LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 89, 5 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A freak lamb was born at Hat Point station last week. It had three ears and eight legs—Otaki Mail. The members of the Park Tennis Cluib are holding a working "bee" on their lawns this afternoon.

It is reported that Saturday's frost was a very serious matter to the Maoris in Waitara and its neighborhood, their crops of potatoes being practically ruined.

A hright azalea flowering on the slope of Maryland Hill gives the impression that the Beautifying Association might do worse than plant some of these beautiful shrubs there.

It fa contended by a New Zealand orehaiKlist that the varieties of dessert apple known as Northern Spy, Carlton, and Mayflower are immune to the attack of woolly aphis. The special meeting of the fire brigade last night was for the purpose of making filial arrangements for the Way Benefit euchre party and dance to .be held in the Good Templars' Hall to-night. It is announced that a military journal is to be published by the Defence Department, under the editorship of Major-General Godley, Articles and notes of military interest will form th'e principal contents. There are complaints again concerning the rough roadway between the liiardet street entrance to the Recreation Grounds and the lower lake. The stones used in metalling the road were very large, and these now project some inches above the general level. For telling his wife to say her prayers and get ready to die, or to take her chance of life on the spin of a coin, a man named Longstaff, of Bendigo, was fined 20s, The woman cried "Heads" and won, so her husband told her she could go back to bed again. The Labor Department sent away from Wellington on Monday morning nine men to start work on the Stratford-Ongaruc raillway construction works. Fifteen men were engaged, but only nine weTe at the station at the hour for the departure of their -train for Stratford.

The borough workmen have completed the metalling of Currie street, between Devon street and Gill street, and hare made a capital job of it. Currie street, from the railway yards to Devon street, is now for the first time in many years, fit to carry the heavy traffic which is its wonted lot.

(It was stated' at an inquest last month on a farm laborer named Frederick Carter, of Redbourn, Herts, that the man was standing on a cart loading corn when the horse moved and he was thrown upon a sheaf of corn. A straw ran into his nose, which bled considerably, and this caused his death. A Taranaki gentleman, just returned from a trip to New South Wales, states that of the things that inmpressed itself most on his mind was the practise of farmers in planting and leaving trees in nearly every paddock. It' is found that the trees assist rainfall, keep the ground in the vicinity nourished, and provide shelter for stock.

There is a mysterious spot in Taranaki of 'rather more than ordinary importance at the present time. It is known as the "confluence of the Wanganui and Tangavakau .rivers," where no less than four electorates meet, namely, Stratford, Patea, Taumarunui and* Waimarino. Query, if a man. lived at this spot what electorate would be he in, if any? Mr. Rider Haggard, speaking at a Primrose League fete at Ditchingham House, Norfolk, said strikes arose through the Socialist, the agitator, the politician greedy for votes, sowing the evil seed in the hearts of people who, be it admitted, were often not too well paid and often enough led squalid lives an bad social conditions. They told them openly or covertly they only had to stretch out their hands to seize everything they saw. Currie street isn't a. very wide street at the best of times. When the expressmen's rink is full the remaining roadwav is very narrow. A .bystander remarked yesterday morning, when the grocer's horse was attempting to clear out with the cart, that there would be a nasty collision between a runaway and an express on the rank one of these days, and suggested that the expresses should take up their positions in the Cill street extension. The chances aire that the idea will not be hailed with delight by the expressmen themselves. There was a smart fall in groceries yesterday, hut the drop will not decrease the cost of Living. Mr. W. L. Gordge's grocery cart was just about the comer of Currie and Courtenay streets, when the hame strap broke, and the cart tipped up. The contents were shot into the street, and so was the driver, but he. escaped injury. There wasn't much of the harness holding by this time, but the few straps held horse and trap together as the animal eonunenced to get under weigh, kicking vigorously. The footpath intervened, and the horse pulled up after going only about twenty or thirty yards. One of the steps was broken oil' the cart, and a couple of .boards from its floor, but the horse escaped harm. The Gazette of September 20th contains the following regulations under the Fisheries Act, 1008, made by Order-in-Council: —(1) Kvery person' who shall

