LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 218, 23 December 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The first steamer built in New Zealand was launched on December 23, 1871. AVe are in receipt of a useful and novel wall calendar from the New Zealand Expresa Co.

The half-yearly meeting of the New Plymouth Club called for Wednesday evening lap»ed for want of a quorum. For committing a breach of a prohibition order, John Loveridge was fined 10s and costs (7s) at the local coun yesterday morning.

The staff of the "News" wish to acknowledge with many thanks the receipt of a hamper from His Worship the Mayor, who they all cordially agree is a "jolly, good fellow." Yesterday morning at the Magistrate's Court, Mr. Fitzherbert, S.M., sentenced John Osborne Cock, who failed to appear, to a fortnight's imprisonment with hard labor for failing to obey an order of the court for the maintenance of his child.

It is stated that Powelka, whose capture gave the'authorities so much trouble a few months ago, is now one of the most tractable prisoners confined in the Terrace gaol. He is employed in the boot-making department of the gaol, and is reported to be a good worker. A Dunedin telegram reports that the Waiwera, London direct, arrived yesterday with" 200 third-class passengers, among whom are 92 assisted emigrants, 28 domestics, 18 farm laborers, 6 farmers, and 12 wives coming to join their husbands. It is reported by an exhhangc that while a sheep was being shorn on Mr, A. Burger's farm, Telanga, near Penshurst, Victoria, a starling's nest was found in the wool. The nest had one egg in it. That bird must have had a good memory in being able to find the special sheep .while it was building its nest! Mr. Chas, Anderson, a very old Taranaki resident, and well known throughout the district, who manages a farm for Mr. Newton King in the Awakino district, slipped on the pavement near St. Aubyn and Egmont streets' corner yesterday afternoon, and broke one of his legs near the ankle. He was attended by Dr. Wylie, and removed to a private hospital. Commencing on January 9, a monster camp of instruction for Boy Scouts will be held at New Brighton. All Boy Scouts in the South Island have been invited to attend, and it is expected .that 500 will be in camp,, if certain railway concessions are granted. The boys will be instructed in scout work, and there will be competitions of various kinds.—Press telegram. According to a decree issued by the Venezuelan ministry of finance, printingpaper may be admitted into the country free of duty, provided it is for the use of newspapers. Publishers using imported paper are required to furnish the Government monthly reports of the quantity used. The purpose of the decree is apparently to encourage the publishing of newspapers in Venezuela.

There are restrictions on the landing of Australian natives in New Zealand, if they happen to be black, as was discovered by Barton Bros., circus proprietors, at Auckland, when they applied for permission to bring in an Australian aboriginal, who is the buckjump rider attached to their staff. Tie boy, "Black" Albert, was eventually allowed to be brought ashore upon the deposit of the usual £1:00. bond demanded in these cases.

The Waitara paper is informed that Messrs. Hatrick and Co. intend ptftting a steam traction motor on the road between Waitara and Opuuake shortly af-ter-the new year. The capacity t of the waggon and trailer is six tons, and the firm is confident that this means of transport will result in a satisfactory trade. Not content with working Opunake by land, Messrs. Hatrick and Co. intend putting the Pitoitoi on this running, the vessel making a fortnightly trip, starting early in January.

• Rich red roses are the very latest "cure",; for colds, states . the London correspondent of a New York journal. A vegetable antiseptic has been evolved from the rose 'which 13 made lip into small aromatic lozenges. These, when dissolved in the mouth, wage relentless war against the countless millions of those bacilli which set up the conditions known as "cold in the head." The rose antiseptic has been placed into cultures of the bacilli of diphtheira, pneumonia, typhoid and other diseases,, and on every occasion Has routed the bacilli horse and hoof. It is stated that only to inhale the fragrant lozenges affords relief to the sufferer from a cold.

