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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The school children of Midhirst and Waipuku, accompanied by many 'of their elders, picnicked ait the Breakwater yesterday. The contingent numbered some 300. •

Messrs. Johnson and Co., of Wellington, the successful tenderers for .the erection of the new steel bridge over the Waitara river at Waitara, commenced preliminary operations yesterday. In the Supreme Court, on the motion of Mr. .Quilliam (Govett and Quilliam), probate of (the will of the late Edward Bishop has been granted to Albert Fred Bishop, the executor named-in the will. OnsThuraday evening a benefit performance by the Star Pictures was given in St. John's Hall, Waitafa, in aid of the old soldiers' ''cemetery renovation fund. The performance was thoroughly enjoyed. It is expected that the gain to ttie cemetery fund will be between £5 and £6.

Every twentytfour hours New" Plymouth at.present consumes approximately 1,334,750 gallons of water. This fact was mentioned 'by the borough engineer (Mr. C. Skrtrop)' in a report to the Council this week in-order to demonstrate that there is no time for the water to get stagnant in the pipes. . The mile championship of the New Plymouth Swimming Club will be held at the *bath9 abbujt the 2nd March. Mr. E. Pfankudh, who has won the event twice in succession, is coming to New Plymouth to endeavor to win it outright by annexing it for the third time. Since he left this town Mr. Pfankuch has been instrumental 'in forming a swimming club at Blenheim with a memlbereihip of over 200.

Two farmers were discussing the labor question on the mail train oie morning recently, when one asked the other (who owns several farms on which he has herds milked either on the share or wages system) how he got on with his men. "Oh, all right," was the reply. "I have no difficulty except with the younger men, with whom I have to exercise a lot of tact. The older hands have tact. They manage me!" Probably the biggest spectacle of its kind every produced in Great Britain, Professor Reinhardt's gigantic production, the "Miracle," at Olympia, has met with great success. The story told—without words—is that of .a nun, the guardian of a .wondrous statute of the Madonna in a vast cathedral in the Bhineland. It tells how, worn and weary, the nun came back at last, and the Madonna returned to her gilded it was all a dream. Olympia was transformed for the production into a huge cathedral. One of the most splendid scenes was that in which the nun is tried by the Inquisition, condemned to be beheaded as a witch, and rescued by the people.

The work of linking up the whole of the borough with the sewerage scheme is being rapidly pushed alread by the borough engineer, Mr. C. Skitrop. Reporting to the Council, he states that the Molesworth street sewer is now completed to Hobson street, except for the construction of two m'an-holes, which will be done as soon as a bricklayer is available. The Morley street sewer from Hine street to H. Brown and Co.'s mill has been completed, and likewise the Buller street sewer from new Qover street to the water-shed near Hdbson street. This portion will not be available for use until it is connected with the Molesworth street sewer, through the Saf3'h and Door Company. This work will be taken in hand in a few days. Rather a sensational bolt occurred at Midhirst on Thursday evening just after the arrival of the mail train. Mr. A. Lincham, accompanied by a friend, had just entered his gig and started to drive home, when part of the harness broke, and the trap, being light on at the time, the shafts wxmt up in the air, precipitating the occupants over the back on to the ground, from whence they arose unharmed. The hgrse made off in the direction of the station, but, suddenly changing its course/, headed on to the footpath in the direction of the butcher's shop. Here Mrs. Gray, was, wheeling a perambulator containing her three months' old baby, and before she could get out of the way', she was overtaken by the frightened ' animal and knocked down, as was also the pram. The b«,by, fortunately, rolled ". clear and was,, unharmed. Mrs. Gtky was considerably bruised, but es'eapea serious injury. The horse continued its career, completely smashing the gigibefore it Was caught.

Greymouth is to have an up-to-date much larger than its present opera house, the idea of the promoters being to enter the moving picture line. The women of Wanganui are agitating for the construction of a, swimming bath for women only. A petition has been presented to the Borough Council with the object in view. According to figures issued by the British Postmaster-General the number of letters and parcels dispatched to Australia and New Zealand during Christmas week was 1,670,000.

