LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81890, 11 December 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In a recent judgment summons "And who are you working for now':" "The same crowd, your worship, a wife and live youngster*." While shooting in Western Ponsylvauia .Mr Joseph'Schroedcr, a wealthy manufacturer, tumbled into the air--hail of n disused coal mine. He it'll MOO feet, and when a rescue party ■le>H-nd<-:[ to recover his 1)1,.ly Mr Sellr<"»Vr w:]< found to be uninjured. W ■! ui r!ii-(>n. S.M., Mated in conn. :i .M.tifiny liial iheie wen- a|uay> s in < onni el ion with a horse in- u-u.iily productive of "hor>e !!i" The hor-e dealer has c\cr been iiUed for his \eracity and scrupulousness. Tin- monthly report of the manager <»f the New Plymouth abattoirs states that there were slaughtered during \o\eniher 200 <"iuJe, 20 calves. ~>">S >hcep. 2-0 la;:il ~, and 122 pigs. There were 127 I ripp* and one ox head elean-i-d. Ie: -, amounted to dl Ss -hi, and rent- to o/o. A,- *ij fa re< i with 'he return <•!' Nowmber, I!io:>. ihe lig>lll''il 2111 iii'T-a-.,. "I eall le, •i decrease of one «a!f. and an im-rca■ i; . c; H/7 in r"\.-nu«-. Ibviiriiiig .-.gain io the pa-t month, the report, jI c- that thiee cattle were condemn- | « ii.- !• ]• liibeixii'o-is ahd two for ii»v«-d p.«gu-i',V. one sheep on ae- .-■ • i,i of maih'uani '|.'hi"e v, > -'.'.'gloried 1 r expMi ,j!j eo,^ ; j

I H-i Uii EJ;iti l Y OK SANDER 'AKH SDNS I'UKi: VOI.ATIi.K SUCAI.N I' l l E.VI'UACT. is univt'isally ackm>\\ledgud Royally i. and ihi entire. ne.-diuii mo- ; - n lias adi-pkd iis u-;e. ]:itrll r»n- Hpiniiv up Anhout fiuni- : ; j'.r ! ; i-i of Mane —;d! -lylcd ' I , ,vt! - ;k ,u - '—v. a• an o'l f>-'isU'd iip »n i ; u' -i listing and unuaiy, und.a th-' ;ti»"se-it m'siiT i'! San ler and Swi:--' I'P'.rati n. S sudor and S"V.s' in- : i

I'lird an aeMt-n [be Supreme I '• i: •' ha' Vaturii, before his Ju'iau' Chief Sir J. Madden. K- C. M. G. etc. and a; in;; trial a mvi'it witao--' tesrfied thnt I:" l'<;'d to stop ihc u>' or counterfeits on account of the irri tati"n produced.

This sli t:\vs wlint care is required 'o obtain rn article that is scientifically tested and approved of. As such is solely er.dotsed and recom inended. THE GENUINE SANDER AND SON'S PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. 1 / i

The New Plymouth Borough Council 'lnclined lust nitfUL lo voto'TClOO Fur mimical education purposes. The eup presented by Messrs Skenles and Bockaort, Ltd., for competition in the cycle road race on Thursday next is now on view in that Finn's window.

"This borough is a ling way tro slow, and the sooner it gels a bustle on tlio better it will be for the people connected with it."—Cr. Bellringer ai last night's Borough Council meeting. Some of these days we will have serious accidents to report as the result of tiie breakneck speed at which cyclists, young and old, bustle clown the Devon street hill to the centre of the town, On Monday afternoon a lad had a very narrow escape irom accident,-and his ease is only one ot many. Can nothing be done to regulate the speed? The Electric Light Committee of the Borough Council has authority to proceed with tlie installation ot the electric light to Vogehown aud the Breakwater. The works will be proceeded Willi almost immediately.

