LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 103, 9 August 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I This week an ingeniously constructed I Wellington aeroplane is to undergo a , private trial. This machine, according to the Times, is free from any freak ideas, and, barring accidents, the trial ! promises at least a flight of sufficient i distance to indicate that success is withI in reach of the inventor. ' The caretaker of the North Egmont Mountain House (Mr. 'H. Evan) has received a letter from the Rev. D. C. Bates, Director of the Meteorological Department, in which Mr. Bates writes: '•Did you see the articles by Mr. Barton published in Progress for March and] April on your station as an ideal observatory ? I should be only too pleased to have* some proper instruments in- J stalled. Will you please tell me ■whether the house will always be occupied in future; and whether you woud be willing to assist me in furthering the work if I can get the necessary instruments.?" Mr. Ryan has replied that the house is being occupied penranently, and that he would willingly Mr. Bates.. .---V,, J, 'A V/ itMltiiiiriiilM* ■ r ii "■''- "-****• r r^f#

Following upon the heels of Te fcuiti Taumarunui, Ohakune intends to becon/e'a borough. sie Waimate ratepayer? are endeavouring to get the Hawera County County'jo abolish the toll-gates on the roads 1 i'Hding,-from the Plains to the railway,' and offering to pay instead a proportion of the cost of the maintenance of thej roads. i The increasing vogue of the civil wed-( ding ceTemony in Auckland, is shown by the fact that since the beginning of the year 175 marriages have been performed in the office of the local registrar out of, a total of 820 marriages that have taken place during that period. For the first seven months of 1009 the number of licenses issued was 750 and 136 weddings were solemnised by the registrar. I The new president of the Tokerau Maori Land Board (Mr. W. Dinnie, ex- 1 Commissioner of Police) has returned to Auckland from a trip north, where he arranged, for the formation of roads in Te Karae block, Kohukohu, near Hokianga. A sum of £6OOO is to be expended' in roading, but it is said that twice that amount could be profitably spent in properly opening the area, which is 30,000 acres in extent. ' Says a Westport exchange:—"Rate- '' payers in Westport received something ' like an electric shock when they read ' the new Government valuations placed " on their properties. In many cases the 1 valuations have gone up 100 or more per ; cent. Where there has been a deprecia- '' tion on buildings, there has been a cor- • responding appreciation or something more on unimproved values. The Goy- ! ernment appears determined to maintain the fictitious values placed on properties ' in Westport in the boom period," com-, ) meats our contemporary. "There is an uneasy feeling," said Sir > William Steward in the House of Re- . presentatives last week, "that we are i not going to get Lord Kitchener's report \ carried out in its entirety—that it is to i be departed from, or modified, or inter- ;. fered with some way or other. If so, > some of us fear that these departures or s modifications may be fatal to efficiency, i I feel satisfied that the House and the - country endorse Lord Kitchener's recom- > mendations, and desire them to be ear- > ried out in their entirety, and not spoili ed by any tinkering or cutting down or t interference that can by an possibility r be avoided. ' The little two-year-old daughter of ' Mr. and Mrs. Charles Master, residents ' of Brootoville, Indiana, UjS.A., while ' playing about her home, ran suddenly into her mother's arms,, Mrs. Masters I bent over the child and caught her in J her arms, when the little one .uttered a j shaTp cry and fell to the floor. A ' needle in the mother's dress had pierced ' the child's breast, and penetrated the , heart. The child was in convulsions in a ' moment, and physicians were called. Af--5 ter the needle was withdrawn arid the child had been given a soothing potion, \ it was found that the point had pene- \ trated, not less than half an inch into j the heart. The child's temperature soon , became normal, and the physicians think ' she will 1 Speaking to a Dominion reporter on 1 Saturday, Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., re--3 ferred to the vigorous' growth of settler ment in the King Country. He in- " stanced Te Kuiti and Taumarunui in t particular". Four years ago, he said, the ■ postal business at Te Kuiti required • ithe services of a. postmistress only. To- " day, in addition to the officer in charge, 7 there were eight assistants. Then, 3 again, eight years ago Te Kuiti was " served with a train from Auckland only ', three times a week. Only recently ten " trains had passed through the station ' in one day. As regards Taumarunui, added Mr. Jennings, the growth of set--3 tlement was also tremendous. Not long 1 ago Te Kuiti was formed into a borough, 5 and now Taumarunui was taking a simi--5 larjstep. f Mr. WrC. 'Nixon, on behalf of the residents of the locality, complained to the Borough Council last night of the state of the west end of Young street. Cabmen refused to traverse one portion of i the street, where mud 'had been washed ; on to the metal, where it lay quite a i foot in depth; and the doctors had to i leave their cars in Morley street. He i stated that this was a case without par- ) allel in the borough, and asked the couns cillors to personally inspect it.' They . also asked for concrete kerbing and i channelling, for the house drainage at i present was turned into the gutter, and I as the soil was of a sandy nature, and i the street nearly flat at the Morley i street end, the stench arising from the, . stagnant drainage was neither pleasant i nor healthy. The matter was referred •to the Works 'Committee for report, i . A month ago the Borough Council con- . sidored a complaint by the borough in-! ( spector of interference by a councillor . in the cxwution of his duties. Cr. Dock-i { rill, the councillor concerned, made an . explanation, ami subsequently the mat-, , >r was threshed out before'the executive committee. As a result of the investigation the committee carried a re- , solution expressing its complete satisfaction with Cr. Do-'krill's explanation. The ■r.-or. in reporting this to the Coun- ' last nifrl.it, .said that, when Mr. A. Hooker aslcei. ilieforo the committee, whether, in the event of his giving evi-dence-before the committee, the Council would stay the against him,l Cr. Watkins replied, "\V, we're not go-| mg to do anything of that kind.", ami) the committee endorsed that view. Mr. Hooker then went forward with his statement, fully understanding the situation. The reason why the Mayor men-l tioncd the n\"!f"r, lx>':;.-,!..!. T hs because! Mr. Hooker, -vh•■■- Imr-ved before tile' Court with the breach of the by-laws, had stated, in mitigation of his ofVonro/ that he had been misled In the commii-i tee, and had received a promise that he would not be prosecuted. To that statement His Worship was prepared to give) an emphatic denial, and his worn couldl 1)0 corroborated by the other members I of the executive. 1 1 THE | is the sufferer if he permit a substitute to bo palmed oil' on him as "just a J good." If such substitution concerns an! .article of common use it only means inferior goods;'but if you expect results from an original and standard medicine, and then find you are injuriously affected by the concoction which an unscrupulous dealer has recommended, you realise the importance of procuring'"just what you want." Remember—SANDEß'S ETJCA- 1 LYPTI EXTRACT is the original, tried,! and approved article. If you procure' the CEXTTXE EXTRACT you' will obtain the prompt relief which only a scientifically-prepared medicament can give. It contains ethereal particles which ■ are not present in other eucalyptus products, and is free from irritating byproducts. Quality in small dose distinguishes it from'the bulky and dangerous products. It is unique, safe, and ' effective. '