The Duke of Sutherland has five pipers at Dunrobin Castle, and these men always announce dinner on the pipes, and on conclusion of the repast, according to Highland fashion, march round the dinner table playing various airs and strath spreys. A vagrant asked Dr McArthur, S.M. in the., Wellington Court, to give him a "chance." He would, he declared, leave ■Wellington within 24 hours. The answer was brief: "I don't see why <lshould pawn you off on to other people. You will be sentenced to three months' imprisonment."

Ex-Senator Depew, at a recent dinner, told the following of himself:— ,k I have received many compliments on my skill at after-dinner speaking, but the nfeivest compliment of all came from an up-State farmer. 'Senator,' he said 'you might have typhoid and recover, you might have pneumonia and recover, and you might have yellow fever and recover; but if you ever -get lockjaw you'd burst.'"

Collective housekeeping is now coming into vogue in England. One instance is given in which the dwelling houses contain all improvements except a kitchen. Meals for everybody are cooked at a cental Wall, and may either be eaten there or sent home. A four-course dinner coete 'one shilling and sixpence. Servants are supplied, when needed, from the central hall at a cost of about five pence an hour. According to one chronicler, the late Duke of Fife, "unlike the Marquis of Lome, early became to his role of 'Royalty's son-in-law.' He also made certain conditions as to what his position was to be after his marriage. He accepted a. Dukedom, but stipulated that his Royal wife was to be known as the Duchess' of Fife, and not as Princess Louise; also it was his wish that his Duchess should have no lady-in-waiting." It may not generally be known that fi/ve Sundays may occur in February. Tho last occasion on which this took place .was in 1880, and the next will be in 1920. This event takes .place in periods of 23 years, except when the century is not a leap year, and then it occurs at periods of 40 years. For example, WOO was not a leap year, hence a period of forty years will elapse from 1880 before, the next 'Occasion on which five Sundays will occur in February., It is generally admitted that the Metropolitan police '6f New South Wales are physically one of the finest bodies of men in the world. But for some time the authorities have not received sufficient applications from eligible men to keep the force up to its full strength. Possibly the physical-standard is too stringent, but at any rate, though there are always applLcamts willing to join the force, very few of them possess the necessary physical and educational o.ualifications.

The "cocktail" of the States' is a stranger here, even to the barmaids. "Asper" watched a man make one last week. He took a wineglass and rinsed it with two sorts of bitters, he halffilled it with gin, he added two sorts of vermonth and a trifle of curacoa. Then he put in a dash of benedictirie, and a squeeze of lemon. The barmaid stared round-eyed at the array of bottles. He repeated the performance, and said that he would have another. "Not of those," said the barmaid. "You'll have a soda straight and go home!"—Ex-charage.

A rare catch was made by Messrs Meo brothers, of the fishing boat Maria, at Palliser Bay, states the Evening Post. A strange variety was seen swimming round the boat, and they succeeded in gaffing it. It proved to be a sunt fish, about 314 ft long by 2V 3 ft deep, weighing about 601b, and the fishermen desided to present it to the Dominion. Museum. It was brought over from Day's Bay and taken to the Museum. Mr A. Hamilton, the Curator, was glad to accept it, stating that it was a rarity in Wellington waters, but one had'been caught at Napier, and one off the Otago Coast.

