LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 85, 30 September 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Scouts will please note that the fieldday to 'l>(t held to-day is postponed to next Saturday. The postponement is due to the unavoidable absence of the Scoutmaster if mm town. Ail Ashburton farmer saved a good number of lambs during the recent cold snap by clearing the furniture out of some of the rooms of his residence and putting the lambs in them. Weather permitting, the -Xew Plymouth limvling Club's green will be open for play next Thursday, but the official opening of the season will not take place for some time yet. The green is looking in good condition.

"A ipretty even go," suggested a delegate at the cricket association meeting Inst night just after the president had declared a resolution carried. Members looked up. No one lmd voted either way, .but silence gave consent. The Agricultural Society is going to have better competition this year than usual ill the butter classes. The secretary already has nine entries from outside factories. Local factory directors ami managers are asked to note that entries close with the secretary on October 14th.

The sand nuisance was again in evidence yesterday at the root of the breakwater," sand drifting across the railway line and making it necessary to employ labor to keep the rails clear. It is suggested that the nuisance could be obviated by the use of a small but constant stream of water whilst the wind is in the awkward quarter.

The Xow Plymouth Fire /Board has notified the Borough Council that firemen will he instructed to keep all exits at the Theatre clear after they go on duty at 8 p.m. The Fire Board has also passed a resolution that the Xew Plymouth Theatre Company, Ltd., be asked to put U|> notices in the Theatre passages tlmt all exits must be kept clear, particularly of perambulators, go-carts, etc.

The horse parade held at Inglewood on Wednesday under the auspices of the Taranaki Agricultural Society was very successful, drawing an attendance of twelve horses. Thev were: Thoroughbreds, Sylvia Park. Korniosan, Campflre; trotters and roadsters. Huron I), Silver Spec, .Silver King. Berlin Mae; Clydesdales, General Wheeler, Consby, Young Lord Huberti., King's Director, and Empire. This parade will doubtless be made an annual fixture.

It is reported that an American syndicate. with headquarters at Seattle, wlm own a large licet of vessels, have decided to open up a large trade with New Zealand in Oregon pine. The venture is being started in view of the scarcity and high price of kauri in the Dominion, it being claimed that Oregon pine is in some respects superior to kauri, and that it lias many uses, whilst it can lie sold at a cheaper rate, owing to the vast quantities obtainable. Here are some aphorisms from an American .paper:—An ounce of hustle is worth a pound of luck. Life would be quite monotonous if the unexpected didn't happen so often. The fellow who does «, lot of .running around isn't the one who .gets ahead. The world is full of discords produced! by people Mowing tlieir own horns. Many a woman has discovered that even after she becomes a Mis. 'tilings may go amiss. The hen which lias just laid an egg cackles almost as much as a woman who has just found out a secret. F.ven when a girl wears heir wings on her hat instead of on her shoulders, there is some fel law who thinks she is an angel. Many of the fruit-growers are looking a bit "blue" at present (reports the Motueka correspondent of the Nelson CVdoist), but this is due to continually spraying with Bordeaux mixture, and not from any fear of the fruit markets. Motor ,p.um]M are quite plentiful, and the amount of spraying materials used is enormous. One grower alone will use l.x'.wt of blucstone this season, and this will cost over £2O, without the expense of mixing and putting it on. -Round at the Mo-utenr inlet the whole face of the country is changing, and where three years ago there 'was nothing tout gor-se aiul manuka, now there is a succession oif young orchards, varying in extent from eight to twenty acres. In Tasman planting is going on in a much larger scale, and if the main road to Nelson is made through this valley, the drive from' Xelson will in a few years be through a succession of smiling orchards. This will lie a pleasant change from climbing the Moaitere hills, and will prove to he a most attractive drive for tourists.

The services at the Whiteley "Memorial Church to-morrow will be conducted in the morning by the Rev. J. W. Burton, wlio will take as his subject, "The Sincerity of Love"; anil in the evening the Rev.,'. •!. Dawson, organising secretary of the Xew Zealand Alliance, will preach. A few days more and the Busy Cash Store, King Street, will be making their big millinery display. The goods are now stored with the New Zealand Express Co. until we get suitable rooms to display the goods, our own store being inadequate to show the whole of this beautiful lot. We will announce in a later issue the opening day. when we cordially invite you to inspect the goods, Tho prices will please you. Advt.

I The P.O. advises that the Zealandin. j will .probably be within wireless range to- * day. | The following notice is posted in an j office of a lirm in Palmerston:—"Xo vacI ancy for lady clerks hero unless they j promise never to marry." "I say this without fear of contradiction, that our Supreme Court in Xew Zealand is the cleanest in the world."— Mr. O'Dea nt l'atea. A meeting of farmers will be held today under the auspices of the Agricultural Society, ta consider the question of working experimental plots. A Bill lias been presented to the Legislature in Nevada according to which criminals condemned to death will be given the choice of the rope, the gun, or the poison cup.

Srtme of the draught horses bred in the Thames Valley have been bringing high prices. One breeder disposed ot 13 three-year-olds at the recent Cambridge fair at an average of £32. Tor drawing three political cartoons that were published on the anniversary of Ferrer's death, a young artist at Barcelona named Sagristo lias been sentenced to nine years' imprisonment.

