LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It isj-eportcd that Johnson, the large; muscullv, oratorical colored, person who (beat Mans on Boxing Day, has been eiigagtf by Mr. Kickards to "do a turn" in a lyilney theatre. Two hundred pound? a week and expenses for self and trliiaer is the solatium. The) unseasonable weather that interferedjwitli the enjoyment of the stay of li.il3f i anibvian at this 'port set in again! ;> r«tcrdny morning. At a little afterli o'clock tile liberty men were got. aboaJil, after having had double leave on iJtcount of the weather. A fair uuiul|er of residents assembled at the | wharf about 8.30 in aiiswcr to Captain Lewes' invitation to attend Divine service .alioard the ship. The wind freshened and a lumpy sea soon rcn- ; dereil it necessary to cancel the arrangethe (Mayor to carry out his intentions ; in regard to of the 1 Anwkma boys.

Ai young Maori girl, still in her teens, nanied Topsy ' Henry, appeared at the Auckland i'olice Court on a charge of steilinj; £1 iu notes from another nativi. Accused, who said she could not sucik English. ,*ery well, denied taking the money, but when confronted with a sjir icd statement, she acknowledged her guilt, und'clcctcd to he dealt with smn'inarily. Accused confessed iil the presence of a detective that she stole the mcJncy and then burnt it, because a sialnie was written across ca|h of the tiojles. The young woman had just coine from New Plymouth. AecUHed suited that her parents were it the Bay of Islands. The magistral remanded tl e girl for a week, to see rhat could] hi! done towards getting her rack to her niatives. I Sews to hand by the MJiana stales I uit Mr. Harold Basset, lusband of Madame Arral, while rea'atil' a robber due night in 'San Erancisccj was shot iti the knee. A few nightslifterwards, ihile Madame Arral wal preparing sjnncthing for her husbandio eat upon a] chafing dish, in their rlom at the Motel Eatton, the cookinJ apparatus

Jipset, and instantly the avist was enveloped in llames from the Birning nlcifliol. Unmindful of his Mr. [Basset leaped from his bed and smothered the llames with a blanket. .Madame Anal was burned about the face and hands, but was quite recovered within thei week. The'exertions of,.Mr. Basset in saving his wife's life had. a most aggravating efl'ect upon his injured knee. The swelling became so pronounced that it was deemed necessary to move -Sir. Basset to a hospital. It is said he may lose the leg.

Writing on the quaintnes of Korea, in | tlie Ohristchureh Press, Prdfessoi-i Jlacmillan Brown remarks that,no country in the wo rid gives such an,, impression of quaintness and old-worktaess to the visitor as Korea, it is as if one bad landed on another star, so strikingly distinct are the costumes and the manners. Issuing from the gate at the end of the wharf at l'nsan one feels the' same sensation that one might experience in venturing on the stage ot , a pantomime. Here are the coolies standing with their white or'cream robes on, and the most extraordinary collcotion of tats that ever one came across outside tihe wardrobe of ja great theatre. They stand in long route with, their ji/.is or wooden, frameworks (for carrying lugsmge on fci&V backs, cpnsis'tingjf two loVpofe fixeWhorn acu ii]i that lean's froui the I'OUiI^HBVBVBVJ constant BVAVAVAVJ coming !^^^^^^^^^H h pictures HAVHHHHH imprcssion^^^^^^^^^J t iio,'^HBVBVBVBVBVJ of '4VAVAVAVA] brc < aksHVAVAVAVA|

Professor Ronon,! l>ef of the Paris Mt just made an intcre lating liow he was He was such an ii thut one day at tilt -keeping sin impatie this boolqng olliee ' to pronounce' the Babciif, 'he was fin his destination on hand, it to tlic boc duty in the Paris J ioiuilly obliged tj phenatccin, tat : nounce that word, ty by prescribing S u name easier to' had been appoint obliged to assist at, medical students, at iny while jnterroga he determined to f ity. Jle put himse s|K'i!ialist, who mad utter a single woi eight days he wrot< wanted, and when 1 street who wished t showed them a can ten, "I am followra taring,, and am obi for eight days." i ing lessons, voiou tics of Uie lips, very slowly, separately. a year, but any dilliculty request as a France.

