LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 208, 7 October 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Parliament opens this afternoon. The New Plymouth Bowling Club will open its green for play this afternoon. The Otago Daily Times states that for a two days' laboring job, tor which six men were required in Dunediti on Monday last, no fewer than seventy men made personal application. A farmer who lives about twenty miles from Fcilding the other day discovered that he had bought his neighbor's sheep at the Fcilding yards—and had travelled over forty miles to do it.

Broken Hill mines have produced silver, Kmi 1, and associated ores, up to 1907, ■0 the value of about 52 millions ster-

ling. Oiu, of the original fourteenth siiares purchased for £llO was, six years later, calculated to be worth £1,250,010 —surely one of the most wonderful strokes of fortune in the dazzling domance of mining!

Death comes to men in strange ways. The other day a scaffold fell in Montreal on which a French-Canadian named Amende U.maire was working. He we,s a devout man, and wore a crucifix nine inches in length next his body. Although ho was otherwise uninjured, the crucifix was driven into his heart and caused instant death.

The New Plymouth Horticultural Society's schedules for the show on Do (■•inlier !lth are now obtainable from the secretary, Mr. W. P. Nieoll. Schedules for the November Rose Show are ineluded. Particular attention is directed to the cottage garden competition 'or the Mayor's prizes, anil to .Mr. \V. W. Smith's special prizes for the best collection of wild flowers and berries, a children's class.

In yesterday's issue we republished a sonsiLtional suggestion that the missing steamer WaraUih may have been burned at sea, the fire being started by a convict named McUichlan, who was being i.iken fr Ilr-Jiaiic to South Africa oy

.wo ilcleetiv s to answer a charge of murder. The Detective Mynott mentioned in the report is really Defective \. C. Mynott. a nephew of Mr. Joan Mynott, of Now X'lymouth.

The labor market is quiet in Haweia just now. Since the advent of milking aiafliiiic- there is, of course, not so big a demand for hand milkers as was the ia-e a couple of years ago. Enquiries for domestics continue to be as numerous as ever, and this kind of help is still difficult to obtain. A well-known registry Keeper told a Star reporter that the majority of the girls would rather accept a billet in a shop for 10s per week than fake tip domestic work at 15s or 18s per week.

However scarce the kiwi may be in other localities, its presence is frequent ly noted in various portions of the Wairoa. and recently reports have conic to hand which point to the fact that with the wide.clearings being made of bush growth, the habitat.' of the winglc s bird are more plentiful than was hitherto supposed. Bushmen aver (says tile Auckland Herald) that in certain' pares of tile district their numbers are increasing, judging by the volume of call notes now heard.

A farmer took a bag containing t.vo hundred and forty pennies to a country post office, with a request for two hundred and forty penny stamps. The cop pcrs were declined, and the applicant was requested to teirder silver and gold. He, however, refused to do this, and, opening his bag of coppers, began shoeing them one by one under, the counter screen, asking for "A penny stamp, please." The officials saw no alternative hut lo supply the stamps as the individual pennies were tendered. So "they gave in.

The "Lone Hand" for October is an especially interesting number. It contains Mr. Theodore Roosevelt's fir.t article on his expedition to Africa in search of big game, which is of a particularly interesting nature. Mr. Roosevelt reports: "I have had great luck; the game has come quicker than , thought." The article is illustrated by photographs. "The Secrets of Cinematography," by Edmund Fisher, shows the enormous strides thai have'been made in this form of entertainment of late years, a good insight being given into the work of film-production bv the Kodak Company of Rochester fx.\ \. I'a Ihe Krorcs (Paris). Mr. Wost« the Salvation Armv in Australia. r

