LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 92, 14 May 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The United Gymnasium Club is having a spell tins winter ami 110 practices are being held. Lieut-Colonel iTkev, Major Maione, nr.fl r,mhiin Villa ....

and Captain Mills conducted an inquiry yesterday at Kltham into the recent accident at the Kltham rifle range.

One of the footballers at inglewood ■fl yesterday had abnormally long hair " That's Kua " quoth a Maori on the B} touch-lino. The hilarity wna immense.

The wife of a farmer named Turner, at Winston, North Carolina, gave birth 01130 th March to quintuplets, three boys and two girls. All five babies are lusty and thriving. Their weights' at birth averaged four to six pounds.

His Worship the Mayor has received twenty-two essays, written by' the school | children, upon the bvauiityitig of New I Plymouth, for prizes offered by him. I Messrs. W. W. Smith (enr.-.tor *Ol the. Recreation Grounds), and G. G. Boulton (an experienced landscape gardener) are; assisting Mr. Tiseh in the judging. The Waitara Brass Baifd has taken a new lease of life-, with Mr. T. B. McConnefl (formerly conductor of the Taranaki Garrison Band) in charge. The Borough Council has set up a committe r to report upon an application from t.ic baud for the council to guarantee its licvount in the purchase of a new set of instruments. The secretary of the local Boxing Association has received a letter from Mr. C. Manning, of Blenheim, asking for a matl'li between Ted Hur-conibe. lightweight champion of Marlborough, and any light-weight the Tavanaki Associai tion can produce. Hurcombe is at present in training for a mateh against Handy, the Australian light-weight, at Blenheim, for a purse and side-wagers. The matter will be discussed at the adjourned annual meeting of tile Association 011 Monday next.

Novel barriers wore raised to shield James Hemingway from the consequences of the Jaw when lie came up for sentence at the Supreme Court on Monday. According to the statement of his counsel, the alleged robber-proof condition of the Government Printing Works first drew him into crime by its implied challenge of his ingenuity. "Unadulterated conceit" spurred him on to his last robbery. "This-/' said Mr. AVilI ford, "was the acme of supreme adulaI tion—the crowning effort of a conceited [ man/'

Tile Hawke's Bay Herald of a recent date had the following paragraph: "Thc| enthusiasm aroused bv Madame MeibaV appearance at the '.theatre Koyal last, night was unexampled in Napier. Hun- 1 dreds gathered to watch the great si.iger'a arrival, and blocked the approaches, so that many experienced difficulty in getting to the doors, and one lady fainted in the crush. At the close of the concert there was a difficulty i;i getting Madame Melba's carriage to the door, and when she got into it the crowd hung to its wheels and sought to detain her."

Mrs. Muliinson. who visited New Plymouth with her hunband last year, has found herself at liberty to accept Professor Peterson's suggestion that she should ruinain in Melbourne till the end of the year, to take .Madame .lansen's place on the stall' of the University Consevvatorium. Mrs. Mallinson has a world-wide reputation as an artistic singer of the first rank, and a very successful teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Mallinson are under engagement to begin a series of onu hundred song recitals in 'America, early next year, and until she goes there Mrs'. Mallinson will be resident in Melbourne.

Mr. J. Rendcll, the well-known wood and coal merchant, of Wanganui, was on Monday adjudicated a bankrupt on the petition of .Mr. David Peat, for whom Mr. Louis Cohen is acting. Immediately after the adjudication a warrant (say/? the Chronicle) was issued lor the arrest of the debtor, for an alleged bieaeh of the Bankruptcy Act. The warrant was cabled to Syduey. The debtor is suspected of having left by the Warrimoo. and the charge preferred against him is that he has attempted to leave the Dominion with property to the value of more than ,U29 in his possession, with intent to defraud his creditors. The statutory certificate wav obtained by the D.O.A. from '(.he•-Crown Solicitor on the facts laid before him in justification of the laying of the information.

The annual meeting of the New Plymouth Howling Association was to have been held last night, hut owing to the small attendance the meeting was postponed to Monday evening next. The annual report to lie presented states that the year has been one of activity, but not too successful financially. During the year, however, the overdraft of £H 2s had been wiped out. and the debit balance remaining was C2 Ks Id. A suggestion is made that Taranaki should endeavour to be represented in the New Zealand championships in June next. The necessity for a properly appointed club-room is emphasised. The report concludes with thanks to the police authorities, the Press, and others who assisted tiie Association during the vear. Receipts for the year totalled '£72 10s Gd,

As showing that Xt'w Zealand lamb is now really obtainable in afl parts of England, and is extensively advertised, Mr. 11. IF. Wall sends the Poverty Bay Herald a clipping from a recent copy of the Eastern Daily Xews, Norwich, containing a wcll-disphtyed advertisement in which Xew Zealand lamb is offered at fi'/od per lb for forequartors and BV-»d for hindquarters. 'The quality is excellent," stales the advertisement. Mr. Wall remarks that during his' recent visit to England he found Xew Zealand lamb and mutton were readily obtainable in any English town. Eastman , and Sons had over 120 branches, and T. Nelson and Sons, n Liverpool firm, about the same number, besides u great many Others, all selling New Zealand meat. A good deal of the best New Zealand lamb is sold as Knglish. It is expected that in about islx weeks or so the Wellington crematorium will be ready for use. The furnace (the Dominion reports) arrived from England j a few days ago. and as soon as the ! tower and cremating chamber are erect-! Ed it will be placed in position. The | crematorium is being creeled in the Karori Cemetery, on a site adjoining the old caretaker's cottage, near the eastern boundary. The building is of brick, roofed in Marseilles* tiles, and the chimney. fjllft in height, is concealed in an ornamental tower. The front portion forms the chapel, 28ft hy 18ft, which opens through fo tin* cremating chamber, 2-1 ft by 15ft. At the inner end of the. chapef the coffin is placed on a catafalque or'table, from which, by means of a noiseless hand winch, it can be removed through automatically-closing doors to the cremating chamber and to its plaeo in the furnace. Cremation will occupy about an hour. The coflm is not placed above or near the actual tire; a barrier separate* it from the flames, and only the great heat of the furnace operates in reducing the corpse to ashes. If desired, the asdics may he collected and placed in an urn or buried in the ordinary way. Tlie City Council has not yet decided what fees will be charged, but the payment should not bo more than £2 or .C 3. WHY Is SANDER & SONS' EUCAIATTI EXTRACT superior to any ot/icr Eucalyptus product? Because it ig the result of full ex 1 pcricnec and of a special and careful process of manufacture. Tt is always safe, reliable, and effective. j*nd the dangers attending the use of the irresponsible preparations which are now palmed off as "Extracts'* are avoided. A death was recently reported from the external use of one of these concoctions, and in an action at law a sworn witness testified that ho suffered the most cm?) irritatioir. from the npplica t'on to an ulcer of a product which war sold as ''fust as good as SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT." Tl.erefc.rt. beware of s.icl 1 Reception. Insist upon the preparation which was proved by ' experts at the Supreme Court of Vic torin, and by numerous authorities dur-. 1 .ng the past 35 yeais. to be a prepara Hon oF . genuine merit, viz., THE .'ENCTXE SANDER ft SONS' PURE 'I VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.— and storekeepers.—Advi. n

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