LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 148, 19 December 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There are four drillers employed at the boring operations for oil at Kotuku, and the bore is down to a depth of 750 feet. The advisability of starting another bore is being considered'. Yet another milking machine is promised, a. Lisniore (Victoria) farmer, Mr. A. M. Robertson, having patented one which is said to .be simpler, cheaper, and more easily worked than any yet on the market. Three young men had an experience on Sunday which, they are not likely to forget. They were camping on the West Ln'd reserve, and, having a catajtiaran, decided on -launching it, notwithstanding the hea-vy sea. It was not long before they were in trouble, and two of the occupants swam ashore, while the third man stuck to the boat and* got washed ashore. No one was injured.

The half-yearly statement dealing with pauperism in England and Wales has just been issued in .the form of a Blue Book. The tables show that 891,807 persons were in receipt of relief in England and Wales on January Ist, 1911, a decrease of 43,031 as compared with last year. Of the total, 141,987 were relieved in London unions, and 749,820 in unions outside London, decreases of 3791 and 40,140 respectively. Commenting upon these figures, the report says: "A special explanation is required on the present occasion in reference to the large diminution in the number of paupers on the relief lists on January Ist, 1911, as compared with the corresponding date in 1910. There can be no doubt (that this large diminution must be ascribed to the operation of the Old Age Pensions Act."

Musiii ■' ' lier u both in the Otaki ami -Y!:. districts at present.

Sonne West.Australian farmers intend this year to try a <on~ignnHmt of tomatoes for the London mark*:!.

In parts of Australia where the average yearly rainfall is not more than 10 inches, a square mile of kind will support only eight or nine sheep. In Buenos Ayres, the same arwi, with 34 inches of rain, supports' ijlil) .sheep. A large monkey, which recently escaped from a ' cage at a private house in Adelaide, ferociously attacked Mr. Barwell, who was sleeping outside on his .verandah with three children. The monkev was afterwards shot.

Here is an illu~l ration of the long arm of the law. A man who has been "wanted" by the police for a long time was arrested in Ifawke's Bay. He is accused of having, at Ashbnrton on August 4, 1900, broken into and entered certain premises. He has enjoyed freedom from arrest for over eleven years. Huge rollers were prominent near the shore on Sunday and yesterday, and owing to the roughness of the sua a small fishing craft had an anxious* time in returning on Sunday. The Rarawa broke a chain when berthed at the wharf, but was soon replaced. Apart fronr that no damage has been done, at Motiuroa. Referring to the position of parties in the House as a result of the general election, the Dominion says:—"Mr. Massey may find that there are a sufficient number of the Labor and Independent candidates willing to ensure him an absolute majority for the time being, in which case he may notify the Prime Minister and his Excellency the Governor, and demand an early session of Parliament to test the question." Canada has increased its population from 5,370,000 to 7,081,000 in ten years, and is not cpntent. In these ten years she has had 1,750,000 immigrants, and this, added to the difference between births and deaths, should have given another million of population. Where has that million gone? Plainly the tide of emigration from Canada to the United State has not been properly estimated. Hundreds of thousands have been slipping over the border line unrecorded.

An anonymous letter received through the post last Thursday, by a member of the committee supporting the candidature of Mr. W. 11, Murray for Grey Lynn, was referred to by him at a meeting of his committee later. Mr. Murray said that the letter was handed to him shortly before he returned thanks, after the result of the poll was announced,, and it was with difficulty that he refrained from breaking down. After a careful consideration he had decided to place the matter in the hands of the police, and no time or expense would he spared in finding out the writer.

The very latest dodge among swindlers in America is worked as follows: A young couple 'present themselves at the house of a prominent clergyman, and, exhibiting a wedding license, asks to be married. The clergyman marries them in his drawing-room, which is a perfectly legal procedure in the United States. After the wedding the bridgegroom says he would like to give the clergyman 30 dollars ( £6) as a fee, but unfortunately he had no change, and would be obliged to offer the clergyman a 50 dollar bill ( £10). The clergyman accepts the bank note, handing the man *2O dollars ( £4) in change. lie afterwards discovers the bank note is a counterfeit. Recently some fifty Chicago clergymen discovered that they had been defrauded in this ingenious manner. The nuptial knot must have been fairly well tied by the time the day's operations were complete. The police believe the couple belong to a gang of coiners who are taking tins novel method of disposing of their spurious productions. So far they have escaped detection, and are probably still being married in other towns in the States.

