LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 146, 7 November 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thore will be family bathing at tile municipal baths this afternoon, weather permitting from two to four.

The social to mark the closing of the session of the Brotherhood will be held in the Good Templar Hall on Tuesday evening next. A good musical programme is being arranged and supper will be provided. Mr. W. R. Wright (Rahotu) writes:— "Kindly correct the report in your Saturday's issue that Shorthorn bulls sold at 101 and 138 guineas. They were Holsteins belonging to a leading Holstein breeder, and the bull sold at 138 guineas goes to Oaonui. Yesterday was the fifty-second anniversary of the Battle 'of Malioetahi, where Mr. F. Brown, brother of Mr. H. Brown, of Inglewood, amongst others, laid down his life for his country, being sliot by a rebel in the crowning moment of victory.—lnglewood Record.

The following amounts have been paid to the credit of the Taranaki County Council by the Treasury Waiwakailio Road District subsidy £!)!) lis 4d, Oakura Road District £145 14s 4d. Mangorei Road District £72 3s Id, Henui Road District £lO 14s 2d, and outlying districts in the county £438 12s 9d.

Tile Town Clerk (Mr. F. T. Bellringer) yesterday received telegraphic advice fvom Mr. H. Okey, M.P.. to the effect that the Minister of Defence has consented to put on a special train at New Plymouth on Monday night to convey the Canadian Cadets to Wanganui, providing Mr. Bell ringer can make arrangements with Wanganui for the cadets to stop over New Plymouth that day.

Wanganui has recently fallen into a had habit of allowing its tram-care to be disfigured with large picture-show posters. Flicker advertisements make blood-thirsty reading at the best of times, but a News reporter in the River City yesterday thought it was rather over the odds when he saw a car emblazoned with "The Platform of Death." People of a superstitious nature would probably wait for the next car!

_ Australian mails ex Manuka at Wellington will arrive here to-night.

The Park Lawn Tennis Club will, given fine weather, open its season this afternoon.

Our Wellington correspondent telegraphs that the Supplementary Estimates include a vote of £546 by way of subsidy to the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. It is also provided that the salary of Magistrate is increased from £550 to £575. Says the Masterton Age:—A visitor from Taranaki states that the past few seasons have been phenomenal from a dairying point of view. The farmers have done so well that they hardly know what to do with theijr money. If such is the case, Taranaki may well be called the "Garden of New Zealand." ' A sensation has (says the News) been caused in a Wairarapa town by the alleged defalcations from the Railway Department's funds by a well-known railway clerk. It is further 1 alleged that since his suspension from duty pending a departmental enquiry, he lias disappeared from the locality. A cable to the Sydney Sun states that SOO English pilgrims, headed by the Duke of Norfolk, England's leading Roman Catholic nobleman, have been received in audience at the Vatican by the Pope. The .Duke, on behalf of the Catholic Union of Great' Britain, read an address, assuring his Holina r, s of the Union's fidelity and devotion. In a case, at Melbourne last week, Mr, Justice a'BeCkett decided that conditions in a will in-general, restraint of marriage are void. The decision was in respect tb a case in which it was sought to show that the woman to whom certain. property had been left, had forfeited her right to the property, as, contrary to a provision in the will, she had married. His Honor agreed with the defence, that tie condition in the will against the woman's marriage was contrary to public policy. A writer in the Animal World, discussing the existence of the sea serpent, points out that gigantic cuttlefish exist whose tentacles sometimes attain a height of 60ft. In the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, for example, is the portion of a tentacle covered with 300 suckers, which must, when complete, have measured at least 36ft. A cuttlefish swims backwards, with its tentacles training after it in a straight line. A giant cuttlefish, swimming in this manner on the surface of the water, might easily be mistaken for a marine serpent.

At the annual meeting of the New Plymouth Swimming Club, the balance-sheet showed a debit of ISs 2d. Officers were elected as follow:—.President, Mr. W. J. Williams; vice-presidents, Messrs. J. Smith, T. Furlong, junr., and G. Tabor; club captain, Mr. 1 C. Brown; vice-captain, Mr. G. Hawkins; lion, secretary, Mr. G. Tabor; hon. auditor, Mr. Iv. Webster; club handicapper, Mr. W. Lints; delegate.to the centre, Mr. F. Turnbull; committee, Messrs. W. Lints, C. McAllum, J. Stohr, W. Whitaker, J. Haldane. Mr. W. L. -Newman was elected a life member of the club. Messrs, G. Tabor and H. Stocker intimated their intention to present gold medals for competition amongst members. Mr. Tabor's medal will go to- the life-saving event. The committee has decided not to open ,the season until the weather- gets warmer. The Borough Council has issued a neat little circular, setting out in attractive form the time-table and particulars of the municipal hot and cold salt water baths. The baths have lately been renovated throughout, and special facilities are offered to those desirous of learning swimming, private instruction being imparted for a nominal fee. The baths, are open from 5.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. from October to March (inclusive), and from sunrise to 5 p.m. during the remainder of the year. There is a large and commodious refreshment room, where morning and afternoon tea can be had. This is, if residents only realised it, a great boon to pieknickers on the beach. As to the hot salt water baths, testimonials have been received from local medical men to the effect that they are invaluable to persons suffering from muscular rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, lumbago," nervous debilitv, and the like.

Owing to the brakes not having been properly adjusted, a motor car ran away in Devon street yesterday morning, ft had been left standing on the hill near the Post Office, and suddenly it began to move backwards down the 'bill. Oppbsite Southam's tailor's shop it collided with a milk-cart. During the "mix up" the car was backed across the footpath, shattering Southam's .sign-post, and then the horse got away, one of the shafts of the milk-cart having been broken in the meantime. The horse galloped along Devon street, dragging the cart with the milk cans behind it, but was stopped at the corner of Currie-street. The motor ear, which belonged to a Maori, received very little damage beyond one or two twisted mudguards and a broken lamp, and _ the damage to the milk-cart, belonging to J. Lobb, was confined to the ■broken shaft. The horse received a number of bruises. A Maori woman nursing a baby was sitting in the motor car at the time of the mishap. The popular sixpenny magazine Life —the best-selling magazine in Australasia—has decided to conduct a series of simple yet entertaining Prize Contests, based on current topics, and open to all readers. Each month a new contest will be announced, and each issue of Life will contain the best answers of recently judged contests, so some capital reading is in store for readers. Pull details of Contest No. I—a Cricket Question—appear in Life for November. It deals with the Australian Eleven, just returned from England. A clever drawing'bv Nuttall is given, showing a telegrapli messenger delivering a message from the noted "Six"—the players who were dropped out of the team by the Board of Control. If you had been one of "The Six," what message would you have sent to t'he Australian Eleven on its return? asks Life. In addition to fifty pages of timely departments devoted to sport, books, invention, and current affairs, Life contains many fine illustrated articles. Sixpence will buy November Life anywhere a splendid Australian magazine of 144

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