LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 103, 21 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Press Association telegraphs that the New Plymouth High School Amendment Hill, introduced by the Hon. T. Kelly, has been read a second time in the Legislative Council. The chairman of the High School Board, Mr. N. K. MacDiarmid, and Mr. Hutehen, one of the members, were spoken to by a News preservative last night, and each declared he knew nothing of the Bill, and that no Bill was being promoted by the Board. Mr. MacDiarmid said he had spoken to Hon. Kelly about the proposed alteration of the constitution of the Board by making it elective, but bad no idea that a Bill was to be framed and introduced in Parliament.

In the Supreme Court, on the motion of Mr. Quilliam (Govett and Quilliam), probate of the will of the late Thomas Inch has been granted to Mr. Henry Inch, the executor named in the will. Mr. A. Cliff, huntsman of the North Taranaki Hunt Club, took a pack of the club's hounds to the Hawke's Bav show at Hastings this week, and they swept all the first prizes in the harrier classes. Mr. Walford's (Oakum) cob was also taken over by Mr. Cliff, and it was lilaced first in its'clnss.

The tender of Messrs. J. Masters and Son,-of Stratford, has been accepted for the supply of explosives for the Harbor Board for the ensuing twelve months.' Mr. ,1. W. West is the successful tenderer for enb hire, and the Westport Coal Co. for supply of coal. The tenders for ironmongery have not been definitely dealt with.

The competitors in the High School boys' relay race from Waitara to New Plymouth on Thursday, bad to face a strong southerly wind, but still they put up a good performance. Adliim's team coverjngtly. distance in Uir2iniii 3sce. The boys in the last relay arrived in the following, order: Littie (Adlam's team) first, Pott (Pott's team) second, Sinclair (Little's) third, Marfell (Grant's) fourth, Martin (Goss"), and Day (Bay/s). Thero wa« a fair crowd at the finish. The earth's daylight is due to be interfered with on Sunday by one of the next-door planets getting in the way. Scientists calculate that the people in various parts of Southern Asia, in a, line from the Aral Sea to the South of China, and of the Pacific Islands between lower New Guinea and the Chinese coast, will be put completely in the shade for the time being. So far as New Zealand and Australia are concerned, there will be but a very slight cutting-ofi" of the solar turreirt.

Recently a statement was made that owing to the shipping officers' strike reducing supplies short in South Tarnnnki —•by reason of the Patea steamers being laid up—some goods were imported via New Plymouth, but the charges were found to be double those ordinarily paid. At yesterday's meeting of the New Plymouth Harbor Board the chairman and Mr. Wilkinson, of Elthnm, both referred to this, and said the statement was exaggerated. Whilst the charges would certainly be higher than in the case of Patea,'they would certainly not be double.

The Eltham Dairy Company manufactured in September 136,80511) of butter, and is.paying out €5730 at the rate of 11 %d per lh butter fat, the average test being 3.5. Compared with the corresponding month last year the output is less, but the pay out more, the butter manufactured in September last year being 145,o7'")ll) and the amount paid out iioMi-}. The. supply on the whole is going up steadily, but not so fast as was the case at this time last year, but the latter end of the season may be better. The new pasteurises has been put in, and the grade is going up, everything in connection with the factory' being most satisfactory except that the supply of milk might be better.—Argus. The trouble is (writes a London correspondent) that one does not knowhow much to believe of the eccentricities ascribed to the young King of Spain. He is an avergreen favorite here in England, chiefly on account of his free, unconventional manners, and every little incident that goes to illustrate his freedom from restraint is eagerly devoured. The other day, we are told, Alfonso had been solwnnly warned that the President of the .Soeiedad Venatoria, who was about to some aboard the royal yacht to present the honorary membership to the King, was a strong Republican. The royal entourage expected* some objection to receiving Don Linn Rua. but the King was quite unperturbed. "It matters nothing to me.'' he said. "Let him pass; I prefer that everyone should think as he pleases." Anil when Don Lina came on board. Alfonso stopped forward and shook him warmlv by the hand, with this pretty little speech, "I have the greatest pleasure in receiving you. Your political opinions can be no obstacle to my receiving you with the same affection as I do others, and even more. 1 am mouarchial because I was boi-n a King; otherwise nobody knows what my opinions might have been. Who .knows but that very soon we shall" all have to be Republicans?" IT IS THE RESOLVF

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I A Stratford correspondent of a southJ em contemporary states that the Ixnvi garth Dairy Company directors have deI eided to make the pay-out Is Id, being I enabled (r> do this safely in consequents of the record sale of the cheese I output at. fi%d. Tims Sir Henry Lucy in his London letter in the Wellington Time* on the Hon. D. Llloyd (ieorge, on bringing the

great strike to a close at (lie end of August, :--"Thc L'nionist press, long accustomed to iimatlieiiiati.se him as they might the evil one incarnate, vie with each oilier in the fulness of their acknowledgment of bis national service in bringing to a Hose a devastating strike. When peace was declared the King sent him a telegraphic despatch acknowledging his interposition as a national service. Tho-ie familiar with his Majesty's personal view of Lloyd-fieorge in the earlier days of his Chancellorship of the Exchequer recognise in- this spontaneous act a remarkable conversion.

