LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 132, 13 September 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dr. Walker has purchased Mr. W. G. Malone's residence on the Avenue road. Ihe sale is reported of a farm near Waitara for £3l an aere, spot cash. Mr. Newton King has received the following cable from Sydney re hides: "Eighth lower." The Okato school has been closed temporarily on account of the prevalence of influenza in the district. The chairman of the Education Board is arranging to have the Technical School grounds laid down in grass. Mr. ¥. Black, A.M.1.E.E., telegraphed to the Borough Council yesterday that he would post his report on the tramway, installation proposals. The attendance at the Bell Block school is increasing rapidly. There is accommodation for 64 pupils, but the roll number at present is over 80, and a further increase is expected. Excellent progress is being made with the West End Bowling Club's green on Western Park. Sufficient turf has already been laid for eight rinks. Shelter hedges, shrubs and plants have been planted. Tlxe rinks will be top-dressed, manured and sown this week.

At the Borough Council meeting last night the Mayor reported having had a conference with Fitzroy and other suburban ratepayers on the question of forming a greater New Plymouth. Pending the report of Mr. Black on the tramway proposals nothing further had been done. The Council authorised the executive to take. whatever steps they may deem advisable in the matter. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Egmont Lodge, 1.0.0. F., was held last evening, Bro. W. Hooker, N.G., presiding. Two candidates were proposed for membership. A letter of recommendation was granted to a member who is leaving the district. The N.G. announced that next meeting would be the quarterly and financial night.

Some documents that now possess a grim significance have been placed at our disposal (says the Dunedin Star). In the early part of this year the attention of a resident of Dunedin, who suffers from the infirmity of increasing deafness, read' in the London newspapers of an alleged cure of deafness, and placed himself in communication with the management of the Aural Remedies Company, the headquarters of which were at Craven House, Kingsway, Loudon. Under date June 6, just hefore the Camden Town tragedy was enacted, he received an autograph letter from H. H. Crippen (whose signature is written in an easy, flowing style), covering a number of the "Otological Gazette" and a sheaf of testimonials giving "a faint idea of the remarkable success which has attended my new method of treatment, especially in severe chronic cases of long standing that had previously been regarded as absolutely incurable." The recipient was directed to fill up an analytical chart giving the history of his complaint and details of a domestic character, on the receipt of which Crippen declared that he "would be most happy to make an exhaustive study of your symptoms, and will send you, free of charge, my opinion on your condition, together with my advice as to the special treatment necessary. Kindly note (it was suggestively added) that tins places you under no obligation whatever." The demand for a fee would doubtless have come after the chart was studied. Crippen, why styled himself a consulting specialist, adopted a medical title—American, of course. The accompanying printed matter was after the manner of that issued by the ordinary purveyor of quack nostrums. DR. SHELDON'S MAGNETIC LINIMENT Cures rheusuntfcaa. It will penetrate to your very bonest wwthe and subdue the pain. Rub it in freely. It will not blister or bum the akin. Rub it in, and the pain wfll atop. It can't help but do you good. Price la 6d and 9s. Obtainable SYcrtwiwe, L _ .-■ ■ ....■' :

Mr. I\ Glecson, an Auckland brewer, is having constructed in that city what will probably be the tallest building in New Zealand. It is to be of ten stories and is being erected in High street. The faithfulness of a dog was exemplified at Wanganui last week. Tinowner of a beautiful collie had indulged in liquor to such an unwise exte.it that the police locked him in the cells. The dog followed his master to the lock-up, and, when he found liis majesty did not provide quarters for canines, stationed himself at the door of the eel). Later on, when a constable provided a bed for the prisouer, the dog crept in t unawares, for, on the police subsequently visiting the cell, the dog was found curled up alongside his master. He was again refused lodgings, and spent the night on the doorstep. A well organised band of boy robbers, led by a lerocious chieftain'aged 13, , have just been captured by the police iof Sopron, Hungary. The band conI sisted of eleven tads, aged from S to 13, I who had left their parents for a life of J adventure. They lived in a large cave, and during the last three months of their career committed 123 robberies and one murder. In the cave booty to the value of £SOOO was found. The young chieftain, who shot and seriously wounded the policeman who was sent to arrest him, has been sentenced to ten years' confinement in a reformatory.

News reached Berlin on August 29 of an ocean disaster which might have been one of the worst in the list of tragedies of the sea. When the steamer Konigin Luise arrived at Bremen, she brought the information that the sailing ship Harvest Queen had turned turtle and sank in mid-Atlantic. All the passengers and crew were saved, having been picked up off the Azores by the liner. The officers of the Konigin Luise saw a number of small boats tossing about in the water —a fairly heavy sea was running at the time —and they immediately launched their own boats, and got the shipwrecked people safe on board the liner. Many of the victims of the disaster were delirious from want of water.

