LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 347, 24 March 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Daily News will not be published to-morrow (Good Friday) or on Eaater Monday. Advertisers, agents, and country runners please note. A horse fell down the terraces on the eastern fide of the. Sports Ground at Pukekura Park the other day. The terraces were disfigured where the animal fell, but the latter landed on its feet and started nibbling the grass at the bottom as if nothing had happened. The firm of Murray, Roberts and Co. is to be turned into private limited company as from the Ist April of rhis year, the individual interests being preserved as they now exist. The capital is to be a quarter of a milion sterling, with £200,000 paid up. The change is purely internal, in no way affecting ihe public. It will make no difference to the scope or character of the business. In a religious census of the world which he has just published, Dr. H. Zeller; Director of the Statistical Bureau in Stuttgart, estimates thit of the 1,544,510,000 people in the world, 534,- | 940,000 are Christians, 175,290,000 are Mohammedans, 10,860,000 are Jews, and 823,420,000 hold other beliefs'. Of these, 20,000,000 are Confucians, 214,000,000 are Brahmins and 121,000,000 Buddhists, with other bodies of lesser numbers. In other wards, out of every thousand of the earth's inhabitants, 348 are Christians, 114 are Mohammedans, seven are Israelites »nd 533 are of other religions. Stray dogs are becoming an absolute nuisance in the Recreation Grounds, and the recent mischief done by them has had the result of bringing into effect the Board's regulation that all dogs in the grounds must be led. Breach of the regulation will bring about the destruction of the dog. Poor old "Tommy," the Paradise duck which has for so long been the pet of the children visiting the grounds, and by reason of his'croak the terror of the timid mites, was killed yesterday by a fox terrier. The chairman, Mr. R. Cock, informs us that yesterday evening he saw nine dogs in the grounds, and as this is the third time on which stray dogs have done serious mischief, he intends that drastic steps shall be taken to effect a discontinuance.

"The question of the compulsory medi- j cal inspection of school children has I from time to time engaged the serious attention of my Board," remarks the chairman of the Wellington Education Board in hi.; annual report.submitted at the meeting the other day. "An examination of between three and four hundred children, conducted by two medical men of recognised standing, Mas undertaken. While the report shows that the ■physical condition of the children was on the whole good, there was disclosed quite a considerable number o f cases of defect, preventible and remediable, but in mam- instances nrevionsly unrecognised. Mv Board is stronslv of opinion that both from humanitarian, educational, and national economic considerations the establishment of a wfII-con-sidered State system of medical insnertion of school children is hicrhlv advisable. even if it be beeun on a very small scale until actual requirement i= determined bv experience. Mv Board is convinced tha> from the noint of view of national efficiency it will cost les* to undertake +his worV t.hfln not to undo'-. tnVe -'t. T t foun'l that +IIO boards of tlio TVut't'ou are in substantial Bcrrcement. n"d von tp aware *he more nro<rre-«ivr legislatures of oth"- countries are in advance of \pir Zealand in this "letter. The inspection of school? has Vcu undertaken ; n Tasmania. y»W Wales. ■France, the Argentine. Switzerland. Jamn. and other (Countries." TTAVK YOTJ A WEAK THROAT? Tf so. vou cannot be t<v. careful; you cinnot besrin treatment too ea r, v. Each cold makcc! vou more liahlr to another, and the last is alwavo tb° hardest to 'cure. Tf toii take Chamberlain's PoporTi j Kemedv at the outset, vou will be saved '■ much trouble. Sold bv all chemists and trtorekeepers.