LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 137, 1 June 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The liarawa left Onehunga wharf at 3.30 yesterday afternoon, but was unable to cross tho bar. Consequently there was no passenger boat from the north this morning.

At the S.M. Court on Saturdnv morning. Wm. Courlnev was lined -IDs and co-(s U-. on a eb'avgc of having failed to elear gni-e from sections owned by hint at filzroy.

A youngster at a social function hist week placed to liis credit of liis voracious appetite no loss than tweuly(three plates of jellies. Another accounted for sixteen, and another sampled six different dishes of trillos. exclusive of other dishes.

The precautionary measures taken by at the instigation of tho Department in reference to the blackleg among calves have had the effect ot considerably minimising the trouble. An inspector informed a. Hawcra Star reporter that only an occasional death was heard of in the district.

Mr. A. l\ Wood, writing to the Stratford Tost, voices a complaint regarding the filthy .state that sheeptrucks arc sometimes left in, as evidenced by some supplied to him at Douglas on Thursday, May 28th. It took two men to open and shut the doors, they being so blocked up, and when the sheep arrived at the freezing works they were, so dirty that they hardly looked like the same animals.

The value of the Wcstinghouse brake and of skilful olliiials who can apply it promptly was strikingly exemplified at Timui'ii on Saturday, when the second cxprcs rt for the South was leaving the railway Nation. A man who had not taken hi- neat in the train soon enough attempted to hoard his carriage after the train was in motion, with the re-iill thai lie l"U Wtnci'ii the carriage. Assistnncc vv» n promptly to hand, ami with niarvelh.il- celcrilv the brakes were applied and the train was stopped bcfoithere was lime for serious injury to result to the passenger.

For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods' Creat I'epptn.'iint Cure. Is Hi and 2s (id.

If you want your luriiHure r-movj',! carefully, expeditiously, and economically, employ the New Zealand K>p--,,-Co'iiipauy, Lid., who make a spe.;.il I'.itureof ihia class <-f work, anil who are also i.'blc !o supply first-class die storage lo'commoilaliou. Customs work in all its branches.—Advt

'■There scents to have ho.cn an epidemic of marriage among our lady touchers," declared the chairman (Mr. Robert Leej of the Wellington Education Board last week. »o less than -six resignations from lady teachers wore received.

Tiraaru fishermen continue to obtain good hauls, chiefly of grpper, on the groper grounds, which are situated about fourteen miles south-east of Timani, and the total takings of two partners for one month are said to have been KWto (states the. Lytteltim Times). A large number of tiie Jish arc sent to Chvistrlmreh for sale.

A fanner residing near Wellington, who visited T'uranaki recently for the purpose of purchasing a farm, states that he made a thorough inspection of the various districts, and was delighted with the abundance of feed. "Manawatu is good," he added, "hut I saw Taranaki under the conditions of the dry summer, and again the other day, ami J am i|iiite satisfied to shift my camp there.''

Recently when Colonel Knight, of the Salvation Army, was travelling from Dunedin to Cln-islchurch. a member of the linn of Messrs. Hisl'op and Creagh. solicitors for the executors of the late Mr. Samuel Wilson, of Awamoko. fanner, waited upon him by arrangement and handed him a cheque, for the substantial sum oi .t"ls,ooft, being the major portion of the bequest under Mr. Wilson's will to the Salvation Army, to be applied towards the social work of the Army in Xew Zealand. There is a balance still in the bands of the trustees, pending the result of an appeal from the Stamp Commissioner's decision regarding the assessment of the succession duty.

It is reported that sueeoss has attended the mission of the Australian inventor, Captain Forbes, to England in regard to his invention of a "course and record finder." Captain Forbes was for many years master of the Fort Phillip Bay steamer Edina, and he perfected his invention while ho was in charge, of that vessel. The apparatus records on a chart the course a vessel travels, bo that any deviation made owing to currents can be seen at once and corrected. The Dovcr-to-Calais boats are now using the invention, and it is announced that iho apparatus is to bo fitted on four of the five new 33-knot destroyers ordered last year. The Cunard Company have also decided to fit it to the huge linors Lusitania and Mauritania.

