LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 150, 16 June 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. Newton King's Sydney agent advises hides are i/ s d lower. tbi the application of Messrs Kuy and Nicholson Mr. Justice Edwards nas granted probate of the will of the late Mr. William Baldock, of Tarurutangi, farmer, to the widow, the executrix named in the will. At u special meeting of the Borough Council the rates were struck for the ensuing year as follows:—A general rate of Is Id in the i!; water rate of lid 111 tile :C; anil a special rate of la (id in me X, to provide interest on the loan i f OOj'JUO; all lutes to be levied on the annual value. Tile J Lope of liguiont Juvenile Temple, 1.0. G.T., held its weekly meeting last evening. The Lodge opened in due form at (i.30, Bro. La wry Pepcrrill, C.T., prosiding. AlU'i- the transaction of l.od'_'" business, Bro. G. 11. Maunder gave an interesting lecture. It was announced that next Lodge night would be "sister's night." The Temple closed at S p.m. 11l older to encourage leachers and pupils in the Taraiutki district, to take an interest in improving the school surroundings, it is intended to award prizes tor the best-kept School-grounds. To provide funds for the purpose the Director of Technical Education will be ph-is-cd to receive donations. The following amounts have already been received: I'i'ch ,C2 2s; W. A. Ballantvne CI K Nine-tenth,., of the principal diseases which to-day atllict. the human race have tlieir rise in a common, ordinary littli cold. The history of most cases of disease of this character is very much the same. TThe cold conies and is neglected. It. moves down from nose to throat, from throat to bronchial tubes and lungs, and when it doesn't end there, in consumption. Its after-effects are sure to weaken the kidneys, liver, ami heart. This is all accepted and taught. in the medical ttf today. Tt i H . well for you to reineiMer it. An equally important fact to remember is that the proper and only scientific ti-enf.ment. for a mid in any stage is Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs, (.'olds, and Consumption. This mcdiciir- will "lire any kind of a cohl or cough, and will prevent all the dangerous after-effects of Lung and Throat Diseases. It is guaranteed to cure, or money back. Try it. Price, Is Od and

The export of wool from Napier last, season exceeded tlmt of the previous n year by 7,00(1 hales. c It is stated Unit tiii deposits at the I 1 south end of Stewart island are altout to be worked, the company having been reconstructed on ivluit is reported to lie \. a sound linancial basis. j It is noted in London that the s\im i of £3OOO has been promsied by the i Primitive Methodists of New Zealand toward the £25(1,000 now being raised ] by the churches in Great Britain for the j denominational centenary. ] On the application of Mr. Hughes, s probate of the will of the late .Jane 1 Brooking, of Devon Street, New Ply- i moutli, has been granted to the execu- i tors named in the will—Messrs. Thomas Phillip* Brooking- and William Francis , Brooking. The South Kensington examinations will commence on Thursday, June IS. The number of candidates entered in 'Parana ki for the various subjects is: Jfrcfchand drawing, 2; model drawing, 3; perspective drawing 2; blackboard drawing 1; drawing in light and shade 2; appli -d mechanics 1; magnetism and electricity 1. The examinations will be held at the Education Board's office. That "bete uoir", of the country settler, thy Government inspector, came in for the usual criticisms at the recent conference of the Manukau local bodies. "11l some of the Australasian States," remarked the chairman (Mr. E. Allen), "they train the inspectors before turning them loose upon the public, but here in New Zealand they seem to prefer to turn the raw men oil to the public and to get tbcni trained there; the result lieing that the settlers really have to pay for their training. What we want," he continued, "are men trained to the business, with tact,, ability, and the power to keep their tempers under proper control, instead of treating a man spitefully when ■ 'borax' is thrown at them." ; If we aro to accept Mr. Hornsby, ' M.P., as an authority, the life of a member of Parliament is not by any ' means a bed of roses. Even.the much- I ' despised rank and file of the House of : Representatives are 'hard put to find any ' time for other than the work which ■ political life entails. Members of Parlianient in New Zealand are, he asserts, ■ labor agents, commission agents, ad--3 viscrs of their constituents on many ' matters, and must necessarily travel s about a great ileal in the discharge of .- what has become the recognised work - of a representative of the people. ]f i- you take the correspondence alone that a member of Parliament conducts, you will find that it tots up to thousands )- of letters per annum, says Mr. Ilornst, i>y-

Towards the end of April a brief message from New York stated that President lioosevelt had been saying more hard things about the men of wealth. Details now to hand show that in his message to Congress the President took occasion to condemn the demagogues who were preaching a gospel of tile Envy of Wealth. But, the Strenuous w'ieider of the Big Stick added: "Ilis counterpart in evil is to he found ill that particular kind of multi-millionaire who is almost the least enviable, and certainly one of the least admirable, of all our citizens —the man of whom it has been said that his face has grown hard and cruel while his body has grown soft, whose soil is a fool, and whose daughter is n foreign princess, whose nominal pleasures are at the best those of tasteless and extravagant luxury, but whose real delight, and veal life-work are the accumulation and use of power in (he most sordid and least elevating form."

