LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 64, 24 June 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Recreation Sports Ground Committee wish to acknowledge anonymous donations of £5 and £l, and 10s from Wallath Bros. f A severe epidemic of influenza amongst horses is at present prevalent in different districts of Taranaki. Several animals have snccumbed to the complaint in the southern end of the province.. Mr. Woolcott, a veteran fire brigade worker, dropped in to the East End fire station the other day, and he told the gathering at the Fire Brigade dinner on Tuesday night that this was the bestkept station he had ever seen. Fireman Geo. Lambert is the man in charge, and visitors to the station will endorse Mr. Woolcott's opinion. At the Police Court yesterday morning Mr. J. W. Boon, J.P., heard a charge of breaeh of the borough by-laws and one of breach of the School Attendance 'AH. Th the former the borough inspector charged W. H. Broome with cycling at night without a light, and a fine of 5s and 7s costs was inflicted. William > Jenkin, of Bell Block, was fined 2s for not sending his child regularly to school.

Some of the worst places on the very slippery paths in the Recreation Grounds are being covered thinly with ashes, to ■give a foothold. The east road between Poliokura and Whangamomona is in a shockingly nad condition at .present, owing to the heavy traffic of the Public Works Department. It is simply a stream of mud. The mails are .being packed in, vehicular traffic being practically out of the question. A remarkable occurrence is reposted from Pukerau (says the Mataura Ensign). A baby girl, which was born there at the beginning of this month, is stated to have a distinct pourtrnya] of the comet on the left breast. At birth the mark developed in the form of a •white scar, hut it has now assumed a bright red hue. It is asserted that the child's mother took no particular interest in the comet.

The secertary of the Taranaki Poultry Society informs us that he has now ninety-six special prizes for the forthcoming show to :be held next montn. and he is anxious to make the specials number lOf). 'ln a conversation, Mr. Hobbs said he wants three silver medals and twelve shillings in money for the woodwork class of the Technical School. The first prize in each class is to be a silver medal, and the cooking classes require second prizes of eighteenpence each in eight classes. We hope residents will make a note of this and provide the secretary with what he wants. There is no entrance fee for children, all entries being admitted entirely free.

The earthwork in connection with the West End Bowling Club is now nearly done, and the fence is nearly completed all round. The shed is now in .position, and the .pavilion is about to be erected. The boxing is being done, and given fine weather for a day or two, it will .be completed. The committee meet this evening to go into the question of finance, and it is hoped that every member of the committee will attend. A circular letter has been sent to every member of the club, and the secretary hopes replies will 'be sent before to-night's meeting. The question of turfing will form the .principal topic of discussion this evening, as the time for turfing the green is now close at hand.

In reference to a recent paragraph setting out that a deputation of settlers had complained about the bad state of the Te Arei road at Lepperton, we have since instituted enquiries. It is discovered that Mr. J. Montefiore, the contractor using the road, has an agreement with' the Board .under which he is bound to 'keep the road in repair and to leave it as he found it. Mr. Montefiore has already put 350 yards of metal on the section of road he had used, and at the moment has 300 yards of metal readv to effect repairs as ?oon as the weather favors. Mr. .Montefiore liolds that the state of the road is a matter between the Board and himself, and mentions that at the May meeting a resolution complimenting him for hjs attention to the terms of his agreement was passed.

Both Italy and Switzerland are fortifying the entrances of the Simplon tunnel, while in the tunnel itself engineers are engaged in constructing mines and strengthening those already in place, in order to Mow up the 'tunnel at a moment's notice in the event of war. Near I the mill lie of the tunnel, a few yards •from the Swiss frontier, Italian ensjii neers lwve put in place a double iron ' door, which can resist the rush of an express train, travelling sixty miles an hour. This iron door is worked by electricity from Iselle, the station at the •Italian end of the tunnel, and under ordinary conditions it is bidden in the rocky side of the tunnel. The door is carefully tested once a week. The mines are connected with Briggue and Tselle •by electricity also, and by simply pressing a ibutton the Simplon tunnel would be destroyed in a second. Writing on April 15 the London correspondent of the Lyttelton Times says: l There was an interesting little ceremony at Putney this week, when the Hon. Edward C. B. Cadogrtn, in the presence of a number of rowing men. christened the boat ilmilt by Messrs Sims in which -Ernest' Barry will, in all probability, scull his race for the world's championship with Arnst on the Zambesi. Twentv minutes later the beautiful new boat was a wreck, and Barry wading ashore. Among those present were Mr. R. C. ■Lehmann. the two sons of Mr. Spencer Gollan, Mr. Guy Nickalls, Mr. H. T. Blackstaffe, and Mr. Tom Sullivan. Immediately afterwards Barry went on board her, and, accompanied by a triple sculler, rowed away to Hammersmith. Just as Bairy had finished his row against the tide, and was turning round to scul back to the Vesta Club, be unfortunately came into collision with the. treble sculler. A large hole was made in Barry's boat, which filled at once. Barrv had considerable difficulty in setting to the side of the. river to save it from sinkim?. The rent in the new boat was a. serious one. but it is being repaired, and will, it is said, be as good as ever. Rowing men of a superstitious turn of mind regard the accident as a bad omen, and point out that the boat was launched on the thirteenth of the month. ]

