LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 37, 9 March 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Seven marriages are set down ior New Plymouth this week.

Mr. Newton King has received the following cable from his Sydney agent, '"'Hides unchanged," Telephonic facilities are shortly to be extended to To Roti, it is said, and a telephone office established there.

Crown lands to the extent of 221,543 acres are to be thrown open for sale or selection during the present month. Of this, over SllOt) acres will be available in the Wellington district, 125S in Auckland, #loll in Huwke'g Bay, 772 in Westland, and most of the remainder, 202,122 acres, in Otago, with a small area in Nelson.

The Borough Council decided last night to reduce the "hose license'' from ten shillings to three shillings a year in the borough, and five shillings outside. In the past a few people paid the fee, but scores didn't. Tile smaller fee should be more collected, X lie charge is to be made on all hose, used for any purpose whatever except tor cleaning shop-windows. hi answer to the Borough Council's veiled threat of stoppage of its £3O subsidy to the New Plymouth technical school, tlie Education Board's secretary, Mr. 1». H. Whitcombc, has written to the Mayor: "Taking into consideration 'the advantage the technical school is to a number of the inhabitants of the borough, and that the Board has to rely to a great extent on donations for the upkeep of the school t 1 am directed to ask you to use your utmost endeavours to continue tho donation."

A grim story—which in a less intelligent age (says the London Christian World) would have been taken as u record of Divine vengeance—comes from the seat of the earthquake. The whole staff of the comic paper, ii Tclefono were crushed to death at Messina. In the issue of the paper on Christmas Eve ribald fun was made of the religions observance of the season, and an atrocious parody of a popular Christmas hymn was printed. Strangely enougliia the light of subsequent events— ihe hymn concluded wifctli a mocking prayerto the "Bambino"—the Christ-child—l:> send a mighty earthquake ! The executive of the Oddfellows' I'reniier Picnic has asked the Mayor to declare a whole holiday on Anniversary' JJay -larch 31st, the date of the picnic at Moturoa. The letter came before the Borough Council last night. The .Mayor said lie had called a public meeting (to be held this evening) in this comiectimi. He had with Air. Humphries, been moving m the direction of eelebrath" Auniversary Day, but, hearing that the Oddfellows picnic was to he held on the nexl | day, I mrsday, he had dropped the mater lint evidently the .Stratford people had seen from the tone of the Daily -News aitiele that they could lie sure of solid support up at this end, and they { '■ad decided to hold the picnic on Annimsaiy Day. He hud no doubt that I he matter would be taken up heartily hue, though the matter of securin.r a whole holiday might he difficult of "arrangement.

JiaL!'° St i o "'"'' by " leiUls of a con?I" U, 0!13 notice placed over ever* mm*. inj?'b°x in the Dominion, cautions the ■lblcq C in Sr f"' St .^ nd,l1 S mont> .v and yalustindin™ T reglstcre<l Xotwitu. hj? he If P i m unn 'ff islpr "J liters n e most careless manner. It will hardly be credited by people , v |, 0 exertint °[" U,,ry prudence in such matters » , Ifiin a ,T mn thinfer 10 fmil »> li 'e 5 »toilier Jotters crammed fuJl with n len , in tl,e ilimsicst I,„T t CIJU ntl ' v th( ' contents prole 1,0 cm ; i ; i °l« !3 ' <»' found !? . 111 lllC ' Illilll-liaifd, liavilirr hnrif tm r and a3 frc «J«entlv letleis tilled with notes are carele«lv ™ ™io7r "' to • r ', lilway vaM for th ' e gUSttfieMS sKSfWMv >"IU, and it has generally lieen nrovcd ■thaUnch etters were either not^lod liverv ivV'"' 01 a " lT <l "° l ' l '' lettn-',!! T. ul "' e & is tered monevs m,<,r T ■ ■ !Vt> post, npiMted missing, ,t may happen that M sp o,™ .s east on every one? Concern , ' 011 llle l" ,rs< "l supposed to lnvc posled. -Uie letter, tile officers of the po-st-ollico through whose hands the would T ,?' aSS ' aU(I t,le l )crstl " who ould m ordinary course receive the latei from the post-office, either from a I ' terW 'n er ' boX ° r . a l"' iv ' lt « > e H fniin ii °r r f P ost " offiue counter, or iom the hands of a letter-carrier. \\ o U'cord is kept of unregistered letters and persona who post such letters coiim.rvßJ I,o n' V e ? 1)0S,! 10 temptation "uy one. through whose hands Hey >"><y pass, and in the event of „on ie luiy suspicion is cast on many innocent persons. The public arc earnestly IC(| nested to register all letters eontaining money or valuables intended lo >e sent by post. Letters can be re-i*. teied at every post-office in the fco""'1 the foe for registration is only twopence. Receipts arc "hen for registered letters. The letters ".re trac-j-'d from hand to haad, and a receipt ol>- \ Lamed on delivery; therefore it is very •are that a registered letter is lost. |

