LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 99, 24 May 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

ilr. Newton King has received the following cable from his Sydney agent re hides, "Heavies easier."

Messrs. J. B. Maeliwan nnd Co., Ltd. of Wellington, liave applied for letter patent for a new milking machine. loung poultry made big prices at til local marls on Saturday. Even th "scrubbers" shared in the advance.

A thousand strong young trout have been liberated in the Oakura stream by the secretary of the Acclimatisation Society.

Miss Otway, who was "married" to Amy Bock when the latter was masquerading as " Percy Kedwood " at Nuggets, filed a petition on Friday for the annulment of the marriage.

The Comity Council is uuvised that it; application for a grant of U3OO for tin Junction road will receive due considcra tiun when the estimates are being fram ed. The council will hanily let a metal ling contract on that assurance. Dii the lonely leper island, Moluka' was .Mrs. W. 1!. Bnii:S.erholl, an hcircto millions, who had sacrificed wealtl 1 social life, and every pleasure to go am help her husband to d» his work anion, tile lepers. To this cause she has jus given the final sacrifice—her life.

On the motion of Mr. A. K, Standi*! (of Messrs. Standish and Wtandish) o" the 18th iust., probate of the will ol the late Jlary Ann McKoy. deceased, warranted to William McKoy.and I'atric', llngli MeKov. the executors named ii the will, bv'Mr. Justice Kdwards.

A construction pan}- arrived in Hawcra on Friday for the purpose of erecting a telephone line between Hawera and Opumikc, and an eAira wire between Manaiti and Hawera. When the connections arc completed the new wires will give improved communication with New l'lvniouth.

At a meeting of the Alton shareholders of the Kakaramea Dairy Company, it was decided to wind up the Kakaramea Company, provided the company decided to go in for a cheese plant. Jt is the intention of the Alton people to erect a cheese factory ol their own if they can sever their connection with the! Kakaramea Company,

The Taranaki Poultry Society decided at its meeting on Friday evening not to hold an art union drawing tin i year. The secretary reported that he

iiad received donations of oil's of Hour as prizes in the home industries section from " Golden Uein," " Atlas," and

"Little Champion," also a case of Highlander Milk. The Rev. Evans has donated a prize for the Dest cat and dog in the children's pets section. A canvasser was appointed to canvass for members. Preaching on Sundav evening in the iWhiteley Weslcyan Church, the Rev. J. CI. Chapman remarked that it is sometimes stated in a disparaging sort of way tliltt Christian congregations are made up of more women than inc'i. '• Perhaps,' 1 said the preacher, " this explains the fact that seven-eighths of the inmates of our prisons are men. So that if you tell me that women pre ponderate in our churches, 1 reply, 'Yes, and men preponderate in our gaols.' You may draw your own inference."

"The financial deadlock lias bttr.st," was' the report of a traveller of a Wellington warehouse to a. newspaper representative the other day. "1 have," be said, ''just returned from a trip to the Wairarapa, where a few months ago business was practically «t a standstill and speculators and ntoney-lemlem had their pockets sewn up. To-day the prospects are infinitely, brighter and the business people have taken a new lease of life. All speak in glowing terms oi the future, and the winter, which was expected ti> be ». gloomy one, has been ushered in with antfepations' much iu favor of brighter days." In fact, cheering reports are now being heard from various parts of the Dominion. About 4(100 men wmv eaten by tigers iu India between 1IHH) and HUH. 'A large proportion of these unfortunates perished duriiij,' periods of famine, when in • beast, are made bold by hunger, and are driven to the plains in search of water. The deaths caused bv tigers in India constitute 37 per cent, of the niw.v number due lo wild beasts. All tigers are not man-eaters, but when a tiger lias once lasted man's flesh he will not be content until he has had more 0 f it. )\ here (locks and herds abound, however, man is rarely a victim of the tiger. An old man-eater is usually very clever and tricky, and can avoid the most sk;ifnl liuiiters. It is affirmed that a single tiger in Southern India has killed 200 men, and that one in the Himalayas; has killed more than 300. A distressing fatality occurred Westmcre on Wednesday afternoon when Keith Douglas, the minnow of Mr. Stephen Foreman, of Wcstmere, received fatal injuries through the accidental discharge of a gun. It appears, says the Palea Press, that deceased, who wits fourteen years of age, had been out shooting mid was returning lo the homestead when the accident happened., lie was getting through a fence when th' gun exploded, the charge entering t'ia boy's abdomen. The report of tile gnu and the lad's cries were .heard at tlv homestead, and the hoy was inunedi ately carried home. l)i\ Hatherly was summoned and went to the su'ne ol the accident without delay, but the unfortunate hid died at 11 o'clock on Friday night.

The pre-eminence of Taranaki as th.i dairying province of New Zealand has undoubtedly forced upon tlie minds of many people in New Zealand that tins is a land of ''cow, and cow only." That tlie province is rapidly coming to the front as a fat cuttle, and sheep raiser is not over widely known, and probably will not he acknowledged until sufficient freezing works accommodation has been provided within the province to cope wilh tlie supply, the overflow of which (thousands of fat cattle per annum) now 1 finds its way to the freezing work's markets at Waiiganui, Wellington, and elsewhere. Kvcry year also tlie province's contribution to New Zealan I's mutton exports is increasing, but tiiueli of il goes tn Outside freezing i.urks. thus largely lessening our apparent mutton trade. As a slight indication, however, of tlie volume of our sheep business, it should be interesting to know Unit during four months or tlie season just ended, tlio railways department, in this port ion of the district alone has handled no less than 2(1(1,011!] more sheep than last year. And Hie industry is yd. in its infancy, but extending apace with the progress of settlement in Hie new districts being opened up from the Mokau to Omotla.

