LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 296, 9 December 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wo have to thank the local stationmaster for a copy of the railway timetable for December.

Cabinet has authorised an expenditure of £2300 011 the Auckland railway station yards, says a Press wire.

A heavy fall of snow fell on Mount Egmoiil and the ranges yesterday, giving them iiuite a mid-winter appearance.

Monday's Dominion reports that at the Wellington Stock Exchange on Saturday Tiiramiki petroleums were oll'ering at L'l. The New Zealand Times reports a more buoyant feeling on the Exchange, a number of transactions he-

ing recorded. Complaints are made linn the children's enjoyment of the seaside is being marred just now by a deposit of v.ir which evidently comes Irom the gasworks. The lil'ilc ones are not the only sullerers, either, IV,,- tin- tarred clothes of the youngsters cause considerable trouble to their parents when they arrive home.

The livst h-iii'-yeiirly meeting of the New Plymouth Club' eventuated last night before it g;,ud. attendance of members, the pre t, .Mr. IS. Tisch, prosiding. The general position as disclosed by the secretary was considered eminently satisfactory, and a hearty vote of thanks was accorded the secretary, for his services.

ilnj,or >a oil lon 1 has received official word that llu- school cadet camp lias been approved. The boys will go ill O'.i -Monday morning and return on Saturday. Arrangements linve been made for supplies -gnu-cries, meat and bread. All arran;'"inc,ils are well forward, and it is expect .'d Unit this eauip will be the .most successful yt'l held by lie.' kit-, tillion.

At Mil' I'c'lding Chamber of Commerce on .Monday night a committee of business men was set up lo advertise the advantages of the district as a stock centre. The president (.Mr. Tolley), in proposing Unit the committee should be appointed, said that with the opening of the -Main Trunk line Eeildhg must make an effort to retain its position as the chief sleek centre in the Xorth Is- ] land. The rates obtained for stock here, he said, were looked on as the ruling rates for the Xorth Islanu, "it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good" was never better exemplified than in those portions of ifasterton district where the bush lires were most destructive last year. So completely has tin- laud been cleared that its value has

undoubtedly gone up, and the burned

portions, re-sown, are 'now hearing am abundance of grass. There is, in fact,

.too much feed for the stock, as many of the settlers who suffered badly from the lires had to sell valuable animals at nominal prices. They bitterly regret the sacrifice of cows at £ 1 to 30s a head whim the price of stock to replace tliem ranges from £0 to £B.

lieforc Mr. T. Scotl Smith, S.M., at Kaikoura last week, A. W. O. lieiuicr, publisher of tile Kaikoura Sun newspaper, was charged on the information of K. F. Ingram with criminal libel alleged to oe contained in the publication of a iette'd signed "Weary Willie." E. V. Ingram, the prosecutrix, is the wife of W. I!, engrain, proprietor of the Kaikoura Star, and is manager of the Kaikoura Coufectioiii'i-y Company's tea rooms. Accused pleaded not guilty and reserved his defence. His Worship eoinmitleil him for trial. Hail was allowed in one surety () f Ci") and accused's own bond of :t-20.

To show what the pioneers of Hie South are made of, the Otago Daily Times -states that Dunedin possesses an early settler whose record should take a deal of beating. In the first place. thi> lady is US years old, and she has never had a day's illness. She has reared and seen married fourteen children. She .-lever takes a tram, ''on principle," because it is healthier to walk. Five o'clock in the morning never finds her abed, and she works all day as though toil was the chief delight of her existence. .She scored another point on the younger generation on Friday night by winning (lie ladies' wood-sawing competition at the Karly Settlers' Hall. According to the Dunedin Star, there is 'every prospect of a record crop of

soft, fruit from New Zealand orchards. The indications of abundance arc par- ; l.i'.nbir!\ pniini-ing in (.'cmr.il (Hugo. Ahead.,' >: ran berries and cherries are coming in freelv lo the market-places. I'rices'. however.' a re -till still' enough to make these fruits, in people who cannot alVovil to pay Is per lb, like the grai.es [he fox could not reach. The weather has been very I'awmibie for the growth of M.ft. tin it. According to Dunediu fruiterer-, [lie New Zealand apple en.p promises to be lighter than in former year-.. Xo reason is given for this, further than Hut one liieivliiinl has noliceil in bygone times that one season out of three apple trees appear to take it easy. .Mr. .1. T. Campbell, headmaster of the Kahotu school and superintendent of the school agricultural plot, has for•wariled to .Mr. W. A. Jlallantyue, director of Technical Education, a copy of an analysis of tile soil of the school plots, conducted by Air. J). C. Astou, Govern-, inent Analyst. Mr. Aston states that the soil is an excellent one, being well supplied with available plant food and having good physical characters, (lood crops to experiment with on Ibis soil would be oats, turnips, and other cruciferous plants and potatoes. .Mr. Aston wrote expressing his willingness to grant every ussistanee in carrying out the experiments, ami also asking for information as to experiments so far conducted and their results.