The committee set up to raise funds for the erection o£ a memorial fitting to Ihe mcmorj of those who fell in the Maori wars, held a meeting on Monday, Capt. Standish presiding. A circular letter, for the purpose of gathering tunds, is to he drawn up by the chairman and secretary and printed; and an advertisement will be inserted in both local newspapers stating thd subscriptioii-Jists are available and that subscriptions will be received by any member of the committee. All subscriptions receiyed are to be acknowledged through the Press. A letter is to be sent to the Government asking for permission to erect the memorial on j Marslaud Hill. Messrs J. C. Davies, | R. Cock, and J. Black were appointed a sub-committee to canvass the town for subscriptions.

Champion bull by tae JJayor: "There are con>p!r.i',:s that cattle leave the abattoir not properly killed.' The Council tittered.

Advertisement in. Southern paper:— "Young man wishes correspond intelignut lady; view matrimony; must lie able to milk. —Address Lonelv, Kaitangata."

There are at present 122 private lighting connections with the municipal electric lighting system. The revenue for November, from private lighting, was £4!) 13s Oil. A Pahnorston boy asked his father what caused .Saturday's earthquake. ".My son," replied pater familias. solemnly, "it is those wretched socialists taking the freehold prop from under the struggling settler." The Postal Department advise that large numbers of postcards bearing imitation postage stamps are being posted. As this is contrary to the regulations the public are notified that it must be stopped.

Not so long ago, a borough councillor, in supporting an application for street improvements such as kerbing and side-channels in* front of a section, stated it was the intention of the owner to build there a handsome addition to the buildings of the town. The argument prevailed, the work was done, the section was sold, and there is no house yet! The hearing of the case, J. 0. Montefiore v. 0. E. Jeilries, for X 7, the price of a horse was continued at the New ; Plymouth S.M. Court on Monday morning, having been adjourned from lust week for the production of further evidence. Evidence having been given by Annie Kendall, S. \V. fcjlmw, \V, J. lioneylield, judgment was reserved. Air l-'itzherbcrt appeared for the plain till and Mr D. Hutchen for defendant.

Dr. Jameson, Premier of Cape Colony, is to receive £2.">,0t)0 from the estate of the late Ait'red Beit, the South African millionaire. While those with whom he was associated were piling up hugh fortunes, Dr. Jameson made practically nothing. Perhaps it was this absolute contempt for money which earned for him the devotion and conlidenee of Mr Cecil Bhodes. Dr. Jameson for years car ricd iu his pocket Mr ixhodes' power of attorney.

Tilt; extia street la nip- ordered iu • Inly have now been erected, and other lamps altered a> ordered, the total cost of tiie work amounting to .182 Ills. I'oles i ;)d to he erected and wires run in many cases, and tliis accounted for the heavy cost. Another TO joles' have been shipped, lind an; other 32 are required to complete the order.

A Xapicr school boy must be credited with ijuite a new interpretation of a passage iu Sir Walter Scott's "Marinion." During an examination lie was called upon to paraphrase a few lines from that famous and warlike poem in which reference is made to the English soldiers healing trumpets blown and a "stilled hum" from the Scottish lines. The boy's idea of the "hum" seems to have been something oll'ensive to the nostrils. He therefore wrote that the English heard the trumpets blown, "and experienced the unpleasant smelt of Scotchmen!" — lleluld.

Private Htz Jenkins was standing guard near the gate of a recent camp anxiously looking out for a certain young lady whom he had invited to take Sunday afternoon tea with him. The lady was long a*coining—very long indeed—and private Fitz Jenkins' throbbing heart failed him. Was she true';—could she be playing him false? Perish the thought! But stay—whose was yonder figure standing on the hill side? Xot ingclina's? Ye*—by all tho gods of war it was—and with that bounder Private MacSquishJ ilow to dispossess him —that was the question, Better reflection ended in a daring resolve. By devious ways went up Fitz Jc-nkjns to the pair. Breathlessly he ga>peil, "Oil, the very man—l've been looking for you everywhere. The skipper's unking for you, old chap—-fceigeant-Mnjor said something about promotion." And away went MacSquish to interview the skipper, who didn't know anything about it and sent him to the senior sub., who sent him to the junior subs., and so on down to the SAL, who told him he was [an ass. And when he saw Fit/, Jenkins dashingly swinging his caue and j basking in the sunshine of his late companion, lie felt he was! A true talc.

