LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 100, 13 September 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The English and American mails, via San Francisco, ex Aorangi, will arrive here at 3 p.m. to-day. A class in millinery is to be commenced at the Xew Plymouth Technical College on Monday afternoon next, at 2.30.

: The slander action in which £5Ol damages was claimed by a well-known Napier lady against another has now been 'withdrawn.

An aged Unit farmer present at the riflemen's smoke concert at Wellington said he had arrived in Wellington 32 years ago, with 7s (id in his pocket, and "to-day I am worth £17,000." The. ■Government offices throughout New Zealand will be closed on Monday, September 23rd, in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the day on which the colony of New Zealand was created a Dominion, says the Gazette. The fifth meeting of the New Plymouth Brotherhood Debating Society will be held to-night at the Good Templar Hall, commencing at 7.30. The subjest is set speeches on a famous character in .history, and speakers are allowed ten minutes for their oration. The speeches wjll be criticised by the chairman at the close of the meeting.

Mr. H. Ellis, derk to the 'Parana ki County Couneil. lias received telegraphic communication from the Under-Secretary (Mr. J. Hislop) to the effect that the proclamation relative to dividing the (Jounty of Taranaki into ridings wasgazetted yesterday; also that the Department lias consented to the date of poll (October 2). as suggested by the County Council. An officers' examination was conducted here oil: Tuesday night by the Board of Examiners, consisting of Colonel Malone, Major Bell ringer and Captain Lampen. Lieutenants Buxton (A Company), Hartnell and Arnold (B. Company), Crutch and Clarke (Senior Cadets) and Sergeant Ellerm (B. Company) sat for their commissions. The Board's report was forwarded to headquarters, and the results will, therefore, not be known for some little time. .

In the Magistrate's Court yesterday mjrning John F. Hooker pleaded guilty to having driven his express on the lootpath. The defendant said that he had only driven partly on to the path, in order to make room for the .riders in the Circular Boad Race. Under the circumstances, the Magistrate merely convicted and discharged Hooker. For carelessly riding a horse in a crowded street, Charles -Coleman was fined 10s and costs. The informations were laid by Inspector 'Pippins. A.first-offending inebriate was mulcted in a penalty of 10s and costs (7s) for having driven a horse and gig through the town on a Sunday afternoon while drunk.

Quite a crowd gathered in front of Mr. W. Eraser's chemist shop yesterday morning, their attention being attracted by the crash of falling glass. The big plate glass window, the weight of which was nearly three-quarters of a ton, had been cracked by the wind recently, and it was found necessary to cut the glass into two sections, so that it could be more easily removed. The top piece was being lowered, when, without any warning, it slipped from the frame and crashed on to the pravement. One of the workmen was unable to got clear of the falling glass, and as a result had one of his fingers rather badly cut, and a. leg severely bruised. He was quickly attended to by Mr. Fraser. Fortunately for the workman, the glass fell perpendicularly, for had it fallen vertically the accident in all probability would have proved serious.

Compulsory military training hits some country youths hard, if the story disclosed at (ho Magistrate's Court at Inglewood yesterday may bo taken as a criterion. A lad named John Burr was summoned under the Defence Act for failing to render personal service, in that he did not attend the annual training camp at Waverley on May )fi. Asked why he had absented himpelf. the defendant, a sturdy looking boy, replied that at the time he and his sister were tlie only ones at home to attend to their parents' farm. Night and morning they left lo convey the milk to the factory, had to milk twenty cows, and it was left to him to convey the milk to the factor}'. His three brothers were away working at. Taiunarnnui. while his father and mother were too aged to do the heavy farm work. Under the circum-stan-es he could lint possibly have attended the camp. The presiding Magistrate (Mr. Kenrick. S.M.) commented that the law could not. discriminate. Defendant should have enraged someone to take his place during his absence. He had al<o been very lax in his af tendance at parade. The milking could not be raised a~ an excuse for this lapse. The boy rejoined Ibat ploughing operations had prevented him from drillin". I'll indicting a fine of Zi with cos(Ml-N (id>. the Magistrate remarked that he before long the Act would be amended so as to subslitute military detention at n training camp for fourteen days in place of fines. Tie was convinced V.r-.-r could have attended the camp had h:really tried.

