LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 208, 24 August 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Magistrate's Court, Palinerston, Charles Louisson, brewer, obtained judgment for .CI Ids and. CI Ills costs against F. W. Hunting, photographer, for the value of thirty fowls destroyedliy defendant's dog. During the year ended June SO, 100S, 5551 first oll'ending drunkards were con 1 victed in the Dominion, of which number 572 were oversea visitors. Of the total number 213 were women.

On the application of Mr. C. M. Townsend, letters of administration of the estate of the late Harry Robert Johnston were on the 15th instant granted bv the Supreme Court to I'has. licibeir, Johnston, of WaiUrii, brother of lh,. deceased.

A local linn of booksellers (sav.s the Auckland UcraM) has received the following letter rr.nn a lady residing in the country: "Dear Sir—Would you kindly forward me a copy of the rules in hockey, also 'First Ahl to (he Injured,' as we propose starting the game in our district."

A rather amusing little comedy was i'liac.led on a recent Sunday in a Chinese vegetable garden, where ten Celestials were occupied in digging (says the Alastciton Age |. Two railway employees, thinking of having a little fun, approached the fence close to where th" t hinamcu were toiling, and one of them pulled out his book and pretended to write. I'irst one and then another of the-Chinamen looked up, and, sticking his spade in the ground, scraped his bonis, shouldered his spade, and the whole lot Hied oil' to their wliarc. A uinc-vear-old child named Annie Wilson confessed at the F.a-Uide Police Conn. New York, to robbing more than forty houses at Hie instigation of a woman, who, so the little girl testified, pocketed the plunder. .She took jewellery, articles of clothing, dolls, crucifixes, and. in fad, anything she could lav her hands on ill the houses which she managed In enter. "Yes, .fudge," explained the child, "I used to -o lo Sunday school- and learn lots about angels, but il was more exciting. In till my gocarl with good things." The incorrigible maiden was handed over lo the (ierry Society.

For biggest variety-and lowc.sl prices : in men's warm underdo! hinr ''The -Melbourne'' undoubtedly lakes the palm. Consider these prices: Knsivn llaiiie-' undershirts 2s lid, I'elone knitted mulepants :is Oil. plain seamless lloslyn sm-ki HJd pair. Kaiapoi heavy ribbed -nd'- ".! -CMC, ~;.••.,,,(, Mliillcls l<sd, Is lid, 2s fid, I neriin. under;- nils Is lid, heim lambsAM. A sore throat may be (piic.klv cured 1-v applvinv a llamiel bandage ilamponro willi Chamberlain's Pain Halm. A iaiiie back, a pain in (he side or chest, should by treated in a similar manner. Pain Palm is also famous for its cures of rheumatism. For Gale by all chemists and storekeeper,

Alr.T. Knowles, licensee of the Breakwater Hotel, informs us that he lias never taken any objection to the proposed erection of tea-rooms at the Breakwater, and has no knowledge whatever of tile statement to that effect made at the Harbor Board meeting. Air. Knowles says he would be glad to see a dozen tea-rooms in the vicinity. A petition from a number of- holders of tontine policies in the Colonial .Mutual Ufa Society resident in Auckland was presented to the House the other day by the Hon. James AieGowan. The petitioners allege that the results of tho tontine policies, now expiring as being oll'oicd, do not agree with the representations .upon which their proposals were clearly understood to apply, and they ask for an inquiry into the matter.

As soon us the Consolidated Estimates are disposed of by Parliament, the Government will bring down the Public Works Sutemuiit and Estimates. The Statement, it is understood, will disclose no fresh policy, it will be remembered that in the Budget Sir Joseph Ward indicated that the construction of several new lines of railway would be proposed, luid this has caused members to await Hie Statement with more than ordinary interest. -Mr. Hunter, manager of the Slate Iloi •! at (Iwalia,/owned and run by th.i YVeslraliaii Government, - interviewed at Perth, stated that in three years the capital cost of the hotel and buildings ( .0000) lad been paid oil, and .CfOOO clear profit made. Rigid adherence to 11 o'clock closing and an absolute bar to any Sunday trading were factors in the success achieved. Alen were refused liquor if they made a row, and told that they would be put on the State Hotel prohibited list for a week or a month. That quieted them.

As an example of Uio way in which tho idea of what is right can work itself into the common things of everyday life, Professor Jones, iu a lecture at tiro university in Sydney tile othet day, told a good story. "1 remember, ho tnid, "a servant girl who was undoubtedly converted. She was asked 'WBuil. cjiange has your conversior brought to you. Do you do anything now that you did not, do bet ore yoi were converted V The girl coiisidorei for a while. 'Yes,' she said. '1 sweei under tlw mats now!'

