LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 73, 16 March 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

J'he Rarawa from Oiiohiuiga brought a Brindisi mail tliis morning. During the past few weeks the local Methodists have been visited by no less than three gentlemen who formerly held very popular sway as ministers in charge of the Whitelev .Memorial Circuit. The Rev. S, .1. SerpcH preached the Sunday School anniversary -.crniojis a fortnight l!ev. .f. \. Buttle paid a short visit to the town, and yesterday Ihe Rev. (J. 11. Garland occupied his old pulpit. All three gentlemen found time to visit many of the members of the connexion, and received hearty welcome. /

The present extraordinary demand

for grass seed has brought to light the ! fact that the stocks of cocksfoot in the colony are very low. One of the largest dealers in cocksfoot, who at this time last year held liyjOl) bags, has only 5u this year, and other merchants report a like position. On Friday a local merchant was quoted T'/ a d for farmers' dressed sample (13 tu 1411 m) ; on Saturday morning the quotation had J risen to Bd, and on Saturday afternoon

ulviec was wived notifying an advance; to !kl. Heavy machine-dressed is quoted I'/ill higher. A contributing factor to

the growing [nice, in addition to the general shortage and big demand, is the fact that Australia has commenced to operate on New Zealand for her spring sowing. It is most unfortunate for

I'nraiiiiki fiu'iiicr*. and particularly hose lneakiiipr up new country, that tli'p Jicscnt should have been the year . f liorta^'c

SANDEU AND SON'S GENUINE ?UKE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EX- ' ■ T w-its proved 1/ experts at thiupreme Court of Victoria to posses urative properties peculiarly its own. I ind to lie medicinally absolutely safe] iffeetivc, and reliable for internal use. therefore, do not aggravatß your com- I uaint by the use of one of "the i ■rude eucalyptus oils which are uu .t . mimed off as "Extracts," or unjer ,'aiiey names, but insist upon '.he iENUTNE SANDED AND SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT and reject all Hhers. For wrinkic*, sunburn, pimples, dncklieads, freckles, cracked hand*, dry ind inflamed skin asc SANDER AND SONS' SUPERBA SKIN FOOD. No ady should be without it. Allays irri sation; brings beauty to every face a.nd A 20lh CENTURY PREPARATION. i Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for 1 riijiitfii-. C«lil3, and Consumption. Small ] dose, Pleasant to take. Price li Bd, I

The price of butter is likelv to experience a drop locally. Whilst onu or two factories are aupplyiijfr grocers at U 2'/jd per lb, there are other concerns selling nt Is Id.

A man is fortunate who purchases a properly of 10(H) acres for 22s lid an acre ami two years afterwards is oll'ercd A.',) an acre. This was the experience of a Southland fanner, who the oilier day refused to sell, wanting an additional ten shillings an acre.

The eating of a raw potato caused the death of a child of two and a-balf years at Davenport, Xorwich, England, a lew weeks ago. The mother said all her children were fund of raw potato. Several jurymen assured the incredulous coroner that the eating of this dainty was quite common.

In response to the representation* of tlic Mayor the Haihvuy Department lias discontinued the dismantling of the Uenui railway midge pending the decision of the Minister in regard to the Council's application to have the old rout* and the bridge handed over as .1 public road, particularly for stock traffic.

