LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 2 December 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Taranaki County Council meets this morning. Examinations in technical subjects were conducted on Saturday at the Stratford Technical School, Mr. Browne supervising. The white swan in the Recreation Grounds has succeeded in hatching out a couple of cygnets, and the youngsters attracted a good deal of attention from visitors yesterday afternoon. The closing of the banks on Saturday caused great inconvenience. Very few people beyond the banking officials attach such importance to Scotland's patron saint as to cause them to suspend business on the busiest day of the week.

A further search for the Elingamite's treasure is to be undertaken as soon as weather conditions are favourable, probably early in January. Captain! D. M'Kenzie, of the Iluia, and those who accompanied the past expeditions to the Three Kings, will form the party. Coin to the value of JUoyjOU is still in the sunken wreckage.

There was trouble at a euuntry ball one night last week. 'J.he rel reoii'inents had been ordered in New Plymouth, but didn't arrive as agreed. A nicsseii"er galloped post-haste to the caterer's siiop, but the "boss" was out, and no one knew anything about any ball or any supper. The messenger returned doleful and angry. The only way out of .the difficulty was to obtain some tins of biscuits from a storekeeper about four miles further away. "Ladies, a basket," will probably be one of the conditions of admission in any future social there. Or, if foreign goods are requisitioned, the committee will at all events change its baker.

Terry's escape l'rum Seaclill' is related by a •'Dominion" correspondent:—it seems that lie was in the library with two attendants shurtly before I) p.m. on Thursday, lie went into tlie adjoining I scullery, and tiieiiee iiitu au ex-patient's room. One of the window-stops iiud been taken out of this room recently, aud the stop was luose. it is surmised that Terry, having gained a knowledge of this fact, took advantage ol' his opportunity lu make an escape by means of lire window, which opens on to the grounds, and is not high.' Only a couple of minutes tould have elapsed between the time he left the attendants and the discovery of his escape. is there any wonder that epidemics sweep through our schools'! A leather recently asked for advice concerning injection from whooping-cough, and received a reply from the larunuki Education lluurd couched in the following terms: —"i believe you will bo quite correct in allowing children with whoop-ing-cough lu attend school, as wlioopingeoiigh is not on the list of diseases ill which ipiaiaminc in considered necessary by the Health Department, judging by the card forwarded by thai body." Again, children are attending school from families in which are sufferers from measles and whoopingcough. Pupils who have had measles return lo nchuul almust immediately alter recovery, instead of remaining away fur u couple of weeks or so, as | common-sense seems to direct.

At til,' Tarauuki Show last week the judge of the draught stock made reference to tlic condition of I ho stuck, especially the young growing animals. Whereas exhibits from outside were in tip-top show condition ami looked at llicir best, mhiic of tlic local exhibits showed unmistakable signs of winter hardships and scant spring feeding. Seeing that »o much of the. quality that is apparent ill all classes of stock "goes down their throats"—ill order words, . produced liy careful and gooil feeding—local exhibitor* for next year's show should take tlic hint and not be behind outside exhibitors in this respect. A good animal is always worth good feeding—in fact, it is impossible to bring out the best qualities of an animal unless it is well attended to in this regard. It is no use "feeding up a show animal for a few weeks before show-time." The beast may lie fed tin as to be carrying plenty of flesh in that time, and may even run to fulness, but to have an animal evenly developed and in (he | sleek bloom of condition ncccssarv, the owner should look ahead and see thai it is in no way efiutcil at any pail of ils career, and especially when it is young. TWO SOVEREIGN REMEDIES. The famous SANDER AND SONS' PI Hi: VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EX- ' TUACT was proved by experts at the | Supreme Court of Victoria lo possess , j curative proporlies peculiarly ils own, anil to be medicinally absolutely safe. \ elVective, and reliable for internal use! Therefore, do not aggravate your complaint by the use of one of "the many crude, eucalyptus oils which are now aimed off as "Extracts," or under = ancy names, but insist upon the 1 IENTLNrI SANDER AND SONS' EU- r CAI.VPTI EXTRACT and reject all I •'hers. For wrinkles, sunburn, pimples, n Waeklieads, freckles, cracked hnnds. dry \ and inflamed skin use SANDER AND ii SONS' KUPERIiA SKIN FOOD. No e lady should he without it. Allays irri- s tation; brings beauty taevery face and jhand. • Chemists anil storffll £