The constitution of the New* Zealand Parliament was under review at the Fir" Brigade dinner the other night. Mr. Tisch referred to the'popular 'franchise, nnd teethe fact that the people had at the last election returned so manv New Zealanders to the House nf Representatives. The Hon. 0. Samuel, in Hie course of hi> remarks, showed that Ml" Legislative Council was also the elect of "the (people. The people elected the House of Representatives: the Cabinet was taken from the M.P.'s ranks; and Cabinet appointed the Legislative Councillors, the Judges, the High Commissioner, end so on. He defended the existence of the revising Chamber, and mvoted an instance of its usefulness. The Council had, in the last hours of the session, detected in an amendment of the Public Works Bill a clause to prevent, the owner from selling anv land abutting on-a street, of less than 60 feet in width. The original 'provision was the prohibition of subdividing such land, not selling it. Had this not be detected it would have become illegal for the bulk of the .people in this district to sell aH inch of propertv. -All M.P.'s, he said, mentally thanked God that there was a revising Chamber, but thev were not fond of uttering their gratitude when addressing their constituents. It was .practicallv an impossibility for a member of the Lower House to carefully watch and scrutinise every piece of leeislatioa, and at the same time to watch the interests of his constituents and attend to the requirements. The M.L.C. had no such distractions, and could concentrate on revision of the proposed legislation.

Let us whisper a hint in your ear. If you have all the clothing and hats and half-hose that you can possibly use, you've a good excuse for not bein? interested in The Kash. If you haven't—you haven't. And our hint to you is to ro there as quickly as you can and get that winter overcoat at 355. You could also possibly do with some of our men' woollen sox, three pairs for 2s fid. Any how, well be pleased to see you eve ) if von don't buy. But you'll find you can't help yourself when you see.;on values and prices.—THE KASH.—Advt.

The New Plymoutth Liedertafel is to hokl a smoke concert in about a month's time, open to members and their friends, by invitation.

It is understood that the New Zea« land Shipping Company's claim of £103,' 087 against the Auckland Harbor Board has been referred to the .parties interested in England, and that meanwhile .proceedings in New Zealand have ijeea suspended. "If mothers •persist in giving 'dummies' to their babies we shall have in a few generations a .people of parrot jaws, because the greatest objection to the use of 'dummies' is that they tend to deformity of the upper part of the mouth/' said Dr. Bedford at the annual meeting of the Society for the Health of Women and Children at Auckland.

One hears a good deal about the failure of the mountain metal scheme, hut it has evidently proved a boon and a blessing to the Stratford and Whanga districts. Mr. Marchant, at the Te Wera banquet, cited an instance in point. A piece of road, 2Vi miles in length, had been repaired lately at a cost only onehalf of what it otherwise would have been. He took occasion of the presence of a Cabinet Minister to thank the Government for supplying the district with metal at a reasonable rate.

To my mind (says a Southern writer) the Chinaman is one of the enigmas of the world. Born serf and gambler, he starts toiling with the first streak Of dawn, and leaves off toiling at night, to take to his leaden slab and dingy lamp till dawn again. A few handfuls of rice, a few hours of sleep stolen somewhere in the dark recesses of the den, are all he gets for his pains. The Britisher goes on strike, the Russian devises bombs and plots, but the Chinaman starts hoeing the row at dawn as complacently as ever. This wild melee is his recreation.