An amusing story of Prince Kdward of Wales is now going the rounds. He was once being examined in history, and among the questions the following was asked: "Who Was Perkin Warbeck?" "Perkin Warbeck was a pretender," replied the little Prince. "He pretended he was the son of a king, but he wasn't. He was the son of respectable parents.'' Butter made in the autumn is usually about the best of the year, owing to the absence of weeds in the pastures and the stout nature of the grass at this season. This year's, however, is not likely to possess the usual good-keeping qualities, for it is to all intents and purposes spring butter, consequent on the recently remarkably rapid growth of feed after the warm rains that followed the drought. ''While the lire was at its height," remarked a Putara settler to an liketalutna Express reporter, "my consuming wish was that some of those—mentioning Messrs, Hogg and Laurenson, M.'sP. —who advocated the nationalisation of land, were near enough so that 1 could have kept them facing the flames as continuously as some of us have done. Had they their eyebrows singed a new light might present itself to them." Mr. husk, at the Supreme Court, Napier, while defending two young lads on charges of theft, said that he could directly trace the thctt to be caused by the youths reading undesirable literature, samples of which had been found in their possession, The books were sold in the shops at one penny per volume, which made it a very easy matter for boys to get hold of such detestable literature. Whale Island, the gunnery establishment of the British Xavy, was formerly only a mudbauk, which was uncovered Iby water at low tide. When the Admiralty started the docks at Portsmouth, the earth from the excavations war, deposited on the mndbank, until » small island was formed. l!y 1800 the island had grown so large that the naval authorities decided to lay it out as a drill ground. It now covers ;J7 acres in area, and provides accommodation for nearly 2000 men. The effect of the splendid growth of grass consequent on the rain showers lately experienced throughout the district has l«?en to put up the falling milk yields in most parts. The make of cheese at the Kaupokonui factory has increased from 31 to 37 cheeses a day, and the branch factories have also' showu an appreciable advance in the output. It is expected that with a continuance of the favourable weather being enjoyed the milk supplies will be well sustained for some time vet.--Witness. The St. Petersburg newspaper Rush contrasts the inertia displayed in the Russian portion of Saghalien to the ceaseless efforts of the Japanese to develop their half of (he island. The Japanese Government has opened popular schools in the villages of Mauk and Vladimirovka, which formerly belonged to Kiissia, and the Korsakovsk Post possesses a secondary school. The Japanese are also planning the extension of communications and the construction of good roads. Considerable sums have been assigned to the maintaining of hospitals, the establishment of factories, the exploitation of forests, and assisting the fishing and mining industries.

tfonic throe years ago it was cousidred in \"ictori.t that the large quantiii's of apples, such ax windfalls, wliioh ;o to waste every season or are given » pigs, could lie turned int.) a market, ihie product in the form of cider. Wit) his object in view ,1 complete cide nill and appliances were imported li; lie Agricultural Department, and sen <i various country shows, where til iperatiun of cider making was demos Crated. The mill was also sent t several persons who desired to test th Industry on a commercial basis. Sevi •al of them have since purchased mill : or themselves anil made much large pinntitics of eider, and others have bee induced to enter the field. Sir. Connett struck a popular note 01 t'riday evening when lie gave credit \ the "country board" for coming to th rescue of the harbor works which, ow ing to the straitened circumstances o the Board, were neglected and threat cned with destruction. The £IOOO do nated by the New Plymouth people wa speedily used up in protective work but still more was required to preven the wall being washed away. Th Board had no money, and no power ti raise auy on overdraft. Just whci power was obtained to overdraw, th •'country board" came in, all the tow: representatives being rejected. TU "country hoard," of which Mr, Maxwel was chairman, promptly availed itsel of the new possibilities of iinance, am saved the situation, An Eiigliuli journalist, Mr. F. A. lie Kenzie, writes:—"There are many sign in Japan to-day of a steady revival o the dreadful anti-foreign feeling. Stric control of the press and public enable this to be kept well in hand, and inani testations of it are largely suppressed hut it is there. Responsible daily jout nalists in the leading cities have 'indulg i-d freely during the last year in a seric of articles attacking white men in Ja pan. denouncing their morals, sneerini at their business methods, and gcnerall holding them up to contempt. The no jive comic press, such as the Toki 1 uck, indulges in unending series of cai loons, all making the white man appea odious. A few weeks ago an EnghV trader was peacefully returning honv lu lokohama when he was set upon h a crowd of roughs and badly used If one knew why. for he had done nothh; to ollend them." '

A couple ol m.stakes erc-j»t into our report of Mr. .1. u. t'onnetVs meeting, on 1-nday owning. It was von dim cult to hear distinctly, as the audience was mostly on tin- one side of l lie theatre and the. reporters ivero stationed on the other, 'the lir-l error was in styling .U.--r-. T. Kelly. A. Staudish. K MclUmo. 11. (~ Hughes, .). Andrews; .. Kattcnbmy, and .J. h. Connett. I ihe -umving members of the fir.,t -\w Uymoutli llarhor Hoard. Theso gentlemen were memhers of the Irovincial Council which passed thei -New Plymouth Harbor Act tt wis interesting t0 notice, said J!r. Connett; that three ot those Councillors represented the Wailara riding. The elected memhers of the first harbor Iward were Major Atkinson. |.' \ Carnngton, C Brown, A. Stand Mi. \V! Y feymos, and .1. P, („ llm , tt . Uler on Messrs T. Kelly, n. W( ,s|„„, and G. ' Curtis were nominated hv tlie Government. Speaking of the depth of water I to be provided by the harbor extension, Mr. Connett stated that the depth of water at low water spring-tMes would •, be ZB feet in the liavbor aad 30 feet ■ alongside the wharr. with a rise of tide 1 oi twelve feet, giving lis and -|-2 fe«t « respectively at high water. ]. Tlie great annual sale at "The Kasli" | ''