• As was only to be expected the Au.'i;land tramway trallic during.Fleet week totalled surprising ligures. For the eight days, from Saturday the Bth un til Saturday the 15th the receipts'wore 10500 from 1,014,000 passengers, while on Monday 140,000 travelled on -the cars. The Railway Department estimates that the inutird trallic during Fleet week accounted for between 25,000 and 30,000 passengers. During the five days the IJuny street postal bureau was opened the olliccrs there handled 40,328 post-cards, 0112 letters, 3454 newspapers, 007 parcels, and 2513 book packages. It must be remembered that this bureau was only used by officers and men from the battleships,' and only a portion of the correspondence was dealt with there.

A most extraordinary thing was discovered at the Now* Bath Buildings the other day (says the Hotorua Times). The water from the town supply could I not be gut to work satisfactorily at one j of the douches. ■ At last it was found necessary to investigate the service pipes. Then the secret was discovered. At tile bifurcation "f two pipes was found n four-pound trout, with its body jammed into each pipe, having got crossed. It was dead, of course. Tne marvel ii how it got there, for the town supply of water is derived from a spring like llamuvana, which gushes right up out of tlie ground. The trout must have been hatched in some distant stream, and as a very small fry found its way into tli» subterranean cavity, where t lived until it rose to the surface, and,

geiting into the pipe, lost its life. It must have had a mo.-t interesting his-

.dr. Jidison, the wonderful luiraclewoikir of America, has been expressing his astonishment regarding the niy.ilorious power of wireless communication, lie, who knows So much more tiiiaa ordinary mortals, says wo do not know wliat makes waves that we call

electricity go across me ocean in this way. "IVe don't know anything about it. It is contrary to all the known laws of nature and science. All we know is that they do go, and that ilirey carry messages with them. Just stop

and think what we will be able to do with than when we find out wlliat they are and the laws that control them. 1 fell 'you this thing is only beginning, and in i few years there will be developments along this line tlliat will startle even the most sanguine dreamer of to-day." And he adds that this thing is in its' infancy yet. ]<t is easy to sec that, ''This young fellow .Marconi does not know a tenth part now of the wireless ihat he will know in the next ten years. The possibilities of the Wiing arc limitless and beyond comprehension."

"No dearth of eligible candidate, at pri'-n-nt exists," says tlie Commissioner of Police in his annual report. Ik' states that the training of candidates is still proving highly satisfactory. The benefits derived from the instruction imparted lo probationers in education, drill, ambulance work, technical police duties, Police Acts, and the fingerprint system of idcntilicaliun. is having a marked elVcct on the men. During the year there were ninety-one fresh candidates win), after inquiry, measurements, etc., were found to he eligible for the service. Ninety-live men were taken on during the year—.New Zealand bom. Hi; Australians, ]:i; Irish, 10; English, 1U; Scotch, I); South African, 1. They included twelve artillerymen, one sailor, one draper, one ehaullonr, two clerks, one baker, one storekeeper, and one uicharclist. As to religion, :.fl were Church of Eugland, 27 were Roman 'Catholics, and 21 Presbyterians. Of the 01) men who went for "first aid to the injured," OS passed and one failed. The voting on Thursday last on the

question of raising a. joint loan of .■COO.OOO (Ilawera County ■£19,81)0 and llawera Borough 10,21)1))* for the construction of a tramline between llawera and Knupo'koimi, was;— Borough: For the proposals, 101; against, 21. County. For, ;i2(i; against, 17(i. Commenting o:i the poll and the majority necessary for the Council to proceed further with the scheme, the. Star says: "It may he said that the decision of the County Council last Sa.Umlay puts an end to all hope. Not necessarily so. That decision was

that the Council would not proceed unless one-half of the total number of oxcrcisa.bk votes were cast in favor of the scheme. The ell'eet of that resolution, we assume, was not duly considered. If it- was ilulv considered, then it can onlv he regarded as a delibeiately designed block. The restriction thus imposed in respect of a purely preliminary vote was infinitely more severe than the Legislature has imposed in respect of voting to irrevocably fasten a liability on the district. It was an unreasomiible, condition—a condition seldom fulfilled even when the largest issues are at stake. . . . When a

Council srues the length of imposing a condition that is unreasonable, and practicnllv impossible of fulfilment, it will or at any rate should, on furl her consideration, if nwessary, retrace its action. The resolution referred lo is therefore unlikely to he a bar to further action if it is deemed desirable to reopen the tram question. 'lf the members of the local liodies arc obdurate, the ratepavcrs must be appealed to at the next elections."

