LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 49, 19 August 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

As instancing the vast use of petrol by motorists Professor W. P. Evans, in the course of a lecture in Ohristchurch, stated that in 1909 the actual amount of petrol sent from America had been 40,000,000 tons.

A pair of antlers picked up by two brothers out on an East Coast station recently were sold for £lO. When mounted they wore resold for £27. They are 12-pointers, and are remarkably symmetrical.

A crossbred hen belonging to a farmer at Dovercourt, England, has laid an egg weighing 4y 2 ozs. When broken the egg i was! found to contain not only a double yolk, but another perfectly formed egg with shell complete. At a special meeting of the Inglewood Borough Council on Wednesday, a resolution was passed that the Electric Lighting Company be asked t» value their plant with a view to the borough taking over the undertaking. The Japanses warship the Soya, 6500 tons, and the Aso, 7728 tons, will leave Japan for Australia and New Zealand in December next. The Aso was formerly the Russian armoured cruiser Bayari and the Soya was the Waryag. They fell into the hands of Japan during the war with Russia. The fire-ball that fell in a Melbourne suburb, as reported in our cable news recently, is, according to a local authority, a peculiar form of globe lightning, which often causes serious damage. Instances have been known in New Zealand of its ploughing up'the ground in the places where it struck.

Following the lead given by the Fitzroy people—who have thoroughly threshed out the question of joining the borough and decided in its favor—the people of Vogeltown, Frankley road, and Westown districts are already moving in tho matter of merging into the borough by petition. An important sale of Hawera town property was arranged on Thursday, when Mr. Walter Blair, of New Plymouth, purchased from Messrs. Hardley the land and building occupied by Mr. A. Blair, ironmonger, Mr. N. McCarthy, saddler, and others. It is understood that the purchase money was upwards of £OOOO. —Star.

Vary little settlement has been going on in Hawke's Bay of late, but it yill not be long before some more land is available for selection. The Manawaanriangi block, of 12,070 acres, near Porangahau is now being surveyed and early in the new season the Te WhltiaTara block, of 1370 acres, near Kopau, will be surveyed and thrown open.— Telegraph. Private detectives were until recently employed by the Railway Department on the passenger trains to watch the gnarde and report any breaches of regulations made by them. This action was not popular, it need hardly be said, and it is intended by the Department (says a Wellington paper) to select a few guards and appoint them ticket iaspectors on the trains. This is said to be in compliance with ihe railway officers' suggestion.

The Taranaiki Garrison Band will render a programme of music on the Esplanade Rotunda to-morrow afternoon at 3 p.m., when the funeral march "Garland of Flowers" will be played as a mark of respect to the memory of the late Mr. Tisch (president of the band). In addition the following items will be rendered:' March, '"Through Bolts and Bars"; selection, "Verdi"; intermezzo, "Syringa"; overture, "Austral"; quickstep, "Twentieth Century." A collection will be taken up in aid of the Deacon fund, a most deserving object.

At Wednesday's meeting of the Stratford County Council Cr. Astbury brought up the matter of the recent alterations in electoral boundaries (reports the Post). He said it was highly desirable that tho whole of the West Riding be included in the Stratford electorate. Mangamingi and Omona had been included in the electorate, but he would like to see these districts exchanged for the West Riding. The populations were practically equal, and the West Riding's interests were all in Stratford. The chairman (Mr. Marchant) said the Cardiff people had something to complain of in the direction, having been connected with various electorates. He thought, however, that the matter was one more for the electors, themselves. It was decided that the matter be brought under the notice of the Representation Commission.

