LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 203, 1 October 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Tniniii. which is due at Wellington mi .Monday from London, has Hi thirdclass passengers for New Plymouth. At the meeting of the committee of the Recreation Sports Ground held last evening it was* decided to hold sports on the 9th November, provided the I'ukekura Park Board are not holding a function on that day. There were two casualties in the "Old Timers" football match yesterday afternoon. 11. Matthews, of Waitara, retired with an injured knee, and J. Woods', of the home team, had his shoulder put out. Dr. Fookes, who had again dunned the jersey, proved to he a handy member of the home team, -Mr. 1!. A. Stokes, who purchased the Hygienic Bakery business from .Mr. .1. U. Lcgg some months ago. prior to the latter leaving on a trip to England, has re-sold the business to llr. Legg, who takes' possession at the end of next week. Mr. Stokes purposes eoinincncin" business In another district,

People who won't pay sixpence to see a football match should stay away; .but they don't. There's a little crowd of free-peepers who regularly watch , football contests in the Recreation Grounds without contributing a penny to the funds. They gaze over or through the iron railing near the gate. There are nearly 130 languag.es, derived from nearly twenty linguistic sources, snoken in Tudia. Mr. W. Cox, Jlmnn'ray-street, Ba'.hrat. Vie.j writes: "I have been a great suffered from rheumatism, and having obtained the greatest relief by the use of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, t cannot speak too highly of it. Whenever Heel the rheumatic paints coming on, I give the affected parts a few applications, and it always arrests the attack. I know several people who have used Cluiniberhiill's Pain Balm, and they all speak in the highest praises of it." For sale by all chemists and storekeepers, ■

The curator of the Recreation Grounds is endeavoring to improve the foothold and appearance of the steep path leading from tlie sports ground to the band rotunda. This particular piece has 1 long been .a standing disgrace to the grounds and a trap for the unwary pedestrian. The house of Mr. T. Maughan at Sentry Hill was entered on Tuesday night while the family was away, and 22s in money,« pair "of new boots, and other thing's were taken. The thief got in through the kitchen window. He took llic money from a purse, but missed CJ lying under a mattress in a bedroom. The identity of the perpetrator of this criminal act (states the Waitara Mail) is -iretty well known. A local resident had an unpleasant experience of the light-fingered gentry on Wednesday. The owners' of the new launch which has been built for a couple of local fishermen took her to the railway station that day, to truck her to the port. One of the builders left his coat in the workshop. On his return lie found the coat there still, but a pocketbook containing £lB in cash had disappeared.

Mr. <i. Uind, managing director of the llnwke's Day Leather Rubber Company, which lius been Hunted with a capital of ,c:i.),oUl) (fully subscribed), arrived in Wellington on Wednesday evening from Hastings, en route to Melbourne, for which city he leaves to-day. The company intends starting operations at Hasting* about -March next, and Mr. Land, during his sojourn in Melbourne, hopes to gain a practical insight into the conduct of similar works in the Victorian capital. A cable message from South Africa recently convevcu idle UCN..-, that Mr. K. A. >!ees, son ~'f .Mr. tt . 1., liees, of Osborne, hail died suddenly in Pretoria, and that no particulars were then available. Letters just received bv mail show (says the 'llnwke's Bav Herald) that, his death was the result of a distressing accident. It seems that Air. K. A. Hits, while in the Pretoria Club on the afternoon of August 17th, complained of not feeling well, and left to go to a chemist's for an aperient. He visited a local pharmacy, and a>>kcd for a black draught, adding that he wanted a stnong one. The chemist who occupied the shop was' absent, but his assistant .prepared a mixture which Mr. liees swallowed. Mr. liees remarked that Die taste did not seem as usual, but the assistant assured him it was the proper mixture. Shortly afterwards Mr. liees took ill, and, although two doctors did all that was possible for him, he died hi *an hour anil a half. The symptoms' indicated that by some mistake an irritant poison Irad got into one of the bottles from which the draught was made up. The chemist's assistant was arrested, and the question of prosecuting him was under consideration liv the' Attorney-General when the mail left. Mr. AV. li liees lias' received a number of letters from prominent residents of Pretoria, expressing deep sorrow at the death of his son. The sermon preached by Archdeacon Averill, Bishop-elect of Waiapu, in the Christehurett Cathedral on Dominion Day impressed the auditors (says the l'res.s) liy its directness and its earnestness, lie --.aid New Zealand had passed through its childhood and was entering into manhood. If was just developing a character and forming its ideals—just passing through a critical stage in its national existence—and the future of the Dominion depended to a great extent j upon thf wisdom Tind" character and

ideals of its leaders. The country was now at the parting of the ways. It must soon develop a settled character,

and the responsibility of determining that character lay with its people. Although his duties had prevented him from taking as active a part in military matters as he could have wished, they had not prevented him from thinking a good deal about that matter, which had always had his deepest sympathy. The country oouHl never develop on true lines unless its best men were ready to sacrifice themselves for the common good, and teach by their own examples the duty of service. They would never develop a ■ unble national character'unless something more important in life than a burse race or a football match was recognised. Clean sport played an important part in n nation's development, but it should occupy a secondary, and not a primary, piace in the natioiiu, life. There was a tendency tolose alt sense of proportion, and to forgeTlhat it was of far greater importance to maintain the character of men and women than the breed of horses. Nations and empires had come and gone, and would come and go, and the fate of each bail been determined, and would oe determined by its attitude to the dutv of service.