LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 71, 10 August 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Barawa last night took 150 boxes of butter and 15 .casks of petroleum to Auckland. The cases against a number of local Territorials. for failing to render .personal service will be. heard on Thursday week. J The tender of Messrs. Turnlmll and Jones, of Wellington, ha.s been accepted for metalling electric light throughout the new North Egniont hostelry. Readers of our advertising columns will notice that the Key. -\. H. Colvile, M.A is holding one of his monthly services for men only in St. Mary's Church at 3 p.m. on Sunday. The subject of the address will be ■•'Hindrances: Do they really hinder ?" "

The weekly meet of the North Taranaki Hunt Club was held at Mr Tawhanga's farm, Waihi, on Thursday afternoon. The weather was fine, *(he attendance largv, the haras plentiful, and the afternoon's run proved most enjoyable. The horses gave taste of good condition, and jumped well, and the spills wore few, so that by the time of tire Hunt race meeting, which i.s to be heM on September 10, both the mounts and their masters should be ahle to give a good account of themselves. Subsequent to the meet, the hunt partook of the bountiful hospitality of Mr. Tawhann-a Next Thursday's meet will take place'at Stratford.

The bashfulness of some young men is painful, and when they are dealing in matter* connected with their amorous affairs their actions are at times very surprising. One young man entered a certain local jeweller's shop recently, and after an awkward silence, accompanied by a blushing (it. lie asked for a watchkey. Mo secured one, but the jeweller was an observant man, and guessed that it was not for the pupose of .buying a watrh-kev that the other had entered'the shop. The salesman tactfully l«d him to the real business, which was to secure an engagement ring. •■'Do y (m know," said the bashful one. 'that'this is the fifth walch-key T have bought 1,0-dav? T .hadn't been 'game' to ask for a ring at ihe other slums!''

A shipment of 20,000 nursery fruittrees was sent recently from Now Zealand to the Argentine. Their value was put down at i'SOO.

The championship shield of the New Plymouth Defence Rifle Club has been won by Mr. If. Evans'.' Owing to some confusion in the scores, the details of the shoot are not available.

It is said that in some of the towns of the llawke's Bay the cost of necessaries of life is so higk that many people in a position to do so send to Auckland, and, after paying the extra freight, get their supplies cheaper.

The Board of Governors of the New Plymouth High School invite parents of past and present pupils and their friends to visit that institution, on Thursday afternoon for the purpose of inspecting the newly-erected boarding establishment. The Desert News, a 12-page daily paper published by the Mormons of Salt Lake City, outlines a scheme for the establishment of-a Mormon agricultural college in Svw Zealand, where it is claimed there are (1000 adherents of the Mormon faith.

The Tnglewood borough electrical engineer, in reporting to the last meeting of the- Council, suggested some alterations and necessary repairs to the electric light plant, in order to bring the plant up to a better standard of efficiency.

All the actual experience of New Zealand has merely borne out what contention, which can be derived from first principles, that the special position and the special privileges of the civil servant require that lie shall keep out of politics altogether or else get out of the service. —The Dominion.

Yesterday a further step was advanced towards providing more electric power . for New Plymouth, the mains being shifted at'the pipe-head-in order to fix the new forebay. When the extensions to the works are completed, New Plymouth will be second to none as regards' waterpower development. ... According to a traveller who has recently returned from a trip through to Mokau, the state of the road is inconceivably bad. Tn one place, he said,' the vehicle was going through mud that was washing over the bottom of it, and he had to lift his samples on to the seat to avoid their being ruined.f A Wairarapa farmer states that al--1 though many of the settlers, in'the dis- ' trict have undoubtedly suffered damage I through the recent flood, they are bonei fited somewhat by the destruction of the { deadly grass grub. Some paddocks to I his knowledge are literally strewn with ! dead insects, which have succumbed to, ( the excess of water. - '