A Maori named Te Raro Tokawa win arrested on Saturday night by Detective Boddam and Constable llclvor, and lie was charged yesterday morning, before Mr. H. S. Fitzherbert, S.M., with breaking and entering the dwelling ot Hete te Wiwi at Moturoa on Monday last, and stealing therefrom three pieces of greenstone, the property of the daughter of Te Wiwi. On the application of Detective Boddam, a remand was granted for a week, it being stated thai further charges were pending. Bail was fixed in the accused's own recognisance of £SO and two sureties of £SO each. The accused stated his inability to obtain bail.

A reasonable amount of preparation work for school children to do at home is favoured by Mr. H. |Poland, M.P. Speaking in the House on Saturday morning Mr. Poland gave it as his opinion that the reason that children were now being sent out of the schools with less education than formerly was that they did not get home work. A little preparatory work in the evenings did a child good, and was much better for him than "larrikinising" about the streets. The same speaker believed that free-place and scholarship pupils did good work, and he quoted the opinion of the headmaster of the Auckland Grammar School to the effect that they did better work than the paying pupils. The engineer, Mr. A. H. Kendall, submitted to the Borough Council last night a return of quantity and cost of metal used on the streets in the past three months. Councillor Dockrill criticised the report, and pointed to several obvious inaccuracies and discrepancies. He traversed the items at some length, prefacing his remarks with the statement that there was an opinion widespread that the streets were not receiving the attention that they should, and the metal was costing far too much. Councillor Gilbert followed, wrathfully remarking that it was simply rot for Councillor Dockrill to go on like this. He, at any rate, was sick of hearing him on the metal question. Summed up, Councillor Dockrill's criticisms merely told the Council what the late foreman, Hooker, had done under Mr. Dockrill as Mayor. He didn't believe in these returns at all, for they only gave the engineer a lot of extra work, and presently he would have nothing to do but prepare reports. He (Councillor Gilbert) had been over a good portion of New Zealand, and he was of opinion that the streets of New Plymouth compared very favourably with those of any other town —including the larger centres —in the Dominion.

She looked the type of hard-working middle-aged woman who would be quite used to saying to herself, or anyone else who would listen—"They can't fool me!" Not that anyone, least of all the ! auctioneer, wanted to fool her or anybody. He was there to quit the goods, aud did so in the main without any flowery embellishments. After finishing ttie cucumbers and parsley, a couple oi sides of bacon were thrown at his feet. "Now, here you are, real good bacon from Auckland, or somewhere," said the auctioneer. "That blue you see there,' he continued, as his assistant industriously wiped the mould and dust off the bacon, "shows that the animal was blueblooded. It's coming through. Now, then, what do you say, at per pound?'Our lady friend eyed the bacon with dull suspicion, said something to her friend, and then began a little comedy. Taking a hasty glance round to see that she was not the observed of all observers, she quickly drew a long rapier-like hat-pin from her hat, guarded for the fraction of an instant, and with a deadly eye thrust it up to the hilt in the blue-blooded pig. Then, quickly withdrawing it, she drew its shining blade slowly under her nose, and having done so pulled a wry face. Her friend's nose was then honoured with a sniff, and she, having coincided with a grimace full of meaning, the little woman with the can't-fool-me expression, replaced the pin in (her hat, and promptly lost interest in the bacon sale. Here (says the Dominion) was a woman at last who lived up to her expression.

SALE OF DRAPERY. The sale of Manchester goods at the Melbourne surpasses all previous sales. It is, in fact, the most commanding sale for years. Planned on a basis without equal, calling upon the world's foremost mills for their best stocks, buying in prodigious quantities for spot cash, and offering these goods at prices that arouse the liveliest interest, make this sale positively one that far eclipses all previous endeavours. The big corner store will prove a centre of great buying all this month. Come to the Melbourne and buy enough for many months to come. It will pay you handsomely to buy check zephyrs at 3y 3 d a yard, art muslins at 3% a yard, reversible cretonnes at 6d a yard, indigo prints at 6d a yard, 36-inch longcloth at 6d yard, heavy calico at sy a d a yard, striped galateas at 6d a yard, spot muslins at 4d a yard, and liuadreds of other wonderful bargains.

An operation without chloroform at S4 is surely a record. Yet a well-known local resident went through that ordeal recently at the Palmerston North hospital (says the Manawatu Standard)' an is now about again. The Rahotu Dairy Company has decided to consign its output through Messrs. R. and W. Davidson and the Oka to Company through Messrs. J. and J. Lonsdale. It is reported that the Oaktira and Omata Dairy Companies have sold their outputs at ID/id . During the period of August 10 to 31 there was exported from Patea 899 cwt of frozen beef, valued at £l2Ol. In the same period there was shipped from New Plymouth 310 cwt of butter, worth £1")80. Wellington's export of butter was (U2 cwt, its commercial value being £3250. Recently attention was called to the. possibility of some of the thermal springs at Rotorua being found to possess radio-active properties. The New Zealand Herald now learns from a, communication received from Drs. Endletsberger and Bertram, of that place* that investigations made by them prove, conclusively that such is the ease. They write:—"We are in a position to state with certainty that several of the then* mal springs here give evidence of being, highly radio-active. Aa we have not linished our experiments, we are noO yet in a position to publish the amount of radio-active in the various springs. The results of our experiments will be published as soon as the}' are concluded and cheeked to our complete satsifaction."

