LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 138, 20 September 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. Newton King has received the following cable from Sydney re hides: '"Eighth lower." The Nellie Stewart Co. has cancelled the dates of its next projected visit to New Plymouth. The New Plymouth Horticultural Society's schedules are now being circulated. Copies can be obtained from the secretary, Mr. A. L. Humphries. The Beautifying Association has fixed on November 17 th as the date for the big garden party at "Aotea" in aid of the funds for beautifying Marsland Hill. We (Reefton Times) are informed that the Government are undertaking a geological survey of the Reefton goldfield. The work will be commenced this summer. The result of Mr. C. Carter's Golden Gift Tea poetry competition is as follows:—Mr. Claude L. Jewell, Vogeltown, 1; Mr. C. Tunbridge 2, Mrs. J. A. Ewing 3, and Miss J. Johnson, 4 (special). Major Sandford, commanding the North Taranaki battalion of school cadets, has received information that the Department cannot see its way to grant financial assistance to the erection of buildings on the range established on Air. A. J. Mcintosh's property at Te Henui. The Department favours cadet rifle practice on the miniature range, and will subsidise money spent on miniature rifle ranges at the schools. Mr. A. Jordail, champion draughts player of England, finished his tourney in New Plymouth at the Jubilee Dining rooms on Saturday night. He played 40 games with local players, winning 33 and drawing with the following players: Wilson (2), Davey, Hooker, Kinsella, Parkes, and Smith. During the three nights he played 130 games, won 119, and drew 20. The following gentlemen drew with the champion: Bruce (4), Wilson (2), Oliver (2), Kinsella (2), Page (2), Parkes (2), Davey, Hilder, Hooker, Smith, and Willis one each. It will be pleasing intelligence to most people in Napier (says the Daily Telegraph) to learn that the woollen mills, which have been closed for the last couple of months, are to re-open. They will, however, be under an entirely new proprietary. Mr. Hugh M. Chisholm, of Auckland, a woollen manufacturer trained in Scotland, will shortly take the mill in hand. The industry wiil give employment to about 30 hands, and Mr. Chisholm intends to put in a worsted plant, and will turn out high-class worsted goods. Although the weather was stormy last night, there was a good attendance at the social held in Holland Hall. The euchre competition resulted as follows: Ladies; Mrs. H. Evans, silver cruet, 1; Mrs. Wallaeh, silver belt, 2; Miss K. Bennett, photo frame, 3. Gents: Mr. Owen O'Brien, razor and strop, 1; Mr. M. Norris,' silver-mounted cigarette holder, 2; Mr. E. Loveridge, pigskjn purse, 3. After supper dancing was indulged in until shortly after midnight to music played by Miss K. Bennett. Mr. J. A. Clarke acted as M.C. We hear a good deal about delay in delivery of goods received at the New Plymouth railway station from tie wharf. It has come to our notice that a very smart piece of work was performed on Saturday, and it is only fair that the shipping people and the railway authorities should get the credit that is their due. The Corinna arrived at the Breakwater at 7.30 a.m. Amongst the cargo were several cases qf drapery goods for Messrs. Ambury Bros., and by half-past ten o'clock the same morning these goods had cleared the Customs, and the cases were being opened at the firm's establishment. Some of the materials were sold over the counter before eleven o'clock, and no small quantity changed hands during the day. A native, who was a defendant in a judgment case in the Hawera Magistrate's Court, was asked by counsel what monies he had earned since the date oi the judgment, and remarked that he had earned none. Counsel: How have you been living since that time? Judgment debtor, through the interpreter: i . have been living by food. The reply caused a smile to pass round the court. One hardly realises what is meant by the term "wheels of justice" until one attends a sitting of the police court in New when a native is chargea with "an offence against the laws of the country and particularly against one of his fellow-countrymen. Yesterday afternoon, whilst the case against Te Raro Tohaiwa was proceeding, Detective Boddam conducted the examination, and asked the questions} Mr. S. Jackson translated them into Maori, and subsequently translated the replies into English. Then Mr. J. Terry, clerk of the court, reduced the answers, cast them into the stereotyped phraseology of the court, and dictated to Mr. Addison, the recording clerk, who duly noted them. There were two justices of the peact on the Bench, and a constable on duty in the court—a total of seven people engaged in the trial of a Maori for the alleged theft of a few bits of greenstone. The performance was not complete until the written evidence had been read aloud in the Maori language by the interpreter. The financial conditions in the United States are causing uneasiness in several quarters. The New York Herald is making valiant attempts to convince the public that the country is prosperous, and that recent heavy breaks in the stock market have been due to the concerted attacks of "bears" in London, Paris and other European financial centres, but especially in London, with the object of bringing about a fall for their profit. Basically the condition of the country may be sound, as many prominent financiers, merchants, and railway presidents tell the Herald, but the future holds enough uncertainty to cause disquietude and to invite caution. Mr. Thomas B. Walker, of Minneapolis; who is known throughout the north-west as the "White Pine King," because tof his extensive operations in pine lumber, and who has done much to develop the prosperity and industry of the north-west, 'believes that the United States is on the verge of the worst panic it has ever known. It will come within four years, he thinks, although it may not be more than two years off, and may come next year. Mr. Walker bases his fears (writes the Washington correspondent of the Morning Post) on the heavy balance of trade against the United 'States, which is made up not only of the excess of imports over exports, but of money spent by American travellers abroad, and other charges, which he estimates at £1<50,000,1000 annually. The country, he says, cannot long stand this drain, and the crisis, he fears, will be precipitated if the Democrats carry the autumn elections. IT DAZZLES THE WORLD. No discovery in medicine has ever created one quarter of the interest that has 'been caused by Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughe and OoMa. It has brought relief in tihe most hopeless cases when all else has failed. Price Is 6d and fc Oitaiaatts cveiprhere.