The May Windsor Magazine is a notable number, containing a, complete storv of gipsy romance by S. E.Crockett finely illustrated by Fred Pegram, in addition to another exhilarating episode in the career of Robert Barr's "Young Jjord Xtranleigh.'' 'flic short stories of the number are by writers of such varied talents as Fred M. White, Francis Rivers, and (J. B. Lancaster —the writer who has been called "I'lie Kipling of Australia." An article on the Shakespeare Festival includes a long scries of Jinely reproduced portraits of the distinguished players taking part in this year's celebration at Stratford-oil-Avon! under the direction of Mr. F. It. Benson, among them being Miss Genevieve Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Benson. Mr. i'orbes KoberLson, .Miss Gertrude Elliot. Mr. I/Mvis Waller, Miss Evelyn Millard, Mr. Henry Ainley, Mr. Arthur Bourehi"!'. Miss Violet Vanbrugh, Mr. Geni'ee Weir, and Miss Constance Collier. Frank T. Uullen contributes a picturesque paper on ''Some Obscure Sea Perils." Bermuda and the West Indies are dealt with in the interesting series of articles ou "Naval Bases of the Empire," by (\ de Thierry, and eighteen of Hie pictures of Leonard Campbell Taylor are reproduced with an appreciation of the artist's work. Altogether this is a very varied and attractive issue, lavishly illustiated.

A terrible crime was committed near Meaux, an old woman named Verite beiii" assassinated, it is believed, by lirii' grandson, a half-witted man of 31. The alleged assassin (says the Paiis correspondent of the Morning Leader) was betrayed bv the strangest of clues. Kni'ene Verite is a cripple, and on Holiday morning curious tracks were discovered leading across a ploughed field where he had been working to the murdered woman's farm, a few hundred vards away, and a second track leading lmck again. Now, a peculiar irregularity noticeable in the steps points unmistakably to their having been made by a lame man. 11l addition to tins die accused is scratched all over the face. The doctor who held _thc postmortem examination on the victim says that the crime was horrible beyond words The assassin must have soused his victim, who was eighty years ol a«e. and held her face downwards over tnc tire in order to force her to say where her mone.v was hidden. Iniuii■ited at- her obstinacy, he must then have seized a knife and killed her, after which he set lire to the bedding, hoping thus to destroy every trace of Ins crime. 11,. was unable to find .the treasure, foi the iHiliee lnive. after a long search, discovered it undisturbed. A*hell ! " u ' st ' ed Kugcne Verite was calmly gathenn c nettles bv the wayside. Throw a stone in the pond, and watch the circles as they spread. The Carring ton Frankley, and Eliot Road Boards when tliov persuiuM the County Couu oil to form their districts into a ,i»\V riding, metaphorically cast a stone 111.0 the pond of public opinion. And til - wavelets arc spreading. The discussion at Fridav's meeting seems to have opened the eyes of some of the people, ill the remainder of the suburban portion of the Omata riding. This is the Barrett road district, of which a portion is as eloselv settled as tile borough itself, and is just about as highly valued. With the riding deprived of the revenue from the three road districts named they foresee the time when more of _ their rates will be needed to maintain t'lo main road all the way to Puniho. Couucillor George, of Omata. and representing that district 011 the Couny Council, has grasped this fact, and has given notice "to move at next meeting of the Council that the present Omata riding be subdivided into three ridings, the first to comprise the districts dealt with 011 Saturday; the second, which is to be the Omata riding, to include the Barrett, Omata, and ILurford road districts, and that portion of the Oakura road district lying to the northward of the o;\kura. stream; and the third all tint pary of the county to the southward of the Oakura stream. I lis idea, is to Secure a fair representation 011 the Council. It will be seen that under this scheme both Messrs. Adlam and Andrews .will be in the third, or Okiito riding, but tlie valuation would hardly warrant the riding having two representatives on the Council.

