LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 284, 24 April 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A youth who absconded from Weraroa Industrial School about nine months ago was arrested iu New Plymouth on Saturday. Since the beginning of the year it has become illegal to sell white phosporus matches in England. The twelve months' grace, which has been granted to shop* keepers to enable them to dispose ot Jhejr surplus stock, has now expired. During the Easter perlorf, !!'. D'.'.Bedin, i over 22(1 marriage licenses ,were issued ' from the office of the local Registrar, tliw number being probably a record for Dunedin. For the Easter period of last year the number of marriage licenses issued was 180. There are now no fewer than 85,0(10 volumes in the Parliamentary Library in Wellington. They belong to the nation, but only a privileged few are allowed to use them. There is a chance, however, of wider use for this magnificent national asset, . „ Mr. Cliff, the Taranaki Hunt Club's huntsman, discovered his hunters Kirl and Kma on the Denbigh road, Midhirst. They had evidently covered considerable country, as they were seen a day or two previously on the Egmont road close to. the mountain reserve gate. I Mr. Doeg, piano, tuner, of New Plymouth, was picked up unconscious near the Waitara bridge on Friday night, having met with a bicycle accident whilst riding down the hill on the Tikorangi side of the bridge. He was driven in to New Plymouth, and attended to by Dr. Blackley, who found that he was suffering from a scalp wound and concussion of the brain. He is now, however, progressing favorably.

It is !.«.* c-i'.eraMv '; no« n f«v, s :i Wellington correspondent''' that Oov.rnn.ent House, Wellington, is situated within the prohibition district'of Newtown. The consequence is that if his Excellency wishes to get any bettor wine or spirits from Wellington to replenish the cellar at Government House, notice has to ne sent on his behalf to the Clerk of the Court,'with the usual particulars as to the quantities required and so forth. It is stated that a deer-stalking party at "World's End," Pelorus Sound, saw a huia. It is believed that the huia is extinct, and the Government has spent much money during the past few years in an endeavor to find specimens, if any exist. Whenever there is a rumor that a bird has been seen, Professor Hamilton, of the Dominion Museum, generally sets out hot-foot to the locality. He usually finds that'vhis informants do not know a huia from a tui. There are some wjiite slaves in the South as well as in the North Island. A Southland paper states that a farmer's wife in a rural district, not far from Invercargill, had hand-milked twentyeight cows, night and'morning, throughout the present season. This reminds one of the dairy farmer who had some difficulty in obtaining hired help. A neighbor sympathised. "Oh, that's all right," said the victim; "I'm getting married next week, and she can do her thirty!" > . Mr. Day, station-master at New Plymouth, met with a painful accident on Saturday morning whilst coining into town on the train from the breakwater. The train suddenly slowed down, and Mr. Day looked outside to ascertain the cause, when the waggon door, which was on slides, shut owing to the stoppage of the train and caught Mr. Day's head, with the result that his car was badly lacerated and almost torn off. After be-, ing attended to by Dr. Fookes, Mr.] Day was conveyed to his home. A wood mine is something of a novelty, says the Auckland Star, but there is one situated at Alfriston, about three miles from Manurewa and Papakura. The Papakura Sawmilling Co. has the project in hand, and it works an area of about 1300 acres of swamp land, which is covered with kauri remains. The timber, which is well preserved, is cut into lengths in the, ground, and hauled to the company's mill. The woiS: pays well, as there is a big demand for kauri, and this timber is of the best grade. "A laborer is never an intelligent man," was the bold statement made by a witness in the Auckland Magistrate's Court recently. The remark evoked some laughter, and the witness supported his statement by adding that a man of intelligence would give his attentions to some trade. Mr. Kettle, S.M., did not agree with the statement, holding that a. man with a university educaion might be found working on the wharves, for, although he had the knowledge, cir-j cumstances might not enable him to make proper use of it. In the rich river flats of the Molyneux farmers who have fields of turnips for eating-off purposes are going to reap a splendid return (says the Balclutha Free Press). A Riverside farmer recently sold some forty-one acres of turnips at £9 10s per acre, and now an' Inchclutha farmer expects to receive £6OO for his 'sixty-one acres, or £lO an acre. The same farmer has only! ninety-eight acres of land, but he keeps] cows, and estimates his revenue for the year from the cows and turnips at fully £IOOO, of which more than three-quar-ters will be profit. A story of the troubles of a young immigrant, who arrived in Auckland from London a few months ago, was told in the Auckland Magistrate's Court recently. The man was a bookmaker in London', and was attracted to New Zealand by the prospect of better business. When he arrived here he found that the Dominion's legislature had taken away his means of livelihood, and so he went on the land. He was followed by misfortune, his wife had to dispose of her jewels and other valuables in order to live, but lately they had spent nothing because he earned nothing. "I reckon I was better off as a London bookmaker." remarked the man as he left the court. Trades unionism has made very little progress in the Argentine Republic. Referring to the industrial aspect of the country, Mr. V. K. Cassells, of Buenos Ayrc<, told an Auckland Herald reporter recently that there had been little, combination of labor, and what there had been, had, unfortunately, been accompanied by violence. "There have been labor troubles," he continued, "but for the time being the Italian and Spanish workmen find the conditions of living and the wages so much bettor in the Argentine than in their own countries that they seem to have settled down to a period of content. The statistics issued by the Minister of Agriculture apparently show a disproportionately high wage compared with the cost of living, but it must be known that the cost of living is that of people from Southern Europe, who live in conditions that would be absolutely impossible for a British workman." i

