LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 211, 27 August 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On Wednesday next, 3rd September, on account of the Anderson-Shemtau Company leaving for Auckland after playing in Nwv: Plymouth, the Rurawa will be delayed to leave the breakwater at 11.30 p.m. it scorns a somewhat Gilbertian position to lind the ollicial representative cf the workers on the Arbitration Court pleading that the workers have been denied justice in not getting an award, while we have many of the apparent leaders of the unions crying out against the awards of the Court and urging the workers to cast aside the Act as worthless to them.—Dunedin Star. j In the Magistrate's Court yesterday Mr. IJ. vS. Fitzherbcrt, S.M., delivered his reserved judgment in the civil ea*e of Charles JJritteu Candy (Mr. Wright) v. Joseph Hooker (Mr. .Johnstone). I'lainlilV claiuo'd £ll los for rental of a six-aere paddock in Fraiikley yoal, and defendant coiuiierclaimcd for £7 l'<>r good- iL'liwivd (o plain! il!"* agi'Ut. His Worship gave judgment for I'laintill" on the elaini for the full amount, with costs £i lis. and nor/sint.'d defendant on the counterclaim. Mr. C. L. TomlinSon, secretary Mechanics Institute, Northampton. W.A., sayj: "1 would not be without a ooitiv >f your (Jrand Cough Remedy at any jnie. T use the word "grand" fearless- ' y and with confidence that if any one \ill lake Chamberlain's Cough Twiwny ; ecording to direction*,; the result will i greatly Surprise the sceptical. I 1 myself found it wonderful in its speedy action and curative properties, and never lose an opportunity of recommending it to anyone tf-ho is troubled with a cough or cold." Fc, sale by a'.'j etramists and storekeepers. I

Nearly all the creameries throughout I the district have now commenced opera-1 lions (says the Tlawera Star), and but-1 tei factories will all be working daily it au early date, instead of every second day, as they do throughout the winter months. All Hatvera Dairy Company's branches are in operation.' Elthnin, Kapnnga. and Mangntoki dairy companies' representatives meet butter-buyers „t Mangntoki next Montill} to consider the question of disposal s Tf s out,|nit ' Thc «•«* companies will turn out about 1700 or 1800 °i i' ■* o Dairy Coinpanv lias sold its September output at Is' O'/.d per lb. It is understood that lid without re course is now <m f or an additional farthing would be given for a straight-out sale. Agents generally anticipate a further rise (savs the luraera'Star). Some companies eXpc.-t 0 get 1 /I'll o/lered to theni shortlv. At this time last year lOd was the ruling rate. Ilie social gathering promoted bv the Railway Social Club was held in l.ie Brougliani-street Hall last night, and was largely attended. Mrs.' George (piano) and Mr. Saunders (cornet) provided capital music, and Messrs. lioskin ami 1 rceby were M.C.'s. The floor, the supper, ami all the other arrangement!: or the committee w r erc such that patrons could not tail to spend a pleasant even- ■ Songs by several local amateurs added to the enjoyment.

The scow Mnrori, 200 tons, Captain Cairns, which left Newcastle on 22«. l July for Wangiiiiti (seven days after flu l overdue lmi'tjue Loch Lomond), !s now thirty-five days out, and as nothing Ins been heard of the scow there is a little uneasiness about her at Wanganni. Ihe Muroro has a cargo of coal for t!i» Wanganni gasworks. The very variable weather which lias prevailed in the Tisman sea for the pa.st few weeks may have carried the scow out of her track. The Opunakc Times states:—The fo) lowing telegram has been sent to tie Minister for Public Works from tin

Omimike brant']) of tho Kaihvav Leaguo: "Ts Opunako-Eltlmm niihvav iiielmku! inow list of railways? Would depute lion on this mailer do any good?" Th ■ follow-in"; reply has boon received l>y Jfr. t W. ('. Dudley: "In reply to your wire, Uu»r<» is no new list, of railways y<»t, \ have tlie whole of the information rieees- I' -"na!dc» (lie Cabinet to arrive at a decision iu the matter.—Wm. TlnO Jones." i , ) '<' : -f7^T7pxv