One of the rare bits of freehold land in Te Kuiti—about 1-13 th of an acre in .size, recently sold for ClOOfl. This works out at £13,000 per acre. There is Maoriowned land on each side of it equally as favorably situated. Potato growers in the South Island are getting rather anxious as to the low prices, in view of the advent of the "new" variety. However, the embargo placed by the Commonwealth Government has apparently been lifted, for the Agricultural Journal contains a proclamation regarding the importation of tubers and the conditions under which thev will be admitted in future. Already 9ome growers in Canterbury have begun to send potatoes to Australia under the new regulations. Among the curios in the Fairy Meadow Public School (New South Wales) are four pennies and live half-pennies taken from the inside of an emu, which died at Cook Park, Orange, on August 2, 19.11. Other things found inside the emu were:—Xine 2y 3 in. nails, five marbles, one pump connection, one umbrella ferrule, one key. one medal, one watch wheel (2y«in. in diameter), two studs, three buttons, one safety pin, two staples, three washers, ' twenty-four pieces of broken china, while a large pin was found embedded in the liver. The emu was only young, and was a fine specimen.

Over three hundred years ago, one of the most unusual strikes ever roeorded took place in Paris, when all the lawyers walked out, so to speak, A law ordinance was issued and promulgated by the Inench King, Henry 111., ordering all lawyers to sign their pleadings and to state the amount they were charging their clients for their services. This was done so that the lawyers could he sufficiently and properly taxed on their incomes. The lawyers objected, and the strike, causing au entire stay of proceedings, followed. Peace was restored by the non-enforcement of the ordinance, though it was not renealed. Speaking at the Crystal Palace lait month on India, Sir Krishna Gobinda Gupta said there was a tendency, especially in self-governing colonies, to class Indians with the savage races, forgetting that Indian civilisation went back to the time when the present nations of Europe were steeped in barbarism, and that Indians had reached an eminence which had not been surpassed. The Indians were essentially a people proud and tenacious of their past achievements, and colonists would do well to remember that to deny them the ordinary rights of citizenship was not the way to lessen the difficulties of ruling the Empire. A new two-storey wood and iron building on the comer of Broadway and Regan street, Stratford, for Mr. 11. S. .Tames, was blown over yesterday morn'"S by the gale. The near line was dbatruuted, but a gang of men quickly cleared the track. 'Die building fell on the railway tanks, but beyond a ladder torn ofl there does not appear to be miv further damage in this direction. Apparently the only consolation in the circumstances it that the accident happened when it did, anil not later. If it had happened after work had started for the day, it would have been almost impossible for anybody inside the building to eseajMi death.—Post.

A new process for manufacturing steel eastings for commercial purposes, which, it is stated, may revolutionise the industry, is being introduced at a t'liristchiirc'li foundry. In the new method the crucible process is discarded. Special P'K iron is used, and is dealt with in a cupola. From the cupola it is transferred in a molten condition into a huge iron converter. There it is brought into contact with cold air. supplied through a pipe at a pressure of 71b to the square inch. The metal is at a very high temperature, and the conversion takes place viry rapidly. It is stated, indeed, that the metal is converted from pig iron into steel in fourteen minutes, liesides the great saving in time the appliances the linn is installing will enable it to deal with any quantity at a day's working, from ten hundred weight up to six tons.

The value of the Morse code in signalling to vessels was demonstrated on Saturday night, says the New Zealand Herald. The Rosamond was inward bound from New Plymouth to Onehungn, and as it was desirable-that certain instructions should he given to the master (Captain A. Wallis). the signalman at the Maiwkau Heads was instructed to communicate with the .steamer by means of the Morse signal lamp. The instructions were to the effect that Captain Walli.s had been promoted to the command of the Union Company's large strainer W-aihora, then in Auckland harbor, and that he must iprepare to leaivo the Rosamond at- once. The Union Company despatched a launch from Onehunga on Saturday evening to the Manukan Heads to meet the Rosamond. Captain Wallis was transferred to the launch, -and a motor-car was in waiting at the Oneluingii wharf to convey him to Auckland. The car reached the city shortly a.l'tor midnight, where another launch was waiting to take the captain out to the Waihora, which' was swinging at anchor in the stream. The Waihora weighed anchor shortly after 2 a.m. and proceeded on her voyage to Fiji.

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tFlaxmills in tli« Manawaiu and Wai-| rarapa distriots (snvs tlje Age) have sturtod ojMfi-ii tioiia, .but in other he trap- j producing >;ivti(m« of the Dominion mills I are ,-ttill Lille. 'J'lic present outlook does, not warraiat any great activity in phor-' mitun production. Good fair in now worth only £l7 per ton, a rate which has 'led to quite a number 'of millcre having accumulated stocks on hand; No royal lady knows by a more terriible ex]>e<riencc the horrors of what the late. King llunultert of Italy iihikl to ticline an "iwidenls of our profession" than doeis tliK Tsurila. She still insists 011 suipwin.tcnding the cooking of everything whitjii i« eaten by the Czar and heir children, but there was a time when, in her anxiety fw their safety, she cooked absolutely ad| their meals. Jlcr Imperial .Majesty, it i, said, often tliinks of the prophecy made by the sibyl for her and Iter sister, the Grand Duchess Serge, "Each of yxiu shall enjoy the greatest splendor that the world has.to be6tow, but with it sadness ineffable." Tln> following cablegram wan published in the Sydney Sun last week:— "Ex-King Manuel is "broke.' He is living on the generosity of his mother, the ex-Queen Amelia of Portugal, and is entirely depeiul-ent, upon the charity that she hands out to him. The new Republic has stopped the former monarch's monthly allowance of £O4O in order to meet the debts, amounting to £2,000,000, left by Ills father King Carlos. It remains to be seen whether the notoriously close-lii-itcd Due d'Orleaits will assist his nepliow to maintain an adequate establishment, and it is even suggested that Manuel's former friend, Gaiby Deslys, the music-hall artist, may come to his assistance.