Dr. Andrew Beattie, a graduate of the Toronto University, in a recent remarkable lecture in Toronto, told a surprising story of the rise of "the new China," where he has been for some years engaged in missionary work. The uge-long conversation has gone for ever. Ju one year, said Dr. Heal lie, schools u!ld colleges by the thousand have sprung into activity in the North mid in the South. Old lluddhist temples and monasteries are being coniiseated by the Chinese (!overnment ami transformed into schools and colleges, their idols by dred being burned in the open squares, and their lands devoted to educational purposes. The army is being reorganised in accordance with the most approved principles of the military schools of Japan and the West. Western ideas arc being absorbed even in the most conservative circles. Rail ways, telegraphs, telephone: - ., news [papers, and the distincti\e features of 1 Western life are found in the foremost provinces of. China. Budtlhi.-au is repudiated, and Taoism discredited, and Christianity is approved, by the \ Rcroy. The dowager herself leads in the new reform.

Ladies' iH/6 stylish bar and button giace shoes induced to 8 y [jail' at '1 lie Milboipne's jM-eat sale. Now oil. See I hem in the windows. —Advl. "MlXo'n Iv Ti!l*i IiKST A .NO CIIKAI'-KST. It is false n-miomy to liny a sepal'a: ia' iii'i-asc ef its [U'ire oiity. Tiie ".Melour" savrs yon money every day lii'eaiine it has practically frictiunless ' l . ■ 1 vi:i!.theivfoie it runs al a very ife:n ■! I'd l\it!i ','el'V lilt!'' wear. A hi 'ill pi-1- cent less power is re 'jwiveil to liri'-.c it. and alioui .'iii p-'l' ■ Hi leis ~i! ',,1 lu'- ; .-i«--U- it. Ail these j-'i'i ■ iii 'he .d tin- end ■' ' 1 li " • ■ :-mv cost t !:cir pi-:.-- «.-..r ur.in iu a .let;-, ihms V, ' ( , mM point tn "Aie- ! 11:-s ■' t.n .if-rs, have i-en i i. ; ,I<i r ten. yi , ee>t.ir,g a few shillings for repairs.—Wilson and No'ian. New i'jyiaoiit b. 1-IKM 11 AC ON. ''Sucios!lie'" is prepared by a qualified ciemist. on eiptnific principles. It does 80l ovPi'load the pip- any part i r tre syiiem. but builds up firm Hesli, fat enough, bu! not to:> fat. Ju-t what the bacon curer or butcher pigs. Full particulars from J. B. MacEwan and Co., f}e\v Plymouth.

Tlio electrical engineer reports to tins Borough Council that a pole lias been erected al, the saltwater |,;ahs and a bearer wire fixed. The (lighting wires mid liWings will be fixed' as soon iis possible. The Eltluuu Dairy Company is now making 4'/ t tons oi' IhiUit per day, a quarter of a ton more than the company lias ever made in a single day, and the height of tlm season is not yet reached. During November IJ2 tons were made, 12 tons more than the corresponding month last your, and suppliers will receive for the month's buttcrfat iSUHUO, about £I3OO more than was paid out for November lastyear. The farmers in that district will have distributed amongst them on the 20th inst. from the several factories operating in the immediate vicinity a sum aggregating over £20,000. No need to wish Elthain u joyous Christmas season.

The Taranaki County Council is alterng the levels on part of the Avenue road where the Borough Council's electric transmission line is erected, and this necessitates the moving of some of the electric light poles along the roadside.

