LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81888, 15 November 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Within tin past tliiee yt'tus imports ul cuit'iual butter into Ureal Biiiain lacicascd hum -14,000 tu 57,000 tons, uhi.e dining the same period impoi union of loieigu buUcr decieascd hum ibO,uuu to 150,000 tons.

.Mr Munru claims to have run the ExlnbuKui on strictly American lines, ana in the next bieaih plumes himself on not having spent a single puiny in advertising in the iiewspapeis. The two statements are no. reconcilable.

New Zea andeis captured the first and second prize-* in Tattersall's sweep on the Caullield Cup, t.ie diawing being a* inflow*". —1 ir-4, Poseidon, the Audax Syndicate. c ; o A. I£. Coulter, Ti action Engines. Kaeiihi, New Zealand, ,£oooo. Sccond, Simula, G- liarnet, c,o Jas. Wynian. Ripon street, Lytte.ton, Xew Zealand. /.2000. Mr J(,hn F»»;cr Kramer, who was anc-ud »If other uimitii in W.iimw a.-d beaten by t.ie Ci* assian Guaius I,x iln- \aul "i the G"Veiii"i'i. palace, wa> fount. liy pai hj,. mental y e>u icspwiuii'in 01 the •• \ mkuiii>• IVt, whit. t» i»ii-iti'in h<- now huid- 011 Ue

•M.iil ut liie '•St.uuiaid.'' lii* name is familiar to the public enielly by ica-on Ml his extensive and varied luct.a'y ami j«uu work. A-> his jx«pnii;r b<ar witness. he has no living supeiior as a tiavellin;-; inijii>■- •!• dim. ll"lVUue:> h"iii the lldkans" ilk- "Real Siberia,'* "Ameiia at \\ 11 j k." "t.a.'iada a* it iv ali j.;ivr u* ,i pamuama ul ihe vivid o| a t,..ii!<'d iii'v Ih r. Ii wa- to the da a i'M hi:- tdj ihcmin;; woik. "ku>-•-i.t a? ii i--" i..a■- Mi i : > *ier Kiasei ii-k»'d lii- ii«■ in ihe, l/olKi capital. II" v.riit -('.J thii'i;- t<-t him-cl! in llv k vv !"]' and u niay b.- taken b»i thai in hi* new b-ok h< \\i 1 ji'l th" veil t;> -h"W us :he Hue -uite i>! altars iu djiii of iht? L/ar.

{'HE CKLEUkITY 01- SANDKR AND SON'S i'U UK VOLATILE KUCALVI'TI LXTKACT. ia universally acknowledged Royalty l.ou'Jip it. ~nd the i-n'ire medical pro- !• -BH'ii has adopted its tpu.

Unit ai ion . >]jiani; up without minil/'i 'j"iii- l.itc-t of 111.-in - all -i\ led ' na- an oil f. is-ed u]Mi llu 1 Tiustinn' and unwaiy. under the niii'Use el Saiidet- and Sons' initiation. Sander and Sons' insti 1 'jir—l an iieiinn a: the .Supreme Ci urt of Victciria, before his honor Chief ]uWi' Sir J. Madden- K. C. M. G. ex.. and a 1 ilie ni.ij ,i '\tmc ui'.iiOi-s testified that he had lo stop the of counterfeits on account of the ini tatinn produced.

This ;ii'iV.s y.'hat <• are js reriuired to obtain an nrliele thai is sueniihculiy tested and approv-ed of. As «ii. Ii i< solely cndoiscd aIK | rt . r n m . mended.

THE GEXCINE SANDER AND 50N'S PCKF. VOf.ATII.E EUCAI. YPTI EXTRACT.

