LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 46, 16 August 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Excitement was caused In a Melbourne restaurant last week when a young married woman, Ellen M'Pliail, fell dead while drinking tea. The ability to hit the bulls-eye with a succession of shots will be a valuable accomplishment in Australia-uexfc-Qeto.'ber, when approximately £IO,OOO will be offered for competition by the Rifle Associations of Victoria and New South Wales.

It has been figured out that the trial of the three labor men charged with dynamiting the Los Angeles Times' Office will cost the American trade unions something like .£50,000. The fees of the six lawyers retained for the defence will alone run into £OO,OOO, and it is estimated that the cost to the country of the prosecution will be about £45,000. Apropos of Dick Arnst's statement that his recent Paramatta struggle was "the hardest race of my life," and that Pearce is -said to have sobbed, it is reported that Mr William Anderson, of melodrama fame, has engaged Arnst and Pearce to appear ill his latest Australian sensation "The Hardest .Race of .My Life," or "The Harrowing Sadness of it all for Onlv £ 1000."

At a recent fat cattle sale in Duncdin only 81 head were offered, and keen competition resulted. Prices rose alarmin<rly Cattle which ordinarily fetch £9 to £lO sold at £l3 .10s. One prominent butcher declared that the memory of no man could recall such a day when prices were so "high and quality of stock so inferior. On the average, beef realised from 40s to 45s per lOOlbs. A New Plymouth lady who recently visited Palmerstoii North, told a Standard reporter that during the clear weather she had splendid: views of Ngauruhoe and Mount Egmont, also of the more distant Tararua awl Ruahine ranges. "It is a delightful train journey." she added enthusiastically, "from New Plymouth to Wanganui. Such a varied panorama of beautiful country, mountain scenery and ocean shimmering in the sunlight."

A terrible accident occurred at the Kcep-it-Dark mine, West Wyalong (N.S.W.). Three miners, named George Burton, Alexander Sullivan, and Matthew Tunc, were working in a drive at the 700 ft level, whsn they broke through into a winze which was full of water. Sullivan managed to reach the ladder in the shaft, and climbed to safety, and Turve, who got the full force of the water, was also able to escape with severe bruises and cuts...-There was no sign of Burton Search parties went down, and when some of the water lia<Tl)eeii baled out, Burton's body was discovered in the well-hole. The base of the skull liad 'been fractured.

The wattle is flowering earlier locally this year, and is more prolific. This is regarded by some as an indication of an early summer.

The Lyttelton Times of Saturday stated fliat the total amount received towards the T. li. Taylor Memorial Fund was £435 lis lid.

A New Plymouth resident has succeeded in rearing quite a large, number of kiwis. They seem to thrive well and are increasing in numbers.

•Besides the annual football match against New Plymouth, the Palmcrston North School bovs have arranged for a shooting match and a debate, says the local Standard.

It was thought some time ago that the ponds in the Pukekura Park were becoming depicted. There is no such fear now. The waters are full of trout, gold fish, perch, etc. It is expected that a portion of the Invercargill tramway system will lie working next year. As a result the price of suburban land has risen considerably, and areas distant from town are inreasing rapidly in value.

The main train to and from New Plymouth lately has been misbehaving rather badly, and from some cause or another failing to run to time-table. Yesterday morning the engine appeared to be suffering from some internal complaint necessitating frequent stoppages to rest, and Stratford was reached at nearer half-past nine than half-past eight.—Stratford Post. The Gisbome folk are quite upset over the Marine Department having granted leave to the New Plymouth Harbor Board to prolong the working period of the dredge Paritutu for fix months without the vessel being overhauled, whilst in the case of their own dredge, the Maui, the Department refused to allow her to remain more than a month beyond the date fixed for overhaul.

In future the Vancouver mail steamer will make Auckland their first and last port in Australasia, instead of Brisbane as heretofore. The result is that the mail which was despatched from Auckland in the Marama is expected to reach London only one day later than the mail via Suez, which left several days earlier. The newly-inaugurated service will bring New Zealand and Canada closer together, and: must prove of substantial benefit to both.

