LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 165, 3 July 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-morrow's supplement will contain the first instalment of another .Mauri legend from the pen of Mr. J as. Izell, author of "Maori Lore" and other works. It is a sequel to the legend previously published in the ".News" and tells of the famous story of Hinemo-r ami Tulanckai. the Maoris' foremost legendary heroine and hero. 'The legend is cliarniinaly written and will no doubt be read with considerable intcrcsi. It will go through lour issues of the supplement. Other a'rlicles in to-morrow's issue are:—"Quelling a Native Itebellion." "I am a Briton," "Women as Mil-lion-makers." "I'nele Sam. Bargain Hunter," "doing J'anti," etc. There are the usual ladies'features, a» well as "Moturoa's" usual budget of sporting notes.

As mi evidence of tlii' mildness (if the season it is mentioned liv the local papers thai strawberries arc being picked in sonic parts of llnwke's Jiny. mid raspberries iiiul green |icas in a district close to Cishoinc.

At the nalcluthn Court (savs It lie Clulliii Lender) .Mr. Kcmkk laid it down Hint licfori' u summons could succeed against'a person for it debt a demand must first of all be made for the money. If he gave an order for goods, for inclined.'lie must he furnished with details of what he hud bought, and an account or demand for payment. Vnlcss this was done, the plaint.il]' could not succeed on a summons. The opinion of counsel at tin- bar was contrary to his Worship's dictum. The general acceptcd law on the point was. that it' a person incurred a debt it was his duly to ascertain what it was and settle 'it—it was not incumbent on a creditor to make any demand before summoning. The fact that he had not done s„ luigM be taken into account, in fixing costs, but it could Jiot in the least, imperil the claim.

Eour Axis deer and four lilmral slieen consigned to the Tourist Department for acclimatisation purposes will arrive by the Binmlaka, which is due on July ■i!)th. The Axis deer, which is relaled In the sambur. ami belongs to I he jungles of Southern India and Ceylon, has I n liberated in this country' before, 'flic Bhiiral sheep, souiclinu's'called I he blue .sbcep of Thibet, is found on most of lbplaleans of Weslcru Asia, but hcvit CI s\hc|ow 111.0111 l feel above the sea level. 'll, is a strong, prolific animal, roving in'sherd., of up lo .Ml in number, and an nvr.e climber. owing to it -, col„;ir if i,, .Vjllicnll In delect „„ rocky I'l'iiiilrv. bill .'cm be ai'"ro.n'heil with Mi-diMnry caution. The male lias curviiie- le.rnsUroin 21 inches (~ .>« illel.e.-; long. Woods' Croat IVppeiqnint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fhils. 1/0 ami B/0. : . ..... V .

Two first-offending inebriates were before the Stipendiary Magistrate's Court yesterday, and were convicted ami discharged. The atmosphere was rnrilicd to a remarkable degree yesterday murhing. From Vogcllown the North Kgmonl Mountain House and many of the homesteads away up on the ranges were plainly visible.

When the Kducalion Department objected to pay the reutd of ten shillings per week for a room in which to conduct school at Purangi, the Education Hoard promptly put in an application for a new school. The Department has granted .C 250, and refuses to increase the amount. Under present conditions the money will just about provide accommodation for the children in that district, but allows very little for growth of juvenile population,

An old ollendcr named John P.riuii, alias Hennessy, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment by Mr. 11. S. Fitzherbcrl. X.M., on Wednesday morning, lie was charged with the theft of a ueckehaiu. pendant, and charm from Mrs. Johnston's boarding-house. He breakfasted there on Tuesday and went upstairs. When the articles were missed Mrs. Johnston communicated with the police, and Constable Ik-Ivor arrested lite suspect ill Devon-street the same morning—-a smart piece of work. The man protested his innocence, but ou being searched the stolen articles were found upon him. Later he admitted the theft.

A ■•grandmollicr.-' at-home" was held at. Whittle}- Hall yesterday afternoon in connection with the Wltit'cloy Memorial Church. Theie was an excellent gathering of the ladies of the congregation, young and old grandmas acting as hostesses and providing the afternoon t:-i, which was served by (heir grand-ilaugii-ters. The "at home" was quite an innovation, and a pleasant afternoon was spent. A musical programme, whicli was heartily enjoyed, was given as follows:—Pianoforte' solo by Mrs. A. Yoalo, two violin solus by Miss Dowling vocal duets by the Misses liuckinan. and vocal solo by Miss Ambury, and a recitation by Miss Kuy.s (Wellington). A sale of work in aid of the (loud Templars' Hall fund was held in St. Mary's [Jail last night. The all'air was not organised on a big scale, but there was n good attendance, and the articles offered sold well. The committee in charge of the arrangements had coinpiled au interesting programme to ensure t It<; enjoyment of patrons. ' Violin solos were contribulcd by Miss Dowling, vocal duet by the Misses Gilbert, pianoforte solos by Misses 10. Cock and A. licgg, a club swinging display by .Miss 11. U'gg, and a slump speech by Mr. Stokes. Miss Kirby won the nail-driving competition, and Mr. V. Davis the hattrimming. Supper was "on" all the evening.