The Government- hits decided to publish a "School Journal," Id be issued by the Department ol: Kdueacation. The editor is to receive a salary of £IOO per anutmi. Householders will be interested to hear that the price of so;ip ban been raised by about £2 a ton ami the retail rates will show a corresponding increase. The rise is the result of the increase in the price of talloiv, which has gone up from £l9 to £25 a ton, '.•onsequenl on short supply during the winter.

| The A'ew Plymouth Literary ami I Debating Society held its initial debate on Wednesday evening The hind question was the subject of debate, ab'e arguments were brought forward in support of the freehold by Messrs Gray, Jones, McDavitt, and Sliiviian, and in support of the leasehold by . Messrs Sullivan, Parker, ilooper, and Clui'k. Kev. Father AlcManus presided and judged the debase, and decided in favour of the leaseholders, having heed to the argument and log'e adduced. Tho next debate will take place ou Wednesday night, 28th inst,, when the subject will be on " Whether Home Jiule for Irelaad in conducive to the best interests of the Empire." A good debate is expected. |

Ia reference to tlie notice in yesterday's issue regarding the Taranaki court at the Exhibition, Mr Rennell, Secretary of the New Plymouth Harbour Board, explains that the Board officials have gone out oE tlu-ir way to Help the committee. They had views of the harbour taken, described, arranged, and framed, and had them left at the picture-framers, where they laid for some time. It was no fault, lie says, of the Board that the pictures were not taken over by the committee, to whom I,key extended every courtesy, asking the secretary frequently if the Board could assist them further in any way. To say the Board had been discourteous to the committee, Mr Kenncll says, is to say what is not consistent with the facts of the case.

At tlie Municipal Abattoirs during Oetobcr, 201 cuttle were slaughtered, 12 calves, 377 sheep, 112 lambs, and 112 pigs. Tripes cleaned were 143, i-alf's head 1, an! ox heads 2. Fees rmounted to £ll7 10s, and rents to 453 5s Od. Two cows were condemned, ;ne for advanced pregnancy, and one tor cpthclima. There were slaughtered for export 20 cows, 10 oxen, and 17 bulls. The above totals compared with last October showed as follows : —lncrease : Calves 5, sheep 32, lambs to, pigs 10, tripes 22 ; decrease, cattle li >. There was a decrease of £lllss 61 in lees. The decreaso iu cattle was due to less being slaughtered for ex,jort, as there was au increase of 17 slaughtered for local consumption. The fees for cattle for export last Jclober were 6s por head, instead of <ls as at present.

A tale (the truth ol which is vouched fjr by the veteran who tells the story), is told of the early days, during the ilaori war. In a certain district in ivhich wero quartered a company of A.C.'s, a native chief who had giyen the pakehas a deal o£ trouble, proved very wily in each skirmish, so much so that a £'so reward was placed on his head, to be earned by the man who secured the chiefs head and brought it into camp. The identification j[ the iiead would be an easy mailer, as th? chief had lost his left eye in his y iungcr warrior days. One of the A.C.'s, who was well-known as the ■' scalawag " of the company, decided

to get that £SO note by hook or by jrook. Shortly after, the Maoris were troublesome and a liot skirmish, resulted. The " scalawag" wa« in that light and so was the one-eyed rebel chief. The former (lied to " get a bead" on to the chief several times during the day, but the dusky warrior was too alert. At the end of the day a goodly number of the Maoris had been shot down. The " scalawag" picked out from amongst the s.am a body with a well-tatoocd face, and securing the head marched to curnp in triumph and reported himself to the oliicer m charge, at the same time displaying llie gruesome head, claiming ilie reward. The oliicer was rather pleased to think that the chief would trouble his troops no more, but his pleasure was rather skort-lived. Several A.O.'s had a look at the head and thought sure enough ilieir comrade was in for the reward A young oliicer

happened to come along and wits told of the death of the chief and shown the one-eyed severed headpiece. " That is not the chief's head," he exclaimed. •' The old fellow certainly only had one eye, but it was the eye on the right side of his face-, l'oi will' see that in this head the right eye is missing and the left one intact." And sure enough upon cross-examination the " scalawag" owned up to having removed an eye from the head he brought into camp. 111 his excitement 110 had removed the tvrong eye.

