LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 277, 13 April 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There will be no issue of the Taranaki Daily News to-morrow (Good Friday) and Monday (Easter Monday). The paper will appear as usual on Saturday. Twelve horses and 11G sheep were shipped per the Rarawa last night to Auckland. The borough of Akaroa is embarking on an electric lighting scheme. Tie charge to consumers will be at the rate of 8s per light per annum. The Appeal Court, after hearing argument in the case in which a motion was moved to strike J. F. Pulleii. of Auckland, off the roll of barristers, reserved its decision. The usual weekly meeting of the Egmont Lodge, 1.0.(1.1'., wiis held last night in St. Mary's Mall, the C.T.. Sister While, presiding over a fair attendance of members. One new member was initiated, and four proposed for initiation . Opnnake would .seem to be wretchedly provided with lire-lighting appliances. Writing with reference to last week's fire, the Times savs:—'"Unfortunately, the suction hose, which is onlv about eight feet long, would not reach down to the water in the wells, whilst the auxiliary pipe required to be made air tight." All the inmates of the Old People's Home, for whose lodging temporary arrangements had to be made during the removal of the building to Westown, are now comfortably re-installed in their old quarters. Residents of the locality witnessed the final flitting last week, when the secretary transferred the poultry, 130 in number, from the old site to the new. There is on view at Webster Bros.' auction mart a gigantic specimen of centipede, about eight inches long, which arrived from the Islands in a case of bananas. Its presence first became known to Mr. K. C. Webster, who was handling some bananas, when the venomous insect crawled across his hand, lie fortunately dislodged it without receiving a bite, which is always painful and often dangerous.

"The office of J.P. is one that every, one should aspire to and be proud of." So remarked Mr. W. Tosswill at a meeting of the Pahiatua Chamber of Commerce. M. .SpiridonofT, a wealthy .Moscow merchant, who is about to celebrate his golden wedding, lias sent out invitations engraved on thin sheets of gold, v.orth £5 each, instead of the usual curds. In reply to the. Opunake Railway League, Mr. Mackenzie, Minister for Public Work 9, says he has pleasure iu accepting the invitation to visit the district, but at present cannot fix a date. In future no free passes will be issued to rifle teams travelling on the railways for the purposes of holding competitions. This restriction will not apply to riflemen travelling for ordinary purposes, such as class firing. There are 220 newspapers published in New Zealand and registered at the (!eneral Post Office, Wellington. Of these (» are published daily, 32 tri-weekly, 33 bi-weekly, 70 weekly, 3 fortnightly, 33 monthly, one every four weeks, and on» every three weeks. Dairying land in Taranaki continues to maintain its value. The Waimate Witness reports that Mr. T. Taylor, of Ivapuni, who has just purchased a farm of about 140 acres at Riverlea, has been offered £3OO on his bargain, and refused the tempting bait. The dairy industry has a promising outlook at present. Cheese has risen to G2s for both colored and white, and higher prices are expected for butter within a couple of months, there being an active demand in South Africa, and none being available for that market. . An aged man made enquiries at the Palmerston P.O. on Satuiday afternoon, "what is the postage for a letter Home?'* He got the necessary information, and was directed where to post his letter, which he did, remarking sotto voce as his missive went out of sight, "the first for fifty-five years." Complaints were made at the Stratford Borough Council meeting on Monday of the lax system in which the fire escapes on all public buildings were inspected. The overseer said he had never been instructed to inspect the buildingß as to fire escapes. It was decided that the overseer should immediately do so. The case Eltham Borough Council against the Cardiff Dairy Factory Co., in which there would have been raised J a very interesting and important ques-1 tion, has been abandoned by the Council. The complaint was that the dairy company had polluted the Waijigongoro to the disadvantage of users of the Eltham water supply.—Star. I "If I am asked," said Bishop Wallis at the Church Immigration Society's I meeting at Wellington on Tuesday evenI ing last, "when I reach England, as to | opportunities of settlers here I shall tell them that if they have a little capital i to start on they will do all right. I shall try and get domestic servants, milkers, etc., to make the voyage. Professional people will not be encouraged as they would -find very little ppen to them, and might do harm to the men at present engaged in business." It i 9 certainly regrettable that the suobbishness which visitors from New

