LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 11, 6 February 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

-Mails for United Stales and Canada,! also United Kingdom and Continent (via | Vancouver), despatched from here December 22nd, arrived at London on February 2nd. Mr. .1. C. Williamson has secin-cd; the Australian rights of "An Englishman at Home," the play that dealswith England's unpreparedness for war j and which has caused a furore in Bri-; I tain.

"The by-roads in this county are just about the suue as they were when Captain Cook discovered the country, except that there are some holes that his pigs rooted out." -A councillor's remark at Waitara yesterday. Oa the motion of .Mr. Quil'.iam (t!o----vctt and in the will of the late iieginahl liayley, letters of administration with the win annexed have been granted to Mrs. Florence Baylcy. LAn order was also made dispensing with I sureties.

What sort of roads some of our Taranaki farmers have to put up with was again brought before the notice of I the Clifton County Council yesterday.' The member of a deputation said his road was in such a state that, even in summer weather, it took two horses all their time to cart h.s 51)0 or OUO lbs of milk to the factory. One of the hilU wit"> not a hill at all. It was a staij. case. He had to cross a neighbour's laud., passing through six gates, to get out.

Our paragraph coißtnii7ig the raising of the blacksmiths' shoeing charges in New Plymouth, and the attiuuie of ■table proprietors and carriers towards the smiths, was freely discussed yesterday. Upon the question of the latter endeavouring to induce an outside -horseshoer to start and guaranteeing hint' their work, one gentleman said that the farriers were ready for this move. They would immediately erect shelters for horses and carts, and give to farmers and others free stands, with feed at actual cost.

In the course of n letter to the editor of the Wangamii Chronicle, Mr J. .Malcolm, county engineer, states, with rc■spect to Oregon timber :—" I have known the timber for thirty-live years, and have conic to the, conclusion that it is the most useless of it? species sent to this country. I saw the roof trusses of one of the best stone churches ever huilt in the Dominion made of it, and in less than twenty years it had to be taken out, am], I believe, replaced with kauri ; and none of it was exposed to the weather, I coiihl tell you of one or two instances where it was used for bridge stringers, and had to be replaced in a very few years—l think I would he safe to say less than six." It is not every ilav thai a man, under the hallucination that be has to go to gaol, goes there of his own accoril, and behaves as (hough he li.ul been placed there by (he strong arm of the law. Yet such a ease happened in Tiinaru the other day. A man went to llic lock-up volnntarih. -lept (here, and waited the following morning expecting lo tic taken before (lie Court at 1! o'clock. 1 Jut no one wn-> more surprised than (lie police to lind him ia (lie cells, and the only explanation lie could give as to lionhe got there was that lie had dreamt he had been run in. and ,'had himself tunied the delusion into a reality Involuntarily walking in. After making sine that lie was awake, the prisoned individual went to his home.

Something of a romance was .bound up in the recent death of u .Maori girl at the Thames. The Thames Star stales that the deceased was jealous of a young fellow of her own race, and strongly resented any diversion of bis affections. lie that as it may, the unlorliinatc girl, erroneously concluding b.v the presence of another voimg woman that her love was forfeit, resolved to end her life, and with that object, it is said, soaked a number of matches in water and drank the poison. Shorily after (lie girl was attacked with violent pains, and so serious war her condition (hat medical aid was telephoned for. A doctor administered emetics, and left the sufferer much belter. The following day, however, the girl died.

Uaitara had a narrow escape on Thursday evening l.um a sensation against which (he Decenilier inciilent would have paled into insignificance. Tlie U'aitara Howling Club's team was returning home by bra'-e, and at the Waitaia road railway crossing tliey induced (lie driver to pull up, sc "that'they could see whether a (rain was approaching. ft was well they did so, for they hail j list -.topped within a few vanls of the line when, with a little warnifotf "toot," tin- engine shot across the road'.' It was an exceedingly narrow escape. Uail flic brake gone straight ahead there would have been a formidable impicst. lime wus when tilt* old 'engine-driver on

that line used to nearly deafen the passengers bv a long warning whistle When he ajiproaclied this dangerous crossing, but now tun warniiu- i s not given until the cattle-stop is "reached. At least, such is our information. A cable published on ,Saturday inenI Milled "extraordinary waves" on Ihe c»a-t of California and British Colimi--I'iu. as supporting the idea that a big j earthquake. recorded I t y various instrnmeats had i(s origin benealh (hi- Paeilic. I lie Northern Wairoa correspondent of Hie Auckland Herald reported o M Wednesday that, a few days before an unusual rush of the sea caused ijui(e a sensation on the West Coast campin"groiiiid, and suggested tidai waves, fid-

lowing on submarine disturbances. The | tide had bnevi running out for an hour I or uion\ when suddenly a great swoon of water cairn.- in ami" knocked over a man and dashed him against the clill'. and carried two diildreu along the | M >. U .|, like bits of seaweed, fortunately leavim* them on the beach. Old coasters who witnessed tlie scene, state that they had never before seen a;i,v such sudden and immense sweeps on the heauji. The sra was very calm, and snch waves can onlv l>e accounted for by an unusual disturh- [ am i' smnewheiv i» tlie bed of I he ocean

' ,l,n > Kigaro of J)eccmbcr 17 ) slates that m four months there will he four dirigible baloons, capable of carryI nig lit'teen passenger* tlie captain, and two mechanicians, readv for pleasure crudes in France. The Traiisaerian Company are undertaking the work, ami the craft'will have a gas capacitv of ITS..">I)O cubic feet, and will be propelled by 200 h.p. motors. The cradles, constructed on aluminium frames, will be furnished afier th,. style of the saloon

of a private yacht, |iit,.,| H j ( |i cvit.v luxury tor voyages, The Transit-, l'ian Company ,'iiv 'already "cries uf stiltiolls. Wllicll will |,c fitted 11]) as ducks fill- the aijsliips and station-, lor tin' passengers. Thiwc (if Siirtronville iinil llcanx exists already, and a third is liciii" constructed at Vinccimc>. Others will lie established at Xancy, Orleans, Jiordean.v,- Toulouse, ir;nl I'm,, (owns which will lie served l,v the liall""ii line. Tile I'ijfliro says that this is not, as some people ,ni w i, t , but. seriniis, solid fad, and I lie company has been formed hv Inisiness men and practical engineers. j

v/ h y Snxs ' Krc.UA-iPTr I\l - ] S "|"* r ' l,r au >' o| ier Kucalieeause it is tin- r,._y, uf ftl „ ox . pcneuce and of a special and t-sirofu! process of matnifactiin-. It is ahvavs safe, reliable. and effective. and tj le j dangers attending the use of (he irrcsponsible preparations which are now palmed off as "Extracts'' are avoided. I A doalli was recently reported from the I

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