LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 191, 3 August 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Taranaki Teachers' institute now numbers over JOO members. The secretary, Mr. It. L. Mcilruy, has his target lixed at 110. Tile annual testing of boilers in the railway engine-sheds is proceeding, the inspection being conducted bv Mr. Xichoils, superintendent. At Mr. .Newton King's mart on Saturday two farms, in the estate of the late \Y. D. Uarrod, of Okato, were sold under instructions from the Public Trustee. Mr. (.Jrecnwny, of Punilio, secured both, bidding CIO los an acre for the 100 acres, and to an acre for tiiv smaller property of 13 acres. The petitions for the abolition of thfc Carrujglon, Frankb'y, and liliot road districts, and the merging of that area into tiie Taranaki loamy, are to be presented at the County Council meeting to-day. are to be oll'ered by delegates from several road boards irlnn Xew Plymouth -.ouUlvwards, some of the representatives being Messrs. K. C. Clemow ami L. lv. LayJy (Omala Koad Hoard), O. OxMiham ('fatariuinaka), and J. F. Morns (Oakura). A resident of Christchurch, recently returned from America gave 'his impressions of' the Lniled States Jack Tar as he observed him.ashore and alloat. He said that he had been givailv astonished to tind that ;o many'of Uncle Sam's sailors were foreigners, two-thirds of the men uemg Scandinavians and Hermans; there was ittso u large sprinkling of negroes amongst them. ' The men did not seem to be under any Sort of discipline," he remarked, '-for Uie way they carried 011 in the streets after tne parade was by 110 means to tlwir credit." He went on board the Connecticut, and was astonished to see how slovenly the men were: they expectorated on the decks, and no one said Anything to them. The manner in which some of the crew ''spoke back'' to their p'-tfy oilicors in the hearing of several officers without reprimand appeared uxtraordinary to the Xew Zealandev with his knowledge of the strict discipline of the British Navy." Is this libel? The J 1011. it. McXab has written to : Air. W T. Jennings, M.P., in connection with the preservation of The beautiful '"West's Push" on the Tariki lioad: "In further reply to your letters 1 haw to inlorm you that this matter has already been considered by the Scenery Preservation 'Hoard, hut decision as to whether il vuis suitable for scenic reservation was deferred pending the receipt of further particulars. It will . receive linal consideration at the next meeting of the Taranaki Scenery Prerenal ion Hoard, which, however, cannot. be held for a least, a month or six weeks. It appears, however, that the Jam! in question i* diiellv suitable for picnic parties, puMie recreation and domain purposes instead of scenic reservation. and as tile residents of lugh-wood and the locality are anxious, so 1 understand. to obtain it in this manner. I .-hall b.' glad to kuov if there is any likelihood of the prisons interested contributing any portion of the cost of I he land, as .has been done (vlsewheiv, with the view In obtaining a subsidy from the («'o\ernmeiil ( 0 'enable til"' purchase of the land u> b-.» elj'ected. On receipt of your reply with (his inform 1tion tiie matter will !„. itguin considered.' Unfortunately, the bu>hmen are not waiting for six weeks. 'Should the Hoard decide iu six weeks' time to preserve the bush, there'll lu» precious little save felled fives to preserve. The work of devastation is proceeding.

liilluenza is always more or less prevalent at this season of the yoar. This disease is very similar to a severe cold anil if allowed to take its course is liable to cause st-rious results. The best treatment for iiillemiza is to avoid exposure and take CliaiuberlainV, Cong Remedy, this medicine gives immediate relief, and if used as directed will ward oil' nil dangerous consequences. Tl, Veuves the System in a natural and •liealthv condition. H always cures and cures quickly. For sale by all chemists and storekeepers. ' 1

It is stated that .CIO per aero has been paid fur royalty un limber un land up the .Main Trunk line, and as much as ,C*> ])or aero has been demanded lately.

A big political tight at Dundee was productive of some; good repartee between the sull'rifgettes and some of 1 t'lieir opponents. At a meeting where J one of the most voluble, was speaking, a man shouted out to her, ''ilow would , you like lo be a man?" .Siie replied . like a shot, "ilow would yon?" We are in receipt of (he August mun- ] her of "(iood Cheer," which has just come lo hand from the publishers at Wanganui. This monthly is an admirable production, and bids lair to be i\ew Zen- i laud's popular home journal in every sense of Ihe word. As usual, a eu4 pattern is given away free with "'(Iood Cheer, M which is >enl to any address for hall'-a-crown a year. A noticeable feature in an interim return ot sheep recently presented to Parliament, is the largo increase thai has taken place during the last seven years of lamb carcases exported. The number Jtas increased since WO2 from h7;ili,7SO lo 2,tt2U,4:i7 in IDOS. wlnle the number of in the J)ominion was 20,342,727 in 11)02. and to-day the approximate number is 22,124.202. The export of mutton carcase-* in tire same period increased from 1.712,070 io only 1,521,420. A remarkable, instance of a dog', sagacity and lidelitv was related at the l?r iptest held last month at Jlecston, near Nottingham, on "William Cross, a boy of seven, who was drowned in the Irent Cross toll into the river, and his two playmates tried in vain to rescue hi n. Then his liule terrier sprang into Uic j water, swam to him. and seized him by the coat The little animal struggled vigorouslv with his heavy burden, but ■ his strength gave out, and He, was ob- , litied to release his hold and swim to the ha ilk 1 . Ne had I'i'lciy LI strength lo crawl out of the water. Wellington people do not seem to be ' aware that a strike is in existence in t their city, and especially one connectI <>d with an article of prime importance > viich as bread. Nominally there is a i strike, virtually there is not. The r baker.-.' operatives aw simply out of t work, and assisting to swell the ranks l ' 'of the unemployed. The men declared * a strike, and deemed to tlunk the com--1 munitv would be starved, hut tliev o 'made'a mistake, dust about # enough e money i* coming in from outside unitf ons to meet the strike pay, but tlwrc •; j s uu absence of ready response.

