LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 143, 8 June 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A local dairy company has sold to ih e agents of an English firm its past few months' supply of butter tor II '/id per pound. The Moana, which left Sydney on Wednesday for Auckland, has on board an English and Australian mail, which is expected (o arrive here by the Rarawa this morning. In the amiable hope that there will be no " squill" from the Opposition this session, the powers that be have assigned to Mr. .Massey the old nursery of the gubernatorial residence. On the application of -Mr. Hughes the Supreme Court has granted letters of administration of the estate of the late Klizalbcth Kenyon, of New Plymouth, to her son James Kenyon. ■At. a meeting of the Warcn Dairy Company on Saturday, called to consider the advisability'of putting i»i a cheese plant and manufacturing cheese next season, it was decided to adhere to butter-making. On the 411(1 acres of grazing land (half of which is unstamped) at the Weraroa Experimental Farm, there are about 3110 head of cattle, 25(1 sheep. 435 horses, ami 150 pigs, nearly two head to the acre, and all arc in the pink of condition.

A poll of Waitara ratepayers was held on Saturday on the proposal to raise a loan of .0)00 for road improvements. The proposal was carried by a majority of 41 votes. Only 172 voters exercised the privilege out of a total roll number of 114. The voting was— For the proposal, 108; against, (14. JSy the voters' decision Thursday will be returned as the weekly half-holiday for factory employees, the voting was—for Thursday, 143; for Saturday, 27. The .dine number of The Lone Hand has been received from the publishers. If anything, it is an improvement on

anv of its predecessors, especially in respect to the quality of its srlicles, chief amongst which are '•-Memories of Papua." "From the Oldest World," and " Diplomacy." Ambrose Pratt continues his charming story. "The liig Five," anil Dulcic Deanicr coiiirihiilcs another sketch, '"flic First Horn." The magazine, as usual, is magnificently prii I. I hi' title page being striking in design and typical of the country the production represents. " The cruel practice of docking horses is still largely in vogue iu Canterbury," slated Mr. W. 11. Zouch, in his monthly report to the committee of the Cbristcluircli Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (reports the Press). He expressed the hope that this useless ami unwarrantable disfigurement of horses would -be one of the chief matters for consideration at the proposed conference of societies at Wellington. The American Society was doing its best to put a stop to it; an Anti-dock-ing Bill was before the Legislature of that country.

The average colonial has a line contempt for the "new chum." But the "new chum" boy is a treasure compared lo the local youth. A New Plymouth employer "who is fortunate enough to have two Knglish boys working for him declares they are "gems." Manners, honesty, attention to orders, and constant application to work are their characteristics. On Saturday when ihc time came for knocking oil' work, a News reporter saw one of the lads leaving the premises. lie raised his cap politely If. hi- employer, and wished him "Cooil afternoon, sir!"

A M-lHinljiirl romance, in which a nine-teen-year-old hoarder at a fashionable Fifth' Avenue establishment for young ladies -iecivtlv married a medical student. i< emur'ibuting mil a little, to the gaiety of New York. It all happened tailed gir!.. attended ov a rhaperone. left the Fil'lh Avenue Scliool on a shopping expedition, due of the gills was .Miss Florence Winn Farwoll, whose parents are enjoying a holiday in F.gypl. She managed to lose her companion* in a department store and met her lover who. provided wilh a marriage license, escorted her lo a cliurcli, where the vomig couple were united in a trice. The ceremony over, the bride returned to school, and no one would have guessed that she had become Mrs. Boy llosmer McGibhon bill for the reporters, who. getting wind of the elopement storv. inquired particulars and shocked the ' lady principal. Then Mis. McGibliou was locked up in solitary confinement, and a telegram was sent lo her grandfather, who is a president of it (dmin of Canadian banks. He directed that the bride should be fed on bread and water. The bridegroom's parents are horritird. ami say they cannot understand "whatever possessed the boy." who has oiilv a student's allowance. Mr. McCibboii. interviewed at bis hotel, preserved a ilignilied demeanour, and explained licit it was his intention lo pro vide a home for his wife in about a vear's time, adding Ihal he married her in make sure no one else could. The bride ingenuously explained that she married Mr. McGi'bbon because she loved him and was afraid she might change her mind if she did not.

