LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 249, 14 October 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is stated that the general election will take place ou thu 4th or 11th oi next month. The demand for good dairy cows has been so great during the past month throughout the greater portion of the llawke's Bay, Taranaki, ;V nd Wellington' provinces that it is believed that fully I a thousand more would have been ab-| sorbed had they been available without, materially affecting the m-ices that ruled. ] A very large number of keas have been killed in the Wiinaka district this season. The Cromwell Argus says that keas have done a grout deal of damage during the winter. On Mr. T. Russell's Cattle Flat station one of the employees killed thirteen keas with stones in a few hours recently. Mr. A. Cameron, ox the Hunter station, secured over eightv this year,

Esperantisls have decided to found an Esperanto State in the neutral territory of Mornesnet ou the Belgian-(!er-Juan Irontier. An international bureiu will b c opeued and Or. Zameuhof. the iinentor of the Esperanto, will take .ip his residence there. A theatre will be built and as Esperanto ''Bayreut" will be the attraction everv summer. The l plays and operas will., of course, be perlormed in Esperanto. Mornesnet -is :\ | village with 20UU inhabitants, speaking | mostly French.

Details of the expenditure and receipts of the State poultry farms submitted to Parliament last'week are as follow: Ruakura fOol and !40j. .Moumahaki C 024 and 1428, Uurnham 1742 and 14.V2. .Milton and .1*45)8. The total expenditure wis 13270, and the whole receipts 11783. Ogg's weather forecast for New Zealand lor this month does not nnke pleasant reading. The forecast predicts cold rain, with a cutting wind, and ;n elevated districts, terrific hail squalls and snowing heavily; seas running verv high lor a few days in ail southern latitudes. Twenty-fourth to thirty-lUst-Continued cold and blizzards. Another instance of the spirit of rebellion which seems to be rile at present in French prisons is reported from the Department of the Pas d* Calais, lhis time it is the military prison at the I'ort de Uassion, The )8U prisoners there became interested in a balloon which was passing over the country/ a'ad relused to go to bed. The expostulations of the warders were met with yells of "Don't go to bed! Down with the Commandant!;' and in a few minutes the prisoners began the inevitable '.lnternationale,' which they kopt up till midnight. Tlie otlieers of the fort telephoned to the nearest garrison town, a company of infantry was sent post haste, and restored order without much diflieulty.

Last week (says I lie Hustings <Stantliird) a spieler entered a Chinaman's shop in Hastings mid, purchasing a few bananas, tendered what appeared to be a live-pound notc. ami waited for his chmge. The ('hiiiiiman glanced at Llie knotted piece of jia|it-r. which was cu 11ningly folded so Hint the "Kive" nt Hie coiner was plainlv discernible, anil gave liis customer U4 10s lid, plat-in# the bogus note, without further scrutiny, into liis cash-box. The next (lav, when paying into the bank, tin; Celestial received a great shock when lie found his '■ i's note" was valueless, it being hut a clever intimation rwordc shrdl firodis a clever imitation issued years ago as an advertisement by tlie proprietors of the Xew Zealand Wheelman. The only description the Chinaman could give of nis customer was that he was a man and wore a moustache. An old goatherd fell asleep, and one of his animals pulled out Hie contents of his knapsack, and among other things devoured a' O) note, constituting the man's savings during many years. The goatherd travelled to Merlin, and went to the ollices of the Gcrnii\ii Imperial ISank. where lie put before the ollicials a strange, pulpy mass, wrapped in leather and asKeit them to examine it, for the purpose of establishing 'the fact that it contained the remnants of a £SO note, it was, tjtic; Hail states, the interior of tlie uuli.ippy goat, which had to pay for its fondness for dainties with its life. The officials sent t'lie deposit to an expert for examination, and after he had given his verdict that the goatherd's story was true, the old man was paid. An elderly woman, named Rosalie Lambinet, of I'aris, who had fallen upon evil days, decided to commit suicide. , She shut herself in a room, carefully fastened a,! the windows, and lighted a . small charcoal oven. Then, taking her cat in her arms, she stretched herself l on her bed, and awaited death. The cat, immediately the deadly fumes Hindu themselves felt, leaped from, the bed and scratched at the door in the hope of finding a means of egress. Meing unsuccessful, it set up a piteous ! mewing. and by this means, the Chronicle says, contrived to attract the attention of a neighbour, who broke open tile door aud found Mdiue Lambinet unconscious. She was removed to the hospital, anil it is believed she will recover. SPliat the Weston traveller may still Ibid adventures worthy of the old pioneer days was proved in Yellowstone I'ark, the famous Government reservation in Wyoming. (U.S.A.), when- a single man held up eleven coaches containing 12.") passengers, and got away with about £SOO in cash and 12000 in drafts, to say nothing of watches aud jewellery. The highwayman's method was simple. Choosing a loiicly bend of the road where strings of coaches passed at intervals of a few minutes, he stopped and roVbcd them and sent, them successively on their way. In the face of his revolver resistance was impossible, as tourists are forbidden to carry weapons in the park, and before an alarm could be raised the robber was safely hidden in Hie surrounding mountains. This is regarded as by far the most daring Western "lioh!-n ( p r ' of recent years, especially as it look place in the' public domain, which, to use the words of protest of the victims forwarded to Washingtuii, is "professedly patrolled and governed by the Federal authorities."