Tis only a mother knows the pain Of lioaviwr roughs aeain and again; And children's coughs cause trouble enough Unless they swallow the proper stuff. Xow AYoods' Croat Peppermint Cure's Hie tiling Which into (.lie nursery liealtli ean l>rin<r. So ifiye your eliildren a dose eaeli liiplit. 'Twill keep (.hem well, and strong, and bright. 12

Denouncing the average newspaper reader, the Rev. W. H. Elliott protests that "nowadays many peuple meditate in head lines." Once the ocean liners come to New Plymouth, no factory management will be foolish enough to send its output to Patea—Mr. Hughes at Auroa. When a German post-oil'ice clerk wants a new blue pencil, he has to produce the stump 01' the old one to prove that fie has not wasted the Government'! property. jli'.| JU;.i;i-;<rfH^fl "»•»>:■•— De?Jriig with a butch of beggars at Marylebone (England), Mr. Plowmen expressed regret that some of the ladies who gave beggars money in the street were not placed beside them in the dock charged with aiding and abetting them in committing the offence. Mr. Hughes in an addrcsß on Harbor Board matters on Friday likened the Patea Harbor Board to a man who having served the public faithfully and well was kicked out of office in his old age ■because the public had no, further use for him. Patea must go to the wall; it was a mere matter of business.—Star.

A police official stated at a recent trial that they had at New Scotland Yard 170,000 different sets of fingerprints recorded. There being ten impressions in each set, they had about 1% million prints. During the last ten years, since the introduction of the system in 1901, they had made upwards of 02,000 identifications and recognitions, and, so far as he knew, without error. A man who, was released from 'a German prison recently, after serving 35 years' penal servitude for manslaughter committed during a burglary when he, was "20 years of age, implored in vain to be taken back and allowed to end his days in the quietude of his cell. Motor cars, electric trams and even bicycles were new to him, and when he saw the streets of his native city he trembled and had to be led like a child. A new anaesthetic is being used in America which paralyses all feeling and yet keeps the patient conscious. A girl of sixteen was recently operated upon for the removal of the appendix. She lay smiling while the doctor and his assistants worked, exchanged remarks with the nurses, and suddenly began to sing. By the time she had finished the song, the doctors had completed their work, and, still smiling, she was wheeled back to her cot. In Glasgow a shopkeeper has been fined L'-s Od for selling a loaf of bread after 8 o'clock. A boy entered the shop on a cold and wet night, about 9 p.m., and on being told that it was after hours for the sale of bread, pleaded that there were five of them at home with nothing to eat, and father had only just come home with the money. The shopkeeper yielded and sold the boy a 2'/ 2 d loaf. On his way home the boy was stopped by two policemen and brought back to the shop. Milk, butter, cheese, pastry, and biscuits may be sold until 10 p.m., but not bread. When a man was before Mr. H. W. Bishop, S.M., at the Christchiirc'i Magistrate's Court, charged with having.used obscene language, it was suleged 113 an extenuating circumstance t.l::i: the man was married and had r. family of children. The Magistrate ttinied to him ■ 'lf you use language of this sort in drink, you must be in the habit i-f using it whin hj.! er. If you us ■'l in t:>c streei, em: would believe that y u us.. l it in vour .hump If y.j ido ti.it you- children mi.st hear you. and it •» probable lh;it they will speak in tie same way. This is lt-i'i n good deal of ii:< .;i-sr.|st,;:iTr |,uigu.i-:" ''-at we are fore.-'! t'j ln:ar in the sir'.'i.'l ii'jy '.'.■ accoii'-'.i I f-i\ Sam Miller, a resident of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, has issued a challenge to the world at large to compete with him in an eating contest. He declares that he will eat more in a given time than any other man living. Miller declaTes that his record as an eater has never been equalled. He once ate 144 fried eggs for breakfast. In a pic-eating contest he disposed of 4S fivepenny pics. His latest feat was that of eating five chickens and five waffles, and drinking four quarts of coffee while the cooks prepared more food, then consuming five pies, three dozen small cakes and three large cakes, I with two jars of pickles to give this misI cellaneous assortment of food a spicy flavor.

