LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 67, 15 April 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A horse is among the latest visitors to Marsland Hill, His owner is warned that the impounding laws are in force in the borough. A fire broke out in the back portion of the Taranaki Herald office, New Plymouth yesterday morning. The alarm was given by a patent lire alarm, and the brigade, which was quickly on the scene, put out the flames before much damage waß done. There will be no necessity for polling in connection with the election of representatives of the Omnia and lltinvorth ridings on the Taranaki County Council, for only the present members have been nominated. For the llmata riding M'. Charles Andrews was nominated by Mcssrs. S. W. Shaw and I'. CI. Sole; anil Mr. J. J. Carpenter by Messrs. W. Honeylield and T. W. Morris. For the Hunvorth riding Mr. C. Carter was nominated by Messrs. R. Glegg, S. Hurlstone, 11. J. 11. Okcj, n. 'iuoKe, E. H. Tribe, and T. Brash,

The police estimates for 10(18-0 showed a sum of £133,021 for salaries and expenses. Of this total the head office absorbs £2494. The nine district inspectors account for £3720, six sub-in-speetoris C 1750, four station sergeants and one sergeant-major £1204, 78 sergeants £12,052, 025 constables £94,717, 'four chief detectives £1204; 34 detectives £7117; 10 probationers £IOOO, native constables £582, 21 district constables £llBO, four matrons £.410, four surgeons £4OO. Based on the population of 977,215, the proportion of police to population in New Zealand is one to 1331, at a cost per inhabitant of 3s 2'/,d, against 4s 5%d in Victoria, 5s lOd New South Wales, 4s South Australia, 7s Id Queensland, 9s 4d West Australia, and 3s lOd Tasmania.

Mrs. Hetty Green announces ''the engagement of Iht only daughter, Hiss Sylvia Green. ti> .Mi'.'.Matthew Astor AVilks, of New York." These, are the formal terms (says tin l Daily Hail) in which the American lady banker, wlio has amassed by her own genius for business a fortune*estimated at £10,000,000, proclaims the realisation of her fondest hope. She has always declared that a "plain American gentleman is good enough for the daughter of Hetty Green," the descendant, however, of n ••fine old Knickerbocker family." Miss Green is thirty-six years of age, and does not pretend to be younger. Her fiance is fifty-seven years old, and is a greatgrandson of thv original John Jacob Astor. He Is well known in New York society, and has an independent fortune estimated at several million .dollars. ' The rate war that has been in progress in the aerated water trade for some months past (saye the Auckland Herald) continues unabated. The original wholesale price of soda water, lemonade, and other "soft" drinks was Is ii per dozen (inclusive of bottles). Two linns then 'brought their prices down to Is per dozen, and the majority of the others followed suit. The/a a firm more venturesome than the rest cut prices 'to 7d per dozen lo the shops and fid to the hotels. The other manufacturers have not shown any inclination to bring down their prices to this low rate, but are still charging Ik to the shops and Is, less 3D per cent, discount, to the hotels. It is stated that the cutting tactics of the (Inn that has made the lowest reductions are to be sustained. In the meantime the public seem to bo getting only a partial benefit from the rate war, most of the shops still charging 3d per bottle, for soft drinks, whilst, the publicans still get Oil in the majority of cases. The retail trade in cordials, therefore, is very profitable just now. "I think it »s gto.wtis to have such a gift from God that one is enabled to go to another country and entertain Unpeople there just as"home." That was the remark which Harry Lauder made on his return to England from New York last month (writes the London correspondent of the Wellington Post). He stood on one of the promenade decks of the Lusitauia, and had just finished shouting greetings to the crowd of friends on the landing-stage, "i had to hustle, for I travelled 15,000 miles,

and played to seven audiences every day for eighteen weeks—the biggest attendance numbering -1000 people. Of course I had to sing on Sundays, and i didn't like that at all. It is very hard to select any of my songs and say il was a favourite, for thev all seemed to lie favourites, lint I always gave • I Love a l.assie ' at the end of each programme. And now I have got such a thirst for travel (hat 1 want to go to Australia and New Zealand and all over Canada—on business, of course, for I would not lose the money for a lot. The lirst chance I get I shall go hack to America." ' In yesterday's issue comment was made upon tile failure of the majority of local people to support the recent Caledonian sports meeting. This paragraph was the subject of discussion in the presence of a Sews reporter yesterday, and one gentleman said that the people of New I'lymouth were " sick of being fooled." Like u good many others, lie said, he had given up sports meetings in the Recreation Sports Ground, liecause one never knew whether the programme was comprised of real athletic events or merely n collection of scratch items such as pillow-fights, bun-eating competitions, and so on. He said he was a lover of athletics, and certainly he has that reputation, lie attended Monday's meeting, however, and he wdio came to scoff decided to stay. The conduct of the sports was such, he said, as to ensure better looal support in future if the Caledonian Society will keep up to that stnadanl. ''lint," he continued, " it's no use to expect lovers of athletics to patonisc a meeting when they don't know whether they're going to see a straight-out sports meeting or ~ lot of ' tomfooli'i'v' business."

