LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 94, 29 July 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

mm Two patrols of Boy Scouts are likely to be formed in Inglewood. Mr. Newton King advises us that his, 1 farm manager, Mr. James, arrived in Wellington yesterday afternoon by the s.s. Mokoia with a shipment of Holsiteim cattle in splendid health and condition. The Rev. S. Bailey continued hie addresses last evening in the Queen street church. The rev. gentleman gave a most impressive exposition of scripture. Tonight will be the final meeting. A Biblereading will be given this afternoon. A statement recently published in southern papers to the effect that over 100 weasels were seen marching like a mob of sheep along the road in Northern I Wairoa, has caused a goqod deal of un-j favorable comment, the suggestion being | contrary to fact (states a Dargaville, wiire). A prominent settler who owns land in various parts of Kaipara informed a North Auckland Times reporter that locally weasels have not increased in numbers during the. past four years, and on no occasion has he seen more than two of these rodents together at one (time. The farming community consider that for such a farcical statement to go uncontradicted might prejudicially affect settlement in North Auckland. An unusual case was heard in the Magistrate's Court at Gisfoorne on Friday last, when James Railton, a printer, employed by the Gisborne Publishing , Company, was charged with having committed damage to a printing machine by removing a portion of it. The manager ■ of the company stated that accused was i in charge of the printing machine, and ■ did his work well. On Saturday nijht ' last he announced his intention to leave. '. He was slightly under the influence of [' liquor. The machine was examined next 11 day and parts were found to be missing;, i Accused was arrested. He at first processed to know nothing about tne maii ter, and then said if he were permitted • to go into the machine-room he thought i he might be able to find the missine • parts. He then produced a connecting ■ Tod from behind an oil engine. Certain i parts were still missing. The- publisher • of the paper stated, that accused, ob : giving notice, said he had "fixed the • machine," that he had taken a part and ■ thrown it over the groyne, and they , would be unable to print a paper for at , least three days. He had previously ;■ threatened that he could "fix the ma- ; chine." Other witnesses gave similar evidence. Accused, who pleaded not /guilty, was committed for trial. ' For chronic chest complaints. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is (id, 2s fid.

Hundreds of sparrows perished in •Napier during the heavy downpour of mini Thirty-six were counted under a single tree. It is stated that a large number of intending settlers from various districts in the South have decided to pay a visit of inspection to the Piako (Thames) in view of the opening up of more land for settlement towards the end of the preoenl year.

There are 308 workers' unions in New Zealand, with a membership of 54,510. The Canterbury Sheepowners' Union, with a membership of 508, is the largest of the employers'' unions, which number 120, with an aggregate membership ot 3609. A number of settlers in the Waikato have decided to export pork to the London market directly the price offered for pigs by the local .'buyers falls below 4d per pound. A consignment of pork sent Home from the Waikato through the •New Zealand Dairy Association a few months ago gave a net return to the farmers of 4 13-16 d per pound. One of the "items" at the Star Football Club's social last night -was a duet by Messrs. H. Mynott and Stohr, members of the last New Zealand team. They gave the All Black's Maori warcry, and the Americans' cry, "Give them the axe!" The committee in charge of next Monday night's concert ought to try and secure the item. The directors of the Kaupokonui Cooperative Dairy Factory Company, LSI., are in the happy position of having a record surplus, approximating to £15,000, to deal with, and as £BISO is sufficient to pay one penny per pound of fat bonus, the shareholders have occasion to congratulate themselves. The company's increase of output last.year was 13% per cent.—(Star. All South Africa is just now mildly excited over an edict that has gone forth that on "official occasions" ladies must curtsey to the Governor-General's witc. The elite have not taken kindly to this new rule of etiquette; they have, «,s a matter of fact, given it a decidedly coo! reception. By the Dutch section of the community the innovation is regarded with the greatest hilarity. In Birmingham, by the aid of what is called a model French gaivlen, an attempt is being made to "show townspeople Iww they may grow vegetables on hot-beds behind' their houses. This mbdel garden covers 1500 square feet, and contains strawberries, tomatoes, peas and melons growing almost ready for gathering, and abundant crops of cabbages, lettuce, cauliflowers, marrows, radishes, spinach, and turnips.