\i i- are gnat believers in the nimble sixpence at "The Kash." We'd rather sell a dozen articles and get: (id profit 011 each limn sell three and get Is 011 each. < Ini- liirge and increasing turnover enables us to buy for cash, thus seen ring ail discounts, which in many iti-.l.ani-es is all we make 011 the goods. "!' should liy our own make of over(■".its and suits, "The Prestvvcll" brand. They're absolutely the most stylish garmeiils >Oll could imagine. The suits are splendidly cut and made, and very fmv people could tell cither the suits or the overcoats Iroin tailor-mades. The suits run from 3!ls lid to (ios, and the. overcoats from -lis (id to nils (id. Ask any body where our store is; they'll tell you.—Advt.

THE "Ui.fl." VUKSU3 HANDMILKING. Ail extract from Farm Notes, Manawatu Standard, of March 9tli, 1908, will oe of interest lo many farmers:—"Talking about milk that has boon taken from the eow with machines, as compared with that taken by hand, an expert informed n. 'Standard' reporter that some, fairly exhaustive tests had been made bv a factory manager with milk supplied by different sheds, some ol which used 'L.K.G.' Milking Machines, while the others milked by hand. The result was decidedly ill favor of machines. the milk drawn by them being of lirst-elnss qpjlity." "Ij.K.G." Sole Agents, MacEsvnn and , Co., Egrnoutatreet, New Plymouth.

The inspection parade of the Taranaki Battalion by the Inspector-General tailed for Thursday next has been postponed until Thursday, 25th instant. The Eliot Road Board's poll on

Saturday to authorise the raising of a v loan of 300 for the construction of foot- s paths was lost. The voting was even, g 33 for and. the samp number against. A three-fifths majority was required. ] Mr. E. Vickcrs informs the Inglewood i Record that his flock of Hampshire i Down ewes began lambing during the i last week of last month, and have j steadily 'continued up to now, and so j far the increase has been 200 per cent., i and he has no losses to chronicle, which j is rather a good record. An interesting event occurred in ■> Christchurch last week, when the wife of a resident of Sydenham presented • her husabnd with triplets—two boys and a girl. The mother and children : are all doing well. This is the third ' case of triplets in New Zealand this year—a Maori woman in Taranaki, and an English woman in the Marlborough province having qualified for the King's ixmnty. There was a full attendance of members of the committee of the New Plymouth Club last night in the secretary's room, ft was resolved that country members resident over five, miles from New Plymouth be. admitted to all social privileges of the club at half the ordinary fee. but have 11,0 voting power or right to hold ollice. Committees to report on billiard-tables and furnishing were appointed to report as soon as possible. The committee subsequently inspected the rooms, and decided on several structural alterations and renovations. The story of a romantic elopement has come from Weaverham, Nortliwieh (England). An heiress, aged nineteen years—who will be entitled to £10,00) in two years' time, and for whose education £2OOO was left—has run off with ' a young teamster, whom she has mar--1 ried. They had carried on a courtship, it is stated, despite the most-determine 1 opposition. Eventually, the girl escaped ' through her bedroom window, cycled with her lover for some miles, engaged a 1 trap, and then drove to Manchester. lTere the couple were married by speci- ' al license. They then returned to Weaverham, where they are residing in a j cottage. f Some sensation was created in the < Budget Committee of the German f Reichstag recently by the Government's t, admission that Germany must borrow ti £50,000,000 within the next live year.?, s even without fresh appropriations, to ;- cover the annual deficits on the ordinary Budgets. The reporters of the Budget, Dr. Paaache and Herr Erzberger, j. Submitted a proposal that the Gaverjimcnt should introduce a Bill dealing !. with sinking fund requirements. Henis Erzberger said that within the next fiv.' k years the Government must raise the ■s sum named. He characterised this estiie mate as simply horrifying, but expressed is the opinion that even this sum would is not suffice.

The Tiiraiiiiki Agricultural Society's committee met last niglit. It was decided to hold tiie annual slioxv on Wednesday and Thursday, 25th and 20th November next, and to write to the Auckland A. and P. Society requesting them to endeavor to lix their show fdr (he following week, to avoid clashing and maintain the round of fixtures. Arrangements were made for the visit to the Levin experimental farm during I'almerston show week. The party will leave Palmerston by the 5.5 p.m. train on the Wednesday, arriving at Levin at 0.43. They leave again for Palmerston on Thursday by the 2.15 p.m. train. Any members desirous of making the trip should communicate with the secretary at once. 1

