LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 48, 18 August 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Ulimaroa and Ruahine were both within wireless range lust night. The Wanganui natives have decided to erect a monument to the memory of Major Kemp. It is proposed to enlarge the Wanganui Museum, and the work will be put in hand shortly.

Southland is reported to have been favoured with the mildest winter that has been experienced for thirty years. The enormous sum of £140,757 was put through the totalisator at the racing and trotting meetings in Christchurch last week.

The Manawatu Times is responsible for the statement tlmt a settler at Raumai iast week .killed six turkeys with one shot of hi.s gun. A fine frost fish measuring sft 3in in length was picked up on the beach close to Timaru one day last week. The finder sold the fish for lis.

For creating a disturbance at Dunedin on Capping Day, the University Council suspended one student till the end of the term. Another was fined £3, and a third £l.

It vaa stated at Wednesday's meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board that a settler in this district was the father of thirteen children, of whom no fewer than eight were blind. The London correspondent of a Sydney paper is informed that the prices at which butter business at the start of the forthcoming season will be done will be somewhere about 110 a to 112s for choicest, or just about a shilling a pound. At .the women's crusade meeting tonight in the Good Templar Hall things will .be a good deal reversed. It is to be a women's meeting in reality. Women only will be admitted to the body of the hall; the men must go aloft, or, as it is said, "-dress circle reserved for gentlemen and their ." Someone lias waggishly said that the men will in very- deed look down on the women.

Discussing old Scottish clockmakers in the Scotsman, Mr. Robert Lumsden, of New Plymouth, states that his father served his apprenticeship under Geoirge Lumsden, of Pittenwcen, who was his uncle. "My father was born in Kilrenny, and he used to tramp to and fro,' and had a hand in the making of many of the clocks bearing the name of Geoige Lumsden." He died at Inverc&rgill in 1904. The Maoris were in high glee over the result of the Okaiawa-Clifton match yesterday, for was not big chief Tamu and lesser lights Toro and Koru on the winning side? Several then adjourned to a supper-room in Stratford after the match and indulged in some light badinage. "Give that fcrra shark," one facetiously observed, pointing to a big fat native. "Why?" asked a (pakeha, pausing from the absorption of his plate of fish. "Is fish good?" "You pet," responded the Maori, "te shark ferra goot for te Maori, make him trong. That why te Maori play te goot game to-day."

The following will give some idea of the work being done in Great Britain by members of registered friendly so-cieties:—-In ten years the members of friendly societies, now numbering G,000,000, have paid in contributions no less a sum than £52,000,000. They have paid away in sick and funeral benefit £34,000,000, and for medical aid £5,000,000. Tn the same ten years there has been paid away in out-door relief by the poor-law authorities £31,077,288, thus showing that by the movement alone they have paid away £7,022,712 more than the whole of the poor-law system throughout England and Wales. The Wellington Post says: —Enquiries made in the Parliamentary lobbies go to show that there is a combined movement among the country members to force the hands of the Government in the matter of rehabilitating the country clubs which have lost their totalisator permits as the result of the report of the Racing Conference. They threaten that, unless what they regard as justice is done to those clubs, tliev will assist in carrying a motion to abolish the totalisator, and they are confident that they can secure the object aimed at. There is also a movement among town and country members interested to arrive at an amicable settlement of the matter, and the preliminary steps have already been taken to that end. In the Magistrate's Court at New Plymouth yesterday morning, Frederick Coldrick, a carter, of Egmont Village, was charged on the information of Borough Inspector Tipping with having placed u,pon Dawson street a lflad of timber without authority so to do. The circumstances were the same set «s were adduced in the case of the borough inspector against U, W. Hartnell, a builder, who successfully defended his case, pleading that although he had ordered the timber lie had not known of its arrival, the Sash and Door Company having failed to give him the stipulated notice of delivery. The inspector now proceeded against the driver who was in charge of the waggon which brought the timber. Coldrick pleaded guilty, and was fined Ss and costs. An alternative charge against the Sash and Door Company was withdrawn by leave of the court. At the Hospital Board meeting on Wednesday the Education Department forwarded a claim against the Board for the maintenance of deaf, blind, and feeble-minded children in special schools. The chairman said the Board must make inquiries about this, and object to being saddled with a liability about which they had not been consulted. If the Department was going to send these children to special homes and charge the Board with the cost of maintenance the Board should have some knowledge of the proceedings and of the intention of the court to commit the children. Where the Board was committed to any liability it had a right to be consulted,' said Mr. Bcllringer, and a resolution to .ask the Department to extend this consideration was passed. The Department of Education will also be asked for full details of t-he cases charged for, the Board being in doubt as to whether these children were committed from this district. YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND That T>y using tne Commercial Eucalyptus Oil, which is now bought up at fld psr 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 EUCALYPTI 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 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 otW

YOU WILL BE SURPRISED How much better you feel if your stomach is in good condition. Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules will improve your digestion at once. Price, 2s fid. Obtainable at Bullock and Johnson's. Baby had a horrid pain,

Mr. Samuel Holland, of Tinwald, Canterbury. has lifted close on half an acre, of potatoes that .yielded at the rate of 30 tons ftei: acre.

One of the most isolated communities in the world, the Falkland Islands, is about to erect a wireless station in order to get the news of the world from passing, ships, v The price of genuine Strativarius violins is still maintained. The sum of £ 1500 was recently offered for one at a Londoh auction, but it did not reach the reserve.

It is somewhat remarkable that during the last few months the Mayors of two New Zealand cities have died, and the Mayors of three other cities or towns have undergone serious operations. If Ambury has his way, every miini'cipiLj- employee will take his annual holiday^ year, and not allow them to accumulate for a number of years. The late 'borough engineer had no holidays for eight years. One of the competitors in yesterday's race arrived too late to make a tour of the course before starting. He said he thought he could follow the resit, "but," he asked, "how many times do we go round?" He wasn't among the first fifteen who finished.

At a special meeting of the Borough Council last night the resignation of Mr. A. H. Kendall as .borough engineer was accepted, and he was granted six weeks' leave of absence from to-day on full pay. Mr. C. Skitrop was appointed borough foreman and inspector of buildings at £4 4s a week. A committee waß sek up to consider the matter of entering certain information on the plans of the borough showing the water reticulaition system.

It seems rather singular, but the (fact is beyond doubt, that the first intelligence of a steamer being in the vicinity of icebergs is communicated from the engine-room. The explanation is that when a steamer enters water considerably colder than that through which it has been running the propeller revolves more rapidly, Abnormally cold water usually surrounds the vicinity of icebergs for miles. When, therefore, the propeller begins to run faster without any additional steam power, the engineers down below know that icebergs are not far off, and word is passed to the bridge to keep a sharp look-out.