LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 29 May 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There will be about 300 technical Bchool exhibits at the New Plymouth winter show. The box plan for"The Prince and the Beggar-maid" open 9 at Collier's to-mor-row morning at 8.30. The lad Smart, who was shot by a pea-rifle at Koru on Friday, died at the hospital on Saturday. An inquest will be held to-day. Mr. C- E. Bellririger, who recently sold his fine residence in Devon street east, will build on his section at Vogeltown, opposite the Recreation Grounds. His new home will probably be in brick or concrete.

"Petroleum sold, Mokau mines ana limestqne to be developed!" soliloquised a New Plymouth gentleman yesterday. "What would the little E. M. Smith have given to see this day? He it was who bore the heat and burden of the day, but he has gone to his reward." Owing to Saturday being so wet, many farmers and farmers' wives were unable to come to town to make their entries for the Taranaki winter show. The time for receiving entries has therefore been extended till Tuesday. Entries are very satisfactory so far, and a big show is assured.

Within a few days it is expected that an announcement will be made as to the rates to be charged for the transmission of "wireless" messages from Wellington. The present station at the General Post Office will be used for the transmission of messages until the new station at Tinakori Hills is ready. A lady resident of Fitzroy domplains of the way children are being sent round to the various houses asking for money for various "Missions." Recently four children have called at her residence asking for contribution toward a certain "mission." These children had no collecting book or card, and only carried a small bag, into which the money was to be put. Surely this is a very bad system and one that directly puts temptation in the way of the young, as there can be no check on the money given being handed to those responsible.

111 Palmerston North 011 Wednesday there were floating along in the air above the town' innumerable cables of the finest silk-like spider web. Seen in the sunshine they became quite visible, and appeared to extend upwards from the street surfaces to illimitable space, as though "aerial spiders" up out of sight had run lines down to tne earth, and as people passed under them the slight air current carried the beautiful cable end clear, or where it actually reached the ground broke it. The telephone and telegraph wires in some places were festooned with the long strands which had broken on them in the air drift—Times.

The Petroleum Review (London) of April Bth, just to hand by tiie mail, states: "The fact that recent oil company registrations show almost imprecedented activity affords strong corroborative evidence that we arc almost upon the eve of an oil boom. During the past few days several important, companies • have been registered at Somerset House, the aggregate share capitals being approximately £1,150,000. while during March the total capital of the various new oil companies registered was considerably over £2,000,000. The interests of the several companies are widely spread . over the oil fields of tin thus showing that, as we have before inferred, when the next boom does come, the interests aroused in the subject of oil will.be world-wide."

A new industry is ill course of development in Xew Zealand—art pottery works. In a recent address, the director of the Christchureh School of Art said he was anxious to introduce art pottery at the school. He allirnied that there is an evident and growing demand for fine pottery ware, and that Xew Zealand is possessed of some remarkably good clays for such work. Samples of these clays are now being analysed in England, and in the director's opinion a profitable industry might, be started at the school, in which way what are now big pottery work at Home had been commenced. Everything in that way used in New Zealand was imported, but the industry will have considerable difficulties to surmount in its initial stages. YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND That r>y using the Commercial Eucalyptus Oil, which is now bought up at (id 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 pitfall-, but you have a stimulating, safe and effective medicament, the reMilt of a special and careful manufacture. Remember: SANDER'S EXTRACT embodies the result of CO years' experience and of special study, and it does what is promised; it -ures and heals without injuring the constitution, as the oils on the market frequently do. Therefore, protect yourself by rejecting other brand*.

Lambs have already ' made their appearance on some of the farms on the Carrington road, New Plymouth. Up to the present time over 800 have registered in the Hawera area under the Defence Act, and Sergeant-Major Mahoney estimates that there are yet 200 names to come in.

The Normanby Town Board is inviting all local bodies, railway leagues and chairmen of dairy factories in South Taranaki to attend a meeting to be held in the Kapuni Hall on June 14 at 2 p.m., to discuss the Opunake railway question. On Wednesday a horse belonging to Messrs. MoCluggage Broß. caused some astonishment by appearing off the road at Whangamomona with its cover in flames. However, the horse was stopped and the flames extinguished. It was thought at first that somebody had maliciously 3et fire to the eover, but now it is presumed that the horse lay down among some ashes smouldering from last Friday's fire at the stables.—Post. For the convenience of persons travelling beyond Te Wera, the Public Works Department intends attaching a passenger carriage to the ballast train ati an early date. The Post understands' that the service will he on Tuesday and Saturday, leaving Tohokura in time to catch the mid-day train at Te Wera on Tuesday, and also to catch the early morning train on Saturday, returning to Pohokufa in the evening after the arrival of the train at Te Wera. A project is on foot, to re-establish the whaling industry in Akaroa harbor. Duriqg the ,p«st thr?e,. weeks over forty whales, including several right whales, have been sighted within three miles of the coast between Peraki and Akaroa, and during last week whales have been sighted daily. A meeting is td be held on Monday, with the idea of floating a company, and if successful a plant will be immediately procured and a start made as soon as possible. In the meantime, crews are being formed and other details arranged. In conception and execution the Midland Railway scheme \yas one of the most immoral political transactions.the colony was ever committed to (says the Hawera Star). How the company lost all its money, how the debenture holders lost part of theirs, how eventually they had to be to some extent reimbursed by the Treasury, and how the Government seized the line and proceeded to sink money in it—all are matters of history. The action of the 1884 Government has always seemed to us one of the darkest blots on the political and party history of New Zealand. The Dominion is paying for it now, and probably for half a century to come will continue to pay the penalty.