'"Loudon," Mr Chauncev Depew says, "is the only capital that recognises distinction in every line of human endeavor. If a dustman is a poet he is received in the drawing-room of a duke."

A railway porter named Walter Cordon was presented last night by tlw Mayor of Hastings with -the. Royal Humane Society's silver medal and certificate, in recognition of bravery displayed in saving life at Hastings railway station on May 2 last.

There were two casualties in the Taranaki-Canlerlnuy football match at Stratford yesterday, Hawkins- receiving a severe blow on the jaw, and Tinney dislocating hits elbow. The accident to Tinney happened while he was jumping a fence after the ball.

The new dock at Immingham, just opened by the King and Queen, cost ,-Cl,500,000, is 1000 acres in extent, and capable of enlargement. It will take ithe largest ships. Its construction, due to the increased trade of Grimsby, is Wie work of the Great Central Railway.

Mr. Carter received a telegram last night from Mr. H, Okey, M.P., Wellington, stating that two drillers for the Taranaki (N.Z.) Oil Wells, Ltd., named Mayner and Mc.Leod, had arrived by the Aorangi, and would be coining on to New Plymouth by the mail train on Monday evening.

The eighteenth week of the Waihi strike commenced cm Monday, and the seventeen weeks of idleness has involved the loss in gold output from the district mines of approximately £245.000. The decrease in the yield from the, Waihi Company represents quite; £195,000, and from the Grand Junction £70,000, while the loss in wages has been fully £BO,OOO, divided between the townships of Waihi and YVaikino.

Hauraki Plains lands, reclaimed through the draining of the Piako Swamp, are already turning over at big profit. Says the Thames Star: —A settler took up some land at Pipiroa some time aSO at £!) 10s per acre, and recently disposed of it at the rate of £2l 10s per acre. It was 110 haphazard speculation made by a man who did not know tin; value of'the land. It was purchased by a practical farmer who has had two .years' experience on the land adjoining, and he considers that lie has made a satisfactory bargain at the price he bas paid. 1 Owing to the high price ruling for copper, (which has advanced from £65 to £Bl per ton during the last few months) aluminium cables are to be used in the installation of an electric plant at Te Kuiti (states the Auckland Herald). It is said, too, that the Government is, for the same reason seriously considering the advisability, of using aluminium transmission wires in connection with the Lake Coleridge scheme. Aluminium cables were used at Rotorua when the electric plant was installed, but that was on account of the fact that the sulphurous fumes in the air quickly deteriorated the copper.

The salary of the President of the United States is now 7-5,000 dollars a year (£1,5,000). When Cleveland was President be was paid 1100 dollars 00 cents a month. So accurate is the Treasury system of book-keeping that the salary cheque of the President was drawn for 4100 dollars 60 cents one month, and 4106 dollars 07 cents for the next two months. At the end of the term it was found that there was still due to President Cleveland the amount of one cent, so a cheque for that amount was drawn in his favor. That cheque- has never been cashed, but is one of (he souvenirs of the Cleveland home in Princetown, New Jersey.

The duoear has not yet arrived in New Zealand, but according to a writer in an I'higlish motor journal, it is the vehicle for the million in the future. Consisting of a liltle chassis made of cycle tubing, with cycle wheels an.', engined with \i small motor of moderate power and seating two persons, it is practically a motor cycle and side car in one. There are a good many of these in use in England now, and' when the price comes down to somewhere between £6O and £7O complete, perhaps even lower (ban this can be managed, we shall probably, according to an English authority, again see this form of motoring almost superseding the motor-cycle.

For some time past the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce lias been working up a Parliamentary rally there. The idea originally was to take members to Wanganui by the Hinemoa or Tutanekai. but it lias been found that the Marine Department cannot spare either vessel. The rally was to have taken place this week-end, but has been postponed till next week. An endeavor is being made to charter a special train, so that legislators can arrive on Saturday morning. Saturday, Sunday and Monday will be devoted to motor tours of the big inland district and an upriver trip, with a banquet on Saturday night. The business p- ople have taken the matter up most enl.husiastically, and Parliamentarians are as.sjired of a jolly time, with none of t)i.\ usual formal deputations.

