LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 290, 2 December 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Four bankruptcies took place in Masterton last week. \cstcrday, the Ist of December, was the forty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the iirst railway ,iu New Zealand. Mails for United Kingdom and Continent despatched on October 23rd, via Brindisi, arrived at London on November 27 th.

" A woe bit of heaven let clown upon this sordid earth.'' Sucli was an in tlmsittstic clergyman's description of tor New Plymouth lice rent ion Grounds, 111 j teivd at last Dibit's meeting. A remarkable feat of cattle dro\i'.ig is reported from (lie Feilding districts A lady of sixty-live, it is stated, drove iifty head of cattle from Feilding to Wft/iganui without horse or dog, walking all Ihe way and not losing a beast. A twelve-year-old pupil of (Jueeu's I'ark .School, Wanj>ani|i, Ililda Margaret Kowe, fell against the edge of a schooldesk 011 Monday last, and, though absent from school on Tuesday, returned oil Wednesday, apparently none the worse for the accident. On Friday, however, she died very suddenly from hemorrhage of the brain. A wonderful new apricot, claimed to be the largest in commerce, has he<:n'., produced in Washington. It has been named the Vakiniejie, is as large as a good sizi'd apple, and. when rip;?, tile skin is said to glow like burnished gold Those who have tasted it say thiK the llavoiir compares with thai of the (inest English forced fruits. His Worship the Mayor last nigiit enumerated the many advantages of Xi'iv Plymouth, [laving disposed of the U'eerestion Grounds, park*, walks, anil so on. he claiijied for the town a perfect system of reUciiUUiojj of water. "We provided that." he said wjtlj a twinkTe in his eye, " in view of the prohibition movement, you know.''

Tin- contest oi an flection appears (jjil)p /is exhausting f"r the wife of ,1 candidate ;)s for tin* man himself, dii'd now (say* tii,- Wellington Post) there are three wives who pre in private hospitals undergoing treatment for icrves. M their husbands have all headed their respective polls, and the strain is removed, IJicjr convalescence may (jo rapid.

1 Professor 1\ Ji. Loomi*., jicad of the j department of comparative anatomy at Amherst (."Diversity. U.S.A., has discovered, embedded in sandstone ne.ir Liislv, Wyoming, a fossil skeleton of a new species uf camel. The remains show that the came] was about the size of a goat, and the discovery is hailed in America a» <>ne of the nio.il important! made in recent years by fossil-hunters. In addressing Hie giilhmny a I WhiteJey Hull last night the Mayor, Mr. C. Tisch, said thai in the days of his onyhood in thi* di>triet churches and nii;i istcr« of the gospel were few a;id far between, m every Sunday, be i| w*t or line, the little Sunday Schools were

opened, and the parents saw to ii that the children attended regularly ami prepared t heir Scripture lessons for ea ■M oUcc<?f<*ive Sunday. To-day, with all our boasted fiye iUld compulsory education tiie children vw j}ot 'nearly so wll instructed in this respect. Some people laid the blum? ut the door o«t the'education system, but Ins idcu was that Uh fault was in the home. At home, nowhere else, was it possible to how i hose seeds which would bloom and ripen into nobln manhood and womanhood. | The remarks >v\e?i- heartily applauded.

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