A pitiful ease of poverty was revealed in die f/Oiidon City Coroner's Court on February i at uu enquiry into the death of Jane Alice Nobie, the 'three-year-old child of parents living at 14 Sydney Grove, Goswell road, Clerkcuwcll. ' The little girl was burnt to death during the mother's absence. Mrs. Norah Noble, who looked very ill. said she came out of flip 'workhouse live weeks prior to Christmas. Her .husband, who liad been out of work for a long while, then had a small job to do. Coroner Waldo: "How much do you earn between you a week?" "Two ami sixpence, sir." "But you can't live on that?"—"We have managed tin best we can, and have a pennyworth of coal and a pennyworth of bread." "How much rent do yon pay?" "Two shillings a week." Tin- Coroner: "That only leaves von sixpence a week to live on." The coroner's olllcer said he had visited Ihe room in which Mrs. Noble, her husband, and three children lived, and found il exceedingly clean, but there was scarcely anything in the place. The Nobles slept on'n table, which was covered willi a bhinkcl and rug. There was no chair ill Hie room, and there was not a scrap of food ill the cupboard. The only furniture was a table and a box, the'latter being Ufsed as a cot. Dr. Waldo said it was a very sad thing that in the largest city in the world such a case could possibly be recorded. He would give the jioor ■mother 10s out of the poor box. The coroner also gave her Is (id with which lo buy a lireguard.

WHY : Is SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACr superior to any otVior Euca- . lyptus product? Because it is the result of full ex i pcrience and of a special and careful . process of manufacture. It is always . safe, rc'inblc. and effective, and_ the • dangers attending the use of the irre- , sponsible preparations which are now , palmed off as "Extracts" are avoided. A death was recently reported from the external use of one of these concoc lions, and in an action at law.a sworn witness testified that he suffered 11k most cjutd irritation from the applica tion io an "leer of a product which war sold as ''just a* irood as SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT." Therefore. beware of such deception. Insist upon the pi cpa ration which was proved by experts at the Supreme Court ot Vic k 'oria, and liv numerous authorities dur f ing the past 3S yeav.s. to be a prcnaroitoil of genuine merit, viz., THh •iENI-TNK SANDER & PONS' TORE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI KXTHACT.-'l-"uists and storekeepers—Advt. Seventy dozen men's, women's and children's' slippers, ex I'aparoa, have just opened out at the Melbourne. They come divert from the mater, eonficoueallv the prices show a sharp redueiion Read these:—Women's felt slippers, cornet soles. Is pair: women' 'cheek print slippers, pile soles, Is S.l; men's felt sl'opers. carpet soles, Is Oil: waijie-.i's' .-herrr Jelt slippers, leather soles. 4a fid; ladies town felt slippers, leather soles, verv smart, Rs lid; ladies Arctic cloth slippers, felt and string sole, very warm and durably "pair— Advt. _ _ i> i

The Taranaki Hockey Association will hold its iidjoiiraed annual meeting tonight.

ft is probable that Ike Marsland Hill -Memorial will be unveiled by Mis Excellency the Governor on Friday, May 7th. The Eltham County Council has declared winged thistle to bo a, noxious weed under the Act. Gorse has been similarly banned by the Southland County Council.

We are informed that the -fresh'' in the Waitara river has considerably improved the entrance during the' past week. A fairly straight course can now be steered from the river mouth, wlulst for some time past the channel skirted the shore to the northward for it considerable period.

The following is Rev. D. C. Bates' weather forecast to 3 p.m. to-morrow:— Easterly winds, strong to gale, with changeable weather, are probable north of East Cape and Kawhia.and northerly moderate to .strong elsewhere, with fair weather; barometer fall probably everywhere after twelve hours.

The Bay of Plenty Times understands that arrangemcntis have been made by the Tauranga Borough Council to erect a monument in the old military cemetery in memory of soldiers killed in encounters with the natives in the vicinity of Tauranga. The monument will be of rectilinear Greek design, and composed of white marble. It is to be nine feet high, and will be set on a base three feet square.

