LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 167, 6 July 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Owing to the unfavorable weather, tilirre was only a moderate attendance of the public at the Esplanade rotunda yesterday when the (Jarrison Band discoursed a progriLUilne. of excellent music. Alter the proceedings the Mayor and Mayoress entertained the bandsmen to afternoon tea, which was most acceptable.

Knbclik, the world's greatest violinist, adorns the cover of tiie July issue of "tiood Cheer," a copy of which has reached us. This monthly journal for New Zealand homes, which is published in Wangaiuii, has made its third appearance before the public, ami it is in every way a creditable production. The fashions anil home reading arc as good as usual, and a number of interesting coinpetitions are published.

Some men are tremendously ambitious. Professor Julius -Kikendorfor, who is said to be a member of many LurnpeuM scientific and geological societies, says he will lav betore King Victor Kmmanuel of Italy plans for tile e.Miuetion of VcSuvious*by gigantic tunnels bored below the sea level from the .Mediterranean to the crater. lie might as well trv to diiow out an electric light. , *

Tlu» looker-on ireiK'i'alty sees most ui' tlio giiiiui. On Saturday afternoon a local, resident was standing i'or a lew minute in a street not far from the centre of the town. On u rejghbonn'j balcony, overlooking tli L ' street, were two little boys. They were playing. Presently another youngster happened along, and stood below the balcony; talking lo the youngsters on top. One. disappeared /or a moment and reappeared with a jug of water, which he promptly emptied over the boy in the street. Then the wailing commenced. Tea is b''iug strongly recommended by the Herman military authorities as a beverage for troops on long inarches m place W the coil'cp which .has Jutlierto been the sole refreshment supplied. Special tea-making machines are being constructed for the troops. Tea consumption in Germany is very slight compared with other nations, the Hermans ranking fourth in 11)03, with a consumption 0/ less than 2oz per hoad of population, as compared witli me Jiritish Gib per 'head,.the llussian lsoz, and the Dutch HUb. The French consumption is very smallj and remains at less than 107. per head.

In connection with the display of New Zealand made gCods which wilt be made by the New Plymouth shops during footbail week, the Committee of Manag'meiii are securing the assistance of the julueation J.Uiard in arranging for essays descriptive of the display, t-u be written by the school children. Jt is thought that as the children attending the town schools will have more opportunities for inspecting the exhibits than the suburban and provincial school children, the competition will be fairer if divided in that way, and it is proposed to make two classes in each division, namely, senior and junior. A fund for providing the necessary prize-money has already been started.

hi February, !!>O7, there was argued before the Compensation Court a claim brought by t\ie liaweia Electric Lig'liit, Company against the Eltham Borough Council for compensation for loss ot power resulting iroiu the Council's tapping of the Wamgongoro stream at Kliluun for the municipal water supply. The Court failed to agree 0 n a decision. It was stated at the time that certain law points had arisen which) would have to l»e referred to the full Court. By consent between tlie parties a case has Ikmmi slated for tlic Appeal Court;, and the law points will be argued at the sitting' of the Court which opens to-day (Monday).

"Stow that, over there! W'l.en are you going to shut up? How can the Court ln'iir itself when vo.i jaw, you lilit'ln-riiig idiots?" shouted the presiding judge from the Bench of the Com:morcial Tribunal in Paris (says the con-'.'Spondent of ihe Daily Counsel were petrified, and the oH'icer* of the Court horror-stricken. "lou are all a parcel of I'atlie/uk" the judge was going cm at the top of hi< voice, ami l lie very walls wer ; ' shuddering when an oilicer having recovered consciousness. made a dash for the bench, collared the judge, and threw him out. shouting out that he was no judge at all, but a lunatic who had somehow usurped the in ijesti c oiliec.

