LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 326, 13 June 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The dates fixed for the Egmont Agricultural Society's next spring show are Wednesday and Thursday, Bth and 9th November, 1911.

After fighting against Red Indians and on board the Kearsagc when it destroyed the Alabama, working in a powder factory, sailing round the world, and surviving the San Francisco earthquake, James Winslow received his first injury in Omaha, U.S.A., the other day by slipping on a piece of banana peel. As the outcome of a long-standing dispute between the Wanganui Harbor Board and the Railway Department, caused by the lattcT (who work the wharves) raising wharf handling charges in order to meet the cost of increased wages to wharf laborers, the Board has decided to terminate its agreement with the Department, and in future will work the wharves itself.

A signboard on the Carrington road, lower Vogeltown, seems to annoy some of the young bloods of the vicinity, and it has frequently been torn down. A horsewhipping, or a few days with the napping hammer in the quarry maintained just below the signboard for people who offend against the laws would perhaps teach some sense to these hoodlum*, who varied their mischief this time by removing a letter-box from the same property.

The winter holidays of the primary schools had been fixed so that Corona-

tion Day would fall during the time the

schools are to be closed. Representations were made to the chairman of the Education Board that there would be a better chance of a good muster of the children at the Coronation celebrations if they were at school that morning, and arrangements liave now been made that the holidays shall start on June 22nd. Coronation Day, the children assembling as usual that morning.

'Tell them we are not a second-hand shop," was the remark of one member of the Wanganui Harbor Board at the meeting of that body on Friday evening, the words being caused by the fact that every board in the Dominion which has a dredge to sell appears to be offering the same to the .Wangart'ui Board at the present time. The Board is replying to all of them, stating that it does not need such a machine at present, and when the time arrives it is probable that nn entirely new plant will be purchased. "What is the speed we are travelling?" is a question constantly asked and discussed in railway trains. A member of a London firm of engineers, has devised a machine which will solve the problem at any time the passenger wishes. The machine is of a very simple nature, and can be fitted to any railway carriage. It operates by means ol a clutch and belt pulley on the axle. In the compartment is a penny in the slot arrangement. When a coin is put in and a knob pressed the machine is set in motion and the speed of the train is shown on a dial. The indicator is oJ the same type as that used on motorcars.

Suicide is more prevalent in Germany than anywhere else, the most depressing feature of the vital statistics of that country being the number of children who destroy themselves. But Hungary holds the record for old age among attempted suicides. In 188S James Meryessi, who was S4 years old, jumped off the suspension bridge at Budapest into the Danube. He was rescued, and explained that he wished to end his life, as he was becoming too decrepit to support his father and mother. This extraordinary statement proved to be true. Meryessi's parents were aged 113 and 110 respectively. A public subscription was organised to set them all three above want.

In a most interesting article in the Press, Professor T. G. R. Blunt gives Jus impression of the Germans, especially so far as their attitude towards England is concerned. Here are a few extracts:—"As I have been seven weeks in Germany, and have devoted a considerable amount of time to studying the attitude of Germany towards England from the inside, as'it were, it may perhaps interest your readers to hear the result of my investigations. I questioned nearly everybody whom I met more than once, and sonic whom I met only once, as to the general fcelin" of Germans towards Englishmen " Tn the course of all the conversations' that T had, T could find no trace of the lightest ill-feeling on the part of Germans towards England and the English. .... A professor, after being introduced to me, went home and studied an encyclopaedia to find out something about New Zealand. On the first even" ing that T supped at his house he made some statements about New Zealand which T found so extraordinary that 1 asked him for the source of his' information, and he showed me. rather apolosetically, a volume bearing the date of

YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND That _r>y using the Commercial Eucalyptus Oil. which is now bought up at'fid per lb weight and bottle, and, on account of The larpe 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. Tiv insisting on the OENTITNE SANDER EUCATpn EXTRACT you not only avoid these pitfalls, but von have a stinv ulating, safe and effective medicament, the result of n special and careful manufacture.

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The borough councillors were unusually loquacious last night, and it was after lO.XO when the meeting adjourned. About 300 pigs have been put through the co-operative pig-raising concern at Ta rata hi (luring the past season, while the returns have totalled about £2OO.

