LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 135, 29 May 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The defective sanitary arrangements at the Fitzrov school formed the subject of a deputation to the Education P.oard on Wednesday. Messrs. J. 'Tisch (chairman). A. Welie,- (secretary), and L. Jackson, of the school comlmittee. asked the Hoard lo undertake the provision of up-to-date conveniences, alleging licit the -chool and district were MllVcliug as the re-ull of ijic pri-enl, state of affairs. The Hoard had previously agreed lo provide the new appoint ills ci.mlitionally upon the -eliool committee raising C 25 lowards the co-t. This condition'the new committee could not complv with, on account ~f (he main oilier works conleiiiplaled. The Hoard decided to clfecl certain repairs. Il is unlikely that the (Oiiimitlcc will let the niall'er res(, and developments may be expected al the June meeting. Mr. Major. i|.|\. has received tile following 1.-Iter from the Native Minister in regard to Ihe otabli-hincilt of a ' Maori hostelry al llawcra:—"ln reply I haw to -tale, as previously slated. the Nalive Department now transfers an tint equal lo one-half of flic civil li-t vote to the Health Department, which Deparlmenl lake- in hand (he mailer of attending lo members t ,( the native race -Irickei, with illness. f( is understood that Dr. I'.miave has already been unending to the requirements of the West coa-l iNorth l-landi district. Some iiii-apprchcnsion -eimis ' to exi-t in regard to native hoslelries in general. These a re provided for the u-e of natives when travelling, and allord tcniporaiv ("■<■"< m»lati"n only. The ho-telrie's are not intended l„ he used to accoinI module ca-e- ~.f siekuoss: in fad, it [ would be again-t the nalive temperament to u-e such a building for purposes of accommodation if at anv time il. had ' 'I i 1 a- it hospital and anv deaths Iliad taken place therein." Alr. Major informs (he Star lie docs not accept tlie Minister's reply ~» -alisladorv or liual. See what cash w j|| do at the A.11.c. Hoc; Co.:-(,Yn(s' kip shnoUmi. nailed, 7s (id: Cents' ISalinOrals. wide lilting, 7s lid; Scotch grain waterproof k ■ hoots (for Ihe sloHvard). 'w s (id; gents' dancing shoes, lis (id; ladies" felt, slippers, |s; children!;'. 7.1: .-..loshe- ::, CI: fool hold i. :<- lid: -mi. bool-, Ms i;,| : ladies' glace shoes. ,V li.l. Coif l.oois l„ order. All | parcels carriage paid, Advl. A in Ll.i-.-l-. carieul. To force our -niiro slock oat we are -olii„. it ai :.-. (id a yar.l- usual price l;< a v; , ,i. 'll.e ipialily :. in no respect luwercdoidy Hie prices.—Whiu. and Sons.— Advl. I

Potatoes arc now realising .15 per lou in Dtincdin. I-lawera will be the headiiiiai'teis of the Patea electorate. Narcissi and other spring Mowers are blooming in sheltered .situations. At the end of last week there were 111,1511 boxes, or -178 tons, of butter in store in Auckland. A Pohangiiia (Mauawatu) settler who recently sold his farm has repurchased it at a Odd advance, lie could not find a more suitable property in the North Mantl. though he spent a considerable time in a land-hunt. At a meeting addressed by .Mr. .1. Marx "at l\a|iuni on Wednesday evening it was decided to oppose- Ihe principles of the New Plymouth Harbor Hill, and a coimiiillee was set up lo oppose the pas-ing of the. Hill. The meeting al-o declined against being included in the

proposed (Iputiakc harbor district. To become old is not iiecc-sarilv to grow old. There are young old people. Do not brood over Hie 'pas!.' The golden age is in the future. Forget all the unhappy experiences you have had. Do not syndieati' your sorrows and worries. Organise a tru-i and Keep all your mi-eric- to ynur r olf. licinember 'thai, there arc a 'thousand -things in life to cheer lis to each one that can sadden In ihe coiii-e of an interview with a Lyttelton Times reporter, the lion. 11. McNah stated'that no cane of a leuant under the Icaso-in-perpetiiily system applying for a change to the renewable lease in order lo secure a reduced rental had yet loiuo before him. Some tenants had asked for information as to the course to h L . followed, and he had referred them to the Laud Boards concerned. The lion. Mr. Jloyle, a younger son of the Karl of (llasg'ow (an ex-Covcrnor of New Zealand), had a thrilling experience while motoring on the Midlands last month, lie was on his wav home wilh a car fresh fr a Coventry factory, and at a dangerous curve at (Iriff he made a swerve in order lo avoid colliding with a child in the road. Failing lo recover himself, he dashed into a ditch, smashing (lie two front wheels of the car. No one was injured. A novel feature of the Anglo-French Exhibition will he a huge open-air theatre—the llr,t to h v creeled in C.j-cal Prjlain. 