A petition is being signed .in Wellington by jewellers, ironmongers, stationers, tea merchants, grocers, furniture and Fancy goods dealers asking that the coupon system, w J hieh entitles the purchaser 'to a packet of somebody's tea or baking powder or other article, to receive a prize, be abolished. The petitioners claim that such legislation is necessary owing to the use of coupon and Limerick competitions being injurious to lionest trading and demoralising tfhe community. It is reported that about fifty carpenters are unemployed in Auckland. Heplyiug to a telegram sent by til? secretary of tlie Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, the Hon. j. A. Millar, Minister for Labor, states that the Minister for Works regrets that he cannot go on with the building [ of stations on the Main Trunk Railway owing to the scarcity of timber. Sunplies are only now coming to hand, and the wood is too green to work. Th» Minister hopes to be able shortly to tin something for the unemployed carpenters. . ' | Referring to habitual criminals, the annual prisons report says:—There is I ample accommodation for' all that are likely to be declared habitual criminals within the next few years, at New Plymouth, and time wiil prove the necessity or otherwise of building a central reformatory in the Dominion. Since the Act became laiv, some of the gaol-birds have llow-i from the Dominion, ami others are earning an honest living, -m that there is reason to hope the list of habitual criminals will never be a very long one. A company has been formed at Eltliam with a capital of .cIOOO to place concrete blocks on the market for roailing purposes. The proposal is to lay concrete tracks to carry the wheels of trafiic. It is claimed that, as the concrete would bear all the wear and tear, the centre of the road could be made very light—six inches of metal instead of !) or 12 inches as at present. The blocks could lie laid for .CBOO a mile. It is proposed to remake a mile of Eltliam road with the blocks as an experiment at a cost of about £IOOO instead of reinetalling at a cost of £2OOO. At Eltliam on Tuesday night a public meeting unanimously passed a motion unring the Government to construct the railway line from Opunake to Eltliam, for the following, among other reasons: The country between Opunake and Eltliam is densely settled; a railway reserve is now vested in the Government; the upkeep of the Eltliam road is almost beyond the financial power of the -r;tiers, and tlie railway 'would relieve it. A strong committee was formed to press the Government to publish the re ports of engineers and estimates for th» various possible rentes.—Press telegram. The committee of tlie Nrov Plymouth Club is to be commended for the pains it is taking to popularise the institution. Already subcommittees are at work organising billiard and card tournaments. debating, musical, and drama tie evenings, etc. The Literature Committee has now ordered the following papers, in addition to those already on the tables, for the reading-room;— Otago Witness, Weekly Press, Auckland Herald, Melbourne Argus, Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Mail, Bulletin, London Daily Mail, London Weekly Times and Literary Supplement, and London Punch. At the animal meeting of the I'atea Chamber of Commerce Mr. ,T. A. McKenna mentioned that an Auckland nun-chant in a letter to him had mentioned that there was every probability of a direct steamer running between Patea and Auckland shortly. He lui'l mentioned this to the pilot, who had said that the Northern Steamship Company bad purchased the Tasman, which was admirably suited for the Patea trade. It was decided to write to the Northern Steamship Company inquiring, now that they had purchased the Tasman, if they could inaugurate a direct service between Patea and Auckland.— Press.-

.j It's the little things llmt tell. Little observances of politeness stamp the lady '.]! or gentleman. Jf a person is good ' enough to place his or her vocal talent at the disposal of a committee, and as ■'j' a result a song is contributed, ladies and •, gentlemen who nve really ladies am! . > : gentlemen will listen in silence. But in the average ''social" room in T ew Plymouth even the applause at the couc'iisiou of an item is scarce louder than tlie hum of conversation which accompanies and often drowns the song. The matter, of course, is in the hands of the master of ceremonies, hut he doesn t ' reckon 011 having- to give gratuitous t lessons in manners. Commenting an the fact that the British Army in South Africa suffered eleven limes more severely from disease than did tlie Japanese in Jlaneliuria, .Major Clark, U.A.M.C.C., said in the emirse of a lecture at .Sydney recently:—"At til is rate a Japanese army would defeat a British army of equal strength merely by sitting down in fro,at ol' it, and waiting for disease to do the rest.'' lie was one of those, he. went 011, who .believed that a day would come when a Japanese arm; would be seen iu Australia, and imagining for a moment an Australian force numerous enough to face the enemy with a fair cluuiee of success, it was to ■ be hoped the local troops would no'. 1 melt away in this fashion. It was not suilicent answer to say they were in their country, and lnid, therefore, a better chance of health. A recent statement made by an eminent authority was to the effect that if England were invaded and the territorial army were called out to meet, the invaders i' .would have two thousand sick at the end of the Ijrst 24 hours. WHY la SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI UXTRACT superior to my other Eucalyptus product? Because it is the result of full experience and of a special and careful process of manufacture. It is always safe, reliable, and ef fcetive, and the dangers attending thi use of tfcs irresponsible which are now palmed off as "Extracts ire avoided. A death was recently relorted from the external use. of one of '.h'.::ic concoctions, and in an action at iaw a sworn witness testified that he " suffered the most cruel irritation from 1 the application to an uVsr of a product ' which was sold is "just as Rood as SAN- 1 DISK'S EUCALYPTI' EXTRACT." There- 1 foiv, beware of such deception. Insist one"'the preparation which wbr proved J V experts a<- the Supreme Court. 01 1 I vi. toria, anv by nuinerms authorities f luring the past '■>"> years, to be a pre- ( w.ation of genuine merit, viz., THE c IENUTNE SANDER AND SONS' PTTRt- J' "'OIjATTLE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.- 4 'Obem'tts and Stores.—Advt. A FRIEND O~H.-3 MMILY , e ( Ts Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery, the « woll-known remedy for all Cliest and p Lnn/y Troubles j 1/0 nnd -V per bottle. Obtainable everywhere ' .