Too few farmers keep bookb (says •aa Australian paper). To the unitiated landholder "books 53 arc big tiles of ledgers, with a thousand and one perplexing lines of figures that mean the loss of sAup on Sundays. But the actuality is quite different. A man who mixes his tanning over say. wheat or maize and potatoes, with sheep and dairying, can "keep boobi" that will be u-'f the utmost value 10 him in a f«\v pages of very small size. A careful entering up of a 1 cxpendhuie, with the details outlined, and a record ef receipts are as far as most fanners would need to go. Hers and there one meets a man who entrusts the work to one of his children, and the result is beneficial t<> the faim and to ihe child. Starting on a pimple scale most farmers uou.d soon get so much benefit and -•atifaciion out of it that they would extend their entries to every item tf farm work, and to the establishment of that other necessity of good farm- | ing, a stock ngUier. A big diary lof each sea-on : s work from day to day is also wrc-mely useful _and inteiesting for reference in succeeding y«ars. Too many farmers depend upon their passbook f ,j r their siatumerit of profit and loss, and on their heads for eveiything else. A passbook is certainly fairly conclusive on ■he question of profit and loss, but *'o man\ J farm receipts go into current expenditure and are never foankod that it i> very inadequate as a record.

The preferential idea is deeply routed in Canada, yet it doe?, hut apprf to thiive. The figures arc .gainst v (-><iys a contemporai y). l.a-i year Canada's imports from the United Stale- were over Oo per cent of the rctal impori>,and from the Cnia'd Kingdom J4 per cent. The ;ueiag{» iate of duty on tin' foimer was 13' per cent, and on the latter i.KJ. per cent, the lighter average in the eaH' of the former country being due >0 the fact that about one-hal( consists of natural products admitted fiee. Now it is proposed that. seeing America will not reduce her taiiff cm Canadian product' r pints isaould be placed on !r fact-ny goods, and a larger pietereno' shown 10 Great Britain, consistent wi.h pro-t-i'tion of the Canadian manutac-uj-'i lioin undue competition. The stiaighl-oui Pnileetioiii-ts would abo 11 h the British preference and augret 111 the tariff all round. The doI* ay of the Canadian woallen industry ;i: by the>u attributed to the prefer 'cnce on British tweeds, while on the o;lnr hand German retaliation is *aid 10 have piouievd ill ejects. j'arlia m< nt is to (on idcr thu Uliiff 'his month. and higher duties generally ;u 1 anticipated. Tilts OUawa ci-ites-jjondeni of Hie London "Kconmn'si." w ri<inj» on August M, -aid:— 1 "Out < Nperi< nee of tariff picfcreiuvs ,md f-l 1 ;nege:v,> [or increasing 11 .nit* within lite Knipiie is that they j ait* a> nine unavailing and misrhirvthe 11 tie po'iey being to !eg:!ai 1 I wish nature in-tead of against her.' I

v sitors to the big- Exhibition will do well to inspect the great vaii'ly of p n tmantcaux. G : .ul tone 1 a;;S. siee! ttunks, etc., now on view at, the 'U.-jbouiU". c r -;. n: usuai. ;ik' un'toimij' ln\v, —Advt,

j CIIF.AP Pir; FOOD. 1 he maximum quant ty of ''Suera sine'' iliiil is 1 . ijuired lor eaeh pig per d y 's ene piiund. eoslin.u' one penny, '('hi- ,'juaniiiy fed w'th skim milk or V-hey will make the p : jjs grow and tat'en nutrve'lously. For particulais write to J. B. MncEwan and Co., Xew I'lymouth,

Palmer-ton North Borough Council has decided to apply to Mr Carnegie lor ,610,000 for a library. Two brothers, twins, of Louisiana, who married twin sisters, have filed petitions for divorce in the same court. There are twin children in each family. The Shipmasters': Association is talcing proceedings against papers publish-

ing the Auckland Press Association ;elegr:tm reporting the remarks of the chairman of the Auckland Harbour Hoard on the action of the Shipmasters' Issociation v. the Harbour Board, on the ground that the case is sub judice.