It is reported that over twenty thousand acres of Crown land in various parts of the Dominion will be thrown open for settlement during the present month.

The Maoris down the coast do not intend to he behind the pakeha in the matter of being up-to-date, as the natives at Nukumaru, Waitotara, and the Waitotara Pah have had the telephone installed. It was a noteworthy feature in connection with the dozen divorce cases heard in the Chratchurch Supreme Court this week that all but two of the marriages Inul taken place in registry offices.

, An accident occurred to the electric light wires at Vogeltown last evening, a property-owner felling a tree so that it broke the wires. In fifteen minutes the borough electrical staff had been summoned and repairs effected. The well-known firm of Macky, Logan, Caldwell and Co., which has ii branch warehouse in New Plymouth, has just been formed into a limited company with a capital of £250,000. The business, which was started in 1882 with only two assistants, now employs some 000 hands, and pays salaries and wages of over £50,000 per annum. At last night's meeting of the Borough Council the Mayor, replying to Cr. Ambury, said that he thought there would be very little difficulty in having Vogeltown and part of the old Eliot road district included in the borough when the question of the Fitzroy amalgamation had been settled. He understood that most of the people there were in favor of it.

A motor-car accident occurred a couple of weeks ago in St. Aubyn street, and a motor-car collided with an electric light pole, causing inconvenience by putting out the lights in several houses, and causing damage which cost some four or five pounds to repair. The Borough Council is inclined to collect that money from the man whose car collided with lue pole.

When, a few years ago, the borough engineer laid down the nietnl in lower Victoria road, from Pendarves street to the. borough boundary, there were loud outcries concerning the quantity of stone that he used and the folly (as it appeared to the street-corner engineers of the time) of using sand as blinding. That road is perhaps tne'finest road in the borough to-day, and the sand binding held the metal well together right through the summer.

An. unusual number of personal references have been indulged in since the opening of the New South Wales Parliament. One evening the Speaker was kept particularly busy calling for order. One member was repeatedly alluded to as "wire whiskers," another was called a "humbug" and a "tom-tit.'' The gallaries.wcrc crowded with people, and the audience enjoyed themselves immensely. The member called a "tomtit" took exception to the remark; but "wire whiskers" treated the whole matter with contempt. There was still another member who did not appreciate being dubbed "a worm."

I Conversing with a representative ot I the Press, a Christehureh medical practitioner stated that the X-ray* j treatment for rodent ulcer was no new I thing in medical science. The successes attained by an Auckland doctor "were not unique, as the value of the treatment in question had long been recognised. It was practically a certain cure for the form of skin disease mentioned. Eighty per cent, was the approximate average of cures, and in his own practice he had used X-rays treatment on some 00 or 70 patients affected with rodent ulcer, and had met with gratifying success. The Order of the Garter, with which the Prince of Wales has been invested, m.iy be said to rank indisputably ns the first in the world, and the number of foreign Sovereigns who have accepted it is aimo«t countless. It is still limited to twenty-live Knight Companions, with the Sovereign, the Prince of Wales, and other members of the Royal Family (Queen Alexandra and Queen Mary are ! both Ladies of the Carter), and such cx- ( r.r.i Knights and foreign rulers and digniI taries as may be admitted by special I statute; the only alterations has been the extension of the limits to descendants of the first instead of the second George. A Knight of the Garter is at his investitute allotted a stall in St. George's Chapel at Windsor, over which are set up, to be retained throughout his life, his sword, helmet, crest, banner, and a plate containing his arms and titles; this practice is still in vogue. "Japan does not. now send to the i American Locomotive Trust for locomotives, she makes them herself," snvs Professor W. T. Mills, now on a visit to Sew Zealand. "Don't brag about your superiority over the Japanese until you catch up with them. The result of 'the expulsion of Asiatics from America had been that the industries in which they were employed were transferred to China, where, with American capital, Japanese supervisors, and cheap coolie labor, they were able to produce so cheaply as to successfully manufacture the ,goods for their own support and to defeat the Americans in their own market. The whites cannot afford to admit the yellow man, and the Yellow man cannot afford to send his cheap laborers to' be exploited by English and American private monopolists. If Australia is to be a great country, it will give universal industrial training to every child, and will encourage the capable immigrant, instead of helping out the incapable who cannot get a living in his own country. Japan is ambitious, and became a world Power by compulsion and under her own protest; China has been opened up, and by our bayonets. The place where material is cheapest and labor the most helpless is the place that will produce for the world's market what the world's market can take. We don't exclude the Japanese because we hate him; it is because we fear him; not because he can't do things, but because he can do things, and will do ,ns. The I only hope for labor anywhere is indus-1 trial justice everywhere."

