LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 193, 13 February 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The cheese industry has received an impetus from the high prices that are being realised on the Home market, and a considerable extension of the factory system on this coast is imminent. The New Zealand Dairy Union is contemplating erecting a factory at Oiaki, and similar establishments are to be erected at Kuku and Otaki under separate man* agements, while negotiations are being completed for another at Te Horo. Although the Turks have taken numberless pot-shots at the Italian airmen when the latter have been making their flights, none of these attempts to bring down the birdmen succeeded until a week or so ago. Captain Monte is the first of the aviators to come to grief. He was making an aerial reconnaisance, and was flying over the Arabs' camp near the city of Tripoli, when a shot was fired at him. The 1 bullet hit its intended mark, and the airman, finding himself rather severely wounded, had to make a hurried descent. He managed to bring his machine to earth inside the Italian lines.

A shooting fatality occurred at Blackwood, Victoria, on January 25, when Pearlie Davy, aged 15, the daughter of Senior-constable Davey, was shot dead. The girl, whose parents were in Melbourne, was staying with Mr. Alfred Skinner, of Blackwood. Mr. Skinner's 16-year-old son showed the mechanism of a Winchester rifle to the girl, and then temporarily placed it on a rack. A few minutes later he again took possession of the weapon, and, forgetting it was loaded, was balancing it on his hand, when it exploded. The girl was standing near, and the bullet entered her cheek, emerging at the top of her head. Death was instantaneous.

The truth of the old saying that "a fool and his money are soon parted" was proved last week in the case of a sailor who was paid off from a vessel at Lyttelton, his wages amounting to £l4. He had a "day out" (says the Press), and money and liquor both flowed to such effect that by night he had spent his all, and was reduced to borrowing a few shillings from a shipmate. In connection with the spending operations, trouble was caused in one hotel. It is stated that the sailor in "shouting" for a number of friends and others, put down a £5 note. This was rolled up by the barkeeper and placed in the till, but change for a £1 note only was handed back. The shipmate threatened to deal severely with tho barkeeper, but matters were finally smoothed over By the licensee's wife.

REXONA. The Rapid Healing Ointment cures with remarkable rapidity Sores, Ulcers, Burni, Cute, Bruises, Edema, Chilblains and all diseases of the skin. Sold it triangular pots at Is fid and 3s. Ob* at Bullock and Johnston's.

Auckland dairy farmers claim that the present will prove a record season, both in output and price. It is stated that the Canterbury market for table poultry this season is better than any other market in Australasia. The Mountain House Committee has decided to add three rooms to the Mountain Hostelry for the use of the caretaker.

The latest proposad of Wellington Labor unionists is to refuse to handle butter for export, on account of the recent advance in its price. Wairarapa settlers are apprehensive of grass fires taking place, as the country is very much burnt up. They have not forgotten the visitation of some years ago. A recent visitor states that Cambridge is extending rapidly. There have been more houses erected during the last twelve months than in any preceding period. Thursday is the day fixed upon by the conference of delegates for the statutory half-holiday for the borough of New Plymouth and the St. Aubyn Town District,

Some of the leading members of the medical faculty anticipate that, within the next ten or fifteen" years, Auckland will, by sheer force of circumstances, become the home of the medical school of New Zealand. The Native Land Court, which has been sitting at New Plymouth for several days, adjourned yesterday to Waitara. At New Plymouth the Court handled some 200 cases. Masterton is complaining of the money spent by residents in amusements. It is estimated that theatre-goers in that centre spent £6OO or more in amusements during a recent fortnight. On Saturday a child unearthed at Marsland Hill what proved to be a but- , ton from the uniform of a soldier of the 57th Regiment. The relic must have reposed on Marsland Hill for fifty years past.

Mr. Isaac Charles Johnson, the inventor of Portland cement, has just died at Gravesend. He celebrated his hundredth birthday last January. Up to a month or so ago he was engaged in translating the Gospels from the Greek. Heiearned to ride a bicycle at 87, and cycled daily up to his 98th year. Before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., at a sitting of the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, David M. Crozier was charged with drunkenness, his second offence. Accused, who asked the Magistrate to deal leniently with him, as he would leave the town and go out to the bush for work, was fined 10s, and given a week in which to find the money. Many people have been wondering for what purpose the newly-erected'shed on the East End bathing reserve was built. It is understood that the local Association football club intends building a platform outside the shed for the accommodation of an orchestra in connection with its proposal to hold concerts on the reserve on Thursday evenings during the football season. As an upshot of some discussion at last night's meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council, Crs. Kibby and Clark were delegated to report on the proposal to provide a telephone at the express stand. According to the former councillor many of the expressmen of the town would be quite willing to pay a little more in license fees if more accommodation and a telephone were provided.

The fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Egmont Lodge, 1.0j0.F., was held last evening, Bro. Hugh Brabant, N.G., presiding. There was a fair attendance, and one candidate was proposed for membership. P.P.G.M.'s Ainsworth and McGahey and P.G.'s A. Hooker and L. F. Webster were appointed delegates to attend the district meeting on Thursday next. P.G. Hassall, of the Cust Lodge, Ashley district, visited the lodge and was accorded lodge honors. Bro. Hassall thanked the lodge for the cordial reception ac«orded him.

Writing to the Borough Council last evening Mr. Moves, headmaster of the New Plymouth High School, stated that the girls at the school had asked him to approach the Council with regard to an extension of the time allotted to ladies on Wednesday afternoons at the Municipal Swimming Baths. With the existing times the girls at school were unable to take advantage of the opportunities offered, as they did not get away from school till 4 p.ra. The oaths closed for ladies, he believed, at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesdays, and he felt sure that if the time was extended an hour a great many more girls would patronise'the bMhs. The matter was referred to the Baths Committee, with power to act. Matrimonial brokers is the name given to those business men who deal in matrimonial introductions. In Italy there are a number of these men, and the business is quite a regular institution. In their offices there are books with the names aid particulars of all the marriageable girls, rich or poor, who live in the district, and the brokers go about endeavoring to arrange engagements in exactly the same way as they would do ordinary trading business. It depends entirely upon their success whether they receive any payment for their efforts or not. Occasionally the brokers come in for a very good thing, for if the marriage turns out to be an exceptionally happy one, and good fortune attend the bride and bridegroom, they seldom forget to whom they owe much of their happiness. Chatting with a Daily News reporter Mr. D. Petrie, ex-Chief Inspector of Schools for the Auckland district, who has just been on a visit to the Mountain, remarked that a most remarkable thing about the flora was that a number of soxithern plants, particularly those known as cedars, which in the parts of Otago where they were to be found attained an ordinary growth, grew at the Mountain to an unprecedented size. In the south lie had never seen cedars half the size of those in the upper portion of the forest reserve, between 2000 and 3000 feet above the sea level. To his mind this was attributable to the plentitude of rain and the more favorable temperature. .A. gentleman qualified to know told Mr. Petrie that he had been interesting himself in finding out whether the cedar would do for lead-pencils. According to him Mr. Hardmuth's wellknown pencil-making firm had been searching the world for suitable cedar.

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Cabinet yesterday accepted a tender for the erectioa of Departmental offices at New Plymoutti.

Besides the ttocft reported in yesterday's issue, several other eases of pickpocketing oocurred at Wirths' ei?eue entertainment on Saturday night. One Man was relieved of no less than £3O, another of £l6, and a third of £6. When w« hear boasts of motor car and motor cycle records, and of walking tours undertaken by one ai.d another, we are reminded of incidents of by-gone days. It is a good many years .since an erstwhile well-known public man, Mr. A. P. Seymour, then a resident of Picton, walked a distance of over eighty miles in one day, viz., from Nelson td Picton. When he arrived in Blenheim (it was long before the day of the iron horse), he found that every seat in the Blenheim-Picton seat was booked, and thereupon he decided to complete the journey on "Shanks' pony." The distance of twenty miles, between Blenheim and Picton, was covered in a little over three hours, and Mr. Seymour arrived at his detination well ahead of the coach.— Exchange.

A sky-scraper hospital of twenty-two storeys has been commenced in New York. .It will be literally built in the air, with the windows of the wards far above the street and .the roar of the traffic, and the acme of modern hospital science, from the cellar to the roof. The greatest benefit is anticipated by reason of the sun-lighted wards and the pure atmosphere. It is estimated that the hospital will cost £200,000. The foundation stone is inscribed, "For the sick, without regard to race or creed." Lifts throughout supplant staircases. It is expected that the fees from surgeons taking post-graduate courses will defray the running expenses. A service of motor cars will bring accident emergency cases from all parts of the crowded city. One of the judges of the Dominion has received from a critic a letter commenting upon a sentence passed upon a criminal. The critic's advice to the judge, given in very confident terms, runs thus: "Do you believe in planetary influence? If not, you are ignorant of one of the main causes of affairs that goes away with mankind. I would advise you to get Raphael's or Zadkiel's Almanack of last year on this. If you have the patience, with your judicial training, I guess the contents of these almanacs, which foretold the past and present unrest all over the world many months in advance of their occurrence, may astonish you." He considerately adds a postscript: "P.S.—lf I knew you was a man of the world, viz., broad-minded towards others, I would put my full name and address to this."