LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 40, 27 May 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Four nurses at the Wellington 11 o>.pital are at present ill wiiii scarlet, iever.

Visitors to tlie public reading room at the Carnegie Library are once mure reminded that the newspapers are meant for reading, not for cutting. The Good Templars' Kair was brought to a successful conclusion last irgn:. The Garrison Band verv generously played a short programme out>ido :!te building. after having marched; playing, from the centre of the town.

The Mayor intends calling a puMi' meeting for Wednesday night to the tramway proposals. This is not a statutory meeting, but a meeting to give his Worship an idea of how the idea ha commended itself to the ratepayer-. He is "feeling the pulse,'' so to speak, are his fut<tat' actions in regard to the tramway Mfccnie will be based to no in.-on-sideraible extent upon the enthusiasm or otherwise of this meeting. ,

The annual meeting of the Xew Zealand Jersey Breeders' Association will be held this year at Xew Plymouth, and is to take place in the Town Hull oil duly 13. A paper is to be read on "The Jersey as a dairy cow in Xew Zealand." It is expected that, this will be the largest meeting of Jersey breeders »et held in the Dominion. Arrangements will probably be made for the visiting breeder-,' to be entertained by the local members o? tlie Association.

Thus the Utiku correspondent of the Wanga nui Chronicle: —"The F.gmont Box Company are about to re.noee their headquarters from Eltham to here; also their factory for the manufacture of butter-boxes and checM crates. The site for the laelory is being cleared, a"d active preparations are in progress for the erection i.t the plant, construction of tramways, etc. This new industry will give » lillip to the town, which his been verv |UNt for some considerable time.''

The Eliot road loan, originally sought to be raised by the Eliot lioad Hoard, and since subjected to various rebuffs at 'the 'hands of the Treasury, is now likely to be definitely fixed up and the money made available. The Inaa works were proceeded with in advance and paid for out of tbe general account. Tbe Treasury has now written that no exception will be taken to the. increase'l rate (a farthing; in the pound) to provide interest on the loan of £IOOO. L'nder the new State Guaranteed Advances Act. the rate of 5-32 d originally pledged would only s'ecure £0!)!). In the Police Court yesterday morning. before Mr. 11. F. Rus'sell. J.P., John Mitchell was fined ">s and costs (7s) for a breach of tbe borough by-laws in riding a bicycle on the footpath in Mine street. The defendant did not appear. The Truant Inspector (Mr. A. Hooker) had one case out of a number of informations, the rest not having been served. Fred Martin, of Hillsborough, was 'charged with not sending his child regularly to school. The inspector said that this pupil was reported to be frequently ill, and the father had not eonwlvd 'with the Act by procuring exemption certificates. Fined 2s and 7s costs.

Mr. Roosevelt, at Khartoum, made the following statements: —"I wish I could make everv member of a Christian church realise that as far as he spends his time quarrelling with other sects he is discrediting Christianity in the eves of the world. This applies equanv to quarrels with fellow citizens of otlier creeds. Courage is the first of virtue-'. A good man afraid is a handicap to all who are striving for what is best. Avoid a quarrel whenever you can, but wake it evident tint the other man wants to avoid quarrelling with you. I am now fifty and over. Imt if I felt I had stopped learning an.l trying to better mv usefulness would pretty nearly be -done." An amusing incident occurred yesterday afternoon in the Recreation 'Grounds. A couple of ladies, evidently visitors to the town, were much interested in the swans and ducks, and seemed to think the interest was mutual. Whilst they were addressing a lot of baby talk to the denizens of the 'big lake a couple of small boys appeared on the scene, with ?. twinkle in their eyes and a little bag of biscuits. The first scraps had hardly reached the water before the ladies were left without any feathered audience at all. Nor could they secure fhe attention of a single bird so litig as the boys and th.c biscuits remained. The circumstances of the case of a tophoi.l carrier, which goes to -how th ■ remarkable length of time it is possible for a .human being to carry around the active germs of typhoid, and from time to time infect others, is related in the British Medical Journal of a recent date. The typhoid carrier in this instance was a woman lodging-house-keeper Manchester, who in 18.0.3 >uli'ered from what was then suppo-cd to be influenza and, pneumonia, but which there is little doubt was enteric fever. Between IS'.iS and September. 10(18. seven cases of typ'hoid, some of which proved fatal, were positively traced to her. In November of last year her blood was examined, and was found to contain tynhoid bacilli. The case, which .is abundantly authenticated, is of great value to medical men. A cable received r.i Australia ! ast week stated that the Rev. A. C. Jeffries, father of ex-world's champion .lim Jeffries, made some interesting remarks in the course of an interview at 1.-os Angeles regarding the efforts that are being made to have the fight wii:i .Tack] Johnson called off. He declared himself entirely sympathetic towards the action I that was being made bv certain sections of the community to stop the tight, and added: "Jim hates this hypocrisy, an! 1 'hope to see him knock out all the liars on July 4 next. They can take away the money, and leave only the glory for him." Johnson, who has been indulging in light, training exercises for several months, will begin .serious won; at once. The colored champion declares that lie can reach the prime condition notch in three wecfo.

