LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 317, 2 June 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Taranaki Daily News will be published as usual to-morrow (King's Birthday) and on Monday next.

The Inglewood Bacon Company is making extensive additions to its factory, necessitated by the demand for more freezing space. A man named Roche, who was injured whilst working on the Gill street extension some months ago, died in the hospital yesterday. The proprietors of billiard saloons in New Plymouth are petitioning the Borough Council to extend the dosing hour from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. At the Police Court yesterday morning, E. L. Erlandson was fined, on the information of the police, for driving a vehicle at night in New Plymouth without lights. The woman with the family draws her salary every day she lives. She draws it every time she looks at her rosy, thriving brood, and every time her husband puts his arm around her and calls her "blessed."—New York American.

Once a wrong idea has got inside the brain of an English public it takes an awful lot of hard work to get it out again. They say an Irishman has a thick skull, but it is nothing to the skull of an Anglo-Saxon.—lrish Homestead.

During the past month there were C marriages, 32 births, and 7 deaths in the district of the New Plymouth Reriistrar, Mr. J. S. S. Medley. For thei corresponding month of last year there; were 12 marriages, 30 births, and .'lO deaths. ; !

Some annoyance has been caused to! a Levin settler (according to the loial paper) by the circulation of an absifrd rumor to the effect that he has been appointed hangman for New Zealand, flc desires to have the report contradicted, as it is entirely without foundation.

The entertainment given at the Theatre Royal last night by the United Bands of Hope was greeted by a crowded house, and the big audience spent a couple of most enjoyable hours, I a diversified programme of music, recijative,_ and brilliant living pictures of exceptional merit being submitted. "The Prohibition Shoe" was the piece de resistance, and the whole item was well performed, the object of the little woman and the numerous inhitbitants of the shoe being to wipe out King Alcohol from New Zealand for the. sake of the nation. Items were' given also by the Fitzroy and West End Bands of Hope, a tenminutes' talk on temperance, and a song "Dolly and a Coach" by Miss Ainswortli. The promoters arc to be congratulated on the great success achieved.

Much surprise was felt yesterday morning at seeing a well-known bachelor member of the local police force wandering about the town with a happy looking youngster safely ensconced 'in his arms. It appears that the youngster, a toddler of about two summers, unable to talk, had escaped from its parents' control; and,had wandered out to see life. For ,s<sme time it was looked after by a local shopkeeper, whom it left to have a look at the gee-gees attached to the, cabs at the rank. A kind-hearted jehu saw that the child did not get into danger until business, summoned him from the stand. Before leaving he communicated with the police, and the young constable, aforesaid was given charge of the wanderer. After some search on the part of the policeman and the child's mother, mother and child were once more united. During the whole proceedings the youngster'did not appear to worry; w » s T .o"t for a good time, and apparently had if. ■

When the Minister for Agriculture and ;a. party had inspe.ted the fruit farms at the Wacrcnga Experimental *arm last Friday some speeches were made at a little informal gathering prior to the departure of the Auckland visitors. In speaking to the toast of tne Hon. 1. Mackenzie, an old-time Parliamentary friend of the Minister, Mr. K. C. Bruce, the well-known Rangitikei settler and a follower of Sir Harrv Atkinson m his day, said all his sympathies were with Mr. Mackenzie in'the very strenuous position he -occupied. In making the agricultural 'service of the coHntry what it should be he was rendering yoeman service. It was good to see lnm bringing the Government and the farmers into touch with each other, a matter of the very greatest importance »o far Mr. Mackenzie had been very successful m that connection. He was Proud to think he had been an intimate friend of the .Minister for the last five and twenty years. He had never known him go back on his friends or his principles. Mr. Mackenzie had never relinquished any principle he came into the House with. He hoped he would he long spared to the Dominion. Mr. Bruce concluded by expressing the hope that the farmers of New Zealand would endeavor in the future to get more in touch with the Government and the Department of Agriculture than thev had been in the past. YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND that by using the Commercial Eucalyptns Oil, which is dow bought up at*6d per lb weight and bottle, and, on account ot the large profits, pushed, you are exPos/ng 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, safe and pffective 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 euros and heals without injuring the constitution, as the oils on the market frequently do. Therefore protect yourself by rejecting other brand*. ,» . ■-•■' -ii-'.... j«.SLi.,>

