LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 98, 16 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

According to Mr. Rutlcdge Rutherford, a Chicago .food expert, 2-70,000 children were killed last year in America by poisoned food. "Collection of New Zealand fossils, £100." What does this mean?" asked Mr. James Allen, on the Mines Estimates. "That refers to the Opposition," said Mr. L. M. Isitt tersely. The shareholders of the Inglewood Co-operative Bacon Company are evidently well satisfied with the present management. Out of 472 shareholders less than 50 attended the annual meeting on Saturday. Information was received at the office of the N.S.S. Co. yesterday that owing to the south-westerly gale the Rarawa was liar-bound at Onehunga, and was expected to leave this (Monday) morning, arriving here to-night. It is not known whether she will leave again for Auckland to-night or to-morrow."

In a little over two years no fewer than 20 nurses have resigned from the Napier 'Hospital staff, and the board of management has decided to hold an enquiry into the working of the institution. Complaint was recently made to the board by two nurses who have resigned, that they were passed over for higher positions on the staff in favor of two outsiders.

Mr. O'Dea was asked at his Mokoia meeting if he didn't think advertisements of the following tenor often appearing in applications for positions on sheep stations and the like, "Wanted, a married couple without encumbrance," should be prohibited. Tie said that such advertisements -were a disgrace to our civilisation, and were a direct incentive to limitation of the birth rate. Mr. R, MeNab, who is a candidate foi the Palmerston seat, got off a "good one" at the Bunnythorpe tennis ceremony recently. He. pointed out that they had two ex-members of Parliament present (Messrs Pirani and W. T. Wood), and if Mr. Buick had only been able to come, it would have completed the assemblage, for then they would hare had the past, present, and future (himself) members for the district there! In his annual report the Minister for Agriculture states that there are at least forty men who are proving that egg-production can be made a successful commercial enterprise, and this result has been largely brought about owing to the practical instruction provided by the Department. '"U'lifortunately," he 'adds, "the same attention is not being paid to table poultry, and it is my intention to see that this phase of the business will receive more attention in the future."

Mechanics are earning good wages in Rhodesia just now, and if engaged by the month the average daily wage works out at about 22s Cd a day*. But the cost of living is high. In Buluwnyo a twopound loaf averages lid, bacon Is 9d per lb., eggs range from 2s to 2s Gd pet dozen, sugar ml a pound, jam Is a tin, kerosene 10s Od a tin. Land may be acquired from the British South African Company on easy terms, the price of unimproved- land being about 5s per morgen. A morgen equals roughly 2 1-5 English acres.

The following story of the British Chancellor of the Exchequer appears in a Russian city journal:—A British sailor, who asked for (iovernment aid towards a Polar expedition, was advised by Mr. Lloyd George to apply to the Stock Exchange. A few days afterwards the man returned to Mr. Lloyd George and said, "I have, only collected £SO, but I have secured a substantial promise that if you will accompany me to the North Pole I am to receive £2.7,000, and this tvum is to toe doubled if I leave you there."

The Goddess of the Night, to whose pale beauty poets have sung praises, was given an awful character by Mr. Clement L. Wragge in the course of a lecture in Sydney. The moon, he says, is fast crumbling to decay, incessantly great pieces are breaking off the cliffs and mountain-tops and tumbling to the arid plains. But not a sound is heard. A dead silence covers the scene, for there is no atmosphere .surrounding the decaying orb. For the same reason there is no vegetation, and, while the portion bathed in sunlight is for the time hotter than a furnace, the other half—night time—is colder than the nose of a Polar bear —250deg. below zero, as a matter of calculation. In point of fact, he could not conceive of a greater punishment to anybody than to consign him to the moon, if such were ppssible. And nothing is surer than that the earth will eventually be in the same predicament, and become exactly as the moon is r.ow. But she will still lie fulfilling her part in the universe. Ether waves wit be passing from her decaying and crumbling surface to light another planet located for the purpose. IT IS THE RESOLVE

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The big Frimley orchards at Hastings,' are, it is stated, a glorious sight just now, and certainly worth going quite a long distance to see. Every tree is in •full bloom, and whilst the delicate pink of the peach predominates, there is still a sufficient sprinkling of the whitish blossoms of pear, apples, and plums to prevent the slightest suspicion of monotony. U'ist year, it will be remembered, the fruit crops were completely destroyed by the frost, ft would appear, from the condition of the trees, that the orchards benefited by the enforced rest, and that crops will be enormous. Even those who go to Hawera prepared to see something exceptional iu dairying laud sometimes admit after passing through the Waimate Plains that even the best reports only do bare justice to the country. A man from Palmerston way who has been closely connected with dairying for a numbers of years went into raptures as his eyes swept the green fields between Hawera and Manaia. Asked what he thought of the land he replied, 'lt's the last word in land." AVhen told that much of it could bo bought for less than £CO an acre be .-bowed no surprise, and said that for dairying purposes he would judge it to be well worth the money.— Exchange.

The pupils of a distinguished profes- I sor of zoology, a man well known for j his eccentricities, noted one day two i tidy parcels lying on their instructor's desk as they passed out at noon hour, j On their return to the laboratory for the afternoon lecture they saw but one. This the professor took carefully up in his hand as he opened his lecture. "In the study of vertebrata we have taken the frog as a type. Let us now examine the gftnironemrum muscles of this dissected specimen." So saying, the professor untied the string of his n«at parcel and disclosed to view a ham sandwich and a toiled egg. "But I have eaten my lunch," said the learned man bcwilderedly.