LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 245, 9 October 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

.Miss Irene Ainsley's concert-party lias booked I lie Theatre, linyal for a return concert on 11th November. In consequence of the late arrival of the Jiotoiti from Onehunga yesterday morning, the departure of the mail train was delayed twenty minutes for the passengers. The mail by tile boat was sent ou by the usiml 7.40 train, wlii.'h war, also delayed until 8 o'clock.

During au afternoon practice in connection with the forthcoming gymnastic carnival the instructor had occasion to leave the. gymnasium for a few moments. The juveniles, seeing tile cat away, decided, like the mice, to have some" play, and tried some gymnastic feats of their own. One of them, a little chap named Ken Hurray, tried to jump from a ladder to a box, and missed, the full fracturing his arm.

A .small boy in Gishorne has been making a practice of going into hotels and shops, there weeping bitterly and telling the kind-hearted inquirers that lie has dropped 2s that liis mother gave, him outside, and that he will get a thrashing if he does not tind it. In many cases he has lievn given is and told not to cry, and t'lius encouraged he tries his deception further down the street.

As the result of a day's lifting atthe Kaupokouui river two local anglers secured a basket of 75 trout. TJiesio averaged 21bs» in weight, and were chielly caught with the "creeper. 7 ' '"'A few were cauglifc with t'lie fly. Tire fish were all in splendid condition and fought splendidly. Another angler is reported to have secured 19 trout on tlie opening day from the Kaupokonui, thy largest being 3 1 /Übs. Among them were two rainbow trout.—Star.

The Voting Men's Club recently formed in connection with M'liitelev Chinch organised a social gathering," which took place last night. There was a large attendance of young people of the ehurcj. which included young ladies who were there, by invitation. After routine business had been disposed of a very enjoyable evening was spent, an excellehi

programme being submitted, consisting of solos, recitations, addresses, etc. A nail - driving competition for ladies caused a great deal of amusement, the iir-t prize being secured by Miss Smith. The lii'V. T. (!. Jirooke presided. On' January 13, yir William Steward wrote to Sir .Joseph Ward complaining that an application from a young Maori to enter Hie navy had been refused by the captain of the Challenger. "The candidate.'' he wrote, is physically a lirst-class recruit just twenty-one years of ag-'. r>ft. Tin. high, 40in. chest measurement, and well educated, speaking as good English as does Ngata or Mr

Carroll. I was greatly surprised that his being a full-blooded Maori prevents nis awvpUince." The I'rinic Minister forwarded tho letter to his ■Excellency Llic Coventor, who sent the correspondence

to the Colonial Oflice without comment. The whitebait fishers a'- i'nxton and residents on tho bunks of the iianawain have been puzzled this reason by tile appearance among Hie whitebait of shoals of small eel-like lisli, which cause much annoyance by filling the nets. Tile Jinwcouier is longer than the whitebait anil thinner, and is almost transparent, "with a black line down the liaek. Home consider that they are young eels, lint tho .Maoris do not remember to nave se-en the visitors iK'fure. They ascend the river in a continuous stream, tin which there, is apparently no end. pert opinion is to he obtained, and in t'lie meantime any light upon the matter will be welcomed. JJr. It. JlcK. Morrison, Agricultural Instructor to the Taranaki Education lionni, has been paying a visit iu uic schools on tlic coast this week (.-ays the Opunake Times). The work of .rp'icu.lUire is one that is being encouraged by the Board, and each school is now supplied with a speciM collection of fourteen varieties of th.nn' and garden vegetable senls. These have been donated to all the schools bv

Mesirs. Sutton & Sons. The seeds arc sown under four different conditions, so that thi l children may see the eU'ecil of each. Four varieties of Westiield man-

ure have been given by Messrs. Kempthorne. Prosser & Co., to the scnools for tile purpose. A good storv is going the round-? in connection with a wtdl-known business man who lives not more than a hundred miles from Pahintua. Having contracted a cold he obtained from a chemist an infallible remedy which he took

next morning as directed just, prior to leaving for bis office. Shortly afterwards his wife in a state of alarm rang lip tile oflice, but he had gone into the country to attend fo some business matter, and did not return till evening. The medicine had effected a complete cure during the day, but imagine his surprise when lie went home in the evening and discovered that instead of taking the cough remedy lie had swallowed bis wife's hair wash!

The New York newspapers state that by the administration of strychnine, combined with artificial respiration, a mail who three minutes previously had been pronounced dead was on August 17 restored to life at the Brooklyn llospi'al. The heart had ceased to heat, and there appeared not tne smallest doubt that the patient was dead, lmt the doctor in charge of the case, anxious to test a theory of his own. determined to experiment with tile energetic poison mentioned. Strychnine, of course, is frequently used in cases of paralysis, and in this instance, a dose large enough to kill a score of men had the cfl'ect of setting the heart in fiction once more. 'lhe Bulawayo Chronicle, which has

arrived by the African mail, g;\es some

interesting experiences 0 f a party of Dutvlli hunters who have secured *i* heavy bag of game. Eighty-one elephants were shot and seven captured at a spot, sixty miles from Salisbury. Mr. Viljoen, of Zeerust, who was in c'liarge of the party, personally accounted for lifty-threo of {lie animals, nearly all of which were tuskers. About a ton of ivory was secured. Tile parly encountered several large herds witliiii a radius of eighteen miles. The elephants were often taclded in the thick bush, and Mr. Viljoen in one case had iiis liat. knocked oil' and his horse struck l»y ,i charging elephant. He killed Iwenty elephants single-handed in an hour.

From India a cupy of a seditious pamphlet lias Ih.m'm received, copies of which are spread broadcast in the native quarters of Calcutta by the revolution.iiies. translated, it says:—"Happy news! To aims! To firms! Brothers—Have you not heard that one lakh of Mansuirrta. rilles are in the hands of the revolutionaries and many thousands are on their uav? )\\iy do the children of the heroic soil hesitate to send the white devils to hell—their destined fooiueLet 2io more the damned pollute this sacred land of ours. ]luve von no hearts. 3Jo you not feel that (in the very land of your birth vouy ' patriots are dodged by the secret police as if they Mere tho worst criminals and scoundrels. Why would you tolerate y (Jet to arms. Takt- tie life of every wherever you find h'ni. Loot his house and burn it to ashes. 'I his is our message, and io, t'rose who have money deposited with ' the Alien Ooverninent it i 5? our request that tiiey withdraw it as early Uiey ea*,i. or else the future United Tndiaii Republic w'll not be held responsible.— Jtaiide Mataram. (For the Motherland. )'*

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•lust arrived, at Dodo-ill's, Devonstreet Central. New Plymouth, an indent of Allan's famous gents' boots, also 0. and -T. Clarke's superior ladies' boors and shoes. In stock, n large assortment nf the best ladies', penis', and children's colonial boots and shoes by reliable makers. All the above are offered to the nublic at prices that can't be beaten. Advt.