LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 306, 22 June 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Five horses and three bulls were shipped north by the Rarawa last night. The present selling price of eggs as supplied by the Taranaki Egg Circle is Is 9d per dozen. The New Plymouth Harbor Board yesterday decided to renew its accident insurance policy with the Phoenix office. The millinery class at Tariki finishes on Wednesday, and those who wish to go on with the instruction for the second term should give in their names to Miss Haup at next meeting. At a meeting of the Maslerton Chamber of Commerce yesterday it was decided to convene a public meeting with the object of forming a railway league to urge the construction of a railway to open up the East Coast.lands between Napier and Wellington. The Rev. G. H. Mann, the New Zealand representative at the British Primitive Methodist Conference, at present sitting at Norwick, has cabled as follows to the secretary of the Primitive Methodist Church Union Committee:—"Conference has granted our request for separation, and we now have liberty to consummate union with the Methodist Church. Matters affecting the several funds have been referred to the respective committees, with power to make the necessary arrangements." At yesterday's meeting of the Harbor Board, the harbormaster (Captain Hertford) reported that for the seven weeks ending June 15, 54 vessels, of the aggregate gross tonnage of 51,564 tons, worked the port inwards and outwards during that period. The imports of general merchandise amounted to 11,435 tons, of which 3095 tons was coal, 2581 tons for private use, and 514 tons for railway use. The export of produce and sundries amounted to 1308 tons, and the total inwards and outwards 12,743 tons. "Machine milk keeps 12 hours longer than hand milk," was the statement of a farmer at the annual meeting of the South Island Dairy Association, during the course of a discussion on milkingcows by hand and milking them by milking machines. Another speaker said it was no use condemning milking ■machines, for, like separators, unless they were kept clean they would ruin the milk. The milking machine had come to stay, desipte the fact that it had been stated —and the speaker doubted the statement—that it took from breakfast time to lunch time to clean a milking machine. Another successful outing was held by the North Taranaki Hunt Club on Thursday afternoon. The meet took place at Mr. Harris' farm. Onaero. Those present included the Master (Mr. A. 11. Halcombe), the deputy master (Mr. B. H. Chaney), huntsman (Mr. A. Cliff), Messrs. L. Jennins, H. Rook, J. Cole, C. Topliss, K. Topliss, L. Pepperell, L. George, E. Stockman, N. Pepperell, P. Sampson, Payne, A. H. Street, H. George, H. D. George, G. Foreman, W. Stockman, A. L. Humphries (secretary), Mesdames H. D. Matthews and L. Jennins, Misses Quigley, Vickers, and Wheatley (2), and two of the members of the Eg-mont-Wanganui Hunt (Messrs. Washer and Crockett). American farmers are ploughing with dynamite now to such an extent that one manufacturer of explosives sold to farmers 500,000 pounds in 1008, 750,000 pounds in 1909, 1,500,000 pounds in 1910,; 3,000,000 pounds in 1911, and the indica- ] tions are that this one concern will ship ■ 5.000,000 pounds to farmers litis year. This method of ploughing was the*idea of a Southern farmer, who found that it i loosened up the subsoil as no ordinary method of cultivation could do. The results were astonishing in the increased size of the crops, and so out of proportion to the cost of the dynamite that ft rapidly became popular. There are today fully half-a-dozen powder manufacturers who are devoting themselves especially to the sale of high explosives for cultivating the ground.

Piles of bare, bleached bones and rows of grinning skulls on shelves are the. gruesome contents of the twelfth century "bone crypt" of Rothwell Parish Church, near Kettering, Northamptonshire, whoso relics have just been rearranged for the inspection of visitors. The collection was first discovered some 200 years ago, when a sexton, while digging a grave, in the south aisle, fell through the floor into the crypt. Its rearrangement was recently undertaken by order of the vicar, the Rev. J. Arthur Morley, and the churchwardens. No fewer tiha-n 11,000 skeletons are represented by the relics, there being more than 22,000 thigh bones. There are, however, only 500 or 600 complete skulls. Many theories have been propounded to account for the presence of the errie collection. Captain Whyte-Melville, the novelist, dismissed a suggestion that the 'bones were brought from Naseby Field, some ten miles away. He considered, from the absence of signs of gunshot wounds, that the bones were those of Danish invaders slain in 'battles of the Saxon period. Antiquaries in general, however, hold thiiCt the crypt is simply an ossuary or charnel-house—similar to those at Hythe, in Kent, Ripon and Upchurch.