, is now on, and presents one of the best ; opportunities for buying your men's , and Ixi.vs' clothing you'll have this year. Even if you do not immediately want i'uy of the goods, they are selling so Hieaply, it will pay you to buy now, at once, while the sale is on. It lasts for a fortnight only, and we advise you to visit thein early. They've some splen-

did boys' Conway suits in serges and all-wool tweeds. Most of these arrived too late for the Chrfstmas trade,'and they are giving a-third reduction on the price, so that 19s Bd suits are now 13a, every suit bearing an equal reduction.' Boys' Norfolk suits they have com- | mencing at 8s lldf*-boys' sailor suits run from 3s Od; boys' 3-garmont suits from 13a 6d. So that you see what a good opportunity you have to buy your boys' clothes. Of course, you know the address—it's in Devon-street, New Plymouth, just below Nolan'n auction mitt. I —Advt, WHEN YOU ARE KEPT AWAKE At night with that troublesome Cough, remember that it can be speedily cured by Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery. Price 1 Is 6d and 33 per bottle. Obtainable - /where, j

The .British Lion means so much to us nil thai it seems almost treason to suggest thin lie is after all not " the terrible wild fowl" (to quote Bottom) that foreigners think him; but, sad to say! this is so. For in the older armorial bearings of England our Hon is a leopard. "

Cold water, says a medical mau, is necessary to good health. The functions oi the body can only be carried on in l-he presence and by the aid of cold water. Drink lour or live pints daily. So many squirrels have been killed by motor-cars in the Central Park, New lork, that a number of ladies have formed themselves into the "squirrel police," their duty being to keep the liftle animals off the roadways. The Carnegie Library Committee, alter conference wiili Miss Auibury an.l Mrs. Urascli, representing the local branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, have decided upon the furnishing of the ladies' room in the new library building. The W.C.T.U, lailies have again volunteered to maintain this very useful apartment, and Hie committee recommends that the Council should provide £lO per annum, being the cost of cleaning and charring, etc.

