LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 141, 11 December 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Well - informed authorities maintain that not since the days of the gold rushes | has there been such a general strain on' the labor market in Australia as exists f at the present time. For erecting in the facade of a girls' school in Germany a figure of a goose and a duck, an architect was mobbed by the pupils. The architect said that the figures represented - the besetting weaknesses of the feminine character —gossip and vanity. A visitor to an American house of entertainment was fined forty dollars and costs the other day for sneezing violently and refusing to leave the theatre when requested. Evidently the manager thought he had a show that i was not to be sneezed at. j "Trusting in providence that disaster j may bo averted," is the opening sentence ! of a permit granted by the municipal j authorities at Nagybecskerck, Hungary, l for performances to be continued at the j local theatre, notwithstanding the fact i that the building had been found to be in a dangerous condition. ! The vesting in the borough of New 1 Plymouth of the land in Leach street, formerly occupied by the railway line, is | to 'be proclaimed as soon as the legal 1 formalities have been complied with. This was the gist of a communication re-, ceived by Mr. Okey, M.P., on Saturday from the General Manager of Railways. The French .airman, M. Paulhan, has) invented a new machine, swifter than \ any yet existing. It is about thirty | feet long, and its surface from wing t tips is remarkably small. M. Paulhan j calls his new areoplane an air torpedo. It is fitted with a s(>-horse-power motor, and is intended to travel at the rate of | two miles a minute. | A Cornish woman who bought a chair | in Johannesburg for his was offered £5 ; for it when she took it to be re-covered. Even larger offers were afterwards made, and she discovered that tho chair—the one piece missing from a celebrated suite—had been sought for all over the world. The chair eventually brought the Cornish woman £3OOO. Mr. G. H. Saunders proceeds to Wellington to-day to make final arrangements in connection with the opening of the new Empire Theatre. When completed, as it will be next week, the theatre should be one of the most complete, up-to-date and comfortable in the Dominion. It has been built with a due regard to avoiding all risk of fire, and is considered to be absolutely fire-proof. The latest plant is being installed, and should arrive here in time for the opening next week. Back to the land is the cry in Denmark among the. younger sons of Royal- i ty as well as of the nobility. Prince j Eric, the 20-year-old nephew of the j King of Denmark, and Queen Alexandra, has just been apprenticed for three years to learn practical agriculture. , He took up the vocation purely from choice. | He is to make a thorough and scientific j study of all that applies to his subject, and starts hv laboring in the fields. J Some years ago Prince Eric visited Sand- j ringham with iiis father. Prince W'alde-1 mar, to visit the late King and Queen Alexandra. Even in those days the young Prince showed his predilections for farming and spent all his spare time about the home farm. A dramatic arrest was made in Douglas, Isle of Man, recently. Colonel William French, who recently retired from the position of Head Constable at the age of 72, was apprehended in one of the main streets by his successor in office oil charges of embezzlement and forgery. The colonel, who had held the post of head of the police for nearly a quarter of a century, sent in his resignation owing to medical advice. He was accused of embezzling four sums, totalling , £992, on various dates between 1905 and 1907, and also with forging receipts for nine sums, amounting to £BOI, during the same period. The transactions were in respect of the police clothing accounts, the payments for which under the system then prevailing were made through the Colonel. Colonel French I was remanded on bail. During the past month there were ! slaughtered for local consumption at the local abattoirs 22 cows, 139 bullocks, 11 calves, 035 sheep, 230 lambs, and 168 pigs; 135 tripes were cleaned, and one calf's head and feet and one set ox heels. Compared with the corresponding month of last year they show an increase of 3 calves. 40 sheep and 7 pigs, and a decrease of 5 cattle, 11 lambs, and 15 tripes. Four cattle, 1 sheep and 7 pigs were condemned. There were slaughtered for export 27 cows and 8 bulls, of which 4 cows were condemned. Fees amount to £135 2s (id; rents, £3 5s <sd; extraordinary traffic, £1 12s Od; total, £l4O 0s Cd; an increase of £9 18s. The chiller was started on the 18th of the month. The smoke stack of the boiler had rusted through, leaving a hole. This requires to be seen to immediately, as any sparks falling into the gutters, if falling on to a bird's nest, would be likely to cause damage. No dairyman or larmer can afford to be without a copy of Sykeß's Journal fo> 1911. It'is compiled in a very interesting manner, and in addition to its great utility on the farm has much information that must preve invaluable. Tables for recording each day's milking for the yeai are given, also memoranda oi stock purchased'and sold, breeding table, herd-re'gjstgjy seed sowing table, etc. In fact i9 full of information that every dairyman must know to be successful. Copies can be obtained on applies Hon.—Advt. VISITING CARDS.—When ym. *un out of cards, send your order for more to the Daily News Printery. 3/8 for 60, or 6'- for 100 (postage paid).