The imporUncc to the whole of New Zealand of the recent rise in the price of wool will be appreciated when it is recognised that a rise of one penny per pound in the total value of the wool exported means an aggregate increase in revenue of from . C7I)I),I)IM lo .C750.0U1). Thus, if the recent rise is maintained, and the whole of this season's clip is di.sposed of at prices averaging il per

pound ill excess of those realised for lust season's dip, sheep graziers—anil incidentally the whole of New Zealand—will lie about u million and a-lialf better oil' at the end of (lie season than at its commencement. This would go a long way towards relieving (lie intense strin-

gency ii (he monev market that at present exists, and'should material!; assist in hii|iroviii|f trade j;v.ieinll\ throughout New Zealand.—Kxdui.gc.

1,1 Svdncy last weds Mr .luck London, gave the reporters some details ~f iib-J adventure with the Solo. Maud cannibals. "I wonder what slorv vim have heard of our cannibals?. Jt was

really this. We wanted to go a rc--i'uitiim trip. We sailed in the Minola. Captain Jensen, till we got to Main, in (he north-west corner of M.ilaita.

We Wfi'i' jus( coming out when our boat, missed stays, and we went on .the reel'. Not live minutes before there was not a canoe in sight. liut wh n we >tru<-k the li.si thing that happened was the native crew sprang for their rilles. I thought it rather foolish, but. 1 soon saw why. There were hundreds of canoes round us at once They came like vultures. The hushmen came down, one or two hundred. They all expected to get the loot. There was no shooting; the rilles kept them oil'. They sent two men oil' in the late afternoon to demand one of (he recruits. They, had a price on hi* lif,.. Captain Jensen wept up to the shore, and issued n del'v that Hi" liiM bi.at would be tired at'.

Tin- Kiijjah.c. tx'itiir r'oinU the point, sent oil' .1 whale Imiil to us will, extra '»i';u- ami anchors. We were there llu"c; days iiiul three nights before we «nl. her

: TIIK ■•IIAIII) TIMKS" I'LKA. ;luH as mud, s,mis,. in a .luiryi.ia!. i-.'fiisiiijr to pnrclmse a separator on aeennui »f money shortness as I here is in a patient rcfiislMjr medicine or nourishment mi tin- 5:.,..,. score. |„ butli cases there is an ailment. In hull, eases there . | is a eeriainiy nf las,. i„ cash. ~„ the one I liaml. ami liealtk <>n (lie other. In both .ases there's a nnv I'or the trouble -the I liHiallali.il. of an "Alfal.ava!" Cream i Separator as a |irevcn!ivc of further li.s-1.. IhcUirvnun.-.,,,,! the ««•.-...>!.m.-v-I of (lie nie.livi.ic a.1.l fooil for the one who seeks reeoverv of health. Write I to-day fur inir illiisiraled eatahmue "T." i which will tell vnn how In tret vm.r share of the extra iirofils which "Alfal,aval" users are nl>f:iiniitu. Sole New Zealand aiieiits. Mason. Smithes ami ('.... Ltd.. Main-street. I'aln.ersion Ssortli. V., (Irillitlis and Co.. .Yew l'lvllM'lllll. local „j;.i|l!.. .Mr William Wallace. Tairauarn. Koto, via Tlillslon. X.S.W., writes: "'I j make it a point: to always keep Chamberlain's Coi.oh Remedy in Hie lionso, ' lm-viiif! never known it to fail when I {riven for coughs and colds." for sale I liy all (tamsts ami storekeepers. I <

The Mangatoki Co-operative Dairy Co. lias secured tin- services of the Rev. 11. Mason in order to determine if a belter water supply can he obtained in the vicinity ot its factory. A farmer was at a loss to understand why a young foal lie had was not making hotter headway. The foal's mother appeared to have no lack of nourishment, y'et her offspring was pour in condition "and always hungry. After a lot of cogitation the farmer one day went I 'into ilie paddock and discovered two I calves, one on either side of the mare, helping themselves to tile -mare's milk,

the loss of which accounted for the mis era-bie condition of the foal.