The Union Steamship Company '.was ] established 37 years ago last Tuesday. I The company has now a fleet of 09 ve's- 1 sols, there are two more—the Xia- j gara (13,000 tons) and the Wahine (3750 j tons)—building. The' total tonnage - of the fleet, including these* two vessels, I • is-]07,270. Seventeen of the boats are fitted with wireless telegraphy. ] A meeting of those interested in the ] formation of a Veterans' Association in ! , Hawera will be held on Tuesday even- j \ ing next. There are a number of old J {campaigners in this district, and there 1 | is every reason to believe that such an association would be a boon to many who would be able to fight their battles over again around the fireside in a cosy club room'.

A romance in real life occurred in Ashburton recently, in which three local young ladies figured as the heroines. ' Jt seems that a chum of the girl's in question was invited by a man to pay a visit to' his house at Tinwald. When she had not returned home, her friends became suspicious, and, journeying to''Tin-' wald, they dealt out to the'mah a''severe' thrashing, after which'he {led'." ''They then brought the young man back to : Ashburton.

It is.an extraordinary coincidence: that in each year, a Home Rule Bill has been; introduced a great Atlantic liner 1 lists'' gone down. Thus in 1880,. the year of Mr.'.Gladstone's first Bill, the liner -Ore-'] goii foundered after collision off the I American coast; in 1893, wheii Mr. Gladstone made his second disastrous attempt | at Home Rule, the White Star steamer j Naronic disappeared with all hands; j while this year the sinking of the Titanic coincides with the introduction of- the third Home Rule Bill. ; ' : ' ,

A Frenchman went over to England to learn the language, and stayed with an-old teacher who undertook to teach him English if he would instruct the teacher iu French, After a week or two, the Frenchman found it necessary to return to France, and this English friend went to see him off. dust ns the train was moving out, the Englishman thought it would be the right thing to show the result of their studies, aiid, grasping the Frenchman's hand, exclaimedj ''Reservoir," bringing the reply "'Tanks?'

The value of the principal Xew Zealand product* passed by . the Customs' for export during July'was £940,060, the figures for the corresponding month lust year being £1,053,887. The details are aa follows:—Butter £18,160, cheese £14,845, frozen beef £38,805, frozen mutton (carcases) £120,094', legs' and pieces £1647, frozen lambs £154.677. wheat £7598, oats £42,846, potatoes £14,783, hemp £13,159. rabbits £2445, tow £1822, kauri gum £38,203, grain and puis? (other than wheat and oats) £5408, hops £ls, hides £37,571, skins (all kinds) £45,489, tallow £41,004. timber £36,727, wool £146,264,. gold ,?M0 34C

Last night the water main in Currie street' hurst. The borough authorities were notified in time, and turned off the water. Tt was found that there was a split in the 6-ineh main, extending six inches, and it was deemed necessary to cut a length of pipe out and replace it with a sound piece. The workmen engaged under Mr. T. Smith, borough turncock, completed repairs expeditiously, and the water was turned on again in the mains at 10 p.m. The, main is a east one. and has been down for thirty years, and although Currie street is a bad street underground, it proves that cast iron piping is the best for Tarannki, with its dampness and- the chemical action of the soil.

Tim services in the Whiteley Memorial Church to-morrow will be conducted in the morning by Mr. If. T. Peat, and in the evening by Rev. J. W. Burton. The evening subject is one of (lie series of other religions—Confucianism and Mohammedanism. Will the Massey Government wear well —equal, say, to the Koslvn all-wool, highgrade clothing and unshrinkable underwear, "Delta" finish? If so. X-w Zealand will have, reason to be proud of its new Prime Minister.—Advt. The peerless purity and excellence of CAMKOC had made for this Dry dinger Ale a Dominion-wide rcnutalion. ft. is "the real Mackay," and has a flavor all its own. In addition, it is as healthful a beverage as nature can maVe ij. All hotels and stores. 4 SKTX DISEASES, including eczema, pimples. lashes, boils, chilblains, ringworm, shingles, ulcers,' and old sores have their reniedv in Rexona, the rapid healer. Sold j., (, v j. angular pots at Is fid and 3s. Obtainable everywhere.

