LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 58, 26 July 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Whangamomona has the mumps! The school is in consequence closed. From August 1 the train from Stratford will run on to Pohokura, instead of Te Wcra as at present.

The photograph of Mr. A. C. Fookes, Mayor of New Plymouth from October, 1878 to 1879, has been added to the portrait gallery of ex-Mayors in the Borough Council Chamber. On the information of Inspector Tippins, Daniel Murphy was fined 10s and costs 7s by Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court yesterday for having wilfully allowed his horse to stray on the public road. A deputation of young men wearing red ties and red badges waited on the Chi'istchurch City Council on Monday and asked that the Boer "pom pom" be removed from the Square, on the ground that it had "taken part in murder." The request was refused. "At Dannevirke yesterday George Wis. Wright, manager of the Town Hall Picture Company, was fined £2 and costs for promoting a lottery by disposing of real property by means of prizes given to holders of tickets in a lucky seat competition, the winners being decided by ballot. The Hawera Acclimatisation Society on .Wednesday night appointed _ Mr. ! James Steven, manager of the Clinton fish hatcheries, Otago, curator of the Waihi ponds in succession to Mr. W. Bell. Mr. Steven has been in his present position for eleven years, and comes to Hawera with first-rate credentials. There were twenty-five applications from all parts of the Dominion.

Professor W. T. Mills is to have a busy week end in New Plymouth, and the teachers, the farmers, the members of the Brotherhood, and the Labor party will each in turn have the opportunity of listening to the charm of this man's wonderful voice. Audience after audience, in all parts of the Dominion, is sent away thrilled as the Professor deals with the many topics of which lie seems to be master. The members of the Labor party and friends are urged to be in good time at the Good Templar Hall on Monday evening next at 8 o'clock. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday there was another phase of the case in which Annie Johnson, for whom Mr. Frank Wilson appeared, proceeded against Julius do Silva, represented by Mr. J. B. Hoy, on a summons for arrears due under a maintenance order, and in a cross-information by de Silva for the cancellation of the order. When the case was last before the court an order was made for the taking of de Sihra's evidence iri Wellington, on the application to cancel the order. The magistrate at Wellington refused to fix a date, holding that evidence could only be taken when the proceedings were begun on a complaint, and not on an information. Yesterday Mr. I'oy asked that an order he made directing that the defendant's evidence be taken on the original complaint. Mr. Wilson fell in with the application, which his Worship then granted. - Johnny Hayes, the winner of the Marathon at the Olympic Games in 1008, supplies'a' sensational account of tlic great race in Stockholm on July 14 this year. In a cable message to the United Press, the well-known American runner says:—"ln siich terrific heat as that of Sunday, the Marathon is a disgrace to civilisation. Seventy-five men drove themselves into a state of insanity, and only 35 were able to finish, most of them demented. The. temperature was nearly lOOdeg. The stories of the" sufferings of many of the runners and what they did in their delirium are too gruesome- to be related. One man is dead and another is dying from the heat. Lazaro died in a terrible delirium, slioir.iug,' 'I am the winner!' The doctors say he was sunstruck. Slavik. a Bohemian, was also, in a very bad .state. The American runners' stamina almost surpassed belief. There is ?. general demand among trainers and officials to abandon the Marathon altogether as an Olympic feature, or else to 'subject it to such restraints that fatalities' may he avoided."

An not of wonderful devotion to duty on the part of Mr. E. T. Mullally, a young liou3e surgeon at Ouy's Hospital, London, was disclosed during the hearing of a case at Khorediteh County Court, which had been adjourned some time ago owing to his inability to attend. It was ihen explained that for a month he was hovering between life and death, the victim of a -disease caught from a child whose life he saved under circumstances which rendered it practically certain that he would himself be a victim of Ihc child's- disease. It seems that a child was brought into the hospital suffering from diphtheria in its worst, stages. Mr. Mullally, who was the senior surgeon ; r-seiit. saw the child, and understood ai nice that an immediate operation was imperatiee. and that even a few minutes' delay might be fatal. Diphtheria in this stage i.s terribly infectious, and in the case of an operation such as Mr. Mullially was to perform the chances were a hundred to one on his catching the disease unless lie took the usual prccaiilions. It v;:*. however, a mailer of minutes. Possibly there would have been time (o fetch a mask, which eovi rs I he whole face, audi s a surep rot eat he; against; infection, and to take the other general precautions in such eases. He knew that by doing so—by waiting a few minutes-die was risking the chances of the operation proving successful, and so he decided to operate at once, well realising that he was almost bound to sudcr. lie saved the child's] ife, but he caught the disease, and u. was touch-and-go with him during a whole month. Ml!. SHAKE'S EXPERIEXCK.'

For over thirty years Mr. James Shakos has been a resident of Wellington. His shop in Manners street i* well known, and his experience will be interesting to many a sufferer from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, lumbago, rheumatie gout, stone, gravel and kindred diseases. He writes—

"During a severe attack of rheumatic gout I tried KIIKUMO. All pains loft me in twenty minutes a&ter the first dose, and by the following Tiorning all swelling had disappeared. Hearing that a friend of mine was suflcrin» - from rheumatic gout, I went up to his place with a bottle of RIIEUMO, and, as in my case, the result was a cure. I can honestly recommend PJIEUMO to sufferers from rheumatic gout; as a cure it is a certaintv."