A local farmer had been watching for nights in a paddock for sheep-worrying dogs. About one a.m. he heard the short snappy bark of a canine and the plaintive cry of a sheep. It seemed about one hundred yards away. It was very dark, but be fancied he saw the black form and let go. He rushed over and found the dead carcase of the dog and the sheep it had been worrying alongside. He had caught the dog without hitting the sheep. A Berlin doctor recommends his patients to follow the example of the giraffe, and masticate each morsel of food 117 times. A German medical paper takes up the question, and proditifes some statistics by which it hopes to confound the doctor. "To masticate at this figure each bite of an eighth of a pound," it writes, "the diner would take 2h 3m 18s to eat half a pound of chop, without regard to the other food he takes with it at dinner."

Some time ago a Paris merchant and trader in bicycles was supposed to be implicated in a fraud. He was arrested, and twenty machines of his were seized and carried off. There being no Habeas Corpus Act in France be was left a month in prison before being brought to trial, when, no evidence being forthcoming, he was graciously given his liberty. The first thing he did was to claim his bicycles from the police "Fourrierc," or "loot administration." Here he was presented with a ibiill for £6O for storage. He indignantly declined to pay. Meanwhile the storage costs continue daily to increase until justice sees its way to give back to the man his own bicycles.

The public wore greatly interested yesterday in a special display of the cheques to he paid as prize-money in the Taranaki Circular road race, these being displayed in one of Messrs. Morey & Son's fine show windows in Devon street. It was well for the plate-glass insurance people that the signatures to the cheques were wanting. These slips of paper, which may mean so much when completed, show that the winner of the race gets .-£SO, besides the Britannia Cycle Company's Challenge Cap. The second man gets £2O. and the fastest rider a similar sum. The bicycles, cash orders, tyres, and so on, which are included in the prize-list, are also shown in the window.

A very enjoyable social was held last night by the local Tent of the Independent Order of Rechabites to say farewell to Secretary Bro. Edwin Chatterton and his wife, who are leaving New Plymouth to reside in Gore. The programme consisted of the following items:—Pianoforte duet, the Misses Smith; address, Bro. B. J. Clarke; recitation, Bro, B. J. Hopkins; songs (2), Mrs. Cutler; address, Bro. P. Hopkins; songsj[2), Bro. "F. AslTer; pianoforte trio, the Misses Smith. During the course of the evening Bro. Chatterton was presented with a ease of electro plate ware. In the, course of his remarks he said he had been 22% years a Reohabite and two and a half years secretary. He thanked the Tent for the kindness shown to him, for their good wishes and handsome present, and also took the opportunity to thank the public of New Plymouth for their kind expression of good wishes which had been greatly appreciated.

The meeting of members of the Royal flew Zealand Association of ITi.s Majesty's Veterans, held yesterday afternoon at the Drill Hall, was fairly well attended. Captain ,1 .S. McKcllar presided. Captain T. Humphries, the delegate of the local branch on the New Zealand Association, was present, and explained what he and Captain Ilamerton were doing in the matter of making representations to the Defence Minister in tile direction of having the word "Mahoetahi" placed on the colors of the Taranaki Rifles and Militia, and the granting; of bars to he issued to holders of the New Zealand war medal who were present at the Waireka and Mahoetahi engagements with the Maoris. The sense of the meeting was in favor of a general recognition of all colonials who took part in any general engagement during the war, and a resolution was carried instructing the local committee to move in that direction. The resolution will also be conveyed to the general secretary as a remit to he endorsed at the annual meeting of the New Zalaud Association During the discussion it was pointed out that veterans other than the Taranaki men had seen active service and taken part in severe, engagements, and it was unfair and unwise to conduct this movement in a local and parochial spirit. Do you know that crouo can be prevented? Give Chambetflain's Cough Remedy as soon a.s the child becomes hoiwse, or even after the croupy cough appears, and it will prevent the attack. It is a certain cure for croup, and has never been known to fail. Sold by all chemists and storekeepers. Poes your back ache? Have vou ralgia ? Do you know that Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment wilTcure ybuT i '"T£ is the only external remedy that will take out all your inflammation. ItiCan't help but do you good. Obtainable everywhere.