It haa been decided that second-class < railway carriages for use on hmg distance journeys will in future be pro-j vided wit-li chair scats, placed across the carriage, instead of tho longitudinal seats at present in use. There was a sheep show in Sydney recently, and several peculiar things about it appeared (o have escaped the attention of the vigilant daily press. At these show* the students at the wool class of the Technical College give a useful hand by holding ihe sheep for the judge, and so on. It is a. good idea for all concerned. "But it comes as a hit of a shock.'' remark* a Sydney weekly paper, "when the information is given in connection with this college that a couple of Japanese students are attending there, and also some. South Africans. The worker are, faxed to educate a people whom one day they may be fighting, fol life and country."

The remarkable results following the treatment of a boy with the .-ncdieinal preparation known as thyroid extract wen; communicated to a meeting of medical men in Liverpool by Dr. George Alexander Gibson. The case was that of a lad of IS years who was anxious to enter the Royal Military College at Woolwich, but who was debarred on the ground of his small stature, being an inch less than sft, the regulation height for all candidates. Dr. Gibson treated the 'boy with thyroid extract, and the latter went on growing, until at the end of six months lie had increased his height by no less than Tin. The youth gained a high place in the entrance examination, which showed, as Dr. Gibson pointed out, that the patient's cerebral functions had not been disturbed by the treatment to whieh he was subjected.

The vagaries of some of our "swattways" (says the Pa tea Press) are like the peace of God—they pass all ynd'er-. standing. The last train yarn is ahouit the richest we have heard 'for many a day. One day last week, the afternoon train south stopped at a certain flag station. There appeared to be no'reason for the stoppage, and the guard seemed to be no wiser than tine passengers. Running along from his van to the engine, he was heard to coll out, "What's the matter?" But he had' only to look to see wliat was the matter. The enterprising driver and, stoker were busily engaged trying to catch a most inoffensive rooster. After un exciting chase Mr. Rooster was collared and his neck wrung, and in triumph the sporting mechanic* returned to their engine and the- train woeeeded on its way. .What the passengers thought does not really matter. ' ' "'Chinese, physicians are popular with women in our city," said a doctor from California. "Their method of diagnosis is very .simple. A woman tells a Chinese doctor where she has a pain, anct he feels her pulse—nothing more. Then he tells her for how many thousand years his race has. understood the human body and mind. . This makes a great impression upon the woman patient,,,and she goes forth with great faith in the learned Chinese an<| the'medicine he has given her, which, is usually harmless enough, but not to be found among the remedies approved by materia medica. However, the Chinese doctors are clever, and they do effect some cures in spite of their medicine. Lay it, perhaps, to the mental effect—the subtle influence of an alien personality combined with an awe of learning outrunning the. oldest in other-countries by «o many hundreds of centuries."

A great meeting at the Albert Hall, London, on .Line 27, organised by the mistresses and servants as a protest against the Insurance Act and the.licking of stamps, came in opportunely for advertisement purposes for New Zealand. kSome 10,000 domestic servants were expected to congregate in the vicinity of the Albert Nail, and the opportunity was taken to bring the. Dominion before 'thq'ir notice. Ur. T. E. Donne engaged the services, <>/ about 20 sandwich.iueri, and seiit them ,on a general tour of" the West End, finishing'up at the Albert Hall at the time the servants were entering for the meeting. Each man had four large placards announcing ..that Now Zealand offered splendid opportunities for domestic service, giving the necessary particulars, and with the fare of .CZ M3s boldly displayed. Neat little, handbills stating that "New Zealand Wants Domestic Servants," were given away. The .scheme "attracted a great deal of attention.