LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 62, 4 September 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The sewers are being extended up Standish street to .Barrett street. The I'ranliley School will re-open today, after a fortnight's vacation on account of measles. The September butter of the U'arca. Dairy Company has been sold for 12'/id, not 11 '/ ; das previously stated. The Mangorei Dairy Company is now turning out 22 boxes of butter dailv. It is understood that this factory has disposed of its output for 11'/id. The sum of £22 10s was netted as the result of the I Sell Block entertainment in aid of the new agricultural hall. A few more such donations, and the financing of the scheme will not be difficult. In glorious weather the Garrison Hand gave a sacred concert yesterday afternoon. at the .Recreation Grounds rotunda. There was a large attendance of the public, who thoroughly enjoyed the music. .Mr. I?, Gilmour, who spends a good deal of lime in raising seedlings of daffodils, etc., ha si this year raised a. unique Kipccimcii. Its principal peculiarity lies in the fact that it is green instead of yellow. Some specimens of .Mr. Gilmonr's seedlings are being shown at Mr. Gilbert's florist shop in Devon street.

Another effort is to be made to lloat (be stranded bar<|iicnline Pelotus. which has been lying on the Wanganui beach for some months past. The vessel is said to be holding well together, and there are many who arc sanguine enough to expect to see the ltar<|neiltine once more a lloat and voyaging across the seas.

"Perry's erirner," mi the corner of Devun and .l.iardet streets, one of the best rcnmiiviiig business sites in Devon .street, changed hands a week or so iifro nt a ,<;ood figure. On Saturday Messrs. fiilniour anil Clarke found another buyer lor the section at a satisfactory advance. There is an increasing (U'liiand for vacant sections. During the 'week the lirni sold some four and a halt acres of the Dartmoor estate.

The linking "craze," as it is generally termed, is now on the wane in most parts of the Dominion.

t'nskilled labor is said to be at a discount just, now on the West Coast, of the South Island, and a great many of this class of workers are out of employment.

The debt of the Russian Empire is staled at the close of last year as ,E!)((.").4li!l,(IOO. as against. tEIS.HOO.OUO ut the close of 1!!!0. Thus, the increase on the ten years has been £282,100.000.

ft is stated that a great many horses in the Rangitikci district are affected liv bots this season. Many are looking poor and miserable, and numbers, says a correspondent, have died, most, of them suddenly, The mining market is deadly dull (says a (Jrcymouth paper), and it is a condition that the jobbing brokers have helped to bring about. The public is not in the mining market, and rightly so, for the private speculators have at last realised that they cannot possibly receive justice and fair treatmen when so many brokers are doing a jobbing business. A. Southland horse dealer confirms previous reports regarding a decided drop in the Australian draught-horse market, and states that while he was in Melbourne advices were received from Westem Australia that a slump had also set ill there. Nevertheless, he was able to dispose of four of the mares which he took over, at a price aggregating ,C3fio. hi bis opinion, for a time, at least, intending exporters will have to exercise a prudent discretion in the matter of consignments. Allegations of brutal ill-treatment are made by Richard James Ecltus, some time an inmate of the Auckland Mental Hospital, in a petition, presented to the Legislative Council. Ife declares that an attendant on one occasion seized him by the neck and brutally assaulted him, while another day he was dragged naked by the heels down a flight of stone siteps to his wll, and was also put under a tap and whacked with a broomstick. lie also says he was violently assaulted several times by a dangerous lunatic. The planting of orchards in the principal fruit-growing districts of Nelson has been conducted this season on a very large scale. Some settlers at Montere have planted 40 to 50 acres, and at Ruby Bay as many as 150,000 fruit trees have been landed for the orchardists in that neighborhood. At Motueka (where, the already extensive orchards are being largely increased) thousand of trees have been landed, one shipment comprising 25 tons. The planting operations have given employment to a considerable number of persons.

An Eltliam resident has been trying the efficacy of a Chinese ointment, and has received great, benefit. It is said that the Chinese doctors have scarcely altered- their methods of medical treatment for hundreds of years past, clinging to the old methods with characteristic tenacity. Surgery, it is said, hitherto has scarcely had recourse to in China, but probably with the awakening of that great nation to the marvels of modern science, in every department. before long, we many hear of expert surgeons as well as skilled medical practitioners.

A sensational incident, occurred at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, on Saturday morning. August l'.ltli. A patient, John Williamson suddenly got out of control, and jumped over a railing from Ihe list, storey, a distance of -Ilift., and was killed instantly. One of the nurses, noticing his strange behaviour. followed him (|iiiekk. and saw him climbing over the railing. She grabbed at bini to hold him back, but the man was too <|iiic-k. and he fell or jumped. In his fall he struck a branch of a tree, and was hurled with great force 011 to the stone steps below. Death was instantaneous.

