LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 224, 15 September 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tin l , West End School Committee intends holding a concert shortly in aid of the gymnasium fluids. The Takapuna, which arrived from Onehuuga this morning, brought t'ie southern portion of the Vancouver mail. Sir Joseph Ward lias telegraphed to the taranaki Education Board expressing a desire for a parade of the school cadets oil Dominion Day, the 20th inst. 'A further communication lias been received from the Railway Department in reference to the proposed Moleswoi'tii street extension, and this will he considered by the Harbor Board and the Borough Council at their next meetings. The secretary of the Taranaki Boxing Association received an intimation yesterday that there would be Palmerston North competitors in the forthcoming tournament on the lit prox., and that the. men arc in hard training. 11l the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. 11. *. l-'it/.herbert. S.M., judgment was given for the '1 aranaki Couniv Council by default against the follow ing:—Mesne Lynch. :!s 7d (costs ,C2 Us lid); ,M. Given, Is 3d ( C2 8s (id); Annie tiore l'igott, Is Id Cls); Charles Hu"h Stolt, Is Id (osl; William Nichols. Is Id (3s).

Councillor liejlriiiger toniplained last niglit at the Borough Council meeting that sometimes inferior material was used by contracting firms in making electrical installations. This must result ill a waste of current- -waste for which the consumer has to pa v. Tile electric light was on its trial.'and he thought it would lie well for the borough otlicials that they should occasionally inspect the electrical installations, with ii vieiw of preventing waste and undue expense in repairs and renewals. The electrical engineer stated that the wiring firms pave him the. credit of beiug too strict in his supervision. At the "Melbourne" spring ha s paid hor tribute of clothing beauty. An array of suitings that are matchless in their style, tailoring, and fabrics is making this store (ho Mecca of correct dressers. And well may the men of fashion come, for here are the ideas that combine exclusiveness, newness, and beauty with prices that are staggering to those who have learned to expect high prices for high quality. Highest grade suits 49s 6d to 05s.—lAdvt.

Mr. A. F. Harding, captain of the British football team ,is not accompanying tile other members of the combination on their Homeward journey. It is 'his intention to remain ill Australia for some time. The probabilities arc that lie will jniy a brief visit to the Dominion. •The Premier states that ilnere is no foundation for a rumor which has lately been current to the elicit that the general election would take place in t'lie lirst week in November. The matter has not yet been decided, but the probabilities, he says, are that the elections will takv place about the usual time, and that is about the last week in November or the first week in December. One of the deserters from tihe American battleships has made his appearance on the Thames goldliehls, bu his opinion about 100 deserted ut Auckland, as tlrcy resented tliu severe treatment of tihe patrol. The man in question was carried on board two nights in succession unconscious. ''When a sailor gets ashore he always gel? drunk,'' be asserts, "but the wiiv those fellows lla.tten you out is too much." Hi conversation with a Maori woman the Thames Advertiser learned that she was the sole survivor of a lauiily all of whom died victims of consumption. Some time ago she was found to be suffering form the complaint and was accordingly admitted io the Wailii shelter sheds, where a complete cure was effected. She still sleeps in the open, and to a, certain exil'ilt keeps up the treatment, but says thai' since the date mentioned has iiot had the slightest sign of a cougii. One. of the oldest dwelling-houses s n New Plymouth has just been dismantled in Young street, and the condition of the rimu and puketea of which it was

