LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 94, 11 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Wanganui museum, it is claimed, possesses the most perfect skeleton of a moa in the world. As far as can be ascertained, not even the minutest bone is missing. The museum has also other skeletons of the giant bird, but they are not so complete. Judging by the. amount of work to be done it is improbable that the Whangamomoria tunnel wjJTbe finished this year, and owing to the number of bridges to be built,-, it will probably bo twelve or eighteen months before the trains run into Whangamwmona township.

Tilings arc looking up in financial circles. A well-known citizen who ■was ?om<> years ago induced to invest £i3 in shares of a smelting company whose process was expected to revolutionise mining, last night received notice from its liquidator that he is entitled to a first and final dividend of 1.«>I;/000 of a penny, 3s 2il altogether, which he will be paid in penny stamps provided he first forwards his receipt for the amount. The lucky investor intends to put his divvy into another venture, and will prokibly be seeking advice from the members of the loeal Stock Exchange.

On Sunday afternoon a lady, accompanied by n small boy, was driving »l»ng the Junction road near New Plymouth, 'when the horse shied and ran one wheel up the bank, with the result that the vehicle capsized, and precipitated its occupants on to the roadway. Neither was hurt. The horse itself was thrown and, with commendable promptitude, the lady at once sat on its head to hold it down, and thus prevented a bolt, whilst the small boy was dispatched some distance away for assistance. Meanwhile a motor-car, occupied by several men out on a Sunday jaunt, passed by, but not one of them thought of stopping the car mid assisting the lady out of her awkward, and it might easily have been, perilous predicament. Soon afterwards, however, assistance was forthcoming, and matters put right, 'but one lady has an opinion 'of motorists •which will take much time to efface.

The huia is never found north of Napier, said Mr. W. IT. Field in the House of Representatives the other night, and he, therefore, opposed' hhe suggestion that if any are discovered they should he placed on the Utile Barrier Island. He wanted them placed on Kapitd Island, which -he considered a much more suitable locality.

We venture to allirm (says a Dunedin paper) that the time has arrived when Dunedin should follow the example of progressive cities like Glasgow. Edinburgh, Leeds, ShelnehL and scores of other places in the Old bind, which have demonstrated that municipal bowling greens and even golf links are as necessary parts of civifl, activity as baths and bands and parks.

A remarkable freak chicken was recently hatched amongst a sitting of leghorn eggs set by Constable Smith, of St. Albans. The chick was .well formed and had a fairly good crop <>f feathers. It had four bills on its one head, and, like the mythical basalisk, had three eyes, one in the centre of the head, and two in the usual position. The remainder of the brood were all normal chickens. At, the moment the railway smash occurred at Harvey's Gully Bridge, Victoria, last week, some of the passengers by the train were playing draw poker. Shortly before, the carriages toppled over one man drew four aces. There was no time to play before the crash came. When the passenger recovered himself and found that he was uninjured, he crawled back to the compartment to get the cards as a memento of the occasion. Said Mr. J. McCluggage at Stratford last night:—"You will pardon me foi saying that, during the seventeen years that I have been in this province, I have never knowingly done any person a dishonorable action. I may have differed from some of you, tout I have always gone on the lines that if 1 couldn't do a man a good turn. I wouldn't do him a bad one, but would leave him severely alone, and I intend to fight this election so that whether I win or lose no person shall say that I have treated my opponent or his friends in a contemptible manner. I am a New ZeaJander, and if returned I will at all times do my very best for our Dominion as a whole, while not forgetting Taranaki." General Sir lan Hamilton, InspectorGeneral of the Oversea Forces, in an address to tke Transvaal Volunteers, o» August 23, said:—"l have been touched by the sight of some who fought under me, and by .hearing old familiar names of these detachments. I have been tilled with memories of the time when you did great and memorable wotK', on whichever side you 'belonged. 1 have to go all over | the world, and must be very careful what I say, because a rash word comes home to roost a long time afterwards, so that I am not going to say that you are I finer men than the New Zealanders or I Australians, but I would like to say I what; is a positive fact, that you are bigger men. There cannot be any harm in | stating the positive fact that the South Africans sent, to England for the Coronation were bigger men than any of the others."

The Unity Tent, l.O.I!., held its first meeting in its new meeting room at. the ' Good Templars' Hall last night. After the usual routine business and the initiation of an honorary number the meeting was thrown open to the friends of members, including the members of the 1.0. G.T., and the following programme was rendered: —Pianoforte solo. Miss Smith; song, Miss Stewart; recitation, Miss Kivcll; duet, Miss Hope Asher and Master Sid Hayden; recitations (2), Miss Brokenshirc; chairman's remarks, Bro. B. J. Clark; recitation, Mr. P. Hopkins; duct, Mrs. Hayden and Mr. Asher; anecdote, Mr. Roberts; recitation, Master H. Buttimore; whistle solo, Mr. J. A. Roberts; song, Miss Hayden; song, Mr. F. Asher; recitation, Mr. Roberts. At the close of the programme the Sisters supplied those present with refreshments.

