LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 15 August 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Cupuiiu Lil»iii wired yesterday: Wcsloily winds to galo alter 1U jjki;s I'uUj lilies hi;;*; sea heavy; rain probable.

Mr .iuslma Lake, ui Melbourne, baa airaiyeu a loan ol nicturea 101 all an ,-AiiH'iuou iii Australia, ii, wjii compile a iGiou:..u- e.\uibii by Uie ll.jval uiiu.-.ii ana tuluiiial .juiiely ol a L-uiieuLiuii ui uuUliio works by diatiulueii lruiu uie wiiole iielu ol' ;u L, ami a liriusli loan coil-jeLiun.

ft is now geiioially rceogui-ed thai, ' the average Maori 1= not quite the guiiellcss and unsophisticated cnild of nalure lie uas formerly deemed to ue, and an meideiif oceurred prior to the silling of Lae _xali\e Commission in Nupijr on Saturday when clearly illustrates the iiact. One of the Maori owners of an i area in the Takapan district was asked privately if lie and his co-partners would \a: willing to lease the place, to which ijiierj . he astutely replied, "Well, we don'i, object to !>liurl leases to Europeans so that they may clear the laud and then leave it to us Maoris to work."

! A caM' of an unu.-,ua! character was liiougiiL on ai the Magistrate's Court .u Diiiiciliu last week, when a Lliiiuuiaiu uas lined. lor übstnn.ing a i-otpath v. ii.it i'iie l'aiiiiiiar Oa-koU .-.u.-p-jiiued jloin lu n ..boulder by a poic. The defendant was very much perturbed, and answered ihe query with a plea "Ale 110 kuoH.' - As the ui,c proceeded Ah Ting a.-ured the court that he had led a blameless life lor Vo years, and with a jhalf sob. ".Me know next time." Then Ah Ting, with a conjured-up vision of a j long term of incarceration, no doubt, I broke down and wept bitterly,and. says itbe Otago Daily Times, .Mr Graham te'rjmiuaied the pathetic little episode by [lining him 2s (id, without costs

The Muoii l«vo lor liij,iior and tindisregard of the prohibitive laws in tliat regard provided the bill-01-laie at the Police Court yesterday morning. Willi (ire, a Chinese gardener at To 1 llenui, was charged with supplying beer to a .Maori woman, liana Nips. lie pleaded guilty Hr T. S. Weston, who appeared jor the accused, asked the Heueh to deal lightly with him, as, being a Chinaman, he did not know the laws of the country. A conviction without a line would, he thought, meet the case. The S.II. said he could not epiile agree to do that. Taking into consideration the accused's nationality, and his pica of guilty, the minimum penalty of .C2 and costs would he indicted, iu default seven days in gaol. The Magistrate warned the accused'that if he had been iu the habit of supplying | liquor to .Maori women or prohibited | persons, he must desist at once. As I a >ei|iicl to this, Hana Nips was charged with aiding and abetting in the commission of an o/l'cncc to wit, the supplying of liquor to a Maori woman. She pleaded guilty. Sergeant lladdrcll said this accused had been repeatedly in court charged with olfencc and had been cautioned and lined. Tint she still persisted in procuring liquor. The police hardly knew what to do with her. I'very Saturday afternoon a constable had to r,e detailed lo keep an eye on these Maori women and the men who supplied them with |i,|„ nr . A tine of

',:•-! and costs ±N (id was indicted, in |dc.:„,|f U day-' impvi-amnicnt. For Children's ITicking Cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure Advt. IT DAZZLES THE WORLD. No discovery in medicine lias ever created one quarter of the interest lint has been caused by Dr. Sheldon's N?;/ Discovery for Coughs, Colds, and Consumption. It has brought relief in the most hopeless cases, when all else has failed, Obtainable everywhere.

The now Technical School at Klllium I is expected to lie out of the contractor's j, ; hands in about six weeks. i There is something of a building 1. hooiii in Hastings lit (he present tiiuo.ji iMO.OOU worth of premises being in;r course' of erection. I> Ratepayers in the u[iper end of the. |' Mangorei road district are holding aj meeting in Order to consider the possibility and advisability of merging their ' part* of the district into the C.iwingtoii |; road district. | The Waitara llaihor liill passed the' Local Hills Committee, yesterday with-; out nr.U'i-i-.il alteratiou. Mr .leimings; is to ask for the sreoml reading to-day.' The luglewood tidegraph cilice will. he (i pi'ii in future from 7 to S p.-u.' daily. | A llawkc's liiv sheep-farmer is suing! :i. ;nanufaeturer of sheep-dip for damagiM for value, of sheep and lambs which it was alleged had been injured| tliroie-'h Ihe use of the defendant's dip. The plaintiir claims tint the value of one of bis prize vums deteriorated 70 l . guineas after bein;.( dipped. 1 With the mild spring weather of Hie ' past fortnight or so the pastures are J beginning to show a little in the. south , part of Tarauiki. In the noithern districts the grass has not yet begun to 1 show to any extent. Cows are coming to profit freely throughout the proi vince. Sheep fanners just now are having s a busy time with their Hocks, the bimb- • ing season having toinnu'iiced. So lar ,' the weather has been goo'd and the looses i, are but few. In the southern end of ,"llhe. province the average of Jambs is ,{ fair, couples and even trios of the little ■in woolly newcomers being seen.

