LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 258, 10 March 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

editor of the American publication, "Everybody's Magazine," is Mr. J, H. Cosgrove, an old Auckland Grammar School boy.

Mails for Auckland will be despatched on Friday by the Rosamond, closing, at 12.45 p.m. There will be no steamer jfor Auckland on Friday night. The mile championship of the New Plymouth Swimming Club for the cup presented by Mr. James Smith will take place this evening at the Municipal Swimming Baths. A grain merchant in Omaha, U.S.A., advertised for "oats." The word was printed "cats." He received some 5000, and at the time of the despatch of the last mail was still getting heavy supplies. Bichromate of potash in solution is said to be a cheap and perfectly reliable fly poison. Dissolve one dram in two ounces of water and add a little sugar. Put some of this solution in shallow dishes and place them about the house.

Among a truck of coal that was being unloaded at Patea, there was picked up a plug of giant blasting powder weighing about a quarter of a poupnd. Had it found its way into some housewife's kitchen stove—what then ?

It is gratifying to learn that the Napier woollen mill is now «ompletely resuscitated, and has "become a hive of industry, the company having installed the most up-to-date* machinery, and tlie output being highly satisfactory. The rye-grass seed which Mr. Dunlop saw when in Hawke's Bay greatly impressed him. ' He said he had seen samples up to 421b per bushel, which is 101b better than anything' they have been able to produce hitherto in Scotland.

The New Plymouth Municipal Progress Association in embryo has for its object, as its name implies, the furtherance of the interests of the town. We understand that a meeting of Central Ward electors is to be held this evening in the Council Chambers, when members will be enrolled, a committee elected for Central Ward, and candidates nominated for election to the Council.

The Minister for Native Affairs (the Hon. J. Carroll) states that the purchase of native lands in different parts of the Dominion is now being undertaken by the Government. In the Urewera country, arrangements have been made for procuring 60,000 acres, and Mr. Carroll expect* to acquire 100,000 acres before closing negotiations. The land, which has been acquired is somewhat rough and heavily timbered, but when cleared it will be suitable for pastoral purposes.

The tribulations of a statesman were dealt with briefly by Sir Joseph Ward when speaking at Christchureh the other day. "Anyone who rHns away with the idea that the men who will attend the Imperial Conference will go on a pleasure trip," he said, "are very much mistaken. The long hours will place a heavy strain on the physical condition of members of the Conference; and then, of course, there will be, as a corollary to the Conference, attendance at banquets and other public functions, and the visits to English politicians at their homes. Let anyone try to attend a number of public banquets night after night. It is a training for an athlete or a pugilist; I do not believe that they could go through the things that we go through." A country correspondent referring to a settler's wife who had come into the wilds to join her husband, thus wrote:— "Another brave woman has turned up in this district. No woman suffragette is she—no highly-strung political hobbleskirted female, but a true woman who believes in mnking a home comfortable for the man of her choice, the latter being one of the pioneers engaged in opening up a valley, but who was absent when his wife arrived, assisting neighbors with 'the firestick.' Two rivers, turbulent in time of flood, have to he crossed op horseback to get to this settler's abode. But this brave woman essayed the task, reminding one of the heroism of the settlers' wives in the early days. They are not so frequently met with as in the long ago, but the'v are as highly appreciated as ever they were."

The address to bo delivered this evening in the Theatre Royal by Mr. Malcolm on "Imperial Federation," is sure to be most interesting, and. from an educational and national point of view, will lead one to reflect upon action that should be taken by one and all who are interested in the welfare of the Empire. The address is being conducted under the auspices of the Navy League, and every effort is being put'forward to induce the heads of families and the more intelligent of the rising generation to attend. A limited vocal programme has been arranged. Messrs. Trebilco and Tom Woodard have kindly consented to give their services for the good of the cause, and Mr. J. C. Morey will act as accompanist. The Scouts are showing considerable interest in the movement, and their presence is likely to be a prominent feature of the meeting. His Worship the Mayor (Mr. Tisch), who is also president of the local branch of the Navy League, will preside, and it is anticipated that a large audience will assemble at the Theatre Royal.

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