Zealand deprecate so unreservedly on visiting Britain is finding its way into New Zealand. The Christchuroli Press lias the following, which indicates a tendency in the undesirable direction refered to:—"Report has it that the headmistress: of a certain girls' school in the Dominion requires her pupils to bring their mothers' visiting lists for her inspection, and instructs her pupils that they are not to know any girls who are not within the confines of these lists." Dairy factory directors and managers are reminded that entries for butter and cheese exhibits at the forthcoming Taranaki Winter Show close with the secretary on Saturday. The handsome cups presented by the Shaw Savill Co. and the New Zealand Shipping Co. are to be competed for, and keen rivalry should ensue among factory managers for the honor of having the name of their factory inscribed first thereon. In the championship butter class the prize has been increased, through the generosity of an unknown donor, from £3 to £5. The novice class should also attract a number of entries from the younger makers. The secretary of the Easter Monday Sports Club acknowledges with thanks receipt of the following subscriptions and donations towards the cost of blocks for the chopping and sawing events at the Easter Monday sports:— Mr. E. Whittle £l, Mr. W. Little £l, Mr. J. McKean £l, Mr. J. W. Abbott j os. Mr. W. A. Jury ss, Messrs. Nixon and Nixon as, Messrs. McEwen Bros, os, Mr. W. Broome os, Mr. K. J. Dcare ss, Mr. J. C. Morey, jun., os, Mr. M. Jones os. Owing to the additional expense incurred by the sports club this year, in adding events for bushmen to the programme, nil assistance by way of subscriptions is especially welcome. The society's enterprise has already assured a large influx from the country districts for the Easter holidays, a new departure that should be welcomed by the business people, and have their active support. Sir Robert Stout was interestingly re-

miniscent at the kindergarten meeting at Wellington on Friday evening (says the Post). Referring to Judge Richmond, lie said he was a most able speaker. It was in 18(14, when he delivered a lecture at Knox Church, Dunedin, that Sir Robert first heard him. .At the annual break-up of the Grammar School, when Sir Robert was a teacher, he first knew the Judge, and the intimacy continued to his death. He was one of the ablest judges Xew Zealand ever had, and as lecturer would ever be remembered by those who knew him. Deploring public lack of interest in education, Sir Robert pointed to Rome and Greece as examples of the loss of the citizen feeling. The want of interest in civic life brought about the decay of both Greece and Rome. Then he referred to the public service rendered to Xew Zealand by the Richmond family, which had given also a Native Minister remarkable for his largeness of heart and his clemency. When the Te Kooti war had been concluded, the Native Minister, as Colonel Whitmore had told him (Sir Robert Stout), insisted upon the preservation of the lives of the prisoners. So that it was a Richmond again who was consumed by the de.sire to save the race—the native race. YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND That by using the Commercial Eucalyptus Oil, which is now bought np at (id par lb weight and bottle, and, on account of the hiTge profits, pushed, you are exposing yourself to all the dangers to which the u*e of turpentine will expose y»u—irritation of kidneys, intestinal tract atid 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 ivoursclf by rejecting other brands. /

The invention of the telewriter, on instrument which, at any distance, reproduces on paper one's actual luuid-writing, is another illustration that truth is stranger than fiction. The telewriter is an addition to the telephone, and has this advantage over it, that whereas it requires two persons to engage in telephonic conversation, the written messagecan remain on record for any length 'of time. The business man who wishes to communicate with another firm having a telewriter installed, attracts the latter'# attention as in the case of a telephone call, and then writes his message hy means of a pencil attachment. Instantaneously an exact facsimile is produced on the "receiving roll" at the other end' of the electric wire. The invention has received (says Chambers' Journal) the favorable attention of the PostmasterGeneral, who has granted a license aiJ arranged to supply wires at a yearly rental. Already some fifty firms in London alone lmvo been connected with the Telewriter Exchange, Mr. A. W. Hogg, M.P., of Masterton, paid a visit a few days back to the Porirua Mental Hospital. He found that » rather serious -outbreak of typhoid fever had occurred at that institution. Three cases (those of two men and a women) had already ended fatally, and nine patients (six men and three young women) were under treatment. The medical staff had made a thorough investigation, and were satisfied that the diseases had not been communicnted by either milk or food. The water from the reservoir had been analysed, but no trace* of typhoid could be detected. Dr. Jeffreys, the assistant medical officer, is of opinion that it is just possible that thereis a patient in the institution who may have previously suffered from the disease, and from whom the germs may be communicated. The only, other theory is that the water has in some way been contaminated. Steps will be taken to protect the water-shed by planting trees and forbidding rabbiters and others from trespassing in its neighborhood. Writers on the other side of the Tnsman Sea rushed straightaway into print when the rumor of Pelorus Jack's death was cabled across. Numerous poems in prose and verse were written upon the' passing of Jack, who received more at- - tention than is usually given to the passing of a politician. "Pat o"Maori," an ex-Xew Zealander, now in Sydney, wh» wields a facile pen, rushed a poemic article into the Sun, and in his peroration "Pat" lets himself go: "Pelorus Jack has gone, and his thousands of admirers will heave a sigh at least as full of emotion as that caused by the death of the average stepmother. Take him for all in all, he was the most cheerful and companionable creature in all the wideseas. He came to the passing ateamer» seeking no personal gain. He asked tarno food and sought no protection. He was just a kindly, lonely cetacean,. wh» sought the company of men and 1 shipsbefore that of his own kind. May Msspirit have peace in some sea paradise where good whales and gentle dolphins are made happy for ever!" If onlyJack could read this eulogy!