LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 43, 31 May 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Daily News will lie jiuii'is-ivl as usual on Friday (King's Birthday). Major Young, Government Veterinarian, will be at Olcato all day on Wednesday, and may ibe consulted by fanners. In, the S.M. Court yesterday moniini' -before M..T, G. Beid, S.M., a man named 1 nomas Brown was fined os and costs •for drunkenness. Mr. C. S. Rennell, secretary to the Harbor Board, has received an intima- ' tion from Mr. F. W. Merchant, its consulting engineer, that the Board's new dredge Pari tutu arrived at Port Said on April 15. She will next be reported from Iremantle. At a meeting of the Employers' Association .yesterday afternoon it was decided to recommend business people to observe Friday, the King's Birthday as a holiday, and not "Thursday.''the Sovereign's Birthday, it was pointed out, 'being a public holiday by statute. When it was known that the Bank >/ Xew South Wales would open daily in Jvaiponga. at t'he meeting held on '.Fn-i day in connection with this matter, Mr. Swadling remarked that it was anmrier advance for Kaponga, and he hoped I ho next would be the railway train whistle. '"Some people sniggered at the* idea," he said, ''but he reckoned it was com;?!'* : —Star. Yesterday afternoon, just as the Transport Company's mail coach was starting from the garage in King street, the petrol tank became ignited.. A dan-gerous-looiking sheet of (lame immediately shot up. and was with some difficulty subdued. The driver, Bert Jackson, got some of the burning stuff on his hands and arms, and his left arm was very hadlv burned. The mails had to be sent out in another motor-car, as in smothering the flames the engine became choked with sawdust and temporarily disabled. [ Jackson was attended to at Messrs. I Teed and Co.'s. and then by Dr. Fookes, who seat him to the hospital. T'he tarring in Devon street has not been an unqualified success, and the centre of the road can be classed as a failure, seeing that on Saturday afternoon the borough workmen were enwed in removing the admixture of tar" and mud from the centre of the street where it made an ugly mess. The street-corner engineers are now busily explaining where the method of application was wrong, and 1 there are various sets of advice available "free gratis and for nothing" to the borough engineering staff when next he walks abroad. At bedrock, 110 doubt, it will be found that the ■weather and the heavy traffic are the cause. W.C.T.U.—The postponed meeting will be held to-morrow Juno Ist, at 3 p.m.. at the Baptist Church.

It is reported tintt several large hold-' ings in tne Whi'ituakura district, near Patea, are to !ie out up shortly into sinai 1 dairy farms. | Amongst the liarawa's cargo outwards were five racelmr.-es (for the Great ' Northern -Meeting). :> horses and 400 boxes butter. I: (At last night's meeting of the J\gricultural ociety it was intimated that the' Wanganui A. and I'. Society would hold its spring show, on November hi and 17. It was considered that Maweya would probably decide t.o hold its show onj November 23 and 24. and the local Society accordingly fixed oa Wednesday,'. November ;ll), and Thursday, January 1, as suitable dates for the New Plymouth. show. I The arrangements in connection with' l the New Plymouth Winter Show are) progressing satisfactorily. The commit.-!-tee's appeal for donations has met with! a very gratifying response. Spii-niiid en-' ( tries' have been received, especially in 1 the dairy produce, home industries, cook- 1 : ery and technical classes. All the I available space under the roof, and most,: of that under canvas has been applied' for. All that is now required to ensure: its complete success is a liberal patronage by the general public on show] days'. The committee are arranging for; excursion fares ami delayed trains, full J particulars of which will tbe published: in the News shortly. I It is stated that one ironmonger in ! Palmerston sold so many revolvers and guns when the l'owelka scare was on I ■that lie is talking of retiring in September. l'owelka lias not lived in vain. That conscience which is said to make cowards of us all has made a nrave man of at least one member of the community. The Rev. Father O'Connell has, on behalf of a member oi t»e Roman Catholic Church, Handed to the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company a cnequo for £350 —conscience money. Any insurance manager can testify that on many occasions money has had to be paid out under circumstances which are known to be o? a doubtful character, but it is seldom indeed that such an act of restitutio:! is recorded as the one under notice. —Dominion. The Auckland Observer says that the Jocal Herald was badly hoaxed by certain labor men into positively declaring t'hat negotiations were 'afoot