Members of the Amalgamated Miners' Association at Broken Hill have, by a new development in unionism, shown that a landlord may be much worse off than he thinks under the law which allows of distraint for rent. A miner fell into arrears with his rent. He contended that the amount asked by the landlord was extortionate, and refused to pay. His comrades supported him, and considered that it was time landlords were taught moderation, from the tenants' point of view. So when the tenant of a house in this particular case was served with a notice of distraint upon his belongings the members of the Amalgamated Miners' Association agreed that they were to prevent the auction salebeing to the liking of the landlord. Onft [ of their number was deputed to do "all the buying." The plan worked. No article offered 'brought more than a shilling, and the sole buyer ran up a bill of only ten shillings, which was met by an A.M.A. subscription. Much merriment was indulged in over the proceedings, which ended with cheers for the Association after the evicted tenant had had all his belongings given back to him. We have been hearing a good deal of late about the "vicious economic circle." If the owners of letting property raise rents higher still as a matter of insurance against union blockading, will the memoirs of the union have gained much? IT IS THE RESOLVE to obtain the GMSTJINE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT whicV will procure for you « remedy of sterling value and will protect yon from having your health injured by one of the many crude oils and so-called "Extracts" which are passed off by un- | scrupulous dealers as "just as good," and which «re. .ti'.-ordiTig to Authentic testimony, very ;lpprf«sing to the heart. The a"'\ T TTT\F HER" EXTRACT is ab.Jolnte' l non-Wtiwr.'mis. and brings inptantaiK'ous relief ; n headaches, fevers, colds, .Vwichial jriri eastric affections, and v- jrrput "iiitwptic powers protect, from fvhire infeW.ion. Wounds, ulcers, biirnn, sprains, an- healed without inflarnmari' ~. SANDER'S EXTRACT is miUrns** W the hight--!. Medical Authorities, ai(_ is uniqnt in its effect; purity, reliflKHt and *■'*>'.. its distingushuhle .."dlities. flu-rpfore, get the 'TENT~'K r E EXTRACT; insiisfj If yon have to. it, and derivs

On Tuesday night the annual meeting j of the New Plymouth Beautifying So- J ciety will be held in the Council Cham- > bers of the Town Hall. We need hardly say that we sympathise with the objects of the society and commend them to the favorable consideration of the citizens. Every improvement in the appearance of the town gives pleasure to ourselves and to those who visit us and by making the town more attractive people of means from other parts may be induced to select New Plymouth as" their home and thus add to the .prosperity and importance of th;; town. At least £IOO in gold was thrown away by a young man named Charlie Green, who, attired completely in green (including green spa.ts), lurried handfuls of money to passers-by in the Strand and Fleet street one day last month. Outside the Gaiety Theatre Green gave away a sovereign to each of the newsboys. Then he walked along Fleet street as far as the Standard office, and there his generosity overmastered him, and he threw handfuls of sovereigns and shillings into the air. A large crowd struggled desperately on the pavement and in the roadway to capture the coins. Traffic was completely suspended until four or five policemen fought their way i through the crowd and arrested the man on the charge of being disorderly. At the Mansion House, where lie appeared | on this charge, he was discharged with j a caution. Zion City, Illinois, the settlement established by John Alexander Dowie, the Australian founder of a religion, was converted into a Donnybrook the other day. Serious -rioting occurred between the Zionists and employees of a manufacturing concern which recently began • operations there, and which is not in any way connected with the religious sect. These employees are, many of them, to-bacco-users. Smoking is very wicked in the eyes of tne Zionists. As a protest agauist the use of tobacco, about 200 Zion men and women held prayer meetings at the manufacturing plants twice a day. This enraged the non-Zionists, and several score of them broke up a prayer meeting on the afternoon of April 29, beat the men and women of the Zion sect, and drove them all from that part of the town. Elder F. M. Royal and Joseph Bishop were most seriously injured, both being beaten until they were almost unconscious. The next day a truce was declared, Wilbur Glenn Voliva, overseer of Zion, announcing that there would be no more militant marching against the employees of tho factory who insisted upon smoking, and no more praying "at" them.