Accordin;; to the New York newspaper-, a .series of amazing and successful experiments has just been completed by I'rofi'Ssiir lieorgc I'oe, of Norfolk, Virginia, with an artificial respiration machine, which lie recently patented. The machine has been styled the brass heart, and scientists seem convinced thai it menus I In- suviiig of thousands of li\es which otherwise would be lust through drowning, asphyxiation in mines, and coma. By letting the contrivance force oxygen, Professor I'oe was enabled to stop breathing for ten minutes. Animal, declared dead by visiting physicians were revived in a few minutes, and were able to scamper about tli" operating-room. The ninchine is built as nearly as possible on the lines of the human heart. It is about eighteen inches ill height, with two cylinders, corresponding to the ventricles and auricles of the heart, and inlet and outlet valves. Double tubes enter the larynx and nostrils of the patient. While one set of tubes draws oli' poisonous fluids and gases from the hint's, the other set forces in the lifegiving oxvgen. The following are a few of the remarkable experiments carried out liv Hie professorr-A pet rabbit Mas given two grains of morphine, enough lo kill a man immediately. Afterwards 4oz of ether were administered. When all ordinary restoration failed, physicians declared the animal dead. The machine was then applied, and within three minutes the ell'eet of the poison and the anaesthetic had been drawn oil', and the rabbit jumped away. \ iar«e dug was next "killed and brought f" life again' 7 within live minutes. Siih-eipioiitiv the machine was applied 10 a hilariously drunken man who became sober ill a few minutes.

The regicides surrounding the King of Servia have frustrated his Majesty's efforts towards conciliation of his subjects When the Premier, M. Paschics, resigned owing to the resolute ohst.ru.(ion of business by the Opposition, he Kin-, suinin 1 the Opposition leader. |)r Moyiimnitcli. and had eight conference..' with him in six days. There i. |iuh- dmibl that the King would have agreed lo let. Dr. Stiiyanovitch form a Cabinet and conduct the general cleri lion, lix.-d tor May 31sl. but for the intervention of the regicides. They forced the King to place above everything els,- the safety of the Ministers responsible for the murder in Belgrade (laol of the niiti-regicide and most popular leader. Captain .Novakoviteh. To save those Ministers the King was compelled to retain M. Paschics in power. M. Paschics. therefore, knowing that the Opposition ill tin- new Parliament will be at bast as strong as in the old. yet undertakes a task which will bring him lace to face with the. necessity for ■i conn d'etat. Meantime, the Belgrade newspapers, every one of which is laid dailv on the King's table, cannot be verv pb-asaiit reading for his Majesty. Tin". Odvek warns him that he is personally 're-ponsible for all iln- certain violence and probable bloodshed ill the forthcoming elections. The Zaclava says he is not governing by parliamenlansm. but bv Parliamentary tricks, 'lhe Pravada 'informs him that, it is better to lose a crown bv itself than to lose a bead with il. The Siauipa tells him that somebody Ims got In pay l«r the Norvakovitcli murder, and it is folly to, continue to shield assassins. All thl'se journals ami many others are conliß,,,ted frcqncnllv, bill the magistrates invariably quash the police decree "f eonliseation. The troops ..I Bolgardc ~,nisoii have recenllv been coiihued to barrack- and h-bl ill readiness Inr in-/

Wood-' Ureal Peppermint Cure won't Pail hat-its or i mk hams, Nor would it do in Irish slew, or hair-wash, or in jams; l! won't cure leather, freckles, warls, for working men or toffs, But Woods' (Ireal Peppermint Cure will CIUI ' i .m Your colds and cure your coughs. U Your order from the country receives our personal attention the same as if it is the only one we have—White and Sons. Devon 'street.—-Mvt. For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d and 2s tfd.

Tt is understood that a list of new Justices of the Peace will be declared shortly. To-day being ''Whit-Monday," it will be observed as a bank holiday throughout Xew Zealand. The .Hastings Borough Council has forwarded the following remit to the Municipal Associations' Conference at Wellington:—"That the law be amended to make it compulsory (hat all pigs killed for public sale shall be passed by a flovcrnnient inspector the same as sheep and entile." The increase in the value of Mew York real estate is shown by tile partition among eight members of the ('hauler family of land Ixmght as a farm in 18118 for £40(10 by their greatgrandfather, Air. John Jacob Astor, the founder of the Astor fortune. The land is now valued at £050,1)00. It is less than three years since anyone was speculative, enough to invest iu and use a hansom cab as a pYilrtic conveyance in (Ircymoutli. But, finding that success attends their plying for hire, 'there are now no less than five of such vehicles daily on the streets and apparently doing well.

