LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 396, 23 May 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph! ic Ward) has received a telegram stating ig that there is no cause for anxiety in ie regard to the bubonic plague outbreak in Auckland. . The Mayor has received a telegram 1 from His Excellency the Governor" approving of the arrangements to meet of him at the railway station and to hold lg civic reception this evening. But His Excellency prefers to dine privately, and the dinner .with the Mayor and borough it councillors has been cancelled. P" The Good Templar Fancy Fair takes t, place on Wednesday and Thursday of !t this week. Everything points to a\siter_ cessful sale. Owing to the postponement many more things have been sent in for e " si'le. including a bicycle, sewing is machine (new), furniture, musical inin stnuments, carved tables, china and i;las-* jj ware, besides an enormous quantity of useful and fancy work. It is generally understood in Grey- • mouth (says the correspondent of the [ " Dominion) that Mr. J. H. Henry, editor : )f of the Petroleum World, and an author- : x ity on oil fields, will visit Kotuku (lis- * ' _Strict at an early date, but I learn that , ilong before Mr. Henry can reach this '■ tfpart of the Dominion, operations will < :e have been commenced at Kotuku on a e considerably larger scale than are bet- ] m S performed at present. < e Members of the Equitablo Buildinp ] Society of New Plymouth (First and '' Second Groups) are notified that sube Bcrintions will be due and payable to- I' d day (Monday), at the Secretary Office,! 1 a Currie-street, from 9 a.m. to 12.30, from I I n.m. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 9 D.m '" Advt.

During the past week a mob of 50(1 goats was taken from Clifton Station, Hawke's Bay, to Palmersion, en rwute for the Taranaki district, where ;t is »tated they will be used in the destruction of weeds and undergrowth. The adjourned meeting of the Borough Council, which was to have been held ■to-night, has been further adjourned until to-morrow evening on account of the civic reception of His Excellency the Governor taking place this evening. Three Hawera bakers were fined sums of 10s and 20s and costs on various charges of having sold bread that was underweight without informing purchasers of the actual weight of each loaf at time of sale, in the Magistrate's Court on Thursday. We are in receipt of a copv of the June number of -Life," which' is -probably the most interesting yet published. The editor gives a comprehensive account of the extraordinary political situation in Great Britain, and sums up the political situation in Australasia for the man in the .street in a clear and forcime manner. Dr. Fitchett continues his vivid series of articles on Australian exploration. Among other interesting articles ■are: "How to enrich Australia,'' "Th.' Birth) of the Telephone," and '•Csvtehreir Wild Animals for the Zoo." The magazine is also rich in many departments reflecting current affairs." In our issue of Saturday last we made mention of the exceptionally high prices ruling in Wellington at the'present time for fresh-laid egigs. On Saturday at Messrs. Webster Bros.' mart prices for good forward pullets seemed to be in sympathy. The firm had every pen filled I with poultry of all classes, and some exceptionally high prices were realised. Bullets made from 3s Od to Gs; a nice trio of White Leghorns were sold for 18s; laying ducks brought 3s 7d apiece, and a purebred Black Orpington cockerel changed hands at l-2s 6d. High as these prices seem, the pullets and ducks should soon return their new owners the price of their outlay. This only goes to prove that poultry-farming in this district on good and proper lines can be made a valuable adjunct to the farmer's source of revenue. The sagacity of a dog iwaa responsible for the saving of 'the life of a two and a-half year old child in the Tariilheru river, Gisborne, last week, says the Poverty Bay Herald'. When steaming down stream, the attention of the crew ol Messrs Nelson Bros.' steamer Hipi was directed by tihe engineer, Mr. McGregor to the exhausted' state of a. dog in the mnvd close to a jetty near Mr. W. A Barton's residence. Upon a closer ex arniination of the object being made bj Mr. Fitzmoriiee, tiw, man on tihe barg< following, it was ascertained a child h the iwtater was the cause of the dog'i dismay. The attention of several peoph was at once called to the child's prediea merit, and it was rescued without de lay. The child is stated' to have been ii] to its neck in water, and with the risinj tide would certainly have lost its life. Keen interest is being taken in th proposal to form an amateur operati society in this town, and already quite ; large number of enthusiasts hia.ve signi | fled their intention of becoming mem bers, and further intending members ar constantly being enlisted. So well is th J proposal being received that it is be I lieved the society about to be forme will be the strongest musical concern oi i ganised here for some years. Many o | the leading townspeople are supportin the movement. A public meeting is ad vertised to take place in the Counei Chambers on Wednesday next to appoin various officers and committee and thoi . oughly organise the society on a soum ibasisL Mr. Okey, M.P., has kindly con sented to preside over the meeting. Mi Cornwall considers that there is quite i lot of, good material in this town, an< with good management