The hearing has been commenced in Paris df the suit for divorce that Mile. Lino. Oaivalieri, the famous Italian prima donna, has 'brought against Mr Robert W. Chanter, an American millionaire. Discussing the case with a Paris Press' interviewer, M'lle, Oavalieri said that Chanler promised her an allowance of £20,000 if she married him and, left the stage. The famous singer declares that she never took a cent of her husband's money. She does not want £1,000,000 alimony, as reported, hut. simply the £IOO,000 that she lost while not following her profession. It is not quite a year ago since the parties were married 'in Paris. The. betrothal took place in rather romantic circumstances, Mr Chanler proposing and being accepted by telegraph. The marriage created a great stir, and the publication in the American newspapers of the tender messages that had passed, between the couple heightened the interest which was felt in the union <*f & Mew York society leader and one of the foremost actresses. It was reported some months ago that Mr Chanler had paid Mile. Oavalieri £IO,OOO to release him from all contracts into which he had entered previous to hits marriage. j\Jr. Joseph Pulitzer, the blind owner of the New York World, whose death was announced a few weeks ago, had a remarkable career. Ho landed in America in 1804 with only a 20-frane piece in his pocket. He must have died the possessor of a fortune estimated from "25,000.000d01. to 30,0nn,ll()0dol. For twenty-two years he has been blind. When Mr. Pulitzer erected the building j rl New \ ork which bears his name, lie intended it to be the tallest building on earth, and for years it bore this distinction. Hut it was to see little of its owner, for during the past twenty years he only entered it two or three times. He spent most of his time on hoard his yacht, cruising in all parts of tho world. The story of how Mr. Pulitzer became blind lias been.told often, tie had been burning the candle at both ends until shattered, raw nerves and a persistent mist before his eyes drove him to seek rest in a yachting cruise. One evening, just before sunset, as his vessel was standing out of the Bosphorous and the Black Sea loomed ahead, the blow fell. He was at the rail reading when ho was plunged in darkness. "Has the sun set so soon?" he asked querelously. "Not yet," answered a companion. "It has." was his astounding rejoinder. "Please take me below and tell the captain to put about." Mr. Pulitzer's blindness compelled him to withdraw behind the Scenes of public life. He hid himself and sank his identity in his papers, and particularly in the New York World. 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, verv 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 infljßnmation. SANDER'S EXTRACT is en- | dorsed by the highest Medical Authorities, and is unique in its effect; purity, reliability and safety are its distinguishable qualities. Therefore, get the GENUINE SANDER EXTRACT; insist, if you have to, but get it, and derive Ute benefit.

Over 700 dogs luive been registers' Palmerston North this year. The registration fees amounted to £233 Ins.

A logal opinion is to be obtained by the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute as to "whether a teacher who, in an emergency, calls in a doctor to attend a child, while under control of a teach«r, can be made liable for the doctor's fees*"

As showing the change of opinions today as compared with 20 years ago Mr Lindsay mentioned, at the meeting of the South Canterbury Board of Education, that the authorities did all they could now to encourage swimming, but when lie went to school boys used' to get caned for going away swimming. llouiul about Rotorua the sawmilling industry is making rapid development. There arc now seven sawmills within a radius of a few miles, the output being a million and a quarter of superficial feet of sawn timber every month. The principal timber is riniu, which is principally being sent to various parts of the Auckland district.

People are generality ignorant of the fact (says a Paris newspaper) that Prance possesses some of the most valuable pearl fisheries in the world. The archipelago, of Tuamoto, Gambia, and Tahiti aTe particularly rich in pearl-bearing oysters. The ijrins «re said to rival those found in the Hud Sea and' the Gulf of Persia. Queen Wilhelmina is credited with possessing a Tahiti pearl worth nearly £SOOO. The fishing season begins in May and ends hi August. The Maoris are. said to be the best divers, as they can remain under water for three minutes at a depth of nearly 40ft.