11, w ill accommodate 11000 people. Here each day a show will be given depicting a leas! dav at Ihe Court of an Indian rajah. The'durbar procession of gaily-caparisoned animals will form pari of the spectacle. This will he I'olhwed by a tiger liiuit, in llic course of which a di.z.cu fully-grown elephant.; will slide down a precipice from a height of forty feet into a lake twenty feet deep. The morbid ctiriosilv which causes great crowd, lo colled when an accident takes place iva- eXeiuplilicd in (Juecn Street, Auckland. When a lorry-driver, who was run over, was lying awaiting conveyance U (he hospital he was surrounded by an enormous mob, clamouring, pushing, anil .struggling tu obtain a glimpse of liiiu. The injured man was so hemmed in licit he 'could scareclv bi-.'a.llie, and before a siilheicnl breath iug space could he cleared around him the sergeant of police, who was in at-t.uilaiu-c. had lo use a whip upon the crowd. This solved the ilillicultv, and the morbidly inclined took care lo get back out of reach. The iilull" oyster industry makes a neat little addition to the revenue of the town. A correspondent of the Duncdin Times says: Settling up day come.-, once a month, The second settling day of the season came round the cud of last week. In rough numbers ihe nth's "lake" is set clown at :15110 sacks. Allowing HI) dozen to the sack, the market value of these is. say. 115011. lloughlv put, its distribution is :is.follo«s:-()nc-third lo the dredgers, one-third to the boat, and the remaining third lo the company. Ten or twelve boats. Ihe majority'of which arc iiillci-s, have liecu engaged ill the work, ami Ihcv are manned liv lIS dredgers, assisted'bv 12 wharfinger's. It is slated I tha' 20,. per working day was not far | oil' the average pay. The Slate briquette works al Westport are hard al work turning om briquet les and eggcttes. there having i been a considerable increase in the orI dels owing ta the advent ol colder weather. The ceil coining to 1 d from I tlie Cave area of Si-ddonvilb. mine i- | much superior to that placed on Hie ! in-.vk-i pvevioil-ly flam tlli- irtiue. |l ; is Ii ii-.l and „innil- more handling with i out breaking than the coal produced . I from the other part- of the mine. The | briquette- and eggetles arc afs.. tinner. For tlie hill"r there is a verv general ) demand from the dillerent depots in the dominion. The public are apparently limling them an economical fuel. They require mi more handling from the time thev pass through the machine (ill they are shipped than the ordinary slack coal. The briquette works promise.. lo be kept fully employed during the winter months. llefore we call build from our own material vessels such as the Maori or the Maheno, wt> have to set going the whole train of iron industries which it has Britain so many years and millions of pounds to establish; and we have in addition to provide skilled lahour in a liundrrd avocations. We shall be content, as others have done, to start from s'aall beginning*: and the point of the argument is that it is not lee early to begin those beginnings. To cominciiec the mining of iron ore and the smelting of iron is not a task be yond us. To ei|iup an engineering and construction works, and gradually to make Ihe tool,, of engineering and ship construct ion, is an effort which is within our strength. II mav be that, on however small a scale which could he called comprehensive, such undertakings could not show a commercial prolil. Bill the industrial prolil and the national prolil are so clear that Parliament might well consider Ihe question of opening the national purse for wellj planned enterprise.