All analysis of flic Cuited Kingdom census returns shows that the projun--tion of women to 111011 lias been steadily inn-rasing since 1821. At that date there wore lOlil! women to every thousand males. In 1!)01 this had lieconie KlliS to WOO. and the figures were exactly the same in l!lll. though, as in l!)OI, large numbers of men were absent oil military service in South Africa, there is no doubt thai the excess of women as shown by the 11)01 census was too great. At the present time there are 1.178,:i17 more women than men in lSritain. The largeness of this excess is understoood when it is remarked that if women, numbering as many as the whole population of New Zealand, left Itritaiu there would still renin in considerably more women than men.

Coins buried for 1000 years have come to light, at Deni pierre, France, where a farmer was levelling his yard. These date from the Gallo-Roman period, and number about 2SOO. Of these some 2000 are silver and the rest bronze. They had been buried in an earthenware vessel and placed in a stone-built hiding place. As to the silver coins, -these are line specimens, but the 'bronze coins suffered much from the air. A number of rare pieces were found in the collection coming from the reigns of some obscure Roman emperors of the late period. The oldest coins date from the Kmperor Trajan (lilt to 117 A.IX), and the most recent from Dioletian. it is thought that the coins were buried about 313 .|.D. Tlie spelling of the word ''skinny" wis an important factor in deciding a society | lawsuit at the Bristol Assizes. The plaintiff was a .Miss Kathleen Gransmorc—since married to Lieutenant Thurston, U.X. and the defendant, Miss Mary Xorrington, a young lady 21 Tears oki. It was alleged that the defendant wrote u series of anonymous lot tors in a disguised hand to Lieutenant. Thurston reflecting on Miss (iransmore's honor, and designed to prevent her marriage to the Lieutenant. In one of the anonymous letters the word ''skinny" was written with one "n.'' After emphatically denying all knowledge of the letters. Miss Xorrington was asked iu court to write one of the sentences appearing in the libel, and, having done so, it was found that she had spelt skinny with one "n," and when asked to spell the word she made the same mistake. The jury found for the plaintiff, awarding her £,->OO damages. YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND That hy using the 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 yourself to all the dangers to which the use of turpentine will expose you—irritation of kidneys, intestinal tract and mucous membranes, liv 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 50 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 hy rejecting other brands. Drapers, if you travel with us you will partake of our life and vigor. The greatest among you is not too great to grow. Will you join us, then, in speeding up the sales of Warner's Rust-proof Corsets ? —Ross and Glendinning, Ltd., wholesale agents for Warner's Corsets.—Advt.

The N'ew Plymouth Supreme Court sittings, fixed for the lilli ins!., have been adjourned until Wednesday, the 2l)th inst.

Tho Patea Press states that the directorw of the Wiienuakma Dairy Coinpa, ny ha,ve decided on consignment, through Messrs. Kearlev ami Tonge, of London, at 11'/id per II)., without recourse.

The disposal of the season's output ol butter was considered by Mm; directors of the Kltham Dairy Factory on Friday, but no decision was arrived at. It is understood thait a parcel of butter is being shipped to Canada, which is a new departure, as far ai this country is concerned.—Argus. Rain is badly needed in Taranaki at the present moment. CnlesH it cornea soon, the effect on the dairying industry will be serious. Swell a comparatively dry spell as we have had is almost unprecedented in the history oi Taranaki. August being one of our wettest months as a general Tlile.

Travellers tell wondrous tfles of the forces of the famous wind which blows in South-Eastern France called the nii«tral. So fiercely does it blow that the trees all lean towards the south-east, and the gardens have to be protected on the north-west side by lofty walls. In consequence of a carriage? having been blown bodily into a canal !y the mistral, the lady occupant and the horse were drowned, no carriage >. allowed to be driven alongsd* the canals or the harbor at Marseilles while a mistral is blowing. The last issue of the Agricultural Journal contains o e\en;l articles of special interest to T.iranaki farmers. One of these is "Pig-breeding and Management," by Mr. J. Uruce; another is a full explanation of uiil'k-tc»t:ng by tho llabeook method, by Mr. W. E. Glwillim A timely and informative article on lucerne ig contributed by Mr. H. Clifton, ami Mr. Primrose MeConnell deals with the ell'ect of green manuring on a Swede crop at Moumahaki, and also gives detailsi of mangel growing and ma.mi.rial ■tests there, Mr. Clifton al>o deals with forage crops, and salt as a stock food is dealt with by Mr. I?. C. Aston. The Journal also contains other articles and information relating to various branches of the agricultural, pastoral and horticultural industry. It is a cheap medium of information and education for the man on the land.