The poll on the proposal to merge tile Fitzroy town district into the borough will he taken to-day. In ;ill, oG7 motor cars and motor cycles are registered with the Hawke's Bay County Council and oO.j with the Napier Borough Council.

The Tukapa Football : Club desire? to acknowledge with thanks "receipt of donations from Messrs. \\\ fj. Francis 10a fid, •f. McKean £1 Is, and W. Emeny £1 Is.

The schedule for the forthcoming spring show of the Tnranaki Agricultural Society has been placed in the hands of the printer, and will ilje available in due course.

The old battleship I'amperdown, which rammed and sank the Victoria, Admiral Tryon's flagship, during some manoeuvres in the Mediterranean in 1803, has been sold to a shipbroker for £40,000.

A New York philosopher has come to the conclusion that there are two ways to get up in the world. You can. build your own ladder and climb it, or you can find some fellow who has left his to chase butterflies, and climb that.

So much papier maehc is being used at present for the helmets, shields and armor of pageant knights that there is a grave danger of our bootß costing us more in the near future, s,ays an English writer. They m-.iy even have to be made of leather!

For the fourth successive year a tomtit has built its nest in a private letterbox belonging to Mr, R. Thornton, of Preston, Canterbury, and six young birds are comfortably quartered therein. Letters are posted daily in the letter-box, but the tomtit simply brushes them aside if Uiey happen to fall in the nest. Considerable hilarity was aroused at the last meeting of the Christchurch City Council. A letter was read from the Waimakariri County Council challenging the members of tiie City Council to a hockey match in aid of the. Coronation Memorial Fund. The challenge was accepted.

"You hear people decrying these tangis as a waste of time, money and energy," remarked Father Dclae, Maori missioner, to a southern reporter, "but it should be remembered that the native reverence and grief is much more deeply-root-ed than that of the European, and in no other form could this be so genuinely expressed as by the tangi." A roof-mender named Xeu, whose voice is being trained at the expense of the Kaiser, is spoken of as "a future Caruso." It is surprising how many famous singers have come from the humblest ranks of the working-class. Not only lyrically, but socially, too, it seems, music has its foundation low down in the scale.

A good story is told of a preference shareholder wiio was the only person present at the ordinary general meeting of a company. He attended the meeting at the right place and at the right time, voted himself to the chair, made a call, declared the usual dividend, and capped the proceedings by moving a vote of thanks to the chairman, and this closed the meeting. These facts came to light in the course of evidence taken at the Auckland Police Court a few days ago. Golf as an antidote for poor preaching was warmly advocated by Rev. ,T. G. Chapman, Minister of the Taranakistreet Methodist Church in Wellington. "When we ministers feel a fit of the blues we ought," he jocularly suggested, "to take our clubs and a dozen balls and go out to the links. Duly, you good people won't let us," he added. "If every Monday morning we ministers went out to the links at Miramar, and had a good game of golf, I am sure we would preach better sermons, and you would have better work done."

A Taranaki settler, who was recently on a visit to New South Wales, speaks highly of the prospects of various parts of that extensive country. He was much struck with Wagga Wagga, which is situated some seventy miles from the Victorian Itorder. The population is about 8000. The land in the vicinity is utilised for wheat growing. Wheat, he says, is to be seen piled up in stacks, with a covering of corrugated iron, at all the railway stations in the district. Intending settlers are rushing in every day from every part of Australia. Land agents abound, there being no less tlinn .')2, and they cannot cope with the numbers looking for land. "T have never seen anything like it in New Zealand," he concluded.