Mr 11. LI. i'ookes, Hon. Local llcpre.scntativo of this Associated Board of the Koyal Academy of .Music and Koyal College of Music, informs us that the Board's practical examinations will be conducted this year by Mr Richnd (,'ummings, who will commence work in this centre about the last week in September. This will be Air Cuminings' first visit to New Zealand.

He came to the opera on Tuesday, but prior to visiting the Theatre lloyal he indulged a little too freely. His conduct was noted by I lie police, and if he saw "h'aust" at all li.i must have seen Mephistophcles and the other queergarbed people, in his dreams amongst the discomforts of the police cell. Yesterday morning ho made his explanations to the .Magistrate, and was lined os and costs, in default 21 hours' gaol. It can hardly be said (says the Clutha Leader) that the Molyneux river is yet the 'lowest on record" but it is rapidly approaching that way—by timehonored marks less than a couple of inches will do it. Harder frosts have been seen in previous years, but it is long since there aims such an extended period of rainless und snowless weather. An old digger who knew the Dunstau in 'O2 stated the oilier day that he Iris not seen such a dry winter since tlnn. j At that time the diggers scooped the yellow metal out of the crevices, and many of them made piles. Alas ♦he river rose, and never went so low again. The gold is still in tile crevices, and if the dry weather continues some of the old miners will look up the dd crevices.

.Mr A. A. Uintz visited Mangatoki on Tuesday, says the Elthain Argus, and held a cuuforeneo with the school committee there in icgard to having children conveyed to Eltharu for manual instruction, the girls in cookery and the boys in woodwork. The committee decided to send the children iu for one day in a fortnight, the arrangement to (oi'nnieiiee wdien the technical school is completed. The cost of conveyance will be borne by the school committee, and all moneys; raised for the purpose carry a subsidy of .£ for .C. This is the first instance of the application of the centralisation system in the Wangauui education district, and it will be more p generally applied later. Ultimately it is intended to bring in children from Uawhitivoa, Te Uoti, and Matapu for instruct ion in manual subjects. A . well-attended meeting of the local branch of iho W.U-X.U. was held yesterday afternoon, Mrs Wilkie, in the absence of ill's JJouglaS, presiding. A quantity of routine business was disposed of. A letter was received from ihe Town Clerk thanking the Union for superintending the rest room in the Town Hall, and intimating that a IKiV room was being provided in the new Carnegie Library building, in lieu of the present room. It was reported that in reply to an appeal, a quantity of lcll-oJI clothing had been sent in, and distributed to those* in want. A very interesting paper to mothers from Mrs Lisle, of Ashburfoii, was read, and is a\aiUs'ilc to any members who were not present at the meeting. Future meetings are to be held at the Baptist Church, instead of the Whitelcy Hall. in a .series of clever "thuiub-jiail'' .-.ketches of the colony's cities the Triad ilni., satirises Wangauui, which has been prominent iu the public eye of late:-- \\ angauui litis for years had the reputation of being Lire place from whi-.-n ,ui tne lunatics tonic. This is a gloss exaggeration. They don't all leave W'aug.inui. \\ anganiu people argue Lhal only lunatics would leave so lovely a place. The lunatics icalisc that they are mad all right, but not mad enough, to stay in Wangauui. It is generally believed among outsiders that Wangauui is the proud possessor of a river which is not entirely without some pretensions to cointliue.-.s, it noi io grandeur, but a vi.siiur reports that during a long stay in the lowu earciul and persistent enquiries failed to elicit any information ] regarding it. It is incorrect to speak of tiie natives of Wangauui as Wangauuisanccs.

A Taranaki fanner a few days ago had quite a lively experience with a bull. The animal in question is a putebred Shorthorn—,,, line four-year-old specimen of peppery temperament. The bull is ipiict enough until a man on horseback enters the paddock. This i lie bovine accepts as a challenge to battle, and iunnedi itely assumes a defiant attitude. On Hie occasion in question the owner desired to remove 'he bull to another paddock, but the latter faced around and no amount of whip or dog worrying would shift him- The lariuer decided to giv the animal a severe lesson, and, returning homo, secured iiU loaded lowling-piccc On again entering the field the bull wis more delimit lluui ever, so the farmer drew a bede on the Shorthorn's shoulder and fired. There was a mighty roar and a streak of bull across Ihe farm. The treatment was efficacious.; All (!ml is necessary now to shift (hat! hull is to pick up a stick and point it towards him.