At the inquest on Mrs. Melville, 01 Wanganui East, whose tody was found in the river, evidence was given to the effect that she and her husband lived together on good terms, but deceased had heen much worried by neighbors' idle gossip. The husband had to be at work early and late, and it was suggested to her that this was only an excuse to enable him to get away to enjoy himself. Deceased's mtnd apparently became unhinged, and she confided to a friend that she had discovered a plot to take her husband away from lier. The matter evidently so preyed on her mind that she determined on taking her life. A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned.

When motoring in the Murrabit district, near Kerang (Victoria), Mr. W. Dunn and some companions passed a I fully-grown tiger snake lying on the I track. A dispute as to whether the snake was dead or not caused Mr. Dunn to back the car towards the reptile, which, as soon as the hind wheel touched it, proved to be very much alive. Having a gun with him, Mr. Dunn got out of the ear, but the snake had disappeared. The other occupants of the' car spent a rather uncomfortable few minutes wondering where the snake would next make its appearance. Presently the fly-wheel, which was running slowly, stopped. Quickly comprehending the cause. Mr. Dunn put on full speed ahead, and the snake, which had crawled into tiie engine of the car through a snjall hole in the metal screen, was chopped into mince-meat. It is astonishing to hear from.Russia that th" number of new hooks published in tliat country in l!)I0 was 25,057 (says the Springfield Republican). In Kngland for the same year the production, as already noted, was only a trifle over 10,000, and while the population of Russia is much larger, so is the percentage of illiteracy. It may he that the figures are compiled on different principles m the two countries, in Russia taking in what in England would not be considered books. Until lately, it is said, the bulk of the new hooks issued in Russia consisted of detective stories, but this only increases the marvel. The United States consumes quite as much of this sort of literature as is good for the public, but the total runs to but a trifling part of tlie figures given for Russia. In place of detective stories that country is now turning to translations of snauy French books, which manage to pass the censorship. probably because the censor has quite enough to do in vetoing books of dangerous political or social import. ! ''lt was absolutely contrary to fact to say that ill their borrowing the Government had got full value for tho money',' suid Mr Dive, M.P., at Eltliam. He strongly condemned the expenditure on the Otirn tunnel. Lately he had gone over the route of the line and he was amazed. Travelling from 11 o'clock to 3 o'clock he never siw a cottage except one surfaceman's on the top of the hill near the Waimakariri river. For twenty to thirty miles they travelled down a river bed, and that of pure shingle with precipitous hills on either side which would not carry more than a rabbit to the acre, lie was quite convinced the line should not have been constructed to within sixty or seventy miles of Otira on the Cliristclmrch side. To the Hon. T. Mackenzie he said, l 'J)o you think it should be proceeded with?" and the reply was, "Say nothing about it; I was always against it." Judging from the bulk of the land, Mr. Dive said the line should never have been made in our time and possibly not in the next generation. An exciting shark story is told by an Australian paper just to hand. The fishing at Brunswick Heads being particularly good this year, many of the residents of Mtillmubimby go down at night. A couple of weeks ago three members of the rowing club started with an outrigger just after dusk to pull to the Heads. When about three miles down one of them felt soinetlilng strike his paddle, and then splash in the water again. Another sculler, who was leading, saw a shark, which grabbed at his hand. Missing this, it got between the boat and the rowlocks, and the head came clear out of the water for another snap. The shark got so far out of the water that the shoulder fin got over the side of the l)oat, and there he stuck for a second or two, filling up the box of the outrigger with water. The sculler kept .his presence of mind, and held the sculls (hit on the top of the water, and thus averted a capsize. This is the first time sharks have been known to molest boats on the Brunswick, but two or three years ago a fisherman was attacked on the Clarence, and bis oar bore the teeth marks of the shark.

For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Wonds' Great Peppermi' i Cure, 1/6, 2/6