A witness in a court case at Palmerston North said "it was a principle of journalism that a meeting which was not advertised was not recognised by the Press." This principle dioes not appear to be understood by some people. For instance, it is quite a common ex> perience for people to drop into a newspaper office and ask for "locals" for entertainments and meetings concerning which not a word of advertising has appeared. To ask for locals on these conditions-is about on a par with entering a baker's shop and asking for a loaf without paying for it. A newspaper proprietor gives locals in return for advertising support, and people should not expect locals or reports on any ot her condition.— Kit.ha in " Argus. The Egmont ljod«?e, No. 112. 1.0.(!. T., held its "weekly session on' Monday evening in St. Mary's Hull. Bro. .1. 0. Degg, C.T., presided over a good attendance of members. Bro. I>gg rend a very interesting paper -on "The Stage." tracing its existence from as far back as 384 B.C. In the year 240 B.C. the Bomans built a theatre, but owing to the pandering to vices it declined. Again in 55 B.C. a revival of the drama took place, and a theatre to hold eighteen thousand was built, but when the

Roman Empire adopted Christianity iis its State religion its doom was scaled.

Tn the twelfth century strolling players first appeared. Coming nearer the present day, Bro. Legg referred to "The Passion Plav," which is played every ten years at Oberammergau. the last performance being given in 1000, when thousands of visitors from all parts of the world witnessed it. The paper was well discussed. During the evening re-

freshmen ts were handed round by Bro. Legg. A number of items were given by members, quite a pleasant evening being spent. Four homoeopathic doctors recently risked their lives in New York Zoological Hardens, Jironx Park, to obtain' a supply of .scarce venom from a lancehead viper. Their purpose was primarily to cure a millionaire patient of delusional insanity, and secondly to replenish the world's stock of this drug, which has not been procurable since, IS2K. The snake, which bad arrived from Brazil the previous week, is said to l«e the most poisonous in the world. Antidotes and surgical instruments were held ready in case of accident. A Zoo keeper coaxed the snake from its cage, when Mr. R. L. Ditmars, the curator of the reptile house, grasped jits neck and placed its bead on the operating table. - Dr. K. W. Rtinyon held a drinking glass covered with muslin to the mouth of the viper, which instantly bit the muslin. The fangs penetrated the fibres of the cloth, and a keeper then pressed the viper's head, squeezing Ihe poison glands. Drops of the deadly liquid fell into tlie glass, and the operation was repeated until the reptile's supply was exhausted. Iji this way over 173 grains of poison were obtained. This is regarded as an enormous quantity. It will be distributed among the liomocopathio pharmacists of tlie world. When prepared for use the dose consists of one-trillionth of a grain. ■Writing 111 "Fry's Magazine," Lord Roberts says that because it is easier for British men to assemble in thousands to watch a match, than in elevens to play one, most of them are content to look on rather than play themselves, "lint is this- contentment of the onlooker |good for us as a nation? Whatever other nations may have thought of us or called us. in the past, we prided ourselves 011 being a nation of sportsmen. I use the word in its highest sense, as descriptive of the man who knows how to give, as well as how to take, hard blows; who- possesses that old dogged quality of an Englishman, who never knows when he is beaten; who scorns a mean action, and only demands a fair field and no favor, where he may strive his utmost, and where the best man may win. C'an we consider ourselves as sportsmen in this sense to-day? Aw we prepared to do and dare for ourselves, and for our country, as in the days of old? 1 fear not. Go to some village sports to-day and watch -the competitions and races for small boys, as well as for men, and see how few the competitors are in number, and how the same appear in race after race. Ask some lad why he i's not competing, and he will reply, 'Oil because so-and-so is bound to win.' There is too much of this feeling of making a fool of oneself if 011 c docs not win. Cannot we bring ourselves, or at least our boys-, to recognise that defeat is ,not disgrace, but may even be more, glorious than victory? Then only shall we be able to stand before the world as a nation 01" sportsmen." WHY la SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT superior to any other Eucalyptus product? Because it is the result, of fpll experience and of a special and careful manufacture. It is always safe, reliable, and effective, and the danger 8 attending the use of the irresponsible preparations which are now palmed off as "Extracts" are avoided. A death was recently reported from the external use of one ef these concoctions, and in an action at law a sworn witness testified that ho suffered the most cruel irritation from the application to an niter of a product which was sold as "just as good as SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT." Therefor.., bfware of such deception. Insist upon the preparation which was proved by experts at the Supreme Court of Victoria, any by numerous authorities during the past 35 years, to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz., THE GENUINE SANDER. AND SONS' PURR VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT,Advt,