It is calculated that there are over 8000 young men who must register before to-day or suffer the penalties under the Defence Act. The rumor which has obtained currency, that an amalgamation of the interests of the Xew Zealand Shipping Company and the Union Steam Ship Company was in contemplation, is authoritatively denied in Dunedis. A Manchester man, in filling up his census paper, wrote in the "infirmity" column the words "garrulity," "pertness," and "vanity" opposite the names of his wife and two daughters respectively, left the schedule on the mantelpiece, and went out. What a homecoming he would enjoy! Farming has been a pretty good business for some little time. An old Roman oilicer who lived 50 years B.C. once wrote:—"Of all professions, farming makes the bravest men, the sturdiest soldier 3; and of all sources of gain is the surest, the most natural, and the least invidious, and those who are busy with it have the fewest bad thoughts/'

Frank Walker, a Tasmanian orchardist, said that in his opinion and that of the Tasmanian growers generally, bitter pit was due to cither one of these causes, namely, by over-manuring, over-cultiva-tion, or over-pruning. They had yet to find which. It was always most in evidence where the trees were vigorous growers.

"Struck oil!" is a phrase that aptly hits the luck of Xcw Plymouth, and if the same luck comes to our northern neighbor with the development of.its deposits of iron sand as is coming to it with its operations in petroleum, then the Garden of New Zealand will be turned into a money-making beehive of industry that will make the province hum and make the rest of the Dominion green with envy.—Feilding Star. A correspondent to an exchange complains of the presence of rats in a coastal steamer. On a recent voyage, a young lady passenger had the sole of her shoe, and a companion a kid glove gnawed through by' rodents, which were disporting themselves about the cabin during the night. In view of the presence of plague at Auckland, it is clear that some steps should be taken to rid, steamers trading to and from that port of the rat nuisance.

Twelve bad cases, more or less, of malignant disease are being treated bv radium at the Sydney Hospital. It is yet too soon for the medical men concerned to express an opinion as to the probable result one way or the other. The cases hnvc been under treatment only three weeks. It may be said definitely, however, that the application of radium is proving successful in the removal of the disfigurement known as port wine stain.

It is reported that farmers in various parts of the Ashburton county have become so short of feed for their'stock that they 'have already been obliged to feed on chaff. Farmers state that a large quantity of wheat straw will have to be cut and mixed with molasses to tide their stock over the winter months, 'luc grass grub has been very busy in,.the Lauriston and "Lyndburst districts, aftd a Jarge area will have to be ploughed and resowh; with grass and olover -seeds," Scolding to despatches front-'Denvcr, Colorado, states the New York correspondent of the Lyttelton Times, J. Pierpont Morgan's dream of a great game preserve peopled by rare fowls as well as< quadrupeds, has been rudely shattered, in part at least. Mr. Morgan, with Mr. B. P. Cheney, of Boston and the Mills estate, owns an immense tract in Colorado, which is being developed on the European plan. The portion devoted to the game preserve was stocked a few years ago with thousands of pheasants 'of different varieties. They did well for some time but suddenly grew scarce and have now disappeared.

There is a noticeable spirit of hopefulness amongst the New Plymouth people at present, and there appears to be every warrant for their optimism, for the prospects are bright. The deepwater harbor is a certainty. A halfmillion of money—probably more—is to be expended on the oil development, and a sufficient deposit has been lodged to ensure a practical start with the ironsand industry. Properties have been shanging hands lately at good prices, and values for properties are going up. We trust that the most sanguine hopes of the New Plymouth people will be fully realised, for what benefits New Plymouth will benefit the rest of Taranaki.—Etham Argiis..