construct or who has constructed a clam or weir in any river, stream, or waters in the Taranaki Acclimuti.saiti(iu district in wliieli salmon or trout exist, have been liberated, or may hereafter be liberated, shall erect or construct proper iishlad<leirs or oilier means of ingress and egress for fish so as to allow lish to pass and return at all times; (-2) any person who fails to comply with or commits a ibreach of this regulation is liable to a fine not exceeding €SO. Tills is the result, no doubt, of the remit of the Taraniki .Acclimatisation Society passed at the recent conference of ac-

climatisation societies in Wellington. It will necessitate structural alterations to the weir across the Waiwakaibo river, which is under the control of the Taranaki County Council and the Eitzroy Town Hoard, and in some dams erected in various streams for the development of water power for industrial purposes. IT IS THE RESOLVE to obtain the GENUINE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT which will procure for you a remedy of sterling value and will protect you from having your health injured by one of the many crude oils and so-called "Extracts" which are passed off by unscrupulous dealers as "just as good," and which are, according to authentic, testimony, very depressing to the heart. The GENUINE SANDER EXTRACT is absolutely non-injurious, and brings instantaneous relief in headaches, fevers, colds, bronchial and gastric affections, and its great antiseptic powers protect from future infection. Wounds, ulcers, burns, sprains, are healed without inflammation. SANDER'S EXTRACT is endorsed by the highest Medical Authorities, and is unique in its .effect; purity, reliability and safety a.rc its distinguishable qualities. Therefore, get the GENUINE SANDER EXTRACT; insist, if you have to, but get it, and derive the benefit.

Stratford's municipal brass band has been resuscitated. The Stratford Operatic Society, of some forty members, intends to stage '"Pinafore" next month. The present spell of warm weather is having a marked effect on pastures and i gwrdens. It's springtime everywhere. The total rainfall for last month in New Plymouth was 3.04 inches, as against 2.20 inches in September of lfllO.

Rain fell on 14 days, the maximum being on the 24th. So clear was the atmosphere yesterday morning that a local resident win able from Marsland Hill to see by the aid of a telescope the people at the Mountain House moving about. An ex-Taranakite now living in the north of Auckland statcw that he wa» not without new potatoes throughout the winter. .Potatoes, 'he. says, thrive there either in the winter or. summer.

Arthur Hopkinson was charged at Inglewood yesterday on two charges of theft, one from the van of Messrs. Sutherland Bros., and the other from the store of Mr. E. J. Baker. Accused pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence to the Supreme Court, Auckland.

A witness, 20 years of age, at the sitting of the Palmerston North Supreme Court last week informed his Honor that he had never been to school in his life and never earned any money. His father made all the money for him, and yet the witness assured his Honor that he held a mortgage of £ISOO on one property.

The members of the Rahotu .school committee have resigned in a body as a protest against the action of the Education Board in sending a lady teacher to fill the vacancy caused' bv the retirement of Mr. J. T. Campbell." Miss Stephen, who was appointed to the vacancy, is unable to take up her duties until November 1, and meanwhile, Mrs. Martelli, of Palmerston North, has .been tempomrily appointed.

A pretty Tisch Memorial is growing up in the Technical School grounds. The late Mayor offered a prize for the beat plan for the laying-out of this portion of St. Michael's Square during his term as a member of the Taxanaki Education Board. The result was a plantation of native trees and shrubs in a sloping lawn, and the whole presents a very pleasing appearance to-day. It must in a few years add very considerably to the attractiveness of the locality. Ho had been owing an account for six shillings for two years, -when he got a, .peremptory note "that unless the amount wore paid stops would be taken to reeoveir, etc. lie bowled into the fehop in a great state of excitement. "What do you meaa," he said, addressing the business man, "sending me a note like that? I'm going to take my custom from you!" The profit on the transaction was fourpence and the account had been owing for two years. No wonder the business man fainted.

