LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 32, 1 August 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Animated pictures of the Coronation will be shown, lit New Plymouth this evening.

A man 71 years of age was fined £ls at Wanganui for sending indecent pictures through the post. A special train, arriving at New Plymouth at 2.45 p.m., ■will be run oil Thursday in connection with the football mutch, North Island v. Taranaki. Excursion fares will be available. '

The local bodies having toll-gates on the route of the "Round the Mountain" cycle fftice are beiag by the promoters not to collect the toll" charges from (the individual riders, but to keep a tolly of them, the committee undertaking to pay the fees in a lump sum to the counties concerned.

During the Rifles' ball last night Lieu-tenant-Colonel Malone presented Private Arnold with the wedding-ring trophy won by him in shooting. Private Arnold warned the ladies' committee that if he had the chance during the year he would use the ring, so they had better- look out for another one.

Several months ago the Puniho tollgate was lifted off ita hinges during a Saturday night, and thrown l away. This was an iron gate, the previous wooden one having been similarly removed, and chopped up. Search for the gate at the time proved unavailing, but now Mr. Geo. Petch has found it on his property on the Minnrapa road. The cradles are kept full at St. Helen's Hospital, Dunedin. In nine days, at the beginning of the month, a dozen births were recorded. Six of these were girls and six were boys. The happy tidings were sent on to the Minister in charge of hospitals, and adding the brief comment, "Wonderful!" Mr. Fowld.i gave the inspector's letter to the press gallery. The fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Egmont Lodge was held last evening, Bro. L. Brabant, N.G.. presiding. There was a numerous attendance of members. Two candidates were initiated. Bro. E. ! Snowball forwarded his resignation as trustee, and a resolution was carried thanking him for his services. A letter of recommendation was granted to Bro. Snowball, who lias left the district. The Lecture Master, P.I'.G.M. G. 11. Mc(l ahoy conferred degrees on members entitled to receive them.

Mr. T. P. Hughson, assistant steward of tho Cape Egmont circuit of the Methodist Church, has written to tho Taranaki County Council as follows: "At our quarterly meeting held recently I wias requested to approach you with a view ■to securing exemption 'from payment of toll by travelling to their preaching appointments and pastoral visitations. Thi.s privilege, -we believe, existed in the old toll days, and we trusit you will see your way to grant it again." The matter will be discussed at next Monday's meeting. The weekly session of the Egmont Lodge, No. 112, T.0.0.T., was held in tho lodgcrooms. The C.T., Bro. G. H. Hartnell, presided < and there was a good attendance. One. member was initiated and two were proposed for initiation next week. The following officers were elected:—C.T.. Bro. J. Salt; V.T., Sis. B. Connett; Chap., Sis. Mrs. Connett; Fin. Sec., Bro. .1. C. l.egg; Treas., Sis. Mrs. Legg; Mar,, Bro, A. White; Guard, Bro. 1!. Ilaydoii; Sent.. Bro. C. Pepperill; Pianist, Sis. M. Street; Librarian, Bro., G. llavden; Reporter, Bro. .la-, lloch. A letter of thanks will be sent to .Mrs. Appleyard, who made a donation of a chair for the chaplain. A vote of condolcnce.ito Mrs. T. K. Taylor was carried, the assembled members standing.

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One hundred persons in New Zealand paid income-tax last year oil incomes of over £IO,OOO per year.

A .bogus doctor was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Sydney for collecting and appropriating subscriptions for the Royal Hospital for Women. The police had a list of 500 patients he had visited as a doctor.

We understand that owing to the ■shrewdness of a local business man Wanganui is likely to provide something in the nature of a clue to the mystery surrounding the recently reported extensive thefts of goods consigned to Auckland merchants.—Chronicle.

According to the Wairarapa Mormonism has obtained so strong a hold over the natives in the Lower Valley that it has been decided to discontinue the services of the Church of England lady missioner amongst the Maoris in that district.

Wanganui is preparing to erect a destructor, the present rubbish tip being declared to be a disgrace to the town. On a recent visit to the rubbish tip a councillor said he found all sorts of garbage with thousands of rats running about in it. The Sanitation Committee of the Council are to be called together at once to consider the matter. A sensation was caused in Feilding on Tuesday, when, just as a funeral procession was passing through the Square, a motor-car coming in the opposite direction ran over a little girl named Edwards. The car was promptly pulled up, and an elderly spectator at once picked the victim up and carried her to a doctor. , '

, "To be a total abstainer is a very admirable qualification, but many men parade in the Court that they do not drink and thereby trv to imply that they arc immaculate," said Di ! . McArthnr at the Pctone Court, "but I would advise you that there are other .vlcen besides drink. Boys would be all the better if they went home earlier" at night and took an interest in home life."