Till'! "HARD TI. MISS" L'UOA. Just as liMicli sense ill a dairyman re fusing to purchase a separator on <*ccouut of money shortness as there is in a patient refusing medicine or no lrislimoilL oil Hie same score. In both cases there is an ailment. 11l both eases there is ii certainty of loss—in cash on the one liaml, ami health on the other. In hotli cases there's a cure for the trouble—the installation of all "Aira-l-iaval" cream separator as a preventative of further loss to the dairyman, and the acceptance of the medicine ami foot! for the one who seeks recovery or health. Write to-day for our illustrated catalogue "T," which will tell yon how to get your share of the extra profits which "Alla-Laval"' users are obtaining. Sole New Zealand agents, Mason, Strutliers and Cel., Ltd., Main-street., "i'almerston North. E. (Irillitlu and Co., New Plymouth, loonl agents.

WHY Ta SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT superior to any other Eucalypti'.? product? Because it is the result of full experience aud of a special ami careful process c' manufacture. Jt is always safe, reliable, and effective, and the dangers attending tl)use of ths irresponsible preparation? which are now palmed off as •'Extracts" are avoided. A death was recently relorted from the exlernal use of one of chcse nr.coetions, and in an action at law a sworn witness testified that he luflered the most cruel irritation frovn the application to an u'tasr of a product which was sold as "just as good as SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT." Therefort, beware of such deception, Insist upon the preparation which was prove.) by experts a*- the Supreme Court <>l Victoria. anv by luimcrius authorities during the past years. t*> lie a prep:. rat inn of <'Pum'r,e merit, viz.. TIIK PENTITNE SANDER AND SON'S" ?[ T R I W>I,ATH,K EtTAI.YPTI F;a7RA>7T.'•lheir.'its and Stores.—Advfc. LOWER RTCCARTON. N.Z. Mrs. T\ d, Coombs. rr. Division .in >T:i rlbornugli si reel s, Lower Ricearton PhrM church, Canterbury, N.Z., writes as follows: —"T can recommend Dr Sheldon s Magnetic Liniment, us we, used it when Mr. Coombs had bad ear buncles on his arm. He had five o (hem, dreadfully bad/' Dr. Sheldon's Mnjmotin Liniment, relieves .at owe• Rheumatism, Lumbago, Lame Back, Cuts, Pii'uises, anil Bum-; . and repeated app'ica I ions will effect a cure in a remarkably short time, Pr.'ie Is fid and Hs nor bottle. Obtainable overywher--'. When contemplating tbe purchase of a inilkiniMiiachine, vmi want one that will do tin- work, and the very best test is made 011 the farm itself. The Law-rence-Kenned.v-Cillies Milking-machine H Iwinj! tested every day of the week, every week of the mouth, and every month of (he year 011 hundreds of farms in New Zealand alone, and more than that, the tests have been going on for the past six years. The results are always the same, perfect satisfaction being obtained. Drop a post-card for list of satisfied users and read what thev have to s ay. ,7. B. MacEwan and Co.. Ltd.. sole agents, Egniont-strc»t, Mew Plymouth.

