LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 220, 23 January 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Plans of a new ferro-concrete picture building at Hastings, capable of holding 1200 people, are now being prepared. In some parts of Russia women are employed as navvies in the work of railway construction, sometimes over a .thousand women working on one railway extension contract. The pay is small and the toil very arduous. The Cromwell Argus records the fact that Ave persons met during the holidays to spend the day at Mr. .las. Mackenzie's farm. The combined ages of the five was 377 years. The. ages ranged from Til years* to 74. Four of the party were ladies, and during the day two of them danced a "step" to the bagpipes. Alarmed at the disclosures recently made regarding the espionage that prevails in Germany, the Kaiser has ordered elaborate- precautionary measures to be taken in future. Tim Emperor has also demanded from the military authorities n full report, showing in what direction the present precautions against spying have failed. At Geraldino, South Island, counterfeit coins as small as threepenny pieces have been discovered. One of these spurious coins, on being split open with a penknife, was found to be a shell of silver filled up with composition. The counterfeit was so cleverly made that it required a very close scrutiny and several tests to idontify the bad coin.

It has -been decided to form a motor cycle club in Palmcrston North.

Thursday has been decided upon K>i the half-holiday in the Moa Road Board district.

The Marlborough Herald has suspended publication, and would probably cease as from Saturday. , Carlyle's house at Ecelefcchan has been purchased for the public, and will be furnished with relics recalling Carlyle's boyhood. The Athenic, which has arrived at Adelaide, has on board fifty youths 01 ages from sixteen to twenty years, en route for New Zealand.

We are requested to state that members of South African contingents, whether in uniform or not, will be welcomed at the ceremony in connection with the unveiling of the South African troopers' monument on Marsland Hill by the Governor on the 26th inst.

The following choice little extract is taken from an advertisement in a southern paper, setting forth the advantages of the Blenheim district:—"Die Happy.—lf you buy a lot in the Blenheim district you will die happy, as then you will have do;ie your duty to your wife and family." A girl on receiving an offer of marriage determined to visit her four married sisters before giving an answer. She found one, formerly a belle, who did all her own work, with three children to keep her in the house ;' another was supporting her husband; the third didn't dare to say her life was her own, and the 'fourth was divorced. .She went home and told the young man she would be ready for the ceremony in a month. I A striking experiment in education is being made by two ladies at a girls' school at Scarborough. They are endeavoring to fit their pupils for the responsibilities of motherhood by training them systematically in the care of babies. The school contains a nursery, in charge of a trained nurse, and the pupils who have reached the age of seventeen years go through a thorough scientific course of instruction in the intricate art of looking after "a real, live .baby." Arrested in New Zealand and brought back to England, Herbert Walter Jnsull, a cashier, formerly in the employ of Messrs. Frank Lloyd and Sons., auctioneers, was committed for trial at Ellesmere on Tuesday on his plea of guilty to a charge of having embezzled £SOO, the money of his employers. It was stated that his total defalcations exceeded £BOO, and that after absconding he wrote to his wife, saying his accounts were wrong, and as he was going to try his luck elsewhere he begged her to regard him as dead. A proposal is on foot to erect a Maori home for consumptives in Masterton, says a correspondent, and during last week Dr. Pomare was there in connection with the matter. There would appear to be a very great deal of consumption among the Maoris of Wairarapa—far more than the average person would suspect. Within the past two weeks or so three young Maoris have died from the disease, and there are a number of others dangerously ill, many being in the last stages. It is anticipated that the lion* will be erected in the district before May next.

Few of our readers but are acquainted with that beautiful missionary hymn 'by Bishop Heber, "From Greenland's Icy Mounta'ns." They will learn with surprise that American Episcopalians intend eliminating it from their official hymn book, on the ground that the sentiments are antiquated. Particular exception is taken to the phrase about Ceylon, "where every prospect pleases and only man is vile." Many years ago, and we believe in the original hymn, the word was Java, not Ceylon. It is now said that a Cingalese hotelkeeper once presented Bishop Heber with an exorbitant hill. Hut this is probably an American ''dig" at the worthy Bishop. "The holidays played the deuce with them!" This was a startling remark heard at the Moa Road Board meeting on Saturday, when members were deploring the scarcity of laborers in the district. One of the Board's was stated to have found it impossible to obtain stonebreake»s since the holidays. One member thus expressed himself: "I can't get anyonne to crack those stones up my way. One of these days I expect I will have to do it myself—for nothing! That's what I can see in it. I offered thirty bob a week and tucker, aud would give £2, but I can't get 'em." The speaker was quite cheerful over the matter, it should be stated.

Mr. P. S. Whitcombe, secretary to the Tnrnunki Education Board, informs us that the Board has vacancies for three more probationers, one each in the Mgaere, Tariki, and Waitara schools. To be qualified for the position the candh dates must be over sixteen years of age, of sound health, and have passed either the matriculation or Junior Civil Service examinations. The salary of a probationer is £2O for the -first year and £25 for the second, with a boarding allowance if obliged to live away from home of £3O per annum. At the end of two yenrs a probationer who has passed the matriculation examination and is recommended by the inspector is entitled to attend the Training College at Wellington for two years, and will receive a boarding allowance while there of £OO per annum, and is also entitled to attend the lectures at the Victoria College free. "Winter scene on the Lower Norfolk road." This was the subject of a very cleverly executed pen and ink sketch forwarded to the Moa Road Board in support of a request to metal the road. In the foreground a settler is depicted sitting in his cart disconsolately looking at the broken shafts and his horse haltburied in the mud. Soaring high over the contour of the hills in the background is a biplane on its way to the factory with the morning's milk supply, tlie cans being suspended from the machine by means of a long rope. The sketch is signed "Charlie A. Grant, 12/12/1910," and the artist is evidently possessed of no menu ability, the drawing being true to detail. In his communication to the Board, the artist wrote: "It is not exactly a gloomy outlook, because it is rather a step in advance of the present day means of transporting milk!"

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