LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 212, 28 August 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the I'oliee Court this morning a man is to be charged with the theft of a bicycle. It is that the opening of the Main trunk line will mean extensive promotions anmngst railway ollicers. The Eltham Argus states that as high as ll'/id outright sale has been oll'er'el ii tins season for butter and 6d for cheese, y A local resident claims to have fairly t authoritative information that the gen- t eial election will l>e held about the a middle of November. v A Birkenhead (England) publican has 1 adopted as his definition of intoxication: 'A man is not drunk till lie goes } to the pump to light his pipe." ' The horse market seems to he dead , in iSouth AVairarapa. At a private saie , held recently hack after haek was passed 1 in with a monotonous regularity, al- , though the reserves were.low. i the Hurleyville Dairy Company has disposed of its output of cheese for the incoming season at a highly satisfactory i "gore. !],„ F j<. e m . l(!( , t|l( , { . muurs rejoice and take heart for the "coming fray."

"Say," exclaimed the irate customer, as lie rushed into the gas office, "do you mean to say this bill represents the amount of jr ils W e burned last month?" iSot necessarily," calmly replied the man behind tlie desk. "It merely represents the amount you have to pay for, - ' The reason given by an officer of the American ileet why the patrols carry batons which they use with elFect on unruly sailors (often laying their heads open) was that the American sailor generally carries a razor in his sock, and which lie is prone to use on tin; slightest provocation, and it is therefore advisable to get the first blow in. lhe hltham Argus' Wellington correspondent -wired yesterday that the Opunake Harbor Board has been considerably altered in committee. The north • ward, south ward, and east ward have been si luck out of the Bill. This leaves only the central ward, and greatly limks the rating area, but leaves a valuation of half a million for ratin* purposes ihe number of doctors in the world has just bee 11 estimated at 228,234. (jj this number 102,234 are in J'Jurope, the distribution iu the different countries being as follows:—Great Britain and Ireland ;}4,1)117, Cermanv 22,518, liussia 21,4811, France 20,0157, and Italy 18,245. J'or every 100,000 inhabitants in Great Lritain there are 78 medical men, in France 51, and in Turkey 18. An older was received by the Labor IJe.partnient on Tuesday tor thirty farm hand?) tor 'Jaranaki. The Department can altogether find places for forty of this class, and expects to have no difficulty in disposing of the farm workers! who arrived by the Tongariro on Wednesday.*4 - The Department also has employment for the right class of men V connection with railway construction I and road work. It could provide about i iOO men with work of this kind in the' Aor th island. , The perennial Mokau leaseholds eas:» was referred to by Air. Jennings in a question to the Premier on Wednesday, the number asking, in view of the foefc i that grave injustice has been done :o 1 Mr. <»oshua Jones by the refusal of leave to appeal, -whether the Government will introduce legislation to give tlr ' Premier can make no promise in the direction indicated. T s ie belter course for Mr. Junes to follow would be to petition Parliament so thai his evidence might be taken and hk case leportcd upon by the representatives of the people. To the memorial service to be held on .Sunday, (jth September, at Te jS'gutu o te Manu additional interest will be u'ltached by reason of the gathering together of old campaigners, which :'s sine to be a feature of the occasion, lheie (locs not appear to be many persons in the immediate district of Ilawera who passed through that memorable campaign under Von Tciupsky, but those that are resident in the locality and others who hear of the memorial sci vice are certain, -circumstances permitting, to make every ell'ort to join in the gathering around the Von Tciupsky monument. There is at present staying in ilawera Mr. J. Tait, of Dunedin, ail old campaigner, who intends ti> be present at the celebrations. It is 44 years since Mr. Tait was in this district previously, lie was then Willi the Imperial troops under Von Tenipsky, and took part iu the lighting. i', 1 . and Kakaramoa. lUr. -tait did not take part in the engagement in which Von Tenipsky was killed, had then returned to Wanganui. Mr. Tait has been on a visit to Auckland, and, hearing of the proposed gathering, decided to stay at Ilawera so that he may attend, —Star. On the road to Roiorua some of our legislators told their American friends the. story Of l'elorus Jack, the fish that meets tsie steamers near' tlife French Pass (says the Eltham Argus), iney found it hard to believe, aiud 1 [ some laughed heartily at the story and- ;

said it was one of the best *'' fish ; yarns they siad over heard. The • more Serious the legislators were in ■ telling the story, the more hilarious became tin? auditors. Just as one leglslator had finished telling tilio story 1 another legislator came into the railH'ny carriage ;j;id number one le<'islator at once appealed to him to corroborate the story of I'elorus .lack, thus appealed ( u , number two legislator entered hito details. "Say. Sir, how long do you say that iish is'?" said one ot the Americans. "About thirty feet" promptly replied the legislator. And then there was a yell of laughter, for the first legislator had described the ftsh as being between 12 and 15 feet, and number two legislator at once earned the reputation of being the loveliest liar in the carriage. Xcxt morning in Kotorua a member of Parliament was rummaging ~11 the post-card shops -<oi photon of IVlorus .lack with wliicii to convince his sceptical American

liawera is not going to let Eltliam and Stratford do all the talking. In an article on t lie proposed Opunake railway the I lawera star says:—"The Kltlwni. Opunake route, we are told, was surveyed by an engineer with no selfish motive, alluding, we suppose, to the reserve made; but there was no such survey ,merely a reserve laid off on the map by pencil and ruler, and, as a lact, there was no Opunake-Eltham route. As far back as 1878-0 the idea appeared to be that Xornianby should be tlie point of junction with the main line, and at that time Ell ham was not even a hamlet; we doubt whether it appeared 011 tin; map. No doubt conditions have entirely changed, but we submit that the conditions have made it ! more and more advisable that the direction of line should be as far south as , practicable. 'l'lltea is every year beuoni* I ing in a larger degree the outlet of the I greater and richer part of the district to be served. Wellington is becoming more and mora the centre of the commerce of the Dominion, and why Plaiua people and produce should be dragged oil up to Stratford, or even round by Ji/ltham. passes understanding. In this part oi the North Island all roads lead to the south, ami are likely to." It is a pity that the southern towns should be pulling against each other over the

route. It is jmt a (question of any pa;*1 ticular route; it is a qucstiou of getting the district railed as soon as possible, if Southern Taranaki wishes to Jiang up ihc autiiorisEitiou and starting of the line, it eould not do better than • keep on wrangling and disagreeing. "'Jliti Melbourne" is making a hue show ol new reason's straw hats for j children and men. The boys' boaters ' at. Is lid and boys' pedal straws at 1 ::s lld are special features, while in F rami's boaters the '•'Mirror" at 4s lid and the "I'lMrl'' at (is Gd are distinctly jew and up-10-thi (,e. Green and brown - b.i ids predominate (-.his season, and are ( s ire to be more popular than ever.™ Advt. I 'Voods' Gveat Peppermint Cure for Coughs an/i Colds never faKs. 1/0 and ?, i\ YOU CAN GET IT CHEAPER A? f \HE my fc !