''Everyone who witnesses the cremation process conies awny a linn believer ill it," said one of Woiliagton's leading undertakers to a. Dominion reporter. "They go there not knowing what it in like, with .prejudices against it—they do not know way—and when they see how it is done—how clean and beautiful, how expedition-? and sanitary is the process —their ideas become ([iiite changed." 1 The reporter made further enquiries. It was ascertained that up to the present there had been eight incinerations at the Karori Crematorium—two within the last week. Niches are beinss arranged for in the church for the reception of little caskets containing the ashes, of the departed, at the will, of-course, i of the relatives. These caskets, now being made to order by the undertakers.' are made of the rarer woods, a-bout Sin square, and are surmounted with a silver .plate (inscribed if desired), with the j name of Die deceased and the date of the cremation. The undertaker pointed out that in such cases where the remains of a person were desired to be transported from one country to another, the claims of cremation must Be recognised.

The Wellington-San Francisco mail despatch of April 21 arrived in London on tlie ~">th inst. A Manuia fanner was fined £5, with <o>ts ,)S, for leaving stock in the saleyards from Tuesday until Friday without fusteuancc. The police prosecuted. The dismantling of Messrs. Xolan and C'o.'s buildings on the property recently acquired by the Itorough Council for the extension of St. Aubvn -treet is now proceeding. ine c< muaetors are making gi'oil progress with the construction of the bridge over the lluatoki at the end of (.'ill-street to connect with St. Aubynstreet. One of the line maxims of the Boy Scouts organisation is to the effect that its members >hould not allow a day to pass without doing at least one good act for someliody else. A local resident who unfortunately lias lost a leg was yesterday surprised and pleased to find that the Boy Scouts' good act for the day consisted in bringing a good load of firewood to his premises. The Whitelev Debating Society held a most successful meeting last night. Mr. \\. Anibury presiding. The sujijeet for debate was. "Which has the greater inlluence, heredity or environment?" Mr. Osborne opened in support of heredity, and Mr. M. Rudd took up the unlgels for environment. Mr. Taunt was the second .speaker on behalf of heredity, and .Ml'. W. Lewis on the otiler -ide. Other speakers were the Rev. J. G. Chapman and Messrs. W. and It. Anibury. The speeches contained a good deai of matter, and gave an indication that the speakers had devoted a good ileal of time and close attention to study of the subject. A vote was taken, and rci-ulted in a tie.

Amongst tlio many useful work-; th;il go mi uuietlv in tin l borough, 110 one questioning and 110 one praising. is the levelling up of Fulford-street from l)aw-son-strcet to Morley-street, emerging near the Western Park gates. A liiy gully behind .Mr. Morev's property lnis been used as a rubbish tip fori some time, and the rubbish covered witn clav. First, of eonrse, tlie small stream at the bottom of the gully was culverted, and sufficient easement obtained trt allow of tbe batter from a full-width street running on to adjoining properties. A dip near Morley-street. has also to be tilled up. When this section of Fui ford-street, has been completed it will w> doubt be used a ;»ood deal by patrons of the various sports at Western I'ark hailing from the east end of the town.