According to the latest English papers arrangements wei-e. being made for a celebration in llanipsteiid Parish Chinch, as well as' at UchlieUl Cathedral, of the, centenary of (Jeorgc Augustus Selwyn, tivst llisliup of New Zealand, and afterwards llishop ol Uchliohl, who was bom in Church. How, on nth April, ISIIII. ami baptised in the parish church on 7lh .Inlv of tlie same vear. His fath<-r was William Selwyn.'q.C who was "the instructor of Prince Albert, the Prince Consort, in tlie constitutor! ami laws of his adopted country." The future llishop was educated at Ealing. Eton, and St. John's College, Camliridj;:". Two ~l' Ids lYionds at Kton were William iMvart <!lad.stouc and llishop Harold lirowue. In the first Oxford and Cambridge boat race, in 1828, Ocorgo Augustus Sehvvn pulled I lie seventh oav in tlie Cambridge boat. There is a long and interesting nccon;i| of the P.ishopV; career in "The Treasury.'' Tlie precise, form of the centenary' celebration has not yet been iixed. but it is announced that the Itishop of Hirmingham will visit Ifampslead on 7lh .Inly and deliver an address and it is hoped to plar:> a permanent memorial of llishop Selwyn .n I the parish church. ' ]

Tlk-iv is nil nvcrnjre of out! iie\vs|iii|iei' lor ..very 82.1)11(1 inhabitants of Hie ■world. *V Chronic Chest. Onni<i'n , "» iv.;n,l ? .' 1-»nt r-epurmint Cure, 1/8 and 2/<S. A certain vouiisi fellow of livdc Determined (loi't ] l( .',| m ».;<\p. lint tlii' iiill t/ixn-Timic Made livimt li.r.'inmiii'. X«nv—lip coiiMn't 1,0 sink if i, c tricil. r,A\O-TO\[(- TTT,us. mi/,,1 Mll i, n,l. —Bullock & Johnston. Agents', Xc.v Plymouth. A fnv itow, s cli|ip P ,i f rnm Tho Knsh sale list : Men's dungarees 2s [id, men's cans 8,1, men's" Knits 5s in the iioiinJ reduction, men's sadilla[.•.ee,l trousers. 7s lid. men's braces Bd, 'den's niul boys' handkerchiefs (1 for Is. I rays' knickers from Is lid. The Kash Alteration Sale.—AM, ■ '

Tiic Fitzroy cadet company held a church parade at Te Henui Anglican Church yesterday morning, when tli ■ Rev. 'Mr. Spencer delivered a short but

•lling address to the hoys. The cinematograph pietnre of the N) liatlulimi nf school cadets, to !«• taken

iy West's Picture tympany on i.nir orthcuiuiiig visit, will form one of a cries to lie exhibited on their next toul

of the Dominion. The camera will probably be placed on the IJeion-t'urrie Street corner, opposite the Imperial Hotel, fur the best pictures of troops are taken when they are marching un-

A correspondent wishes to know which will be the better for the J fence of the Dominion, a volunteer corps with a " history as long as your arm,' or one that can trounce all-comers in a shooting contest. He explains frank'v that lie is comparing the two local companies, and goes on to hope that the liilles will endeavour to " keep up their end of the stick." The letter as forwarded to us, however, needs considerable modification before it could be inserted in a non-military newspaper. There is a ranger in one oT the suburbs who shares in the full that panutli'/ that is such a tenure among rangers generally. One stockowner may commit unlimited nuisance by allowing animals to roam at large, or, when tethered to a friendly post, obstruct both road and footpath." Others, who arc not fortunate enough to bask in his smiles, are afraid almost to leave, a horse-cover on the fence. Should their trusty steeds stir on to the public highway the odds are several to one that the ranger "cops." It may be only a coincidence, but it is an annoying <me for Ihe latter owners ami for the residents in the area affected by the stray and tethered cattle. It is fairly well known that the reason Pelorus Jack meets almost every vessel which goes through the French Pass' is that he may rub oil' some of the sea parasites which usually infect all large lish. and 'Which eventually cause death. It is possible, that duck has the fragment of an idea that every vessel lie can brush his silver side against will put years' on to his life, and from the manner in which he swims, and snorts, and gambols by tin. 'hows of the vessels hi the Pass, it appears that his self-consti--'tuted position as' pilot is an immense delight to him. The other day, when he was guiding the Te "Auiui through the channel, he gave such an extraordinary display tlrat a Maori who had been an interested spectator of the scene rushed below for a glass of beer, which he of- ' fered as a libation to the sportive 1 grampus. Passengers do not state posi- ' tively that ".lack" assuaged his' thirst, 'but ilu\v declare that afterwards, when ■ he left the vessel, he appeared to wave - a fin with the jocular benevolence which • otherwise would not have been demon- > titrated had he Ihmui a fish possessed of ■ real teetotal principles.