LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 314, 30 May 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Women's rights in Xew Zealand extend to the journalistic profession. Miss E. M. Jacobscn, M.A., is: editor and manager of the Akaroa Mai!. Tie secretary of the Park Tennis and Croquet Club acknowledges the receipt, through Mr. W. Ambury, of a donation of £1 19s from Mr. G. T. Murray. The Kekerangu estate in Marlborough, the property of Mr. E. S. Rutherford, containing 35,000 acres, has been sold to a Christchurch syndicate for £65,000. Says an Auckland paper: When young men mix together in work and play, in shop and office and football field, they cannot very well go wrong if they mix together when learning how to defend their country. ' Although it is illegal to supply persons under twenty-one years of age with liquor, a young man twenty years of age appeared in a Magistrate's Court re cently and admitted that he was the subject of a prohibition order. Those who have kindly promised donations to the supper at the farewell social to the Rev. S. S. Osborne to* night arc asked by the ladies' committee to have them left at St. Andrew's schoolroom this afternoon at any time after two o'clock. The Manaia Fire Brigade has disbanded, remarks the local paper. This was done at a meeting of members as a protest against the lack of public appreciation, apathy, and boycott practised on the brigade by the Manaia citizens. The brigade had reached a high state of efficiency. , .' Entries for the Taranaki winter show were some 230 ahead of- last year's when the secretary's office closed last night. , A further batch should arrive this morning by the post from the country. Entries close definitely at noon to-day. The space applied for is far larger than was the case last year.

Says the Hawera Star':—The prospect is highly favorable to a thorough development of the petroleum field, and we join in the good wishes which will be expressed not only in Taranaki but throughout New Zealand. The determination and pluck of the Taranaki people through many years of doubt and discouragement deserve a full measure of succen.

Mr. E. B. Hill, of Cambridge, is doing a large business in hawks' heads. One man, a rabbit trapper on the Gorton estate, brought in over a' hundred in Jess than a week. He informed Mr. Hill that hawks followed his rabbit traps in battalions, and half the rabbits were destroyed before he could get to the traps in the morning. ; He, therefore, turned his attention to trapping hawks, with the result above referred to.

An incident which happened in Cathedral Square, Christchurch, recently, served to show in.a novel manner the .value of knowledge of first aid to the injured. A largo black dog in its gambols failed to notice an approaching tram, which struck it on the leg. Help was at hand, however, in the person of a young lady, who carefully examined the injured limb,and pronounced a small bone to be broken! She gently tied up the leg with a pocket handkerchief, and confided the sufferer to the charge of a policeman, who carried it off to a place of refuge. It may be of interest to hear (savs the Weekly Scotchman) that although Halley's comet has long since passed out of sight of the naked eye, it is still being observed closely by Professor Barnard through the great 40-inch Yerkes refractor. He is confident of keeping it in sight until the end of the year, and it will then be outside the orbit of Jupiter, which it will cross in April next. It now appears as a star of the fourteenth magnitude, slightly condensed, but without a visible nucleus. It will remain invisible for seventy-four years, and will probably be detected in August, 1985.

For some time past some of the borough employees have been engaged in burrowing, piping, and concrete channelling at the corner of Liardet and Gilbert streets, wtih a view of diverting storm water. The system adopted had a test during Saturday's rain, and the result was that ponds many yards in length and several inches deep were formed, the water backing up on the. road. The concrete channelling, which appears to have been laid on newjy-' deposited earth, already shows a tendency to droop in one place as the earth beneath it solidifies, and burgesses are beginning to wonder why so much money is being spent in these expensive works in a street that is so little used, and which is unlikely ever to be anything but a "blind" street. The timbering is now being put in position for kerbing the other side of the street, whilst the footpaths on the main approaches to the Recreation Grounds are in a state of pitiful crookedness «rtd roughness.

YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND That ny using the Commercial Eucalyptus Oil, which is noir bought up at 6d per lb weight and bottle, and, on account of the large profits, pushed, you are exposing yourself to nil the dangers to which the use of turpentine will expose you—irritation of kidneys, intestinal tract and mucous membranes. By insisting on the OWVmNE SANDER EUCALYPTI EXTRACT you not only avoid these pitfalls, but you have a stimulating, safe and rfT<--i ive medicament, the re' Milt of a apeeia! md careful manufacture. Remember: RAVTV'iV't; EXTRACT embodies the result of ■ "ars' experience and of special study, ;md it does what is promised: it cur".- .i,>d heals without injuring the constitution, as the oils on the market frequent! do. Therefore, protect yourself by rejecting other brai&j.

Auckland continues to advance by rapid stages. A ferry steamer is now being built to carry 1400 passengers. It is stated on good authority that operations at the Orepuki shale works are likely to be resumed before long. It is regrettable that such an important industry should remain dormant. Thus Mr. llerries, M.P.:—"The European who has got the better of a native in a horse deal or land deal is so rare that when he is found he deserves to be placed in a museum as a curiosity." A street-flushing machine which is to bo procured by the Wellington City Council consists in its main features of a leather hose, mounted on a trolley, so that it may be readily shifted from one hydrant to another. Machines of this type are used by the Ijondon County Council. They have a range of about 300 ft. By their agency a street can be flushed for 150 ft in either direction from a fixed point.

