LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 86, 2 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Samples of coal taken from the outdvrops in the Tangarakau gorge, near Whangnmomona, are on view in the lobby of the House of Parliament. Russian. Government surveyors engaged in Siberia are continually finding prosperous polonies of Russian settlors whose existence was unknown to the authorities at St. Petersburg. It is understood, says a Hawke's Bay paper, that the strenghtening and stiffening of the various bridges on the railway northwards of Wellington is in anticipation of providing still heavier locomotives for the Welli 11 g ton-A lie Ida rid express in the near future.

A Grevmouth correspondent quotes a case which manifests ironically the cruel hand of fate. The victim of the Blackball fatality (Mr. Barton) only last week received intelligence that a legacy of £2OOO had been left him, and he was going Home shortly to receive it.

Some yen is ago the Government could have purchased all the land in and around 'IV Kuiti for £lO an acre. Today they could not purchase the same area at £2OO per acre, and some of the lauds recently at rentals and goodwills sections in the main street have changed which reprosentsi £ 1:100 an acre. As the result of the energies of the secretary and sub-committee of the Taranaki Agricultural Society, it is practically certain that twelve or moire farmers will undertake experimental in subsoiling and fertilising, as requested >l»y Mr. Baylis, the Fields Instructor under the Depairtment of Agriculture. A patch of 116 acres of hops on the liorst ranch, three miles south of Tehama, California, will yield £30,000 worth of hops this season, or more than £240 to the acre, estimating hops at 17% d per 11). Picking began at the end of last month, and some of the tpickers were making from £1 to £1 Ss per day. Dr. Annold Knapp, the famous eye specialist of Now York, performed an operation the other day on Dr. 11. D. Chaipin, of Cleveland, that none of the experts of Europe would undertake. Dr. Chapin lost his sight seven years ago. Dr. Knap]) cut down into .the corner of the eye, removed superfluous matter, and restored the afflicted man's sight. A Wanganui resident who has just returned from a visit to tile country between .Kit-ham and the Wanganui river (in Southern Taranaki), states that the roads there are du a particularly had state at 'present. The settlers there also seem to have had a fairly hard winter, hut bear their troubles well, looking hopefully ahead to the fine summer months.

The mortality among stock in the Manawatu district is rather serious. Cattle have been dying in considerable numbers, some from getting into gullies, where tutu was growing, while others have died through eating more dry grass and coarse, fern than they could digpst. Many sheep have died through lack of feed, settlers having been rather overstocked.

The following novels have recently been added to the Carnegie Library:— Dancing Days. J. J. Bell; Oil of Spikenard, E. M. S. Dampier; Joan of the Tower, Warwick Deeping; The Wistful Years, Roy R. Gibson; The Spy, Maxim Gorky; The Dweller on the Threshold, ltobt illichens; The Jesuit, Joseph Hocking; Mr. 'Thompson, W. B. Maxwell; The, Gift of the Grass, John T. ■Moore; A True Woman, Baroness Orczy; The Coil of C'arne, John Oxenlvam'; Paddy, The Next Best Thing, Gertrude Page; The Gilded Chair, D. Melville Post; A Cavalier, G. E. T. Roberts; Wells Brothers, Andy Adams; The •Kuril-are of Gold, 'Philip V. Miighetls; The 'Man and The Dragon, Alexander Otis; Colonel Todlninter of Missouri, Ripley D. .Saunders; The Steering Wheel. Robert A. Wason; A Little More Than Kin, Patricia Wentwortli.