A sensation has been created in the United States 'by the discovery that Mr. Edwin Brown, a Denver millionaire, has been amusing himself by malting a tour of the principal Pacific Coast cities dressed as a tramp, in order to see whether the "submerged tenth" ever received any human sympathy. He ipassed through Chicago and was asked about his experiences. He replied: "I found a country of condemned human suffering, where the churches are as idle as a painted picture, and where charity associations seek to avoid giving wherever possible rather than help." Mr. Brown was many times arrested as a vagrant.

When the Hon. T. Mackenzie was in Cheviot recently, he came across a man whom he had previously known in the Clutha as a ploughman. He asked his quondam friend how |ie was faring, and ascertained that he was now, thanks to . the assistance rendered by the Government, the possessor of three farms. He also ascertained that he was a deadly opponent of the Government. He asked him the reason. "Well," he said, "when I first started, the Government actually ( had the cheek to make us pay our rent. Since then, I've always been agin theml" Mr. Mackenzie related the particulars at Te Wera.

The Auckland Herald published recently some remarkable figures giving the total weight and the number of fish caught by two anglers in the Rotorua and Taupo districts during the past sea* son. In one case the take amounted to 1591, trout, weighing 4 tons 14cwt. and 871b, and jn the other to 431 trout, weighing 1 ton 7cwt and Bolb. These two fishermen thus caught between them 6 tons 2cwt and 601b of fish, which if it does not constitute a record catch has, we should imagine, rarely been equalled. The figures serve to demonstrate the extraordinary abundance of fish in the lakes and streams of the thermal district.

Messrs. J. D. and A. Mitehell left Hawera on Wednsday wih. a consign- , nient of valuable stock for the Mel; bourne horse fab-, which is held during J July month. The lot comprised twelve I mares, four geldings and six stallions, 1 and made up one of the best lines that i has been taken from this district. It is I regrettable in a way that animals of j such quality should be leaving the dbI trict, particularly so in reference to the I draught mares, as & continuance of this export trade means to some extent the J impoverishment of our fine coastal . studs. Mr. J. D. Mitchell intends to exI hibit some of ithe stock taken over at the Melbourne show.—Star. j In the June issue of the Australasian Review of Reviews, the editor (Mr. W. ! H. Judkins) makes the following comI ments on the financial position or the I Dominion as outlined by Sir Joseph Ward:—"This is an exceedingly satisfactory result, and ought to silence any I critics who imagine that New Zealand is l not going to recuperate. To anyone who | has lived in New Zealand, even for a i hort time, continuous croakings always appear nonsensically superfluous. The j resources of the country are so great, ' and the quality of its people so excelI lent, that any depression that exist* must be of a very temporary character. | The type of man and woman who is being evolved under such fine social and moral conditions as exist in New Zealand is inevitably going to turn its course towards an unsurpassed and enduring ! prosperity in the' near futre." I Pioneers, Empire • bridging men, settlers defiant to all the threats and terrors of a new uncultured country—such as have laid the foundation of a colony in the American backwoods, the Australian ridges, and our own dominion i outposts, are pushing their, way in Northern Rhodesia. Miss Mary Hall, traveller, visited some on her trip across equatorial Africa, man and wife building a home hundreds of miles beyond the j confines of civilisation. These were ti» first settlers in Northern Rhodesia, and they were not attached, as so many are, to the Government, or to the mission. Fighting their own way, growing crops ! of cotton, rubber and corn, they also bred large herds of cattle. And where was the market? As in the North-west hinterlands of the Eastern States of Australia, the market is a long distance away. It is at Salisbury, a full WW miles distant, but to this town come the herds on their long trek. BE WAKE > "To MESSRS SANDER and Dear Sirs,—l just think it right to let you know of the reception worked <m me after ordering two ounces bottle*.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 mvself and family, and giving It to my friends, for over forty years,' and none other will suit me. -I well remember my good old mother saying that she would end her days cheerfully hy going round praising and advertising your Extract, for she herself had derived '. so much benefit by using it. I have lived, to re-echo her words, and I, will iot' stand by, knowing the real'' slue of your Extract, and submit to this. lam determined to obtain the genuine article.—Yours faithfully. THOS. HOLD**. ERNF.RS. Dapnil. Q. 26th Msreh, 19095 SANDERS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT • nossesses curative properties not pomes*. erf by nnv of Jipi- Eucalyptus. It COM* | when others irritate. ' , ..„* ■$