LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 194, 20 September 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of ratepayers at I'ihama on Friday decided to take steps to merge the present Oeo iidin» of the Eginont county into the Waimate county.

A Tress telegram from Christehurch states that owing to the prevalence of infectious iliscase eases at the hospital, the Board has ordered that no ehildre.i under thirteen years of age will be allowed to'visit the institution. Mr. Justice Edwards last week, on the motion of Mr. Roy (Roy and Nicholson) granted probate of the wills of Reginald Arthur Newton (New IMv. mouth, Elijah Leary (Hill road) and George Thomas (Te Kiri), deceased, to the executors respectively named therein.

In a State school not a hundred miles from Inglcwood (says the Record f a teacher was examining the kiddies of the third standard in grammar, and after going over the different appei.itions of masculine and feminine genders, the domicile of the mermaid came in for notice, when 'the class was asked where a mermaid lived., when one little hand instantly went up. and on the little chap being asked for his answer, replied with evident pride, begotten of conscious knowledge, '•ln a public-house'" Collapse of class.

Some New Zealand constables in the early days wore long whiskers—ar.'l thought more of them than their duly, if a statement made before the Police Commission at Wellington last week is correct. Sergeant David Stewart said the men were smarter now than tlu-v "used to lie. They did not wear long whiskers like some used to. "In. tile old days these men never arrested a' drunken woman," he said. 'They got out of the road, for they were afraid of getting their whiskers pulled." Mr Dinnie: "Wc have one constable at Christclmreh with a long beard." "Yes," I said Mr. .Bishop "and he's very nroud of it." J '

Mrs, L, Peters, Miramar, Wellington, N.Z.,- says: "I can safely recommend Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy to anyone suffering from pains in the stomacli. A Ivw days Hgo my little boy, aged six years, was suffering agony with this complaint. I only gave him a few doses of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy, and he was soon well and has not been troubled since. I think this remedy should be kept in every home." For sale by all chemists and storekeepers.

i Over ljooo,ooo catskins are used every 'yearrw-Jjhefu/ trade. ■■,.■...■■,■; f

A .Maori who did ~t Waihi, near! Waitara, the oilier day, wits reputed to j be over a hundred vciira old.

In consequence of auinbers of married men being out of work at the present time, i n many cases (save a Masterto.i paper) their wives have had to take situations and become the breadwinners.

"I never met a witness yet who would admit that he had talked about the case beforehand, and we all knew that they have."—Mr. Justice Cooper at the Supreme Court.

_ It was stated at the meeting of the Taranuki Executive of the Farmers' Union on Thursday that the opening of Hie Main Trunk Railway had enhanced the value of a considerable amount of

native land. Land which was worth about £2 pe r acre -was now being let for milling rights at £lO per acre.

"Don't count vout chickens before

they are hatched.'" On. Wednesday none of the candidates was more jubilant than Mr. Hornblow, who passe! through Marton from Wanganui, with, so he said, the railway vote in his pocket. "Here you are/' he cried, as he threw copies of his speech off at the various stations, "read the views of the winning

candidate." A fire occurred ut Oknto on Kriiliy night at about 10.3(1 o'clock, whvrehy the shop and workroom of Mr. J. I'lurn, tinsmith, was totally destroyed. The whole of the material, tools' and sto-k were also destroyed. There was no insurance on the building or plant. The damage is estimated at C2OO.

Victoria has not been among the heavy drinking States for many years; not, indeed, since the old feverish go',l- - days, mid this makes the deelilo in its "drink bill" all the more remaricable. In 1007 it spent .1:4,3(10,801 upon linuor, cnnal to ,C 3 fls Kid per head of the population, and last vear it spent only .14,00(1,81(1, equal to'£3 4s 5d per head of the population. A Napier syndicate is getting from Home a new kind of machinery for

dressing flax. The new plant (sa'vs the Hastings Standard) will turn out the fibre with much more rapidity than the old process. Within forty-eight hours from the time the green tlax leaves the swamp the hemp will he ready for export. The exact nature of the new process is not known except to those concerned in its venture, and it is understood to include steam drying. No definite plan's Have yet. been formed for running extra trains betwee.i Wellington and Auckland during the summer months. It is now stated that it is not probable that extra trains will run except at the Christmas, New Year and Easter seasons. The matter is still under consideration, and the final decision will probably depend on the amount of trallic that is experienced in the early pari of the season.

