LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 287, 27 April 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Pihama School is closed from the 19th to the 30th of the month owing to an outbreak of measles.

A brisk tide of immigration is setting in towards Vancouver, which appears to be boom'ing just at present. Wanganui proposes to raise a loan of £11,500 for the construction of a new traffic bridge across the river to Wanganui East.

Tne foundation stone of the new Kaupokonui factory will be laid at eleven o'clock on Saturday morning. A function will be held to commemorate the event.

A vehicle for hauhige of road metal, the Sentinel motor waggon, is said to have given satisfaction in carrying metal to the hilly portions of Dunedin. The city engineer, after testing it, recommended its purchase by the Dunedin City Council, and his recommendation was given effect to.

The exports from Taranaki ports for tlie quarter ending March 31 were as.follows, the figures for the same quarter last year being inserted in parentheses:— New Plymouth, £270,67!> ( £ 255,730); Waitara, £140,045 (£ 100,480); Patea, £267,180 (£210,157). The increase for the province was £117,522.

■Scene: Suburban store. Eiiior pupil] of tbe largest primary scho >1 in Isfanaki. Squats liiimolf'd.-wu .u ;i pack; of po'hrd. "Get any penny note-books?" he asks the proprietor, who answers, "Yes, sonny." "What sort," persists the model-mannered boy. The books are placed on the counter for his agust vs»ec'ion. "No, :int them. Tin sort. You know. They open like this." Xu, t r e storekeeper nae-i't any i>f tlio.^ 1 at a i.enny each. Wiii that sort isn't any good," and lie slouches out. A party of Christehurch scouts made themselves very useful indeed at Corsair Bay recently. A young woman who had climbed the hill auove the Bay was attacked by a .series of fainting fits, which culminated in complete and continued unconsciousness. The aid of the Boy Scouts was invoked to carry the patient down to the road. The scouts, who belonged to the Trinity Congregational troop, improvised a stretcher with their poles and coats, and carried the young woman safely down the hill. She was placed in a vehicle and driven to Lyttelton, where she received medical attention.

On the whole,of the streets in Wellington, which have been tar-sprayed where the traffic is not abnormally heavy, are giving satisfactory results in regard to resisting wear and tear and the diminution of the dust nuisance. The conclusion come to is that it is advisable to construct road surfaces in the busier streets with tar-bound macadam, which would enable still better results to be obtained with the tar-spraying machine. The streets sprayed have been treated at an average cost of between lyid and iy»d per yard, which sum includes the cost of purchasing tbe tar and applying same, and also the sweeping of the road surface. A case came before the S.M. Court at Invercargill a few weeks ago in which a passenger, who had obtained judgment for £l3 10s in value, costs and damages, sued on a judgment summons for his money. Whore the bag had got to was a mystery. The passenger alleged that the cabman had it, while the latter indignantly denied that he had ever seen it. At the conclusion of the case, however, the cabman asked the magistrate what would be. the effect if the bag should turn up again. Mr. Cruickshank, S.M., stated that it might mean everything. "Well," said the cabman, "a man came up to me at the races and told me, before a policeman, that he thought he knew where the bag was." The magistrate, despite his curiosity, put a stop to the story by remarking that he was not allowed to practise as a solicitor, and could give no advice upon the question.

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 yeu not only avoid these pitfalls, but you have a stimulating, safe and effective medicament, the result of a special and eareful 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.

At the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. H. l<\ Russell, J.P., a first-offending inebriate, who failed to appear, was convicted and fined ss.

It Jia3 been roughly estimated that a sum of between £90,000 and £IOO,OOO was put through the totalisator at the various rase meetings held in New Zealand on Easter Monday.

The outbreak of nva-les in ihf Masterton district is snpjrjs.'d lo have been the result )f Hie cmMet "f children with the menagerie of a circus which recently visited the town. The disease is what is known as Herman measles.

A gentleman who has visited a good deal of the North Island gives it as his opinion that high as the price of landJ is at present in many dairying districts, the probabilities are that it will go still higher in the near future, the principal factor in the enhanced value being the milking machine, by which the cost of labor is likely to be materially reduced. The Auckland City Coroner, at a recent inquest, remarked: "I always hold these enquiries without a jury now, because I find that in fire cases juries invariably go for the insurance companies and ignore crimes. Last time 1 held an enquiry without a jury, and 1 committed a man foi trial. Ho wi* convicted, and he's now -.erving three years of hard labor."

Latest enquiries about the potato grub indicate a fear that in Otago, at any rate, there will be an unprecedented potato famine next season. The pest is at Waikouaiti, the Peninsula and Taieri, and no concerted measures are being taken to stop its progress. One farmer who is anxious for a crop next spring has already bought bis seed potatoes anu timed them. Here is an instance of almost criminal carelessness. A man walked into the Carterton railway station and consigned a rifle, and left it to the care of the stationmaster. A thought flashed through that official's mind that the gun might be loaded. He opened it and looked, and was amazed to find one cartridge in the chamber and three more in the magazine —all the elements of a first-class tragedy. "Government auditors know very little about sheep," remarked a member of a local body, when some exception was taken by'the knight of the blue pencil to a sheep transaction. "Why," be continued, "at a Domain Board audit, the auditor could not understand why the Board owned fifteen sheep nt the beginning of the year and twenty at the end of tho voar, without any being purchased in the interim!" I A Dunedin tram conductor was incapacitated last month by coming in contact with a long pin in a lady's hat in a car, whereby his eye narrowly escaped injury, and the locai City Council has agreed to pay him full pay ( £2 16s) and doetor's expenses (£1 10s) during the period he was absent from duty. The suggestion was made that a by-law might yet be necessary to prohibit the use of these hatpins in tram'cars, A settler in the hackblocks who waited on the Education Board yesterday in support of an application for a new school, stated that he was now sending three children to school on two horses, He .had some more children ready to attend, but could not afford to supply extra horse?. Many a time three children have been seen perched on one horse, galloping joyfully to school, tho wee one of the family cosily and safely sandwiched between two older ones.

An Oamaru fruiterer, while unpacking a case of fruit, found a visitor as unwholesome as it was unwelcome. This was a nine-inch long centipede. No time was lost in transferring the animal to a screw-top bottle, in which it was preserved in methylated spirits. There are centipedes in New Zealand, but they are small injects compared with the stowaway that visited Oamaru. Tropical centipede" sometimes attain a foot in length, and many of them are poisonous.