The boys and girls of Taranaki who are pupils in secondary schools or district high schools are in a peculiarly fortunate position, according to the Minister for Education. Not only have they an equal chance with those from the rest of the Dominion of obtaining university junior scholarships, senior national scholarships, and university bursaries, but they had a rich fund devoted to these university scholarships (called Taranaki scholars-hips), which are granted on the same examination as those already named, but are confined to Taranaki candidates. The annual income derived from the reserves is sufficient to provide for about four scholarships a year. During the five years, 1906 to 1910, only four candidates in all have qualified for tho scholarships. Each of them has been awarded a scholarship. Mr. Fowlds, replying to a question by Mr. Okey in Parliament, said he did not see any reason to make the terms more libera! than they are at present. The series of winter entertainments arranged by the young people connected with the Whiteley Church were continued on Thursday night, when a capital concert was given by children attending the Sunday School. The very unfavorable weather interfered with the attendance, but those present were so delighted with the efforts of the youngsters and the general excellence of the programme that it has been decided to repeat the concert at an early date. The platform had been very, tastefully decorated under the supervision ■ of Miss N. Black. The first part of the programme was contributed by the scholars of the infant Sunday School, who had been carefully trained by Mrs. Lewis and Miss Chatter.ton. These items \yere all very pretty and were all heartily received. The second part of the programme consisted of a cantata. "The Festival of Flowers," the participants having been trained by Miss N. Cannell. This, too, was a meritorious performance, and the various items were all greeted with great enthusiasm.

YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND That t>y using tne Commercial Eucalyptus Oil, which is now bought up at 8d 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 i membranes. By insisting on the GENUINE SANDER EUCALYPTI EXTRACT you not only avrid 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 iB promised; it cures and heals without injuring the constitution, as the oils on the market frequently do. Therefore, protect yourself w rejecting other

Several Masterton fruitgrowers are using sheep-dip for their fruit trees this season, in the hope that it will kill the, woolly aphis, and other forms of blight, as it is said to do.

Greymouth papers of last week contain full accounts of the christening of the "Lady Islington" oil bore at Kotuku. The plant is the best in New Zealand, and has cost be Ween £SOOO and £6OOO. The derrick stands 70 feet high on a base of 16 feet square. The casing pipes range from 16 inches in diameter to six inches, and there are sufficient of them to put down a born of 4000 feet. It is considered that the prospects before the company are particularly bright. A thrilling experience was met with by Dr J. Lewis Reid, last week, which he is not likely to forget for some time. Whale riding his motor bicycle between Waipukurau and Waipawa, a cow rushed. at the machine. One horn went through the tank and the other struck the doctor in the ribs. Both machine and rider were sent flying. As the infuriated beast again wildly charged at the machine, the doctor rolled over into a culvert and got out of danger. The animal managed to hold the road for about two hours before it was driven into a paddock. A charge of professional misconduct against a solicitor practising at the Bar in Auckland is at present engaging the, attention of the council of the Auckland Law Society, and it is understood (says, the Star) that the matter will b advanced sufficiently to enable an application being brought before Mr Justice Edwards during the forthcoming sessions of the Supreme Court. The allegation is one of obtaining- money' from the client of another solicitor by means of false repre'sentations, and was the basis of a claim that was lodged but discontinued in the Magistrate's Court recently. The Law Society's action will be contested. The Hawera Magistrate commented a few days ago on the carelessness of some parents in neglecting to send their children to school. He remarked, and the remark is entitled to serious consideration, 'that now when the country had the blessing of free education it was not valued as it) should be by some. In the old days payment had to be made for the children's education, and parents then worked hard to obtain for their children what was not available gratis. He also mentioned that exemption certificates were indispensable in the case of sickness, etc., otherwise the Truant Inspector would have to perform his obvious duty.

"People who get free tickets are the worst section of an audience —I never give away a free ticket," said John Philip Sousa, the band conductor, to a Wellington interviewer. "The free-ticket man thinks it is his privilege to be hyprccritical and cynical, and he very seldom applauds. If a .person were to advertise a free concert, he would find that after the second item a few people would leave, more and more would leave after the second and third items, and in the end about a third of the audience would remain to see the concert out. When they pay they see the concert out—that is because you get a different class of people, the genuine lovers of music."