The work of fixing t'lie boundary along the thousand miles of AngloFrench frontier between Hit Niger ami l.ake Chad oil (lie lilies of tile AngloFrench agreement lias heen completed, ami the liritish Commission _ under Mm ior O'Shce, lias returned to Knghind. The. work took ahout eighteen months, savH Keuter. A complete line ol beacons lias been established along the entire frontier, 118 having been erected each numbered and marked h,y tvicoloi taldets. Some of the bearons consist nl stone pyramids eight feet high, anil in oilier cases, where stone was not available, telegraph poles were used.

During last month the estates of 153 deceased persons in New Zealand were certilied for stamp duty. The largest were those of John 11. \ aulier, Napiei, t«7,48"; Jlugji Craig, Otago, ,C 15,441; Kenneth JlcKenzie, .C17,<l!)l; Caroline Kevmour. (lisborne, ,Clti,lßU; Thongs l'a'seoe I'.ryant, Wellington, di 15,33»; .Tallies Osliorne, Canterbury, .tl3,!)i>!); William Costello, Canterbury, £10,140; ■losenli I'arkinson, Canterbury, •lohii Nearing, Auckland, £0374. The largest estates of deceased persons in New [Plymouth district were those ol Jacob Eothery, £1541; Kllen SU«j>Uard, £15(1!); Jane JlcKee, £1204; John E. Smith, £8(i0; Sarah Cassell, £730. Speaking on "The History the Maori Spiral" at the Leys Institute, Auckland, ill' Kenneth Watkins said it was significant that in New Zealand the Maori "possessed ;1 weapon called the towha tewha, which was the counterpart of the Kgyptian domestic chopper of ■-MIOO M.C., an instrument that had a ionibination of three curves, which no law of spontaneity or hazard could account for. This weapon must have belonged to the same people. Mythological!,", Tiingaroa was the ..Maori impersonation of the ocean, and strange to say p t„> proved that in Tungaroa tlu-v had handed down the 4ftllD-year-ohl portrait of their own Xeptune when :i eolith. The lecturer'went on to reler to l.tlier wctl-kiiowu Maori carvings and their relation to Egypt, and by means of all excellent series of drawings illustrated his arguments. I" the native representation ol the bil'd pecking it the head of the chief they had the hawk symbol of Osiris. There was scarcely a form of this craft that was not traceable to I sis, Osisis. llonis. or 11a the deilications of upper, middle, and lower Kgypt. iMirther. taipo was tin- Maori ;'or' evil one. and typlion, the ancient Phociliean Neptune,

An extraordinary incident which secured in connection with the recent Hoods i> reported by the Otago Daily Times. When the waters subsided Mr William Kirkland, of Klmgrove Farm. Mast Taicii. missed one or two of his cows from the paddock when? they had been tied up; later, when ho was able to make a careful count he fouud that there were altogether six missing. He

diligently searched the farm and the liver banks, but finally, still marvelling on their strange disappearance, he. gave llie cows up for lost. The other day otto of the farm hands was cutting a piece out of a straw stack, and bin knife suddenly stvuek some hard substance. Further investigation showed this to be a cow. The astonished farm hand moved the front of the stack, and, linniy embedded inside, he discovered the six animals. When they struggled 01U, they were seen to be lean and shaky, and were, for the time quite blind. One had been eight days in the stack, two seven days, and three six days. It seems that pigs had made an opening in one side of the. stack, which had allowed the first cow to get in. The others, at intervals, followed her, possibly being driven in by inclement weather, and Lhen by some, means were totprisoned and unable t 0 force a way out. Since (heir release the cows are rapidly recovering their usual stale of health, and show signs of coining back to their milk.

who fondly imagine Mew Zealand is the only counLry where employer* considered themselves somewhat harshly restricted in the conduct of t'iicii: 'business, might be surprised to Irani that even in so-called eonServti\\: England, factory employees are granted an equal if not greater amount of protection, and breaches of tile factory laws are visited with much

greater severity. In the latest number of tile Loudon Daily News to hand apS pears under the headings "Tailor lined"; Factory Act Prosecution at Wool w icli — Yesterday at Woolwich Police Court. Hyman (ircenberg, of Vat-tison-road, Plumstead, tailor, was summoned under the Factory Act, for employing girls under the age of 18, on 1 May lb. Defendant admitted that two girl's, lmimnl Cissy Colton and Mary Huller, who were under age, were at work, but pleaded not giultv in the eascsof May lloldenand Miriam "Miller. Kvidvnee was given that two lady inspectors paid a surprise visit to defendant's factory at Jive mimites to ten, and found the four girls at work. In her evidence the girl Hidden denied that she was at work, aud said she was only looking on and talking. The Magistrate -lined defendant C 3 and ."s costs iu three cases, and regretted he could not inllict a line in the case of J [olden, though from the nature of her evidence it might be that considerable inlinenoe had been brought to boar 011 lu*r. For allowing his factory to oe overcrowded whilst overtime was worked, Greenberg was fined ;C2 and 7s. costs.

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