'r seats in dining cars on mail and express trains, 'lo provide against the continuance of this the Kailwav Department is arranging I<»j tne i»ui' oi tickets and the booking "i in a dining car beforehand, i'hus a passenger wishing his lunch at, say, twelve o'clock, will have his uckel so'd to him and ihc time booked, and S(; on b>i the r«sl ol meal times Tlv. v airangnnent will come mio lone "ti fhini>er in, and it Hie, ti;.il pi<) \e-i the innova-l ■ ion will dt.ubtlc-s lv continued. j

The bank* of tin' big cutiinj; mi the railway d'-yiati-.n tliiim.i>h tin' Sash and IJooi Company's yards, >-i in hirn'.'ly <if sand, started t<> migrate during the recent windy weatlu'i. The Railway Departim nt has adopted a must eilVenw niL'lhod o: dealing wiili tli'' trouble, and a coup!<' of nv.'n an' at present engaged in planting I In' banks with the common ice-plant to hold the >and. 'l'll'-' process of planting is not thai usually ailnp'cd in horticulture, the planthaving to l.c fixed in position by long pieces of win 1 bent in the form of a staple.

for Colds in the head and Influenza, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 unci 2/6 per liutt'e.

Tho acknowledged £ood qualifies and success of Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract have brought out many imitations, and one case was just tried in the Supreme Court of Victoria, before Mis Honor Chief Justice Sir J Madden, K.C.M.G.. etc. His Tfonor, in pHinff judgment, said with regard to the Genuine, Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract, that whenever an article, is commended to the public bv reason of its good qualities, etc., it. is not per missible to imitate anv of its features. He restrained the imitators perpetually from doing so, and ordered them to pay all costs. Therefore, insist upon what \ c proved beyond all doubt bv skilled; witnesses at the Supremo Court o<! Victoria, and by many authorities during the last 30 years to be a pre j pprntion of n-ennine merit, viz.. ! The Genuine Snnder and Sons, j Pure Volatile Fucnlypti I Extract. J

The Central School Committee, at a special meeting last niglil, decided to recommend the Bonrd of Kducntion to appoiut Mr H. liobson, at prevent headmaster at Cast schoui, Canterbury, to the first assistantship, vacant by the resignation of Mr Harding. At the Police Court, Auckland, a man named Satorlf, 7:1 year.i of ago, plcadtd guiity to having stolen eight potatoes, valued ai 3d, from Arthur Tooman's auction room. He was lined £lO. At the Police Court, Uiielumgu, a week or so ago, a man named William Henry Worth nas charged with savagely assaulting his wife, lie accused his wife o( misconduct, called her vilo names, seized her by the throat, aud threw her on the floor, .-aying that she would never live till the morning, as he would choke her. W lieu accused released her, her lace was bl..ck and blood rushed from her month. Ac. cused pleaded guilty, aud was lined £l, Tins clearly shows that the outraged fe--ling of a wife are nothing compared w til the loss of threepenny worth of pi atoes, —"Waikalo Argus."

Footbail brings its own p-cuHar ups and downs to its devoUes and perhaps the percentage of downs is larger than in most other sports and undertakings. One player who has been unfortunate this season is Mr Bain, of the Southland team. Mr Bain, it will be remembered, was hurt in the Southland—Taranaki match, played in Hawera, receiving an uijury to his left leg-. It is now a month since the game was played, and Mr Bain has been invalided at the Central Hotel ever since. His leg was well enough the other day to permit his getting about with the aid of crutches, but unfortunately lie caught a chill and lias since been suffering with a bad back.—llawera Star. Scientific investigation of the San I' rancisco earthquake has disclosed what is geologically known as a "fault" ai least 350 miles long, running near the Californian coast. Along this line there was a sliding on the earth side for the whole distance. The earth's crust shifted its position for a distance of eight feet. This shifting- was the earthquake. A geological Commission appointed by the Governor of California has traced the me of the fault for the greater part of iis distance. Herman Whitaker, in writing of the phenomenon, says the sliding rock masses on either side of thi' fault may b' 1 represented by placing the palms of the hands together, the left Standing for the Pacific Ocean ' and the strip of coast line, the right for the remainder of California. ' "Now shoot the left hand forward, the right back. With a roar, a rum- ' ble, a crash, a grinding of rocks, the cry of a world of pain, the stuita sli- [ des along the old fault. Zip, it slides ' 8 fret laterally along the 225 miles of land line, and nobody knows how 1 many hundred more of ocean bed. 1 The Pacific slides north 8 feet; California comes Sft south—when the ' evidence is ail in, the Geographical Commission will tc'l us which." Referring- to the native race at the Napier Supieme Court 011 Tuesday, Sir Robert -Stout, addressing- the t grand jury, said that he noticed that ot the six prisoners charged three were . Maoris and one was a haif caste, which was an undue proportion considering the number of Maoiis and Europeans in the district. It was said that tne Maoris had increased of late I years, as shown by the late cmsus. | 'i hat might be so, but to those of toi'lll who remembered this and other districts in ihc Xortb Island 30 or 40 years ago it was perfectly plain that the Maoris were far less in number ilian they were ill those days, whatever the Census r suits might show. It seemed to hint that if tho Maori rare was to be preserved it would have to become an industrial race. Of course it cou'd not be expected that toe Maoris could compete with Eu- \ rr.peans in what might be termed me- | ( hanieal arts; they were not so weil qualified as Europeans for that, but ; they must look to industrial develop- . ment in agriculture if they were to , be of service as a lace. From t |, e calendar before h.'m he saw that one or more ef the natives who were char- , «»nd who had boon before the . Court previously had not taken to industrial pur.suiis, with the icsull that they were drifting away from good conduct to become criminals, "jt is a sad out'ook," said his Honor, "it the race i s ! 0 be reduced to sqch a State as this, and there is therefore the more need, in our days of education and 111 all our efforts to civilise to try and induce them to take up not merely pastoral but active agricultural pursuits if they desire ever ! to become good citizens."