It is estimated that the, capital value of all the licensed houses in New Zeoland, is about £3,150,147. An advance in the price of kerosene and lubricating oils may be looked for, as freights on oil from America havebeen advanced 25 per cent. ~ Fo r l ' r . ret l deer are to be liberated, ow the Ivaimanawa Hills, in the Taupo district, as the nucleus of a herd for the future benefit of sportsmen. A sharp shock of earthquake was felt at Hastings at 4.47 yesterday morning. A wire also states that a seven earthquake occurred at 5.45 a.m thedirection being north and south. After a trial of a little over a year' the attempt to run a co-operative bakery in Napier has failed, and the' business is to be sold. The scheme issaid to have languished for want of capital. The Borough Council meets this evening to discuss the tramway proposals There is a probability that the TheatreCompany will interview the Council regardinjg the Fire Board's complaintsabout the theatre. A contemporary considers that theproposed establishment of cooking classesfor adults at the local Technical School is a step in the right direction as tending to reduce the "awful prevalence of indigestion." It hopes that testing classes will be formed at the same time, so that the risk of first results will be narrowed to within the circle of the testing class. That the colonial youth is not always so casual as he is generally given credit for was refreshingly demonstrated on the Wadestown Road on Saturday night, when during the height of the gale one of the electric light wires snapped (says the Wellington Dominion). Of three young men who were the first to discover the "live" wire lying across the road, one went to the nearest telephone to acquaint the Corporation Lighting Department of the occurrence, while the other two stood by to warn unwary pedestrians of the danger—an action which gained much appreciation from late home-goers. Says the Foxton Herald: At the hnal Police Court, before Mr. Hornblow, JJP., Abbo, an African pigmy, was charged with drunkenness by the police. He pleaded guilty and asked for & chance. He stated that he had asked for bread and had been given intoxicating drink. This had brought him within the reach of the law and he had also lost his swag, but had two-pence in his pocket. He pleaded to being a hundred years old, and bared his legs in proof of a weak support. He was convicted and ordered to leave the town. Abbo presented a pitiful sight as he hobbled out of court and Palmerstonwards. Constable Woods stuffed his pockets with refreshments, and he was given some small coin to help him on the road.' The steamer Highland Monarch, now at Auckland, was the scene of a mutiny among the Chinese prew when she was about to leave Philadelphia. Refusal to allow them to go ashore was the cause of the discontent. The chief officer found the Chinese cook in an intoxicated condition. He upbraided the Celestial, who then threatened the officer with a carving knife. The pair ran on deck,, but another officer felled the Chinaman, who,'in falling, ran the knife through his wrist. The incident caused the eighteen oilier Chinese to mutiny. Order was restmd, and the next day the vessel left the landing-stage to oall at the official dock wharf to permit the Chinese to see their consul. The crew, however, thought the ship was putting to sea. Seven jumped overboard. A tug captured three of the deserters but the other four were drowned. Eventually, all the Chinese were ordered to ibe sent to Liverpool for trial and the vessel shipped a white crew. The Stratford correspondent of <he Wellington Times writes as follows: Stratford owes its origin, progress and its future welfare to Liberal administration and to reform 1 of the land laws. Many have condemned, not understanding, the l.i.p. tenure. That and the cooperative works has been the secret ot the success of this province. Work was found at a remunerative wage end land was placed at the disposal of men without having to find capital.' The labourer was recognised, and to-day Taranaki, and Stratford in particular, is prosperous. During the past nine years our population has increased by 11,000, our trade imports by £58,000, our exports by £1,007,000, and our valuation by over £0,000,000. Not a bad record of "maladminstration." One of the chief factors of success in Taranaki is the working of the Advances to Settlers Act, which .Mr. Massey so strenuously opposed. The new Land Bill is heartily approved of .by all Liberals and the compulsory purchasing clause is not meeting with the reception the Oppoeitios expected by the large landholders. Our readers will remember that it was stated in our cable news in Jnly that fifty British workmen were about to visit Germany to study eoonomic conditions there. The following will show how the language difficulty was overcome. "Hotel Vereinshaus, Essen, Ruhr.—l, alonjg with a number of other friends whose names are attached to this note, feel that we cannot leave Germany without expressing through yon the deep sense of gratitude to the Esperantists of the country for the great assistance which they have rendered to us during our stay here. We would willingly testify to the utility of Esperanto, as time after time you (Mr. Marklew)' have been able to interpret the questions we have asked, and the replies thereto with wonderful facility, although you were speaking to a strange people whom you had never met before, and whose Ordinary language you did not understand; but your common language of hope made you thoroughly abte to converse with each other, and has enabled us to obtain a large amount of information we should not otherwise have got, and it has enabled us to appreciate the fraternal feeling existing between the German and English working men." Mr. H. C. Ponting, FJLGjS.', photographic expert in Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition, who, our cables informed us on Saturday, had sailed by the Macedonia for Australia, en route to Lyttelton, has already travelled twice round the world, and has illustrated over twenty different countries. He has spent several years in the Far East. His exhibition of carbon and colored photographs is the largest individual exhibit at the Japan-British Exhibition. For use on the sledge journeys cameras of metal, especially light and strong, have been made. Two cinematograph machines are being taken, one of which is said to be the most powerful yet devised. A complete equipment 1b being taken for developing the films on the spot, and a dark-room is built for that purpose in the winter hut. A large stock of plates is being taken for securing the effects of the Antarctio in true natural colors, and the expedition is especially equipped for the most rapid work, for telephotophotography, for making photomicrography, and for flashlight work. The apparatus also includes a projecting. lantern for making lantern slides in the long night, and drying them in the wintaZui. _