"Already consumers are beginning lo feel the pinch of the tariff," savs (be •Auckland Herald. "Patent medicines bare gone up, anil purchasers who nrc called upon to pay Id or 2d more en Mime proprietary article are assured thai, like tl». lniteluTs, the retailws are "rclm-taiitly compelled to raise tlie price.'' But not only articles upon which the duty has been increased or added have been raised, but other things which (he revised tariff does not alV'ct have been raised too, possibly i'i order lo eonipensiite for lines upon which, in any ease, (he profit is small, but is reduced lo a fraction or vanishes altogether if sold at the ante-tarill price, j Ciui-ei|uently purchasers may have to prepare for a general rise nil round (f t.ie price of many things which the laid does not touch at all, in order to recoup (ho dealer for possible loss oil things it actually affects." As far as could be ascertained yesterday, there has been no corresponding increase in prices locally.

TWO SOVEREIGN REMEDIES. The famous SANDER AND SONS' ?}' ] ' ~] VOU'ITUO EUCALYPTI EX TRACT was proved by experts at Supreme Court of Victoria to possess curative properties peculiarly its own and to be medicinally absolutely safe, effective and reliable' for internal use llierefore, do not aggravate your complaint Ivy the use of one of 'the many crude eucalyptus oils which are now palmed olf as "Kxtvacß" or under fancy names, hut insist upon the riyxnxF sandfi; \vm sow t-:it-('VLVHT EXTRACT alu , ro j ( , ct all others. For wrinkles, sunburn, pimples, blackheads, freckles, cracked hands, and inflamed skin use SANDKJI ANT) SONGS' SI'PERISA SKTKT FOOD. No land should, be without it. Allays irri-j tat ion: brings beauty to every face and' hand. Is Gd (name of chemist) or! chemists and stores.

A FRTEND OF THF, FAMILY Ts Dr. Sheldon's Now Discovery, the well-known remedy for all Chest and Lung Troubles; Is (id and 3s per bottls. Obtainable everywhere.

When will the authorities wake up I \nd remove that excrescence on the Uaori—Ltua? Tito Opotiki tiuavdian lias mil informed on reliable nutliovity Unit .licmt thirty of (lie children who were itlemliuiU ul the Waiimma native a adiool Inive died at Kun's (toliunga) •amp at .Manpoliutu as a result of the iiitlii-eak of typhoid and measles. Those assembled lit the Ihuvera railvay station platform yesterday wove vil'nesses of lather an unusual, it not mmorous spectacle. Three passengers— t aipnosed to lie members of Miiogrove s . mem ('umpanv-imf heeding the "seals , ,lcase" warning did not awaken to the . 'net that the express was moving' until j I had proceeded some dozen yards: The vie Ihen eiilinnelleed to sprint !'. r the hearting Irain. which had now some wav'' on. Nothing daunted, they chased lel'iiud, encouraged liy the beckoning of lassengers aboard, a'nd were soon lost o view. About seven minutes after--avds they were seen to be returning, adder and perhaps more experienced nen. The New Zealand Dairyman contains he following comment on the prospects if butter for next season:—Tile Danish iconic «ct the higher price; not ho much leeause the butter is so superior in

innlitv as to justify the difference n dices', but because the companies eai •oopcrate together lu put it on \\v l,oiulon market. They regulate U mpplv, and keep the price up by i""" ng the nurket judiciously. In fact mcv can name their own price, am mrs follows suit., much in the same wa; is the Argentine people are able to «<• l juice upon their produce in Tjondoi l.v combination, and ours follows UUe holier, 'the highest price we hav |„, iiv d of being offered for the new sea soil's 'lmtlev was !IV,d f.o-h,, hut th; was not for a moment entertained. \Y hope that factories will he very cu'cfu in dealing with prices. We should .>* peel the best brands to be worth tt least, and perhaps a shade more. 1 would he better to risk the market i London hy consignment rather than ac ccpt such' low prices. •Sneaking in the House the other day on the AM to Public Works and Lam Settlement Bill, Mr A. W. Hogg, member for iiaslci'ton, gave utterance t c these home truths: "if we. maintain uur public works policy in a sound anil health y condition, you may depend upon it that we are going to increase the material wealth of the country, we are "oin« to largei. '.i.Tcasu our exports, and improve the condition of the people. If there is plenty of work and opportunity for our resident population, we should require 4io immigration agents. The main thing is to expend your money on thoroughly useful works. Let me say to those who are inclined to he exceedingly cautious—to those who are averse to borrowing—that there is little danger in adding to the national debt—i do not say excessively, hut in a modcrate way—so long as the money is wisely spent. If the money is expended on roads and bridges and railways ina judicious manner—nit on political rail'wavs, but in making railways and voads where they are actually required, ml where they are likely to become iiu-

mediately reproductive—if money is expended in that way, you may depend upon it that it is going to assist the colony and promote its best interest."