and a generou public support the society should becom both a musical and financial success. Picton's Promotion Society is active an flourishing. A few months ago enthusi astic resident of Picton decided to niak New Zealand well aware of Picton's ex istence and its interesting connectio; with tihe foundation of New Zealanr There was a public meeting, and a man; festo reminding the wide world tha henceforth Picfcon should not oe >ovei looked in any itinerary of these islands : The friends of progress have now a goo rallying point; it is at Ship Cove, Qiiee Charlotte Sound, where it is propose' to set up a monument to the great navi ■gator who hoisted the British flag tihcr on 31st January, 1770. In referring t this proposal in the past, we (Wellingto Post) have raised the question of th advisablenesa of a national memorial oa site near one of the i\ew Zealand higli ways by land or water, some place mor in the world's eye that Ship Cove, bu we do not at all wish to discount Mi efforts of Picton to enlist the sympath; ,of all New Zealanuers. They deserv success for their indomitable persistence They have secured the aid of Mr. E . McNab, who 'has promised to give lee •hires up and down New Zealand on be half of the fund. It is very pleasing very refreshing, to see Picton so mucl jin earnest in this matter. It is good i stimulating, to see people bestirring j themselves for their district in thins; I that are not utilitarian. Picton has foi lowed the example of many Amcricai towtns and cities, in which a few ener getic men have' created a permancu betterment fervor. It is ardently hope< •that the Fiction infection will spread. Some well-meaning members of the Bri tish Parliament a few days ago sent t protest to the Russian Duma agains the complete absorption of Finland ii the Russian Empire, and the consequeu sweeping away of the Finnish Pariia ment, with all other peculiarly Finnisl privileges. Now some members of tin German Reichstag have sent the Duma i similar protest. Of course, the Dunu was bound to reply that this was at •unwarrantable interference from outsidi with Russia's domestic concerns. Th< Duma might have added with equa truth that Russia was doing only what Britain and Germany themselves na-vi done. Britain took the Transvaal ami Orangia from the Boers, a'bollslied men Governments, and set up new Govern ments under British rule, because t'li< Boers refused to give votes to anyom but Boer citizens'. Germany swept al the old institutions out of German Po land and Alsace-Lorrainp, even forbadi the inhabitants thereof to speak theii native languages, and completely Ger manised those provinces. Wherefore il is rather hard to follow the particulai line of argument /which would stop Rus sia from doii»g even as Britain and Germane! did. Somehow -human nature is prone to display much hypocrisy when viewing its nei'sjlibor's actions. It is n< doubt sad to think of Finland getting completedly into the hug of the bear, But the lion which got his claws upon the Transvaal and Orangia. and the eagle which fastened his beak into Poland and Alsace-Lorraine, don't seem exactly the right parties to reprove Bruin jor meddle wiit-h his domestic arrange- ' ments. They ought to get the beams out of their own eves fir=t.—Wanganui Herald tFor Chronic Chest Complaints. Woods' dreat Peppermint Cure, 1/fl, 2/fi

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Lord Avebuiry, writing ior the. New York Times recently, remarked:— "Though not 80, I aim older than any railway company in the world, any gaa company, any steamboat company, any telegraph, any telephone or electric light company." "One need only ponder them I words," .#ays the World's Work, "and pondering is required' before it ia pofrsime to realise ttot they can be true, to .net a sense of the (world' of yesterday. No electrio li?M, no telephone—any man of 40 can remember that he lived in that world, 'but nobody can rememJ>er what it was like. Fifty years ago, ull Africa, except its coast, .was a blank on the map; Asia mis a dwelling-place of my»tory; Japan was unborn; United Italy had no existence, and the German Empire was still a dream. Transportation wa< primitive; business was done on tile hi sis of the coumtry store; the feats of modem engineering was unuttempted; electricity was an interesting topic; ma- , hinory tod only begun its revolutionising services." Mr J. H. A. Pike, the young wirelesstelegraph expent, of Sydney, 'has just eclipsed all his previoua achievements, by taking messages from Fremantle, a distance of considerably over '2OOO miles. He distinctly heard a conversation carried on between ILM.S. Encounter, in ]>ort at KrcmcuitFe, across the Great Australian Bight, on luer way from Hobart to tihe Western Australian port. The Encounter ( Iwihich wis .recently recommissioned at Colombo for another term on the Australian station, arrived at Fremantle last week, maid is awaiting the arrival of the flagship and the ships that are accompanying her. The feat ■accomplished Iby Mr. Pike (says the .Sydney Morning Heimild) is all the more remarkable by reason of the fact that the waves travelled over a large area of land, t'hais rendering the work of detecting messages march more difficult than wouldi teve 'i>ecn the case had the wireless communications been received direct from sea. Recently Mr. Pike succeeded in keeping in toudli with the CanadianAustralian snail liner Makuna all the way from Sydney to Suvia, and received a number of messages.