LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 118, 4 October 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Persons wishing to subscribe to the prize fund to provide shooting competition prizes for the senior cadets will find a subscription list at office of this paper. A meeting of "all workers" will be held in the Town-Hall, this evening, under the ausp.ces of the New Plymouth Trades and Labour Council, when addresses will be delivered by Messrs. lleardon, Whiting, and Banfield. In urging that thwe was no need for a strike clause in the General Laborers' award, a Union advocate at the Arbitration Court yesterday, 'remarked that there had never been a strike in Taranaki. "No," commented Mr. Justice Sim, "they <are not given to' striking in Taranaki." "Tlvey are a patient people here," rejoined Mr. M. J. Hear don. It is notified in the. Gazette that the office .hours to be observed in future on Saturdays in tlije Public. Service throughout the Dominion will be from 9 fun, to 12 noon during the months of October to Miwch inclusive, : in each year, with the exception of district offices of the Customs Department, where such- arrangements as are necessary,to meet the publio convenience.will be made by the ihead of the Department. ' Mr. Jenkinson in: the Legislative Council last ~• night mentioned that it was 'the anniversary of thp transferal of the seat tof Government from Auckland to Wellington, and ho thought it was. noteworthy that Mr. Bell should be sitting where his father sat on that occasion. He congratulated Mr. Bell. Mr. Beehan endorsed the remarks. Mr. Bell, replying, remarked- that his father had opposed the transfer of the seat of Government.. The foundation stone of the Y.M.C.A. building, to be erected in Wanganui, was laid yesterday by Lord Islington in the presence of a/large crowd of people. Th» building i_s to cost £5500. Of this sum all .but £ISOO has been collected. Eighteen hundred pounds was given to'pay for the sit 9 and £750 was.-'guaranteed for administration purposes for three years. At the. conclusion of, the ceremony Lord Islington laid the -foundation stone of the new orphanage.' '

Local motorists .arc perturbed at the action -of the Borough Council in laying down a raised asplk.lt crossing at a turn in the main road opposite the Post Ofl'ice Stope, Fitzroy. The .crossing serves the dual purpose of affording pedestrians a dry passage across the road 1 and of considerably checking the-.fast., driving by motorists. If the latter'att'empt to°tako the'bend at a fast speed, they stand a big'chance of brealcing the springs of their can's. It js understood that the Oouiicil 'holds that as long as a driver of Automobile proceeds at a 'reasonable pace'his vehicle is in no danger. The motorists, - on ! tho other hand, argue.tliat even it a driver does slow &own he will receive a bump. ',.

The. stream of immigrants, arriving' in Wellington continues.". All the Home boats, which ,■ have -been' 'arriving there lately, .'have -been,,crowded in the thirdclass department, and- the, Arawa which ma die port'ypsicrijoy,• wires our Wellington correspondent, though not having so -much accommodation as some of her rpredlecessors, brought lier: fair-share. In all there were, about. 400 passengers' on the vessel, ot 'whom .all but 70 were in the third-class.' -Th» assisted inimigrarits number 12,7—!)3 .adults and 34 children. The High Commissioner approved of 53 adults and 4'children, while the remainder were nominated by relatives in New Zealand. Nine 'of the adults are dweribed! Ms farmers, 42 ; as farm labourers, ; 14 as domestics, and tihere are 0 wives, who have come to rejoin, their husbands'. The immigrant-* are described as a Tfcrv good lot, "who," : as one officer stated, "should do well in a country like New Zealand."

A good deal of interest is being taken in tihe debate on the liquor question which takes place to-night (Fridav), at 7.3fl.'in the lower hall of the Good Templar's building. The debate is a straightout'fight between State Control and Prohibition, and it is expected that some warm mix-ups will eventuate, as both sides are waxing enthusiastic over their respective systems. The following motion will toe moved by the Eev. .T. W. Burton, .seconded by Mr. G. H. Dolby, "That State Control is a better solution of the liquor problem than Prohibition." Mr. G. W. TTartnell, seconded toy Mr. G. TT. Maunder, will support the Prohibition issue. This debate is the last one of the season, and the motion is the same as .will he moved against Stratford next .Thursday, at Stratford, br the New Plymouth team. The chair will be taken by Mr. A. H. Johnston; L.L.8,, who will criticise the speakers on tooth sides.

Sportsmen who visit that little-known portion of the British Empire, the Island of Sokotra, aver that n» hunter can successfully compete on even terms with the enormous crabs that hunt on its coasts. .The Sportsman is always checkmated by the 'big .crustacean. The lagoons swarm with fish and are the resort of large flocks of duck. A difficulty in getting .any of this game lies in the presence of these crabs. The queer and hideous creatures appear to be amphibious, for they excavate tunnels in the banks of the lagoons and then lie at the dry end of the openings to watch. Travellers tell of the decidedly unpleasant appearance of these crabs. ' They are of a greenish yellow color and measure a foot across. Should a bird drop anywhere near it is at once seized and dragged into a tunnel by a crab. So it follows that when the human hunter has had a successful shot he is by no means certain to reap the benefit of it. At the report of the gun the crab appears and claims the bird; the whole of it and never a part. One sportsman dropped a big sandpiper in the water some twenty yards from the opposite bank. A crab rose from the bottom and dragged down the bird. Then the sandpiper in some way escaped and came bobbing up again. A shot was ready for his pursuer. The minute the big crab rose to regain its quarry the sportsman let it have the other barrel. Bits of crab' and bits of bird fluttered in the breeze, and on securing the mangled remains of the sandpiper it was found that the crab had eaten away nearly all the head and neck: and this in less than a minute.

