LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 315, 31 May 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In the S.M. Court yesterday moraine, before Mr. H. S. Fitzherbert, S.M., a first offending inebriate was convicted and discharged.

The tests at the Midhirst Dairy Co.'s Rugby road creamery now range from 4-3 to 0, and the average test for the twenty-four suppliers is a shade over 4.9. A missing resident of Huntly, Auckland, was found in a weak and'exhausted stated. It is conjectured that he spent ten days in the open, and subsisted mainly on water. "There is all over New Zealand at the present time a mania for land, and people will give any price at all for land they require," declared Mr. J. Warren clerk of the Cook County Council.

| A Waimea farmer informs the Nelson Colonist that he has found a mixture of apple pulp and tobacco effective in the destruction of blackbirds and thrushes, which will not touch poisoned grain. He makes the pulp from the waste apples in the orchard, and with every quart lie stews a stick of Lion tobacco.

It is reported that the Midhirst Dairy Co. has decided to erect a creamery on the Tariki road at the site where tho Moa Dairy Co. had a creamery some years ago. The Midhirst Dairy Co. will probably extend their operations beyond Stratford, as they have been approached to erect a creamery in the Cardiff district. "

There is a touch of mediaeval romance about Mexican warfare. The Xew York Tribune states that an insurgent messenger rode under the walls of Ojinaga challenging the garrison to come into the open and fight. His gallantry was answered by a volley of bullets, but, hue Young Lochinvar, he galloped away unharmed, mocking, we are told, the Government soldiers. Whether for their bad marksmanship or their loyalty is not stated.

A resident of Fitzroy calls attention to the fact that many motorists are careful drivers, and do not cause danger to the rest of the travelling puhlic, hut there are others who are totally regardless of this, and who, besides ignoring the speed regulations, flash round street corners without giving anv warning and m doing so frequently forget the rule of the road. An accident was narrowly averted on Sunday afternoon, when a car whizzed round a corner in this fashion. After just avoiding a collision with another vehicle, which was on the right side of the road, but which was immediately sheered off to give the offending automobile room to pass, the chauffeur appeared to lose Ins head, and a, serious accident was averted only by tne presence of mind of the driver of the buggy.

It is rumored Urn an action for £IOOO damages* for alleged slander between two Otaki parties is to be heard shortly. Mr. H. Okey, M.P., will preside at the Band of Hope entertainment to be given in the Theatre Royal on Thursday evening.

A king and queen, in coronation robes complete, with maids of honor, trainbearers, etc., are to take part in the Fire Brigade's juvenile fancy dress ball next Monday. One of the best crops of maize ever grown in Taranaki was to be seen on Mr. Halcombe's property at Urenui the other week. He had intended it for ensilage, but on the night before he intended to cut it, caterpillars came on the scene in battalions. In the morning nothing but the stalks remained. A slot machine has been fitted at the Christchureh railway station, near the booking office. By insertion of two pennies into the slot, connection can be obtained by telephone through the exchange to any subscriber for three minutes. If the subscriber is "engaged" or connections cannot be made, the two pennies will lie automatically returned to the person who Tang up. The Presbyterian congregation was warned last night to be very careful in selecting a successor to the Rev. S. S. Osborne. Any fear's of a lecture on the peculiar points to be guarded against were dispelled by Mr. Dempsey's next succeeding remark that the five clergymen in New Plymouth were all Irishmen, the schoolmaster was an Irishman, and so was the sergeant of police. As the result of the recent heavy rains in the Inglewood district the contractor for the erection of the bridge over the Manganui stream on the Bristol road suffered a serious loss, the boxing for the concrete being washeo downstream, the loss being estimated at about £6O. It was at first reported that the loss sustained would run into about £SOO or £OOO, but fortunately this has not proved to be the case. Though blind and deaf, the Rev. Fred, Hall, the new pastor of the Blackburn Unitarian Church, is a reputed orator. He is an excellent whist player, and at a drive held in connection with his church he proved one of the best of the party. His own pack of Braile type cards is used at his table, and he is told what card each player throws down. He has an excellent memory, and he neither revokes nor plays the wrong card. After sorting the cards, he plys them from his pocket. According to a statement made by an applicant (a woman wifh two children) for help at the last meeting of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Committee, work is scarce on the wharves of that city. The woman said her husband had been out of work for some time. He had repeatedly tried to get employment on the wharf, but without avail. Other work, also, he was unable to find. Consequently the family were in bad straits. The committee decided to grant relief, but the chairman (Mr. McEwen) urged the applicant to get her husband to 100 - perjisteiitly for a situation.

Latest Australian files contain news of the tragic death of a New Zealander. iv appears that last week the body of a man named Arthur Simpson was found lying face downwards in an irrigation channel near Kerang (Victoria). The police, on searching the clothing, found ti letter apparently written by deceased giving directions regarding the disposal (if his effects and intimating that the body could be given to the doctors for dissection if they so desired, and stating that he had been addicted to drink ot late years, the reason for which might be apparent in a tumor of some atrophy. Other papers indicated that deceased was x chemist by profession, and a recent arrival from Dunedin.

A girl nine years of age had a thrilling experience in the far north of Australia. She was found by the black trackers. When she knew she was lost she kept in sight of a mob of cattle. After being lost three days, when the police and tracker came up with her she laughingly remarked, "I knew the wild dogs would not get me, as the cattle would save me. The bull is a holy terror on wild dogs, and I knew he would get to »ny wild dog who wanted to kill me." The police-tracker had kept on the child's track for nearly 20 miles over the rough ranges, and, although scarcely a trace could be seen by a white man, he minutely described places where the child had rested and played; and, in one instance, had removed her boots. Among travellers' tales is one which asserts that elephants, when they feel death approaching, retire to some secret place to die in peace. "The Dying Grounds of Elephants" is the subject of an article by Mr. Douglas Blackburn, in the March issue of Chamber 3' Jou p nn!. Experienced hunters tell it.', lie says, that the rarest thing met with in the haunts of the elephant in Africa is f.;.e dead body of one which has died a natural death. Vultures and the' red ant may account for the flesh, but what about the bones and tusks? Many people will accept the theory that the elephant seeks cover in which \o die; what they will not believe is that hundreds of elephants seek the same spot An argument in favor of the dying-grounds is that traders have sometimes been able to procure at short notice a large supply of ivory when it was generally believed that the stock was small. A supply of tusks which could only be possible by a wholesale massacre naturally provokes suspicion and enquiry. It was Emin Pasha who first revealed the existence of the dying grounds, and he explained that .several hunters who professed to live by their prowess as elephant hunters owed their success to having discovered one of these dying grounds. African professional hunters believe that Emin knew of more than one dying ground, and that the promoters of the relief expedition were as anxious to relieve the ivory as the explorer. When a native or a white man has the good fortune to discover one of the dying grounds, self-interest naturally prompts him to keep the secret to himself, and, consequently, the existence of them does not become common Knowledge.

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