The celebrated "Mokau case was -c----vived on Friday in the Legislative Council. The lion. W. W. AlcCardlc moved, "That in view cr the expression of opinion of Air. Justice Parker that the High Court of Knglaiul had no jurisdiction to entertain a suit for the redemption of the Alokau leaseholds; that the Supreme Court of New Zealand had expressed a contrary opinion, refusing leave to appeal, whereby grave injustice had been sullcn-d by Air. Joshua. Jones, the Government should introduce legislation to give him relief." The mover said he did not want to cast, any reflection upon the Judges in the matter, but thought the case was one which should be taken into their special consideration, as, after Air. Jones had got a special Hill passed he had, by some means which were not regarded by everyone as fair, been deprived of a valuable property. The Attoruey-tleu-erai pointed out that the course was open to Air. Jones to petition I'arliamcul in the Usual way and have his ease iuycslieatcd, tin general principles ho thought it was an exceedingly unwise precedent lor Parliament to step in and interfere after (he, highest Court in the counlrv bad decided the legal rights ni litigants. II was unconstitutional now to come to Parliament, after Air. Jones had. exhausted all the available Court machinery, and ask for such legislation to bo passed. After considerable discus- • siim leave w.n given to the mover to . il'ulrnw the motion.

Airs. T. Piirioii, Albert road, Epsom, N\Z„ writes: "We all use Chamberlain's Cough llomeily and think a lot o' it. \lv 'husband, who is a conductor on illo Auckland trams, takes it when he lias the least symptom of a cold, and it -'- wavs lessens the attack. Have given it to our children many times for coughs or croup, and it has D-sver failed to cure." For sale by ail chemists and storekeepers,

The Kiverdalo Factory last week commenced to run dailv.

A well-known Christchurch doctor calling on a patient on Monday, left ins motor car standing oa . a flat streicJli at the top of the road, but forgot to apply the brake. While he was away a sudden glist ot mini carried tile car to. the slope and scut it Ira'cing down. It pursued an erratic evcr-ateolcratrug course to a lencc protecting n ouit embankment, knocKe-d down tile fence, and plunged over the embankment.

With an air „( injured innocence a '•drunk' i u tn-e timvM Memuurno court Uae other day complained that tile police report lliat lie had been convicted 102 times was incorrect. "There is a clerical error somewhere, your Worship," ho said. "Last time 1 counted it just reached 101. lucre's one that 1 must strongly object to." He was sent up for fourteen days.

All exciting episode occurred at i about two oclock on Wednesday morning at the northern end of Oreytown. ] Residents who happened to be awake at thai Hour heard gun shots fired - in rapid succession, and naturally vftm.dered what was the cause of such an unusual disturbance. Inquiry elicited the inlormation that a resident had heard sonic men prowling about his premises. He seized his jowling piece ami a handful of cartridges and went for tin to investigate, lie saw two men and promptly iired a couple of charges into the air over their Heads. lire intruders bolted, and slipping another cartridge in the breech of the ileeing ligures then at some distance, lireil. lucre Was an exclamation of "Oil!" and apparently an acceleration .of retreat, i for soon there was no one in sight and the householder went to bed. Further developments arc looiccd for.

Reporting with Air. Forsyth upon lbs deliberations of Ihe recent Farmers' Union Colonial Conference at Wellington, Mr. .Maxwell stated at Thursday's Taranaki Executive meeting that what

struck him most at the Conference was the absence oi any party feeling. "1 did not see iir the speech, of any single delegate, added the president, " signs of putting parly before the Union. Right through every delegate acted entirely front the standpoint of the Union." Air. Murray: "A very healthy sign." "An excellent sign, too," added Sir. Maxwell; Mr. Forsyth supported Air. ilaxw'e',l in his remarks. The president further remarked that there was a most hopeful future in the progress of the Union. The delegates-stated that nearly all the remit* from Taranaki were given effect to. On the motion of Messrs. Lambie and Murray, a hearty

vote of thanks was accorded the delegates for the able manner in which they represented the Executive.—Hawera Star.