In liis notes published yesterday, our 1 Stratford correspondent wrote.:—"l hr-i----ol' a buckblocks parson who sends his horse by rail to the nearest railway station available, as it is so beastly tirinriding forty miles at a stretch to ca-rv the (iospel among the heathen of Tara'naki. I would commend to him the his lory of Parson Brown, and say, *Co thou .iml do likewise.'" We are informed that the clergyman in question has just recovered from a serious operation, and that he is prohibited by his medical \l- - from riding more than he can help. The back-Mock niissioner as a rule le.id*' i strenuous and exacting life, and it is little wonder that his health occasionally gives way under the strain. The missioners arc doing a self-sacrificir.g and noble work in the hinterland of our province and deserve the sympathy and help of all sections of the community. "How to make money" is a subject that will always interest men or womcji, and in the October number of "The New Idea," just to hand, there are a couple of -interesting and informative ar. tides by Miss Elile Russell, of Sydney, giving details of at least two metho'l; by which Australian women may earn money. One, that of feather-making - an industry Launched as a protest against the destruction of wild birds for plumage—is comparatively limited in scope, but agriculture offers a wide and not unattractive field for women s brains and mental and physical energies. A number of illustrations are given showing women at work developing 110 higher branches of agriculture, and a page of pretty pictures showing what has been accomplished by an English peeress whose devotion to agriculture has earned her the title of "An open-air peeress." This is one of a number or* practical articles contained in the October New Idea, others being "The secrets of musical success," "The making of a southern home," an article on "Drawing monograms," and "How to decorate a , bedroom." The New Idea certainly continues to hold pride of place as the best sixpenny magazine published for Aus- 1 tralian aud Now Zealand women. DON'T DIET.

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A form of influenza is epidemic in Jv«\v Plymouth just now. ' Lecturing at Hastings on the djiu'y ing industry, Mr. F. W. B. Grcyille, in order' to impress and cmphas'ißo the value of dairying, pointed out that if they wanted to buy tie output ot Taranaki from September to June, ten tons of sovereigns Avould he rcqnir.'d, and the output of the Dominion was valued at io tons of sovereigns. An industry which was bringing from Eng laud 25 tniw of sovereigns annually was not to he slighted. It is not generally known that the I native swamp hen has a decided propensity for fowl eggs, for a meal upon wliieh it will go a long way. For some tune a Taranaki farmer had been blaming His own fowls for eating the eggs, and several of the birds had paid the extreme penalty of their supposed "can-1 nibalistic" tendencies. 'i' nc other day. however, lie espied the real culprits at work in the fowlhouse—two wekas--wliieh he captured and killed. There was a large attendance at the Brougham Street Hall last evening, when a euchre party and dance took place in aid of the Central School prize funds. Over 100 players took part in the euchre tournament, the prizes being won as follows:—lndies': Sirs.'Mace 1, Mrs, Henncrm 1; gents: Mr. Perry 1. Messrs fioulton and Uncock tied for second prize, the former winning in the plny-uIT. A dance was afterwards held, about fi,"> couples taking the floor, which was in excellent order, and, with the : be>t of music, an enjoyable time was I ,p:nt. The committee desire to ex-|iiT-s their iipprfcintiim of the ae- ' lion of the musicians (Mrs. (leorge's i orchestra and -Mrs. Movcrlcy's nrchestia) in supplying the music gratis. Mr. Joe West provided an excellent sup. per. Messrs C. T. Mills and .1. Harvey officiated as M.C.'s. The committee responsible for the function comprised: Mesrs C. T. Mills, J. Harvey and fi. Mr(hiliey, assisted by sub-committees of lailies and gentlemen, and they are to be congratulated on the success achi.n'i cd.

Mr. F. W. Greville (editor of the Dairyman) stated in n lecture at Hastings' that the great objection against dairying was the drudgery of the labor connected with it, but he said that this undesirable condition had been altered, and in proof of this he instanced the ease of a Taranaki man milking 123 cows who invited him to his farm to see the whole herd milked in' 120 minutes. He accepted the invitation, and the milking, which was done by machinery, was completed in three minutes shoit of the stipulated time. The value of the milk from these 120 cows for the season was £ISOO. Two Taranaki factories alone paid the farmers £170,000, and there were other factories in the district that paid out £30,000. £40,000, and £50,000. Mr. Greville produced a photograph of six cheques paid in Taranaki (Manaia) for 30 days' milking, as follows:—E. R. Hastie, £195 19s 8d; J. A. Gamlin, £217 Is; T. A. Bridge (125 to 135 cows), £243 lie 8d; W." T. I'. Wells (150 to 100 cows), £214 2s sd; J. J. Patterson (150 to 175 cows), £328 9s" 10s; and W. D. Powdrcll (250 to 300 cows), £478 18s Od.