Tins are getting scarcer in Southland every year, and this is doe to several causes (says the Southland Daily News). First, there i a the reduction of the bush area; second, tlie enormous numbers of 'mported birds everywhere; and, third, the depredations of the small boy, who takes a hereditary delight in making any member of tke feathered tribe "rest in peace," or .piue.es. Young New Zealand and a shanghai frequently dispose of thirty birds a day, and with a heathenish disregard as* to whether the birds are native or nol. Tnis. bell-birds, fautails. tomtits, robins, and "thumb" birds nil meet with an untimely and more or less merciless end at thehandu .of these youthful catapulters. Kingfishers, hammers, and paraqucts have been absolutely wiped out so far as many part s of Southland are concerned.

Good-looking ladies still young have found out a new calling—-"playing the cured patient" (says the Paris correspondent of the 'London Daily Telegraph). Visitors who find time hanging heavily on their hands are drawn into conversation. The good-looking lady, who looks also in the pink of health, tells how ill she was. Neuritis, rheumatism, gout, dyspepsia, and vertigo, wero combined in her case with appendicitis and hallucinations. Several physicians treated her expensively and left'her worse. She went in despair to the present doctor, who cured her in three weeks. She has come to-day merely to thank him. She could not do less, having now regained perfect, health. The "cured patient" charges a sovereign a day. but doctors find that the money is "not thrown away.

A Wellington photographer plaved a clever trick on n crafty Celestial one day last week. The camera man had stepped into a [.lace of business in Adelaide road, leaving his bicycle, with photographic apparatus strapped on, leaning against a handy verandah post. Doriug his alisen,,. :l chinaman with his markd „-,,•(. tl „, fc, M -|,i,,«, „,„ cloM-ly. and drove over the defenceless bicycle, badly smashing it. The photographer, coming „ut in time to discover the Oriental contemplating the ruins of tnc machine, asked for his name. True to tho traditions of his r acc, the heathen pleaded "No savee." Jjefore he could escape, however, the artist seized the ready-loaded camera, which was fortunately uninjured, and with it secured a record of the features of the erstwhile nameless Chinaman.

An eccentric Oamaruvian died recently who had long had a liohbv for accumulating bonks. Ho ■had acquired a heterogeneous collection of some 2000 'oliiinc*, comprising history, thcologv, philosophy, \e\v Zealand literature, and literary curiosities. It had been his intonlion to bequeath these to the town in which he spent his hermit life, but he passed away without specifying this wish in his will. The library, 'therefore, came under the auctioneer',, hammer at Oamaru (says the Duncdiu Star). An enterprising book-dealer of Dunedin travelled to the White Citv, fondly expecting to secure half the collection at low prices. ll 0 » o on found that he had indulged delusive hopes. The Oamarunans are neither bo poor nor so unliteiary as he had fancied. .Many of the prices offered made hij, mouth water, and led him to wish he had taken his stock with him, instead of his chequebook. Bidding throughout was brisk sod brave. Wright's ""Caricature History of the Ceorges" (issued at 3« (Id) fetched Ids (id. "lurk's Forest Flora, of \>w Zealand'' (obtained new at 12s Oil) fetched 22s (Id. Gnlly'» "New Zealand Scenery" realised 2'/»gna, Hobley's "Moko or Maori Tattooing" ISVigns, Ruller'y "Birds of New Zealand" (second edition, two volumes) ll n /igns, Mrs. Heat ley's ".Native Flowers of Now Zealand" .Igns, the facsimile of "The Treaty of Wailangi" (issued by the Government Vrintcr at ss) fetched 12s; a 3s (id Shakespeare ran up to 7s. The local paper has lwen handed a letter received by an Eltham resident from a friend in Canada, and makes the following extracts which are of general interest:—"l have not done anything for two months and over, as in this place one cannot jump straight into work at this time of the year. In fact, my mate and t have come here at least a month too soon. Work generally begin,, about the first week in April, and for a very large number of men it ends about November. That is, for outdoor workers. Indoor workers in the main get the full twelve months. They tell me that wages arc low and hours long, but notwithstanding this almost eveivliodv is full of hope'and enthusiasm. As far'as I've been able to hear, a certain number of people succeed here, and a certain number leave the country in disgust, for my own part f feel certain Hint New Zealand is a better place for the average wages man--I mean laboring men. Hut for the man who wants to make a home upon (iovcrnmeut land Canada is aivav in advance of New Zealand. Put briefly, three years' residence, in a house 12 x 14, and cultivation of 15 acres of land at a rental of C2 will secure 1 fill acres of land. One docs not reipiire to live the full three veal's on his place-si\ months in each of three .years, eighteen uimiths in all. fully ! meeting the requirements of the law. dene-rally speaking the land is worth about C,M 10 €4OO at the end of the three years' term, 't he house can be built of logs, if necessary. However, (his season we have planned to take up sections" about forty miles from a railway now constructed but within live mile- of a line projected and ill course of construction, lint we (shall not go into residence until the working season is about over-six months from now. Wages for farm hands run from 20s to Sfls'per week, hours from 4.M a.m. to S p.m. or a little later. Mechanics work nine hour* and laborers ten hours ]icr day. New Zealand heats it hollow."

