LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 202, 23 February 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Work has been put in hand in connection with the drainage of the swamp on the reserve at the abattoirs. It is reported that B. Fryberg, the New Zealand swimmer, intends attempting to swim across Lake Rotorua. In the Supreme Court, on the motion of Mr. Quilliam (Govett and Quilliam), probate of the will of the lata Mrs. Caroline Gillbanks has been granted to Mr. William Gillbaaks, the executor named in the will. Apropos of the discussion in the columns of the News on the necessity for the observance of methods more conformable to the laws of hygiene in the disposal of the meat we eat, a case was brought under our notice yesterday by a prominent citiaen. A butcher's cart was used to carry swill from a hotel. Coming out of the yard, the cart bumped on the kerbing, and much of the contents of the tins went overboard, or, rather, over the floor of the cart. Our informant, who is prepared to back up the statoment if necessary, said that this cart was usually used for meat. If this is so, it is high time more stringent inspection prevailed and practices such as this put a stop to immediately. It is not right either to the careful and cleaner butchers of the town.

At least one native in the Masterton ! district appears satisfied with the change in Government. He has named his infant child, which was born on December 14, "Franklin Masscy." Houses are plentiful in Coromandel (states a correspondent) and many are let at Is per week. One house of 22 rooms is now let at 2s 6d per week. Good land is fairly cheap, and many farmers are getting there, which in the course of time will bring the place up to a higher standard than it is at present. Before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., at a sitting of the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, Edward Seed was, at the instance of Inspector Tippins, fined 5s and 7s costs for having cycled at night without a light. For driving a vehicle without proper lights Christian Jensen was mulcted in a penalty of 5s and 7s costs.

Although in a remote part of the world, and hundreds of miles away from civilisation, Dr. Mawson's scientific research party, stationed at the Macquarie Islands, can be kept informed of what is going on in the outside world. During the voyage of the Moana from Sydney to Wellington the wireless operator on boaM heard Dr. Mawson's station on the island receiving the scores of the En{j3ish'-Now South Wales cricket match. Cheese is evidently becoming a somewhat scarce, commodity down South, and Dunedin merchants are making enquiries from Southland dairy factories for supplies, but so far as is known the whole output to the end of April, and in some cases May, has been secured. Southern papers record that the local demand for cheese is good, and any factory which had parcels to sell now would probably secure 7d per lb. Lucerne roots go a great distance down after moisture, and so does the root of ithe dock under unusual conditions. There was one found at Manaia which" grew down the well, stopping in its growth when it touched the surface of the water and still lengthening as the water receded, until it grew to a length of 10 feet, the end touching the water unweaving its fibres and spreading out like a bunch of undres»ed flax, i A bee culturaliat contributes some interesting data to Popular Mechanics concerning the work of bees in gathering honey. He calculates that a quart of honey represents no less than 48,000 miles of flight between the hive and the flowers. Also, that in June, which is the busiest month of the year in the older lands, the workers of one colony easily cover as much as twice the distance between the earth and the moon in one day. The distance of the moon from the earth is 237,600 miles. Therefore, the gathering of about 10 quarts' of honey means, totalling the flight of all the workers of the colony, a flight of some 475,200 miles. !

The jewels of the Russian Royal family, which are of enormous value, are kept in the Kremlin, whero they are looked after by 150 officers who have retired from the Army. The Italian Crown jewels are guarded in a subterranean chamber on a little island in the Tiber. The Crown treasures of Anstria are in the custody of the Imperial Bank. The Austrian jewels are of great value, but of those of Germany the same cannot be •aid. Theso are also in-the custody of a bank. The Bulgarian jewels, valued at £600,000, are kept in a castle on the banks of the Danube. Most of the French State jewels have been dispersed, but some of great value are to be seen at the' Louvre.

The overland cyclist, Francis Birtles, who has done so many long and arduous journeys on his wheel through Australian deserts, it is said, has become so accustomed to drinking water from waterholes which have been the last resting place of dingoes and snakes that the filtered water of civilisation has an absence of "body" that is missed. Meala of many courses also have a distressing effect after the long course- of meat and damper. It is said that on his return from a ride around Australia, Birtles, who is a strict teetotaller, was feted by some friends at a large city hotel. Shortly after he became ill, and it was three or four days before he recovered from the effects of the banquet. A party of six young ladies were swimming in the Waikato river last Sunday at Mercer when two of them got out of their depth. One of them was pulled ashore by another bather, but the other, Miss Alice Hallett, could not get to land, and would have been drowned had not one of the party had the presence of mind to run to a Maori house for assistance. Two Maori women who were in the house promptly ran out, and, with all their clothes on, jumped in and swam •ut to where Miss Hallett was last seen. Mrs. Thompson (a Maori) caught the young lady by the hair and dragged her up, and, with the assistance of the other Maori (Mrs. Schraak), succeeded in bringing Miss Hallett to the bank, where they soon brought her back to consciousnasg.

After a big football game reeently, 300 Yale students patronised the theatre at Newhaven, Connecticut, in which Miss Gaby Deslys and "other London attractions" were announced to appear. The performance had been severely pruned, with the result that the curtain went down about 10 p.m., much earlier than usual. The students alleged that they were not getting their money's worth, and demanded that the show should proceed. The management refused. Scores of students then climbed from the orchestra seats to the stage, and a free fight between the theatre employees and the Yale men followed. The stage hands'severely chastised and knocked out a dozen students, and finally turned the fire hose on the audience, causing panic among the women. Some of the actresses fled from the theatre only half clad, and leaving behind them most of their belongings. The drop curtain was torn, and other damage done to the interior of the theatre. The Yala men were finally driven to the street, where the police arrested six students.

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