Chicago's firat policewoman was robbed of her purse within a few hours after' 1 receiving her star and revolver. She is Mrs. Josephine Sullivan, and, after being sworn in, she went out to detect pickpockets and sneak thieves in the department stores. When her afternoon's work was finished she returned home, and discovered that her pocket-book was missing. '•! know who got it!" she cried. "It was that well-dressed young mnn who sat next to me o n the car coming home'."

Mr. William E. Walling, millionaire Socialist and writer on Labor questions, is being sued by Miss Anna Bertha Grunspag for breach of promise, In which the damages are placed at £20,000. Miss Grunspag alleges that Mr. Walling became engaged to her, but has now married the Russian authoress, Anna Strunsky. Mr. Walling is a wellknown society man, as well as a Socialist writer, and hns been a resident at the university settlement in New York for some years.

A day or two ago an Otaki firm had ii notice i„ their shop window with rfcrence to deck chairs for sale \ wi« secured the placard-a patent sign with detachable letters-and altered the reading, with the result that the following notice was boldly displayed in the shop window for some considerable time: "Come and kiss inc for 7s Oil." \\ hen applications began to pour in. the sign was quickly withdrawn from' tlie window, and the perpetrator of the joke is now being looked for by two irate gentlemen.

Tlie New Zealand tour of the pantomime -Mack and Jill" closed at Wellington last neck. T„ connection with the phenomenal n m of the pantomime, m the Dominion, the following figures are quoted :-A,ickland. seventeen performances. 2-1,800 people paid for adin.f ■flon; C'hristeliiirch. thirteen, 20,000; Duned.n. thirteen. 10,500; Palmerston I "*' 5,m,! Wniignmii, 'three, 4i00; r,c«- Plymouth, three, 4500; Mnsciton. one. 1140; total, 70,740. When the Wellington figures (seventeen performances) are added, the grand total ol persons who have paid for admission will be considerably over 100,000. And yet there is much talk of depression and Imancial slniigvncy in New Zealand. An Auckland dentist writes to a loe.il pape r observing that there is too much dentistry ,„ New Zealand. Tic says: M\e are becoming a toothless peopK Ihe cause no doubt, is the .lack of limp. Our cereals , I; eat. vegetables, and water are produced from land deficient in limp which is an essential in the formation oi bone, ft seems to me it would be of great advantage if lime were put fcito the drinking water. It must do good, purifying the water if nothing more. It might also be put into our wheat before grindrag and our raw sugar and our milk. What would purifv m & more thnn a pinch of lnn c in the pail before straining? If there were more lime >.n food and water there would be less work tor the dentists."

A fire at Stratford on Thursday night somewhat disturbed a ball that was leing held there One of the M.C.'s and a dancer were firemen and when the be.) rang out an alarm they stood not on the order of going but skedaddled. The all, hoisted his nicely-creased trousers and the dancer dismissed his partner and they sprinted to the outbreak After the fire had been subdued they re turned ike heroes albeit in one instance immaculate evening dress gave place to fire uniform find the other saw the dance out in clothes (particularly nether m,. ""■ut«) that had absorbed moisture through contact with the hose. 1„ i" ental y it lent variety to the dance and aflordcd much talk and merriment (o tiiose present.—Exchange. Over tiiree thousand"pounds of rose petals are used in the manufacture of one pound of ottu of roses perfume. Ihe ritish Museum possesses a chai,—the throne ot Ouecn Ilatasu-which "us in use some 3,i(W years a"0. Mrs. Russell Sag,., the famous Ann- i- "' "'ona.ress. has during the 'a.,t three years luvn distributing C.iOuO I daily lor charitable purposes. ' A Viennese |„dy recently celebrated I .»''.'■ llltl. biilhda.y by taki„.r 1,,,- firs drive in a taxienb.

Germany has built a motorcar armed with a quick-linng R „ n specially adapted for use against airships. ' ' H.M.S. Tartar, one of the newest tor-pedo-boat destroyers, has altaian] the remarkable speed of more than SjfTnots an hour.

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