WHY

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A Woiknlo newspaper records an instance of Hie danger of the- use of celluloid. A Utile- girl employed in u large boardinghouse in Hamilton fancied alio could smull something burning. Investigation was made, and it was found that a toothbrush mado of celluloid had been ignited by the sun's rays shining through a glas decanter full of water.

An American in a check suit waS| found comfortably installed in a firstelass carriage in the garage of the railway station nt I'ontoise, France, on a recent morning, lie informed the stationmaster in broken French that his name was Norris, and that lie was the representative of an American journal, lie begged not to be further detained, as he had undertaken to make a tour of the world without a penny in his pocket in record time. lie was allowed to proceed on his long journey.

The contract, for a bridge over the N'ile at lioluae, connecting the city of Cairo with the suburb of Ghezireli has been obtained by the Fives Lille Company, a French linn. The lowest tender was sent in by an English firm, but their offer had been rejected as the design which they submitted for the bridge was quite different from that asked for by the (Jovernmont, and their prices applied to the (ioveinment design, which would have worked out more expensive than those of the French firm.

At the opening of the new public library at Dannevirke, for which Jlr. Andrew Carnegie donated .C2UOU, the Mayor, during an eulogistic speech, culled for three cheery for Sir. Carnegie, After an enthusiastic response had been made by those present, he moved, "Tluit J!r. Carnegie be asked for a further donation of ,£SOO to complete the building, and that Dannevirke would esteem it a great favor if ho could see his way clear to donate the money." It is almost uiineccssnry to state that the motion was carried unanimously.

The valuations of properties in the Ormondvilh; Hiding of Dannevirke County are now out, and almost without exception show a rise of 100 to 200 per cent, in unimproved value. Of course there is a dismal wail (says the ltawke's Bay Herald), but those who raise the loudest laments are in most case s those who, with a rise of £3 to .US per acre on the unimproved value, and whose, sole improvements are a seven-wired fence, would not sell for less than .€'2o an acre the properties on which they pay rates on a valuation of ,1"8.

bays the Sydney Morning Herald: — "Wo have all laughed at the politician who exclaimed, 'They are killing the goose that laid the golden egg until thev pumped it dry.' But at tho Presbyterian Assembly Dr. Harper perpetrated the finest example of a mixed metaphor that has been heard for some time. AVliilc descanting on the evib of interfering with the doctrines ot Prcsbytcrianism, he exclaimed, 'You will bieak down the .machinery that haa carried you through the centuries, and where will you get another 1 boat to carry you thioughV "

Tho great Italian automobile races between Padua and Bovolenta were marred by a jjhfWtly accident. In full sight of the densely-packed tribunes a 120-li.p. Itala car, driven by the Count di Tonsi, smashed at a speed of sixty miles an hour into another car, which had just previously reachod its goal, hurling it with its seven occupants into a ravine. Six young men were seriously injured, while' the seventh, a lad of 17, son of the town clerk of Padua, had his legs, arms, and ribs broken, and expired a few minutes later. The catastrophe is imputed to the recklessness of the Count di Tonsi, who fled before he could be arrested. The police sequestered his motor car.

Professor llevgev, of Paris, lias been sued for £4400 damages in the Civil Tribunal of the Seine for refusing to operate on a little, girl, the daughter of Mine. Under. The surgeon performed a preliminary operation on the girl's nose, which was mis-shapen, removing a cartilage, but. refused to perform a second, believing that it would be dangerous to life. Mine. Linder claimed damages on the ground that the professor's action caused her daughter to remain disligured, but the court, having heard several doctors who stated that the professor had acted rightly, non-suited her. The court refused to grant the customary tenpence damages against Mine. Linder, on the ground that her aim was worthy of compassion, and that she had displayed to the extreme limit the expression of maternal affection. A remarkable story of punishment inflicted by the French troops on tribesmen on a recent Sunday is published in AI-Moghreb Al-Arsh, a paper published at Tangier. According to native reports the tribesmen were participating in a niahrof—a sort of scmi-roligions picnic —in the thatched liut of Sidi El Ghloumi, a holy,, when the attack was made. There was no resistance to the French force which appeared, and so great was the belief of the natives in the. saint's intercession with heaven, that when the French began to shell the camp they stood still for a time, waiting to see. what would happen. Then, finding that they were being swept away in scores, they fled—such of them as were not too badly wounded to rise from the ground. The shelling continued with terrible effect, killing men and women, and girls and boys, and babies in arms.