In the course of an address at Miller's Kbit. Dr. Chappie referred to the reputation for character that the All Black footballers bad left behind them in Great Britain. He and bis wife had travelled through the Old Country hist year, and nothing in his journeys bad made him feel so proud as tile universal opinion so freely expressed regarding the honor, sobriety, and integrity of our football team. The match Britain v. Southland was not without its element of pathos. A poor dying lad was wheeled on to the ground in a chair just before Hie game iicgau. Inquiry elicited that the committee of Hie Southland Cnhm had unanimously decided to have him convevccl to the ground from the hospital at' their expense. The lad had always been a keen follower of football, and had expressed a wish to see the British team play Southland before he died. The visit of the American fleet to N'cw Zealand waters has taken on largely with the natives of the East Coast, so a reporter was informed by a representative member of the race who had recently returned from a visit to the Coast. The Maoris, he said, had great ambition to see Hie lleet, and were proposing to migrate to Auckland in fairly large numbers during "ileet-weck," but how they were to be "put up" in Auckland lie did not know.

Lord Tweedmoiilh seems to lie not the only Cabinet Minister who has lieen made the confidant of the Emperor of Germany. When Mr. Haldane was recently in Germany the Kaiser said to him, with a twinkle in his eye, "Some of your Mayors seem to have cur,iou|qviews as to the functions of an Emperor. During iny stay at one of your seaside resorts, the Mayor of a neighboring town, to which I intended paying a visit, wrote asking me whether 1 would consent to conduct the town's band for half an hour!" Recently a correspondent 01 [he C'hiistehureh Pre** inquired for the soui|ce of the line, ''Was your moUyer a wolf? Was your nurse an opossum?" A Chrislehurch lady writes to say that it is from "Bluebeard," an extravaganza written by two Christehureh residents in the early days, and staged only once, in Mr. Joseph Britain's drawing room at l.iiiwood, in 185!) or 1800. This was tile first amateur theatrical performed in Canterbury. Babilliadn (the Orientalised Sister Anno) appeals to Bluebeard on behalf of Fatinia:—"ls your heart made of stone in your merciless bosom? Was your mother a wolf? Was your nurse an opossum?"

Plans are now prepared for the Salvation Army's, home for boys to be erected at Fltham, the site ami building being a gift of -Mr. Thomas Jenkins, of that town. The building will be erected on a ridge south of Kitham and overlooking the town. The frontage is 100 ft, and the building is almost square. The home comprises spacious dining-rooms, dormitories, officers' rooms, kitchen, and so on, with all the modern appointments. There are five dormitories, two of them 52ft x 17ft (iin, two 18ft x 17ft liin, and the one on. the ground floor 27ft x 17ft (iin. Beds will be provided for sixty boys. Over 100.000 ft of timber will be used in its construction, and most, of this has been cut. One of the finest stories in the history of railways, centres round a runaway engine on the Stockton and Darlington line. The engine was observed by the driver of another and more powerful one. Seeing the fugitive speeding in the. direction of Darlington, he uncoupled his own engine, crossed the points, and set out in pursuit, on the same line. It was a long ehaSe, but the pursuer, driven at top speed, gradually overhauled the runaway. At last i't ( came near enough lor the driver to drop a'slout chain over the tendcrhook of the olher. He returned to his footplate, shut oil' steam, and screwed down Ins break. This steadied the one tn front, and so retarded its pace that the driver was able lo creep from his own ( ' n g" n lo the runaway, put on the brake, and bring it to a' standstill, almost in the crowded Darlington station.

The promoters of the Opunake harbor scheme have commenced operations, and have given notice 0 r their intention to introduce at the coming session of Parliament a ltiil to constitute an Opunake Harbor District. R i„ proposed to constitute a district bounded on the north by the, Punilm road and on the cast by the parts of the Kaupokomii and Mangawhero streams to the Sheet road, and thence northerly as more particularly descrilH'd. Power is taken to raise a loan not exceeding £50,1)0(1 for the construction and maintenance of harbor works at Opunake, and the district deliued is to lie made liable for a rate not exceeding %d in the pound as security for the principal and lor the payment of interest. There are various provisions tor taking over the property of the Opunake Wharf (.'ompanv, to exclude the district from further liability on account of the New Plymouth, harbor, and to vest in the, proposed Board certain reserves.