Mr. A. AVarner, Stafford, X.Z. writes: Jnrn'Tf t't?', 1 1S T a r°, Whilo ™ rki,l S iu « stoic at ttillu I hilt) a ,severe attack of iliiirrlioca. .As I was stoadilv .rrowin" n°,- Se /I, "' c " k ' (l t0 (l '. v Chamberlain's Colic Cholera, and Diarrhoea Keuiedv ami I was surprised to find that it oiilV took a lew doses to cure me. Since tlien I have never lost an opportunity I to recommend it to any of i„ v friends suffering front the same complaint" °r snle by all chemists and .storekeop- 1 era. 1 f

IT IS WORTH KXOWIXtt That if yon want carrying of anv description whatever done; tli.» liest'pcoplo to do it arc the N.Z. Express O The company supplies suitable vehicles.' together with experienced men; and | anything you want moved the company can it. Xo delay, no bother. Cost will be lowest possible. Remember file name: N.Z. Express Co. Branches in I all towns.—Advt.

There are at present three patients

in the consumption "annexe" oi the New Plymouth, hospital.

in the Bruce licensing electorate there are 19 licenses, which, under the Nolicense vote carried at the last local option poll, will lapse in June next. The number of licenses in Bruce before the electoral boundaries were altered was 11, but the inclusion of Lawrence, Blue Spur, Evans's Flat, ntc., added eight to this number. In the I'aieri electorate under the old boundaries there were 12 licenses, but tile extended boundary has added five to the number, making the total 17, and under the arrangement come to between the Trade and the No-license party, it is understood that two of this number will be refused. This makes a total of 21 hotels and accommodation licenses which will go out in June in Bruce and Taieri electorates (states tlie Otago Daily Times), and if the possible reduction of three in Chalmers, three in Duuedin South, and 10 ill Duncdin, are carried into effect, there will be an abolition of licenses in the live electorates named

An extraordinary example of German military discipline, which occurred on Christmas Eve near Bronikoweu, is attracting public attention (says tire Berlin correspondent of the Daily Express). Herr Arthur Kricde, a wealthy landowner, of Brouikowen, was skating on Sensburg Lake, when the ice broke and lie fell through into tile water. A soldier was doing sentry duty close at hand, and Kriede shouted to the soldier for help, and begged him to render assistance. Military regulations, however, prohibit a soldier doing sentry duty from leaving his po«t under any circumstances whatever. As this particular soldier could not render assistance to Kriede without leaving his post and thereby infringing military regulations, he remained wucre lie was and watched Kriede drown before his eyes. There were several long poles lying near the spot, and the soldier need only have walked to the bank of the lake and held out one of the poles :. to the drowning man to effect his rescue.

Ninety out 01 a. hundred bouses i Wellington arc "worm-eaten" to som extent, fiiiys a local architect. The trai of the borer is over them, and the mai who would be quite free from its depre nations must build his house of jarral or some similar liardwood, if it is to b of timber, and lu do that he must be j millionaire. Tin? borer has no respee for mansions. Ton year* ago it was discovered, with a shock, thai he was at tacking (lovenunenl liouse, and ha< actually commenced his depredations ii the best room of the residence, upon fin heart rimn timber, which was then re yarded as impregnable to his assault* Yet the borer is a contemptible encmj so slow in his operations that Govern inent TCousc will probably see out thi Vaiiiamcnt, if it docs not last inuc longer, and so weak that his inarch ca: be delayed for years by the simplest o Expedients. The architect before quote states that niany years ago, after li had built a house for himself of goo> rimu, ho was disturbed to find half-a dozen 01 the borers' holes in some plank of the staircase. lie watched them, bu the number of holes did not increase ind has not done so to this day. Th pxplanation probably is that this limbo had been in coutuct with affected tiraboi iiut that the borers which got into th wood before it was removed andbuil into the staircase were not suflicieatl; numerous to thrive and multiply, an lied out without doing further (]araag< But a few years later the architect dis 'overcd traces of the borer in his bath •oom. Week by week, the number o s'niall holes increased) at a snrprisin, •ate; each morning ho would see littl >iles of sawdust alongside new holes ind every few days a siew board woul •ome within the area of invasion. 11 therefore soaked the affected board horoughly with kerosene, with the r< ult that not another hole appeared fo he next five years. Then began a n icwal of the boring, which he prompt fhecked for another period of severa 'cars by a repetition of the soaking 1 e is crmtident that if he remained U ratch the iiwei-t, it would nut prevail 'gainst the house ior forty years to ome.—Dominion.