A remarkable salvaging achievement ■was referred to at. the annual meeting of the Liverpool Salvage. Association, which had boen earriod out during the past year. The case cited was that of the steamer Veronese, which, with a valuable cargo on board, sank in consequence of a holo in her bow. Instead of discharging part of the cargo and patching the vessel from tho iniido, divers took the measure of the damage Mow water. A steel patch was inado on hoard the Kanger, tho salvage, steamer, and divers, working with pneumatic tools on a platform 28ft below water, drilled the necessary holes in the ship. The plate was then Sent down and fixed by patent bolts invented by the .Association's surveyor, and the ship/ was brought back to Liverpool, through tie Bay of Biscay, in variable weather, without any further trouble

An accident of a most remarkable kind, and one that was only narrowly Baved from being a great disaster, occurred on the Brooklyn elevated railway in New York on Sunday, March 30th. As an elect™ train was swiftly rounding a sharp enrve, one of the cars left the track and eatuo to a standstill, with the front portion of the ar jutting out over the roadway. So evenly balanced on the edge of the railroad was the vehicle that if it had gone forward another foot nothing could have prevented it crashing down into the street below with fearful consequences. The car contained forty passengers, amongst whom were a number of ladies, -and for some time they were hanging literally between life, and death. The passengers in the rear part of tbe car which projected over the roadway made a. rush for the. opposite end, and this natural action on their part probably saved the lives of all in the car by increasing the balance of weight, which prevented the ear from falling, and after a short time all were, safely rescued.

.An idea Of the high prices ruling at 'Auckland for city and suburban land and property was gained in the course of inquiries amongst various hind and estate agents last week. Some of the instances given were plain evidence that values arc on the increase. Recently, for instance, a gentleman bought a property in upper Queen street for £01)00. This land had a frontage of only 33ft to the main thoroughfare, and only a year or two ago would not have realised more than two-thirds of the price named. Again, land which quite recently could have been bought in Wakefield street at from '£2o per foot is now valued at £3B per foot, and some of it has sold at that figure.. Another agent stated that not, inDre than two years ago land in upper Queen street was selling a t £25 per foot, and that in some instances the rwncrs arc, now asking double that amount. Other instances of high value given included that of a city property recently bought at auction for £3500, the. purchaser only putting down '£loo deposit, and selling a short while after for '£sooo, thus making a profit of £ISOO. '

ORIGIN OF DISEASE.

Nine-tenth,, of the. principal diseases which to-day afflict the human race have their rise in a common, ordinary little cold. The history of most cases of disease of this character is very much the same, TThe cold comes and is neglected. It moves down from to throat, from throat to bronchial tubes and lungs, and when it doesn't end there, in consumption. Its aftereffects are sure to weaken the kidneys, liver, and heart. This is all accepted and taught in the medical school* of today. It i fl well for you to remember It. An equally important fact to remember is that the proper and only scientific treatment for a cold in nivv stage it I'r. Sheldon's "Sew Discovery for Coughs,' Colds, and Consumption. This medicine will cure any kind of a cold or cough, and will prevent all the danger"lis after-effects of Lung and Throat Diseases. Tt is guaranteed to cure, or money back. Try it. Price, la Cd and Ba. Obtainable everywhere.

The Canterbury correspondent of tin: Farmers' Union Advocate, writing in the last issue of that journal, says: "What this country want,, mure than anything else just now is an indux of about 10,000 good farm workers/' At the small birds conference held at Ashlmrton, Jlr. Wilson, of -Kelwyn. stated that each full-grown bird was responsible lor destroying over half a bushel «f grain each year, either by pulling it up when it' -was springing through the ground or devouring il when it was reaching maturity.

In his recent lecture att l'alnatua, referring to the necessity of the pasteurisation of bkim milk, Mr. (iilrutth said: "It was in August last that 1 examined a certain dairy farmer's herd of W cows. There were -J.\ suffering from tuberculosis. About the. s ame time 1 examined lit! .pigs belonging to the same farmer, and found that :ii) were nll'ectcd. Two or three days later 1 examined another 100 pig, of the same man, and 00 of them wel'e tuberculous. Xonc of the pigs were over nine months old. A few months later I again went to.the farm, and found another 50 pigs ha\l become affected."