lir. W. P. Massey, M.P., Leader ot opinion in regard to compulsory service at Auckland on Friday, said he would take another opportunity of referring . to the idea, hut he was prepared to agree at once that the naval siihsidv slniuld he increased to at least I'IOO.IIIIO. The present, subsidy was in nolliing like adequate proportion to the benelit received in the protection atfnrded by the Imperial Navy, or to the payments made by the people, of Ureal Britain. In contrast to the payments by the people nt Home our subsidy was ridiculously small. Any alteration, he believed, would have to be by arrangement with the Government of Australia, as the present subsidy was on the basis of the arrangement, between Australia and Ureal Britain. lie thought the farming community throughout the Dominion was in favor of an increase in the subsidy, and very properly so; in fact, the general community of Xew Zealand seemed to he in favor of an increase. Naval defence was more important than land defence to this country, but the volunteer forces were a very important asset, and lie 'was satisfied they were not receiving the support they should receive. flood work has been accomplished towards the relaunching of the Union Company's steamer Taviuni. which was stranded on the beach near Westport a few weeks ago. During the spring tides last week the Taviuni was moved about ftSft and" 53ft nearer the breakwataer, through which she is to be launched into the channel. The vessel has now (0 be carried about 41111 ft to reach the breakwater, and will shortly he lifted on skids for that purpose. There is only iff liin of water around the vessel ill her present, position at high spring tides. About eight men are now working at the scene. About twenty mechanics and assistants will leave "Wellington within a Jew days for AVeslport, anil laborers will be obtained on the spot. Mr. .1. Daniel, the superintendent, id' repairs for the Union Company, will leave Wellington next Tuesday to direct the work of relaunching. A start will be made lo cut an aperture ill the breakwater about, next Thursday, but if will require about two more spring tides lo lift, the Taviuni on to the skids. When the lime, has arrived for raising I he sleamer there will be hydraulic jacks on hand with a lifting capacity of 3000 tons. Now that the. winter is here in earnest don't by any means negiect your winter clothing. Just as oil is cheaper than machinery, so is clothing cheaper than medicine and doctors' bills. Now, the best, place we know of in Taranaki for men's clothing is "The Kas'n," Just ba low Nolan's auction mart. They'vt! always a splendid assortment at modorale prices—-hottest, dependable, goods, *oo. They've a lot of colonial heavy ivool underpants at 3s lid, Bragletß to match 3s i)d, men's heavy woollen sox le, men's good honest colonial wool saddle tweed trousers at 9s fld, and the best assortment of men's overcoats in Taranaki, These range from 22s fid to 39s 6d in the ordinary make, from 45s tc 59s Cd in "The Prestwell" make. Thesa overcoats they make themselves on the premisfee. Qivo their) a trial.-' VMk'^ ";" '}L ,,, T. I .';'..""' '^'T'^ijT

There was quite au influx tu Waitura on .Friday by tvain. Had the Minister of Kadways been there lie would probably have appreciated the need for the erection of a verandah at the railway station. When temporary homes are established for children whose mothers are uilnble to attend to them by day, or for short periods, the philanthropic founders usually style them "creches." Tin's exotic is probably not understood M any of the class who use the homes, d'athc r'rers, the French cinematograph lilm manulacliirers, have a iilm of a Paris institution, which they .sensible call, for the licnclit of Knglish audiences, a "public nursery," which is intelligible to everybody' and good English, as well. A motorist 'who journeyed in a car to Crcnui late on Thursday night, returning on Kriday morning, had to part with live .sliill'ings in fees at the Urcnui tollgate. His complaints were profuse, but he got no satisfaction. The farmers there contend that if the motorist up that way wants to avoid tolls he is welcome to travel on the main north road further on, lieyoud the metal which has been laid at the expense of the neighboring properties. There is some logic in this, but it doesn't niter the fact that half-a-crown a time is a - pretty stiff fee for the pleasure of using that section of the road.