Including the month of November, the W'cstport Coal Company's output, according to the W'cstport Times,'was 41i,523 tons. For the (eleven months the output is about 1000 tons short of

the corresponding period last year. The

output of the, JSeddoiiYille State mine for eleven mouths is 55,017 tons, an in-

crease over the corresponding mouths of last year of 22,500. The Slate mine's Xovember -output was 473u' tons lO'cwi, including 38!) tons briquettes. The public will enjoy the long-cxpeeL-ed experience of a continuous train journey between Auckland aud Wellington "bout a week before Christmas, it ~,,* been decided by the Railway Department that as soon as the passenger

trallie during the Christinas holidays becomes too heavy for the present' twoday arrangement, the temporary (rains cowring the distance between Auckland and Wellington in twenty hours will run daily each way, leaving the respective cities aho.it 7.30 p.m. It is expect.d that these trains will become necessary about a week before Christinas, and that

they will require to run for a fortnight. They are intended to carry through passengers only.

Iteiitcr's Berlin correspondent recently advised:- According to tin- newspapers, the Kmpcror lias invented a hub-brake, wliis it is claimed oli'ors thn greatest possible security against tlie risk ol' refusing to ai-t. The th-vico will be most suitable for motor ears. Tlie Emperor formerly took the liveliest interest in this branch of technical science, but he had done nothing in this line for some years until a recent accident revived his interest hi the subject. Tim Emperor has not yet applied tor a patent, mill is probably' waiting to see the result of a practical test of the brake. In technical science the Kmperor is n pupil of Professor Sliibv, and he will resume his course of studies in the professor's laboratory next spring. Tlie existence of tlie Advances to .Settlers' Department has saved the Dominion from financial stress of a rudo and serious kind, if not from actual Imiincial collapse. Without entering into the reasons which led linancial institutions to call In advances, it ha* been made plain that this line of action has only failed to greatly prejudice the present and future of New Zealand, h one brief period, during which private lending institutions were insistent in regard to calling in their advances tj le Government lent the larae sum of .C(iUU,OOO. In the majority u ( cases j the advances thus made were to settlers suddenly culled upon to square their accounts. The action of the Government averted disaster.—Napier Telegraph.

Judging from the experience of Mr. |«. T. Jennings, M.l>. for Tiuini-arunui, some at least of the recent immigrants from the Old Country are not prepared to put up with anything'like inconvenience. While going recently from Onganilie to Mangapehu, he came across two lately arrived tradesmen, who had a grievance. 11 appears that thev arrived at Auckland on a Monday, ami on the Tuesday were sent as carpenters to work under the Public Works Department at Tauniarunui. Jn a day or Iwo thev threw up their jobs—because they could not get accommodation f„ r tHi-ir wives and families. Mr. Jennings pointed out lo them tli.it there are many carpenters in I lie Dominion who can get no work at all, and others who were in „ position to know informed them lo the same ell'eet, but they disliked inconvenience, i and left their work. I In these degenerate davs, says the Auckland Observer, when chivalry is a last vanishing quantity, the mere man who will give up bis seat in a crowd"d tramear to a lady is a rani avis. The Hon. George Fowlds, however, is one of those chivalrous gentlemen whose bump of consideration for the fair sex is verv strongly developed, licsides, member's of Ihe fair sex have votes. Shortly before (lie elections, the Hon. (;eor»e'wenp:ed. ; , seat in a crowded (irey l,vnn car. Noticing a lady wildly clutcliing an erratic -trap, the .lion, (ieorge urusc, noil with his very best bow, handed over his seat to the lady. At that precise ' moment the romliu-lcir. u ho n ,nst have I been a Xicliivlsiuiinii. suddenly discovered lliat (he car was overcrow,led. and .informed (he Hon. George Fowlds that he would have lo walk. The lion <ici>i-«e .protested. Had he i,o|. ; ,t the expense of his mvn comfort, given up his seal to a lady; "Have you got your ticket?" demanded the conductor.' "X I fiave noli.'' 'replied the lion, (ieorge. ■'Then out you go!'' retorted He-who-miist-be-oheywl. And out the lion. (ieorge had to go. The Mutt Valley is losing „ valuable citizen in the ltey. ,1. It. Morton Daraes. I'll his farewell message, published in the local paper, he observes: ■•]. had hoped lo have established a school here to lie known as Ksperanto College, but no one seems to take any interest in the subject, nor does anyone seem inclined to help me establish a Kosnion Socialist Church. It cannot he helped, but it is n pity, because I could have done much for social progress if only I ' had had the support of the people, who do not seem alive to their own interests. Xo sensible person ought to object to the higher socialism which, while making for an improved n'conomic system, for the enuring race in order to create the conditions for greater spiritual realisation, 'nevertheless can look well after what is sound and just in things as th"\are and appreciate whatever good there is in individualism. . . I wish to stale

