LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 87, 1 April 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Patea Football Club li ive decided to enter four teams—a senior, a junior, and two thirds.

At a recent sale at AVaipukurau, ITawke's Bay, no fewer than 50.000 sheep were penned.

At Rangiora on Wednesday a child crawled through a fence into a paddock where a horse was running. The -animal picked the child up sever.d times with

its teeth, and it was only by watching wr a chance, when the horse 'had released its hold, that those who observed the incident were able to rescue the child. The latter was not injured. The two Christohnreh evening papers on Wednesday evening announced t'lic death of a well-known Christchurch citizen, and published appreciative obituary notices. The report in the words ot Mark Twain, lias been "grossly exaggerated." for the gentleman most intimately concerned is not dead: in fact, he is stated to be making good niOgn-s towards recovery from his illness.

A representative meeting of farmers from the l'atea, Whcmiaknra, Kakanmea. Alton, Hurleyville. and Manntahi districts was held at Kakaraniea on Saturday to discuss the new vilnationo. Mr. G. V. Pearee occupied the chair. After considerable discussion (the Press reports) it was unanimously resolve "That all present object to the valuationt placed on their properties, and that Mr. (1. V. Pearee, chairman ol the Farmers' Union, be requested to appear at the Assessment Court on behalf of the objectors."

Mr. W. C Ruchanan somewhat surprised the members present at a meeting of the general committee of the Carterton Pastoral and Agricultural Society. He informed them that some time ago he had offered the Government £6OOO to establish an experimental farm in the Wairarapa, but so far the Government had not thought fit to take advantage of his offer. Some explanation is certainly wanted from the Minister of Agriculture Dr whoever is responsible for the

neglected opportunity for cstahlishiiij an experimental farm in this agricultu

nil centre, says the Post. There is trouble at Alexandra, In the diocese of Wnngaratta, between the ineunilient of the elmreh, the Rev. E. H. Scott, ami Archdeacon Potter. Mr.

.Scott recently received notice that his license to preach was cancelled, and when Archdeacon Potter called upon him Mr. Scott declined to see him. No charge was made against Mr. Scott, but he has not been a success in his parish, and, like the Rev. G. Gladstone at Nathalia, his license was cancelled. Mr. Scott said that the "reign of ecclesiastical terror" had spread to Alexandra, and he locked up the church and declined to allow the Archdeacon to preach in it. He holds the vicarage and the

church, and Archdeacon Potter was complied to hold his service in the Shire Hall. Mr. S.cott the same night held a service in the vicarage. Archdeacon Potter preached from the text "Let me go about my Father's business," while Mr. Scott chose the words "Paul persecuted." At latest accounts Mr. Seott was.still holding the fort, and declined to surrender tlte church.

The Australian mail brings details of a sensational incident that was cabled concerning a desperate character who tried to bring off a great coup at the Harnawartha (Victori.ll races. At half, past 3 o'clock, just before the chief race, a man wearing a mask and a false beard went to the gatekeepers (Frederick

Richardson and .fames Daly), and, pointing a revolver at them, demanded the takings, but Richardson declined to obey, and Daly seized the ruffian. There wa.- a struggle, in which both men fell, and the robber, rising t\r>l, Tired at Rich. ;uil-on ami liollcd. Richardson was not hurt, and a hue and cry was raised.

Three policemen on foot and a uiiinlicr of civilians sot out after the man, but he had a good start and got away. Early next morning » parly of mounted constables met a m»n cycling along the main street of Chiltern. He waff a stranger, and the police were suspicions and "Where were you yesterday?" asked Constable Carruthers. "Home it Dry Creek." The constable said that this was funny, as there were race? at liarnawartha, only four miles away.

After some further questioning the man admitted that he had iircd the shot. A loaded revolver and a horsehair beard were found in his possession. He was locked up under the name of John Charles Robinson.