Imilt in 1848 is as good as the day it | was erected. It was originally built ! n B Brougham street ill the year 1848 for j Mr. George Duncan, who carried on busi- a ness as 11 bookseller. The contractor wys tho late Mr. T. Clare, and the laie Mr. W. Sole was .an apprentice on the job. The timber used was sawn by the late Mr. T. Wheeler at the back of the ' racecourse. Thirty-two years ago the 1 building was removed and fitted as n ' dwelling-house for Mr. (leorge Cock, who ' had lived in it ever since. ■During his recent visit to Egypt, the Dukc of Coimaught came across ail old soldier in Cairo -wearing the Mutiny ribbon. He entered into conversation witlh the veteran, questioning him oil various matters, chatting in a friendly way. The old man in his turn, plied the Duke with questions, and inquired whether he himself was in the army, and how he was getting on. The Duke replied that he was getting on fairly well, although, perhaps, not quite as well as he could wislh. "What you want," said the old man ill friendly confidence, ''in the army is brains or tremendous infill one* 1 Take my tip, my friend, and chuck it." An unexpected addition to the delicacies on the police officers' menu was made at the Magistrate's Court, Christchurch, when, after a firm had been convicted of having kept some native pigeons after the close of tile season, ill'. 11. W. Bishop, the presiding Magistrate, was asked to order that the game be disposed of. For some time he considered the matter gravely and then, with an amusing smile, he said: "There is nothing to prevent their (being eaten." The Court waited in anxious expectancy to sec who would be ordered to eai the game. Station Sei'gt. Johnston feelingly concurivd with Mr. Bishop, who at once ordered that the pigeons slhould lie eaten at t'lie police officers' mess table. A stranger in a strange land was a Polish tailor in tiic Arbitration Court, Wellington. A patriarch ill ap•pearauce, he contemplated the procedure of the court ivitili ineffable bewilderment. The industrial lcgis lation of this land was too much for him. In a temporary lull he rose, and exclaimed in broken English: "They tell me to come, but I know not wnat I am here for." "Get somebody to appear for you," suggested the' practical president. "He's blind, your Honour," added the Inspector of, factories. "I never sack a nam for being union," muttered the old man; "I sack tiie man for being no good to mo.'' The court adjourned the case, and the blind mail made his exit under the guidance of a boy. A number of German provincial

newspapers of good standing recently published the following: "The Emperor William has given the German nation a goojl example. Accompanied only by a cruiser and a torpedo destroyer, the Emperor passed coolly and quietly through the lines of tile British licet, and accepted the homage of the British warships. The Emperor in so doing, revealed a cool courage which many Germans have lost i:i these days of international complications. Many Germans lluive asked themselves the anxious question whether the Emperor would undertake his usual (Scandinavian trip this summer, ibecause there was a danger that the unscrupulous English would seize the opportunity to provoke war by kidnapping the defenceless Emperor wilile he was cruising far from home." To 'th-e British who had ao desire to have the Kaiser at their naval manoeuvres it appeared a case of "cool dieek" rather tlhan "cool courage."

A pretty ami cool promenade is being made along the bunks of the IJenui stream from the cemetery towards the sea, the work being carried out under the direction of the borough reserves committee. The town side of the river brar s tiie following high-sounding titles: From the cemetery reserve to Coartenay street, Calmady Terrace; ami from there to Devon street, Ebrington Place. Access to Ebrington Place is being given by a path cut from 'Devon street alongside Mr. Stanley Smith's property. Farther seaward i s Oriental Crescent., running from Gill-street along the river-bank to tile beach, and it is proposed to open out a path hero connecting with the new esplanade which is being made under tile direction, of his Worship the Mayor. The latter gentleman has applied to the Railway Department for permission to construct a footbridge under the new Hcnui railway bridge, so that the esplanade may be continued towards the mouth of the Waiwakaiho river. Whilst 011 this matter it is worth while to mention lb-it the once favorite walk along Bailies' Terrace, up the bank of the"lluatoki stream from the Vivian-street bridge io Brougham street at tlic rear of Marsland Ilill is now overgrown and impassable to pedestrians. TIIO typical baekblocks s ettlcr knows the hardship of his lot, but he sets bis teeth and faces them und says nothing about them. Instances occasionally leak out, however, and for concen'trated pathos two authenticated instances related by Councillor King to the Eltliam County Council on Snlurday would be dillicult to equal (says the Argus). Some live or six married settlers are living in tho Omoiia, sixteen miles beyond a metalled road. About two mouths ago the child of one of the way-back settlers died. Wishing to s eeure for the child decent Christian burial, the parents walked a number of miles through the bush, carrying their dead child in their arms until they could secure a conveyance for the remainder of the journey. More recently a woman who lives sixteen miles boyoiul Messrs. Reader and Johnston's store at Ommia took ill, and a messenger was despatched to the, store to telephone for a doctor, .Meanwhile all the men in the district gathered and took turns in carrying the sick woman to the store, where she was met by the doctor. Councillor King related these incidents to emphasise his plea that the Government should make an effort to keep pace with settlement in Oniona by roading the district. A strong resolution was passed urging (lie Government to take the road at least as far as the , Moeawata road this .summer. WHS Ts SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI 1 EXTRACT superior to any other Eue.a- ( lyptua product? 1