A return presented to the Legislative Council shows that the training ship Amokura is costing the country £5Ol Is Sd a month when at sea, and £320 Is 8d when at its moorings. Contrary to general belief, the Sahara is not barren and worthless. Some time ago there were !),UOO,OOO sheep in the Algerian Sahara alone, besides 2,000,000 goats, and 200,000 camels. . On the oases there are 1,500,000 date palms. It was an unlucky duy for Samuel Wallace, when, alter an absence of twenty years, he returned to Watford, England, for at the petty sessions recently he was lined £lO and costs for assaulting a constable in ISBU. The potato market is still depressed in Duncdin. One linn re-shipped two iiuiidred bags to .Melbourne, lor the reason that they would not realise Ireight and charges. Prime whiles now are offering from £2 to £2 5s a ■ Ion; soft and inferior from 30s to 355. "If I went Home and told the farm ' labourers there what the conditions of '. work ill New Zealand are," said Mr. W. l.owrie to the Conciliation Board, "I J believe 1 could bring out 10,000 of them. ' The trouble is that they don't believe * a lot of what thoy hear. They don't '' travel, and persist in not travelling, and 11 they don't realise what the conditions are here."

The South African football team, during its tour in England, took as its share of the gate money £15,575, leaving, after the payment of expenses, a surplus of £OIOO. Of this surplus the board of management retained £IOOO as a fund for future tours, and the remainder was allocated to the various South African Unions, to be used solely for the advancement of llugby football.

Three clever sketches in water-colours, painted by Lionel Terry for the Karitane Home, are now on view in Dunedin. All are enclosed in one frame, and are intended to interest children. One scene shows a little girl watching a sitting hen, and counting the chickens before they are listened. Aailothcr depicts two children playing draughts. The third displays a little girl receiving a lesson iii sewing. A honeymoon spent in gaol is not generally looked upon as the mffst desirable thing in tile world, but this is the fate of a visitor who was present at the Timaru Kaccs, says the ''Tiniaru Post." By profession this gentleman is a bookmaker, and he happens to be one of those who were sentenced in Christchurch to two months' imprisonment without the option of a tine. When the sentence of the Court was passed, this defendant was absent from Christchurch in the North Island. He had only been married three days, and he had to surrender himself to the police to undergo his two months' imprisonment.

In the course of an interview, llr. j Darnell, of Ciiristchurch, one of the recent bowlers to tour the United Kingdom, said that with regard to greens, New Zealand was simply out of it —there was no turf in New Zealand equal to the quality of the turf of the iiritish bowling greens. It was almost needless to say that men fond of tho game took the keenest possible delight in playing on the dry and tine-running greens that were played on in Scotland. In such greens the New Zealaiulcrs had experience of the greens that they hope to possess in this country some day, though llr. Burnett thinks that this anticipation is not likely to be realised, as grass in New Zealand grows coarser than in Great Britain. A pretty and vivacious young lady was to be found serenely reading a newspaper in a lirst-elass "smoker" on the express train from Napier on Saturday. She entered the compartment, and asked the male passengers in it if they minded her presence, which, of course, they did not —in fact, the reverse being the ease. It appears that all the other non-smoking compartments, without exception, were temporary nurseries, at leant one very young infant being located in each, so that the young lady found more comfort in the smoke than she did in the infantile bedlam. One carriage had four infants-inarms in it, and the occupants, other than those accompanying such charges, displayed a most self-sacrific-ing toleration.