At' all seasons of the vear CAMIJOC DRY GINGER ALE is welcomed. In the winter it warms; in summer it cools. It is an ideal beverage, made from the guaranteed original Belfast formula and prepared from the finest root ginger and purified water. All hotels and stores, 14

The live poultry exports from the Deminion last year numbered 2214, of the total value of £482. In addition, £4ll worth of frozen poultry were shipped to oversea ports.

"A good fanner," said his Honor the Chief Justice in Masterton, "should keep a diary, showing his movements from day to day. By this means a good deal of trouble would be avoided." The Dunedin railway officials have received instructions to lay in immediately as large supplies of coal as possible, in view of any emergency arising through the coal mines closing down if a general strike is ordered. ■

Owing to a typographical error in our advertisement re the result of the election of councillors for the Waitara riding yesterday, Mr. ,). It. Hill's polling was made to read fi instead of 8 votes. Uiis. however, in no way affects the grand totals as published, viz., J. R. Hill 130, J. Andrews !>!), G. M. Longstaff 84, the two former being duly elected members of the "Waitara riding. Advices from the Northern Territory state that one section of the American land seekers has been through the Victoria river district, and is "surprised and delighted." The Administrator (Mr. Gilruth, formerly of New Zealand) was to meet the Americans inland, and arrange a further itinerary. It is hoped to thus stimulate American immigration n«t only to Victoria (the original odjective) but even to the empty t'errit'orv.

A somewhat amusing instance of the truism that what means somcthihg else to another was cited by a speaker on a deputation to a Minister in Sydney last week (says the Herald). The speaker referred to is a chemist's assistant, and was inveighing against people who try to get articles after closing hours on trifling pretexts, which they aver are "urgent" in the extreme. '•'Why," he said, "a man came once and demanded a quantity of crude castor oil." He said it was an urgent case. "You're sure," I said, "that it's really urgent?" "Rather," he replied, emphatically, "the clutch of my motor car is creaking!" A curious infect of the very cold weather experienced in England early in August wits reported at a meeting of the Slough Urban Council. Complaints were made as to the number of street lamps that were out at night, and the cause was thought to be the unsatisfactory working of the new system of automatic controllers for lighting and extinguishing the, lamps. The surveyor, however, stated that hundreds of gnats and small flies had attached themselves, to the lanterns to obtain warmth, and that, consequently, the by-passes had became choked with flies, so that the mantles could not receive a full supply of gas.

New York's "human fly" has been "swatted" by the police. While climbing up the outside of a Wall street skyscraper for the benefit of a moving picture film company, Redman Law, who earns his living by aerial death-defying feats for the amusement of picture-pal- '■ ace patrons, was arrested. The excited crowd of spectators who' stopped to see the real thing, instead of being content to wait and pay threepence to view the picture of it, caused such a blockade that the police decided that they must remove the cause of the blockade. The rest was an unexpected tit-bit for the machine operator, who wept with real tears of joy at his good fortune in securing such a thrilling lilm. The yearly miracle of the liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius in the cathedral at Naples was accomplished last month. Inside the building the excitement was at its highest pitch, and the impatience of the congregation was such that the police, who take charge on these occasions, had the utmost difficulty in keeping order and preventing the people from rushing the high altar, where the relic of the saint, in the shape of the blood in a glass tube, is kept. At the supreme moment guns were fired and a "Te Deuni" sung. The bells pealed all over the city, and the Neapolitans, in a perfeet frenzy of joy. applauded and wept tears of happiness. . They were convinced of immunity for another year from the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius. The prisoners in the gaols of New Zealand, although they have not the advantage of a newspaper of their own, possess privileges which are not extended in other parts of the world. A few years back, through the kind offices of Mr. Edwin Arnold, the visiting Justice to the Wellington Terrace Gaol, the late Mr. Seddon was prevailed upon to make the prisoners an allowance of tobacco. The effect upon discipline was remarkable. The prisoners, it was found, would do anything rather than lose their supply of tobacco; and so a reform in the habits and conduct of the gaol occupants was effected. Mr. Arnold tells some interesting stories of how prisoners have pleaded with him to spare them their supply of tobacco. In the old days, of course, gaol life was snore congenial than at present, if the narratives of old-timers ara to be relied upon. But those days have passed. A message from London dated August 16 says:—Cold and cheerless conditions have prevailed during the past week over most of the country. In many places the temperature was abnormally low. On Wednesday at 1 p.m. it was only 53deg. at Blacksod, 55deg. at Holyhead and Nottingham, and below OOdcg. in all parts of the United Kingdom, except the extreme south-easterly corner of England. Early in the morning, however, a reading of 45deg. was recorded at the Meteorological Office at South Kensington, and it was stated that this temperature was the lowest recorded.in August since August 3, 1596, when the minimum was only 44.1deg. In certain ports of the Continent very similar weather is reported. Over an inch of rain fell in Paris on Monday, which was the wettest day for thirty-seven years, and the cyclonic disturbance which advanced slowly along the Channel on that day has passed on to Belgium and. Germany. The effect of the cold weather upon the harvest is becoming serious in several parts of the country. In Cheshire, for, example, the outlook is exceptionally bad. Since August 1 only two fine days have been experienced at Eaton. Thousands of acres of hay have lain out for just a month, and the grass is black and rotting. The grain crops have everywhere been beaten down by the gales. Fine crops of oats can be wen with the weeds growing right through them.

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