In the course of a speech at a banquet at Orepuki recently, Mr. J. C. Thomson, M.P., stated that during the past 18 months he had received applications for the expenditure of £IOO,OOO, and that if similar requests were received by other members of the House no less than £8,000,000 would be required for roads ami bridges. He also pointed out that £500,000 per annum was voted annually for those purposes, so they would realise that a good many of the works would have to be deferred.

Indications of the Hon. J. A. Millar's retirement from politics into private life were given by him at a Picton gathering. Responding to a warm invitation to visit the town when the Main South railway is linked up, he replied: "I have been twenty years in public life, and I don't think I shall be a Minister of the Crown when that railway is finished. It is all very well," continued Mr. Millar, in answer to a chorus of "Noes," "but I am looking forward to having a little peace, and I know it is not to be found in public life. It is an ideal to look'forward to, and I hope to be in the country and to be alive to take a trip on the completed line."

The long-promised electric storage battery for motor-cars, for which the motor world has been looking to Thomas A. Edison, appears to have arrived. It is over ten years since the project was first mooted, and now, according to exchanges, his cells are in use commercially in New York, and are giving good results. From private advices some are now on the way to Sydney. It is said that the new cell, known as A 4, is noncorrosive, and can stand idle for long periods without deterioration. Its dimensions are: 12V 2 inches deep by 2% fnches by 5 ] / 2 inches, weight 13.31b., and the number of cells required is regulated hy the ton weight of the vehicle. The battery takes about eight hours to charge, and is estimated to run' Something like over 100 miles. A man asked the Bishop of London at one of his missions last month if it was wrong for him to play golf on Sunday afternoon. He was a business man, « regular communicant, and seldom missed matins and evensong.' It was very hard, the Bishop said, to say in the abstract that a man who attended church three times,, and who caused no labor in his amusement, was doing any more harm in playing golf on Sunday afternoons than in taking a walk. But two questions arose: Did the man play golf every day during the week? He himself found that the men who played golf on Sunday also' played every other day. Then there was the question of example. Archbishop Temple, however, cut through many difficulties of this sort when he said: "Let him follow' his own conscience."

The Kaiser is no stranger to the Vatican. Soon after his accession he visited Italy and interviewed Leo XIII,, as well' as King Humbert. On this occasion Count Herbert Bismark was in attendance jon his Imperial' master. When they reached the door of the Pope's audience chamber the Emperor passed in and the Count tried to follow. A Frenchman of the Papal suite motioned him to stand back, as etiquette, says the Pall Mall Gazette, forbids the presence of a third party at an interview between the Pope and a reigning monarch. "I am Count Herbert Bismark!" exclaimed the Emperor's aide-de-comp, and tried to force his way through. The imperturbable Frenchman waved him back with the remark, "That may account for, but it does not excuse your conduct."

The leper patients at Quail Island are reported to lie as comfortable and happy as can be expected in their isolation, but they find the time hanging heavily .on their hands during the long winter nights. The caretaker at the island has a gramophone and a number of records, which are greatly enjoyed by the patients. As the nights are now very cold and darkness sets in early, the patients have to fall back on their own resources for amusement during the evening, and they have expressed a wish to have a gramophone to bn kept, in one of their huts, and to be operated by themselves. The gramophone, which was presented by a gentleman about two or three y.ears ago, has been kept by the caretaker, as if it were in the patients' care it could not be taken away for repairs in the event of its getting out of order.

If there is ever another great war, the motor car will be responsible to a large degree for many victories. Military authorities of all great nations are experimenting with it and some surprising results may be expected. Transportion of an entire army may be made over great distances in a night. Cities will bo captured without an opportunity for defence. Scouts and spies will also find the automobile of distinct service, writes Major-Gcncrnl Frederick D. Grant in Leslie's. The ambulance corps long since has made

use of the motor. In time of battle many lives will be saved by the quick work in transporting the wounded to the field hospitals with automobile. Military men are also experimenting with automobile field guns. These motor cars are protected with steel armour and will be of value on the skirmish line.

The decision given by the S.M. in the case of Hickey v. Morris at the last sitting of the Court in Opnnake, when the plaintiff sued for damages caused by a fire which spread from defendant's land, is rather an eye-opener to holders of bush sections (says the Opunake Times). Heretofore it has generally been accented as the law that if a fire from your neighbor's land spread on to yours and did damage, that you had redress against your neighbor for compensation. In non-smiting plaintiff the Magistrate held it was necessary to prove who lit the fire, or, as counsel for defendant put it, "who struck the match." This is quite on a par with the Yankee lawyer's de fence, when a man was sued for having shot a dog. The plaintiff proved "that the man aimed the gun in the direction the dog was. He beard tbe report of the gun, and immediately after saw the dog roll over, and on examining the dog found it had been killed by a bullet, but counsel for the defence, whilst not disputing the fact, triumphantly asked. "Did you see the bullet strike the don?" Our contemporary has no hesitation whatever in stating that the Magistrate's verdict in the case above referred to was altogether against the weight of evidence.

For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/8, 8/6.