LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 247, 24 February 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Westport Harbor Board, under legislation of last session, has decided to make an allowance of £2OO a year, irrespective of travelling expenses, to its chairman.—Press telegram.

Wilson has been conducting a sitting of the Native Land Court here during the past fortnight. A large number of cases have been put through. It is expected that the Court will be occupied for the next three weeks.

It has been decided that the letters to be affixed to shoulder badges of the Territorials will be as follow: —N.Z.G.A. (Garrison Artillery), N.Z.M.A. (Medical Corps), N.Z.F.A. (Field Artillery), N.Z.E. (Engineers), NZ.M.R. (Mounted Rilles), N.Z.R. (Infantry Companies), N.Z.V.C. (Veterinary Corps), and for the stall', N.Z. Staff.

The " Turkey Trot," a dance invented in San Francisco, has attracted the attention of Anna Pavlowa, tie Russian dancer, and she declares her intention of taking it back to Russia, and popularising it in Europe. The dance imitates the strutting, the proud bearing, and the courting of the turkey. It is immensely popular in San Francisco. Mme. Pavlowa says there are great ballet possibilities in the dance, and she intends to have the idea carefully worked out.

About a year ago, upon the occasion of a -parade of veterans in Egmont street, v a couple of chairs were borrowed from a neighboring hostelry for the benefit of two very old members of the association. After the parade the chairs were removed, but not to the hotel. If anyone having knowledge of their whereabouts* will communicate with Mr. Tuthill, of the Taranaki Hotel, or with this office, he will be saving the unfortunate borrower some trouble and expense. After business was transacted at a meeting in a country town the other evening, several yarns were spun, tho best being retailed by a local Justice of the Peace. He stated that the Sergeant of Police approached him, with the news of the apprehension of two dead-beats. As the weeds were over-running the station garden, he wished the J.P. to order the detention of the drunks for 48 hours. The Bench acquiesced, the men receiving three days' hard—and the garden reaped the benefit. It is feared that Mrs. Cameron, oi Cardiff, has been lost on the Mountain. On Wednesday she proceeded to the Forest Reserve with the picnic from the Pembroke Road School. She set out with Mrs. Boyle to go to the Curtis Falls, but after going a short distance Mrs. Boyle said she was too tired to proceed further, and Mrs. Cameron said she would go by herself. She set out, and thereafter nothing was seen of her up to the time the picnic party left the Mountain at half-past four. Messrs. Cameron and Christiansen and others set out on a search, but so far nothing has been heard of their success or otherwise.—Stratford Post

On Wednesday Mr. C. E. Seabright, stationmastcr at Midhirst, met with' a nasty accident. Intending to be present at the swimming meeting at Hawera, he left Midhirst on a motor-bi-cycle early in the afternoon, but had not proceeded far before he struck a rock and was thrown to the ground, his nose and right hand being badly cut After having his wounds dressed, necessitating a great deal of sticking plaster over the nose, Mr, Seabright continued his journey to Hawera, arriving by train at 4 o'clock. The accident was rather unforunate for tlie reason that the meeting of Seabright and Bassett in the plunging competition had been looked forward to to produce a good contest. —Stratford Post. Many versions, more or less accurate, of the romantic story of the discovery of the Coolgardie goldfield, says thu • Sydney Morning Herald,' have been given from time to time, and doubts have occasionally been raised as to the actual discoverers. There is now residing amongst us Mr. William Ford, the ■•mate" of the late Mr. Bailey, of Bailey's Reward, an* he removes many of the misconceptions which have existed. " George Withers, a native ot New South Wales, was the first to find gold there," Mr. Ford remarked, "and that was in the year 1892. Bailey and I went prospecting in 1892, and we found alluvial gold right away at a place now known aa Ely Flat, just below the town of Coolgardie. It was about a month later—in August or September, 1892 that we found the reef, afterwards so widely known as Bailey's Reward.''