The appointment of Lord Haldaiie to succeed Lord as Lord High Chancellor is the actual realisation of a great lawyer's boyish ambition. It is no secret that the man who has', during the last six years, performed wonders in the reorganisation of England's army maikeil out the Lord Chancellorship for himself while lie was a student .at a Scotch University. It was suggested, when rsir Henry Campbell-Bannerman formed his Administration, in 1!)05, that Air Haldane. as he was then, should be Lord Chancellor; but "Bob" Keid, as Lord Lorebiini iV still known to his intin:a!"s, in spite of his elevation to the peerage in 1900, was chosen, and Mr Haldane went to the War Office. By taking Lord Loreburn's place on the' Woolsack Lord Haldane ei'tins the highest and most coveted of legal appointments. He exchanges a salary'of £f>ooo, which he. received as War Secretary, for one of £IO,OOO. and a yearly allowance of .OHIO whenever he is out of office. With the exception of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who receive £20.000 a year, he is the highe-t paid member of the Cabim I. His office i- one of great antiquity and power. It dates back many centur- '''•"• ' ll "l Ihi' Chancellor, if ,i. baron, takes, precedence of everv temporal lord not of the l.'oyal fa.,.IK and of all bishops, except the Arch!"-hop of ,'antcrburv. An enormous amount of patronage, both judicial and ecclesiastical falls to the Lord Chancellor, who. in addition to having the appointment of all judges (except ' '■!''!' ■!r-!>-.) and all the justices of ih:' peec.-e throughout the. kingdom, is also ihe ..a'.-on of ;l h ,•;;,' number of Crown livings. IT IS voisoLVJE <^-^' la '" 1 iV ' (;!?lT,JlN '''' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT whirl, <"\\] procure for you a remedy of starlit-: v ;l li!f ami will protect yci from hjvin;r voitr health injured by "»e f 'f lh" ■<>■■'■■ '"'''(' .> (.-is and so-called "Infracts" whi.-ii v." pa-ed off by unscrupulous d-V "-. as lust ati hoo<1." avi'. l which are. . ci-'oriling to authentic tt-aii'a.ai-. - r. ■:■ .- -■•.:-,.>■ lo Hie heart. The CENT IX i'l SAXmri; EXTRACT is nb-.ii'My >'.. -j- : ji : -■. w,m■.. ;,,;,! brings in-'■l-i : .',n--o-'- •■■' •" 'n ].'..aila.'hes, fevers, <(-.!<- 1>!. ••1--1-"-- ■ ".' ''slrji' affections. "a I its ;-:■:(I ■ powers protect f;\a : in! i:r "■ ■■ '."oiind o . ulcers, l-urii' . f- ■■■:■■ ■ . I without, in(l':: '''■•. "■ '■' - : ' ' EXTRACT is ci'.'.'V-.'d '' " ■ . -.-i 'V.'Val Authoriti--. ■■■■■'' '■■''■ -'■'■■■ purity, !''''■ '■ ':'•'■ " e I: - il;stininiisli"l-' ■ ■ ' ,;;; '" -. "-t tiie'trrxr; ■';; ■"■ ■ r l ' rr : in°.;,'t, if ■■ ■■■ '' ' • ■'■'.' derive the fceiH'fit-

