LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 60, 5 April 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

What is saiil to l.e a fairly rich coalmine has been discovered on the hills near Foathcrston. The seam is good coal, and is about five, feet in thickness.

Last Monday a quantity of wreckage was washed ashore sit Kaikoura. It consisted of parts of a boat, and raft, and a much-battered tin-box bearing the words ••S.s. Penguin."

We are informed that, owing to the want of space. consequent on the bad weather preventing the loading of the Home liners, the Waitarn freezing works are restricting killiag operations.

Persistent rumors were alloat on Saturday night and yesterday that a small vessel, alleged to' be a scow, had gone ashore oil' Hell Mock at T> o'clock on Saturday evening, Investigation yesterday failed to substantiate the reports.

It is reported that the whole of the Wanganui stream, above Taumarunui, has become thickly impregnated with sulphur. Trout are to be seen by tihe score in a dying eomlilon. One native alone found' no less than eight quite dead. The recent upheaval of Xgaruhoe is evidently the cause of this. The traffic returns on the North Island main railway lines and branches during the four-weekly period ending February •27th amounted to C 132,323 12s ' lOd. against £-111,275 Ss lid for (he corresponding period last year. Passengers accounted for Cil,4nu 2s lOd, and goods " COO.-IST 13s lid (an increase in both cases). I

Ever to the front with keen prices. The Kash is still below other stores in price. At their sale they've got boys' washing Conway suits 4s lid, boys' knicker3 Is lid, boys' caps Od, hoys' braces from 3d, boys' stockings from ,j«#» Kftsli Alt era tiougftle,-Advt.

At a meeting of creditors:—Solicitor: "It would be ail right for itu experienced man like youj bankrupt is not an experienced man." The creditors: '• That's just it; wo want to stop inexperienced men going into business." The Assignee: "That is easily done. Let the big linns stop giving them credit." Considerable excitement has been caused in the heart of industrial Leeds, by the discovery of a seam of coal of good quality under Brjgate, one oi the principal streets of the city. The seam is 2fl thick, and already nearly two tons of coal, which is declared to he quite fit for household purposes, have been excavatI ed. It is stated that Leeds, with a population of 480,000, stands on a coal bed.

It is anticipated (says the London correspondent of the Pastoralists' Review) that an official announcement will soon be made in England in connection with the boned beef trade. It will be to itlie effect that if the pieces are large enough to be identified they will be admitted. Scraps of meat, however, will still be prohibited. It is generally thought that the New Zealand shippers will find these conditions too stringent to permit business being done.

Three members of the Nimrod's crew have established a unique record one that will probably stand until the advent of week-end trips to Antarctica on Hying machines. The distinguished trio —Messrs (Jhcthani (boatswain), Baislev (carpenter) and Palon (able seaman) have each made four trips to the ice. They were shipmates on the two voyages in the Morning, and again in the two southern journeys of the Xinirod. They are all perfectly well satisfied to rest on their laurels, and don't care whether they never see the pad; ice of Antarctica again. A good opinion of New Zealand as an agricultural country has been formed by the Hon. I'. McCraeken, a member of the Upper lloiwe of Tasmania, who is now in Auckland. Mr. McCraeken has in the last two or three weeks travelled through the Dominion from the Bluff to Auckland. He informed, an interviewer that he had been delighted to find plenty of grass and to see the stock in fine condition. He commented favorably, too, upon the numerous large towns that he had passed through, noting that they we.re.iiol very widely separated, showing close settlement everywhere.

. A wonderful performance has been accomplished by the new British destroyer Swift, while' undergoing trials on the Clyde. After having had new wing propellers fitted she steamed up to thirtysix knots, but under pressure two more knots were run off—equal to forty-three land miles an hour. The Swift may thus claim to he the fastest ship afloat. She was built by Cammell, Laird and Comj:M.y, of Birkenhead, and is described as an '' experimental' destroyer. As a matter of fact, she is twice the size of the r.snal ocean-going destroyer, and .her special business is the destruction of destroyers. Professor He-addon, of Colorado, finds that a great many fruit trees in that State arc killed by arsenical poisoning as a result of the use of arsenical sprays. These solutions gather on the tree, and on. the soil, and nm| down the trunk, collecting round the roots at the foot of the tree, in the alkaline soils of Colorado these arsenical compounds are broken up and free arsenic is liberated, killing the tree very | rapidly. The symptoms, according to | this authority, are akin to those of canker—a dying of the bark in. patches,

and the final death of branches or of the whole tree. Professor llea.blon is an officer of one of the Colorado experimental stations.

