LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 91, 3 September 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Owing to the Ngapuhi having been delayed at Oneliunga "The Dandies" find it impossible to fulfil their engagement at the Theatre Royal this evening. The company will, however, play, as originally arranged, at Stratford to-morrow night. At the annual meeting of the T. L. Joll Company the chairman remarked that fuel was becoming daily a more expensive item, and the day was nearing when they must use crude oil to spray into their' boilers if the Taranaki oilfields deTelop. < The latest use of wireless telegraphy is to engage domestic servants coming to this country as soon as their vessel comes within range. Several arrived some days ago by the Turakina, hut ladies who at once went to interview them found that others, more enterprising and up-to-date, had already secured them by wireless. '''■*' I Ten replies have been received by the Taranaki County Council from local bodies to its circular letter urging the immediate construction of the MoturoaTe Roti railway. Six were favorable to the course proposed by the Council, while the remainder of the local bodies concerned noted that the communication had been merely received. The local agent of the Northern Steamship Company has received word that the ss. Ngapuhi has been delayed at Oneliunga owing to the heavy weather. She sails for Oneliunga at 3 o'clock this afternoon, arriving here on Wednesday morning, and leaves for Onehunga to-morrow night after the arrival of the express train from Wellington. The Taranaki Acclimatisation Society have placed an order for a further supply of pheasants for breeding purposes, and the birds are expected to arrive in a day or two. With this supply the Society will have in the pens sixteen hen and four cock birds. As each hen will rear two or three broods during the season the Society hopes to be able to liberate several hundred birds each year." Last year some sixty cyclists started in the great Circular Road Race. Despite the fact that entries were fewer this year, the number promises to be easily eclipsed in Thursday's race, as already fifty-eight cyclists have arrived in town prepared to contest the race. The prizes for the race, including the Britannia Challenge Cup, are now on view in one of the H.B. windows, and are exciting considerable admiration. The following new books have been added to the local municipal library:— The Lady Next Door (Harold Begbio); Mrs. Ames (E. J. Benson); Japonette (R. W. Chambers); The Chasm (George C. Cook); Imprudence of Prue (Sophie Fisher); Odd Numbers (Sowell Ford); The Ruby Heart of Kishgar (A. W. Marchmont); Designing Fate (John Sandes) ; Sharrow (Baroness von Hutten); The Street Called Straight (Anonymous).

The following were successful at the practical examination in connection with the Trinity of College Music, conducted by Mr. Charles Sehilsky on Saturday last: Leah Corney, 71 (Miss Robson) • May Hawes, 70 (Miss Smith, L.T.C.L.).' Junior piano: Daisy Isabel Gunson, 68'(Miss Smith). Preparatory piano: Svlvia-Amy Ladner, 73 (Miss Robson); Doris Kate George, 73 (Miss Robson); Kathleen Ailsa Ewing, 08 (Miss E. Young).

The following figures show the quantity of butter in cool store at the various ports throughout the Dominion on August 31:—Auckland 2500 boxes. New Plymouth 941, Pa tea 2132, Wellington 2038. Lyttelton 297, Dunedin 034, total 8542. Total on August 31, 1911, 052. This will be the last of these returns for this winter. They are compiled from April to August, but as the butter factories are now going again, no more returns will be prepared until April next.

The weekly session of the Juvenile Temple, No. 25, was opened bv the Superintendent at 0.30 last night. Three members were initiated into the Temple The programme for the evening was set down as ''Readings," and several were given. Next week the Temple will visit the adult lodge, and the iuveniles are looking forward to a good time. A prize has been offered by one of the members ot Egmont Lodge for the best item rendered by the juveniles next week The session was closed by the superintendent at (.30 p.m.

The total value of the butter and cheese output and by-products in the, immediate neighborhood of Pahiatua during the 11)11-12 season was £130,787, representing an increase of over £ls 000 upon the total for the preceding season Ihc outlook for the ensuing season is exceptionally bright. Three new cheese lactones have been opened on the borders of the county, and all the factories that 'have resumed report largely increased supplies, compared with 'those received for the corresponding period of last vcar.