M. liochcltc, the Paris banker, who is under ancsi for swindling, is treated with curious leniency in prUon. A correspondent of one of the I aris newspapers called to sec him at the Saute prison the other morning, and, to his surprise, was told that the prisoner was out. fie has since found that M. liochette spends very little time inside the prison door.s, except at night. One day, for instance, he got up at HI o'clock, breakfasted, and went tor a drive with two detectives, lie spent most of the afternoon at his two banks, and then went for a drive round Paris. Although the banker is allowed atch liberty, he is accompanied on his outiugs by at least twj detectives. Mrs. Langtry, the famous actress, has been hoaxed. A little while ago sue received a cablegram announcing that a silver mine had been discovered on an estate belonging to her in America, but the statement proves to be incorrect. She is very philosophical about it. "There is nothing more to be said about (my mine," she said to a reporter. "My representative on his arrival in Xew York put himself into communication with the authorities of the disrict in which my property is situated, and was so satisfied that my cable was either a silly joke or an attempt to extort money that he is now on the ocean returning home. "I am not exactly disaji ■ pointed. I know my America well enough to realise the great importance of the word 'Verification.'"

Although Lepperton Junction is not a very husy railway station, there seems to be given every opportunity for this .traveller to take the wrong train. At the old Sentry Hill station the Waitara train had a' monopoly of the eastern platform, the moutli trains occupying the opposite side. Mow, however, when the nort'i and south main line trains meet at ivepperton one takes one side of the new .station and the other the other. There is no board to distinguish the trains and nothing to show that the train on the Waitara line is not tne Waitara train at all, or that the train on the other side is going to >'c\v Plymouth. At the Stratford junction, too, a gentleman bound for Auckland bustled into a train the other day, and when he pulled up at Normanby he asked how much farther on was Xe-w Plymouth. He was in the south train! Leguminotherapic, or treatment by vegetables, is one of the latest scientific developments lo win approval. A distinguished Paris physician affirms that vegetables have a considerable inlluence on the physical and moral wellbeing of those who eat them, and that they will cure many maladies. Potatoes develop the reasoning faculties', the equilibrium of the mind, and calmness of l'ellection. but. over-indulgence in them produces apathy and indifference. Carrots develop good temper, and arc recommended to bilious and peevish subjects. Spinach induces energy, ambition, constancy, and will power. Sorrel leads to discouragement and sadness, and causes painful nightmare and troubled sleep. French beans predispose to amiable day-dreams, which develop artistic thoughts and sentiments. Jlaricot beans, the physician specially recommends to all workers, both manual and intellectual.

Sir Joseph Ward made an important statement, to a reporter at luvercargill in reference to the through express service. He said the matter had been occuping the Bailway Department some, time, and it is its'intention to have a through service from Auckland lo the BlulV, wilh proper connections, *»d without delay. The South Island service will remain practically as at present, and the North Island'service must of necessity be partly a night service. The Bailway Department lias lo face the difficulty of making provision fur services at stations touched at by the express service. The express must necessarily leave Auckland at night to •■!- low; the Auckland people to get their mails right through by train. To leave there in the morning means that the mails remain there all day, which would not be up-to-date business. Scenery was not a consideration, us the intermediate services fully provided for that, mid business must not be saerilice.l to scenery.

.The AUKed Itoute (writes the UnaOwn correspondent of the Christchurch ikss) has been much in the public eye luring the .past few weeks, and it is expetted that important resolutions favoring an augmented subsidy will be presented to Parliament during the e nsu»>g fortnight. The attitude of Cw dians ,s strongly i„ favor of a service independent of the fniou Steam Ship Company of X,. w Zeauland. which "has bee,, bitterly arraigned of late for a manifest disposition to -,| ilw ~ route vessels which do not come „,, to modern requirements either in speed or modern passenger accommodation. Columns have been printed in tin- British (ohimbn- press as to the unfairness of the New Zealand company towards the service and the immensity of loss oeeasioned to intercolonial trade by the general inadequacy of (he -v-.nis-titi.V service It ,s contended that with "thoroughly modern twenty-knot vessels upon the route, eliiuinaiing the Fijian call and making the .souther,, terminus » -New Zealand iport for the purpose of line-saving, it is argued that there will »e such, a saving of time thus effected that t.he general period of transmission »nv mails and passengers between Canada and the southern continent would he reduced by eight or more days, and that the great: bulk of travel between Australasia and England would be diverted to the Canadian route, winch has the natural advantage of avoiding the lieat and discomfort of the lied Sea. If you want your furniture removed carefully, expeditiously, and economic ally, employ the New Zealand Exprisß Company, Ltd., who make a special feature of this jlaso of work, and wl?o are also able to supply first-class dry storage accommodation. Customs work in all its branches.—Advt