MILITARY OVERCOATS. ARRIVAL OF A SECOND SHIPMENT. The Melbourne Clothing Company, Ltd., lias much pleasure in announcing the arrival of a second consignment of clean, specially selected, British Army riding coats, with good long capes, as issued to the Royal Field Artillery. These famous coats arc the kind known as "first grade" and are the very best of their kind supplied by the British Government to its forces both at home and abroad. These coats are un/ doubtedly the ideal coats for farmed and others exposed to cold and rain. We have only 100 coats in this shipment, and they are sure to be "birds of passage" in our three Taranaki stores. We have, 100, on the best authority that the sale of these coats by the army stores is likely soon to be stopped, so we would advise intending buyers to make early amplication to either of the Melbourne's three stores—New Plymouth, Stratford, and Eltham. Prices as usual— the lowest in Taranaki.

It is just twenty-five years ago since the famous Pink Terraces at Rotorua were destroyed by the eruption of Alt. Tarawera.

A letter containing a slip of paper bearing the words '.'Conscience Money" and a £2O note was received a day or two ago by a Wanganul resident. A Dargaville (Auckland) settler has been fatally poisoned by eating some honey out of a tin procured from an Auckland firm. Others who partook are seriously. ill. Several Norraanby farmers wlio have lately sold out of their dairy farms have disposed of their dairy herds at good prices, one getting £8 10s pet head, and another £9 10s per head all round.

The United States Ambassador at Vienna reports that the Austrian public arc demanding the importation of cheaper foreign meats to the extent of one-half of the consumption of Vienna, which is estimated at 104,000,0001b. pec amnum.

"There is no other country in the world that gives its Judges such oata to crack at intervals as New Zealand does," remarked his Honor Mr. Justice Denniston during the hearing of a case at the C'hristchurcli Supreme Court on Wednesday.

There is consensus of opinion' among dairymen that the moisture contained in the New Zealand butter is too great, and that principally on this account it cannot compete with the Danish article. It is said that a dry butter will arrive Home in a better condition than that with a large proportion of moisture.

There must be plenty of money foe investment in Duncdin. It is understood that the Christehureh Tramway Board recently wrote to the Dunedin Stock Exchange, offering its new loan of £35,000 at 4'4 per cent, to place. Within two days the whole issue had been placed by two members of that institution, one disposing of £30,000, and another of £SOOO.

An expensive bit of news.—An individual took a clipping from a paper in the Wanganui Public Library, and was subsequently fined at the Magistrate's Court £2, witii 7s costs, and £1 Is solicitor's fee—altogether £3 8a for a clipping from a penny paper. This ought to act as a warning to people who are in the habit of mutilating papers in public libraries. A letter just received from Melbourne by a resident of Ashburton states that "A. B. Worfchington," the clerical impostor who some years ago was leader of a large congregation of Students of Truth in Christehureh, has been liberated from prison, after serving his sentence for fraudulent practices, and has gone to America, his passage money being found by sympathising friends. This, it may be hoped, ends the career in Australasia of one "undesirable alien."

Nothing has 9ince been heard of the Hon. Francis Patrick Clements, the brother and heir presumptive of Lord Leitrim, the mystery attending whose fate is still unsolved. It is over four years since he disappeared and left no trace of his whereabouts. When last heard of he was working as a foreman on a boat which sailed for New York. Since then it has been reported, on one occasion, that he died in Kansas City, and on another th.it he was a cowboy in Texas. The body of a man who had 'hanged himself at Ventnor. in the Isle of Wight, was not that of the missing heir presumptive of Lord Leitrim