Ohm move insUiiH-i' nt tli« hardships of tin l backblocks A man who lias been settled in tin' Waiuiiu'iun district for flii' las; eight years told the W'vllitiglou Fust that last season lie liail .)•! hales ol wool to send to flu- market, transport by vi'liicU* was impossible, and the wool was taken in sacks by pack-horses over six ami a-half miles of bridle-track, rebaled at the oilier end, mid sent oil to Wanganui. The particular bridle-tract referred to is portion of an alleged road which lias been partly completed at both ends—that is to say, a considerable amount of money lias been spent in the midst of the wilderness, but, for reasons which no one can understand, the intervening portion lias never been completed. There was a well-attended meeting at Kapuni on Friday of subscribers to tlie Joll Memorial Fund, reports the I.la wera Star-. The delegates submitted tlrree proposals in this order: —(1) Scholarship at l'almcrston North Dairy School open to the whole Of Tarauaki'; (2) live-acre park at Ukaiawa; (3) a lile-size sLntue to be ''reeled in a place to be decided upon. This subscribers voted in favor of the scholarship proposal, and as donations promised amount only to £228 (.C122 of winch has been paid), while a ' scholarship valued at anything between ,C2U and £SO is desired, a further canvass lor additional subscriptions will lie. made. Sir. tl. lietts was appointeil secretary, anil a representative committee set up to carry the scheme to a successful suc. Subscribers pr'srnt conlidenlly anticipated tilat the whole of Tarallaki would subscribe, towards the fund.

I Advance sheets of the New Zealand War llook, issued by the iiegistrar-Uen-eral (.Mr. K. .1. von Dailclsy.cn), she A': that tin; deaths in 1 DOT numbered lll.lKili, being' equivalent to a rate of 10.D.5 in every 11)1111 persons living, as against !>..'! I iu I'.IIIU. I.lns is the highest rate experienced since; the year ISB3, when tne deal lis were 11.3 j,or I.UUU of the jjopulation. A table is published showing that Xew Zealand is conspicuous as showing tile lowest death-rate. The rates for tile principal Australian States are a littk' higher, but, generally Speaking, far below those for the United Kingdom or tne Kuropean t'ontniental States mentioned in the tables. j'| lo mortality troin tubercular diseases for 1007 is !U per cent of the total deaths at tile four borougns and their suburbs from all causes. Deaths from cancer rose at the H'lef towns fro,,, 217 in IDOli (o 2:15 n, I'Wi. Ihe bitter in is 7..".!) percent Of deaths lor tne year from all causes.

ill i;itli:iin on Fi-iiiny •Mr. .\-i|iiiiiy. ;i well-known fanner, J 5 ! :l < : iU " " hll <' fr ical honors at tin; Illl'tllClUllilliir election l .j( 0l | j n stances in .support <, r ld : ( , inl( . llUl)|] lcgsirdiiiy what (.In; laical (|, lv <.in-} nient Ikii! tlum- f»r the far r?i j [( * instanced Hi,. slTii|i,,ii 1; ,. b , InPS (o lucvent t lii; introduction oi diseases I til.' I'niniiliiijr „f f,inns' reduction of railway freights, technical education for farmers' children. advances to sell!,.is, ll„. ot 1 !' "tc. Tile seemed to .set, itself to foster uhb farming coniniunil y. He could ,rot underHand the opposition „f f llrnior6 . 0 ilie Liberal (..ov'Tiu it. |] ( . thought their opposilion was hereditary "fie had ioiind that till: riovei'nnieiil latum had not harmed him. and that legislation Irad lienelhed other classes Was no reason why J,e should oppose it. In the light of theSe facta ,\lr. Masseys cry of •Socialism" was a boW-v One HI the (Ipposition cries as tiie speaker was vermin,, to manhood was llial education should not ..n hevord the fourth standard. We |,.,7| •"""1 <l'«t and ho believed we could not educate our children too ,„ucli provided we ,|„| not p „ t „ otin , ]s jn(o Iheir heads alioyc their stations THE ONLY SEPARATOR IN THE WORLD.

I 11.6 Milotte >? »>e only separata | miid* tviLh enatnolled bowl easing a nfi i ."'"VV"' Of course, thfa I 1 k '.,utifill hard glazed finish on the parts | that contact with the milk must ; Ki.a the Melotte an immense advantage over other separators in the matter of cleanliness. The difference between th? "namellcd bowi of a "Melotte" and a cluna tea-cup and a tin pannikin. We also claim that the "Melotte" is the easiest separator to turn. That's bewe it is made on an entire! v Jifferent principle. We coviid «plain this to voa I. A. Nolan and Co virfe Wilson and Milan), agents. Nc • Hraioat>. '