The cell from which Powelka escaped was viewed by members of the Prison Board while in Wellington. Mr. F. G. Ewington, speaking to a press representative, said Powelka had finally escaped from the common condemned cell, in which he had been placed for greater safety. He had made a previous attempt to escape by breaking through the window and performing a wonderful acrobatic feat of apparently standing on his hands, and forcing his feet through 1 the window nearly six feet high, and • almost escaping. A warder, seeing his legs come through the window, caught hold of Powelka and secured him. There were signs of blood on the wall, where the prisoner had cut his hands. Then they put him into the condemned cell, where there was a small window. Here iron bars and wire-netting secured as they thought the prisoner. Man will do anything for liberty. Who would not do what Powelka did for freedom if he thought he could escape? Performing another remarkable and absolutely unaccountable feat, Powelka removed the iron bars tind wire noiselessly, got through a small aperture, opened an outer door, got over a roof, and away. Where is lie now 1 Possibly not far from the gaol, like brer rabbit, lying low. Mr. J. McCluggage, at his Stratford meeting last night, remarked that two ' or three persons had much to say about his connection l with gold mining. He was not- going into the private business of the Dominion (loldminmg Company, but said the .gentlemen associated with him on-the directorate and opposed to ■hint in polities were men of integrity. These gentlemen would bear him out that he had not parted with any of his interest's, that he had advanced more money than all the rest put together, and stoodi to lose more than anyone else. The directors- were good men and broadmindedl I'f any of them said he had done anything dishonorable he would at once retire from the contest. (Applause.) This should be sufficient answer to the miserable attempts to injure, him persona My. Somip peojile were telling newcomers to the district, that he was detested where h<v had lived', inferring that be had. done something dishonorable. (A voice: Never, Joe.) louring the ten years be had been at Whangamomona and Pohokura he had received valuable addresses and inscribed plate, wbi'.vb in his opinion showed that bis neighbor* regarded' him as a man of honor. He did not. think Mr. Tline or his committee knew anything about these miserable pinpricks.

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■Dr. Xewman stated in Wellington the other night that 'tin; city and province were la{ni>iii<i for want of a concerted progressive, movement wliich would not only have in view the rapid development of the Ititest resources of n rich farming district, hut would also lead to a proper appreciation of the weenie and other attractions' of the province avajlahle to tourists and holiday-seekers and so set in circulation the. stinmlat ing inlluence of a stream of gold vrhich at present was hciiig diverted in other directions. 'l'lnis sound* well enough, hut the real trouhile with Wellington is that it is MilTciing fnnn the exploitation of the gang of land sharks that held sway there, till recently. Till property comes down to a reasonable level, it is inevitahle that Wellington must continue to pay the penalty of iU recent orgy. A silling of the Magistrate's' Court wus held yesterday morning, Mr. A. Crook. S.M.. presiding. Judgment for plaintiff was given in each of the following civil case.*: Nicholson) v. George Wilson Gunson, claim a-> IDs (costs £2 14s); Co-oipera-tivc Transport and Agency Company (Mi'. Iliitchcn) v. Kdward Mitchell, £C i)s ( CI Ss (id) • same v. Whnkatiki, £!> 3s (£1: 12s. (id): ssime v. Mangu Bishop, £!l :U (£h 8s fid); same v. Taotao, £7 Ijs (Id (£1 12s Oil); same v. Maitieu Pun no, £7 h.')s Od (£1 12s fid); Webster Bros. (Mr. Standisli) v. Stanley Livingstone Mark, costs only, ■">*; T. C. List v. Mrs John Dodunski, 1'.") (ss); Helen Walsh (Mr. Grey) v. Thomas Hodgms,

£1 l«s. (vis); 11. T. doll (Mr. Hutehem) v. rr. F. Gillaghan, £,-> Hs 2d (£1 3s M) ; Xew Zealand State-Guaranteed ' Advances Office v. Annie .Johnson and Peter C. Johnson, £+o 4s (3d (£1 8s). Several judgment summonses were dealt with, hut in no case did the debtor appear. Orders were made as follows: Allen Veale (Mr. Standish) v. James Mlowatt, debt £3 18* Bd, to be paid forthwith, in default four days' imprisonment; I!. fl. Somervail (Mr. Hutelren) v. William Joseph Smith, £8 7s 9d, to be paid by .instalimients of 10s each; New Zeti'land trawling and Fish Supply Company, Ltd. (Mr. Johnstone) v. William Smith, £4 M)s Bd, to-be paid forthwith, with the alternative of five, days' imprisonment; Thomas Petty (MiC Standish) v. Frank S. Di-ury, £G Ds, to be paid forthwith, 'or seven days' imprisonment: ISlmidell Bros., Ltd. (Mr. Johnstone) v. D.'.vid Charteris. £l4 2s Cd, immediate paym'emt or fifteen days' imprisonment-.