LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 31, 31 July 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

j A commencement is made wit)) the ad- : dition to the railway goods ahed. I It is stated that a young man named I Fritzschner, a resident of Pahiatua, has been engaged for the last 18 months in constructing an ..aeroplane. "Politics, even prohibition politics, can be advocated from ajome place other than tliia pulpit," said the Rev. J. W. Burton at the Whiteley Memorial Church last night. Says a London paper of June 12:— Mr. G. E. T. Woodward made a flight in I his military Farman bipjane at the I I White City Stadium yesterday, carrying i as a passenger Metapopoki, the Maori chief.

A London cable, says that Danish buifcter has advanced two kroner. The dry weather continues and te doing great damage and curtailing the butter supplies. Stocks of stored butter are rapidly clearing. According to the New York Herald, Mr. Rodman Wanamaker, the Philadelphia business man, and the son of Mr. John Wanamaker, is the most heavily insured man in the world. He has just added another £IOO,OOO to his life insurance, making the total sum £900,000. A correspondent of a Wanganui paper states that at present there are 2000 boxes of butter, or 112,0001b5, stored in the New Plymouth freezing works, and there is an equal quantity in store at Wellington, Yet prices are advancing! We are pleased (says the Te Kuiti Chronicle) to see that still another step is being taken to mark the historic spot of this district. Instructions have been issued by the Government for the erection of a"monument at the site of the famous battle at Orakau Pah, and the erection of this monument will serve to mark one of the most historic localities in New Zealand. The Waipa County Council arc, we understand, to be asked to level the road at tho site, and on completion of this work the erection of the monum6nt will be put in hand at once.

In 1909 the Government guaranteed Id per lb clear to all exporters of approved varieties of apples. Owing to the partial failure of the Nelson shipment they had to pay between £3OO and £4OO. This year a partial guarantee was given, the Government guaranteeing a penny per lb so long as the total payment did not exceed £325. In this connection the various fruitgrowers' associations in the Dominion arc being circularised by the Moutere Fruitgrowers' Association to impress upon the Minister of Agriculture the importance and urgency of. granting a full guarantee of Id per lb on all apples exported for at least one more season. It is felt that it is not too much to ask the Government to come to the assistance of the fruit export trade, which is just in its infancy, and which promises, with careful handling, to assume very large proportions in the not distant future.

"I was the first and the only partner, except Mr. Derrett, tliat the late Mr. T. E. Taylor had." said Mr. Cole to a Lyttelton Times reporter on Friday, "and I have had mamy opportunities of forming a very different estimate of his chflracter from that of the majority of the public. Through all my long experience with him T always found tjhnt his one aim was the benefit of mankind and his fellows generally. Although he was misjudged, and although he might have misjudged his opponents, I can truthfully say tdiflt he had always a good word for them. Many people thought Hint Ire was bitter, and -=o he often .seemed, but no one who did not know him hod aJiie idea of the suffering he went through. He was ill many years ago. He often said that his nerves were upset. He told me on one occasion that he would never look more than ten touts, ahead, and I know that he was suffering for wars in such a manner that he never expected to reach forty years of age. Since he was twenty he was sure that he could not live for a great many years, and he was always calmly prepared for death."

"Nature Theatres" are tlie latest rage in Germany. All over the empire are i being founded theatrical organisations which produce plays in tho open air. During this summer ''Nature representations" will be given more or less regularly near every large town. At Potsdam the municipality is leading the movement, and proposes to build an open air stage in a picturesque part of a neighboring forest. The movement in that city is under the patronage of the Princess Eitel Fricdrieh, who is a keen amateur actress. In South Germany the Nature theatre movement is leading to amusing extravagances. Near Nurnberg an organisation is at work which fosters the quaint idea of "therapeutic spectacles.'' The theory is held that ac- ' ting and reciting are cures for mental iand nervous diseases. An Austrian doctor named Lack, who is in charge, professes to have cured many persons by ; forcing them to act before audiences of ' their friends in the open air. The explanation given is that acting takes the patients out of themselves, and thus prevents them thinking of their own mala- ) die®.