The S.M. at New Plymouth on Monday morning, heard the ease U. W. Carstcns v. Frank Jury, a judgment summons claim for .tli 12/1). Defendant said he could make no offer. Ho had had a good deal of sickness in the family lately, and had only been able to work broken time. Plaintiff said he had had reason to believe that defendant was in fairly constant employment in the quarry at the breakwater. Defendant gave evidence that up till September he had been driving on a bus, and since then had averaged about live days' work a week. lie had a wife and five, children to support, and paid 7/ rent weekly. "What do you think he can spare you out of 22/ a week asked the magistrate. The plaintiil' thought Jury ought to be able to spare 2/0 a week comfortably. The S.M, differed, and said the law protected a man's wages up to £2 a week. No order was made.

Mr J. Clarke, secretary of the Recreation Sports Ground Committee, asked the Borough Council last night to supply free electric lighting to the Theatre Jtoyal during the progress of the bazaar at the end of the month, and pointed out that a local linn had offered to make tlie installation with out charge. The matter had been referred to the electric lighting committee, and. on its recommendation, the application was granted. The following interesting missive jhas been received by a gentleman in Gisborne!—"Christchurch, Nov 2!), lUoG:—Sir, —The undersigned, formerly an organ-grinilor with money, who was ill Gisbornc two years ago, and whom you and other kind people in Gisborne have befriended with a small coin and decent treatment, sends kind Christmas and New Year's greetings to you and yours, and all kind people in fair and evergreen and lovely Gisborne by the sea. Hoping Gisborne and neighbourhood flood sull'erers of I'JUU may have received sufficient, aid to help them on. 1 myself sent a humble and lowly donation—a bob—to help a mite. Wishing you and yours and all other kind people the best of good health, long life, happiness, and prosperity, and no more Hoods, etc.. I

salute and remain very respectfully yours, JO SKI? !1 NEI ZIL, a foreigner in this fair laud, New Zealand." The po&t card has a stamped mark, ''Joseph Neuzil, philatelist agent, teacher of German, Wellington, New Zealand."

| Wheu the crew of the Stratford ship J cut the painter from the Taranaki j Hospital craft, which they found not commensurate with their requirements, they immediately selected Mr | W. Monkhouse as chairman of the new I Board, a tribute to the manner in i which he haul acted as their representative on the parent Board. From that time his work for the hospital has been tfneeasing. No man has done more for the Stratford hospital, and now the building is within, a fewweeks of completion. The work is done, or nearly so. And his reward? A vote of thanks, and. practically, his I services dispensed with. In appointing a new representative the Borough Council suddenly discovered that it should be represented by one of its own number. But how late they were in finding it out! How convenient to lind it out, too, when the bulk of the work is done, and all that remains to be done for a while is the entertainment of the big people •from Wellington at the opening ceremony, the framing of complimentary speeches, and reference in grandiloquent terms to the prosperity of Stratford, Mr Khig, the Mayor, will make a good representative. No one will doubt that. But why should the old and tried and successful chairman be passed over at this stage'.'

It is thirty-nine years since Sir Robert Stout entered into the study of law. 111 the course of his remarks at a Law Students' Association's dinner in Wellington last week, the Chief Justice said his entry into the legal profession was a mere accident, lie never intended to be a lawyer at all. lie came to the colony to be a surveyor, and when he could not get a position as a surveyor, he became mathematical master in a grammer school. And he supposed he would have been a teacher at the present day, had it not been that he was musical. At the time, iiis Honor explained, one could not get a position as head master in Utago if he could not teach music. There was another accident which, came in the way. One of tho lawyers down South had a cleric who, unfortunately, got- drunk, This lawyer met Sir Robert 111 the street and told him his clerk Was drunk and that hu could not gej; another! "I will become your clerk, if you take me," answered his Honour. Within I a quarter of an hour tho matter was settled. During the first year at tho law. His Honor worked on an average —Saturday and timidity included—fourteen hours a day. lie studied so . that he might pass his examinations j within three years, and he passed thc:u ! two or three inonihs after that time, j when the time for the linal examination came around, I

Vfelancsian Minion—The Rev Percy Williams will give an address in St. Mary's Hall to-night (Tuesday), at 8 o'clock. All cordially invited.—Advt.