There ia a marked increase in the number of persons adjudicated bankrupt in Dtinedin this year already (says the Star) as compared with the returns of last year. In 1910 the number was sixteen, while this year the total has been exceeded by one. The same observation applies to Oamaru, where last year only one person was adjudicated bankrupt, as against'nine persons during the first, six months of this .year. As a result of the advertisement for sixty oats of any breed, Mr. J. Boyd, proprietor of the Onehunga Zoo, secured a large number of the Mine species, mostly of the mongrel type. One or two miserable specimens Mr. Boyd was glad to shoot as soon as the late owners had got out of hearing. * On one occasion a private detective visited the Zoo, and threatened Court proceedings unless a cat valued at £3 10s was immediately restored to its rightful owner, A hurried glance oyer the collection, however, , was enough to convince him that none of ''the animals were worth 3s.

When stoops gjid houses arc rented, says an Invercargill paper, care should be exercised to see that gas fittings are in a proper state of'repair. A shop in Esk street waa vacated last month, and remained unoccupied until a few. days ago, when a business man Wok possession, 'He lit the ga« and left the premises to go to tea, locking the door. Hie adjoining tenant occupnes - the top floor, and about nn hour later went upstairs and' found an, overpowering smell of gas. It was found that the escape was from the shop beneath, and temporary repairs were made to the pipe. The former tenant had some fixing removed, and nothing wasi done to block" the opening iri -the pipe. The gas was escaping for fully two hours, and a pug dog, the only occupant of the room above, was so overcome that it liad to be carried out into the freeh air to recover.

The rat, in addition to being a disseminator of plague and other diseases, is also'a danger in other ways, and at least one Wanganui family has lately found another reason for waging war on his tribe (says an exchange). A few night ago a lady was aroused from sleep by a piercing shriek from her infant, and a light being brought it was found that the child was literally covered with blood. Her husband then discovered thai a rat was in the room, and needless to say it was given quick despatch. The animal had evidently got into the baby's bed, and had bitten it severely on the head, with the result as stated. It was at first feared that blood-poisoning might ensue, but prompt medical attention averted the danger. The family, however, lost no time in moving their residence to a leas rat-haunted locality. The census taken on March 5 gives the population of Paris—that of the city limited by the fortifications—as 2,847,000 in round figures, this being nil increase of a trifle over 124,000 since the census of 1906, due mainly to the immigration of provincials and foreigners. Dr Bertillon (says the Daily Telegraph.) gives us some figure® which 'show that in 120-2 the population of Paris, which was then a much smaller town was about 200,000. In the 18th century it showed a steady figure of half a million—that is to say, up to the outbreak of the great Revolution. In 1801 it bad Tiscn to 547,000. In 1851 it was a little over n million, but ten years later it had reached very nearly 1,700,000. It passed the figure of 2/000,000 in 1881. when the score was 2,209,000. If the suburban ■townships were included in the census of last March the total would be a little over 4,000,000.

A correspondent writes to us of a case that has come under his notice ■which lie characterises as the most shocking he has been acquainted with. A recently arrived mimigrant was engaged* by a farmer not very many mile* from iSew Plymouth to do farm work. His "bed" for tic night was in the corner of a stable, and his bed-covering a cover that had just been taken off u horse's back. His food might easily have been mistaken for pigs' food. Three days he stood tin's, but the work lie was compelled to do and the food and accommodation he wn« provided with then told on him, and he had to return to town for medical attention, and now is in a critical .state of health. The remuneration for his services was to hswe been 15s a week!. The spondent suggests that labor agent* should be made acquainted with cases of this kind, and that they should warn applicants for work of the conditions, to be expected on certain farm* .

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At Totara, Otago, last week tihero wqji a large gathering of public men to take - part in the function of opening a private railway to lime kilns owned by Miai McDonald. This is the first time in New Zealand that a ladjy has shown the enterprise to construct a railway, at very considerable cost, to develop am industry. The railway line connects with the main railway at White Craig siding, and U a irale and a half ini length. Tl}<( permanent way is of the Government at<uiHard for branch lines. •Professor- Metehnikoff, the well-known Russian .scientist,: lhas energetically wet al>out the task of trying, to eradicate cholera from Astrakhan, on the Caspian Sea. In that region alone last yea* there were 250,000 victims. If success, fill in this effort Professor Metohnikoff anul 'liis staff will afterwards conecntre.te tlueir scientific measures' on the Kirghiz Steppes, where there is always a danger •f.' ftu outbreak of bubonic plague. Should success in that region also be achieved, Europe will thereafter be comparatively safe from plague arid cholera epidemics.