LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 57, 29 August 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Roughly speakings the sum of * 14jGuu i resulting from a bonus of ]%d fori eleven months, will bi) paid out by the Kaupokonui Company to suppliers on September 20, . fltftrgnvine factories are largely on the increase in Great Britain. There are iW» somewhere about forty in full Working order, six new ones having been registered last year. The output is coming into favor more and more among consumers. A well-known Dunedin firm of butchers is at present securing its supplies of beef from Hawke's Bay. Twenty animals are to be shipped weekly until Christmas. The head of the firm says he can obtain his requirements at a cheaper rate in Hawke's Bay than in Otago, and that the cattle are of better quality than the locally bred stock. Some interesting facts as to treeplanting by the Government were stated by the Hon. T. Mackenzie at the Agricultural Conference. Last year 12,412,000 trees were planted. Up to the present time £189,000 had been spent on tree planting, and the area planted was 14,831 i acres. The Minister advocated the planting of the fagus fusci, or black birch. Afforestation was an expensive thing, and it needed skilled supervision. The story of an assault, with details of a lurid nature, was told in the Magistrate's Court at Wellington the other day. The parties were married women and neighbors, and one made an application to have the other bound over to keep the pence. A constable was called as a witness, and on being asked by counsel what he knew about the assault, produced a packet of hair as a relic of the struggle, The Magistrate, however, refused to examine the trophy. The attention of the fore-cabin steward of the steamer Kapunda, which was leaving Melbourne the other day bound for Adelaide and Fremantle, was attracted by a feeble cry issuing from the men's compartment, of the steerage. On investigation he found a warmly-clad, healthy-looking female infant about sixweeks old. The infant was taken charge of by a Customshouse officer, who handed it over to the police. Just previous to the sailing of the steamer two women, one of whom carried a parcel, came on board and went off again unencumber-d. Beside the child was a bottle of milk, which smelt strongly of gin, with the object, doubtless, of ensuring the child sleeping until the vessel had started on her voyage. A rather remarkable incident occurred at Napier recently. A native, driving a motor car after dark, mistook a railway crossing for tho main road, and, spinning round into the rails, found his vehicle speedily brought to a halt in the cattle stop. A train was almost due at the crossing, and the native bad the presence of mind to detach one of the motor-car lamps and race along the line to meet the approaching train to warn the driver. The engine was brought to a standstill, then uncoupled, and by its assistance the ear was pulled out of the way. The result was the detention of that train and another train waiting to cross it at Hastings station. But a much more serious disaster might easily have happened. Women's Christian Temperance Union. —Tho monthly meeting of the W.C.T.U. will be held on Wednesday, August 30, in the Baptist Church, at 2.30 p.m. Reports of convention. Executive meet at 2 p.m. —Advt. NEW LEASE FOR WEAK LUNGS. Dr Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs and Colds cures Influenza and all lung troubles. Price, la 6d and 3s. Ohtaintble everywhere.

The mountain wind stirred the dust in Devon street yesterday and tint water cart was at work for the lirst time this season.

Mr. Joll, of Wsiitara, was driving a pair of horses in a vehicle at Fit/.roy last evening when they Iwlted «nd dashed into a telegraph post—one on each side. A swingle-tree pierced the barrel of one of the horses, which had to he shot.

The weekly session of the Egmont Lodge, No. 112, 1.0. G.T., was held in the lodge room on Monday evening. The 0.T., Bro. J. Salt, presided over a large attendance. Two friends were initiated and one proposed for initiation. Sister Girimley reported that she is going to reinstate the lodge at Kltham on Tuesday night, and Inglcwood on Thursday. The Egmont Lodge will visit the above place on Thursday. A lodge is to be opened at Fifczroy. , ' The immediate prospects are not altogether encouraging when the shortage of feed is taken into consideration, says a report bearing on the lambing • season in the Ashburton county. Farmers are viewing the absence of feed with much concern, as there has not been such a shortage within the recollection of some of the, oldest farmers. The effects of the severe winter are being shown on the stock, the wool on the sheep being dry and hard in apeparance, arid the hardships endured by the flock will probably be shown in next season's clip. In consequence of the weakness of the ewes it is expected that mortality among flocks during lambing will be unusually heavy. Many of the lambs that have appeared so far are small and weakly looking. In the absence of a supply of dry feed graziers are anticipating further trouble in that the new growth of pastures will cause scour among the flocks.-

