LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 266, 31 March 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape is going in for a £OOOO town hall. Rather ambitious for a place known a few years ago as "Three Log Whare"! Typhoid is prevalent about Taupiri. Two further cases were sent to the hospital at Hamilton at the end of last week. "I've lived in worse places than Opunake. I've lived at Inglewood and other places."—Witness at the Police Court yesterday. Swimming is taking on wonderfully in Christchurch. Over three hundred "women and girls were swimming in the local tepid baths the other evening. A female tramp, carrying a good-sized swag, is the latest Wairarapa novelty reported by a Masterton paper. The lady was looking for a position as cook. •'I planted myself in the cemetery, your Worship." Thus Inspector Tippins, describing, in the Police Court yesterday, how he had managed to secure some offenders against the borough by-laws. The Court smiled. The teachers and scholars of the Moturoa Sunday School to the number of about fifty or sixty, and many parents of the children assembled at the church yesterday, and were present ai the unveiling of the obelisk, joining in the singing ofthe hymn. When the ceremony . was over, teachers and children repaired to the beach, where a very ample tea was provided by kind friends. After tea, games and races were held and prizes given to the winners. All enjoyed the picnic It was at No. 3 bore yesterday. A man was looking into, the tank when a portion of a pipe fell, sending up splashes that found lodgment on the onlooker's clothes. Another individual near by laughed; he evidently thought it was a great joke to see his friend's clothes so damaged, but he had reason to alter his mind shortly after, when, moving about in the vicinity, he fell into a pool of thick oil, two to three feet deep. He looked rather sorry when he emerged, whilst his nether garments were irreparably damaged. A sight the like of which would probably not have been seen in any other part of the Dominion was witnessed at Moturoa yesterday. In a buggy near the obelisk that was being unveiled were six old ladies, and near by another lady, the combined ages of whom amounted to 581 years, giving an average of 83 years to each. The oldest was 92 and the youngest 75. The ladies were Mrs. Devcnish, Mrs. Skinner, sen., Mrs. Theo. White, sen., Mrs. T. King, Mrs. A. Phillips, Mi's. Hempton, sen., and Mrs. W. K. Hulk. In the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before Mr. H. S Fitzherbert. S.M., Mary Ross proceeded against her husband, John James Ross, of Opunake. for having failed to maintain her. She also asked for a separation. Mi. Hughes appeared for the complainant. Mr. Johnstone, who appeared for de fendant, applied for a change of venue to Opunake, on the grounds that most of his witnesses were there. Mr. Hughes opposed the application, as his. client was destitute. The court decided to take complainant's evidence, and then adjourn the case to Opunake. as requested. '■'4l" writes: I strolled round New Plymouth yesterday in order to observe the signs of joy at Taranaki's anniversary, and found that although the celebrations had been deliberately shifted a day tor the benefit of local tradespeople, offices were open, and their owners sat at the receipt of custom, eager for the passing penny, and oblivious to anniversaries. I saw no outward or visible signs of festivity— not a bit of bunting flew from any business place, l sampled the residence streets and at last discovered a lonely flag fluttering proudly from a citizen's flagpole. It was the New Zealand ensign— and it was upside down! A speaker at the Taranaki Veterans' banquet last evening expressed the opinion that it was a reflection ou the younger people of the province that they partook of the hospitality of the veterans and yet did nothing to recognise the work that made possible' the easy and prosperous conditions of to-day. He appealed to the younger men of the place to do their duty by the old warriors, and annually (say on Anniversary night) tender to them a complimentary banquet, or something of the kind. It was the least that could be done for those who had fought and bled for the province. We hope the suggestion will be taken up and acted upon before next Anniversary Day comes around. There has been a little misunderstanding regarding a resolution about a certain brand of chocolate published ii. the report of the W.C.T.U. convention. This resolution was not passed by the convention at present sitting in New Plymouth, but was reported by a member as having been passed by her own local union. The reason whv the Dunedin Union protested against the sale of the chocolate packets was because of the conditions connected with it. In every packet a picture is enclosed, and when a set is eolleoted. an album is purchased, the pictures encased, and posted to the firm, who return as a prize Ids worth of chocolate. This foster* a spirit of gambling among the children, for some would 'buy, say, a dozen packets and get the same picture every time, necessitating an exchange. Offinies the child gives a penny for the picture alone that they might get something for nothing. The chairman of the Education Board in Dunedin. as well as the Trades and Labor Council, knowing what a craze it was among the school children, called the attention of Parliament to this evil. YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND That by using the Commercial Eucalyptus Oil, which is now bought, up at (id per lb weight anil bottle, and. on account of the large profits, pushed, you are exposing yourself to all Ihe dangers to which the u<e of tnrpenline will expose you—irritation of kidneys, intestinal tract and mucous membranes. Bv insisting on the GENUINE SANDER EUCALYPTI EXTRACT you not only avoid these pitfalls, hut von have a stimulating, safe and effective medicament, the result of a special and careful manufacture. Remember: SANDER'S EYTRACT embodice the result, of 50 years' experience and of special study, and il does whai is promised; it cures and \\".\U without injuring the constitution, as (lie Oils on the market frequently do. Therefore, protect yourself by rejecting other brands.