llegai-diiig i lie value, obtainable from a small furiit. a witness at the Conciliation Board at Kangiora stated (says the Press) that potatoes would, at the fairly low price uf X.i jief ton, give a gross i'i'itarn of j;i(i per acre; under the best conditions and best prices and milk return-!, cows would give a gross return of £8 per acre; sheep would probably produce about £4 per acre; and fattening cattle, which did not involve the employment of much labor, would not return more than £3 per acre. According to Christchurch papers the Mmrod wit? not be. docked for a month y-et. Most ul lu'v company are, now ou leave, and the vessel has a deserted appearance. Mr. 11. Dtmlop, the chief engineer of the Ximrod, speaking to a reporter, said tlvftl a misunderstanding seems to have arisen regarding the merits of the Westport coal used on the voyage. The Welsh coal left 'with the shore party weighed eighteen tons, anil it was left merely because the Westport coal was needed on the Nimrod, and the supply was short. The last mail lias brought some par' ticulars of the outbreak of plague in San Francisco and the measures that are being adopted by the authorities to combat the visitation. During ths past winter public meetings have been held" by the various civic and coimnereiafbodies in an endeavor to suppress the spread of the disease and prevent the city being quarantined -on account of the disease. The work that is being done by the committee is of a very complete character, and it is hoped that it will obviate the necessity for a quarantine of the port. The United States Government is spending about .tIiOOO a month, and the city £2OOO, chiefly in the destruction of rats, and about IOOt rats a day are being killed. The percentage of infection among the rodents rose from about y s per cent, last, September to a little over 1% per cent, last month. While for some three months no new eases of plague were discovered, during the second week in February one new case developed. It is fell red by the health authorities that, unless prompt and vigorous action is taken, the advent of warm, dry weather will spread the disease through the agency of the tieas. T. W. H. Crosland, the author of "The Unspeakable Scot" and other humorous and satirical works, has tilted at the turf, in his "Who Goes Bating" Mr. Crosland wields a fluent pen, and some of his thrusts are vital. His book, of course, refers solely to English racing, but now and again he hits upon a truth applicable to racing in any part, of the world. The following excerpt is a fair sample of his attitude:—"For my own part I am not going to suggest that gambling in itself is one of the nine-and-thirty deadly sins. In any ease it is far less of a sin in the poor man than it is in the rich man, because the poor man really requires a little money to do him good, and the rich man ha? ill lie needs. The man who bets on a horse-race seldom if ever engages in a reasonable and absolutely straight ,'amble. Between himself and the fair play of which he is supposed to lie such i huge admirer, there is a whole army >f contingencies which are alien to "roper and judicious wagering. Practically he is not letting on a horse at, ill, but on the honor of a series of persons connected with horse-racing. The letting man is well aware of this fact, but as he yearns to bet, even as the hart panteth after the water-brooks, md lie is permitted to bet only upon horse-races, he is compelled to make the best or the worsfof a, bad job air! put his money on chances which nine times out of ten would not be taken In a sane dog." The late William M. Brouglitoii, wli< suicided at Wanganui last week, as i boy was adopted by Renata Kawepo, tin great Hawke's Bay chief, at Omahu. 11 understood that he was to succeed him especially as Renata had quarrelled wit] Ins very able grand-niece, Aaircne To nore, Mrs. G. p. Donnelly. There wa a conciliation, however, before his deatl and when William Broughton assume the leadership under a will of Henats Mrs. Donnelly produced a will made i the presence of Archdeacon -Williams Aireni is the woman for my will Thoro followed much litigation an much trouble, an incident of which wa the shooting of a member of Mrs. Doi nelly s family, and a state approachin civil war threatened for a time owin ship by the native custom of ploughin the land. Th e Chief Justice (Sir Jam" Prendergast) decided in favor of Mr Donnelly but the Court of Appeal an ultimately the Privy Council™ id" art?, o r n W ']f' ibe ,atter < i! v* «coll« 3i l ? 10 groim<3 th!l t no Mao Rentloman of Henata's standing n„Tb el igence would have made a wifl in g nc bad terms a,s "Aireni te wahine a tal Maori would have employed, as it ha pened. Immense law costs and sut & **M"» rcfijrdlng MvX blocks of land brought the once gre; estate down very small wl,en the fin wa-shing-up came. «w,-» or « wi £' BjMWMon ft? he was generallv tZ was a genial, sport-loving half-cast OTierally popular, and that 1,5 most of 1,,s very large circle of acquai tanoes.-,Manawatu Times V It is no new thing f or iiiag AU rik? )a A, t % d T aUdtotllke bea t h escapesby motor and bomb an other sudden things than his broth? n r ,arch^,wa,ys D excepti ag 11 the bl fact, he bears a charmed life. Whe il boy he was attacked in the street o Madrid by a niilian armed witf kin ~, | )U t ei[ „ uilljm . ed> lios were h,e,| at hi, u 0 „ j uil j,,,,, I'M'j, m Madrid, while diivin.. | lom from clnm-1,, accompanied by his'Vth,: and sister. -Both shots missed hi,, JJur.„g l„s visit to Paris in J„„e, lj 0 «■ bomb was thrown at him as he w from tl, t . 0])01 ,, witll p™ cnt Wbet. Two hoU were kite ' Ut , ''e King escaped unhurt. Th outh attempt was made on 30th Mai 190b, during his wedding festivities i •!]V as ,ln ' vi »g ""'S ' greets with his bride when a bomb wa tin-own at the royal carriage. Tw h I'eonlfl were killed and nmnv other -re injured, hut the royal pair escape J be Kmg has also had manv othei .\,. ■■apes, largely d,„. to hi. motorhi" ev >l°'ts. At (he end of Jnnuarv last I. lad another adventure. During a rova ''">.; "I Pardo the King and the Duk " laram-on came unexpectedly on ; >oar. winch made a dash towards then, be King rapidly raised his gun an •«"i- at the animal, which rolled ovit]>|»irently dead, .lust as AJfo&a ■ti'pped lorward to inspect the failei ■east, , . suddenly sprang to its for, nit rushed at him. The King, wlr "« placed his g„n on the ground, wa '"•lnnately able to spring aside, an, »e Duke of Taraucon. with •grim 'romplitude, shot (lie animal dead, li » better to be \ )oni \ w ty !],,„ ~, march,st.