A return of the estimated value of the imports into Wellington for the 12! months ended -March 31 last shows that | goods valued at £4,878,492 were brought in, a falling-oil' of £009,370 (or about 12'/ 2 per cent.) when compared with the value of imports for the twelve months ended March 31, 11)08, but a slight increase on the figures shown for the 12 months ended March 31, 1007, which ligures were £4,7(10,832. An exceptionally creditable feat was accomplished on Tuesday in Wellington harbor by the crew of the Government steamer Hvnemoa in connection with the periodical official boat-drill test, under the supervision of Captain Bollons. The test was checked by Captain S. G. Stringer, surveyor to the Marine Department. From the moment the whistle was sounded till the ship's boats were in the water there was a space of only l'/i minutes. Thus Mr. G. W. Russell, M.P., who has recently returned from a trip to Australia;—" The Australians generally appear to me to be lacking in that decision of character and resoluteness which are such strong characteristics of New Zealanders. Our bracing and iu--1 vigorating climate, our history as a nation of fighters, and our continuous ! fight with nature ill tilling the soil, have given New Zealanders a more strenuous character, and the result is that we don't talk very much about things, but when something has to be done we set i to and do it!"

A despatch from Cleveland to thu New York Tribune records another re markable outcome from the religious revival movement which has been in progress in the State of Ohio for some time, and has been attended by striking results. Some time ago a body of 11,000 revivalists pledged themselves to live for a fortnight exactly ''as Christ would live if he were on earth." This experiment it appears has proved so successful that three of the principle religious institutions of Ohio—the Christian Endeavourers, the Epworth 'beaguers, and. the Baptist Young People's Union—have banded themselves

logethn- to engineer a national "Live LiKc Christ" movement. The despatch adds that efforts are to be made In secure at least Ii.on0.00l) adherents to this national movement.

Writes the Eltham Argus:—Visitors to the Caledonian sports at New Ply-

mouth on Monday—many of them, at any rate—must have been agreeably sur-

prised by the excellent condition of the

ground after the heavy deluge of Saturday night and Sunday, when nearly three inches of rain fell. The making of the ground has been carried out on

a plan which seems to .have answered admirably under a very severe lest, for all surplus water was ijuickly carried oil' and the ground dried rapidly in the fine weather which followed the, downpour. It would have been dilliciilt to find an-

othi'r ground which would have been in such good condition after rain like that which preceded the spurts meeting. Altogether, the Now Plymouth people may feel justly proud of their recreation reserve. The utility of the sports ground will lie nil that can he desired when the proposal to enlarge the arena is carried into effect. hcT terraces form a series of natural grandstands from which all events taking place in the enclosed grounds may 'lie viewed witli a maximum of comfort in line weather,

while (he park is laid out and planted

in a mariner which easily places its first amongst similar reserves in the Dominion, and makes if a veritable beauty spot whose manifold attractions appeal to residents and visitors alilce. Mr. J. A. Jickell, Auckland, whose son (Mr. W. Jickell) is one of the party of eight that is making an assault on Ngaurulioe, returned to Auckland on Saturday morning, after accompanying the party as far as the foot of the mountain, where lie left them. Xgaunihoe, reports Mr. Jickell. is in a particularly active mood at present, so far as deroie masses of black smoke are any manifes-

tation, and he describes the sight of the

great mountain as he viewed it as being grand and u'we-inspiring. "As we approached the mountains," lie relates, "tile cone of Xgaunihoe was belching out vast columns of dense black smoke, which swept up some 500 ft or 600 ft above the crater, and then billowed

away in great rolling masses before the wind in the direction of Tok'aanu. From where we were we could not see if much of the ash was falling, but it seemed

as if for the time the crater was conlinijig itself to malting soot on a grand scale. A dull rumbling and occasionally roaring .noise came from the volcano, which, together with the issuing column of smoke, caused one of the parly to liken the effect to 10.0011 gasworks blowing off at onee. I was unfortunately obliged to return to town, but the climbing party should have a splendid opportunity of obtaining a close view of the outbreak, as the weather seemed clear and settled."

To colonials cars, there is one part oi (he story of the Republic-Florida disaster almost incredible (remarks an Australian paper). The uil'icers of the ship, and the iirst-class passengers, and even some of the writers reporting the wreck, all insisted thai it was only right and proper that the wonrcn and children should iiave been ferried across to the llaltie lirst, but I hat. after thev had gone the men of the lirst-class should all lake precedence ill the boats over ttio.-e in Hie steerage. Senile writers even express indignation because the men in the third class objected to this order. More llian that, even when these passengers were lir.,t transferred fro,,, „ .rival sinking liner in mid-ocean with great difficulty to (he injured Kalian ship, which did its duly to the letter in standing by them all alone, when her di.nger was almost as great, as theirs, and both were imminent -complaints were frei|iientlv made of the crowding and the want of first-class quarters upon the ship which saved them. Even the newspapers appear to see nothing humorous In such statements as the following, made bv a wealthy elderly American. General Ives :—"The Italian ship." savs this saved passenger, "was the acme of discomfort. She is a third-; class ship, 1 am told. Two-thirds of those of us wlio were, taken on board of her were soon jammed. 1 had an extra blanket, so I found a spot on the deck next lo a very dirty passenger, wrapped myself up, and stayed there most of the lime,"