—Wellington t'osl. The London Times publishes all ac count from Waiiganui of the world's .sculling championship. The following is an extract: "It is, perhaps, onlv nineisletil wilh the march of Umpire Ilia; the athlelic championships should he wrested oceasiouallv from tlie old world by Hie men of Ihe younger mil ions . . The event caused considerable excitenl throughout lh ( . Dominion and con siderable interest in the Commonwealth. The magiiilicent river on which the race wa, vowed is one famoii,, in legend and history. In the olden days, when the Maori war canoes glided up and down its long, calm, Inner reaches, or shot the foaming rapids higher up, battles more determined and more hhiodv than that between Tresidder and Webb were fought and won. These were the davs of the old tribal wars-davs when thti cracking of skull*, of a kind dillerent from those in evidence to-day. was not an uncommon occurrence. . . Hut today there was not even a ripple on Hi.' water, ami no taniwha to s|.oi! the first world's championship lo be rowed in New Zealand. Nearly all the laniwhas are dead now. ami ail the Maoris were -ivmig supporter- of the .New Zealand champion oarsman.'' The qin-tinii of godwils and their annual pa.-sago to Siberia having been raised by a corrc-pomlcnl, the Auckland Herald says if is interesting lo note Ihnl the hist Ihiek of those niigralorv birds have now lefl New Zealand's shore- for (he breeding ground,; in the far. far North. The g'odwit is common on all pari- of the oonsl of (he North Islam! of New Zealand during the summer mouths, bill il Hies ;,wav'before the approach of winter, and breeds in the cxlrenie north of Asia, lu the olden davs (|„. Maori... noticed that the bird, which was ■called by jl l; .]n (he ktiaka. did not breed here, and it became a saving. " Who has seen the nest of the knaka?"" When i|„rch is drawing to a close the birds begin to collect ai Spirit-' Hay. and bv April millions have assembled, and naturalists frequently journey there to witness the coninicnceliient of (heir (light. Ccnerallv an old cock bird will rise up. and afler circling about ill an undecided and a.'Haled manner will -ctlh. again. Suddenlv Ihe same old bird, uttering a strident call, will -hoot straight into the air. followed by an incalculable feathered multitude, and the HOIK) miles jniirnev lo Siberia has al. last coiuineiiced. Willi the coming of August, having reared their brood, (hev start on the long Ilight back lo their southern home, and in consequence of their voting, llv at a much more leisurely pace than that at which (hev prococili-d to Siberia. On the way back- calls are made al the ininnwoiis dusters of islands in the Pacific- groups, and Hip birds generally arrive al Te l.cinga in October. Tis (he ploughman who follows the plough, While the dairymaid is milking the cough! And (lie dear little lambs, Who ran after their dumbs, While (he lillle pigs follow the sough! And ihe fanners all follow each other. Pin sure. In gelling for winicr IVmmJ/ Peppermint Cure! 14 II.'.PKI'H) VOI'R SHINS. Well. Ire Dr. Sheldon',, Magnetic Linimoid. II will take away al! the pain mil slilfnesa, rnd you will forget al! about it. OMaicuWe everywhere.

A Gazette Extraordinary lias been issued calling Parliament together for the discussion of business on June 29, Tli c Alanawain Daily Times is responsible for Hie .statement that Sir William Uusscll rcgar,.l lS his chance of recovering his lost electorate (now held by Air. Dillon, M.P.) as good. '•What would happen to the man Mho betrayed his matesV" was the question put to a fireman during the hearing of cargo-broaching eases' at ihe CliiiaLcliurch Supreme <'ourt. "lie would not dare to," was the reply. 'Tie would probably liml himself shot over the side of Hie s'hip during the next voyage," The H lrikc of miners at the blackball lollicry lasted nine weeks (savs the West port Times), jhe loss in'wages was fully CllSOIt, an,! the total monetary 10.-k cannot be less than .tl2,i(lll, taking into consideration the damage siill'ereil by lire eoiupuny. About CI Hill was' distributed in strike pay