A well-organised band of boy robbers, led by a ferocious chieftain aged thirteen, have just been captured by the police at Sopron, Hungary. The band consisted of eleven lads, aged from eight to thirteen years, who- liad left their parents for a life of adventure. They lived in a large cave, and during the last three months have committed 123 robberies and one murder. In the cave booty to tine value of £SOOO was found. "The efficiency of the Egyption Army to-day, in contrast with its miserable condition seventeen years ago, when Arab Pasha, at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, was obliged to chain the fellaheen artillerymen to their guns to prevent their running away, speaks magnificent testimony to what British military training has accomplished in this department."— The Very Rev. D. J. O'Sullivan, late of Cairo, to a reporter of the Auckland Star. The death of Henry James Slackbum. aged 77, of Morning L*ane,"Hackney {Englanoj, was attributed at an inquest to the bite of a housefly or bluebottle. "He was admitted to the Hackney inlirmary in a delirious condition." Dr. W. J. Coweil stated. "His face was enormously swollen and inflamed, and he died in great agony. Death was due to acute bloodpoisoning. I think a fly or a bluebottle may have fed on some bad meat and then bitten and poisoned him." A verdict of "death from blood-poisoning" was returned. Extravagance, losses of" £IOOO a year for the last three years on gambling, and excessive interest on borrowed money were the reasons to which the Hon. Gerald O. Cadogan, son of the Earl of Cadogan, ascribed' <his bankruptcy at the first meeting in London of his creditors. He was formerly in the Ist Life Guard*, and afterwards aide-de-camp to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. For the last six years, he said; he had been dependent upon a voluntary allowance of £IOOO a year from his father. His expenditure lately averaged £3OOO per annum. His unsecured debta aTe estimated at £lO,500. A trustee and committee of inspection were appointed. A wrestling match at Waihi ended in rather a dramatic manner. After the contestants had wrestled for half an hour, and one had then obtained a fall, they retired .for a spell. _ The referee then stepped forward and announced that he had disqualified both wrestlers, as he considered the match a "crook" one. He gave as his reasons that, when the men were on the mat, the aggressor, at the request of the man underneath, released several holds with wihich he could have secured a fall. This was indignantly denied. A local paper states that the bout was a very willing one, and the referee's decision caused somewhat of a sensation amongst the audience, as supporters of both men were satisfied at the genuineness of the match. _ Pluck and resource typical of the British Navy were exhibited in the Solent by men of H.MjS. Mars, who were armed with knives and by means of repeated dives managed to cut free the entangled propeller of a steamer. Their, vessel was at Spithead, and four of the officers were sailing in one of the ship's boats off Sea View when they were becalmed, and bespoke the help of a passing passenger boat, the Winifred ,to tow them to Spit Fort in order that they might there pick up a breeze. A rope which was thrown became entangled in the steamer's propeller, and 20 minutes' work from <ibofe , water failing to free it, the four officers decided to dive and. cut the rope free. In a band they made descent after descent, each working with his knife as long as he could hold breath. Several descents were necessary, but at length the propeller was free, and the Winifred left, with the officer* in tow. DO THE RIGHT THING. •Success comes from doing the right thing at the right time, in the right way. Merchants desiring Customs or carrying work done, travellers requiring their baggage checked, householders needing their furniture removed, will ao the right thing in employing the N.Z. Express Company, Ltd. Their service is rpliablp. economical the very best.— ddvt TESTIMONIAL. "Sea View, Meremere, February 22nd. To Mr. C. E. Gane. Dear Sir,—Re your 'Automatic Releaser.' T am pleaded to tell you that it is working well, having had no trouble whatever since lirst installed, six months ago. It is very simple to understand and very easily cleaned, therefore milk is in the host condition wben finished with, and in a dairy of 100 cows it fully save? one man's labor.—Yours, etc., W. Williams." Farmers are invited to secure pamphlets and all information from H. R. Jenkins, Eltham.—Advt.