Mre Marion Bowen, widow of Senior Constable Bowen, of the New South

Wales police, fatally wounded in an encounter with ''Captain Moonlight's" gang of bushrangers in 1870, died suddenly in Melbourne recently. "Moonlight" (A. G. Scott), whose history is well known, had five bushrangers with him when four troopers from Wagga, Wagga came up with them. The bushrangers were wanted for the sticking up of an hotel and a police station. They escaped from the troopers, who obtained .reinforcements from Gundagai, including Constable Bowen. The bushrangers were encountered at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of a Sunday in November, 'and shots were exchanged. A bullet struck Bowen in the neck. He was at once made a senior-constable, but died a few days afterwards. ''Moonlight" was executed,in Darlinghurst Gaol on a charge of having murdered the constable". Two of the bushrangers had been shot in'the encounter. The sum of £75 a year was.granted the widow for ten years, at the end of which period she accepted a lump sum, which she invested in business. The enterprise was a failure, and for some time before her death she lived in cheap lodgings «nd earned a scanty livelihood .by her needle.

An informal meeting of Foresters representative of the Wellington, Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, Nelson, Canterbury United, Otago and Canterbury South districts was held on Friday at Wellington". It is understood'that many matters of interest to the Order—not the least important being the question of periodica) meetings in Wellington of delegates' from the various districts—are beings discussed. The subject of tho establishment of a Subsidiary High Court for New' Zealand is one that has received some serious thought in the past, but opinion regarding the necessity for such a departure is not by any means unanimous. In the circumstances, it is felt by many Foresters that failing such a consummation in the near future it would be for the benefit of Forestry if delegates from different parts of the Dominion met in Wellington occasionally. Were a. llHi.Court established it. woulif, of" course, he moveable; meetings would be lipid half-yearly or annually in each Foresters' district. At present there are several points on which uniformity in regard to funeral and other funds, as Well as other matters, are said to be desirable, and it is urged by some members of the Order that the time has arrived when an attempt should be made to bring together at not too long intcrcals representatives from all the districts, in order that things may be levelled up. Many queer tales have been told concerning the oversea Premiers during their stay in England (says a London correspondent). There was one concerning Mr. Andrew Fisher (Commonwealth Premier), who refused to embark on a certain vessel to see the Naval Review because there were colored seamen employed on board; another about a certain Premier who unwittingly won the ardent admiration of "a most importunate person of the female sex" to his own great embarrassment; of another whose fleeting references to one of his colony's primary industries resulted in his rooms being cumbered with stacks of raw. refined and "eniulsioned" samples of .certain fish oil; and a hair-raising tale of how another Prime Minister was guarded, waking and sleeping, wherever he went, by a couple of Scotland Yard's most trusty minims, lest the assassin's I hand should cut short his days. Joking apart, a story is going the round of I Fleet street that Scotland Yard kept special watch and ward over the Prime Minister of New Zealand from the mo- | ment he landed in the Old Country till Ihe embarked at Marseilles, The reason for this is said to be that a certain man, alleged to be a disappointed New Zealand litigant, had threatened to "do Ward in" whilst Sir Joseph was at Home, and that the utterer of the threat was known to be in England, and was actually staying at one of the hotels contiguous to the Cecil during the Coronation, but afterwards disappeared. How much of the tale as told in Fleet street is true it is, of course, impossible to say, but the allegation that Sir Joseph Ward was the object of some solicitude on the part of Scotland Yard does seem to have some foundation in fact. CONSUMPTION STILL CLAWS ITS VICTIMS. That old enemy of the human race — consumption—still claims its victims, and in increasing numbers. A cold neglected—that is always the start, always. It seems inconceivable that persons who know perfectly well that a neglected cold will cause the sufferer to find a consumptive's grave persist in neglecting themselves. Don't let a cold get a start; stop it right at the beginning with TUSSICURA—a truly marvellous throat and lung tonic. Two tcaspoonfiils of TUSSICURA taken at..the beginning of a cold quickly clears the nasal passages, relieving the feverishness, and reduces the membranous inflammation. You will find consumption exceedingly difficult to cure when it has a good start; but (and note this well) you can positively cure a cold and thus'prevent consumption by taking TUSSICURA when the cold first appears. Tussicura is sold in two sizes, Is (id and 2s (id, by all good chemists and grocers.

What in the world's the use of fretting O'er life troubles <v:-c\ day? All our blessings thus forgetting, We've some blessings anyway. One great blessing all may finger, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, to wit, Drives off colds inclined to linger, - Makes us well and keeps us fit. 1