GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 128, 8 September 1910, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS.

A medical man who has an extensive practice in Wellington states that during the past iponth he has had more cases of throat, trouble (brought under his notice than in any six months during his residence in New Zealand. Influenza, he says, seems to have a<ffeoted the throat to a greater extent during the changeable weather of the past few weeks than he has ever known it, and scores of people, chiefly children, are suffering from swollen tonsils and glands. The Angora goit industry in Queensland is steadily ,'mcreasing—B22B, goats were returned in' IWO, as against 7098 ■in lOOi!. The mohair obtained in 10091 jjvas 65471b, and 51021b in the veaT 1008, whilst the number of skins obtained increased from 980 in I'9oß .to 1347 in the following year. Many owners who have rough land under scrub are making a trial with the goats, which they find not only clear, their properties but grow fleeces of mohair which are not only in good demand in the Home market, but realise satisfactory prices. The advantages of oil over coal were illustrated' in a recent trip of the Yale, one of the 22-knot passenger steamers which run between New York and Bos-, ton. The trials were so satisfactory that • oil will be used exclusively on these ships in the future. Apart from the absence of smoke from the funnel, is the complete abolition' of noise , and dust due to coaling. Formerly the Yale burned on a round trip 225 tons of coal, which took eight hours to get aboard; in future it will take only an hour for an . oil barge to pump into the ship's tanks the 48,000 gallons of oil which will serve for the round trip. The principal saving, amounting to £IOO a month, is due to the fact that eight operators do the work in the boiler j •room, where formerly 48 stokers were necessary. The Brennan monor-rail is being pushed forward as a practical system. According to reports attributed to Mr. Louis Brennan, he has granted a license to Major John E. Bellaine, one ofj the original promoters of the Alaska Central Railway, for the extension of, that railway on the Brennan mono-rail system for a distance of about 100 miles. The object of the extension is to connect the line with rich coalfields situated about 185 miles north of Seward, which are said to contain seams of bitu-i minous and anthracite coal up to 38ft. I in thickness. It is possible that the hundred miles may be increased to the thousand miles, but in the meantime Major Bellaine has undertaken to finish I the present extension by Decemdjer, 1912. He estimates that' the-cOst oi rails will be £374 a mile, sleepers £SB, labor equipment and other expenses £550, or about £IOOO a mile. He purposes to sjtart working with two cars, each eapiible of carrying SO or 60 passengers, and of making two journeys a day at 20 miles an hour. He estimates the receipts will amount to a total ot £40,000 a year. Send vour orders for printing to tl.a "Daily -News" Frintery. Prices right and "fttteWKo- tfwfnteed A MODERN REMEDY. Dr Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs and colds gets to the root of the trouble, and effectß a' permanent cure. Price, Is 6d and 3s. Obtainable everywhere. Send your o.de. ior printing to the "Dailv News Print eiy. Pr>e« right tnd tati»f* guaranteed-