LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 15, 12 July 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tho Coronation ode has not yet made its appearance. The delay is attributed to the indisposition of the Poeit Laureate (Mr. Alfred Austin). The enlargements to the Oaonui Hall are almost completed, including the additions of a stage and supper room. The hall will be opened with a concert on the 20th inst.

It was reported to the Taranaki County Council yesterday that the flood in the Waiwakaiho river on Monday had seriously damaged the weir below the road bridge. The Urenui school was yesterday inspected by the Hospital Board's inspector, at the request of the Education Board. The inspector's report will be read at the next meeting of the Hospital Board. A special meeting of the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board be held on Tuesday next to confer with Dr. Valintine, the Inspector-General ol Hospitals, and the Board's architects with reference to the plans of the proposed new hospital. A curious phenomenon is reported by a lecal observer. At 3.30 yesterday morning he saw what appeared to be a meteor, followed by a tail of lesser lights, travelling very slowly from south to north in a horizontal line. Apparently the phenomenon was only a couple of hundred yards in the air."'and it gradually paled and disappeared. Mr. S. Orbell, county engineer, estimates that it will cost £l2O to put a temporary bridge across the Mangorei stream at the site of the new bridge to be erected on the Junction road sear tlhe "Meeting of the Waters." The settlers are still of opinion that the work can be done for £7O or £SO. The river was quite unfordable on Sunday night and all day on Monday. "I have been seriously thinking that if we experience a drought next summer we will start a series of Agricultural Society meetings every night, and then the drought will pretty quickly break up, For it seems to me that if the Agricultural Society holds any function at all, it is sure to rain." Tlius the president of the Agricultural Society at last night's meeting in the Town Hall.

In the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before Mr. H. S. Fitzherbert, S.M., judgment was given by default in the following cases:—Hugh Baily, assignee in the estate of J. W. Thomson (Mr. C. If. Weston) v. Helen Brown, claim £4 5s 5d and costs £1 8s 0d; Newton King (Mr Hutchen) y. Greville Bros., claim £•">.'! 5s Id, and costs £7 9s; Snowball v. William Knott Fawcett, claim £5 on a dishonored cheque, interest 2s fid, and costs £1 3s Od; Collier and Co. (Mr. Hutchen) v. George Bernard, claim £5 ss, and costs £1 3s (id. In the judgment summons case A.B.C. Boot Co. v. 11. E. ltuss, Mr. Hutchen appeared for the judgment, creditor and obtained an order for the payment of the full amount, £3 ISs Sd, in 14 days, in default seven days' imprisonment.

YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND That ny using tfle Commercial Eucalyptus Oil, which is now bought up at Cd 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. By insisting on the GENUINE SANDER EUCALY?TI EXTRACT you not only avoid these pitfalls, but you have a stimulating, safe and effective 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 cures and heals without injuring the constitution, as the oils on the market frequently do. Therefore, protect yotirseif rejecting other hraviU.

An Ayrshire Breeders' Association was formed in Hawera on Saturday. The price of factory butter was yesterday increased in New Plymouth to Is 5d per lb. A resident of Masterton says the present is the coldest winter experienced there for many vears.

Tho Eltham County Council are opposing the proposal to start the early morning train from Hawera to New Plymouth at about six o'clock in the morning. Opposition to the idea is general in lower Tam.na.ki.

Now and again we heard of instances of clerical independence which stands ou.c in bold relief. Two ministers in charge of St. Anstell, Cornwall, Primitive Methodist circuit., rather than beg for funds to renovate their chapel, arc themselves repainting the exterior.

A well-known dairy farmer on the Waimate Plains is understood to have cleared £I7OO last year from a herd of one hundred cows or thereabout, in addition to which there was a substantial profit from side lines on the farm.

A Wairarapa lady recently discovered the wherealHiuts of her brother, whom she had not seen or heard of for forty years. The discovery was made per medium of the Post Office directory, where the brother's address was found to be in Auckland. Tho result was that a very Jiappv reunion of brother and sister took place. . W ,|

It is estimated tliat tho acreage to be brought under cultivation in the Ashburton county this season will establish a record, owing to the ravages of the grass grubs. In many instances it has been found necessary to plough up large portions of the land sown down in grasses and clovers last year in order to repeat that operation, the grubs having completely destroyed tho new pastures.

Tho boyish practice of swinging behind a moving vehicle was the cause of a serious accident to a six-year-old lad in a narrow lane off Taranaki street, Wellington. The boy was having a ''whip behind" a dray, and when the vehicle was suddenly backed the little fellow was jam bed against the corner of a house. His head was cut open, and lie was removed to the hospital, where his injury was attended to.

The town clerk has received the following communication from the General Manager of Railways in answer to his letter and to the deputation which waited on the Minister of Railways at New Plymoiuth lately:—"ln reference to your letter of 18th May and to representations made by deputations from your Council that recently waited upon the Minister with regard to the vesting of land in Leach street formerly occupied by railway line, I have the honor, bydirection of the Minister of Railways, to inform you that this matter has been placed in the hands of the Crown Solicitor and the land will be vested in your Council as soon as the necessary legal documents are prepared." When the case Raill v. the DeputyOfficial Assignee at Dannevirke was called in the S.M. Court yesterday morning Mr. Quilliam, appearing on behalf of tho defendant, said that owing to the Dannevirke express having failed on Monday to connect with the express train at Palmerston North, his client would be unable to reach New Plymouth until 4.20 that (Tuesday) afternoon. lie would ask therefore for an adjournment. His Worship said that he had to leave for Opunake on Wednesday, and he had some work to do during the morning as District Land Registrar, so it would probably not be possible to take the case on Wednesday. Mr. Quilliam suggested next Tuesday, but Mr. C 11. Weston, who was present in Court, .announced that he had sub-poenacd Mr. Quilliam's client for a ease at. Dannevirke on that day, and the penalty of the law would be enforced if he failed to attend. The problem was solved by Mr. Fitzherbert promising to delay his departure for Opunake till the 4.20 train to-day, and to take the case before then if possible.