amongst, (he 1:11) or l-hi men affected ti.v the trouble. -The cost of living in New Zealano, is such now." said 11 speaker at t'he, farmers' I'niou dinner at Auckland, '•that, it costs niv family C-ldtl a year lo live, where a year or two ago it cost Collll. I admit 'j am a little mad on the subject, but I feel strongly about it, and'cannot lcih-R.it to disi'-uss the blackberry pest, or other mailers of minor important-*." Which is the correct way lo shout -Hip, hoi rav"v When saluting the English footballers prior to the kick-oil' at the Park on Wednesday the Wellington team bunched together and jerked out -"Hip-ray! hip-ray, hip-ray!" sharply and quickly. The. Englishmen had quite another idea of the national shout of joy. They shouted loudly, sonorously, niid deliberately—"Hip, hooraav! Hip, lioora-a-a-ay! Hip, hooiu-n-a-ay!" It sounded like a reproach to Il>u local tabloid version. James Drown Atholwood, the wellknown actor, was found guilty in (he Criminal Court, Alelbourno, on Tuesday of.last week, on a charge of bigamy. It was alleged that on May 20, P. 102, he went through the form of marriage with Lilian Alary Townshend, his first wife— Kthel Kuby Velvcrton Atholwood—being then alive. After hearing evidence, the jury returned a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation to uiercv. Sir. Justice A'tScekelt said he did iwt believe there was any well-founded belief on the part, 0 f accused that the first marriage was void. Atholwood was sentenced to six month.,-' imprisonment. •lean Marie Kenard was a good little boy of fifteen summers, and employed a,s "groom" or "buttons" at a Lyons hank. To his misfortune he saw'and fell slraightway in lore with a gipsv named IClvira Gonazies, who hypnotised him with her big black eyes'. Elvira (says the Leader's Pari H correspondent) pvr-uadrd .lean Alarie to forge a cheque for aiumn francs ( C 2000), whicli he presented at the Baiique Populaire without arousing suspicion, dean Alarie made feverish preparations to llv with lim love to Spain. 11., spent ,'cmi in buying travelling necessaries, and handed the rest to his gilana. At the station, when .lean Mar,ie with all. the lugtgnge was safely ensconced in the Paris exiprori. Klvira jumbled into the Marseilles express which was just leaving and was seen no more. The heartbroken Jean Marie, hungry and penniless, was arrested in Paris subsequently. Elvira, with the money, is probably far away. : To enable ARvisrs. H'arland and Wolil', . of He!fast, to proieed with the construction of the .steamships Europa and (,'i- ; gantv-, of -I.i.IHKI mid -IS,IM(I tons gross , register, there Iris been constructed in i Thdfawt harlior a lloatmg emu-.' capable ( of raising weights exceeding 200 tons, mounted on an immense pontoon. It- i s • in the form of a hug,' bell-shaped tower supporting in turn' an adjiislnble jib capable of lifting anv load with which • it may haw lo ,1-e.il („ a considerable . height above the water level, and at , long outreaches beyong the side? of the pontoon. A special feature of interest is that the whole of the crane will re- .' volve on Ihe pontoon, making a com- ! plele circle, and will thus have an unusually large range. If is intended to moor the crane alongside the big ships for lifting heavy boilers, engines, and oilier big pieces Of .machinery on board after launching and during completion. Il is entirely electrically driven, and is the largest i.f its kind in existence. The sweep business has. been damaged ' 1 ue extent liv Ihe Gaming Act of la-l I'i-ur. but il is astonishing to see how . i-ily Tattcrsiiir.s tickets are still procured, and how widely they are distributed in New Zealand' (says the Lyltelton Times). The plain envelopes with j the big purple Tasinnuinn stamp and the Hobart postmark are to be noticed in all sorts of unexpected places. They appear amnng-l the correspondence of ' most business linns, the addressees being employees in the great majority ' of cases. They may even be seen displayed in the' l.'lter-raeks in Covcrn- ' incut ollices. 'lhe man who desires to waste his substance in this particular form of riotous living hands his money over lo certain pcr-.ons who are dis- ' covered without much dilliculty, and it propyls to Hobart by means'of channels regarding whicli he does not have to inquire. Then in due time the, ticket arrives through the, post, and later tiix same medium supplies a list of the winning numbers. There seems to be no particular reason why Hie Postal Department should not make use of the powers given in its regulations to dis • courage the practice. Any addressee may he required by the postal ollicials ' to open in their presence any letter which they have reason to suspect deals 1 wilh illegal transactions, and an officer of average intelligence could use this power without interfering to any extent with business ami personal communications from Tasmania.