I Waikato pap conduct on th named Florenc Oil at the Hi ecntly. with st property of % value 32s (Id, of Edwin Ikn prirse eonta'mi to Miss Anbin from the evii tliat accused 'i Ellis, of Hnmilti shopping, and''tJ Monday the tile name asked took away, other two 1 Mr. eel a it for an to ride out cycle away a^B ivlinrc belonging tc^H children at Not led to for some girls' Wuihi, actions of had more trouble nocused Home, Aucl^^l

Kxistence^H liver. ens. Life you are is sluggish fuiietions, lain's For sale b)^H well", suits suit in mouth 'hy/SH have the stylo? .made suit. Yo! mm

— tn afl the precede! the d ijosft—thaTriuWiicnt shoulffi not Iji'st and inquire afterwards.—jDomin ' Harrying in the itaugiwahia .dial do(js not seem to iind the aimie fi as wrmerly. It is stated that man the sniajl-fanners arc selling their to well-io-do neighbors, who are: g in for sheep-farming. The local te factory / is suffering in consequi Some years ago the district's ou amounted to 100 tons, whilst this it is estimated that it will .only i 60 tons'. LiglvJ-lingcral gentry are still < lucrative business in Wellington, cases if pocket-picking—with nior less success—are not uncommon the Times). One of the latest was of a woman, who, having -receiv ,ClO ixote, decided to spend it to udvaatago. She started on her nui visited an establishment, made a chase, and felt for her money. It I gone—surreptitiously taken from a I

pocket. ; 1 Mrs BJehard A. Alley enjoys the I tiuctiou (writes the Daily Mail corl pendent at Victoria, 8.C.), of .being] only lady in the world who is the* malinger of a line of steamships, the death of her husband, nearly a a"0, she has personally managed Ul ley line, comprising the 4000-ton vi liidravelli and Den of Ruthven, \ .-.ail every two mouths bet liritish Columbia and Auckland other New Zealand ports. One oi first acts upon taking lip the nun meat was to interview the Gain and New Zealand Governments wi view to obtaining a subsidy fori ships.

The fact that a man in his life \M many parts was instanced the other ■ by Mr. J. Vigor Brown, M.J\, and Mfl of Napier, when speaking at a meeß iu that town in connection with the ■ posed musical festival. "It may ■ prise you, but once in my life I sangi fore the Duke of Edinburgh," said I Worship. " That was in 1807 in ■ I Melbourne Town Hall. A man changt I had a nice tenor voice then, so I v told. I don't know what kind of as* I have now." Mr T. St. L Tone '■ Might I ask if your Worship was 'cored J" (Laughter). The Mayo "Encores were not allowed." (Henew laughter).

The flipping facilities of New Zealarß_B_B_B_| cannot be butter! said an Australian "VAVAVAVfI returning to Sydney; they are uncquap_a_a_aH led throughout the world; liut tIfIBVBVBVH people are too self-contained, and incliiH—V—V—VH «l to lie parochial. To the casual vcr, it would seem that, with, all socialistic legislation on its books, once the limit of jirosperity reached, and a turning point round, disastrous times must New Zeahvndcrs arc much too chial; the idea that the world and ends in the island is too pronounccd, and those who aim at making; the dominion "an example to the have not travelled .enough, to know wildly they are talking. For some mouths past the people a farm in South Canterbury have considerably troubled by mystcriousH m noises coming from a swamp near house. The noises were heard only in" K e(J the night time, and it seemed as if some creature were in dreadful agony, the " sounds nt first ibeing like groaning and „, then increasing an intensity till they ~H were terrifying-to hear. All sorts of conjectures were made as to what crea- e . ( '^^H ture was there, the most favored suppo- S sition being that during the big flood in ' °' xel July hut, when the place was all under ou .'?%"?"■ I water, some monster must have come '? 'jH from the sea. At last one of the family m a *[""■ asked a local naturalist if he would try "I"™}" ol « to solve the mystery. He asked,a few wiiica «M questions, and then stated that it was a <J ama 8 e wB bittern that was the cause of all the ~»™I trouble, and bitterns, he said, make a nt r IJ '" ul l booming noise that is like the distant „„ roaring of a bull. ™Io}IOO,OoJ Oil' the coast of Australia and New ,i e alin" witll Zealand are many inhabited islands jjjh jaiil lie] whose very existence is unknown to t urej whicluj : the groat majority of those who dwell sponsible m 'on tile continent and the larger islands!, infested 'M ■ One of these is a small patch of voir mised "tjfl . canic soil, only a few acres in area— % , rpj u , g AI I tiny dot in the great ocean, yet rich in • history and romance. At the top of <i f.,j n „ «VJ . headland that is lifted over a hundred so lefy ; MWJ i feet in the air is a lighthouse that has able.flYfl . guided the mariner in the Southern *eas iu >ssaWA| for half: a:century. Its staff and their huhVAb ,' families are the only inhabitants ot the thoAVAVJ inland, save for a lew half-castes; but tuAWAWJ amongst them a little girl who,, in afIVAVJ , the midst of most unlikely surroun'lings,' has expressed a beautiful perefl- AVAVAV ) alitv in the cultivation of a clutymK ■VAVAV i 'a^MMJMJa^afafl

PJJJJJH TCSCIUd- I a tone P^P^P^Kurdny. ■■■■■■■Lalueil at to lwwnearly unluy. DePJJJJJJn iu against ' Chinese, who id 150, as against 136