LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 287, 28 November 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On the motion of Mr Quilliam (Govelt and Quilliam) probate of the will of the late Mr William Wey Cleave has been granted by the Supreme Court to Messrs •!. Burt Vcale and J. F. Vesper, the executors named in the will. Probate of the will of. the late Mr. Robert t Cunningham was granted by His honor Mr Justice Edwards to Messrs E. Cunningham and W. F. Brooking, the executors and trustees, on the 24th instant, on the motion of Mr Kerr. Mr. A. Hamilton, director of tin; .Dominion Museum, has not given up hope that specimens of the almost extnet imia ,may yet be found. Tin- Maoris who enthusiastically entered inlo the business of finding enough live specimens to ensure a revival of the 'birds in a Government sanctuary, report that they have discovered indications of the presence of the birds, mid are optimistic ilk regard to the capture of some specimens. "A man bad no right to claim that lie was experienced until he had contested a Parliamentary election. It was a most effective cure for conceit. Out started the contest with the idea that he was not a bad sort of man. Toward the finish he began to wonder, not \vh-«-tlicr he should be elected to the House of Parliament for three years, but whether he should be elected to gaol for three years."—ll. A. Wright's view of the contest.

The Masterlon Age announces t'hut | a challenge is to lie issued uu behalf of , ilr. Donald McCormiek, one of the giant > drum-majors of the Kilties Band, to the | winner of the Wehb-Arnsl contest for i the sculling championship of the world. [ .The sculling world already knows i .something of McCormiek, who is 71 fc i 3'/.ft in height, and is recognised as one I of Canada's best oarsmen, having rowed contests with men of th; calibre ol 1 Gaudour. A letter to the London Times gives a derivation of the word "chauffeur" that may be new and interesting, both to those important persons and to their employers. The chauffeur (French f-u '■'heater' - ) was originally a -brigand who, with others of his kind, sallied forth at night from a cave, masked, -and lureed the inmates of houses to hand over their treasures, it they refused, the wretched folk were dragged to a fierce lire, and their feet were roasted until they divulged where their money or jewels were hidden. Tlie gang, which numbered over 100, and sheltered in the caves and disused quarries near Chartres, was captured, and nearly all executed. This was in the eighteenth century. There are some nervous pedestrians of the- twentieth century who will consider the characteristics of the brigand highwayman have not entirely disappeared in the present chauffeur! At St. .Mary's Hall on Thursday i evening, Bro, L, C. Sladdcn was install'- J

Ed as W.M. of Lodge Nganiotu, No. 48 (Freemasons), for the ensuing year. The Grand Lodge of New Zealand was represented by Jlro. F. I'. Corkill, Provincial Grand .Master, and \Y. liros 11 Dempsoy, T. V, Fookcs, A. \V. R v i ( | Meiiaud, Hailo, ami Wake. Ji.W. Jlro! Corkill acted as installing ollieer, assisted by YV. Bros. I. (.'. Fookes, 11. Dcmpsey, llaiie and others. Bros. Itenaud and J. 0. George presided at the organ. Bro. T. Furlong, P.M., acted as director of ceremonies. After the W.M. had been installed he. vested his ollicers for the ensuing term as follows: I.P.AL W. Bio. J. Jones; S.YV. Bro. J. K. Wilson;' J.W. Bro. J. T. Murray; treasurer, Bro. C. M. Lepper; secretary, W. Jj, u \v. i[. Iladdrell, P.M.; Director of Ceremonies, W. Bro. J. S. IS. Medley, P.M.; chaplai.i, Bro. Rev. S. Spencer: 5.1)., Bro li. 1, -Mcllroy; J. I). ]),-(,. W , jf_ jm,,.,. 1.C.V.W., Bro. F. G. Evans, Grand Chaplain; S.S. Bro. 10. YV. Gainer; ,T.S. liro. F. S. Johns; Associate Stewards, Bros. T. C. Sclmackenberg, A. 11. Steeds, S YV. Smith. \y. |\Xi,,,||. F. A. Avery, R.

Sinclair; Tyler, \y. |i, u . .J.'AKhor. 'l'..\! At tlio conclusion uf tin; corenionv ai ldjournmcnt was nuu!t> Id the Ma'sm'ik Hall. liohe street, where the usual

loyal and Masonic toasts were honored. A gallant rescue after a desperate struggle willi a drowning man occurred on a recent Sunday afternoon at ('nylon Hay. four miles south of Sear- ' borough. Three younji men were bathing, and oiie-nained Klewortb was swvit oil' bis feel by a wave and carried oi'il liy the under-current. ||i s companion, llargroavc. secretary „f |h,, Million Swimming club, swam after him, an.l after dicing, managed to seize him, but' the drowning man clutched him so tightly round the neck that there was danger of both being drowned U:\rgreaie Sniggled heroically, hut at last was compelled l.„ release his hold. | Klswort.li sank again. HnlVle,! for ti„. time llargreave, however, dived once more and brought Klsworth to the surface, hut Iho desperate struggle was renewed, and it was by «reiit risk and exertion thai Kkworth was at Inst got a.hole, lie was then unconscious, hut I eventually recovered. Hut for ll.ir-g|-eave's experlness as a swimmer both would have been dniwued. J The kit of a German soldier includes a llihlc and ~ cake of chocolate. I Sugar-growing, next to mining, is tile | greatest industry in South Africa.