LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 288, 30 November 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. It is slated oil good authority t!i.-it Mr. Remington, Ml'., will ili.<cliin/ to accept Mr. Hutchison's challenge to r«contest tie ltangitikei scut. Says Friday's Wangiiuui Herald:— Jn connection with the mysterious oxplos ions yesterday, which were thought in some quarters to be the result of a sub marine upheaval, it is now explained that they were probably due to a meteorite, several persons having seen one fall in the direction of CastleclilV, lenv- | ing a bright Hash and a trail of smoke behind it. The I'iclding Show Association has deckled to introduce a class offering a prize for value and quality of wool. The conditions are that rams be shorn, kept by the Association for twelve months, then shorn again, the wool of the second shearing to he weighed-, scoured, weighed again, then sold, and the prizes will be awarded according to the net value of the wool.

A social gathering of Mr Hall Jones' old election committed was held at Timaru on Friday evening. About 150 of both sexes were present. The Minister was presented with a smoker's companion and Mrs. Hall Jones with a toilet stand as souvenirs of long electoral relations. Mr. Hall Jones made a few remarks and said he was in the iiopes ot continuing to serve the Dominion as usefully in the new as in the old sphere. "Kruger," the shark that is declared I by the natives to have been associated | with Sponge Hay, near Tuamotu Island, for the past twenty years, has made his re-appearance, this time with four followers. Attracted by the sight of a wounded stingray, killed by menibers of a picnic pane. Hie sharks were seen on Sunday la-t when they ravenously ! fought ami destroyed the wounded fish, j A determined effort is shortly to be I ma'je to'rid Sponge Bay of. the monsters.— Uishorne Herald.

A lady teacher was telling her little boys the story of loot's wife, how she looked hack as she lied from the wicked city ami turned into a pillar of salt. "Did vuu ever hear of anything like that';'' .-he asked. "Yes," said one little fellow. "I ken a better ane than that. A wife on oor stairheid gaed dooii the stair an:- day an' out at the close mooth an' lukliit limit an' this way an' that, an' then turned in." a public boose!" This was the story told by the president of the Dunedin Hums Club the other evening to show that phrases have different meanings, and the difficulty there is in translating some of the poet's works.

Early last week (says the Northern Mail) all was going merrily at a very interesting wedding in a Northern towviship until the bridegroom was called ! upon to produce the wedding ring, in vain he felt in his trousers pocket for the missing trifle. Nothing could Oe found except a 'hole, through which the ring had evidently fallen into the high hoot width is affected by young men of that locality. What was he to do'( "Take your boot oil'/' said the parson. The suspense and silence was painful. The organist, at the priest's bidding, struck up a "voluntary." The young man, silting on the altar rail, removed his boot, the ring was found—also a hole in the stocking, which led the worthy divine to remark: "Young man, it is time you were married."