I lie Oakura bachelors and spinsters excelled themselves last Friday evening in the splendid provision made for the comfort andi enjoyment of their friends at a ball in the Oakura hall. Tliev had decorated the hall beautifully' with niknu palms, flags, flowers, and draperies, and had engaged the best of music, Mrs. George's orchestra, .so that dancing on the almost perfect floor was a real delight. Then there was an abundant supper, and the guests' creature comforts were well looked after. The M.C.'s were Messrs. Mackay, Mace, McHardy, and Morris, and they were most courteous and attentive. As was most richly deJ££y?4»..theijp was a good attendance,, and the ladiea honored the occasion by appearing in costumes that would have done credit to the costumieres of the big cities.—Occasional correspondent. In the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before Air. 11. S. Fitzherhert, S.M., judgment for plaintiff was given by default in the following cases:—Jenkinson and Co. (Mr, Hutchen) v. Tupoki Here Willi, claim £0 15s Gd, and costs

£1 10s lid; Skeates and Bockaert (Mr. Hutchen) v. Frank Keenan, claim £3 liis 4d, and costs £1 8s Gd; Hallenstein Bros. (Mr. Hutchen) v. Frank Keenan, claim £1 lis Gd, and costs 8s; W J. Honeyfleld (Mr. -Standish) v. Melvin Loveridge, claim £4, and costs liis; John Taylor (Mr. J. E. Wilson) v. William Wilson, claim £2 9s 2<l, and costs 10s; Geo, Gunson (Mr. Standish) v. George Rowe, claim £8 10s, and costs £1 3s Gd: Morris Bros. (Mr. Nicholson) v. A. O. Vincent, claim £9 18s Bd, and costs £1 3s Gd; Win. Jenkinson (Mr. Hutchen) v. Joseph Terrill, claim £2, and costs Ms. In the judgment summons case Peter Hoskin (Mr. C. H. Weston) v. George Burnard, there was no appearnnce of tlifc judgment debtor, and an order was made for payment of the full amount of £2 9s 2d in seven davs, in default seven days' imprisonment. There was a lengthy civil list, several cases being confessed, paid into court, or adjourned. TOU SHOULD BEAR IK MIND Ihat by ruing uie Commercial Eucalyptus Oil, which is now bought up at Od per lb weight and bottle, and, on account of the large profits, pushed, you are exposing youraetf 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 EICALYPTI EXTRACT you not only avoid these pitfalls, but you hare a stimulating, safe and effective medicament, the result of a special and careful manufacture, Remember: SANDER'S EXTRACT embodies the result of 60 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 yourself >•» rejecting otier br.ivi*. —. VISITING CARDS.—When you run out of cards, send your order for more to the Daily News Printery. 3/8 for 50, or 0/- for 100 (postage paldj. , ,

The fact ib vouched for that in Santo Rosa, California, there has just been erected a nice little church capable ol seating 1200 persons out of one single tree, n gigantic candletree. With the exception erf bricks for the chimneys, glass for the windows, hinges, locks and church bell, every item of material was obtained from this one tree, of which only about two-thirds were used. Besides the church there is a sort of a school concert hall, with room for a hundred persons, an office for the minister, t» toilet room and a porch. The bell-tower is over a hundred feet in height. The cost of the church and other : !.u;Minfl» was about £1125. The reluctance of some medical men to attend unknown patients at night was discovered by an anxious father on Saturday at about 10.30 p.m. (says the Auckland Herald). An eighteen-months-old child, whose parents reside in Newton, was seized with convulsions. Leaving it to the care of its mother and hurriedly attiring himself, but not waiting to put on his boots, the father rail to the nearest boarding-house where there was a telephone. He rang up no fewer than ten doctors before bin appeal for assistance met with a favorable reply. One or two of the nine medicos first rung up were out. others said they could not come for various reasons, fly the time the tenth doctor was persuaded to turn out the father of the suffering infant was well-nigh distracted, and it kindly person in the boarding-house had to complete the list of calls for him, The Samoans are a kind of communists, and, according to Mr. 11. W. llardii 1 ., who has just returned to Sydney from an Island trip, there are some amusing' stories of how they put their theories into practice. 'T was told," he said, in conversation with a press representative, "that when a native's wife died, her relatives would gather at once and camp on the poor bereaved until all his former wife's property was consumed. A harbormaster in a certain Samoan port—a Scotsman he was—married a Samoan woman. Within a little while after the, marriage twenty-seven of her relations took steamer for his place, many of them with their horses and sulkies—for they are not so badly off—and stayed with him for about seven wseks. That was just to -show that he had become one of the family, so to speak. They hadn't taken return passages, but by the. end of that time the harbormaster, Scotsman and all, was only too glad to buy the tickets for them.