A remarkable tragedy occurred at

Lisbon recently in consequence of two sisters being in love with the same man. Senhora Anna Oiiccicao recently became engaged to a young infantryman, and her sister Jlaria, who had formerly been courted by him, planned a terrible revenge. On 'Anna's birthday, Jlaria made a pudding in honor of the event. (She added a large quantity ot arsenic to the other -ingredients, with the result that Anna and a friend named Kosa Cachcdo, who partook freely of the pudding, became seriously ill. 'They died in a hospital, and Jlaria, who was arrested after the remain 6 of the pudding had been analysed, hanged herself in her prison cell. She left a note addressed to her former lover, declaring her undying affection for him. A correspondent to the Timaru l'ost suggested that the ballot system of disporting of Grown settlements should tie discarded, and the sections sold by auction, the Government fixing an' upset rental. The Minister of lands, asked by a Post reporter what he thought of the suggestion, said that he did not think that 25 per cent, of the members of the House would vote for such a proposal. Laast session an attempt had been made to get legislation which would allow them to dispose of these lands by tender, but it. was found impossible to carry the projiosal. The objection to putting the land up to auction was that some people in their anxiety to secure a block would give more than the land was worth, and trouble would arise.

Arthur Weber, n young Swiss employed in a tobacco factory at lleinaelt, ill tlio canton of Argovie, was shot by a woman recently under the most distressing circuniHtanees. For some time past Weber has been pestered by the woman—a beautiful young Italian. She declared that she had fallen violently in love with him, and implored him to marry her. Unfortunately, Weber's affections were engaged elsewhere, and when he informed the Italian of this fact she threatened to kill him if he did not marry her. She nearly carried out her threat. In the afternoon, with a revolver in, her hand, she entered the factory, brushed by the workmen, anil, going up to Weber, shot him in the back. "This is my revenge," she said, and, throwing down the revolver, she walked out of the factory before any of the astonished workmen could interfere. She was arrested the same night. Her victim was dangerously wounded, with little hope of his recovery. The railway workshops throughout the Dominion are at present having an extremely busy time in the construction of rolling stock. The projected completion of the North Island Mi:in Trunk line at an early date ha« been responsible for an extra demand, but the expansion of trade on a wholesale scale throughout the North Island is also

calling for large additions to the available stock. The Newmarket shops ore working at full pressure, and when the stock now in hand is completed there will be 3000 waggons available for service on the Auckland section of railways, these waggons having a capacity of from eight to twenty-five tons. The construction of .passenger carriages is also proceeding rapidly. Already built and building at Auckland and Welling ton, there are four dining-ear s for the Main Trunk line and forty-four 50ft carriages and eight bogie brake-vans. Messrs. Price Bros., of Thames, have under construction ten locomotives for work on tho Auckland and Main Trunk railways.

Interviewed in Wellington in regard to the recent burglaries throughout the. Dominion, Mr. W. Diunie, Commissioner

of Police, said: ''Crime varies from year to year. We have a run of it occasionally, hut the average remains much about the same. We may have thirty or forty more burglaries in one year than another, and thirty or forty less in the next. 1 don't think it is anything unusual to have a run like the present one." He giibmittcd that the annual returns showed New Zealand to be in as

favorable a 'position as any country in Australasia. The stair was working very well, and he did not think that any similar body of men elsewhere could point to such good results. He was increasing the. staff in the cities, especially in the North Island, for the growing population needed the reinforcement. There was no reason to suppose there had been an undue, influx of criminals from Australia. "We have very few really clever hurglar s here," said the Oonnnissoner. "They don't work with the same care as the experts in the older places; they are not so particular about covering up their tracks. They will all be caught very Boon." This ia good news.

Compensation amounting to £4O has been granted to an extensive farmer named Smith, of the Mohill district, county Leitrim, whose 20-ton haystack was burned to the ground on the' night of hi,, daughter's marriage. Tho house was visited by a gang of men dvessed in straw and disguised in accordance with a peasant, custom regarded as tin omen of luck and lutppiness. On this occasion, however, it proved quite tho contrary. The host hospitably entertained the "mummers," and so'well did they partake of the good cheer provided that the festival became a drunken orgie, during which the straw "bhoys" attacked the assembled guests and broke up the party, the women scattering in all directions. After the disguised party left the house they knocked down garden walls and hurled stones at the doors and windows, Later Smith's attention was drawn to his haysack, from which flames were issuing, and though he saw men dancing around it he was afraid to go near. Eventually the "bhoys," after doing all the damage they could, returned home. The reason assigned for the outrage is that Smith had been a

policeman, and consequently an enemy to his conntrv.

