LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 309, 28 December 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A skiing of the Native Land Court will commence at New Plymouth on 12th January. Captain Bellringer has received a letter frum tire officer commanding H.M.S. Cambrian agreeing to a rifle shooting match (eight, men a-sidc) between the Taranaki Rilles and the warship. The ranges will be 200, 500 and 000 yards. The date will probably be the Ist prox. A curious instance of luck in spite of omens to the contrary occurred at the Woodville races. A young Napier man who was about to visit them was offered by his fiancee as a present an opal ring. He declined it, as it was bad luck to accept a ring from a lady, and especially an opal ring. The lady insisted. He wore the ring and won £SO at the races. In reply to the inquiry " AYhat do you think of the conquest of the air ?" Professor Eduard Engel, the distinguished Shakespearian scholar, expects that the heavens will shortly be full of balloons bearing lists of things prohibited in the air—a sally at Germany's countless police regulations. Professor (Van Hoff, the eminent German chemist, ;gays that he expects nothing but an increase of neurasthenia and taxes. Wellington Hospital is likely in a not far distant future to have a special ward for the treatment of that fell disdisease cancer. This it is expected, will be built when the proposed general scheme of improvements—costing some .•Cio.OOO—is being carried out. But citizens will not be called upon to bear the expense of the cancer ward. A Wellington family—the name of which cannot be given publicity at present—has made the niuuilicent offer to furnish the necessary money.—Times. According to the West Coast Times, the prospecting movement at Charleston has attracted the attention of Mr. liarcourt, who is a Fellow of the Institute of Assayers and Metallurgists. He has strong faith in the Paparoa range as a field in which tin, silver, or copper should abound, and desires, with the object of testing his belief, to lake charge of a party and prosecute a vigorous prospecting campaign during the summer and autumn in search of the above or other minerals and gold. According to the latest reports, everything is looking very prosperous on Hie Culverdcn estate consequent on the recent rains. There is plenty of grass, and everything is looking fresh and green. The himbings have been goo.l. Practically all the settlers have got their boundaries fenced, and have erected dwellings in most cases consisting of four rooms, with provision for future extensions. It is too early yet to form an opinion as to tilt crops, but several strips of turnips look very well. Mr. Edward Newman, the new member for Manawatu, is an optimist. In the course of his speech at the banquet at Marton, he said:—They had had a great political victory, and louk how beneficial it hud been already. When the first election was over the dry bones of the London wool market shook ; when the result of the second ballot was declared these bones acquired forms and leapt to the extent of pence per lb., and they had been leaping ever .since. Was there any person present incredulous enough to doubt the cause of this great rise » Surely not; but, of course, there were some people who could not be convinced. Then it was ."Uinimon talk amongst business men that 'money was going to be cheaper after the New Year, which was obviously the result of the Oppo-dtion victory in the Manawatu. What they mostly wanted was larger overdrafts on less security, and a stronger Opposition, which would restore, the credit of the Dominion, would help them to that most desirable and enviable position. A number of freak election bets lias cen paid in New York as the result of the Presidential election. A prominent actress (says the Express corresp-.n J dent) hopped around the Casino Theatre in a bottomless barrel. A man climbed a tiee in Central Park and pretended I.: be a monkey. Another crawled down Broi-Jwny lor a distance >f Uutift on his ban Is and knees. A sva captain wlu bet on -Mr Bvran's election was climb) !"■ a pillar of the elcvited rai;-..-jy line ill Sixth avenue for th ■ purpose cf nilhut the electric routact rail when the police pulled him down. One of the most popular forms of freak bets was the rolling of an egg along the street for a distance varing from 100 yards to half a mile. A local Tammany politician named O'Reilly created' great amusement by riding backwards on a donkey through the Bronx district, holding aloft a banner which bore the inscription. "1 voted for By ran and I was mistaken.'' A number of uiil'ortirna*o Democrats have vowed •never to be shaved until the Democratic party returns to

A German busLetmakcr named Koch, of Gross Koinstadl, a little village of about 200 inhabitants, near Apolda, has been twice sentenced to death at l!mlolstadt lor the murder of his third wife and a female lodger named Zeiss. The accused, who is til years of age, was only charged with two murders, but the gravest suspicion exists that he has six other similar crimes to his account. For some time women have been disappearing in the Apolda district, and last April Koch's wife was also miss"d. Koch himself reported Iwr disappearance to the police, and shortly afterwards some workmen found in a quarry a woman's foot, which the man declared to be that of his wife. On bcinj; charged with murdering her, Koch confessed Hint lie killed the woman with an axe ill a tit of rage at her icproacbes.. and subsequently cut up the body, burying or burning the pieces. He also nit'miltcd having murdered the lodger Zeiss with the same axe. The prisoner, who has s'erved a term of nine years' penal servitude for criminal assault, received flic death sentence with indifference. After all's said and done "The Prcstwell" suits are already the best known suit in Taranaki. Made in New Plymouth by experienced workmen they liave the style and fit of the best tailor uade suit. You'll be wanting a Christnas suit, belter call at "The Kash" md ask one of the salesmen to show i'Ou a Prestwell suit and you'll be nore than pleased with the style audi I it.-Advt.

Back up a sewer and you will poi.wn he whole neighbourhood, clow \ip the iver and bowels and your system is full f undigested food, which sours and fovlents—tin's means- indigestion, headehe, l)ad breath, yellow skin and every j hip.g that is horrible. Chamberlain's toinncli and Liver Tablets quickly sto') j in (he stomach, and they lake the liver lively, tone up the owels and set the whole machinery I oing. For sale by all chemists and ;orekeepors, , .■; f