LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 250, 15 October 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There was a l;i ; r nil■ ■im 1;11at Si, Joseph'* Mji/ial last liigli,.. .A very eu'jo) 1 "Iblu evening was spent. The music was -played by -Mr. James and extras were contributed by Mr. B. O'Driscull. Jlr. Kennedy was .\f.(J. The llaweiM Dairy Co. is now making Jour tons of cheese per day. Including I lie branch factories' a'bout 10,1)00 gallons of milk art 1 supplied daily. Tine present milk supplv is about t'i|iial to whai has iieen previously received at the height of the season. An increase of at least i) per j cent, on previous years' outputs siiotild be recorded.-Star. The timber trade ori the Manukau has been very brisk of late, especially during the past week. iho marque Triton has made a start unloading her cargo of 050.000 feet, the Torgauten took away a full shipment for Wellington, tilie C'oriuna had 12,000 feet, and the litdiaiice and Hawk took full cargoes of timber from Hokianga and Kaipara to Onehunga.

Tile Qiioeasland Minister for Land.s, speaking at a gathering <u O.ilby oil i fSi'pteiuber IS) (reports Lile Melbourne j Aryus), said tiiat lie had concluded ar* 1 rangcmenU with n eoimpany or syndicate who proposed to obtain alcohol from the grass tree. Mr. Bell added that lie had let them have sojm: 400 mills of eonnfry, aWit ivO nnlef» in depth, along th« coast, commencing at l.'aboolture. The alcidiol is uot to be

used for human consumption, The representatives of tin; syndicates are. expected to .shortly make a proposal to extract ak-o'hol from the* prickly pour, ami use it as fueir One of the best laws over passed in America and one of the most euicient Uays the ttan t'rancisco Newsletter) is the Pure Food Uuv. Its fruits are seen in the general health of our people. Until, recently dietetics vas one of the vague subjects Mint cranks advocated and ordinary folks unregarded or laughed at. How strange that, while i even the most ignorant man carefully selects Uhc material for house-ibuildfog, even the intelligent man is so careless in choosing the material for body building. The majority oi people llave no more taste in selecting food than they have ill selecting tobacco. The shipment of butter by the Ik>ni<i from Auckland to London totalled £297 boxes, the s.s. Victoria took 340 boxes for South Africa, and the s.s. Mnuroto 211 boxes for the South Sen Islands,

while there were 8000 boxes in store o:i Saturday for export. The total output of the Auckland factories dumig the preceding fortnight for export "was I thus 5848 boxes or 14Ci tons. In th-e----corresponding fortnight of last year ' there was a total of 3247 boxes, or HO tons, su that the make for export for the fortnight ending tins mvok exceeded that of the corresponding fort"night of last year by (ili tons. Roughly speaking, tlie export output for the last fortnight, was worth over -C 14.000. "Look here.'' says an American journalist. with thai bluntness of speech which characterises his race. li who would be elected King or the world tomorrow if there was an election.- foi every mother's son on the globe? Roosevelt'.' Not for a minute. Rut •wh-o'i King Edward. There's the, most i popular man in Christendom. And ! whv? Jiint because he's the fort of man I say ought to lead a nation—a bin- man. a broad man, a. man vlio knows,, the -whole game and not a part of it. * sin all-round gentleman who en joys a fair game and understands a poor tipUer in the two-bob ring si* Avell as the rich man somewhere else doing the same thing/

Siivs vesterday's Wellington Times:—! "Hvetyo'ne wauls to know the dale, of the elections, but this is s li ! l unsettled. However, this much is eel tain, that they will take place not laUi than tile first week in December; and inure probably the last week in November. An important element in fixi'ig this vearV elections is the possibility of second ballots in some of the large constituencies. Fourteen days lmre to elapse between the polls in eleven scattered constituencies, and if the fliWi trial of polling strength takes place later than the middle of December there will be danger of holidays interfering materially with electioneering. An announcement regarding the date of the elections may be expected in a few days."

The Picton Press reports that a right whale was sighted on Thursday morning last by Mr, James Nofton, from tile Flat Pock at tile Queen Cmirlotte Hound Heads Two boats were quickly manned by Messrs Jack-on and Norton, who rowed out to tile Heads and waited for the whale to conic in wit'ii the tide. At an opportune moment tlie harpoon was hurled into the budv of the monster, and it was spouting blood within three minutes. It made desperate etl'orts to escape, but n-.iee the man with the lanec got to work its struggles gradually became weaker, and about two hours later it was quite dead. The "kill," which took place near Okitkttri, was witnessed by praetieally every resident of Te Aw;liti. 'l'lie estimated value of tlic whale is about CBOO.

From a table which is published in llu: current issue of the Ijabor Journal, the unenviable position which Wellington occupies in respect to the rent problem is very apparent. The tabic refers particularly to houses of the size most in demand by workmen, and comparison between the rents charged in the four centres for residences of varying si ze • Four-roomed cottages, for instance, which in Wellington cost from Us to 18* per week, are from i)s to 15? at Christehureh, 10s to 12s lid at Auckland, and 10s to Lis at Dunedin. For place* of live rooms, the Wellington rental ranges from 18s to 27s lid, while in Christehureh it is from lis to 18s, in Auckland 12s to los. and in Dunedin 12s to 17s. Houses of six rooms cost in Wellington from 20s to i&s 6d per week, whereas ones of similar size can b« obtained in Christehureh for from 12s lid to 22s (id, in Auckland from 10s to 21s. and in Dunedin from 17s i<> 22s (id. The seven-roomed house in Wellington costs its tenant from 2.3s to 3,>s* per week in rent, while in Christehureh the weekly 1 payment would range from 1"> S to l»0s, in Auckland from 20s to 255, and in j Dunedin from 21s to 30s. I