A recent visit by a New Zealander to the Holy Land states that the whole land is a desolation. It is not flowing with milk and honey now. Between .Jerusalem and Jaffa there are some beautiful groves of olive trees and vineyards, but in other places the land is denuded. The people live just the same simple life as they did in Scriptural days. The women were seen grinding at the mill, men ploughing with the ancient implement, drawnin the old way, the shepherd leading his little flock, calling them by name. The sheep and goats may be seen browsing together. The sheep, he says, were the ugliest he had ever seen. In the very early days Wanganui bore the name of "Petre," so called from Lord Petre, who was interested in a colonising syndicate. A few years ago (remarks the Chronicle) when Mr. Hatrick was Mayor, the then Borough Council considered that Wanganui should sport a coat of arms, and considered that both Wanganui and the Petre family would be honored if the Petre arms were borne, communication was therefore sent to Lord Petre, stated Councillor Lifton at a meeting of the Borough Council, but the honored lord did not deign to reply. Wanganui still has no official coat of anos, though the Petre arms are carried by the gas office.

Auriferous quartz reefs are discovered in curious ways, often by the uprooting of trees during storms. In Colorado a very rich reef was the outcome of a rat chase. In Ballarat, a few years ago, a reef was disclosed during the digging of a grave, and most of 'the cemetery was pegged out a day or two afterwards. During the boom in the Hauraki mining district, fourteen of fifteen years ago, one of a party of young men who were out pigeon shooting stumbled and fell over an oukrop of quartz;they pegged out the ground, and in a few days sold out their "prospect" for £SOO a man. A similar discovery is now reported from Gordon, near Ballarat, in the State of Victoria. It appears that F. Murphy and E. F. Nickols, while crosing the Extended HiH paddock, stumbled upon a small round hole in the ground. Closer investigation disclosed a reef 2ft wide, well defined, and the discoverers formed a syndicate to prospect the ground. A shaft was sunk 10ft, and a reef was cut, showing gold in the stone, dish-prospects showing nice gold. The reef has already been tested on the surface and proved to be gold-bearing for a length of over 150 ft, Messrs Murphy at once applied fpr a lease *or SO acres. A RELIABLE REMEDY.

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VISITING CARDS.—When yot, -art out of cards, send your order *nr mnrf to the Daily News Printery. S/8 for SB, ?r 5/ - for 100 (postage paid).

I was conversing with the Premier of a neighboring State, (writes "Woomera" in the Australasian), and he put the troubles of the politiean in an il/tunki >•• tive way. "It's not your opponents who really worry yon, because you know wha't they will do. It's always your friends. They come to you with splendidly unpractical schemes. You can't udopt their ideas, of course, but yoil've got to hear all about them. One of .my best supporters came to me last week with a plan for rearranging* the whole city. 'This is not a scheme for to-day or to-morrow' lie explained, 'but something that will he a great national benefit a hundred years hence.' Now, .now ican you expect a Premier to be interested in things a hundred years hence when he's only got a majority of two?" An attempt is contemplated in Belgium to rid the Treasury of its obligations towards the heirs of the Duke of Wellington, in consequence of his great victory at Waterloo. AH historians are aware that aifter the famous battle William, King of the Netherlands and afterwards of '.Belgium, expressed his gratitude to the Tron Duke 'by confer ring upon him the title of "Duke -of Waterloo," transmissible to all his direct heirs, together with a revenue of 20,00W1, representing at that time the countervalue of a largo tract of woodlands situated between Quatre Bras and\Nivelles. After the revolution which severed .the Netherlands and Belgium in 1830, this obligation was transferred to the Belgian .State. The value of the land.grant having enormously increased since then; through sales of wood and cultivation, I the annual amount paid to the present Duke 1 of Wellington now conies to about 210,000f (£S4flO). It is riow proposed to approach the Wellington heirs, and negotiate an arrangement which would extinguish Belgium's obligation .by the payment of a lump sum to the present. Duke, in the same way as the French State has rid itself of the dowries settled by Napoleon on the families of many of his generals and friends. Mr. Errera, th» late rector of Brussels University, who has made a special study of the subject, suggests such an arrangement, and the act on his suggestion, or, at least, to Belgian Government seems inclined to: sound the feelings of the Wellington fam-'i ily on' the subject.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 191, 10 February 1912, Page 4

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 191, 10 February 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 191, 10 February 1912, Page 4

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