LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 133, 14 September 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pope Pius X. has presented a grand Ostensory to St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, and has despatched a pontifical letter and gold cross to Cardinal Moran to commemorate the jubilee of his Cardinalate.

At a Wanganui entertainment a singer's memory failed him in "Mary had a little lamb," and he confusedly asked the audience what else they would like. "Beer!" came a loud response, and the vocalist fled.

General Booth contemplates visiting Australia in 1912. At the recent conference meeting in London he expressed his intention, "if the providence of God permitted," to spend his eightysecond birthday in Korea, his eightythird in Melbourne, his eighty-fourth in •New York, and liis eighty-fifth in London.

The following candidates were successful at the June theoretical examinations:—intermediate division: Irene Connett (Convent) pass 73, Elsie Bennett (Convent) pass CO. Junior division: Mona I. Corkill (Miss E. Young) pass 75. iPreparatory division: Dorothy Leah Corney (Miss Robson) pass 98, Daisy I. Gunson (Miss Smith) pass 07, Clarice Street (Convent) pass 89, Eric D. Colson (Miss Robson) pass 89. Professor Macmillan Brown has set out on a South Sea Island tour. He intends to visit Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji with a view to continuing his investigations into the philology of the native people of the South Pacific. He has lately been tracing words beginning with the letters "1" and "r," and one interesting result of his studies is the discovery of a surprising large number of exactly the same words in the Polynesian, Melanesian, and many European languages, including the Teutonic, Greek, Latin, Norse and Slavonic. Professor Brown will be away about six weeks.

In one of his speeches while in England Mr. Bryan incidentally talked about interdenominationalism. He never asked a man to which church he belonged. He himself was "a delegate at large." "I am an elder in the Presbyterian Church," he said. "My father was a Baptist, and when I was born my mother was a Methodist, but she afterwards turned Baptist. When I was married my wife was a Methodist, but she joined the Presbyterian Church with me. My two youngest children are Methodists, and my eldest daughter is an Episcopalian."

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The North Taranaki Dairy Company's output was sold to Messrs." Wootl Bros, at Hiy 4 d. Hi 9 Honor, Mr. Justice Edwards, will visit the reformatory for habitual criminals this morning, with a view of finding whether any have sufficiently reformed to be released. "I say now that a man can ride all oyer the property if he is prepared to risk his neck," said a witness in tinSupreme Court yesterday when asked if he had stated that his property was "ridable."

By some people who know no better, Waikawa is classed as a back-blocks community (remarks the Wyndham Herald), but in one particular it has placed itself in the forefront of enlightenment in New Zealand. Daylight saving is only talked about in other parts of the world, but it has been put into operation by the people of Waikawa. who are ahead of all the rest of the world. Whether the wealth, that follows on the principle of "early to bed, oarly to rise" is vouchsafed "to those enlightened people "time" will tell. They keep their clock time about an hour and a-half ahead at present. Hi 9 Honor, Mr. Justice Edwards, remarked yesterday that his colleague on the Bench, Judge Chapman, had waxed sarcastic the other day concerning the New Zealanders' method of speaking. "1 hope that will be sufficient," he . remarked with a meaning look at the witness, and then went on: "I wish people would try and say proper names, at least, distinctly, for there's no means of guessing at them."—His Honor very rightly complains of the indistinctiveness of the pronunciation of English by some of the witnesses, but the witnesses are'not the only people whom the pressmen find it difficult to hear during the Court proceedings.

The singularly close friendship between the late Mr. George Herring and General Booth was touchingly referred to by the General at the inauguration of the Boxted Small Holdings on Friday (says the Christian World of July 28). "There are few men whose death I more deeply mourned," said tile General. He drew a delightful picture 01 the millionaire "sporting man" casually dropping into the Salvation Army headquarters and handing over tremendous cheques for enterprises which interested him. Mr. Herring, the General believed, drew very near the Army's religious position in his last years. One of the Army officers once ventured to ask him what he believed. "Well," said Mr. Herring, "I believe in Jesus Christ and General Booth."

One of the chief subjects of discussion at the meeting oi the National Council of Women at Sydney (says the Herald) was the advisability of introducing a curfew bell into Sydney so as to ktt*p boys and girls oil' Uie streets at nigiit alter a certain hour, it was urged in favour of tne proposal that 1000 towns and villages in the United States rang curfews, and that the system worked excellently, children turning home as a matter of course upon hearing them. The meeting was not unanimous on the curlew question, however, many holding that the American system would be unsuitable to Australian conditions. The general feeling was ex-1 pressed, however, that some steps were necessary to keep children off the streets at night, and the Education Committee was asked to draw up a report. On the subject of truancy the meeting resolved that an amendment of the law was necessary to get the names of all children on the school rolls, so that offenders could be dealt with more effectually. The Council resolved—"That this Bill has been delayed session after session beyond all reason; and that the present state of affairs is an absolute incentive to the making of criminals." The Cliristchurch Hospital seems to be drifting into a somewhat unsatisfactory position (says the Lyttelton Times). Many complaints are heard in the city that doctors in private practice cannot get their patients into the institution, and the patients themselves state that they have had to wait for a long time before they could obtain the attention and accommodation their cases demanded, and that while th&y waited they suffered hardships which should not be experienced in a modern city with a well-ordered hospitaL Complaints, on the whole, seem to be quite justified. The cause, however, is reported to be one which has perplexed the authorities for a number of years. It is the old trouble of want of accommodation. The position, as explained by Mr. W. W. Tanner, chairman of the Hospital Committee, is that the hospital is so crowded that it is not able to overtake the cases sent to it, and repeated refusals of admission have to be given. There are in the hospital old people who are suffering from chronic consumption, and who have no other place in which they can be treated and attended. They must be kept in the hospital or placed in a home for incurables. Mr. Tanner feels that the latter plan is the one that ought to 'be followed, and he strongly urges that steps should be taken to establish an institution of that nature. The principal difficulty, of course, is the financial aspect of the question, but Mr. Tanner thinks that the position has become so acute that it ought to be grappled with and settled without delay.

Sydney's tram service has reached great dimensions, if not the limit of its growth. On ordinary days about 700 cars are running in the city and suburbs, and on special occasions this number is increased to nearly 900. Over 100 street miles of tram lines axe in use, much of it being double track, and the total number of miles of tramways is therefore much greater. The average number of passengers carried daily throughout last year was 500,000, and although more than 200/WO,OOO were carried during the year only eight fatal accidents occurred, giving the remarkable proportion of one death to every 25.000.000 passengers. In the principal streets less than ten seconds elapse between the passing of the cars. It is interesting to note that in comparison with tlie people of London, Sydney people use their trams more extensively, the average number of journeys per head of the population being London 87.1, Sydney 290.8.

SALE OF DRAPERY. Tlie sale of Manchester goofls at the Melbourne sin-passes all previous sides. 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 stove will prove a centre of preat 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 a d a yard, art muelins at 3% a yard, reversible cretonnes at fid a yard, indigo prints at 6d a yard, 36-inch iongcloth at 6d yard, heavy calico at a yard, striped galateas at fid a yard; spot muslins at 4d a yard, and hundreds of other wonderful bargains.