Members of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (First and Second Groups) are notified that subscriptions will 'he due and payable today (Monday), at the Secretary's office, Ourrie-street, from 0 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. —Advt

BARGAINS AT THE MELBOURNE'S SALE. The bivjtains offering at the Melbourne's great. iriuttr M.'e are nothing short of marvtUous. Don't ban to visit the store duriag these stirring sale days, and share in the earing*. Bargains like these are proving irreswwble. Calice 2s lid doatn: men'" Kaiapoi socks, three pairs for js 3d. Boy's all-wool Varsity suits, 10s 0d; men's colonial fianncls, 2s 4d; men's merino shirts, Is 9d; men's pure cashmere socks, three pairs for 2s fid. Ladies' handkerchiefs, six for Is; 72-awk unbleached sheetihjj, worth Is 4d, now Is yard; youth's 3-garment tweed suits, half-price; men's grey denims, 3s (Id; men's famous S.S.S. indigo drill shirts, now 4s 3d; pretty silk ties, formerly Is and Is 6d, now fid each; lovely wide-end ties, formerly 2s fid, now Is; men's felt hats, 2s lid; roller towelling, 6d yard; splendid flannelette, striped ajid plain, fld yard; grand line of men's dark saddle trousers reduced to 7s lid.—Advt.

The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph h as received a communication from If. J. M. Cliappaz, a resident at Mieussy, in the Department of the Haute Savoie, who proposes tho following invention:—"An instantaneous language, consisting of a new phonetic method gov up by forty-three polygot professors of divers countries, enabling all the inhabitants of the world to pronounce, read, write, spell, print, lithograph, telegraph, type and telephone on the spot all local national, colonial and international languages, including Eseperanto. with their pure accent, and without having studied them, and: to understand and speak these languages infinitely more ijiiickly and more correctly than by the ordinary methods." In explaining this invention, the author says that it is l»ucri on the principle of "reproducing the same sound by one and the smme letter in all languages in which it occurs." He asserts ■that the forty-three learned polygot professors have discovered that the sounds in all the languages in the world are reduced to forty-live, and consequently all that is required is to represent these forty-five sounds by forty-five separate symbols, composing a universal alplabet. To enter into further details would only make matters too complicated at present. All the correspondent may add is that by the new method we may also learn to write in hieroglyphics, or if we have been writing in hieroglyphics, to return to plain, simple language.

Information has reached the Bluff of the .privations of a party of three (including Mr 1\ M'Quarrie, New Zealand champion heavy-weight boxer), who endeavored, to walk from Patterson's Inlet (Stewart Island) to Mason's Hay, on the other side of the island. The'distance between, the points is only a little over 20 miles, but there is no track, and the country is almost impassable. Communication is usually maintained by boat. Tho party had quite underestimated the difficulties to be encountered, and they were prepared for only a day's journey. At the end of the first day'they found themselves far from their destination. They had no tent, and as it commenced to freeze their anticipations for a comfortable night's rest were far from glowing. They managed to get a fire going, but it was more decorative than useful Food that night consisted of two tins of fruit, opened with a nail, and some bacon which had to be cut with the top of one of the fruit tins. The frost was much heavier than was anticipated, and their blankets were quickly coated with white. As their supply of blankets was not a particularly extravagant one it tmay be realised that their attempts to get to sleep was practically hopeless from the start. Next day they got off the "blaze" and had a hard time" floundering through a half-frozen swamp. They should have reached Thomson's run (seven miles from their destination) that night, but when darkness eamo on and there was no sign of the hut they realised that thev had gone astray, consequently they had to camp by the lagoon. They had no Are and) practically no food. It froze harder than ever. Next day they retraced their steps and picked up the blaze where they had left it. The track is known as Raggedy Track by a few who have traversed ii>. They reached Thomson's run that night in a pretty bad state, but were able to reach Mason's Bay, over a good track, late tho following afternoon.