LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 330, 4 March 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Police Court yesterday morniJr a first offender was convicted and discharged for drunkenness. Ye«teraay was' the date of the usual quarterly meeting of the New Plymouth Licensing Committee, Out as there was no business to transact the meeting lapsed. While General Botha was conducting meeting at the Opera House, Crouch Eud, burglars entered his office and stole his private bag, containing several valuable articles, the loss being estimated at £3O. On the motion of Mr. Quilliam (Govett and Quiiiiam), probate in the estate of the late Edward Okey was wanted on the 24th February by Mr. Justice Edwards to the executors named m the will, Messrs. E- N. L. Okey and H. J. H. Okey. A meeting of the leasehold members of Parliament called for the purpose of considering their future attitude on the land question lias been fixed to take place at Christchurcli on 10th March. It is expected that the gathering will be a very representative one. Mr. B. Dive, M.P., who has just returned from a visit to the South, says that the very dry weather experienced, in Southland has considerably affected the big oat crops in the district. Much of the oats will be only fit for eh all. Root crops' have also been checked from the same cause. Here and there good "strikes" are to be seen, but generally the "strike" is indifferent. During the hearing of the noxious weeds cases' yesterday, the inspector stated that he was taking proceedings against only a few farmers, hoping this would serve as a warning to the rest. The Magistrate asked him why lie did not prosecute all who allowed noxious weeds' to grow, to which he replied that he would in that case have to bring up half the farmers in Taranaki. In making the presentation to the Rev. Father MacManus last night, Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., said there was a considerable amount of backblocks tacked on to the Ingle wood parish, and the rev gentleman would have to look after its spiritual interests. From his' own knowledge of some of the roads whilst looking after the material interests, he facetiously observed that a pair of gum boots would probably be more appropriate than a travelling-bag. The following advertisement appears in the Berliner Zeitung: "WantedYoung man about thirty, of good family and faultless manners, who is capable of making bright and entertaining conversation at social gatherings. Subjects' not arbitrary, but racial and religious topics must be avoided. Musical gentleman with good if untrained voice, who can sing to the accompaniment of the piano, will receive the preference, also those who possess title or can prove noble birth."

'"When one speaks of a 'Chinese quarter in our country/' writes an American from "Germany, '"lie has districts like those of San Francisco or New York in mind, where houses are crowded with 'chinks'' in the dress of their country where there are queerlooking and baa-smellmg shops, and where the strange peopie, the red signs, and the un-American atmosphere make one uncomfortable. In Berlin the small Chinese quarter near the Lehrter railway station is mado up o f young iner. who, with few exceptions, dress like their German neighbor*. They have a club, learn German more readily than our Chinese learn English, and an? not laundrymen, but mostly stone-cutters." New industries, or industries that seem to be new because their existence has not ben suspected, crop up every day, says the New York Tribune. Kow is is a factory where artificial seeds for candied fruits are made. It appears j that in a 'good many of these contec- | tions—plums and peaches and the other J varieties —the original fruit does not enter at all, sugar and glucose and coloring extracts being the substitutes. | So, to lend versimilitude to the finished I product, atones or pips have to life introduced, and a. confectioner said the other day that a factory gave its owners in France a neat income every year from the manufacture of these evidences 01 une ' genuineness" ot tne | fruits.

A Dunedin resident, has favored tlie Otago Daily Times with the following extracts from a letter he received recently from a brother iu the United Kingdom apropos of the Budget election:—"We are passing through a very critical time just now, and if the present Budget is I do not know where we shall bcltratifid. A number of people wish to sell their estates, but there are no buyers. To. give you an idea of what is taking place: A. nice property in Norfolk, with a good house, over 4000 acres of land; splendid shooting and fishing on lake and stream, has to-day been offered ir.o, for £95,000, and four years' ago they were asking £200,000. This place (the writer's present residence) they were asking £.120,000 for. and now I have the offer of it for £<>o,ooo." Recent information received by the Minister for Industries and Commerce shows the rapid progress which is being made by Western Australia as a wheatgrowing country. For the 1900-10 season 440,154 acres were sown in wheat for grain, an increase of 101,153 acres as compared with 1908-9. The official forecast of this season's' crop was 13.4 bushels per acre, qqnal to a total yield |of 5,978,829 bushels, as against 8.0 j bushels per acre, yielding 2,400,823 Dusneisf, last season. It was expected mat I lie qua may oi wiiem avaiuime for export from Western Australia this season would he 5,081,000 bushels, or j 98,598 tons. Naturally, the authorities I wiio "have been actively promoting land settlement and agriculture in the State I for several years past are expressing j great satisfaction at the development recorded. DELAY IS .DANGEROUS. There is no class of ailment that infects the system quicker than bowel complaints, and any delay in treating Diarrhoea or colic is dangerous. Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera, and Diarrhoea 1 Remedy is' the only remedy that is absolutely reliable in cases of this kind, land as some memoer of the family is I always liable to an attack at any time 1 it should always be kept in the house. | This remedy never fails to give prompt ! relief. Sold by all chemists and storekeepers.

One of the motor waggons belonging to the Opunake Motor Transport Company, whilst coming down the coast with a load of about two tons of cheese, went over the bank at the foot of a hill just beyond Oakura. It is underwood ihe accident happened through a mishap to the steering gear. Fortunately, however, the driver and two passengers escaped uninjured, whilst the waggon itself sustained very little damage. Japan has killed the last doubt as to its modern progress by the organisation of a ''class of courtship" for girls in each of the secondary schools. Tiie Japanese maidens are taught that if they "should be so unfortunate as to fall in love before becoming engaged' they must conceal the fact. Above all they must remember that women never propose. Another tiling, tney are warned that well-bred girls do not exchange photographs with their admirers'. in Japan until ffo\v there has not been any trouble about courting, and this is the first evidence that, the Japanese maidens need instruction Jn aflairs of the heart. Classes to the contrary, however, the point is maintained that there is not a Juliet under the sun who does know the exact formula fo* dealing with a Romeo. ~ Preaching at Wellington on Sunday morning, the Rev. Mr. ijerpell, formerly Alot'hoTiist" minister in New Plymouth, entered a- strong protest against the militarism now prevailing. "If Germany," said the preacher, "ever defeats England, it will not be because slie possesses more Dreadnoughts, but because her people drink less, gamble less, and are more moral. The money that Britain is spending upon liquor is being spent by Germany in the higher education of the masses." Mr. Serpell, in the course of a very telling -address, said: "Prominent'men should set a good example. Lord Kitchener would have shed a Abetter influence and honored God more if he had declined to go careering about the country by special trains on the Sabbath, and delayed his departure from Wellington for Auckland until Monday." During a recent meeting of the Sydney Cfematton Society a reference to opposition on the ground that exhumation was' sometimes necessary brought Dr. Creed to the attack. He at once told the gathering that there was something wrong with f?ic burial system that required the bodies to be dug up again. He said that a number of people had died during the past year leaving directions for the cremation of their bodies, but their wishes had not been carried out owing to the want of pro-perly-conducted crematoriums. The bodies of two Sydney gentlemen had been cremated abroad—one in Adelaide and one at Wellington. New Zealand. He suddenly finished his remarks' by saying that he had got over any difficulty in his case, as he had given instructions that his body was to be burnt even if it were in "a hollow log.