LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 153, 27 December 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Accumulated in the mines of the world there is enough coal to create 15 billion horso power for 12,000 years.. The town has been free from disturbance during the holidays, and up till last night only one drunk had been arrested.

Mr. J. W. Harding, of Ha-wera, ha? purchased Mr. C. E. Major's fine residential property, and will take up his abode there.

An expert estimates that nearly 4,000,000 pneumatic tyres will be required to shoo the motor cars running in America during the year 1912. There are several fine crops of oats along the coast, and, given fine weather for harvesting operations, there should not be a scarcity of chaff next winter. The Egmont County Council's traction engine, which went over the bank at Taungatara a few weeks ago, has been raised, and is now under repair. It sustained very slight damage.

There has been a sudden and an alarming decrease in the depth of water in" the reservoirs at Napier, and as a result the water supply is going to be cut off at a stated hour during the night. A trailer belonging to the Coast Transport Company that had been left in the Okato township, was thrown into the Kaihihi stream recently. Several bags of coke aboard were thrown out and distributed over the road. A man named James McLaren was arrested beyond Uruti early yesterday morning by Constable Lapouple, of Waitara, on a charge of stealing clothes and money from the Masonic Hotel. He Was brought before a J.P. at Waitara, and was remanded until January 3.

In 1909 Denmark had 1,067,000 milch cows, of which 176,000 were more than ten years old; in 1003 there were 150,000 out of 1,080,000, and in 1909 there were only 97,000 over ten years old out of 1,'285,000. Thus the percentage of cows over ten years old was nearly 17 per cent, in 1898; 14.2 per cent, in 1903, and 7.8 per cent, in 1909.

Mr. 11. J. Brown and Mr. E. Tribe (secretary of the Taranaki Petroleum Company) are at present kept very bnsy attending to the large number of callers at the company's office, who are applying to underwrite the shares in the new company. In addition, an exceptionally large mail was received every evening during the past few days. Speaking in the Queensland Legislative Council last week on the second reading of the Liquor Bill, Mr. P. Murphy declared that the Good Templars were unreasonable faddists. He suggested that the G-overnment should place £25,000 or £50,000 on the Estimates to provide 10,000 acres of priekly-pear land on which drunkards could be set to work. Millionaires are under discussion a good deal in England just now. A writer in the November Strand points out that the wealth of Messrs Rockefeller, Astor. Morgan, Rothschild, Carnegie and Strafchcona far exceeds the total value of the product of British industry for a whole year. Nearly seven millions of workers, toiling six days a week, produced a net output of British industry for 1010-11 of 712 million pounds. These six men would be able to pay for all the result v o£ a year's toil accumulated by a whole nation of toilers. They could buy up all the wealth of a year—all the machinery, all the manufactured goods, all the steel, all the iron, all the tobacco, all the sugar. That is what such wealth as theirs mean.

This is an age of advertising. We cannot do business successfully without it. Recently (says a writer in Leslie's Weekly), when the Chicago papers stopped publication for three days, business in the city stores was practically at a standstill. I remember when certain large establishments in New York boasted that they did not advertise, or said that a satisfied customer was the best advertiser. Tiffany, Brokaw Bros, and other well-known houses did not advertise; but they do to-day, and so. does every large concern. In thoso days the merchant sold his goods over the counter, and the manufacturer sent out his salesman, but to-day people buy the goods which they want and wliich they know something about because of the information given by the advertisements. 'A poor man calling himself Henri Napoleon. and claiming to be a son of the "Man of Destiny," has just applied- to the Marseilles police for a hospital ticket. He was born in* 1868, and was thus .the junior of the Prince Imperial by 12 years; ibutt—if history speaks truly— Prince "Lulu" was not the first son of his father. According to the author of the recently published "Comedy and Tragedy of the Second Empire," Louis Napoleon, ■when a prisoner at Ham, ibecame the farther of at least two children—boys—for whose maintenance and education e afterwards made provision. Their mother was Alexandrine Vergeot, a maJker of sabots, who helped: the prison porter's wife to keep the canteen tidy. She married the "prisoner of Ham's" foster-broth-er, and died poor at Paris in 1886. Professor Gilruth, professor of veterinary pathology at the Melbourne University, in a conversation with a reporter at Auckland, gave some interesting particulars of the work of the veterinary school over which ho presides. The Melbourne City Council, he stated, made a gift of four acres of land, of a value of about £30,000 or £40,000, near the University, as a site for the school. A sum of about £20,000 has been expended on the buildings and equipment, and an up-to-date operating theatre has also been provided through the generosity of a donor. The animals belonging to poor people are treated free of charge, and some COO cases have been dealt with in this way during the last few months. A large number of skilled veterinary surgeons are turned out annually, and the demand for these throughout the various States of Australia is much greater than the supply. Mr. .1. Warlmrion. of Sydenham, has almost completed a living equipment, upon which he has Ih-.mi engaged for many years. The apparatus is a close mechanical copy of a pair of birds' wings, and is used in the same way, giving exactly the same movements. Mr. Warburton claims that he has represented in his machine all the bones in the wjngs of flying birds. He states that when it satisfies him on the bench he will put it to a practical test, and is confident that it will fulfil all his expectations. The under surface, with the wings outspread, will be over fifty square feet. The weight will be about 31bs to the square foot. Bleriot's latest monoplane carries Slbs to the square foot. Mr. Warburton also claims that his machine gives a supporting surface able to carry double the weight, it would be called upon to carry. The total weight, when the machine is made by skilled hands, will be under 12-lbs. It , will cost no more than the ordinary bicycle, and the cost of maintenance will be merely the cost of the oil. Mr. Warburton is a civil engineer by training, has been a supervisor in the Public Works Department of India, and also has had a training on the Rurki hydraulic experiments in India. A 20TH CENTURY PREPARATION. Dr Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs and Colds. Small dose. Pleasant to take. Absolutely guaranteed. Price Is 6d and 3s. Obtainable everywhere.