for a coalition betwen the Massevite reactionaries and the Labor Party. Some time ago a Herald reporter disguised as a laborer, . went to a Trades and Labor Council I meeting in Auckland and "'wrote up" a report of the meeting. This action was very much resented at the time. In revenge a Herald reporter was ■'buttonholed" and shown certain telegrams purporting to eoine from the Opposition and suggesting coalition. ''Grandma grabbed them eagerly." says the Observer, "and spread herself in much copy over them, while the wicked laborites chuckled in their sleeves and chortled over the sweetness of revenge.'' And that is how political history is made! Kelsa Bay was the scene of a stirring incident recently (says an Australian paper). Mr. B. C. Bird, the purser of the Wakatipu, having decided to nave a swim, divested himself of his clothing and went overboard. After splashing and rolling iff the water for some time he was startled by a shout from the second engineer, who had teen watching him from the deck. Unnoticed by him, a large octopus had approached, and he was nwit aware of the danger un«! it was almost too late. Help, however, was at hand, and the ship's boat, manned by the officers afnd third engineer, was soon speeding to his assistance. With considerable difficulty he was hauled into the boat, almost exhausted. Attention was then given to the octopus, which still had the temerity to remain. After 'a struggle, in whiefi. two boathooks were repeatedly driven into that formidable opponent, it was at leni'th captured and pulled into the boat. It ! wa>- a fearsome creature, and with its I luwc .'larrot-like beak and ,far-reacliing tentacles was enough to inspire fear into ' the bravest.

Two well-known Waitotara men, in the. persons of Messrs (i. Currie and <>'. McGregor, had a dangerous and thrilling experience on Thursday night (says the Waverley correspondent of the ram Press). Some time ago Mr. Mcffrcgor sent his canoe to a Mr. Stewart, en»iI near, at Wangt.nui, for some repairs to I the engine. On Thursday Messrs Cinrie and Mc(iregor went to Wanganui for | the purpose of coming back in the cnnoe 1 with the engineer. Instead of commencing as arranged at "2.30 p.m. from Wanganui, thev were delayed until 4.30. A ' good .passage was experienced, though l the sea was gradually roughening. It I was !) o'clock' and pitch dark when ?»<? party reached the Waitotara heads. Here I it was considered too dark and dangeri ous to ri?k finding the river's mouth, so the canoe's head was turned for Wangainii -again. The Wanganui bar was reached at about 11.30 p.m., but just as the | bar was about, safely negotiated the engine 'broke down. The canoe rapidly drifted out to sea, driven by tide arm wind. Anxious work at the engine followed, for the land was rapidly disappearing. Brains and work went for nothing. Farther and farther the little canoe drifted from safety. Big seas continuallv washed over them, choking up the exhaust pipe and destroying the benzine. All seemed hopeless and the occupants of the boat shook hands as a last farewell to one another. At the height of despair the engine commenced to work again and another attempt was made to reach one of the Home boats. Within two hundred yards of the ocean liner the engine again stopped, and hns not again been got to work. By good steering and hard work the Home boat was made, the occupants of the canoe 'being taken aboard in a exhausted condition. Khortlv afterwards one o? the CastleclifT lighters, towing the canoe, carried them to Wangnnui at 2.50 on Friday morning. A WOMAN'S OOKFTDEXCE AND A filth AT SALE. To win a woman's patronage at the cost of ,her confidence is not the policy of "Tile-Melbourne." Everv bargain advertised in the great Rebuilding Sale is exactly as represented. Tt would he folly for it to be otherwise. The great object in holding this sale is to reduce stocks as rapidly as possible, in onler to make room for the builders. All the stock has boon marked down, and the prices quoted show savings so genuine and apparent that you will be convinced that we intend to solve this stock-re-ducing problem in a quick and efficient manner. There's no room for a single thought of the ordinary buying and selling methods in this situation—it's purely a matter of making room for the builders in a restricted space of time, and it has got to lie done. We will do it by vigorous and effective price-cutting. We're certainly enthusiastic about this sale. It not only means record-breaking prices, but it means the widening of our value-giving reputation in an unforget-' able manner. And that is what we continually keep m mind when we inaugurate a sale like the one now under way. Send vour order for printincr to the "Daily News" Printery. Prices right and satisfaction guaranteed. For Onc.dren's Haekin" Cong)' at night.. Woods" Great Peppermint 'Jrre, 1/G, 2/6