LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 6, 1 July 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Mr. Rye was married to a Miss Pollard at Eltham on Wednesday. A large number of dairy cattle in the Whanganiomona district is being bought up for dairy purposes in the Waimate Plains district.

The Waitara Mail reports that Mr. A. W. Budge has purchased the Pioi Estate, north of Mokau, from Messrs. Elliott and Bayly. The Tangarakau bridge on the Kohuratahi road, for which Mr. F, Grayling is the contractor, is expected to be completed about the end of July. The 'bridge, which is 180 feet long, will roughly cost about £2ooo.—Post. Enquiries are being made by the local police for a former resident of Hawera, Danied Condon, who was employed as a porter at the Auckland Public Hospital. The missing man left the institution on the 13th inst., and it is believed he made for Hawera, but enquiries at the latter placo throw no light on his whereabouts, and his friends are anxious.—Star.

The Whangamomona Saddle is at present in a; very bad condition. The Public. Works' heavy teams which have been in constant work on the roads have no doubt contributed largely to the road's present state. The two-mile stretch of papa road from the foot of the saddle to Whanga township, which was a splendid piece of road, is now turned into a quagmire. The Mangare road is also in a filthy condition.—'Post. About twenty -members Attended last night's meeting of the Equitable Building Society, Mr. S. W. Shaw presiding. Mr. I). Berry was successful in the ballot for two appropriations of £l5O each in the first group. An appropriation of £3OO in the first group was tendered for, and brought £SO. An appropriation of £l5O in the second group was secured at £35, and £O6 was secured for a second group appropriation of £3OO.

"If he hadn't been educated, probably he would have paid his board; it is education that is responsible, in many instances, for these delinquencies," said Mr. Cruickshank, S.M., at Invercargili the other day, when a debt case against a Maori came on for hearing. According to law a translation must accompany a .summons served on ' a Maori or halfcaste living as a' member of a native tribe. All doubts as to the defendant's ability to understand the summons were set at rest v when it was mentioned that ho was a university student, and that he had gone to school with one of the lawyers then present in court. The Governor arrives in Hawera on Tuesday next to open the second Dominion Dairy Show on Wednesday. The show promises to entirely eclipse the inaugural undertaking. All available space has been sold, and the entries in all sections constitute a record, 1220 entrfes having been received. Exhibitors from all parts have already arrived, and the building is already assuming a very busy appearance. The officials of the Agricultural Department arrived yesterday, and a splendid exhibit will be made by the Department. Given fine weather the Railway Department will be severely taxed in dealing with the traffic, although very complete arrangements have been made.

The secbiid session of the Technical College opens on Monday night, when new students may enrol. The timetable of classes "appears in another column. The commercial course affords book-keeping, shorthand, English, commercial, arithmetic and typewriting. Several machines are now installed, and we hope there will ibe a good number of students taking up the course. With regard to engineering, the director will be glad to receive names of students, as there is a likelihood of an engineering school equipment being obtained if sufficient students are forthcoming to justify the expense. This will afford an opportunity for young mechanics to obtain instruction hitherto only procurable in large towns or by correspondence, and we hope to hear that the course will continue to be well supported. The Federal capital territory is likely to be a fruitful source of dispute for many years to come, says a Melbourne journal. Lack of riparian rights is a -source of worry to the Minister for Home Affairs, and he has renewed the application for the addition to the territory of the 580 square miles excised from the original plans. This area covers the watershed of th« Molongo River, and Mr O'Malley is not dismayed by th,e caustic suggestion that in seeking it he is tilting at a windmill. "This mjist be added to the territory," •he explained recently, "to remove a source of trouble between the New South Wales and. Commonwealth Governments. We can't stop the pollution of rivers if we do not get it. We may have the sewerage of Queanbeyan washing down", .Referring to a progress report showing that the survey party had done only 2.3 miles of the boundary in twelve months, the Minister said the work was exacting an d arduous, and the progress good.

The Rev, E. 0. Blamirea, the superintendent of the Central Mission, Wellington, will preach both morning and evening in ■; the • Whitelcy Memorial Church. Mr. Blamires is seeking help for his work in '"slumdom," and will, with Mrs. Blamires, give a recital in the church on Monday evening.

A GENUINE HAIR GROWER. We have received the following recipe from a correspondent who has found it to be of great .value. Our correspondent says that this mixture is a hair tonic •which, if rubbed briskly into the scalp night and morning with the finger lips, will not fail to promote the growi li of hair, to remedy baldness, to restore yrey hair to its natural color, and to d( In y dandruff I Take y ( ilinm of Menthol Cnfr-Js and put them into a bottle confijung 3 oz of Baj Rum and see that th' J arc entirely then add 1 J of Lavona dp Compohpp, and, if desire/, one teaspoonful of To Kalon peifumr Shake well, and let it stand for halfm hour, when it will bo ready for use. Other renders vill doubtless i>» glad to try this remedy which our eoi derft has sent. We understand tlht tie ingredients may be obtained fr.in anyi chemist 'n „ v J „ , CM '1 rOV-\s tteis i (teaWl*L«^C.i

Eleven hundred ! et.ters and 78 packets of newspapers were distributed among the members of tiic Sheffield Choir at Auckland on Mm.day morning. The choir's "mail" weighed half a hundredweight. I

A Stratford Cfinaman, Jimmy Ah Tuck by name, 1. jaded the list of Hospital Saturday u.piations in that town with a meritori lis five guineas, thus setting an example worthy of emulation among some of those who affect to despise the Mongolian race, individually and collectively. Work cannot Jie too plentiful in Auckland. A young man pleaded guilty at Gisbornc to bein;; a, stawaway on the Mokoia, from Au-kland. He explained that he culd not j.;et himl; in Auckland. A mate had offered to pay his fare, but did not turn up. He wai fined £3 and costs, in .default ten d-y?' hard labor.

A Poverty Bay farmer has done well out of potato growiii" last season. Ho put in i>Va acres of early potatoes, which realised over £<3oo. He immediately replanted five acres fer a second crop, and out of the yield he sold seed to the value of £175, besides keeping sufficient for his own use. Thus {)'/ 3 acres has shown £7BO for a season's cropping, which is nearly double what the grower paid for his 2(! acres some lour years ago.

Sometimes counsel, when cross-exam-ining a witness, get more than they bargain for. At tlie Nelson Supreme Court a witness confessed to some pretensions to being regarded as a public man, having stood.three times for Parliament. "Three times," queried counsel, "and you ore not in yet?" "Not yet," was the response, "but 1 wns a good deal nearer to it last time than you were when you last stood." There was no further cross-examination after that. Another endeavor is to be made to get legislation passed for the purpose of licensing those engaged in the tobacco trade in the Dominion. The question is to he discussed at a meeting of the Canterbury Hairdressers' and Tobacconists' Association to be held shortly, and if a uecision in favor of the proposal is arrived at it will be considered at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Hairdressers' and Tobacconists' Association, to be held in Wellington next month. A young seal, about 3ft. long, was found lying on the sands of Caroline Bay, Timaru, one morning last week, panting and apparently in a thoroughly exhausted condition, or else in pain, as those who found it supposed it to be. Tt is perhaps more likely that it was exhausted in escaping from sharks outside. As seals are protected, and the Customs Department have charge of the line of the law, Mr. Hawley, Collector of Customs, was informed of the presence of the seal, and lie went to see it. Observing the dismissed condition of the youngster—it allowed people to handle it—Mr Hawley played the good Samaritan, got and gave it a dose of medicine m the shape of whisky, ami helped it to the water. It made oil from the shore, but for some time was seen Joitcrin" about in the bav. "