Writes the Auckland Herald:— '"The Taranaki Farmers' Union has made tho important discovery that there is a snipping ring controlling fji le overseas 'trade between Great Britain and JMew Zealand, and that German goods are being introduced via London, at lower freight charges than were imposed on British goods, the shipping market being controlled on the rebate system. The Union has communicated the iniurmalion to the AacKiand Chamber of Commerce, and asked for suggestions as to how to deal with the matter. The Chamber, being composed of simple merchants and importers, probably doesn't know much about tlhc mora-

ments in the world's trading nffairb, but it has some idea that a Shipping Kings Commission is sitting at Home in connection with these matters, and a letter will be sent to the Taranaki Fanners' Union mildly suggesting, indirectly, that the discovery should Ira communicated to tlie aforesaid Commission/'

That Anglophobe nourishes in Germany is borne out. in a convincing manner "by n letter received in Wellington of which tlie following is an extract:"The following circumstance has recently come to my notice as a method of the manner in which the Herman Navy League works. There is a small collect-ing-'iiox made in the shape of a ship, and painted the colors of -the German Hag. It is supplied to schools, and every owner of one is supposed to put a eel' tain percentage of his pocket-money into it. It is generally possessed by schoolchildren, and is passed round or olfcre;l with the remark, 'liieb hier dcin geld, dass wir die Englander tuchlig sehiagen' (Give here your money, so that we can thoroughly smash the. English). .My correspondent asks why the English Navy League cannot start a similar box, so Ihat' we may not risk a smashing. 1 am* far from wishing to advocate anything such as this, but 1 wish, if possible; to show you the feeling that is undoubtedly gaining ground in Germany. Unfortunately they can believe that this-country will not attack them. T'hey measure our statesmen by their own standard, and consequently expect to be broken up before they have an o'. portunity of building a ileet to defend themselves, it is this fear on their part which makes the danger in the situation." Some two or three years after the Tara.wera eruption a sample of the volcanic mud which covered.vast areas of pumice land in Uhe vicinity of tlie mountain, was declared by an analyst to be utterly useless for the purposes of cultivation. Time, however, has apparently changed the entire character of the mud deposit, converting it from a useless nias 5 into a medium capable of producing an abundant ef plant life. Tn course of time the pure vol-

ciinic country carrying its heavy coating of volcanic mud lias become covered with tlho usual indigenous plants,

especially the toi toi plant; and of ■white clover, from seed probably carried by birds or animals, there is splendid growth. Sheep and cattle are in good condition, doing well on the clover in summer and tile toi toi in winter. Last season a few. acres of mud, on a lint which was previously nothing but pure pumice, but having a coating of two feet of tJio volcanic deposit, was ploughed up. rJo manure whatever was applied. Here some turnips, as well as maize, oats, and potatoes,were planted. All the crops were good, and the turnips wore magnificent. Some of tho roots were of enormous size; numbers going from 21 to 20 inches in circumference and being sound and of good weight. One, it was declared, measured 57 inches and weighed 521b. The mud requires judicious management, as it bocomes very 'lwd in summer and is of the consistency of putty in' wet weather.

tiovermneat departments nowadays are profoundly impressed with the necessity of putting the best national foot ioremost; so the Commonwealth Statistician 'has published the glad tidings that the number of births in the Commonwealth for 100S was the highc• t over attained. Actually it was 110,:.!17—no fewer than 2157 more than in .11)01).! if we lake tlie year's inoreaso of Conimouwealtih population at 70,000, the increase of births amounts to V/« per cent, on the increased population! which equals o~> per 1000 as compared with the •>»'/., per 1000, or thereabouts, which was tlie average rate lor flhe whole, population in 1000. Distributed over the whole population, the record Australian birth-year raises the general rate only a decimal or two; and as ■ the. ilcuWi-rato has also been raised a point or two, it does not appear that Australia is filling up any faster—and silo lias plenty of territory to till up. An increase of 2157 births upon last year's number is no answer to tho solid Japanese statement that "We want meat and wool. If you won't send enough wheal, and wool out of

Australia we shall come and grow wheat and •wool for ourselves hi Australia.'' 'lllie Australian marriage rate is also a little higher; good times moan more marriages; but if more marriages don't produce more children proportionately the situation is unc-luuig-ed. .And of course more marriages won't product) more children proportionately. Australia is over-civilised for large families. A rising civilisation means a falling birth-rate; and there is no escape from the conclusion that Australia's only road to a population ellicient for the defence of her land and wealth is the road to immigration. New Zealand is a little better oil'—v.itli a lot less land, a lot less wealth, arfl: a sliglily higher birth-rate and lower death-rate. But Mew Zealand also •wants more bush families of hVo kind that are happy in facing the wilderness on. the Northern Trunk railway line.— Wellington Post. TEE ONLY CURE.

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