The weekly session- of the Egmont Lodge *„. 1)2, wns held m thn ° od room last evening, being opened by the - at 7.30 p.m. l>io. G. IT. Maunder gave the lodge members Bn me particulars about Missioner •Sister Miss Cnmley, who a few months, ago spent some time here, and is .™«. elating her experiences with the-fe license question in this country to the members of the lodges in the Old Country ihe secretary brought down an outline of the conditions for the recitation competition for a prize to be contested on September 30. A committee of three was drawn up to deal with the same and report The session was closed «t 0.30 by the Chief Templar. While steaming through Cabot Strait, which lies between Cape Ray and Cape Breton, in the Gulf of Lawrence, the steamer Wlmkatane, now discharging in New Zealand, had to plough her way through 300 miles of ice. The Whaka tune was then on her way from London to Montreal to load for Australian and New Zealand ports. It is estimated that this large field of ice was fully ,[ft in thickness, and the TVhakatane had to proceed with extreme caution, and at reduced speed licfore reaching the iceheld five icebergs were passed/but thov were not ot a very large size. The WhaSS! e r itf « tlu " r oml vess ''' i ° ™<* Montreal after the winter season, the i.erman steamer Zioten arriving there * day bctoro the Whakatane, thus securing the prize which is anmiallv „iven in the form of a gold-mounted walking stick to the captain of thn first vessel reaching Montreal after winter. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure 1/6 »/R A NliW HAT FOR MKV ' _ A new style of men's head gear is being shown by the Melbourne Clothin" Company and branches. The new hat is made of fur felt, with rough hairy beaver finish, and looks extremely smart. The shades are in greens and browns, •fudging by the way the new style has taken on in Australia, the hat 'is sure o have a sensational run in Xew Zealand. Just now. owing to its popular'tv and the delay in getting shipments from the Old Countrv, supplies are extremely short, and Taram:l;i residents are very fortunate in heir'" ah'" ( 0 -v\v chase from a good selection at the Melboiirne. Purchasers are e,v;,,,,| ro make an early i- i ,l!. il sil li :..|, 1 ,.; : i:1 ',,,,,',, H limited. Special window displays of these goods are bent'.' ;■<:<,],. at four stores-Kcw Plvnioni!,.' Inglewood. StraUord and Eltham,—Advt. "

As illu.stratiiiy the tremendous "holdup" of business in England owing to recent strike troubles, a Dunedinite now on a visit to the Old Country says that when ho visited the London docks he found 28 miles of railway trucks fully laden with merchandise that awaited shipment to various parts of the British Empire. It is stated Uiat every year England loses by erosion a tract of'land the size of Gibraltar, and that on the east coa*t alone the annual loss en mils in territory the island of Heligoland. In the last 100 years a portion of England equal in area to the county of London has been thus submerged. It may be added that a. similar process is going on on the east coast of the South Island of Xew Zealand. A gang of women poisoners has been discovered at Lippa. in Hungary. The leader, Fran Kapruzan, who recently contracted her fifth marriage, confessed that she had poisoned her four former husbands, and that she sold arsenic to peasant women in the village and neighborhood. As a result of this confession several women have been arrested, of whom five have already admitted that they have poisoned former husbands. The first woman wireless operator to receive an appointment is Miss Maggie Kelso, whom the Alaska Steamship Company have just placed in charge of the wireless installation of their latest steamer, the Mariposa. Miss Kelso holds a certificate of proficiency from the 'United States Naval Department, and understands emergency repairs and the replacing of broken parts. When tm .duty Miss Kelso will, it is stated, wear a blue jacket with brass buttons, a tailored skirt, and a blue cap trimmed with gold lace. According to a Southland exchange, a man named Potts is at present seriously ill as the result of a thrust from a hatpin. The young man, with some companions, was in a street in Invercargill, when some young girls passed along, and one of them thrust a hatpin into the man's body. Potts thought nothing of the incident at the time, but soon after collapsed. Since then he has been in the Invercargill Hospital, and is now at a nursing home, undergoing medical treatment. The girl who inflicted the wound was unknown to the victim. Commenting on the strictures made by Major Richardson, English expert, on the British service rifle, which was being copied in Australia and was inferior to the rifles of other natiops, and lost the marksmenship at the Olympia an average of ten points each in their matches, Senator Pearce stated that the Imperial authorities regard it as equal to any. The only thing was that the others have a lower trajectory and greater velocity. Tests were being made in England with a lower trajectory, and several had been sent to Australia for experimenting purposes.