Mr. J. Dunlop gave some concise but excellent, advice to a gathering of dairymen down South. It was brief but to the point: Test the cows and grow lucerne. An Auckland paper reports that the Rey. H. Mason, of Otuhuhu, recently visited the general hospital grounds, and foeated a water supply which lie estimates will provide about 40,000 gallons a day. The revised valuations within the borough show an increase of £3413 over last year. In the Central Ward the valuation is £32,418, East Ward, £15,442, West Ward £10,882,, making a total of £58,742, against £55,320 last year. The baths at Rotorua have found favor in the eyes of the Governor, who recently visited the popular thermal resort. Prior to his departure on Sunday, Lord Islington expressed himself as delighted with the beneficial properties of the waters, and stated that he had never before derived such exhilaration from any spa that he had visited in any part of the world. j It is announced by the Mercantile Gazette that the Mokau Coal and Estates Company lias been formed, with offices at Palmcrston Xorth, to "acquire, take over, and purchase as a going concern the colliery and the business of a coal merchant at Waitara and Mokau now owned and carried on by George H. .Stubbs." The capital is £IOO,OOO in shares of £lO each, and the subscribers include: T. M. Chambers 750 (of which 000 are fully paid up), R. McXab 1000, B. Chambers 1000, Vv. Nelson .1000, R. D. D. McLean 500. . f ■ As the result of an understanding between the brickmakers of Wellington the price of bricks has increased 12s per 1000 within the last five months. Bricks are now being sold at £2 10s per 1000 which were selling at £1 13s five months ago. The builders of Wellington, who are suffering more or less from the big price, are moving in the matter, and a conference is to be held to discuss the price with the brickmakers' representatives, and also to protest against the fact that the builder who buys 20,000 bricks cannot get them a penny cheaper per 1000 than the man who buys 50. Mr. W. H. Skinner, has received the following letter from the librarian oi the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, London:—"We have a large collection of naval and military war maps in this institution, and are anxious, as far as possible, to complctw those we have of the New Zealand war. It has been suggested to me that I might apply to you for maps allowing the actions of Waivcka and Otohanga. If you can see your way to letting us have <ma.p3 representing these actions, this institution would be greatly indebted to you, and I would, personally, be most grateful.—(Sgd.) C. H. Wylly, Maj., Librarian." There are some people who should not be allowed to handle a horse, particularly in regard to driving one on a public road, owing to the absolute lack of judgment and common sense they display when turning corners or driving across an intersecting street. Yesterday, near the Imperial corner, a gentleman was driving down Devon : street, when a man who was coming up i the street in a spring cart and evidently | wished to enter Currie street, suddenly j pulled his horse right across the road in frdont of the approaching the trap. It was only clever manipulation of the reins on the part of the driver of the latter that an accident was averted. He had a lady and a clergyman with him at the time, but that could not prevent him from venting his feelings audibly. The present generation know nothing of the anguished thrill which shook British households when Russell's letters from the Crimea were published in tht> Times, writes Sir Henry Lucy in the Sydney Morning Herald. It is impossible for us to realise the sensation created as the ghastly story of heroism in the trenches and administrative incapacity at home was unfolded. In the life of the first, and perhaps greatest, of war correspondents just published by Mr. Murray there will be found, chiefly in private letters addressed to Mr. Delane, pictures even more vivid than those drawn with the sense of responsibility attached to publication. Ten years ago we thought that ministerial responsibility for the conditions under which the campaign against the Boers was entered upon ami conducted most nearly touched the verge of criminality. At the disclosures made before the Royal Commission testified, affairs in the Transvaal were bad enough. But the incompetency displayed in high places, imperilling the British Empire "in South Africa, was nothing compared with that responsible for the horrors of the Crimean campaign. Writing to Delane from Balaclava on January 17, 1853, Rus-i sell says: "This army has melted awav! almost to a drop of miserable, washed- 1 fiiit, spiritless wretches who, out of fifty-five thousand muster, just 11,000 are now fit to shoulder a musket, but certainly not fit to do duty against the enemy." "Billy" Russell's record of public work, of course, extended beyond' the Crimea. r> wn* in India during the j Mutiny, represented, his paper during the Civil War in America, the Austro-' Prussian AA'ar, the Franco-German War, I an,] H-n.s with Garnet AVolsWcy in South' Africa. But through history lie will live as the historian of the Crimean AA'ar, the man who. as Evelyn Wood testified, "saved what was left of our armv."