Yesterday afternoon the promoters were favored with perfect weather for the garden party at "St. Kilda" in aid of the funds of the Maori Mission ana the Victoria School for Maori girls, and the very pretty and eminently suitable grounds kindly lent by Mrs. F. Bayly looked at their best, there was a good attendance, and the arrangements were excellent, tending to the general enjoyment, and reflecting the greatest credit on the energetic ladies-' committee, ot which Miss Percy-Smith was the secretary. Amongst the many pleasant methods of passing the afternoon, and incidentally adding to the funds, were croquet and putting competitions, afternoon tea kiosk, and the various snugly situated stalls, whilst a stroll through the shrubberies seemed not to come amiss. The produce stall was in charge of .Mrs. Skinner, Mrs. Addenbrooke, and Miss Stephenson-Smith; fancy stall, Mrs. Cook, Miss Percy-Smith, Miss Devenish, and Miss B. Smith; sweets stall, Misses Webster, Bewley, and Glasgow's afternoon tea kiosk, Mesdamcs Tisch, B. Jury, Bach, Richards and O'Driscoll; Misses Wilson and Curtis had charge of the croquet competition, and Mrs. Paton and Miss McKellar conducted the putting competition.

A SALE THAT WILL STARTLE TARANAKI. The Melbourne annual reduction sale is undoubtedly the greatest ever hold in Taranaki. A stupendous sale, the equal of which in size and smashing of values has never been equalled. The whole enormous stock is being thrown at the mercy of the people of Taranaki at tremendous price-reductions. The stock, comprise* men's and hoys' clothing, hats, boots, shirts, lies, underwear, braces, etc., etc. Ladies' handkerchiefs, umbrellas, blouses, skirts and underskirts, art needlework, calicoes, sheetings, prints, zephyrs, cretonnes, colored sateens, grey calicoes, <pot and striped white muslins, art muslins, American leather cloth, toilet soap, and hundreds of other lines too numerous to mention. We want this sale to be a period of memorable business activity. For that reason we have set a new high-water mark for value-giving.

A Gisborne inventor is advertising for capital to complete and exploit a new phonetic apparatus, which he claims is capable of taking a continuous record for twentv-four hours.

At the Konini school picnic on Tuesday (says the I'ahiatua Herald) two girls of twelve put up something of a record (for their age) iu high-jumping, each clearing a pole four feet in height. The performance elicited hearty applause from the spctcator*. It is stated (says the Dominion) that some interesting correspondence has taken place concerning the appointment of an ofiiccr to fill the position of Director of Medical Services for the defence forces of the colony, and that more will he heard of the subject.

Thomas Stiteman, of Wimbleton, roadman, has issued a writ against William Kenneth Gollan. claiming £IOOO damages for seduction of the plaintiff's daughter. The case is set down for hearing at the next sitting of the Supreme Court at Palmerston next month.

Sharks are fairly plentiful in the AntiMciic Sea, according to the whalers who returned to civilisation last week (nay* a southern exchange), and they are quite at a loss to understand their presence so far south of New Zealand. They bombed three of the undesirable species last season, one of them being 16ft long. From two of the fish 20 teeth were draw altogether, the specimens being about 2in bv lin in size.

Mr. R. P. Vincent, ex-Mayor of Perth, West Australia, who is at present visiting Christchurch, has been giving his impressions of New Zealand cities. Mr. Vincent is no stranger to New Zealand, having visited it over'thirty years ago. So far as he had been in New Zealand, it appeared to him that the same unsatisfactory state of affairs existed as in centres he had knowledge of, and that there was a woeful lack of interest taken by the average ratepaper in municipal government. Not until greater interest was shown would there be better government.

