LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 23 August 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Captain Edwin wired at noon yesterday: Northerly strong winds to gale; glass fall; tides Ugh; sea heavy; rain probably heavy; rivers rise.

Referring to the twice-weekly service arranged for 'American cablegrams, the mail for Seattle will close at Uainfield Creek on Mondays and Thursdays at D.iJO a.m.., New Zealand time.

Mr J. H. Stevens, of Hawera, who /ias been appointed an inspector of thePostal Department, was the recipient, on Tuesday night, of a silver cheese dish and silver entree dish at the hands of the staff of the Hawera Post Office.

xiie sale of pure-bred Jersey cattle, nUd on account of Air Dick Cornwall, at Oorbelt Koad yesterday by Messrs E. Urilliths and Co., was tery successful. The highest price paid was for the champion cow lieathcr, viz., U4 guineas. The average price was exceptionally high, | being £44.

On account of the small attendance at St. Mary's Church yesterday evening it bus been decided to hold ihu organ recital 011 Wednesday next, when itic vocal items arranged for will be given. Die organist, Mr .d. Miller Putts, played the programme of organ music, and no collection was taken.

The Secrct.iry of the General Post Ullice is informed that messages to New lurk and Boston can be accepted via Eastern as usual. They can also be Jccepted to other places in the United Slates at senders' risk and subject to delay. Messages to San fYrancisco can be accepted via Eastern and Manila at the rate of Us -id per word.

Oue evidence of the drought In the South Island (says the (Jauuiru Mail) is our dependence on the North for our butter. Last month the Oorinna brought to Otago IUUO boxes of factory of butler, and at the beginning of this mouth 11 jO boxes as a lir»l shipment from the Midhirst dairy factory, THraiiaki. This butter is retailed at Is 2d; were it not lor the -North Island we might perhaps be paying as high as Is 7d.

A London correspondent writes unlet date July 12th, as follows: Detective Jlellveney, of Wellington, arrived in London on Monday with his prisoner, D. 0. Mclntyre, arrested at Bueuos Ayres on a charge of embezzlement at the Christchurch Exhibition, and left again fur New Zealand yesterday by

the Turakina, having spent only four days in tile metropolis. By the tinie lie gets Oiuck to Christchurch with nis prisoner the detective will have travelled round the world. Detective Mcll-I veney is the first New Zealand-born detective to visit the Old Country, and toe youngest that has been sent abroad on a mission of importance.; The steamer which brought him and his prisoner from Buenos Ayres to Monte Video was stuck in the river far a wilh the result that they missed the English mail steamer, and had to make (he journey to London in a "tramp.'' The Turakiua is due at Wellington next

Tho question of milk-Mended butter is not left in an altogether satisfactory position, from the point of view of butter sellers, by the proceedings in the House of Commons, but tho sale of the article is to be regulated in such a way tiiat the consumer will know exactly 1 what is being sold. The Butter sinjj Margarine Bill, as amended, provides that milk-blended butter shall be dcaW with under the conditions of the sale of marganine, though not under t' ; name, if it is sold in « wrapper, {he wrapper must bear not only the approved name, but also an approved deserlp. (ion. No name is to be approved which contains the word butter, or any name suggestive of butter, or which describes the article as milk-blended. The cttempt was made in the House of Commons to reduce (be limit of moisture in milk-blended butter from 24 per cent, to 10> per cent... which is the limit ior genuine butter, but this attempt was I.■''rated. The Government, however, has promised to insert a chuse to the effect, that the wrapper shall state the percentage of moisture.

For Bronchial Coughs take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 04 and 2s 6d.

Ohristclmrch, with its unlimited mileage of level roads, is daily adding to its locally-owned motor cars. There arc 531 of these cars registered in the city.l and they are fast making the business of the livery-stable keeper of no effect. | The demand for horses has been found to be so small that many stables lire now being used as motor garages, and liv chauffeur in Christchurch is _ mire

likely to obtain a position than a coachman.

A London correspondent, writing under date July 12, says: As showing the I enormous rise that has taken place in the price of ( rare stamps during the last 40 years, it may be mentioned that when Mr Breitfus, whose collection has just changed bands for the huge prices of £50,000, in 1875 bought an unused Ne,7 Zealand shilling giecn or blue, he ga\o l'Os for it, and its present value is put down as £1)0. Another New Zealand stamp, a penny brown, watermark New Zealand, bought for Id, now fetches £4O, while the Victorian 5s blue or yellow, mint, bought by Mr Breitfus in 1881 for 235, is at the present time valued *l £lO.

The Wanganui Chronicle reports that on Friday night last, or really in the early hours of Saturday morning, the constables on duty were hastily summoned to assist in endeavoring to catch n miscreant who, it was allegeddiad bratally sought to violate the sanctity of | the home in tlia lower portion of the

town. H appears that the man in question had taken advantage of the fact that the husband was employed at night to gain admittance to the house, by means of the back door. Finding himself in undisturbed possession of the back portion of the house, he appears to have waxed bold, crept quietly up the passage and into the bedroom, turned out the gas and then attempted to iuterfeie with the wife. There was no

one else in the louse, but fortunately her screams soon brought assistance. The blackguard', however, succeeded in making good his escape—minus his boots—and disappeared in the darkness of the morning. A man has been arrested on suspicion of being the person con cerned in the outrage. tt is, apparently, an offence against the State to refrain from washing dur-

ing a period of ten years or so. An old ago pensioner was brought before Mr U. W. Bishop, S.U, at Christchurch last week, and was charged with vagrancy. It was explained that the man's sin consisted wholely and solely in his unwil-. Ungues* to keep himself clean, and he was arrested to be cleaned for the bene-, lit of himself and of those with whom he might come in contact. Some months ago this hater of soap and water admitted that he had not washed himself for something like ten years, and the police were then allowed a week to scour him. "I cannot convict him of vagrancy," said the Magistrate, "but it would be advisable to keep on bringing these charges against him, and wo can wash him." This decision may cause some consternation among persons wtio are convinced that water is bad for them