Mr.'Peter Bowling's speech in Masterton -was chiefly 'devoted to trouncing newspapers, vilifying those in authority, and exposing the treachepy of members of the party to which he himself belongs. It was devoid of anything approaching logic or reason. According to Mr. Bowling himself, he is not what he has been described. He is not'an "incendiary" or a "revolutionary." He is not an aspirant for legislative honors. He is not a man of learning He is Peter Bowling. His mission, as explained by himself, is to create combined unions, instead of sectional unions. He describes a man who will not strike, when under provocation, as a "fool," and then he proceeds to assert that his mission of combining the unions is to prevent strikes. He calls newspapers "liars and hypocrites," and describes the present Labor leader in Australia as a "coward and a traitor."—Wairarapa Age. In the course of his official rep6rt to the Gisborne Borough Council on his world tour, the Mayor (Mr. Lysnar) states that he made a very full investigation into the various tramway systems m vogue, and at New York had the opportunity of meeting Mr. T. A. Edison and discussing the merits of his self-con-tained battery car. He claims the car to be absolutely perfect, and is prepared to give a guarantee for three years, and at the end of that time he will renew, the positive plates for one-half of the original cost and guarantee it for another three years; making in all a guarantee for six years. There is the pay-as-you-enter device on this car, which enables the conductor to do the whole of •the work, and he controls the two doors, back and front, from a lever m the front of the car. Comparing the official data as to the cost of running this car with the Christchurch trolley system, the Edison car will cost 2y 3 d per mile to* run, as compared with the Christchurch cost of 5d per mile. This is on the basi% of electricity costing 3d per unit.

YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND That by using the Commercial Eucalyptus Oil, which is now bought up at 6d per lb. weight and bot'tle, and, on account of the large profits, pushed,-you are exposing yourself to all the dangers to whieh the use of turpentine will expose you—irritation of kidneys, intestinal tract and mucous membranes. By insisting on the GENUINE SANDER EUCALYPTI EXTRACT you not only avoid these pitfalls, but you have a stimulating, safe and effective medicament, the result of a special and careful manufacture. Remember: SANDER'S EXTRACT embodies the result of 50 years' experience and of special study, and it does what is promised; it cures and heals without injuring the constitution, as the oils on the market frequently do. , Therefore,' protect yourself by rejecting other brands. -"'."'

It is >hope"d .that the Dominjpri bSttlS*> ship, now being built at the FairfleKE yards, Glasgow; wiU be ready ing in July. It is definitely, staw that her name will be New Zealand. The present battleship called New Zealand will • then be out of commission, and advantage will be taken to alter her name, probably to Maori. What appears to be a record in Sunday school prize-taking was noted on Sunday (says the Otago Daily Tinfes) at St. Paul's Sunday school, when the five children of one' family attending the school took first prize in their respective classes. Archdeacon Gould, in his remarks, commented on this unique performance, and said the prizes were thoroughly deserved. Mr. K. 0. Webster, of Messrs. Webster Bros., corrects the impression conveyed by a paragraph in yesterday's issue, take from a contemporary. The price of strawberries on the Auckland market averages from 8d to Is a pound! for the season, he explains, and not from Is to Is Cd, as could be inferred from the paragraph referred to. Hence strawberries are not such an expensiveluxury, gjjft

Dr. Maloney, the Labor member for Melbourne, moved the other day in the Federal Parliament to get the Commonwealth to help mothers by making them a payment of five shillings weekly for three months before and six months after the arrival of each little Australian. Lack of time this session forbade prompt action; but Acting-Prime Minister Hughea admitted that the matter was of great importance and must presently be dealt with.

On Friday last Mr. Moorhouse, Tourist Department ranger, netted in Lake Roto»< rua a trout of about tfOlb weight It was afterwards sold by the Department. Some very small fish have (reports the Rotorua correspondent of the Auckland Star) been taken, and considerable dissatisfaction exists afj trout being, netted, particularly young fish. It is asserted that under-sized fish caught were seen in the Department's cart, and it is rumored that two weiesecured by an angler.