The Melbourne Spectator of August 23rd says: "Erince Dikran, an Albanian who was exiled for taking a leading part in a revolt against Turkish rule a few years ago, is at present in Victoria, lecturing on his ('(inversion from Mohammedanism to Christianity." When touring the United States in February he professed to lie on his way to Chicago to study medicine. In New Zealand a few weeks ago he claimed to be a duly qualified medical graduate of Beyruth College, and asserted that he intended studying for two years at a Dunedin University. There is an excll?nt market for coal at the present time, hut the mines find the greatest difficulty in being able to compete with the demand. Labor is hard to obtain and difficult to manage. When the output from the mines is good, there is a scarcity of shipping, and when shipping and labor are both"-plentiful the bar is bad. When labor is plentiful, agitations nil, shipping plentiful and the bar good, then the millenium will not be far distant. Such was the opinion of a local coal company's representative when speaking to a Grey River Argus 'reporter last week . Not onlv had the Turakina, which arrived in Welington early on Saturday | morning last, a big mail (says the New I Zealand Times), but it was the largest that had ever been handled in the Dominion, ft broke all records for sheer quantity and numbers. The oversea boat brought no fewer than 1030 (receptacles for New Zealand. The mail matter was so bulky that it was found necessary to engage outside accommodation, the Wellington Harbor Board granting the postal authorities the use of the IJ shed. It appears that the recent dock strike in London was the cause of a tremendous accumulation at Home of these mail receptacles, which got free in time to catch the Turakina on this, her latest trip. Thus the Auckland Herald:—The tim» has evidently not yet arrived 'for regarding strikes as a thing of the past, but undoubtedly the time has arrived for enacting that irresponsible officials shall no longer disturb industry by dragging unions into industrial conflicts without the expressed and definite determination, expressed by secret ballot, of the men actually involved. It is also time that boycotting, threats, and vilifications intended to prevent workers from following their lawful occupations, should be 'brought under the Police Offences Act. so that prompt and effective steps could bo taken to assert the authority of the law. Moreover, any legal recognition of unions organised outside the Arbitration Act should cease. Harry K. Thaw, the voung millionaire, ■Who killed Stanford White on the Madison Square Roof Garden in the summer of 15)00, and was committed to the State /nsane Asylum as a hopeless paranoic, lias just been recommitted after another attempt to prove that he had recovered his sanity. The Court'decided that his discharge would be dangerous to public peace and safety. A statement of the cost of Thaw's defence and fight for freedom is as follows:—First trial, 1007, 200,000 dollars: second trial, 15)08. 150,000 dollars; first hearing. 11)08, 05,000 dollars; second hearing 15)00, 50.000 dol-l-.irs: third hearing, 1!)12. 75.000 dollars; incidentals, 100.000 dollars; C. W. Hartridge (expenses), 103,000 dollars; to Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, 70.000 dollars; paid detectives, 50,000 dollars; expenses, Thaw's mother, 100,000 dollars. Total, 963,000 dollars. One of the reasons —only one, however, —why things are on such an inflated level throughout the civilised world is the plentitude of gold. In 1001, under £13,000,000 was minted in the British Empire, and Australia and Canada minting accounted for nearly £10,000,000 of that sum. Next year £18,500,000 was minted, and the year after that £21,000000. A drop occurred in 1005, but it was more than made up for the year following. In 1907. again, over £3'] .000.000 was minted in the Empire, and in that year the colonies struck but a third of the total, the London Mint accounting for over £20,000.000. In 1910 the minting* were unusually heavy, London, Ottawa, Sydney. Melbourne* and Perth minted 'C;I5.101.500 worth of gold, London accounting for the tremendous output of £24.050,500. It is always possible to tell where « Uritish gold'piece was minted, but it necessitates using a magnifying glass or, for preference, a lens. Just above the date there will be seen a raised letter, S, for Sydney, M for Melbourne, and P. for Perth. * Imperial coins struck at Ottawa bear the letter O. The unhappy condition of the Australian blacks was referred to by the Kev. O. E. Lefroy, in a speech i'n Adelaide last week, lie said that between 75,000 and 80,000 aborigines, according to moderate calculation, still survived, mostly in the northern part of the continent. Would the Australian people sit quietly by and watch them being swept along to their doom? The great majority of the community had no conception of the awful wrongs which aborigines had suffered at the hands of some white men. Some positive cruelty and callous neglect were being continued in the far-off and remote places right to the present time. There could not be a greater mistake than to suppose that it was all a tiling of the past. He referred to the famous report made only seven years ago by Dr Roth to the West Australian Government concerning the treatment of aborigines in the north-west of that State. Dr Roth's report had revealed, among other deplorable circumstances, such terrible perversion of justice by the police that even up to the present time the Government of West Australia had not dared to make the report known to the Australian public, but he believed that the general lot of the aborigines in the Northern Territory had been just as bad. only less was known about it. As to Queensland, the treatment meted out to the blacks in that State had been the worst of all.