that I iini going on a walking expedition through tlic country next Thursday w itli ii friend who is an artist, and it is possible f may make tracks lor some have-.i of rest ami ssli;ikc oil' the dust of mv feet once for nil on leaving tin- Valley of the Lower Hutl." An Italian increhaiit named r'raia, the only passenger who was on hoard the English steamer Norman Isles, has given to Hie Corriero della Hera u long and detailed account of the wreck which took place on the Somali coast, near Cape Guardii'ui. Coming from Mangkok. with a cm-go of OIHIO tons of rice for Hamburg, the vessel was thrown liv a violent storm on to a sandbank, but'did not sustain any damage. The captain thought, Iherefore, that he would be able to rollout his vessel next morning. Unl a number of boats and Somali canoes appeared on the scene, tile commander of which carried on his cap a ribbon with the words "I'oli/.ia della C»sla,'' while the Italian Hag was hoisted over liis boat. This individual ordered [lie eaplain to allow the Somalis In carry away whatever lliev wanted under pain of death. All tlie arms that were oil board the Noi'mnn Isles comprised a revolver and tv sporting gun, so the crew were unable to oiler any resistance. The Somalis therefore began (o carry away all the navigable instruments, and to break up the cabins out of which they constructed rafts. l t'pon (he. latter they loaded the IiOOO I

tons of rice, Inking'two davs in the operation. Fortunately they left the machinery in(n<-t, and'as steam was ill the boilers the captain, hy soundin" his siivn. jvas alile to attract the attention of a Swedish steamer -which was passug and which towed the Norman I'sks a" far as Aden. The natives of this coast arc under u vague sort of Italian protectum. It seems that under an ancient agreement, between England am! Italv. the tribes are permitted to-takc posse's-1 sioii of all wrecks on the condition that all lives aiv saved. The Norman. Isles however, was not wrecked, and could have got. away with her cargo without assistance, if i!„■ pirate- had not -pill, aged her. On reaching Aden the cap. I tain lodged a pnjlcst. with the Itrlfish authorities;,

IH'LIjMWAAL, no. Mr W. 11. Holland, "The Dredffe Unlnmwaal. Vic, writes:-")' have "sad Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic liniment, for rheumatic pains in the* arm, and it always removes the pah in a couple ol applications.

Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment relieves at once Rlici.malßin. i.ninbneo, Lame Back. Cuts, Ifrniscs. and lSnrii*, and repeated applications will cll'cet ..' cure in a vemarkalilv shorl time. I'ri <. Is (id. and 3s. r ,.r'boll in. OWainable everywhere.

PARCELS FOR TDK 01,]) OOnN'J.'RY. I ]).. yon wish to send a Christinas .>• ! New Year memento or parcel to nnv ./alive or friend either in the dome country or son.,, other connfrv abroad? Tf so, ynu will find the New Zealand K\press Company's system the elicap>st, liesl. qni-k.-t. and smesl melhrni The companv will call for vr.nr packacn and will deliver it (o any address. Re I dnecd tariff. Office, r.i'on"liam-strect.-Advt.

YOU CAN GET IT OUEArER AT TJIE UED POST.

An ollice hoy in Trenton, X.J. (writes 11 New York correspondent), holds a world's record. Sammy Bracket!, said t" he the oldest ollice boy in tlie world is employed at the ollice of the Anvil Works, ami now occupies the sain ■ position lie did when he lirst went to work there sixty-nine, years -ago. The King has appointed a lioval Commission to make an inventory of the ancient and historical monuments and constructions connected with or illustrative of the contemporary culture, civilisation, aud conditions of'life of Unpeople, of England from the earliest times to the year 171)1), and to specify those which seem most worthy „i ~ivservatioii.

An extraordinary demand has arisen in the eastern counties of England for second-hand Jiiblcs. The dirtier the better. They are used to -'ma 11 u fact lire evidence of age in the case of old age pensions. A* woman who produced a Bible, to prove her age as being seventy-six omitted to tear out the title-page, which showed that the Bible was printed in 18115. The Bulgarian Hag is so new (sa.'s the Argonaut) that the Turkish gunners did not recognise'it, and with blank shots turned back a steamer Hying it. The ollieial realisation of events is often slow in coming. Wh";i John Ouincy Adams sought to enter Merlin as American Minister to Prussia, he was held up at (he gate, and tin' ollicer of the girard had doubts about letting him in. never having heard oi (he United Stales of America. A sergeant more intollingent than his superior knew all about tire United States and .on his intercession Adams was at lawed to proceed. The other Turkisli gunners have reasons of their own fo: ollieial ignorance, which the Prussia* lieutenant could not plead.