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"-plit wing" device, it has always led, and is to-day from live to ton* years' ahead of till oiher machines. In close skimming, durability, and case of operation it shows an unbroken victorious record covering more than twenty-eight years. Thousands of test- have proved that it will save £1 per cow each year Of use over other separators. Noal'lc fIHO.OOO machines have been sold and ar'» used in every country by dairymen wh > have had real separator experience. The latest "Alt'n-Laval" modek are ideal in every rcspeet. and represent the experience of over a ijuarter of a ccnturv in building separators. Mend for our illustrated catalogue -T." Sole Sew Plealaud agents, Jlason. S( n ,ti„, vs iim i (v,, Ltd.. Main-street, Palmerston North.

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For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6(1 and 2s Sd.

Messrs Orbcll and Mackay have been instructed by the Waitar'a Borough Council to submit water and drainag'; schemes for the borough, and the estimated cost.

It is stated that negotiations are in progress with an Auckland firm for the sale of the Smart road kaolin fields. Should the sale he effected, we understand that steps are to be taken to immediately work them.

The Stratford-Onguruhe railway is to be open for passenger traffic as far as Huiroa from to-day. The Railway Department also takes over from the Public Works Department to-day the Mount Egmont railway line and quarries.

An extraordinary meeting °f the. Marsland Hill Memorial Committee will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock to consider the resignation of Captain Standish as president, and also to make final arrangements with Mr W. A. Parkinson, of Auckland, for the erection of the memorial.

The great increase, in the volume of business transacted in Taranaki by the Slate Fire Insurance Department lias, we understand, outgrown the agency stage, and a branch office of the Department is to be opened iu New Plymouth ns a head office for the province. An officer from Wellington is at present it town arranging matters, and offices havt been secured in the A-M.P. buildings in Devon street.

Mr. .1. Gilchrist, who is at present giving illustrated lectures on "The Animal Kingdom" throughout the schools of the Dominion, entertained the children attending the Convent School yesterday. The children showed unbounded enjoyment with the entertainment, the educational value of which cannot be under-estimated. iTo-morrow Mr. Gilchrist will address the children of the Central School at the Whitelcy HaH on the above subject, tjnd on Friday "A Trip Round the \\ odd' will be the subject illustrated.

There was a brief sitting of the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning. I Judgment was entsred by default in t.ie following cases:—Sampson (Mr. Hutchen), v. Rangi Papatu, claim ill »s I<M> and costs Hi 2s 6d; W F. Short (Mr F. E. Wilson) v. C. L. R. Andreson, claim £l3 Bs, and costs .El os 0(1. l» a judgment summons, John Mynutt v. James. Wallace, Mr. Hutchen appeared I for the judgment creditor. He stated that the debt in the first instance had been contracted practically by fraud. In the absence of the debtor, an order was made for the payment of the amount of the debt, ,tl os, in a woek, iu default fourteen days' imprisonment.

Yesterday was Taranaki's anniversary day. That could be gathered from the fact that it ivas impossible to do any business with the Lands and Survey Offices, and other Government departments. No notice of intention to close was given, and as many people had no idea of the holiday they unsuspectingly visited the offices On business bent. One gentleman told our. reporter that the mi innounced closing cost him six or seven shillings iu expenses, besides the loss of nearly a day's work. What made it all the more annoying was the fact that he was on very urgent business. The best remedy is for all to observe Anniversary Day, and make it our biggest holiday. Mr. Kidman, popularly known as the "Australian Cuttle King," considers that there is a great future before New South Wales and Queensland for dairying. The country is not like South Australia, liecausc' wherever rain falls the grass grows. In New South Wales lucerne grows cheaply, and the country produces a wonderful growth of grass, The pastoral country in Central, Western, and Northern Queensland has had the best rains known for 20 years, many stations registering over 20in within th,e last three months. There is not a part that has not had a. good downpour.. Annandale had 20.85 in 1007. As a rule the rainfall is about Bin to lOin. The prospects for pastoralists in Queensland this year arc exceedingly good. Everything there, Mr. Kidman states, should be fat.