''.Wd juu sec thu whole of ilio con\(ligation..'-' asked counsel of a witness I in the SJU. Court yestvrday. The witness, and everyone else in Court, smiled ■broadly. ihe -Vlanawatu Kaihvay Company have ceased to issue return tickets for a distance oi over ten miles, owing to the early taking over of the line by the Uovernmcnt. ihe object is apparently to lessen the number of tickets outstanding when the line is taken over. When tile news of the disastrous typhoon in Uc Plulippiaes reached tuiscountry, the FiaxmUiers' Association requested the Department of Agriculture to inquire oj the Philippine authorities ! if the storm had affected the liomp industry of the islands. To the Department s cable came a re-ply tihat the typhoon wiJ) in 7io way affect the output of Manila hemp.

A burglar who entered a .Beddington ■house, and, among other articles, took a clock Iroiu the drawing room, on coming out met the owner, who thrown oil' his guard by the thief's boldness, that lie had been sent for to lake the timepiece away for repair. He told him the diinng-room clock also wanted a little attention, and he might as well take that. The burglar took i I bwe was a brief session yesterday morning of ihe Magistrate's Court, Mr. | 11. S. Kil/.herbiii, S.F.. presiding. The | li*t wit* a small one. All but one of the

cases had been settled, confessed, ,r otherwise disposed oi, and judgment by dclault was entered in the remaining case, .Mark Johnston (.Mr. Quilliam) v. John Muhnieen. for the full amount of CII 8s tkr claimed, with costs II l(js Ud. In a judgment Minnnons. EIL»n Mace (Mr. H. Weston) applied for an order against Melville Loveridge. for payment of 12 Ms. balance of jiulg meat. An order was made for payment of the amount, within seven days, in default seven days' imprisonment. la a Westralian town a woman has been prosecuting her husband for stealing her teeth, removing them from her mouth agttinM her will, and had since detained them. She did not want to have the man sent to gaol, but wanted her teeth. Defendant stated that he

took the teeth to pi event iiia wife biting liiin. JJe said that his wife was b'ad tempered, and would hite like ail angry dog when roused. He merely took possession of tiie tccttt in self-defence. Defendant pleaded furthermore That the teeth were his properly, uought and paid for with his money, and in taking them lie was merely getting his own back. Hubby was ordered to give up the teeth. The Bench told liiin that lie must resort to other means to prevent : his wife biting him. The other means were not stipulated, but we suppose lie may muzzle her. "By the law of New Zealand every public road, if it is in the country is vested in tilie Crown," said Mr. Justice Williams in Urc Court of Appeal a few days ago. "Not only the soil, but the ■whole thing down to the centre of the : earth. If it is in a borough, it is vest- : ed in the Borough Council." That, said ■ his Honor, being so, if laud were dedi- ■ cated as a public road .the elf cot of the ■ dedication was not only to divest tiro i dedieant of the surface of tillo road, but , to vest in the Crown the absolute fee 1 simple of the wliolo of "tile land. That - being so, the consequence being so sei lions, ought not they in New Zealand t to look very rnucii more carefully at s evidence of dedication, and i'eek cleari ly before saying that land was dedicate vd as a public road, that it was (he in- '- tcntion of the dedicator to divest hims sell' of the fee simple of the whole land? ■1 His Honor remarkeu that lie did not fliink that this question had ever" bean p raised in New Zealand.

At Holiday's meeting of creditors the Deputy Ollicial Assignee, -Mr. J. S. S. Medley, suggested that it would be well if the list of unsecured creditors were not published. It (lid no good to the public, or to anyone else, for these lists to be published, tie would like a resolution of the meeting to tills effect to strengthen his hands. .Mr. S. Shaw and one or two other creditors agreed •that publication of the list was not wise. If the list of creditors were published, the list of debtors should also be published. Mr. Schmiekcnberg said the Assignee had opened up a lug question. tie shad noticed that llr. Ash•eroft, formerly Official Assignee at Wellington, had stated in one of the Wellington newspapers that the proportion of private bankruptcies that in had to ileal wiih was high. ill'. Siihnackcu'berg thought very many more bankruptcies would be carried out publicly if tiie lists of unsecured creditors were not published. Private bankruptcies were unsatisfactory. A resolution, moved by -Mr. Pik-e and seconded by ilr. Johnston, th.it the list should not be published, was then carried.