The regulations which arc to govern the registration of barmaids have not yet emerged from the hands of the Government Printer, though their issue is now daily anticipated. Officials of the Labor Department, questioned on Monday, mentioned that a mistaken impression had gained currency that any barmaids employed in that capacity for three months prior to the final date of application for registration, in •Tune next, would be entitled to be registered. This is not the actual position. Only those barmaids will be eligible for registration who have been employed for a period of not iess than three month? during the twelve months preceding November 21, 1910. Although the Coronation is five months distant, seats are already being booked along the route of the great procession (writes a London correspondent). The prices asked for rooms range from 500 guineas to a figure which works out at five guineas a seat, according to the accommodation. Single scats on grandstands and roofs in the neighborhood of Piccadilly are being sold at three guineas each. There are a large number of syndicates at work in London who are entering,,into negotiations with shopkeepers a iid those who have property on the route. These syndicates will either run the windows themselves or purchase them with the idea of selling the rights at a profit. There are also many private speculators who acquire the right of a window, trusting to luck to make it pay. Some owners run the business themselves, and an idea of the profits they can make may be gained when it is said that for one window alone it is possible to receive £IOOO in fees.

In the course of an interview, Mr. John Fuller, sen., said that he considered moving picture entertainments had come to stay, and that they will increase in popularity as time goes on. They have already completely wiped out the second-rate drama companies that used to tour the Dominion. "There is no better factor in assisting the cause of temperance than these entertainments," said Mr Fuller. "In Napier and Wanganui the hotelkeepers bitterly complain of'their loss of trade owing to this cause. A man now takes his wife and children to a picture show and spends a more pleasant and profitable evening than hanging over an hotel bar. When I was in London three years ago," said -Mr Fuller, "I found that the publichouse business was rapidly going down. I attributed thi3 to the cheap variety entertainments that were then coming into vogue. There the houses were huge palaces, where for the modest price of from 2d to Is a man could take his wife to see the greatest that the world could produce in the variety line. Since that time the picture show has been added to the attractions that are bound 'to counteract the influence of the hotel."

An interesting recipe for longevity is given by Mr. Thos. Middleton, who is regarded as Invercargill's patriarch, and who i« in his ninety-seventh year. Mr. Middleton has been a resident of Invercargill for over half a century, and so can lay claim to being the oldest resident of the city, as well as its most venerable individual. Mr. Middleton was horn in Radnorshire (Wales) in 1815, and, ever a remarkably hale and active man, he still bears his years with extraordinary lightness, and walks his two or three miles a day without effort. "I believe," he remarked to a pressman, "that my treatment of my fellowmen as I would have I hem treat mo is primarily responsible. Then I may say that I have never smoked tobacco in any shape or form, nor have 1 ever drunk two bottles of whisky in my life. When I was thirsty T used to like malt and hope beer, with go°<l bread and cheese, but whisky and all other intoxicants f eschewed." I found that beer was very strengthening and health producing. As regards diet, 1 never could eat potatoes much. A little I could sometimes manage, but they never ajreed with me. I once broke my right arm, but beyond that I have never paid a doctor a pound in my life. Twen-ty-one years ago a doctor in Duncdin examined me, and told me that I was good for thirty years yet. I am now ninety-six. and if'the doctor is correct I should manage the hundred. I may say, further, that I never went in for athletes of any kind, and so never risked my bones or muscles in football battles. I have always liked walking and fresh air. I like music, and was once the finest clarionet player of my district." Mr. Middleton arrived in Diinedin bv the Lord Wor.slev in 1838, and walked overland to Invercargill in the same year, and has therefore been a resident of Southland for fifty-three vears.

YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND Thai »y using we commercial eucalyptus Oil, which is now bought up at'fld per lb. weight and bottle, and, on account of the large profits, pushed, you are exposing yourself to all the dangers to which the use of turpentine will expose you—irritation of kidneys, intestinal tract and mucous membranes. By insisting on the GENUINE SANDER EUCALYPTI EXTRACT yon not onlv avoid these pitfalls, but you have a stimulating, safe and effective medicament, the result of a special and careful manufacture. Remember: SANDER'S EXTRACT "inbodies the result of 50 years' experience and of special study, and it does what h promised; it cures nnd heals without injur!.v< the constitution, as Hie oils on the ii!.ii!;.'l, do. Therefore, protect yourself bv rejecting other brands.