LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 3, 28 June 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

About 30,000 rounds of ammunition were, we are told, placed in the old Drill Hall yesterday. Some farm land on the outskirts of Cambridge changed hands recently at £27 10s per acre. The gate takings at the Palmerston winter show this year amounted to £558, which is about £l7B behind those of last year. The Taranaki Education Board imeet to-night, instead of last night. To-day the members interview the Minister for Education at Stratford.

A party of 10 Sikh policemen arrived in Sydney last week, en route to Fiji, having been selected for service at Government House, Fiji. Two of the Sikhs are accompanied by their wives. The Mayor of Dunedin, who caHiled to Maggie Papakura, asking her to intercede with the. Queen and implore to intervene on behalf of Tahi Kaka, received the following cable in reply: "Every influence brought to bear without avail." The Drill Hall, now so frequently used as a place of amusement, used to be the resting-place of an old gun carriage ana limber which are used for military funerals. To make room for prize roosters and monster turnips these have had to be placed outside from time to time. Yesterday, however, a fresh home was found for them.

The dispensing of justice by auction is the latest Auckland "notion." In a civil case before Mr. Kettle, S.M., the other morning, the defendant admitted that she owed plaintiff £1 Is. "And how do you propose to pay it—by instalments;'" asked the Magistrate. "Yes; by instalments of Is or 2s per week." "Very well*" said Mr. Kettle, "2s a week offered, any advance on 2s a week?—No advance on 2s a week. Judgment accordingly."

Fishermen at the Chatham Islands have had fine hauls of blue cod and groper lately. Cod is paid for at the rate of %d per lb, and the average weekly earnings of the fishermen amount to about £li. Nothing is given, however, for groper, and these fish are usually liberated whfrn caught. Blue cod lias an advantage over most other fish in that it can be smoked after having been frozen, huge numbers of frozen cod' are sent to Sydney, where they are smoked, and provide excellent eating. On a, large estate in the Scottish highlands it was the custom for a piper to play in front of the house every weekday morning to awaken the residents. After an over-convivial Saturday night, however, the piper forgot the day and began his reveille (can it he played on the pipes?) on Sunday morning. The angry master shouted- to him from the bedroom window.' "Here, do you not know the fourth commandment!" And the piper sturdily replied: "Nae, sir," but if ye'll—hie—whustle it I'll—hie—try it,

. Mr. George Letellier. a surveyor in the New Caledonian Government service, was found dead in his bed at Tcuodie on May 28, in peculiarly tragic circumstances, When he did not leave hw room in the morning, the door was forced, and he was found lying on his bed covered witn blood. A pair of surveyor's compasses were still sticking in his throat. It is ■suggested that the crime was one of murder. On the night he was last seen alive the deceased won a large sum of money, and it is thought that'this might have been a motive for the murder.

There is a Chinese sheep-farmer on the .Main Irunk line who has won the appreciation of the community for his many ,kjndiiftsses to travellers. A few days ago he was made the recipient, of a valuable gold-mounted fountain pen.. Mr. Agang, ; popularly known as "Tommy," shares the j distinction of being one of the only two Chinese sheep-farmers in the Dominion. He is a good farmer, and a recognised judge of stock, and a man of punctilious probity in all hk dealings. Jinny a time lias ''Tommy" afforded help or shelter to travellers or drovers, and his hospitality gained for him universal goodwill, A Harrisville farmer, who purchased a small property of twenty-six acres lor £42!) four years ago, has'very good reason to congratulate himself on that purchase, as he has already cleared the prico of his property several' times over out ol potato-growing. Last season (writes a Pukekohe correspondent of the Gisborne Herald) he put in nine and a-lialf acres of early potatoes, which realised £(105. He immediately resowed live acres for a second crop, which he has just finished digging, and out of this crop he has sold seed to the value of £175, besides keeping sufficient for his own use. The nine and a-half acres have shown a total return of £7BO for twelve mouths' cropping, which is nearly twice the value of the whole farm. YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND That By using the Commercial Euealyp. tua Oil, which iB now bought up at 6d 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. Bv insisting on the GENUINE SANDER EUCALYPTI EXTRACT you not only avoid these pitfalls, but you have a ulating, safe and effective medicament, the result of a special and oarefu! manufacture.

Remember: SANDER'S EXTRACT eralioilic.* the reoult nf so years' experience and of special study, and it doea i what is promisedj it cures and heals without injuring the constitution, as the oils on the market frequently do. Therefore, protect yourself *>» rejecting oijwr i

Since Tom Long, the' hangman, died at Wangantii a year or tivo ago, liter*; lias been no official sum-saov. The execution of Talii Taka at Mount Eden Gaol last week will's ca nird out l>y a man hailing from Wellington, ami mi the strength of his work that morning, be hasj it is understood, applied for official appointment as hangman in New Zealand.

That two men who were closely associated in tlie early days and who'then parted should lioth live in New Zealand and yet for many years never see one another seems nowadays almost impossible. Several such cases have been known. Talking of early days with Mr. J. Heslop, of South Taranaki, brought out the interesting fact'thai he was with Colonel Porter, of Gisborne. in many actions the Maoris on the East Coast. At the close of the waT they separated, and for a'limit forty years, though most of the time in New Zealand, they did not meet. Only a short time ago, in Wellington, they met quite by chance, and needless to say reminisced of early days and exciting incidents gone through together. Mr. Heslop in action bad one narrow escape, a bullet going through his hat nnd marking his ear.—TTuwera Star .