Yesterday morning as a lad named Earl was riding Silver Shell in his exercise on the racecourse, the horse collided with a cow that was grazing there. Horse and rider were toppled over, the rider below. He sustained a slight concussion of the brain, and was unconscious for some time. He was, however, not seriously injured. Silver Shell escaped injury. Not so the cow, which suffered an injury to the shoulder. It was at first thought there was a fracture, and that the animal, the properly of Mr. !•'. P. Corkill, would have to be destroyed. This has not yet proved necessary. -Mr Corkill notified the Jockey Club that he would hold them liable for damages, but the club replied repudiating responsibility, on the grounds that the permission to train horses on the course was given upon the understanding that the owners took all risks. A priori it would not have been supposed that the spirit of romance, in any shape, lind marked the Duke of Devonshire for her own. Yet there was a romantic element in the circumstances of the chief domestic event of his life. Years ago, when people wondered why the head of the great house of Cavendish remained unmarried, it used to be hinted that he kept the single state for the sake of his friend, the Duchess of Manchester, to whom (without the slightest suggestion of scandal) he was said to be deeply attached, in 1800 the D«ke of Manchester died, and the old story was continued two years later when his widow became Duchess of Devonshire. The bride was sixty, the bridegroom fiftynine. The dukedom, with vast estates in various counties, passes to a nephew of the late Duke—hitherto known as the Hon. Victor Cavendish. A New Zealander, who has just returned from South Africa, discussing racial characteristics in the Woodvillc Examiner, says:—"Generally speaking, the Boer's blind faith in the Old Testament, combined with his environment, lias made him exceedingly narrow-mind-ed and conservative. He objects tooth and nail to the introduction of any new ideas, and very good instances of this will lie found in the reports of the Raadzaal during the Kruger regime. Take two instances. In opposing the bill for the destruction of locusts, the member for stated that the locusts

wierc a visitation from the Lord, and therefore to try to destroy them would be a direct defiance of God's wish. On this the bill ivns thrown out. Again during a particularly dry spell, it was suggested that rain should be made bv the firing of guns and the exploding of dynamite in the air. This was vigorously opposed, and finally <|uushed, beciise. it was argued that it would Vic an insult to tile Lord."

r lho statistician has been at work finding out how much the people earn in New Zealand, lie was able to ascertain definitely by (he census that in 1900 there were 227,083 male and 63,189 female wage-earners. The women favor domestic occupations to the extent oi 27,.")!1(i, leaving a large majority in the

calcgory of professional or industrial pursuits. Agricultural, pastoral, mineral, and other primary producers are 1>3,U2l in numlier, while'industrial occupations give scope for 85,290 wageearners. ]t was not so easy to ascer-

tain the value i>f production,' but it was estimated that the aggregate earnings in l!IO(i were ,1:21,211,0(1(1 (males £21,530,000, females £2,671,000). The average individual earnings were estimated at £1)4.8 per annum in the case of men, and £42.3 for women. These wageearners were responsible for a production valued at £41,153,7(J!», pastoral, dairy, and poultry produce easily leading, its estimated value being' £15,882,132. Agricultural produce of other 1 descriptions, with a value of was beaten by the output from our factories, aggregating £6,(i3(i,120, while our mines gave up £3,871,991 to the store, of marketable commodities, and fisheries and forests, with other wealth-producing methods, added £1,761,251 to the total. It was estimated that the building trades and general lalwr were responsible for creating values aggregating £0.838,380. ADVICE TO LOVERS.

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Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for r '<'ughs and colds never fails. Is fid and 2s 6d.

