LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 209, 13 December 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Humanity's strange craving for new forms of excitement was illustrated at the conclusion of the trial of Ethel Le Neve, Crippeu's paramour. Immediately the Lord Chief Justice had discharged the girl there was a rush of women, who one by one enjoyed the thrill of sitting in the chair she had occupied. The appearance of a gold piece in the collection at the Kaiapoi volunteer and cadet camp recently caused the chaplain to make the announcement that if anv person had placed a half-sovereign in the hat instead of a 6d, he could have it returned. It was subsequently ascertained t^AtheM&lsdfe^^

Tasman discovered New Zealand, De cember 13, 1642.

Mr. Newton King has received the following cable from Sydney re hides: "Eighth lower." The outward English mail despatched from Wellington on November 4 reached London on the afternoon of the Oth inst.

A new system of insurance against libel has been intiated in England. One insurance company has already covered 500 papers. The Wanganui College four-oared crew beat the Wellington College crew by four lengths in a mile race on the Wagamii River last evening.

A Wellington message last night stated that the Jubilee of St. Patrick's College was further celebrated yesterday and last night. A large number of students, ex-3tudents, Catholic clergy, anil friends were entertained at Day's Bay during the day by Mr. 'Martin Kennedy, and the conversazione in the Town Hall at night was very largely attended. There has been some very strenuous football in the United States this season. Up to the present fourteen players have been killed and forty others seriously injured. Forty thousand persons were present to witness the annual match between teams from Yale and Harvard Universities. Play was very even throughout, and the game resulted in a draw, neither side scoring. During the violent thunderstorm on the 28th ult., an extraordinary occurrence took place at Mr. G. Loach's shearing shed, Orari (says the Temuka Leader). A flash of lightning struck the shearing machine and travelled down the tube to the clippers held in a shearer's hand and killed ,the sheep he was shearing stone dead. Fortunately for the shearer there was a leather protection on the handle of the clippers, and this no doubt saved the man's rife. The body of the sheep, immediately after death, turned quite black. Needless to say, all hands knocked off shearing at once till the thunderstorm passed over.

A correspondent, Mrs. H. Georgina Smith, writes as follows from Portsmouth to the British Australasian: — "Having returned from New Zealand, after spending eighteen months in that lovely country, I should like to say that I have never seen such magnificent scenery anywhere. In visiting these islands I saw Lake Wakatipu and the Wanganui river, the later being fairyland. Every place you visit offers fresh scenery. At Rotorua the weird scenery and the boiling geysers are wonderful. . . . . New Zealand hotels are good and the tariff is moderate. Travelling is quite a pleasure, both in boats and by rail. The tourists' tickets are excellent, also the check luggage system. . . . It think it is an education to go to New Zealand, and shall most certainly persuade my friends to visit that wonderful country."

Says the Dunedin StaT: —How mucn of the £2500 will go to Meikle, and how much to the Meikleites, we neither know nor care; but Ave- do know that there has been some very strange manoeuvring in connection with the business. And, having regard to all the circumstances, the

evidence, and the issues involved, we emphatically assert that our Parliament never authorised a more unwarrantable payment than that which was voted on Saturday. Perhaps some of those who have been- opposed to the claim may be inclined to find comfort in the reflection that a nuisance has been got rid of; but relief may be dearly bought at the cost of a vital principle; and, besides, who shall say that Meikle and the Parliamentary Meikleites will not be back next year for the balance of the £5000? No doubt he will be required to further pledge himself to make no further demands; but he did that years ago. It is pertinent to remark that when grievous injustice is really suffered in consequence of the blundering of the Courts—as in a too memorable instance on the West Coast—the Government strenuously resist all applications for financial redress. It takes a Meikle to arouse their sympathies and liberality—with the public money. The Mayor of Gisborne (Mr. W. D. Lysnar) has published in London an account of an interview he had with Mr. Thos. Edison, the great inventor. -"I do not pretend to know anything about political economy," said Mr.'Edison, "but I do see the one little thing—that in Germany a, man will sit on his stool and watch four planing machines turning put work. He performs no physical labor. In England an Englishman sits on a stool, but, on account of the union, he only" watches one planer. The products are sold in competitive markets. To me the end is clear. 1 ' When asked to suggest a remedy, Mr. Edison replied: li l woxild suggest that the Labor unions should allow their men to get out as much work as possible, providing there were no physical increase of labor in doing it, so that their country can compete with other countries. The trade union people," he continued, "will not allow this, because they think it will "knock other workmen out of a job. Now, this contention is contravened by the history of every new invention to cheapen production. For instance, take the sewing machine. It was supposed to throw out of employment hundreds of thousands of seamstresses. On the contrary, it increased their numbers by 2000 per cent., and it i 3 the same with all analogous things." Mr. J. H. A. Pike, the Sydney wireless experimentalist, in a letter to a friend in Melbourne, gives some interesting facts relative to his recent trip to Vancouver as wireless expert of the Makura, and also some criticism of Australia's position with respect to wireless installations. Mr. Pike mentions that from Suva wharf he spoke H.M. S. Challenger, then off Seal Rocks—a distance of

•2000 miles. This feat had never been accomplished before, though frequent attempts had been made to establish the long-distance communication. Nearing Honolulu he picked up the land station at 'Frisco, at 2700 miles. On reaching Vancouver he was informed that this was a record for any ship running to that port. Mr. Pike goes on to say that the Americans thought Australia behind the times in wireless matters, having no land stations there. Over there, even fishing boats, tugs, oil barges, and hotels were, he said, fitted. Around the Pacific Coast there were about 300 wireless stations, professional and otherwise. The first half of every hour was reserved for Government stations, and the second half for commercial. The atmosphere along the Pacific Coast was perfect for the system, a thunderstorm being a rare occurrence, in contrast with the conditions about Australia, where ■the lightning was often so bad as to prevent the wireless system being worked. YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND

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