LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 332, 7 March 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There will lie family bathing at the municipal baths this evening from 7 to 8.30. It is understood that >a school of military instruction for cadet officej-s is to be established in New Plymouth. Under ■the new regulations the cadet officers are entitled to sit for examination for a captain's commission. At the Magistrate's Court on Saturday a woman named Jessie Robinson, ■alias Robertson, was brought up on charges of drunkenness and vagrancy. On the 'former charge she was fined 5s -and costs, or in default 48 hours' imprisonment. 'and on the latter she was -convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, and also ordered to leave the town by to-morrow. There are two small M'aori boys in this town who are an example not only to their own race, but a credit to the Dominion, says the Opunake Timse. They manage for their father a 30 ftr 40 acre farm, milk IS cows, get to the factory verv regularly every morning in the lead of milk carts, cook their own meals, then Attend school, and then find time in between to earn a few shillings exercising a racehorse. There is no fear for the future of fhe native race or the ■Dominion if tlm country can produce lads of thi< calibre. Do not go to the expense of calling in n doctor when yon sprain your ankle. Bathe your foot and ankle in water :>s hot as can be borne find rub in Chamberlain's Pain Palm freely. Tteueat the rubbing several times, and in two er three days you will be able fo <w>t n'riout and will be •jnite cured in less than a week. Sold by all chemists and storekeepers. .

The public offices throughout the Dominion will he closed for holiday on March 17, St. Patrick's Day. Tliev will also he closed on March 25, 28 and 2!), for Easter. The sixty-eighth dividend was paid to shareholders in the Waihi G.M. Co. on Tuesday last. The total ilivu>eml was £99,151,- of which £28,129 8s goes to shareholders in New Zealand. The total amount paid in dividends to date is {£3,714.369 6s Bd. It is currently reported that a wellknown gentleman, who was recently in business in Wes'tport, lui s been arrested at Gisborne, on the verge of doing the Pacific slope. He is to answer the charge at of alleged wrongful conversion of money. The veterans' caps, which were ordered to arrive in time to be issued prior to the inspection by Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener in Wellington, turned up too Jute for that'event, and were distributed to the veterans on' Saturday afternoon at Mr. J. C. Davies' office. A man narrowly escaped being killed at Timaru on Saturday last through jumping on the north-going express after it had left the station. He clung to the handrails for s'ome time, but the train was going so fast that !ie could not get a foothold, and ultimately fell oil again. A wireless message from the Ham-burg-American liner President Lincoln, which was to reach New Yoru «u u Miliary 22, said that the ship was bringing an unusual cargo of animals. The list included two Roosevelt wartliogs that the former president was sending home, six llamas, eight zebras, six elephants, eight camels, six jaguars and 5000 birds. The answer to a question as to whether the eggs of a tuberculosis fowl would be affected, Mr J. B. Mcrrett, during a lecture in the iWairarapa, said that at a conference of the medical profession at New York some time baok aone of the medical men present had ever been able to trace any transmission of disease from poultry to human beings. , . • A bankrupt who was being examined at Whangarei the other day reports an exchange) was so closely questioned with reference to his business transactions that he became irritated, uiid said, with indignation, that in the last bankruptcy case he was; concerned in a million and a half had been involved, and there had not been" half the fuss that there had been over the paltry £3O or so that was then occupying the attention of the Court. The spook ''Julia," with which Mr W. T. Stead created a mild sensation in London a short time ago, caused Sir Robert Stout some little amusement while he was in England. He told an Otago Daily Times reporter that "Julia" was "a perfect farce. Mr Stead," he continued, "is a very able journalist and a clever man, but, all the same, he seems to believe implicitly in this thing. It is an illusion with him—nothing else—but there is no doubt that he believes in it."

Mr. W. F. Whyte, manager of the Maori company now performing at the I New York Hippodrome, has been asked by Professor Crampton, who recently returned from a visit to New Zealand and the South Sea Islands, to co-oper-ate with the authorities of the New York Museum of Natural History in an effort that is to be made to form /a special department devoted to the I South -Seas. -Mr. Whyte has visited j most of the South Sea Islands, and he has been asKed to assist in a scheme ! which Professor Crampton says is doI signed to make this South Pacific sec--1 tion superior to any of the kind in the world. ''What do you think of the leading men at Home as public speakers?" Sir I Robert Stout was' asked in Dunectin. "They differ so much in ipethod and mode of speech," answered Sir Robert, "that it is difficult to make comparisons. I looked upon Mr. Balfour as an exceedingly deft debater and a keen j dialectician. Mr. Asquitih ptruck me ]as a most logical speaker. If you give him his premise his conclusion is inevitable. but it seems to me that he lacks imagination. As an intellectual man. looking at his written addresses, I . should say that Mr. Winston 1 Churchill is by far the ablest, man of the lot, but they say that even amongst the Conservatives the opinion is freely held that intellectually Mr. Winston Churchill stands as high as anyone in the House of Commons." The drainage operations 011 the great | Piako swamp, now known as the ITauI raki plains, are proceeding satisfactorily ! and the first returns from the large ex- ! penditure which ha.s been undertaken I there by the Government will shortly bo forthcoming. Sir Joseph Ward informed a "Herald" representative that the .first portion of the land, consisting of some 17,500 . acres, will be subdivided and available for selection in Mar next. The land, which is considered to be as good as any in the Dominion, will be divided into sections of from 100 to 200 acres in extent, and as it will be thrown open under the optional system, it may be expected to attract a large number o't selectors from all parts of New Zealand. Tt is also intended to set apart a township and suburban area of about 200 acre*. Th« total urea that is Tieing drained is about 00.000 acres, and further blocks will be thrown open from time to time as the drainage works proceed. i A well-attended meeting of the Tara- | maki branch of the Teachers' Institute j was held at the Education Hoard's office |on Saturday. Messrs. Mail and Stratford submitted a draft suggested syllabus dealing with geographv. the subject on which the present syllabus is more vague than 011 anv other. The paper ,was very carefully though? out. find was discussed standard hv standard. At TV. it was decided, on the motion of Messrs. TJico and Bocock, to have copies of the scheme circulated amongst members for consideration and for them 1 to 'forward suggestions thereon to the j secretary, these to be considered bv a j isub-committee. who will draft a scheme viiul submit it to the next general meetping. Messrs. Mail and Strafford wre i accorded the thinks of the meeting for j their efforts. .Another vote of thanks j was accorded the inspectors for their I attendance and their valuable .<m positions. The Chief Inspector stated that it Would be a great convenience to the inspectors if tho-e schools which u if >d I 'Onlv one reader in Standards V. and YT. would arrange for all to use the Stan- ( dard V. reader in one year md Standard YT. in the next, instead of using them as I now. one Tioo"k in one school and the other at otliey schools. The j was made that next vear. in 1011. all I these schools should use the fifth render. ' Keeping the patient's feet warm will prevent headaches.