LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 186, 10 September 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. A. 11. Halcombe, of Urenui, wiii lie a candidate for the vacancy oil the Education Hoard caused by the" death of Mr. Henry i'aull. Mr. D. K. Morrison (manager of tin; Moturoa Freezing Murks) returned to Xew Plymouth on Tuesday night. -Mrs. Morrison hasgone to Kelson for a short visit before returning home. Splendid results are reported by the Christchurch Press to have attended tjic making of the outlet of Lake Ellesmere to the sea. Despite tile huge accession of flood waters, the lake is at a particularly low level at the present time.

What i& stated to be the biggest cargo of Island .fruit ever brought to Wellington by the Manapouri was on hoard that vessel when «he reached there on Thursday. It included 15 kiU cind 2497 cases of bananas, 7454 cases of orangea, and 21 sacks of eocoanuts. Professor Voylc, a chemist, of Berkeley, California, claims to have perfected a "drunkless" whisky— a whisky which exhilarates without intoxicating. "Pure, alcohol," says Mr. Voylo, " is not responsible for tlu» intoxication that follows drinking. The evil ingredient is the associated element, cyainide. It is one of of the minor constituents not removed fcj the present process of fermentation and distillation.", When Thomas .Brown, of Leeds, and James Shackleton, of Halifax, had been sentenced to three years' penal servitude at Bradford for attempting to obtain five shillings by a ring to be gold when it wus in reality worth threepence, Brow.n exclaimed to the judge: "But you cannot do it! It was only an attempt." The judge replied: "I believe you are right about that," and altered the sentence 1 to two rears' imprisonment with ha~rd labor. * The social held under the auspice* of the Violetta Assembly, a-t the Brougha.m Street Hall last evening, was most successful. The building was l crowded, the floor iu perfect order, and the music suppied by Mrs. George's orchestra of the highest standard, while the refresh-, ments left nothing (<> '•» desired. ■Messrs. li. Bullot and \\\ Way made! attentive M.O's. The success of the function has led the Assembly to promote a. second social, notice of'the hold tng of which will be duly notified. Wednesday's fall of *no\v at North Mountain House was the heaviest this wfiftor. Visitors at the house on Thursday had ample material for a snowballing bout, the snow Iving everywhere a loot deep and from three "to four feet in the drifts. The track was , carpeted white for a distance of 2'/> miles downwards from the house and the snow lying on the shrubs rendered this portion of the track uninue -sight. A lady visitor who hails from England who ha.i been used to seeing plenty of snow, stated that .she bad never seen such a pretty sight, as tho trees and' shrubs in Europe are mostly leafless during winter.

The New York correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph cabled as follows recently:—"ln Cincinnati (Ohio) yesterday forty canaries were installed in the Lincoln Baptist Church to aid the regular choir in the religious service, and the effect of combining the birds' voices with the pipe organ and the vocalists was declared by members of the congregation to be a success. The text was, 'Who are these that come living through the air like doves'?' The pastor had requested the member* of the congregation to bring as many canaries as they could, and the gilded caws were hung all about the building. The birds began chirpiug with the first strains of the organ, aad continued ns long as the choir sang,"

During a conversation nvith a Palmerston newspaper representative last weekMr. Hwang. Chinese Consul, expressed himself as disappointed with the class of Chinese he fbuniTin New Zealand, and their condition generally, lie had expected to meet more of the merchant class—educated men. who could mix' in European society as they did in the United States and Canada,' and to a certain extent in Australia. In San Francisco there were many Chinese union" the leading merchants, and there were hundreds of highly educated and cultured men in Shanghai, ll'enang. Canton | and other cities of the great Empire.' I His fellow-countrymen here did not 'seem to wish to better themselves; vei'v few of them could speak good English'; and they -were nearly all content to rcmniijjnrtrkct gardeners or anall shopkeeper#.

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