LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 177, 25 January 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of subscribers to the Tisch Memorial will be held at the Town Hall to-morrow (Friday) evening at 7.30. Professor W. T. Mills hit the marfc when he declared, at a meeting in Christchurch: "We don't want to elect the best talkers. Speech-making is not going to save the world. The wofld has been talked at ever since its beginning, and very little has been done." At the Borough Council meeting last evening the Mayor said he had received a telegram from the Hon. D. Buddo, stating that in reference to the alteration of the borough boundaries the #»- port of the Commissioners was not yet available, but they are being asked to treat the matter as urgent. There was on view in Sydney last week a monster specimen of the Lord Nelson variety of apple that turned the scale at 28%0z. It was grown by Mr. Jolin Connolly at Cowra. This apple, however, is by no means a record, as last year a specimen, Lord Russell variety, weighing 21b iy 2 oz, was grown by ■Mr. Frank Clarke, Woodside, Rylstone. It was believed to be the heaviest apple ever grown in the world. A young London surgeon has had the good fortune to receive one of the largest tees every paid to a member of the medical profession. A few months ago the, doctor was summoned to India to attend the Maharajah of Nepal. He found it necessary to perform an operation upon the patient, arid this he carried out with complete, success. The surgeon returned home loaded with princely presents, besides which he received a special tee of a lac of rupees ( £6666). Another "message from the sea" has arrived in New Zealand. A Maori, named Tine Tukere, has (says the Auckland Herald)' reported the discovery, near the Waikato Heads, of a bottle containing a slip of paper. The paper bears an inscription, neatly written in indelible pencil or ink, as follows: —"Wrecked L 25 Lo 140 8 days on reef; making for Thursday Island, W. Killie, Man." The writer was evidently in too great distress to write down the name of the ship, if he had one. An investigation of the map shows that it was likely that the wreck involved no risk of drowning. The latitude and longitude indicate a spot in. a dry-looking area in the south-western corner of Queensland, and the 'nearest chartered water seems to be a creek of only intermittent j wetness. The employment of an unregistered barmaid by a Kumara hotelkeeper might be regarded as indicating that jhere was a scarcity of registered barmaids. . Enquiries made in Auckland, however, show that there is no scarcity of registered barmaids; in fact, the supply is somewhat greater than the demand. Some of the northern publicans have replaced barmaids' with barmen, but this is riot evidence of a scarcity of the fair sex. When registration of barmaids was made compulsory by law, a number were unable to obtain their registration papers, consequently the numbeT of barmaids in Auckland to-day is smaller than was the ease before the law was brought into operation. The Act draws a net around the profession and prevents any more women adopting work in bars as a means of livelihood, so that some dav the barmaid will cease to exist in New Zealand.

A small party of visitors travelling from Fiji to Sydney by the Makura, in port at Auckland on Tuesday evening (says the Star), sounded a distinct note of optimism in regard to the future of their island home, to which, by the way, they seem to be much attached. "The spell of the tropics, you know, i» rtrjr strong after one become accustomed to the ways of life out there," one of the number remarked. Mr. Eyre Hudson, Colonial Secretary at' Fiji, who was on board, said that Suva was experiencing an era of progress in the matter of harbor improvements, the community having recognised its great possibilities as a port for the growing services of the Pacific. A new wharf, which was part of a general scheme, for "which a sum of £BO,OOO had been voted bo far, would be capable of providing a berthage of 30ft of water for at least three large steamers. The export of fruit was a rapidly growing industry, and a record was promised for the present season.

Sitting in his library to-day (stated the New York correspondent of the Dally Mail on 25th November) toying with a sheaf of telegrams and letters of congratulation on his seventy-sixth birthday, Mr Andrew Carnegie promulgated a number of maxims for men who aim at a successful business life. "Do not drink •r even enter a publichouse." "Don't smoke; it is foolish, and no employer wants foolish men working for him." "Live within your income." "Don't be content with doing only your duty; its the horse that finishes/a neck ahead that win's the race." "Use your head. Don't .follow the rule 'Oboy- orders' even if you break -your employer's/ Tell him you "w more about yow department of'his business thitn he. Hq will not like it then, but he will remember, and some day you will be. rewarded." 'What chance has it poor, employee of becoming a partner?" one caller asked. Mr Carnegie smiled. "Some day," he said, "when the employer is ill, perhaps, he may send' to the 'office for some papera. Then the poor employee will be sent with them and have a chance to meet Madam Employer and madam's daughter. Them's his chance. Mr Carnegie. "No poor man should be prejudiced against a <wrl because she is rich,* he eald. "Poor men can make niilioiiaire"; daughters just as nappy, perhaps hapjiif-r, than millionaires' sons can* Mr, Lloyd-Jones, of Wanganul; 'Will deliver a lecture in the Whiteley Hall on Friday, February 2, at 3 p.m. The; subject will be "Good Health: How to Get it and How to Keep it," with an explanation of the no-breakfast plan and the fasting cure. There will be no charge for admission. Mr. Jones was the writer of a very interesting article on " Good Health," which appeared in our columns lately. M.C.C.'S GREAT SUCCESS. SALE 0» STEWART HUSTON'S ' STOCK. The Melbourne Clothing Company's sale of utewk, purchased at 13/4 in 4e £ from Stewart Huston, has proved an instantaneous finceeea. Right from the time the doom opened until closing time each day of this sale has this popular store been crowded with buyers. And no wonder. Just fljfure for yourself what it meant to you when we got this stock at one-third off cost price. It means that on every article of this stock purchased you maks a clear saving of at least 50 per cent., and in some cases more. In every instance you are buying at less than landed cost. Just consider the mighty savings represented in prices like the following:—Men's genuine panamas, 10/fl; men's Island bats, with straps, 1/- each; men' 9 wire tweed trousers, 5/11; men's flannels, 2/5; men's merino singlets, l/fl; men's merino pants, l'/ll; men's colored neglige and tennie shirts, 2/11; men's silk ties, 6d each; men's worsted trousers, 8/11; men's tailor-made suits, stunning patterns, beautifully out and finished, 45/- and 59/8, worth 05/- and 80/-. Don't miss this wonderful sale for the greatest money saving chances ever offtrsd on meat's apparal.—Advt.