Ji queer case of loss of memory brought about in unusual circumstances lias come under notice locally (telegraphs a Chrislchurch correspondentj. It appears that on Thursday night a seafaring man, who had been spending | the evening at a friend's house in Addington, was running across the South Park, endeavoring to catch the Riccarton car to town, when, not- noticing the deep drain which runs through the reserve, lie fell headlong into it. He was dazed by the mishap, and with his clothing in a saturated condition made •is way to the railway station. From

there he was conveyed to the hospital, arriving about midnight. Inquiries as to his identity were fruitless, the severe shock lie had received entirely obscur-

ing his memory for the time being. In the morning, however, he had somewhat I recovered, and was able to remember

his name. On searching his clothes he found that all nis valuables were missing, and vague apprehensions arose in his mind as to whether he had been the victim of a sand-bagging enterprise the previous night and had his personal possessions looted. These fears were quickly dispelled, however, when he ascertained that on admission to the hos-

pital his dripping clothes had been hung up to dry, and his belongings placed in safe keeping. On Friday he had practically recovered from his extraordinary experience, although he was still somewhat dazed.

On the Bth inst. the Tocumwal (NewSouth Wales) police were informed that a man named Frank liiccard, who had been staying at Staple's Hotel, had pissed a valueless cheque. On being qucs- I tioncd by Senior Constable Davies, Biccard said he was in charge of 5000 sheep, which were at Mulwala, and went with the constable to the telegraph office to verify his stitemcnts. While the constable was writing the message, liiccard slipped quietly out and took to his heels, and when close pressed by Davies jumped into the river and swam into Victoria. Senior Constable Davies followed hint, and gained on the fugitive swimmer. liolh pursuer and pursued were very much exhausted when they reached the, Victoria side, and were only able to jog along the roadway, A faint yell from the constable, together with the sight of the dripping pair, aroused

the suspicion of several men in the neighborhood, who at once joined in the chase. This sufficed for liiccard, who I gave up.

The anti-Japanese feeling in somo parts of China is said to be very strong. Japan's action in Manchuria and Korea is, naturally enough, distasteful to the Chinese, but at present they are.in the. position of being unable to do anything practical to assert their rights, in the London Daily Mail, Mr. F. A. Mackenzie recently wrote:—" Even Japanese writers now admit that in I'JOO Manchuria was practically closed to the white man. They say that this was remedied in 1007, but that is not wholly true. One big syndicate of Japanese cotton mills has largely succeeded in driving American cotton goods out of Manchuria, and substituting Japanese goods for them. This has been done by Government protection and Government assistance. The Government advanced the money, and Government-protected shipping ' lines carried the goods between Japan and Daluy for a nominal rate. The Govern-ment-owned railways gave the Japanese cotton special facilities. ' Only this autumn great foreign enterprises have had to be abandoned in Korea because the Japanese have made such regulations there that foreign capital cannot live under them. Japan talks of an ' open door,' but her open door is one open to Japan alone or to her favoured proteges."

The preliminary stage of the cutting of the largest diamond in the world—the Cullinan, now known as the King's diamond—has lieen safely passed. It was recently cleft in Amsterdam with complete success. Cleaving is the preliminary to the cutting of the gem, and was accomplished in the following manner:—The diamond was embedded in cement, and the sharpest diamonds available were brought to make the first incision. The making of the incision took several days. Next a speciallymade knife-blade of finest steel was fitted into the incision, and then Mr. Asscher struck n terrific blow on the knife-blade with a thick steel bar. This cut the stone in twain. The next process is the cutting, which will be entrusted to Mr. Henri Koe, who will work for a whole year in a locked room with three assistants. His daily hours ot labor will l>e from 7 in the morning to !) o'clock at night. A watchman will keep guard outside the door of the room, and two other watchmen will always be on guard in the building. The diamond will be cut by being pressed against a disc oiled with a mixture ot diamond-dust and oil, and revolving 2400 times per minute. At night the great gem will be placed in a special safe in a strong room with walls of iron and cement 2 ft thick. The head of the Asscher firm, armed with a revolver and accompanied by ten of his staff, places the gem in the safe and takes it out night and morning. The diamond, which is worth intrinsically £500,000. now weighs about l'/Üb, and will when cut weigh about lib.