Dr. Tniby King, who is to .-.peak at "New Plymouth to-iuorrow night, is in enthusiast in baby-culum\ and he Ins demonstrated before to-day what can be done with poor specimens of the human animal. Me so persists in talking about babies and in trying to save them, that some people have the idc i he belojigs to the genus "crank." Time never yet was a man of persistence in auy single line of conduct who was not called a "crank.' remarks the Wellington Times. Providence be thanked for 'cranks''! They have always ell'ecled the reforms. Dr. Truhy King tells the mother, among other things, that b'.'r 1 baby will thrive in the open air, and that jl will do an infant no harm even if the temperature is as low as 40 de- j grees. This sounds perfectly awful tol the average mother, who believes that

a baby is ;ui article tliul ought la be wrapped 11p iu several t] 1 ic]<nc-of anything ili.it is liiiiiilv and treated like a photographic '■ proof 7 ' as far as air an I sun arc concerned. The consumptive w wry "delicate," and the consumptive who li.H been living- with dosed doors and closed windows all his life is trans]>liUiU'd liv medical meu into the open air. If is tiir only jilacr where anything living, either animal or vegetable, win thrive well. Ordinary people wio have consumptives in their houses obey the physician's command to leave the window of the consumptive's room wide open, but in these houses one may frequently tiud ordinary people shutting their o«« windows, their idea presumably being; that the breezes that are giving life to a consumptive will give healthy people a "chill" or a -void" or something ot the kind. Upcii-air dwellers | never "catch cold'' until they go inside to live. The bnshmiin who lives in a tcnl can induce a cold in one night by :-lee|>iiiL! in a bedroom ivitli the window shut. In places where babies have no moMii>r» present, and where baby-rear-ing i-. undertaken as a science, air is

deemed the lirst essential, and people who run baby-culture homes don't ca:c I whether the wind comes from (he suni li or the north. Lungs and legs were given to babies to use, and lungs ami legcannot be used properly under a pile of bedclothes or in a study with a hood lo keep out the ail'. fresh a:r lor liable-. beats all the paregoric an I t-astor oil anil dill-water in tile world. Air is cheaper llian doctors and drugs. Mothers ought to try it.

-Mails for United Kingdom and JOur-1 ope, via Xaples. despatched from here on September -Jtii, arrived in London < :i October 12th. Ihe number of co-.jperative workeis eniployrd by the IMiblic Wurks Ueparlinent in August was \lioH (27!> artisans and :>77!) laburcrs;. Tin. number employed by the Jloads Department Was 2237 laborer*. With n view of keeping our new library up-to-date and rendering it I ho: -1 oughly useful to the people, we would I suggest .to the committee the advisability of purchasing a set of the "His-1 torians' History of the World/' novv being ollered to the public. The relVrence. library is an invaluable adjunct of any literary storehouse, and there is n:> . set of history so useful a* this complete and revised set of volumes of the world's records.

A IJell Block settler has some most prolific live s toek on his farm. The other day lie set a goose which had laid -10 eggs without a break, this being the best he has known in forty years' experience. His Berkshire sow, mated to a Ta in worth sire, easily eclipsed the 'ileal record last Saturday by reproducing her species to the tune of nineteen. This, il will be acknowledged, is a remarkable litter. The owner lias left her to rear twelve of her ollspring.

Tlie cable between Wanganui and Wakapuuka is broken, about four miles from the former place. There have been several earthquake iS hoeks at Wangauni ' lately, and the mishap is attributed to this. This is only the second interruption that has occurred since the line was laid in 1880. The Tutanekai will' repair the break as soon as she linishos laying the cable to Dog Island lighthouse in Foveaux Straits, on which work she is now engaged. The accident will' j not interfere with telegraph work, alive other cables are available. The West Jind Sehool Committee h is now completed the erection of the school gymnasium, at a total cost of about ,-CIUO. of which .C7O was a grant' of JC for £ from the Education Hoard. The energetic suburbans have now In hand the little matter of paying oil' the remaining debt, and with that object jn view are giving a concert to-night at the school. The official opening of the gymnasium is to be performed by ,'iis Worship the Mayor, at 7.30 p.m. During the concert the swimming certificates and medals awarded for last season's school swimming will be presented by Jlr. AV, L. Newman.

For the past few days n number of sheep lent by Mr. .11. Okey, M.l\, have been depasturing on the Recreation Sports (-{round, to eat down the grass on the sports area. On Tuesday night they were disturbed by a pack of she *pworrying curs. Fortunately Mr. Fred Tribe, a member of the grounds committee. lived close by, at Vogeltown, and he heard the barking. Immediately divining the cause, he rushed down to il-e ground, and scattered the dogs. Tin' sign "Nd dogs admitted'' has evidently no terror lor the dogs themselves, bat the owners of them are asked-to keep them out of this form of niischi"f. Otherwise it may be bad for "doggie."

The schedule of the annual spring show under the auspices of the New (Plymouth Horticultural Society, which takes place in the Theatre Royal on 10th December, has just been issued. As in former years, the schedule covers a wide Held, no fewer than 51 classes being provided for pot plants. 70 for cnl flowers, and !;l for bouquets ami Moral' designs. There are also the usual children's classes for bouquets and buttonholes. The vegetable and fruit classes are for open competition. A feature of i the show will no doubt be the section confined to nurserymen, in which ke-n competition is expected. Copies of the schedule are obtainable from the see-'e-tarv. Mr. \Y. V. Xicoll.