The foreman of a Marseilles warehouse who has won the prize of £40,000 in the big French tottery, has been pestered, as the winners of big prices always are pestered in France. The first £40,000 ever offered was won <by a cantiniere, Mme. Iloff, a widow, who afterwards wrote a book on her adventures. The poor woman was literally chased from place to place for weeks by people who wanted to beg of her or merely to see tier. Her principal tormentors were the men who wanted to marry her. There were 407 of them! Heir suitors were so many and: so pressing that eventually she married one of them. From an Australian paper we have a detailed! description of what may 'be termed "dairying dairy herd of atjout 40 or 50 cows in milk, and several calves, with a male at the head of the herd. Two horses and drays, a buggy and a pair of ponies, separator, milk baskets, cream cans, and other necessities! for carrying on the roads, complete this novel outfit. The herd is pastured wherever there happens to be good feed and water. The cows are milked' on the spot until feed runs out, and the cream taken to the nearest railway station. Two young men have charge of the concern.

M. .Toubert, professor at the Agricultural College at Fontainbleau, claims that he has discovered 1 a new and simple method of making hens lay. He feeds them with wine in addition to their ordinary 'food. The professor has not allowed his discovery to be made known lightly. He has been experimenting with fowls of all kinds for several years, and finds the same result in every case. In each case he experimented for the four winter months with two sets of 12 fowls of the same breed, adding bread soaked in

wine to the food of one of the two sets of 12. In each case, after six separate trials, the wine J fed hens laid more eggs, in the proportion of 20 eggs a month or thereabout*.

One of the most thriving of the in amy prosperous industries' of Germany last year was that of toy-making. As to ■fashions in toys, the "character" dolls replaced 1 the Teddy bear, but aeroplanes and similar goods remained l in great demand. Cheap toys were exported in large quantities to the United Kingdom and the United States. The value of the German toy trade was ,no less than £4,000,000 —an increase of half a million* on the total of the preceding year. The two best customers were the United States and the United Kingdom. The former country took 17,091 tons of German toys last last year, and 11,703 tons was the quantity imported into Britain. France bought 2470 tons, and smaller quantities went to Belgium and Russia.

Whenever the King pays a visit to any of his friends in the country he is just as closely guarded as when he is in one of his own Royal residences'. Everyone, who arrives by train, motor <jar, or on foot is carefully scrutinised. Long before any suspicious character gets to the temporary home of the King, warnings are sent to the detectives, who are in constant communication with Scotland Yaa-d. The special police who are told oil' to guard His M'ajestty are all carefully picked men. The antecedents of every man are fully known, and tlwy are put through innume.rabel tests 'before they are accepted. Their very names are secret, and the freedom of English Royalty from tire attacks of the fanatic is a sufficient testimony to the excellence of the work of this body of silent and faithful watchers. Recently an ingenious test was carried out to determine how quickly a message could be sent round the world. The New York Times wrote a message of nine words, addressed to itself, and despatched it westwards. The message completely girdled the Northern Hemisphere, travelling through Honolulu to .Manila, thence to Hongkong, Singapore and Bombay, from which point it sped onwards to Suez, thence to Gibraltar, touched Faval, and finally re-arrived at New York, a 'distance of 28,613 miles. Xo attempt was made to clear the line for its trans,miswiou in the hope of establishing a record, but the message was sent under ordinary commercial conditions. The message passed through sixteen relay stations, and sixteen and a half minutes after it left New York it re-entered that city, thus travelling at an average speed exceeding 1700 miles per minute. TAILOR-MADE SUITS AT THE MELBOURNE The values in our men's apparel represent these three essentials—quality of fabric, superiority of workmanship, and fidelity of design. And it is the consistent alliance of these essentials in all our offerings that we would like you to remember in reading this announcement. You will then be in a better frame of mind to appreciate the special prices. Not a single garment in the offering has been purchased in the "open market." The special display is composed exclusively of merchandise made to our order and conforming in every respect to those standards of excellence which constitute our reputation and goodwill. And the extremely low prices are the result of heart-to-heart co-operation with the makers—co-operation which Tecognised quality as a fixed quantity and economy of price as the problem to be solved. We describe four of the very latest fabrics. Indigo Belwarp suit, a new weave, similar to very fine serge but without that hard finish inseparable from serges; will not spot or fade; price 655. Pine, dark brown worsted, with faint blue shade pencil stripe; elegantly tailored and finished; has deep lapels and long roll collar; 655.' Pretty myrtle green worsted suit, indistinctly striped; coat cut in the new shape, tolerably long suit. Indigo chock worsted suit, distinctly new in design, fashionably tailored, and guaranteed to give excellent service, and warranted absolutely sunproof. Sure to be a great favorite. Price 655. Other special suits at 29s od, 35s and 49s 6d.—Arvt.