Aneiit the Aiiglo-Vreneli Exhibition, a contemporary says:—lt must be the mountains (hat have overcome the Canadian agents, even as one is supposed to have overcome Mohammed. A model mountain range is a feature of the

Canadian court, but was verv far from

finished when the exhibition opened. The have, a timlier skeleton, and stuecoline (which material was the

covering of the Mew Zealand Exhibition) .supplies a snow effect. The only adverse criticism which can be reasonably made upon the mountains, it is said, is that the snow-line i« coincident with the ground level, which is not common in mountains. Otherwise they are very perfect mountains, and, viewed from a little distance, they suggest Switzerland. As a matter of fact, they are only a little bit of scenery through which the Canadian Railway will pass on a journey of about a mile. And the Canadian Haihvay is only one, though an important one, <rf the many attractions which the playground of the exhibition will possess. The reason why the mountains are white from base to summit is, one supposes, because everything else is white at the exhibition, except the green turf and the green glass which glints in the sunshine on the roofs of the machinery halls. The exhibition will be a city of while palaces, astonishing in their beauty of outline, and cheating the eye wherever it rests into supposing , that they are built not of plaster and I lath, but of marble, I

Did you ever realise the great danger of neglecting yourself in the matter of winter clothing? It's a very vital question to you, as your health is far more precious to you than anything else in the world. Once begin to bo careless about putting dn proper underclothing, and you are laying yourself open to every ill. Good substantial warm underclothing, and, when driving, a good overcoat, plenty of fresh air, and we'll defy you to catch cold. Don't put oil getting your winter's supplies, but 'go str»ight to "The Kash" in Devon-street, New Plymouth, and ask to see their slock of under pants and singlets a*. 3s lid, and then sec their "Prestwell" overcoats at 455, and you'll be one oF the most comfortable men in Taranaki

CCANT .SHAKE IT OFF.

U«w often we hear persons with colds make the above remark; but Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery shakes them off promptly and effectively in a few doses. Obtainable fcv«ywh«e.

Residents on the Chatham Islands intend to take steps to establish a museum lliere. In many parts of the inlands there are large numbers of interesting and valuable specimen*, including the bones of fossil birds, Maori and Moriori implements and weapons, ami Moriori tree-carvings, and it is thought that these blioiiUl lie kept on the islands instead of being sent to museums in other places.

A young man was arrested on Saturday morning, upon a warrant issued at InglewoodJ Ho was called before- the S.M. Court as Harry Willis, alias Withers, alias Williams, and was remanded until Friday on a Charges that on May lKth, ]!loß,*nt. Inglewood, he did, by moans of a valueless cheque, obtain from Ileujamin Howard Nicholls, of Inglewood, goods to the value of £2 Is, and money to the amount of ,t5 l!ls. Sergeant Iladclrell said that a further remand would probably ho applied for on other charges against accused. An incident which occurred on the Gisborne Bowling Club's green on a recent afternoon provided many surprises for those concerned therewith (says the Gisborne Times). When the usual frequenters of the green, whose long association with the game had earned them the title of "crack" bowlers, sauntered on to the green they were somewhat taken back to notice three clergymen seated by the pavilion. Somewhat dubiously and merely as an act of courtesy one of the club members asked the clerics if they played the game of bowls, and being answered in tho affirmative, a "roll-up" was soon arrangod for. As tho elub was skipped by one who has no superior in Poverty Bay, and was assisted by two players of more than average merit, it was expected that the piny would prove to he one-sided. It did; but not according to anticipation. The three parsons took charge of the game at tho outset, and for four successive heads the local cracks' saw the score go against them. Then they got going, and a five helped materially to even up tho score. Thence forward a desperate contest ensued in which first one and then the other held the advantage. As his best shots just missed tho mark, whilst his rival hugged tho jack unerringly, the champion skip muttered something under his breath about the futility of fighting against "the. devil's ' luck." The remark seemed scarcely appropriate to the occasion, but the fact remained that fortune smiled on the visitors in a remarkable way. Finally the playing of the 21st head found tho score 21—20, and the parsons held the odd point. It only remains to be added that the clerics who had sauntered along so casually and "taken down" the local cracks were visitors to the town whs came to participate in the Presbytery meeting.