LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 14 October 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I Among the passengers by Saturday ieht's express were the I\ew 1 lymouui: llTcers who have been attending ;h----■hool of military instruction in dnylon. Tim lightning storm on Fri&iy was ■viu'c at JnulowooJ. lelcphoio •iro ill jMessrs Victors and Stevens otee fused, and tlio wall ignited. l'orniatvly Mr Viekers was tlieri! at the line, and he put out the lire. the •Icplionc oiliee I hero was also the ;'ene of inueli disturbance. "It is a scandal to the workers that liey cannot provide more for the wants f the people of this country than liny o, and that we have to import so inch. If they worked more and talked ■ss ifc would l>e much better/' said the Lou. T. Y. Duncan 'during the debite u the Land Bill in the House of Ilepremtatives. Ihe JSew Zealand Herald answers question which is frequently asked—anicly, ' itow many busiiel-j ot wiieat re required to make a ton of Hour, ml what is the amount of poHird, rail and waste?" The answer is:— S bushels—that is 28SUlbs, made up of (JOUIhs ol lloui'j 500 ibs ol bran, SUOibs ii pullard, and 3Jlbs of waste. With Australian wheat 45 bushels make a on of Hour, against our 4S, They are haviuy a bad time up North, here are twenty cases of typhoid uner treatment in Hamilton. Influenza, hroat and chest ailVclion.s eoiitiuue lo e almost epidemic at Huntfy, wliile ue or two cases of pneumonia and lung rouble are announced. So prevalent is ickness that only one-lliird of the liners are able lo turn out to work, j that the output lately has been abormally small. Tlie report of the City Tax Departicnt of properly in New York exempt mm taxation is £231,100,001), of which roperty to tlie value of £50,800,000 iclongs to religions and charitable coronations. The remainder is municipal, tate, and national Government proerty. The value of exempt property l 1898 was £104,000,000. The total ssessed value of taxable property in iew York has grown since 1898 from -473,405,000 to £1,359,000,000. The alue of land in Manhattan is £38,850 or acre, in Brooklyn £I9OO, and in iroux Borough £IOOO. A I'ctonc lady the other day went nto a local grocer's shop in a desperate inrry and asked the proprietor for the oan of a pound (says the local ■hronicle). Ilis feeling's can be better magined than, described when lie learned hat the pound was required to pay for [Oods which a Wellingt on grocer was ibrmt to deliver, but would not do ;o nthout the ready cash. ThN is on a ■:ir willi the following;—A resident purhused a few articles at a local shop, he value of which came to 4s 3d. A Villi . great show of belief in the virtue i,f anil payments, the purchaser said, "I Iwavs believe in paying cash as far as e;;n; HI pay you the threepence n:-w nd yon can charge the four shillings to iv account," but in this case "it didn't onie off." Air Mwin lieacli, the well-known icatrical manager, has completed artiigciucius for the farewell visit to nv l J !ymoutli of the ever popular iillougliby, Ward," and (Jraee i'alolta ouipauy. Xhey appear ilonday next, i "jar llopkmson,'' Bays the critical liristchurcli l'ress on "iUr Kupkinson -A comedy without an element ot low nucdy is as rare nowadays as Onclc cmus's "nigger without a pocket mdkychicf." But "Air llopkuison" ils the bill. It is reminiscent oi' the a of "L.tdy AVindermere's Fan'' and the Tyranny of Tears," and it coulu .en go back and in its own way hold l' its head with "She Stoops to (Jonicr." This is a big order, but it is a atiliablc one. A new com is to be invented lor the cm-lit ui Canadians, it has been decidi io cimuau a new penny-piece of the ante ol two cents which will be ot ici>.e/, aud otviale some wear and tear i pockets by the heavy copper cents ol c size of tuo liuglisll halfpenny, in ic united states a cent is popularly iownasapenny,and tlie now Canadian mi is probably in order to pander to mie extent lo anti-American prejudice. will be Lhe lirst nickel in Canadian mage. \\lien the minL at Ottawa ;s )L imo running order next winter sonic Ueen hands will be employed and sixcm to tH'cnly millions of coins a yen' intcd. A L'itnterijuiy man speaks plainly oi i experience! with jNew Zealand meat Home, "ily wife and i weie living apartments, and bought all our owU iiwsioiis, so we decided to taste and ; for ourselves. We got some iSew aland mutton" chops, and they were uiiy, dry and tasteless. It was tueii began Lo understand the prejudice aiust all imported meat, flanging in ; shops, our mutton looked dark, and ist ol it badly graded. It might be the freezing or thawing-Out, but 1 :1 strongly that uniess some improveill is elfected, our trade must suffer astrously." 'Tire property must be considered as onging to the husband," said Mr stice IJennington in the Kowan bankptcy case, "as it was ta)£en out of s house." "But the presumption vvadays, your Honor," urged Mr ilford, "is that the house and furnie belong to the wife, and not to the aband; at leaßt that has been my ex'ience in recent cases in the Courts." cs, that is true, no doubt," was the ily from tlie Bench, "the practice of king over property to th" wife is oming the rule, not the exception.-' i large number of priests who lost ir livings in France owing to the '.iiaiiun l,aw are having recourse to 1 mini hi bur in order to earn their liv- < Several of them, including the ish priest of Castclnau-J'.relenoux, managing poultry farms, and oth us hi;!:.nig cycles and sewing machines; Ic the I iire of Manrnge is a lock- | th. Seven fathers have becujije ' oilers, and tile cure of Cadiere is a ; or. Under the presidency of Aliho imx, an "alliance" of eeclesiastii al (sincn lias been formed. The : r 'n- t sts are defended in the organ, "Trait ~ uon." 1 T\VO SOVJjniilGN REMEDIES. d lie f nnons SANOKR ANT) SO.VR ii U/T w;is proved by experts at ;ti renin l Court of Victoria to ]>ossess live properties peculiarly its own to lie medicinally absolutely safe i" ■tivu ni;d reliaMh fnr "efm'c, (In not agirrnvate < Mir r-o,n it bv tiio use of one of the mnn e eiienlyidus oils which arc n-i led off as "Kxtriets," or nn:le V >:: i lues, but insist mini! i h ' I'lN'M KANIWIt .AW mUff F.l' l'l VrTr I'XTIIAOT mill ieject ;.i ' rp. I'or wrinkles, sunliurn. |iiniple S ;lieaiN. fj-eclclrs, cracked lei nils, <r en inii l nieil cicin use SANTtKR ANT dii S! 1 1;ii.\ ,?KrNT FOOT). 1',,: slieiiM lie williouf, it. Allavs irri- lh n: V.riiies lieaiity (o every face an n; brings beanly to every face "id .Is Oi, or /"hemists and stores. c!s