The Minister for Railways is having enquiries made into the matter of altering -the timetable on the StratfordToko line. 1 A letter-box has been placed in the vestibule of the Post Office. The box should prove a' big convenience to the general public. _ The old saying that nothing succeeds like success was exemplified again last night by the attendance at St. Joseph's euchre party. The (proceedings were much enjoyed. At the conclusion, of the games, Mr. Goldwater awarded the prizes as follows:—Ladies: First (sil-ver-mounted cut-glass scent bottl®), Mrs. Nathan; second (set candlesticks), Mi's. Owen. Gient'lemen: First (gold searf-pin), Mr. G. Teinpero; second (silver watch pendant), Mr, If. Homey. After a splendid supper w r us done justice to, daiwinjg was indulged ill till the small hours Of the morning, the music supplied by Mr. James being voted excellent.

The Postmaster-General informs Mr. Jennings, M.P., that the petition of settlers for a post ollice at Salisbury i' ■Road will be complied with as soon as a arrangements arc completed. The Hon. s ifr. McGowan writes to Mr. Jennings C ■that the Manganui Road Board's appli- n cation for money for certain roads C ■would lue considered when the estimates ■were being framed. The non-erection of the high-level bridge over the Tangal'akau, for which money was voted on last year's estimates, was accounted for owing to the difficulty of obtaining ( remembered that two years ago the | ■mailman from Tatu was swept awav ; and drowned when crossing the present , ■low-level bridge. The Minister further - writes that a trial survey for the foun- < dations, etc., of a bridge over the' • ■Mokau, to replace the present ferry ( service, has been ordered. This will be , a very important undertaking, and when completed will lie a great convenience to stockowners and others travelling between Waitara and To ltuiti. At a harbor meeting held at, Kapuni some time ago it was suggested that Mr. Maxwell be asked for information regarding the balance of a fund set set up for fighting the old Harbor Bill. •Mr. Maxwell makes 1 the following explanation in the Waimate Witness:— "The only funds that passed througu my'hands was a sum of £4O presented to me in recognition of my services in connection with the historical light. 1 That sum, with interest, is lying at > fixed deposit in the '.Post Ollice Savings 5 Bank at Opunake in the iranies of Mr. ' J. Stevenson and myself. As I could > not see my way to accept the amount; 3 it was placed as stated on my suggestion, so that it might be available in e case at, any future time a similar at- •, tempt was made to impose an injustice [- on the ratepayers. If the gentleman i who made the suggestion at Kapuni rer ferred to this sum, 1 may say that it > is not available to assist to defeat a ~ measure which, will repeal the present j. three-farthing rate and replace it with ,1 a one-farthing rate and will immediate,i ly relieve the ratepayers from any fuither payment of rates. And as the Bill provides for a very substantial subsidy B fund all liability before very long will lj» finally extinguished."

Few people liave any idea of the possibilities the North is holding out to the farmer, declared a man who knows it thoroughly] even though hi s experience of Auckland province has only been gained within the last few years. He speaks with the added knowledge of Southern and Manawatu experience. Auckland district, he remarked to the Wellington Times, will vet he the most prosperous part of the Dominion. There i-s a great deal of misconception, he contends, in regard to the King Country. , It will yet he a great lamb-fattening centre, and when properly broken in must become one of the richest pastoral and dairying areas in the Dominion. Its possibilities are enormous. There is some particularly fine limestone country Ijctwccn* Te ICuiti and the West Coast, he says. In some cases 'the soil .gives in analysis a limestone content of ninety per cent. There are beautiful tracts of land 1 mjtween Tc ICuiti and Mokau. Clover luxuriates and groat crops of rape and turnips are secured. This season, the | informant declares, lie saw stacks of ; clover hay superior to anything he lm& ; ever seen in the south. The statements | made from time to time as to the cost of manuring Waikato land are greatly exaggerated, he declare*. The truth of the matter is, it is bind that requires fanning—not like sonic South Island kind that needs only to ibe ploughed to give it satisfactory crop. Waikato Foil must be intelligently dealt with,

and it will pay well for up-to-date treatment. Well managed and judiciously manured it will give a result equal to anything in the Dominion. Dairying is spreading rapidly throughout the province. The industry received a little set back by the drought of the past season. The country,' however, made

a ■wonderful recovery. In fact, it has been remarkable to him, a southerner born and bred, to realise the recuperative powers of the northern lands. The general farm prospects throughout the Waikato are-admirable, and the worst half of winter is being faced with confidence. The country is being rapidlyopened up, and with the settlement of the land the prosperity of the province is increasing at a great rate.