Perhaps you have found that other so-eailed remedies—liniments, embrocations, plasters, or pills—could not cure vour rheumatism or gnut. They did not give relief, for tliey could not touch (he real cause of the suflVrimj excess uric acid in the blood. RIIKUMO is the one medicine that always brin<?3 relief. All ts and stores at 2s Odand-is Cd. 2

Owing to an important professional en-< gageincnt Dr. Home will be unable to lecture to teachers at the Technical Col-{ lege to-morrow. The lecture will be delivered at a future date. The elective members of the South Island Railway Appeal Board have given a decision in favor of Burnett (Duuedin) and .]. Young (Ohristchureh), who appealed recently against being superseded on the classification list, but the chairman of the Board, Mr, Haselden, dissents from their finding. The finding will bo forwarded to the Minister in the usual course.

Potatoes are in poor supply in Auckland at present, and prices have been higher than usual for this time of the year. The wholesale prices now rule at between £li 15s and £7 Tw per ton, while the tubers are being retailed at l'2lb or 131b for Is. In the winter months Auckland h dependent on the South Island for supplies of potatoes, and in past years ample quantities were forthcoming to ensure householders procuring them at a fairly cheap rate.

Says a message from Geneva dated June fl: —All the boatmen around Lake Constance are 'looking for the body of a wealthy German, who recently committed suicide by jumping into the lake. His widow olfersi £IOO for the recovery of the body, and yesterday a Custom House official found a bottle in the water containing £350 in banknotes, and a letter stating that the suicide offers £SO to the person who finds the bottle and £3OO to the finder of his bodv.

The new Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Hawke's Bar district expressed strong opinions at the' Ormondville land ballot with regard to his intention to put a stop to everything in the way of dummyism or speculation. "I want," he said, "to see the bona lide settler put on the land, and I shall make at my business to see that there is nothing doubtful at all about the successful applicants." To prevent complications, should anything unforeseen occur, three names were drawn in each instance, so that should the successful selector bo ineligible, th« next name on the list could be substituted therefor, and so on. A London drapery firm was recently fined £4O with £5 5s costs for applying a false description to and selling a lady's coat, which, instead of being "eolonial silk," afl described, was an artificial vegetable fabric containing no silk at all. Chemical science, it appears, has produced an article which has all the appearance, of silk to the experienced eye, but has none of its wearing qualities. A very simple test may, however, be applied. If a light is set to the material it will break out into flame and burn like cotton, for it is very inflammable, while real silk will only fizzle with a small like burnt animal matter.

For years now the comic journals have been publishing jokes about men who have mortgaged their homes in order to ,buy automobiles; and it seems possible that, after all, the jokes have been true words spoken in jest. A prominent ear dealer of Christchuroh said last week that, after a study of tho position, he ■had come to the belief that roughly £lO,000 was owing upon motor cars running in tho Canterbury province. In support of this statement, and to remove its apparent wildness, he said that if the value of the cars seen together, say, in the enclosure at Ricearton, were considered, it would be realised that very many more machines had been paid for than had been bought on credit.

"Xo one cares what becomes of his body at death, but wo all care for the ealth of the living, and in this we have the support of all sanitarians." These words, taken from the annual report of tho Cremation Society of New South Wales, embody'the ideas of the "cremationists." The committee of the society at its last meeting expressed the hope that the States would wake up and demand modern sanitary methods in the disposal of the bodies of the dead. It was further pointed out that insanitary conditions had been disclosed at Rookwood Cemetery, cofl'ms not having been buried to the depth required by law. Great hopes were felt that the efforts of tho society in the direction of the establishment of a crematorium would eventually be rewarded.

That dairying land is much more expensive in other districts than the Thames Valley was evidently the opinion of one witness at the Magistrate's Court at Paeroa oh Wednesday. He Mid that a certain block of land at Hikutaia would be worth not less than £4O per acre in any other part of Mew Zealand, and the beat half of it was worth from £BO to £BO per acre. He added-that he knew, because he had inspected the land in other dairying districts and compared it with the land in the Thames Valley. The block of land at Hikutaia in question was sold at an average priee of about £32 per acre, being £25 per acre for the lower portion and £39 per aero for the beet part (said by the witness lob« worth from £6O to £80). L'roni this it appears that dairy farms ii the Thames Valley are decidedly cheap compared with those in other ulatH Ohinenmri Gazette.

Members of the Star and Tukapa football fifteen fraternised in Cock's Diniiyroomslaat evoning to mark thecoßelusioi of the season. Mr. Drinkwater was in the chair, and an enjoyable evening wai spent with song and story. A leijthy toast list was gone through. The Taraluiki Rugby Union was proposed by Mr. Sadler, and responded to by Messrs. Page and Brabant; the "Visitors" by Mr. Diinkwator, and responded to by Mr. Pi.ge; the "Losers" by Mr. Page, aid responded to by Mr. West; "the ladies" by Mr. Sadler, and responded to by Mr. Morey; the "Referees' Association" by Mr. Sadler, and responded to by Messrs, Johnstone and Petty; the "Manager of tin; Tuka;j>a Juniors." by Mr. Martin, and responded to by Mr. Drinkwater. The toasts of the chairman and of the host (Mr. Oock) were also honored. During the evening musical items were contributed by Messrs. Martin, Plumb, James, Julian, Touhy (3), Lowe, Russell and Iline. Mr. Tunbridge presided at the piano. The hope was expressed that the function would become an annual affair.