Our big millinery display is now in full swing. Hundreds of pleased buyers have visited us since opening, and were surprised at the originality of the styles and prices. We will continue the display for another week or ten days at the Hooker Sample Rooms, Egmout street, --Morey & Moore, King street.—Advt. IT IS THE RESOLVE

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Mr. Upton Sinclair, the well-known author, whose revelations in Inn book, "The Jungle," concerning the stockyards and packing business of Chic afro, created such a sensation four or five ywnj ago, is about to sue for a divorce from his wife. It is understood that u young Western poet, who had recently been visiting Mr. Sinclair's summer house at Anion, will .figure as co-respondent. Mr. Sinclair, 'who is not yet quite 83 wars of age, was married in )!)!)(> to Miss Meta H. Fuller. Colonel Birkensh.'nv. the Provincial Commander of the .Salvation Army, was leading the Salvation Army meetings in this town yesterday. The attendance at all the services was very encouraging, and the enthusiastic response by those present was a most eloquent testimony to the quality of his talks. The Colonel also spoke at the No-License meeting in the theatre. This (Monday) evening the Colonel is giving his famous lecture on the Scottish Covenanters, and a treat is in store for those who make it their business to attend. .

The übiquitous small 'boy is as hard to kill as the proverbial cat. At New Brighton on Monday last one of the tribe, while riding his bicycle unobservantly, ran straight into a motor-car which was travelling at a leisurely pace down the main- street. The youth was thrown right through the glass shield into the lap of the astonished driver, whose hand was ho badly cut by the shattered glass that he'had to seek surgical aid. The small boy, however, bundled out of the car without a scratch, and was' left lamenting the buckling of his bicycle's front wheel. At about five o'clock on Monday afternoon a young man arrived at tiie residence of Mr. David Amos, farmer, Mitcharn (near Asliburton), and immediately showed signs of mental derangement. His dress consisted merely of a cap, a pair of boots, a singlet, and a piece of about the loins. He wore no trousers, coat or vest, and in reply to questions, he failed to giive any account of himself, merely mumbling incoherently. The matter was at once reported to the police at Ashburton, and Constable Martin subsequently effected the man's arrest. No clue to his identity. He was committed to n menial hospital.

An interesting diseoyerv has recently been made bv Mr. C. T.'Burfitt, secretary of the Sydney Historical Society. It is a matter of history that Nelson possessed six sea chests, of which five have already been found in England, while the sixth has long baffled all attempts at discovery. Mr. Uurfitt declares that he has found the chest in Sydney, and'will shortly exhibit it to the public. ' The chest, whose history can be traced from the Nelson family to the present owner, was originally fitted with shelves and sliding trays; but these, unfortunately, have heen'removod and lost. It still, however, bears a silver plate on the side, inscribed, "Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte," etc., etc. The chest is not for sale.

On Saturday afternoon a motor cycle with chair attached was threading "the traffic in Devon street. It was compelled to remain in the rear of an omnibus for a time, but then, just in front of. Messrs. Bell ringer's, Ltd., its rider, saw an opening and darted out. Uivfor-, tunately for him one of Mr. Newton King's motor-cars was. coming in the other' direction, and there was no time for the driver to avoid the cycle, whose front wheel was crumpled op'badly. The rider, Mr. Johnson, of Waitara, escaped with a scratch or two. It was fortunate that .the chair was etnptv—a short time before it had contained a lady and a little child. The excitement was hardly over when much shouting at the corner of Devon and C'urrie streets was heard, and a horse galloped past with an empty gig in tow. A youngster narrowly missed an accident. The horse, which had rum away from Vogeltown after throwing out the hoy who was in charge of the gig, was stopped at Mr. S. Jury's stables in Gill street. Every bee-keeper should be aware that when breeding is in full swing in spring a considerable amount of food is used up every day for feeding the brood, says Mr. I. Hopkins. Government Apiarist. Generally speaking, says Mr. Hopkins, some nectar can be gathered—and often a great deal—all through the spring when the weather is favorable, so that as a rule when the bees start breeding with a fair amount of food in the hive, what they can gather keeps them going without need of assistance in this respect. There are, however, exceptions to the rule, where the bees through bad weather are unable to supplement their stores, and if such conditions last over several days the stores will diminish rapidly and the bees be reduced to starvation before the novice would be aware of it unless specially warned. In ve#rs gone by thousands of colonies have been lost in this manner every spring. Should a bad spell continue over three days at this time, it is well to ascertain the condition of the food supply in each hive, and feed without, delay where neccmrv!