LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 265, 2 November 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Harrison itand gave a concert on the Esplanade Rotunda yesterday alternoon. There was a large attendance, and a highly appreciated programme was discoursed. According to .Mr JJruninell, he had a moustache once. But when lie tried to get into politic* he took it oil, - fur," lie explains, "he thought he couldn't be too barefaced to go into politics." The |»oll of ratepayers taken in connection with altering tlie half-holiday for factory employees in the Stratford borough from .Saturday to Thursday resulted in 37 votes being east in favor of the proposal and 7 against it. The proposal was therefore carried, and in future factory employees in this borough ' will receive their half-holiday on the same day as the shop assistants.—Post. A sudden and tragic incident occurred at Worllev road the other day. .Mr. George JJenwoud had just ridden to his house, and went to the stable to get his horse a teed. JIU little girl, four and a-Jiall years old, was standing near by. When he returned, the child was .stretched on the ground, to all intents and purposes dead, having been kicked by the horse. The deepest .sympathy is Telt for Mr. and .Mrs. llenwood in their bidden bereavement.

The high rents prevalent in Wellington, and the manner in which they press upon the poorer classes of tenantry especially, is from time to time brought under the notice' of the Wellington Benevolent Trustees, when a tale is told of a struggling woman, the whole of whose .earnings are consumed by rent. Under notice oil Tuesday was a case in which the applicant stated that she paid 17s fid a week lor lour rooms and a -cullcry. in the poorest quarter of tiie city. Speaking at a meeting of harbor ratepayers at Stratford, Jlr, Newton King said oiii: important reason why that district should support the .UIIIIO.UOIJ loan proposal was that they were nearly all dairy farmers and they were realis- | ing how necessary it was to treat their permanent .pasture lands. Top-dressing | with pliospha tcs was llie favorite 1 method, and when he told them that owing to its harbor accommodation phosphates could be landed at Ills (id per ton less llutn they were now able to land the -same fertiliser at New Plymouth, they would si*e what an advantage direct shipping ali'orded. If (hey rould s;rve Ibis l:)s lid per ton. what an immense advantage it would be to the farmers of this district. October I'ile is abreast the times with a line cover-design, showing the Zcppeim airship soaring above a city that is apparently being blockaded by a licet of battleships. The picture suggests the possibilities of the use of airships in future warfare. And inside is an article d"alii'g with the latest developments in aeronautics. Conspicuous among other | special illustrated articles in tills i-sie| is a racy description of the great Fra/i-

co-'liriii.-h exhibition, written by the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Sir llciiiy Weedun. who was one of the Australian delegates to the exhibition. The history of ttie mouth, the hook-notes, and l"ie dozen departments into which the world's affair- are subdivided, make this number, as usual, of very great, value to the man who wish, s to keep up to date, and has not a great deal of Lime to devote to stndv.

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On a charge of being found helplessly drunk on the South road, Frank Malbon Alison was on Saturday morning remanded by Mr. 11. S. .Fitzherberl, S.M., until next 'Saturday for medical treatment. The following letter from the Stratford Post, which explains itself, lias been received by -Mr. J, F, Watson, secretary of the Stratford Retailers' Association, as the outcome of a deputation from that body which recently waited on Mr. J. Armstrong, District Traffic Manager: "The Secretary, Retailers' Association, Stratford. Sir,— Huiroa train service.—With reference to our recent interview at Stratiord in connection with the above, I have to inform you that the Department cannot arrange to run tile early morning train from Huiroa, but in order that settlers from Huiroa and district may be able to transact banking business in Stratford it has been decided that on 'Wednesdays and Saturdays the train will be altered to arrive "at Stratford at p.m. instead of 2.45 p.m. This alteration will come into operation on November 4th.—\ours faithfully, J. E. Armstrong', District Traffic Manager."

Dr. 11. 11, ISakewell, who was formerly physician to the Leper Asylum in Trinidad, British West indies, in a lctier to the Lyttelton Times on the subject of the Maori leper patient recently discharged from Quail Island as cured, questions the permanency of the cure. Dr. Bakwvell says : ''Even when a cure has been effected the patient cannot "e----turn to the diet, environments, aud lliaibits in which lie lived when he contracted the disease. I Slave seen many hopeful eases, when •very visible trace of the disease had Ibeem removed lapse Jieoausc the patients went >back "to their old homes and resumed the habits, diet, etc., which had been the original cause of the malady. Ilf the Maori iwiiio has been treated in the Lyttelton quarantine station goes back to some Ji I thy Maori hovel, aud eats sharks' ffesli and other fish salted and fiialf - putrid, sleeps ill ill-ventilated huts, and generally falls back into tile habits of his peqple, it is almost' certain that if h 1 of accident, or some acute ■HHu-will he attacked by leprosy."

ilie (priible molor-car tragedy which happened at AMicnga, a small village law Genoa, cabled on September 5, state ttiat an engineer, who was spending bis holiday at Atbeiiga, was returning to his villa, when his only child, a boy aged six. ran to meet him as Ims approached the house. Suddenly a motor car. occupied bv a chauffeur and the two daughters of the Marquis Kevedin, turned the corner at a tremendous speed just as the child reached the corner of the road. The 'engineer himself saw tllic par earning, and shouted to the boy to get out of the way. It was too late, however. The car ran over the child and killed him instantly. Tile father, mad with rage, at once pulled out a revolver and | fired at the car. The first shot missed, but the second pierced the body of the younger sister, mortally wounding lier; and then penetrated the skull of the chauffeur, killing him instantly. The car, deprived of its driver, ran away with the other occupant, the elder sister, who was too terrified to attempt to stop it. For 400 yards it dashed along until it ran into some rocks near the sea, smashing itself to pieces. The elder sister was picked up frightfully injured and is not expected to survive. The engineer was arrested while still passionately embracing the body of "lis son.

Both the imitation and the genuine diamond at first sight appear much alike, yet in composition and utility they are wholly unlike. So it is with many cream separators at present on the market. At first sight they may bear a resembrance to the "Alfa-Laval," ilie world's standard machine, but when judged by the work they do they aro no more like the "Alfa-Laval" than the piece of glass is like the true diamond. You are not blind to the profits due to than skimming, economy in operation and durability. Arc you already so wealthy that the waste of power, cream oil, time, and repair expense mean n<> thing to you? Write us to-day fo Catalogue "T" and prices. Delay means so much money lost. Sole New Zealan agents, Mason, Struthers and Co., Ltd Main-street, Palmerston North. K Griffiths and Co., New Plymouth, loea agents.