General W. 11. Bixby, Chief of Engineers of the L'nited States Armv, in an interview after his return from Havana to Washington, from a personal inspection of the work of raising the. Maine, said that no such ell'ect as that produced on the vessel could have been caused by an explosion from without. Me said that a part of the deck over the. magazines was blown upwards and laid backward, and that there were numerous conditions on the hulk as it lies in the harbor which proved this. So explosion from the. outside, the general said, could have caused the same result. "What the primary cause of the explosion was/' he added, "never will be learned." '

An enterprising American girl has found a new and pleasant way of making an income, which might hold suggestions for some of our g'frls. She jived in a seaside resort, where in the season large numbers came to the different hotels and boarding-houses. ' From her knowledge of human nature, she knew that a holiday that is not a change of occupation as well as scene is only half a holiday. She guessed that the'women who have to sew and mend at honle do not want to do it in vacation time, So she had some cards printed, announcing that she would mend lingerie, gowns, blouses, stockings, etc., and would also clean gloves and white shoes at a reasonable rate. These she left at the hotels, and every morning called to see if any. orders had been left with the. clerk for her. Very soon she departed each day with an armful of mending and gloves, and the guests found her a very welcome addition to the comfort of the establishment.

Of the hundred-: of drowning tragedies that have occurred in Germany this summer none has been sadder than that which occurred at the watering town of Deep, near Colberg. A clergyman's widow, named Herold, who was staving there with her family, got into difiicul" ties while bathing, and before help could reach her she sank. Her grown-up son, who was also in the water some distance away, heard his mother's cries for help, swam to the spot and dived out of sight. What exactly happened then will never be known; but he failed to reappear on the surface, and it is supposed that lie was .seized by the drowning woman, was unable to extricate himself from her grasp, and perished with het Meanwhile, the daughter, who had finished bathing and was standing on the beach, re-entered the water, and attempted to swim to the assistance of her mother and brother. Her strength failed her before she reached them, and she, too, sank and was drowned. It was alleged in reports of the affair that a number of men. who were also spectators of the tragedy. mA\le no attempt to render assistance'to the victims.

The ladies of Xew Jersey (U.S.A.) are urging the legislature to pass a law compelling all married men to wear a ring on the thumb of the left hand. But why this difference asks the Argonaut? What this hesitation to demand a complete and satisfying reform? A man may keep his left hand in his trousers pocket, and so excite'pursuit that should be directed elsewhere. Or he may take off the ring and temporarily conceal it, and so arouse hopes, or even provoke a chase that will be fruitless. No, let us have no half measures. Compel the wretch to wear the ring in his nose, not the shadowy metaphorical ring that he now wears.' but a substantial metallic circlet, properly inserted and so riveted into position that there can he none of those concealments and evasions in which the deceiving sex is wellknown to rejoice. Such a ring would not only serve as a danger signal to unmarried and predatory ladies, but think of its value in the family circle as an aid to discipline, in fact as'a sort of mother's help, Attach a snaffle to the scullery door, and there you are. Once used, always used. No family should be without one.

The secret of Caruso's' mysterious throat trouble is out. Specialists (says the Daily Telegraph) have been baffled, the opinions taken of the highest medical authorities in Europe and America. The music-loving pnblic of both continents have eagerly scanned the conflicting pronouncements of experts: the whole operatic world lias, been moved to express sympathy with the victim. At one moment we are told that the famous tenor's voice only requires a few weeks' rest, and that all will then be well with him; at the next a soul-shaking rumor gets about that, like the. blackbird, in the old song, he will ''never sing again." And in the meantime the idolised successor or Mario is losing thousands of golden pieces every month that he remains idle. Hut if you have tears, do not be prepared to shed them now, for the secret is out, the mystery explained. The great tenor himself lias confessed it. Listen to this, and breathe a sigh of unutterable relief: ''There is and has been absolutely nothing serious the matter with Caruso's voice—at least, according to the very express statements of the tenor himself, made in Rome to an interviewer for a New York paper. All the talk about his voice has been manufactured for advertising purposes and it was his press agent who advised him to do it." Who would have guessed it?

Apropos the cable appearing yesterday regarding investigation of sleeping illness, it is interesting to recall that in the course of correspondence between the British Government and the Governments of the African protectorates, the suggestion was raised that the common tsetse fly (glo.sina mor.sitans) may prove to be a carrier of sleeping sickness, and to the further suggestion that this fly might 'be eliminated by the destruction of game. The note of warning on the subject of sleeping sickness came from missionaries and others in Xyasaland, where the disease lias at present reached its southernmost limit. Tt was referred in file course of last March to the Sleeping Sickness Bureau of the Boval Society, which expressed the opinion that it was very desirable to investigate, in more complete fashion than had hitherto been possible, the whole question of the relation of the African fauna to the maintenance and .spread of human trypanosomiasis. The Colonial Office thereupon intimated its decision to carry out such an inquiry for a period of three years at a cost not exceeding £.loiin a year. It was proposed that the members of the Commission should include Sir D. Bruce (president). Captain Hamcrton, Professor Newstead, Mr. W. Jowett, and Dr. J. Davey (of the Nyasalnnd Medical Department).