A young woman caib-drivcr named .Mario Louise Lcjau, who hails from liriltany, figured in the Paris police courts recently as defendant in an action for damages. The first day she mounted the box she ran over and killed an elderly wine men-limit from the provinces. The widow asserted that her hushand's death was due to the Breton's unskilfulness in driving, and is asking llmt the latter shall pay compensation. "You don't seem to have had much luck in your new occupation," remarked the president to the defendant. "It was not my fault," replied the woman. '•My horse ran away and 1 could not master it." "This suggests," said the president. " that your biceps were undeveloped." '■ But t passed mv examination anil obtained my license," replied Marie haughtily. "I think that n,Hit to be sufficient "I am afraid it" is not,' retorted the President, whilst the Court tittered.

The Urewera County is to lose its mystery at last, Not mam- years a»o the European ivho had traversed the King Country was an individual of some note ; now everybody who can pay his railway fare goes through the heart of it, and there is not sufficient novelty about the experience to keep him awake. But the extensive Urewera country has preserved much of its mystery. „nd now it. too, will come under 'the influence of the inevitable development. A commit, tee of twenty representative Maoris from the principal bapus in the Vrewera has just been appointed to administer the -Maori lands in that area. There are 040,8(12 acres to be settled, and the land will be submitted for lease by public auction Ten applications for ihc lease oi 28,1100 acres have already been received. As there is a suggestion that some of the country is gold-bearhi* the Minister of Mines" will probably "visit it shortly with the Hon. James'Carroll (Native Minister.) "What was your. protection?" a Wellington pressman asked Professor David, a member of Lieutenant Shacklcton's expedition. "We were not 'heavily clothed," explained the professor. "Woollen garments next our skin, and liurberrys over all. We found the latter material, a sort of waterproof fabric, wonderfully effective in keeping out the wind. The party bound for the south had very little else but a couple of I pairs of pyjamas under their burbcrrvs. The full equipment included flannel drawers, jumpers, and two pairs of socks, burberry trousers and blouse with helmet of the same materials. The helmet is very cleverly contrived. It is something like an old-fashioned coal-senltle bonnet, in the way it sticks out in front, but the projection is more like a funnel. Tile wind cannot circulate in it. and there remains near your face a moderately warm cushion af air." " The hatless brigade would lie. badly off in the Antarctic, then?" "Yes; they would soon be the 'headless brigade,'" promptly answered Professor David. ■ A contemporary says: "We have been supplied with some particulars concerning an arrangement whieMhe New Zealand Govern nt propose to go into for borrowing a sum of .C:10,(IOII,()(KJ at 2'/. per cent. So far no public announee" ment has been made in regard to the maitter, and in the absence of olliciul continuation we do not vouch for the accuracy of the report, but. Ihe source from, which we have secured the information justifies publication of the particulars available. It appears that a Wellington commercial man. formerly in the service of the Government, has {he honor of conceiving the scheme. He submitted it to reliable authorities and sub- , seipienlly to the Ministry, who, it is staled, closed on it at a meeting a week or two ago. and intend sending Home two commissioners to complete the transaction. It seems that the money is the properly of friendly societies at Home, and investment was restricted absolutely to Crown security. Tf it is possible to get such a large sum al_ the cheap rate of interest reported, the financial stringency, accentuated by tire "drawing-in'' by financial institutions, will be entirely removed, an era of comfort and plenty re-established."

When skinned your nose, ami sore your eyes. And choked your liouil iiml chest likewise. Don't Mop to vainly theorise

tin (aiiso obscure: When pain and anguish wring the brow "Pis time to jump, you will allow;

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