The morning train to New Plymouth was delayed at the Inglewood station for over an hour yesterday, owing to a truck having become derailed through an axle box breaking just as the train was. slowing down to enter the station. After considerable effort the truck was removed from the line, and the passengers proceeded without suffering any further discomfort than that caused by the delay. ' Had the mishap occurred whilst the train was travelling at a high rate of speed the consequences would have been move serious.

The following cablegram appeared in the Sydney Sun last week:—According to a story in circulation in Paris,"war, involving France, Germany, and England, will be declared within * lew* than two months. The informant, whose good faith cannot be questioned, says that the editor of the most influential morning daily newspaper lunched with a General of the French Army and a member of the Cabinet at a cafe, where they believed themselves to be unknown. The General, who was not in uniform, was talking earnestly with the editor and the Minister, and he was heard to remark in a low voice: There will l>e war in less than sixty davs."

A candle 10ft high which will buTn for two years or more was .on-'-e manufactured for an Italian cathedral. It measured Kin in diameter, and weighed .11811). Its sides were decorated with pictures of ilowevs and reproductions of paintings of a religious nature, all carried out elaborately with many bright colors. It was made entirely of beeswax, and cost £GO. The candle was designed as a thanks-offer-ing by Raffeale Casconc, who was tried for murder and acquitted. There was much delay in the case, and the prisoner Avas confined for many weary months. During his long imprisonment Ooscone vowed solemnly that if he should ever get free he would show his gratitude in some extraordinary fashion.

A person of my acquaintance (says a Renter's correspondent in Crete) some months ago lost his cat. a female. Walking in the country the other day he came across a hare accompanied by his cat, who was carrying in her month a chiurm-

ing little kitten-leveret, which she laid at his feet. He took it home with him. Tho animal has the head and paws of a cat, but all the rest of the ibody is hare, not only in form, but in the quality and color of the fur. The mixture of the

father and mother in \i< walk ami leaps is most remarkable. In its capacity of hare, it prefers the garden to indoor life, but its cat nature brings it regularly to the diningroom at meal time, when it expresses 'by a soft purring its pleasure at being fed and caressed. The planet Jupiter, whose volume is

l'> 7!) times that of the mirth, is now profoundly exciting foreign astronomers. M. (i'iileol)ini, of the Paris Observatory,

who has made a special study of Jupiter, has described a red s[>ot which possesses

ti relative fixity but within the last year its mobility has increased in great proportion, and its longitude by about :i()deg. This is all we can say scientifically. Is it really the formation of a new continent? Can we draw this deduction from this phenomena so dill'ieult to size? It is possible, but who can say with certainty? M. (amille Klammarion,

however, expre-ses himself with far greater confidence in this matter: '"We are assisting at the creation of a world. Under our dazzled eyes a new world is being created in the infinity, and in Jupiter wo hail the world of the future." Whilst a small coastal vessel was in dock a few days ago at Port Chalmers (says the Otago Daily 'rimes) a local engineering linn was entrusted with the task of annealing the steering-gear chains, and a mechanic with over forty years' experience in that particular line took the, gear adrift. Meanwhile the ship's crew ran out the anchor-chains on the floor of the dock for inspection before steam was blown from the boilers. Everything was done, so it is said, in accordance with custom; but when some carpenters were asked to do some repairs on the the vessel they all declined, on the ground that the woik referred to was. under their trades union rules, regarded as being strictly carpenters' work Those in charge of the vessel got over the dilliculty by handing the job over to a local shipwright's firm. One reason given for the strike was that Carpenters are entrusted with the work of handling ship's cables on the Union Company's boats, and the Carpenters' Union evidently adopted that course to assist in bringing other shipowners into line.