A now chum writing in the Aueklaiul Slur 01' his earnest impressions, in .New Zealand says: I was led to believe that living was a very expensive matter here as compared with Home. Now, I do not think that there is a great deal of dill'erence, except that house rent is very high. 1 stayed fat some time at a good class hotel in top cityj and was agreeably surprised te find the cost of staying there but eigjfc shillings a day—and, O! blessedness, n® "tips." 1 had a good deal of experience of hotel life at Home, but I cannot rjpmember staying at a house of siauilajr class under half a guinea a day, not to mention "tips" to the porter, the waiter, the "buttons," and the chambermaid upon leaving. A dinner such as one is able to obtain for a shilling iu Auckland would cost at least two shillings or half a crown in any good restaurant in Great Britain—them again the "tip."

Children who '"farm" the common sparrow in districts where these wily birds' eggs are marketable have eore% exercised local bodies' brains, but theop are city juveniles who have outclas£(|i their country cousins in the schemed ef trafficking. Mr. G. M. Thomson mentioned in the House of Representative* last week that a school committee joi Dunedin had been compelled to seek the aid of the Minister of Justice in a> endeavour to check unhealthy speculation in certain ehololate coupons. A. firm enclosed a ticket in each penny packet, and a certain number -of these tickets entitled the holder to get a box of sweets worth 10s. All pennies went chocolatewards. Small buyers after removing the tickets from the packages, resold the chocolate at half-price. Some children "pooled" their tickets; others conducted auction sales when they had an enticing lot of coupons. That school had a gambling craze, but the present state of the law —the committee was informed —did not allow the Government to interfere.

Probably the ordinary householder would be quite surprised if told-that when a message is left pinned on the door for the baker to leave "two loaves," or for the butcher to "place the sausages in the meat safe," the message is notning more or less than an invitation to housebreakers.. Yet in effect f*e statement is not far wide of the mark. The tradition that the burglar does not wander forth until night darkens the street is a very old one, but the modem housebreaker is not bound by tradition. One of his devices nowadays is to secmoe pamphlets for a kouse-to-house delivery, and when in the course of this delivery he comes upon a message to the baker, the butcher, or the grocer, it is sufficient information to him that the occupier or the house is for the time being absent. Trouble generally follows if the doors and windows are not bolted fast.

(Potatoes, as is natural at this time of year, are rather dear, and are selling in Wellington at £8 15s to £4t per ton. Tnsmanian potatoes, from the famous Circular Head district, are cheaper, but are not so good as the higher-priced. New Zealand tuber. The locally or Can-terbury-grown potato is fairly free from blight, although this disease was rather conspicuous early in the season. The general rise in the temperature and progress of spring, notwithstanding occasional southerly checks, already creates in the epicure a longing for the tender new kidney potato, the verdant marrow, and fat pea as fit accompaniment to the juicy leg of 1910 spring lambs. Som« peas —not too full-flavoured —have been on sale at 5d and 6d a lb in local shops. —Wellington Post. "I shot my husband because I thought he was a burglar, and I would do it again under similar circumstances. Men. who stay out late, at ■ night should answer promptly when their wives call. 'Who's there?' I am sorry I shot my husband, but I carried out his instructions. I did as he told me, and he isglad that 1 did. " This is what Mrs. J. T. Burns said at Pittsburg a few weeks ago about shooting her husband in the arm at their home on M'Phersonu Boulevard on the previous night, mistaking him for a burglar. The husband was in the hostital, and unless blood poisoning se-. was expected to be out in three or four days.

A delicious exemplification of the bliss of ignorance whizzed through the principal streets of Wellington on Wednesday afternoon. Tooting along the thoroughfares went a powerful motor car, carrying an unsuspicious-looking couple, a man and a women. There was an unusual rag and clatter immediately behind, which caused people to turn their eyes in the direction of the vehicle. The dragging, clattering equiqment was an assortment of discarded footwear, and to anyone who understands the language of the old boot, and knows its necessary inseparability from courtships and marriages, explanation was needless. By way of Interpretation, howeveT, a very large sign, bearing the following inscription, was appended to the car: "We were only married this morning." THIS WILL INTEREST MOTHERS. Chamberlain's Tablets are the ideal medicine for children. No more nasty medicines that you have to coax the child to take. After they have once taken Chamberlain's Tablets and realise how easy they are to take they will be ready for them again .They are perfectly safe for the youngest child and their use will not result in constipation.