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Prince de Sagan is telling thi s story about Ysaye, the violinist:—A millionaire bootmaker invited Ysave to dine with him last year in Nice." After dinner, the millionaire brought out a violin, and asked Ysaye to play. The musician bit bis lip, but, talking the instrument, he played several beautiful inorceaui. Afterwards, iu Paris, Ysaye invited the millionaire to dinner in his turn. There was a distinguished company present. 1 After dinner, as they were all at coffee ill the salon, a servant brought the host a pair of old boots. Ysaye took the boots and handed them gravely to his millionaire guest. "But what- am I to do with these?" the gue-st demanded, holding the boots aiWikiwardly iu his lap beside his cu|i. Ysaye smiled vindictively and Hung his long lock behind his ear. "In Nice," lie said, "you asked me after dinner to play for you. Now I ask you to mend these boots for liie. Each to his trade, you know.'' "People have an idea out here that everywiing is so much better at Home than ill the colonics," sa'd Mr. W. 11. Tisdall, who returned from an extended stay in England by the lonic on Tuesday. "They are mistaken in quite a number of instances. Take tne slijops, for instance. The shops of' Wellington are much better, on the whole, than they are in the provincial towns of England with live or six tunes the population of Wellington. Take my own, Birmingham, with its half a million inhabitants—the shops there are not nearly so line as in Wellington, and what is more, you don't get the selection you do here. T'lre reason is not far to seek. The provincial shopkeepers are so near to the manufactuivrs that tlicy do not care, nor is tliere the need, to carry heavy stocks, and for the same reason the choice or

rariety of goods is inferior at Home, f Don't you make any mistake, the co- I lonies are right up-to-date, and are I supplied with the! latest as soon as I English towns are. Out here they go for i anything new, liut they move slowly in 1 provincial England."—Dominion. The alleged dangerous tension between two (of our greatest sea-captains, of which we are now hearing so much (says the Daily Chronicle) appears all the more painful, not to say pitiful, when contrasted with the personal relation of Nelson to Oollingwood and his "band of brothers'' as described by Thackeray, who thus wrote in Jiis "Four Georges" : "What gentlemen they were; what great hearts they had! 'We can, my dear Col, writes Nelson to liiin, 'have one object in view—that of meeting the enemy and getting a glorious peace for our country.' At Trafalgar, when the Royal Sovereign was pressing alone into the midst of the combined fleets, Lord Nelson said to Captain Blackwood, 'See how that noble fellow Collingwood takes his ship into action! Ilow I envy him!' The very same throb and impulse of heroic generosity was beating in Collingwood's honest bosom. As he led into the fight, he said: 'What ■would Nelson give to be here!"' An Englishman of to-day would find it rather unpleasant to reconstitute Trafalgar with Nelson and Collingwood not on speaking terms." Fortune has smiled on a waiter at a cafe in the most unexpected manner (writes a Paris correspondent). This man left his native village years ago, and came to Paris to struggle along as test he could. For a 'while it was avery uphill task, but eventually he got a place in a good cafe, and as lie was steady lie was not dissatisfied. The other day he was beguiling the time oy reading the advertisements in a newspaper, when, to his utmost surprise, he saw his own name figuring in a notice inserted by a lawyer at Lyons. He would hear of something to his advantage if he answered it, as he speedily perceived, for the simple reason that a legacy had been bequeathed to his wife by a relative. Tlib waiter promptly wrote off to the lawyer, and in reply received a letter informing him of the death of a great uncle of his wife, of 'whom she had only retained a dim recollection, and adding that the old man had left all his property to her. He could hardly believe the evidence of his eyes when he read on to find that this was not a mere matter of a few thousand francs. While he had been toiling to keep his head above water, his wife s groat uncle had been amassing a goodly fortune, and the lucky couple now find themselves in possession of more than

£120,000. The editor of the magazine which was published on board the Oswestry Grange on its journey from Liverpool to Auckland invited the views of youthful emigrants as to what they intended to do in Xew Zealand. Contributors had .0 be not more than, fifteen years of age. A girt of twelve wrote as follows: "When 1 land at Wellington 1 shall go from there to Wanganui, where I intend to settle. Of course, everything will be new to me, and, I hope, very nice. 1 am looking forward to having an enjoyable week's holiday previous 0 finishing niv education at school. When that is over, I intend to learn the boot trade, as 1 understand girls in that trade are very well paid in New Zealand. Then, when I have saved sutlicient, [ intend to start a business of my own." A little fellow of nine thus enumerated his ambitions: "When I get out to Xew Zealand 1 hope to go to school for a J'e,w years. 1 am fond of school, and hope to be a clever and useful man. When I leave school I should like to be an engineer, for I am interested in machinery. When I have, earned enough and served my time, I would like to travel all over New Zealand and see some of its beauties, for I have read it has many pretty places. I should like some day to go back to the Old Country."