Bather an amusing slory is going the rouie's concerning Jlua, the .Maori pro.-, phet (says (he AVhakatane Tillies), lie communicated the solemn fact, to his followers that during the night a vision appeared to him, and he was told that he was to take unto himself another wife, hut if the first wife was not agreeable to the proposal he should be taken up to heaven, (in seeking the first wife's permission lo annex another damsel, she was up in arms at. once and stoutly refused, and when lie nientionr'-d what would happen to him if she didn't grant, him permission she I old hill) t'o go lo heaven. As quickly as he could he got his followers to intercede for liiin, but the dame was obdurate. For four days lie locked himself in his room, and on the morning of the lifth day he was seated on the verandah of Iks house Wrapped in a sheet and wecpiui, Soon I his followers were crying with joy to see Mm WHBi» they thought, from heaven. questioned. Una told them thanHiad been given permission lo wished. His followers a purse of sovereigns, to him to remain, which lie consented Wo. An extraordinary letter fr»i a Xe.v Zealand immigrant is published in the Carnarvon Herald of May 15th. The writer is a WcMinian, .Mr. William Jones, of the Chief Post oilire, Auckland. "In the interests of public jus(ice." he writes, " I think it is my d'ulv 10 advise any of my countrymen who intend to .-migrate to New Zealand to think twice before Lln-v take that insane step. I have taken a deep interest in the emigration syslem, but cannot for the life of me understand wliy people should, want lo leave their bright and happy homes for a countrv in which llu-y will always feel estranged like the children of Israel in the land ,of Kavpi. If you ask mo what there is n,' 1„, gained by i! on cnuscieutious answer is 'nothing.' At home in A Vales you will be respected and honoured, and can enJoy the benclit of Christian society. In New Zealand you will be disrespected and dishonoured, llumanitv here is on a very low scale. People hardly spcak eivillv to a person, and thciy always I rent everyone from Kuglaudf with the gro.s-.esl contempt. I proposojto deliver 11 lecture when I come back 1 to Wales on life in New Zoilmd." That, is to sv-\ -Air. Jones will deliver Uts b.sjtm'e at a safe distance—some 1,1,(111(1 miles-from (lie subjects of his kindlv | criticism. AVhy nut deliver it in Auckland beforehand?

An amusing strike happened in Christchurch a iew days ngo, but so far the culprits have not buoxi lined. Usuallv, on the Canterbury College Diploma Duv, the pupils of the Ciris' High School have a half-holiday, because generally one of the teachers is a new graduate and has to atLend the ceremony to receive Tier diploma. This year there was no diploma to get, and no half-holiday Uiis allotted. During the lunch hour the "iris took counsel among themselves, and when the classes were resumed no i pupil answered any question on the sub- ' ject of Icssojls. They explaiued that i they had anticipated a break, aud had not prepared any lessons. Never were pupils so dense, apparently. Their, minds were a blank about the "pen*, I be ink, and the paper lent by t-ije female gardener'* daughter to the son of the shoemaker'' in the French course, and they did not know Julius Caesar from -lalius Knight. They could not add' nor subtract, nor do any of the things requested by their instructors. The humour of the pupils' attitude rather appealed to the teachers, who were sorely taxed to retrain from smiling at the epidemic of dullness. The regulation time was tilled in, but the strikers were not imprisoned afterwards, and were j not obliged to do any overtime in copy- 1 ing out lines of Virgil, Horace, and other gentlemen little loved by the junior scholar. We mentioned in Ihese columns vesterday that the Xoriuanby road was in a particularly bad and dangerous state. Th" following from yesterday's llawera Star shows how real the danger is:---As Dr. I'omare aud Mr. (hudiner (District Health Otlicer) were driving along the Xoriuanby-Okaiava road en Wednesday (hey inel with a bad accident.'"When coming down the hill near Mr. Metiuire'-; residence, where there are some nasty holes in the road, the axle of the buggy broke. Mr. (lardinerwas dragged along the road for about tea yard-, ami Dr. Poinare. who hung on to the ivins, found himself in the vicinity of the horse's heels. huL prevented a runaway. Roth gentlemen were badlv shaken aud somewhat bruised, although not seriously hurt. The doctor complained at our olliee this morning that the road was tlu* worst in the Dominion. "We hear about the roadless Xorth." lie said, "but there you look for hard riding, whilst in a well-settled district like this something better is expected. H was adding injury to insult. 1 ' lie went on to say. "to drive out in the country and have to pay the toll-gate fee for the pleasure of nearly getting one's neck broken.'' The doctor further said he considered the road in question a standing disgrace to such a civilised and prosperous community, and feared someone might yet he kil'ied on it. "And if that does occur,'' lc? said, with a twinkle in hist-ve. ; T hope it will be a countv councillor."

