LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 270, 5 April 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The prices for admission to Mdlle. Dolores' concert to-night will be os, 4s, and 2s. The annual meeting of the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board will be held this morning. Only one petition in bankruptcy has been file.) in Wellington since the beginning of the present year. A new weigh-bridge, capable of registering up to 20 tons at a time, has just been installed in the local railway yards. The Chief Postmaster notifies that the post office receiving box near Mr. Watson's residence on the Eliot road has now been removed to the corner oi Holdsworthy and Eliot roads. Owing to the probable absence of Mr. G. Tisch, the Mayor, at Mokau with the Ministerial party, the usual meeting of the Works Committee of the New Plymouth Borough Council will be held on Friday evening instead of Thursday. Already over six hundred applications have been received for enrolment on the supplementary district roll of the borough of New Plymouth. This number will probably be considerably increased before the roll finally closes on April 12th. The whaling vessel John Manta, which returned last month to Boston (U.S.A.) reports an extraordinary accident, by which the first mate met his death. The victim, a practised harpooner, had planted an iron in the side of a large sperm whale, when he stepped within a loop of the line, and was instantly whirled to death in the depths as the infuriated beast dived bottouiwards. A very promising young pedigree Jersey bull, "Clytie's Campanile," grandson of the great "Campanile." and owned by Mr. R.' F. Cornwall, was shipped on Monday night by the s.s. Rarawa, en route to the Thames Vallev. to the order of Mr. W. •). Hall, of Matatoke, the wellknown Jersey breeder. The youngster is a fine handsome typo of bull, and his stock should be heard of in the future.

About eleven o'clock on Monday night a mishap occurred in the course ol shunting operations in the New Plymouth railway yards. Through, it is understood, a mistake in setting thb points, some trucks left the line and were damaged. The ballasting of the line was also torn up for a short distance. A gang of men was soon ai work, and in a short time had everything clear. An error exists in the military training proclamation posters, which may permit of the inference that persons between the ages of 20 and 21 are not liable to be called upon to serve. This, however, is not so, as all British subjects who had completed fourteen years of age, and who had not attained twentyone full years of age on March Ist last, are liable and must register, provided that they have resided in New Zealand for not less than six months. | M. Alexander Fzaicon, a 20-year-old I Roumanian surgeon in Paris, is the talk of Paris to-day for an act of cool heroism of a unique character. He has been | studying a new anaesthetic, the action ] of which he calls raehi-strychno-stovain-isation. It leavcs,the„jjatient lucid, but. suppresses all sensibility.'"and M. Fzaicon intends to make his discovery the subject of the medical essay which he will present at his medical final examination, winch he is to pass in a few weeks. M. Fzaicon has been suffering from herni.'. and an operation became necessary. Ha determined to try his new anaesthetic and to test its cllicacy by operating on himself. The anaesthetic was administered and the young doctor sat down at the operating table, and, after calmly performing the operation, stitched up the wound and went to bed. The operation took an hour to perform. He is now on a fair way to recovery. The usual weekly sitting of the Magistrate's Court was held yesterday before Mr. H. S. Fitzherbert, S.M., when judgment was given for plaintiff by default in the following cases:—Robert Baker (Mr. Standish) v. F. Whitmore, claim 12s (costs lis); Cook and Lister (Mr. Johnstone) v. John Wilkic, 13s Od (21s); D. Berry and Co. (Mr. Grey) v. Standard Oil Co. of New Zealand, £2l 5s 3d (£2 14s); Frank Scrivener (Mr. Weston) v. Sydney Herbert Phipps, £6 9s (23s Od); Goldwate.r Bros. (Mr. Hutchen) v. Jeremiah O'Driscoll, £l3 10s lOd (£1 10s Od); Skeates and Bockaerl (Mr. Hutehen) v. L. D. Callaghan, £3 10s (13s). Judgment summons cases were dealt with as follows, there being no appearance of judgment debtors: Wood and Zemba (Mr. Standish) v.

John F. Reese, claim £4 18s 7d. Amount to be paid within seven days or in default seven days' imprisonment; E, Dingle (.Mr. Hutehen) v. Jennings W. Howell, claim £l2 19s, amount to be paid within fourteen days, or in default fourteen days' imprisonment. A rather curious position in connection with the publican's license issued at the last spring show of the Taranaki Agricultural Society has cropped up. At the last meeting of the Taranaki County Council, the clerk of the New Plymouth Borough Council applied for the sum of £2, paid to the County Council by Mr. Tuthill's solicitor, instead of to the Borough Council. The letter further stated that the license granted by the County Council was for a booth on the racecourse reserve, the whole of which is in the borough. In the course of discussion, the chairman said that an application was made for a license within the county and granted. If the people who got the license shifted it into the borough, that had nothing to do with the Council. A councillor also remarked that it was apparently a case of selling without a license. The clerk said that although there was no doubt the money belonged to the borough, it was questionable if the auditor would pass the payment. Ultimately, it was resolved to inform the Borough Council that the amount would be handed over, provided a guarantee was given that the payment would be passed by the audit inspector. YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND That by using the 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 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.