A campaign against the wearing of hats by women in churches and chapels has been started in Brooklyn, and it promises to be a remarkably vigorous campaign, too. lit America and else'where the absurdest of fashions dictates that women should wear hats built on a I colossal scale,' with brims as large as umbrellas. Dr. -Myers, an inlluenfial Baptist minister, leads the Brooklyn campaign. His argument is that the huge artificial flower decorations which the women carry on their heads obliterate the preacher from the view of most of tliii congregation. Moreover, the "glorious creations of the milliner's art" distracts the wearers and their neighbours. Mr. Myers has succeeded in inducing the women of his church to surrender their hats mid join with him in his hat crusade. The milliners, who may be looked upon as a threatened vested interest, are hostile, and St. Paul's counsel to the. Corinthians is being used to checkmate the crusaders. Tlie Hon. Lady Forster, of Ballymascanlan House, county Louth, who died in May, was daughter of the second Baron Plunket, Bishop of Tuam, riillaia. and Achoury, and left personal estate in the United Kingdom valued at t-H),'113. Bv her will, dated February Kith, 1(101, the testatrix left £2OOO to her cousin, William Lee, fifth Baron l'lunket, to repay the losses his father, the late Archbishop of Dublin, incurred in building the Cathedral at Tuam, 1100(1 to the Representative Church Bodv of Ireland for' the SuslciiUtion Fund nf the parish of Biillymnre, county Monujjliiiu. in memory of her iathor, and llOOl) to the said Representative Clmrcli Bodv of Ireland for the Kiislcntatiou l-'uud. The residue of her estate, subject to other provisions, the testatrix left upon trust for her two sisters or the Mirvivors of them, and she directed that, diould any persoirbcnolitiiig under her will become a member of the Koman Catholic Clmrcli. the share of such person should be paid to the Representative Clmrcli Body of Ireland. The Tauinuruiiiii electorate, which Mr. .leaning's represents, is a most difficult one to get round iii-» short time. In conversation with a representative of the News, .Mr. Jennings said that from October 15th, the first night he spoke, until polling day, November 17th, he travelled 1017 miles. By train he went ;wl> miles; traps, 200; jigger, 12; steam launch, 20; horso--linc-k, 2I1"). He spoke on 02 occasions, the, biggest performance being on October 17, when he addressed six meetings in the day time, finishing with the seventh at liaetihi in the night. The places of meetings comprised halls, schools, wool-shed, saw-inills, railway stations, new bridge at Tokirima, men in busli camp*, .men on railway works. Mr. Jennings received I'io congratulatory telegrams from all parts of the Dominion, some of which were amusing. Old Dimcdin friends wmv pleased "on, big score on new pitch"; Oisborne friends "on keeping your bow above, water"; " Oiitlanders Kawhia congratulate yen": " Coroniandel boys on top-'; vVaijm, "Congratulations, hurrah,"and sonic words in d'.olic; one from To Kuiti, " Excolsioi* cutting up my freehold ill the. lowa and calling street 'Jennings'"; from the staff of the New Zealand Farmer (of which he was Mi.auager for many years), the following wire, "(food on you, old man, glad you kept up the funning industry." By one of the characteristic somersaults of fashion, the enormous hats which women have been wearing this year, nml which have been a"dailv source of inspiration "to masculine satirists (snys the London correspondent if the Age), are to be replaced by diminutive toques of the pork pie variety. A inundate from the line do la I'aix hasollled the matter, and the freak umbrella lull's, maiiv of which measure 70in ineireu.nrere.ie„.are|.Mlisi,|,|,earin.ll,c course ol the next month or two. Thev nearly raised a riot at a I'aris theatre'; a pos.se „f gendarmes had to be called in

In preserve order; and ;, lesser incident.

i provoke.! in the same wav, has been witnessed )n one of the London theatres. It appears that |l|e. chief reason wbv women have been, disinclined to take nil' these monster hats when bogged to do so is that there is no place in which they can be safely stored, the accommodation in the theatre dressing rooms being invariably .small. But such head gear can always be left at home, that I is the lmtural reply, and the theatre manager,-! now say that must, women are lieginning to realise that the wearing of a troublesome hat at public performances is n mark of vulgarity. Once this becomes generally recognised, the middle-class women, who are at present the worst offenders, will follow the example of "good forni," set by those l:i the upper class, and the ' prolonged 1 rouble of Hi, itinee hal will liunliv

come to -ml. As the more efflorescent specimens of the cart wheel hat cost from 1.1 to 20 guineas each, the husbands who have to p'av milliners' bills will he relieved by Hie impending change of fashion in the direction of something simpler and cheaper. Mr. 5, Stockri:l£e, 07 Tory sire it. Wellington, New' Zealand, writes: "Clu iiiberliun's Tablets are the funs! corrective Ihnt we ever had in our home. f always give then, to tin- children and und that they are the safest medicine for them. What I like about them l« Hint tliev are mild and gentle in th.vrj action and ■never leave any after effects. People troubled with indigestion or cot stipation it-ill find that Chamberlain's | Tablets can lie depended upon." For sale tT ail chemists and storekeeper?. For reliability, for keeping it s color, for wear and style in hats, get a Woodrow. "The Kash," that reliable sto.'e in Devon-street, have every shape and size in stock, and will be pleased to shnw you one at any tKa. Trices 10s 81 superior qualify ISs lid —and worth every ncnr,e of the money-*" i—Adrl OTLLF/ITE S.VFRT.. RAZORS. Bengal razors, high-class pocket cutlery, all Hie Infest on hand. Boys' watches (gnod timekeepers) can be obtained for 15s each at J. Avery's, tobacco- j Devon-street. ,