Tllli BALTIC IS THE PUGMIER SEPARATOR. No separator can et|tial the Baltic. Us new principle gives results far alicad of all others. Mr. W. F. Alexander, of Tnnrangn, writes: "J have-used a Baltic separator of 40 gallons capacity for two seasons, and it lias given every satisfaction. It is a real good little machine., easy to turn, takes llic full quantity claimed, very simple, and lite upkeep for two seasons has onlv been the. cost of oil. Tests of skim-milk by the factory manager have been under .02, wliielt f consider must be it record for n hand machine. MacKwan and Co., Ltd., Sole Agents, Egmoont-strcel, New Plymouth. (iieat slaughter of prices for the. last few days of the Melbourne's Sale of Moir's 'slock. Men's smartly-tailored uverciinls in a variety of fashionable, rainproof materials marked 555. We, are clearing them at 30s fid. Also a few superb men's tailor-made luijls in a variety of leg and chest measurements, pi'i-'eei lilting, and unite canal to the fivc-.urnea to-order suits. We are clearins! them at 40s lid a".150s fid. lfonr.-cuo s in a eliil.l subject | n ~r o up is a -aire indication of flic annroaeli of the disease. IT Chamberlain's Cough l.'c.i'cilv is .riven at once or cum after ! h" •■,oh|i-- couch lias appeared it will prevent (lie ntlaek. P]ea?an» to take and contains no poison. For Mle by nll'l chemists Bfli storekeepers, ;> 13

Says the Stratford Post: "Better aldpping accommodation at the breakwater is not going to beiielit New Plymouth alone; it will give the inland districts it lift forward that few other things could' do. With the prospect of buckblock roading, the speedy completion of the Stratford-Ongaruo railway, and sal'i: berthage at the breakwater for the larger eraft that ply the ocean, Tarnnaki will In- still more prosperous in the future than slit- lias been in the past. We trust, then, that the JSill will become law, and that when the loan proposals under the measure tire put before the ratepayers they will be sanctioned by a substantiaf majority."

The versatility of the Teuton may fairly be gauged by the following advertisement appearing in an American journal:—"German (married), age ;)U, sober and fair, speaking Russian, Finland, Kstkuid, and little English, understands also Latin, eight months in this country, having fifteen years' foreign general business, olliee, store, and druggist prescriptions experience, wishes position as correspondent lor German or Russian or an interpreter, travelling man, •.'(illector, cashier, nurse in hospital, valet, waiter, watchman, or of any kind. Address Leonhard Zuergens, 3024 L T street, South Omaha, Neb." A telegram IronrParis slated that ;i workman named Courlin had been buried deep in a well lor three days, in the little town of liambouillet, but was then alive. The accident was caused by the wails of the well which he was digging collapsing. Me was 100 feet deep in <i cage, in which he was working. The rescuers, who had communicated with liim by means of an impromptu speaking pipe, had to proceed slowly for fear of the weight of earth destroying the cage, lie lead no feed with him when the accident happened, so far as was known. Oiie of the most extraordinary things about the accident was that it was the second time that it had happened to Cuiirtin. Some months ago he Was I buried under precisely similar circumstances, stud was rescued after liflythree hours.

A wonderful story conies from Philadelphia audit four hundred monkeys taking possession of the British steamer llraiinpcls, which recently arrived there from Calcutta (says .the London Daily Hail. The monkeys were liberated from a cage between decks by a pet baboon, and for two days there was 10 rest for ollicers or crew. Parties ol them would rush down on deck, pick up belaying pins or other handy objects, ami quickly-climb back into the rigging. Then, when an ollicer or member of the crew walked across the decks, the animals would let lly their belaying pins. While the vessel was going up the harbor the captain hit upon a scheme to capture the monkeys. He secured a bulge quantity of molasses, mixed it with brandy and rum, and put several pans of the mixture where the apes had congregated. Soon there were four hundred monkeys staggering around the "Hocks", and when t'.;uy were helplessly drunk the animals were picked up and placed back ill llie cage without further trouble.

Bishop Julius had some remarks to make about dress and morals in a sef-, moil delivered at St. Mary's Church, Tiiuaru, last Sunday. There were people, lie said, who would rather break every one of the Ten Commandments than be seen in an unfashionable dress, such slaves bail they become to fashion. The Bishop went on to speak of fashion in matters of the Church.' "Vein can't have fashion in morals," it might be said; yet, as a matter of fact, fashion ruled morals as much as it did anything else, and it was remarkable how ii particular virtue might become the fashion of the moment. .Many people could remember the lime when a man might be drunk at the dinner-table or swear in the presence of ladies, and people of to-day would do the same things to-morrow if they were permitted by fashion to do so. Some day, perhaps, no gentleman would be permitted by fashion to gullible, and it was to be hoped that the trend of fashion would lie in this direction. The fashion nowadays #as, he said, to slop awav from eliurlh. and people did so. If they had the means they spent their Sundays motoring, and the excuse: "Oh, other' people don't go to church, so why should I? And if everyone attended there would -not be room lor me." JOven religious opinions were com,'oiled in much the same way, and though many people imagined that they had based their opinions on a solid foundation, they had in realilv formed them on what the fashion of the moment dictated, fashion was changing day by day. and surely man, who was made for eternity, iws no! made for such slu/f as that. lie knew of nothing' more wanting al the present day than .steady, solid convictions that feared nothing from the changing fashions.