A painful story of callousness on the part of two men is reported from dravesend. Two little hoys, named Lane and Lines, were bathing iu life T'.ianies-at .Swanscombe, but got .beyond their depth. Another boy, named Nelfon Waghorn, aged twelve, who waited on the bank while his schoolmates bathed, finding that they had disappeared. rau to two men coming along, and cried, in frightened tons: "There arc two boys under there,'' indicating the. water; '"they are drowning." The boy pointed out tile spot where ho had last seen his schoolmates, hut the men took 110 notice, and callously left the two bovs to drown. At the inquest Ulllel statements of the hoy Waghorn caused a sensation Asked by the coroner for the exact words tile men used when asked to help the 'drowning boys, the witness said they replied: "Let the little devils drown. Tlhey should not go bathing." "1 thought they did not believe me, <ukl showed them the clothes of the boys lying 011 the bank, but tiiey only looked where I pointed, and said: 'Serve tiie little devils right,' mid passed 011." The coroner, in summing up. expressed himself in strong terms aibout the disgraceful conduct of the men, and said if the police could have found t'lieni he would have bad them before him at his Court. Sir. Charles Whibley draw's this picture of Chicago in his American Sketches: —" The nearer the train approaches Chicago the drearier becomes the aspect. You are hauled through mile after mile of rubbish and scraplicap. You receive an impression of sharp-edged Hints and broken bottles. . . . The iirst impression of Chicago and the last is of an unfinished monstrosity. It might be a vast railway station built for men and women 'Mt. high. . . . In the suggestion of horror Chicago is'democratic. The rich and poor alike suffer from the prevailing lack of taste. The proud 'residences' 011 the Lake Shore are no pleasanter to gaze upon than the sulky skyscrapers. Some of them are prison houses; others make a sad attempt at gaiety; all are amazingly unlike the dwelling-houses <;t men and women. Yet their owners are very wealthy. . • . The streets are as untidy as the houses; garbage is dumped iu the unfinished roadways; and in 01' out of your hotel you will seek comfort iu vain. . . . There will be nothing to show tile wandering New Zen lander but a broken city, which was a

scrap heap before it was lmilt; and Ihe wandering New Zcalander may be forgiven if he proclaim the usclcssnes s uf size and progress, if he ask how it has profited a city to buy and sell all the corn in the world, and iu its destruction to leave but a wreck of comeliness behind." It is pointed out by Dr. Mason, Chief Ueallli Olliccr, in his annual report, that Ihe results of three censuses in respect of the number of bachelors of twenty ! years and upwards, and spinsters of fifteen years and upwards, show some interesting features. In 1891 there was an excess of bachelors over spinsters amounting 'to 3497 men. But in 1890 not only had the preponderance of the male element been lost, but an excess of spinsters over bachelors was reported amounting to 1780 women, while iu 1901

•this execs* had risen women. The census of IOOIj disclosed the fail ■timt there was a considerable evrss i>l bachelors. amounting to OOM. This i" Mult, no doubt. is largely due lo I lie arrival-; from abroad of numbers oT young men who have settled in New Zealand. It is noticeable liow diM'erenlly ihe numbers for the provincial dis"tricts have been affected by the process in operation. An excess of bachelors was preserved in Auckland, Tuva- i naki, llawke's Hay, Wellington, .\farlborough. Nelson, and West,land from ISO! Lo 10U(i. In Canterbury, however, an excess of spinsters was .found in I SHI of '2.3 hi, which increased lo ;)i)O7 in I 'IBOO and to 41118 ill 1001, hut decreased lo lill7 in 100(i; while in Otugo an ev "ee.is oi 773 spinsters in 1801 increased to 2000 in ISrtrt, diminished in 1001, wlien 'there were 1805) more spinsters Hum [bachelors, and again iu 1000, when the huinber of spinsters was 054 greater ■tliau the number of bachelors. These two important districts of the South Island have loat largo numbers of ■bachelors by departures .to the North Tslnnd. Must, arrived, at DocknllVj, Devon 'street Central, New Plymouth, an 3n dent of Allan's famous (fonts' boots, also C. and J. Clarke's superior ladies' boots and shoes. In stock, a large assortment; of the best ladies', gents', and children's colonial boots and shoes by reliable "makers. All the above are offered to the TT.tblic at pri'«3 that can't be beaten. 1