Amongst the estates of deceased persons certified for stamp duty during March are the following:— Taranaki: Charles D. Brown, £1402; George Dyson, £B4O. — Press Association. William Harrison, nullioimire and head of the World Manufacturing Company, has been convicted at Cim-inatli of having used the mails for fraudulent purposes. The sentences imposed on the seven count.* on which he was found guilty aggregate 35 years. The Elthaui Argus states that the New Plymouth Operatic Society will probably make arrangements to produce "Dorothy" in the Eltham Town Hall , when that building is completed, and adds that this may be an inducement to form a musical society there. Auckland is still booming. No fewer t!fn 7!) houses vre in tours; of construction in the Mount Eden borough, whilst applications for building permits are pouring into the Council's office daily. The new erections are practically all dwelling-houses, ranging in value frem £IOOO to £350.

A regrettable incident marked the arrival of the Rev. Mr. Piggott (late of W.hangarei) in Te Kuiti a few days ago. Two of Mr. I'iggott's children have since died from dysentery, and two more arc in a critical condition. Thire have been several other cases in the district, the prevalence of the complaint being attriou ted to band tank water. According to Dr. Tru'iy King, ad-moid*. d"!Vci:vi> jaws, bad teeth and the train of evils which accompany and follow on iliev (liabilities .-t»-.- entirely preventihle, being due mainly to lack of fresh ar and finishing lack o< exercise, improper food and feeding, insufficient exercise, improper food and feeding, insufficient exercise of the mouth and jaws in the way of mastication, etc. "The onlv way we van save the native race from becoming ex;met as the moa is to make farmers of them," remarked an old Maori chief to a Wairarapa Daily Times representative at Papawai recently. "Kern the Maori upon the land and prevent him from drifting into the towns, and we s'.iall soon see an increase instead of a decrease in the number of fullblooded Maoris." At the Hawera Magistrate's Court yesterday the justices heard the last of the series of charges arising out of a recent incident on the Hawera railway station, and J. C. Montefiore was fined £5 and costs on a charge of using obscene language. The evidence of the defendant was that the stationmaster first used abusive language, and a constable deposed that both men seemed equally excited. The amount of the fine was increased' to £5 Is to admit ot an appeal. In connection with the paragraph recently published to the effect that, the potato grub could be killed by soaking the affected potatoes in water for two or three days, the Oamaru Mail says that any form of animal life that needs two or three days to drown must be to a certain extent ampiniiious. That no perfunctory immersion will suffice to drive the spark of life from the wriggling body of Gelechia operculella was demonstrated at the Kia Ota school the other day, when the scholars experimented with potatoes from the school garden. The affected tubers were immersed in water and left for 24 hours. At the end of that time the water was strained off, and a •number of grubs, apparently lifeless, ' were left on a sack. In half an hour the "rul)s left on the sack were moving, and the potatoes that had been immersed were again covered with life that a day's soaking had not been sufficient to exterminate".

Mr. J. F. Martin, counsel to the New Zealand Counties' Association, forwarded the following opinion in reply to the Tarnnaki County Council's request as to wether the Magistrate had jurisdiction to' accept as a defence that a ratepayer had not received a demand for the rales sued for:—(1) The Magistrate's Court lias clearly the power to admit as a defence to an action for the recovery of rates that the defendant has not received a demand; (2) the demand must he proved hy the corporation by the production of it in Court with a note thereon of the time and mode of service or posting of the original demand, which note should he made at or about the time of such seivce or posting by the person who scved or posted the demand, and that pwoii must be called to prove the service or posting, refreshing his memory by referring to the note. The rate-book most ako be produced. The demand iliould he printed in duplicate on the principle of a cheque-book, save that the counter-foil should be a full copy of the demand and should 1 he completely filled ii.

Tlie harrowing circumstances under which Mis. Blackburn ami In r child met their death? at Niagara, near Waikawa (Southland) last week were narrated at the inquest on the following day. Mr. Blackburn had gone to Wyiidham to arrange for his wife's remo'val there, she having been in delicate health. He left Mrs. Mclntyre, a neighbor, with his family. About four o'clock Mrs. Mclntyre (as she stated in her evidence) went out. milked the cows, ami placed the milk in the kitchen, where 'Mrs. Blackburn and the baby were. On going to nut up the sliprails she was followed 'from the house by her two children and Linda Blackburn. Mrs. Blackburn went to the gate anil called the children back, and the child. Linda Blackburn, went. On j returning to the house she heard screams, and saw smoke issuing from the Louse. Witness ran to the back door and opened it. In the scullery, which was all in flames, she saw Mrs. Blackburn and her boy Archie. When she opened the iloor Mrs. Blackburn fell back. She could do nothing to ,<ave either, the flames r»shhvr out of the door. Mrs. Mclntyre then thought of the other two children (Lini'a and the baby), and rescued them from the front room. Only about three minutes had elapsed from the time she had'; spoken to Mrs. Blackburn until she re-' turned to the house. There was very little fire in the kitchen fireplace when she left, and it was the only fireplace in the house.