We give a final reminder that tile annual meetings of shareholders to elect school committees for the ensuing year will be held in every schoolroom in Taranaki to-night, that' is, provided enough householders attend. Parents are generally very apathetic in regard to education matters, and will not take sufficient interest to devote even an hour once a year to reecive an account of the preceding twelve months' stewardship, and to formulate plans for improvement in the future. If there are rumors of an impending "row," it is a different matter, and the building will be packed with parents and guardians, who have turned up merely to see the fun. School committees' powers arc certainly at present very limited, but they have one privilege, and that they guard very jealously—the election of members of the Education Board. In a month or two three members of that Board require to be elected. Therefore it behoves all shareholders to attend to-night, and select capable and responsible men, who will best use that vote.

Speaking at the opening of the new post office at Rakaia on Thursday the Hon. T. Mackenzie said: "The surprising thing is that you will persist in looking happy in the face of all you are tqld about this debt-hardened, taxcrippled country of ours. But the fact is that New Zealand, in the face of all Jeremiahs, is prosperous, contented, and happy. It is true we have gone through a most serious drought—the most severe that I remember in the history of the country. What would nov our prosperity have been if we had enjoyed a normal season's rain, with its abundant results ? As it is, even with the drought, trade is good, fanners are prosperous, every man able and willing to work can get employment at satisfactory wages, and with all onr real and supposed grievances the country was never in a better position, nor have well-doing people a better opportunity of doing better. That we are favored in this land is realised in other parts, especially in America, as my mail letters yesterday showed. The first eighteen letters I opened were from Canada Mild the United States, and these were from correspondents asking for particulars regarding New Zealand, as a number of people in those countries are desirous of coming here."

YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND That by using the Commercial Eucalyptus Oil, which is now bought up at 6d 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, hut you have a stimulating, snfe nnd 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.

There is u strong probability that money will become much cheaper during the next three months; that is, provided the demand from foreign countries and for trade purposes is within moderate expansion, and there is every reason to believe that activity will be continued throughout 11)11. There is depression in some localities. For instance, Japan hv suffering severely from dullness, and quietness prevails to a large extent in' ,tlic United States. The manager of a large business concern in Christchurch complained to a newspaper representative that although he was advertising all over New Zealand and Australia he was still unable to obtain an adequate supply of girls for hid factory. It was pointed out to him that girls will not go into domestic service, and that according to his statements they are now neglecting the factory, and he was asked where all the girls were going to. "Bless you," he said, ''they're all getting married. We have no fewer than eight who are leaving us at the present time in order to get married. The trouble is that it is the' best who go that way—a fact, of course, for which we can blame no one, least of all the young men." For some time Metchnikoff, the great llussian scientist, has held that man's natural term of life is two hundred years, and that ordinary senile decay is a curable disease. Tn a recent number of the "Annales de l'lnstitut Pasteur," he states that he lias now discovered a poisonous substance of bacterial origin in'the human body which gradually produces the, hardening of the arteries and the lesions: of senility. Furthermore, he has injected! a little of the poison into young and vigorous rabbits, and it has produced Sir them all the symptoms of old age. So ' it seems as though he has proved hiscase. He is now working hard to discover some tuiirk and certain way of keeping the stomach cleansed from the parasites which do all the mischief. H& inclines to think that the sour milk treatment he started may be carrjed out, with saiicrkTaut. Wherein our friend* the Germans score over us once more. "A project to Morganise public opinion" is a phrase that has been used ta describe the reported project of J, Pierpont Morgan to organise a magazinetrust. Morgan is the most accomplished organiser of combines living. Then Shipping Trust, Steel Trust, the Automobile Trust, the Typewriter Trust, are' a few examples of his handiwork. And" when it was reported that he had decided to establish a Publishing Trust no' surprise was felt or expressed. While' the proposed magazine combination' would doubtless be expected* to earn handsome profits, a still more important end said to be aimed at is the control of editorial policies. What are koW bb< "muck-raking" magazines McChrre's, Collier's, the American, Everybody's, Success, and some others—have played an" important role in recent years in* exposing political and business corruption. Morgan himself has Been 1 given a great deal of attention by tlicst' organs lately. With the magazines in tlie trust under' Wall Street influence, the attacks upon l "big business" naturally would cease.The basis for the talk of a combine was the revelation of the fact that T. W, Tamont, h member of the Pierpont Morgan firm, controls the Crowell Company, which publishes several magazines, and recently acquired the American. The New York Press states thnt Morgan already owns or controls periodicals with a circulation of almost 3,000,000, and that, he is known to control by "suggestion" the policy of other magazines with u circulation of 2,000.000. The editors of these latter publications are said to have' made money on the stock market- by acting on the advice of Morgan. Members of the Equitable Building Society of <N«w Plymouth (First and Second Groups) are notified that at*seriptiona will be due and payable today (Monday), at the Secretary'* Office, Ourrie street, from A a.m. to 12.30, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.— Advt.