LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 395, 21 May 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A resident of Napier celebrated his ■hundredth birthday a few days ago.

It is stated l that the -insurance companies' fire Josses in the Dominion last year exceeded £415,000.

Members of the \\"«irarapa egg circle received over 2s a dozen after deducting cairriage, commission, etc., for their first oonsignimient of eggs to Wellington. The securities quoted on the London Stock Exchange official list amount to £10,200,000,000, iamd £40,000,000 now securities were added t& the list in 1009.

It is estimated that the l average modern commercial orchard in New Zealand in the 1907-08 and 1008-00 seasons netted £45 per acre, after paying labor and all expenses.

Several farmers in the Grey town district have gone in largely for mangels this season, for winter feeding, and they (have teen rewarded with some exceptionally goal crops.

II W. Bond, contractor for fehc erection of tihe building for the Hawera winter sihow, is making good progress with 'the work* The wall®, which are of cameraited concrete, are almost finished, and a start will be made next week with the roofing of the structure. Nothing will nam shake the Maori belief tltof Halley's comet foreshadowed the deatlh of Kinig Edward the Seventh; and Tiita and W'oaka Tamaira and their fellow-Maoris are in earnest, when they say.- "Look out for a great war, a war that will drag in the iwihole world. For the ver.v iheavenis tell .us so."

Workmen engaged in excavation operations on tihe site of Nestle's milk condensing factory at Warrnambool (Victoria) harve .unearthed what is believed •to be tai (petrified human hand. It was found at a depth of 20ft, and is complete from the wrist to the finger points. The fingernails aTe clearly defined. The following extract from a letter written in New Yoi'k under date April Bt!h by an old! Napier boy to a correspondent is of interest locally:-—"I saw that new tram ear of Edison's the other day, on trial. It is electric, and needs no cable w overhead 1 trolly, as it carries its own storage battery. It! worked very well, a.nd ought to lie in .great demand." Mr. Oemenit Wragge is not to 'have everything to his credit in the matter of discovering queer "prehistoric 1 ' relics. A Wellington : paper says: "Some excellent iplmtogniffe fcaikeit by Miss Corkill, of New Plymouth, of the ''Tattooed Rocks" on it'he coast near Raglan arc on exhibition in the city. The hieroglyphics or inscriptions with which the rocks are covered are of grant .interest to archaeologists, and are evidently tihe result of nuwh labor."

Richard Col lis, a Mangaweka resident,

has l>een changed at Auckland on charges of impersonating hiimseu as ft special constable at Aslihurst during the 'Powelka scare, and obtaining money from a publican under false pretences; the theft of an overcoat and field glasses ifrom Palmers ton; and also with obtaining money from Mr. Cruickshanks. of Te Kapua, under false pretences. He will be remanded to appear at the Mangawefca Court.

The services ,in Queen-street Church ■to-morrow will he conducted by the Rev. John Nixon. Morning at 11, subject '•The Suspense of Power''; children's aiddress, '"A Visit to Hanmer Hot Springs"; ■evening at 7. subject "Healing Virtue of the Christ." AH seats iree.—A(M,

BEWARE! " To MESSRS SANDER and SONS.— Dear Sirs, —I just think it right to let you know of the reception worked on me after ordering ttoo ounces bottles of SANDER'S EUCALYPTI, Bendigo. We received to-day two bottle of EUCALYPTUS, and the enclosed wrapper around the bottle. Back they will go like a shot. I have been using your Extract myself and family, and giving It to my friends, for over forty years, and none other will suit me. I well remember mv good old mother saying that she would end her days cheerfully by going round praising and advertising your Extract, for slio herself had derived so much benefit by using it. I have lived to re-echo her words, and I will not stand by, knowing the real alue of your Extract, and submit to this. I am determined to obtain the genuine Article.—Yours faithfully. THOS. HOLDERNESS, Dapnil, Q. 26th March, 1900." SANDERS' EUCAT.YPTT EXTRACT possesses curative properties not possessed by anv other Eucalyptus. It cures when others irritate.

Ladies, this will interest von. Cooper (mil Co., ladies' tailors, are making ft disnl'ov tit New PlVmouUi of new materials ami stvles. the latent in coats and skirts. The date will be announced later on.—Advt.