LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 148, 11 November 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rovers Cycle Club will hold a race to Waitara and back, a distance of 20 miles, on Thursdaj' week. Entries close on Saturday.

It is reported (says the Nelson Mail) that the recent falls of snow in the back country have had a very bad effect on lambing, and that on some stations a 70 per cent, loss has been recorded. The Voice of Labor thus hits out:— "There are now two classes of people at Waihi— loafers and 'scabs.' A "scab' is a man who works honestly for his living instead of loafing to get strike pay." The athletic competitions in connection with the Bayly Scholarship are to bo held at Stratford on Thursday. New Plymouth has only two aspirants for the honor this year, nominated from the High School.

The building trade in Auckland is very brisk at present (says the Star), while there is an improved demand for properties. It is anticipated that from now until the big exhibition next year there will be a strong demand for all kinds of property. The Eangitikei Advocate states that an attempt will be made to upset the recent poll atMarton at which rating on unimproved value was carried. It is alleged by supporters of the other side, that documents pointing out how to vote were circulated on the day of the poll.

Messrs. E. M. Griffiths and Co. have again donated ten guineas to the Taranaki Agricultural Society for competition at the Winter Show for the ibest two acres of swedes grown from Carton's seeds and Shamrock manure. Particulars are to he had on application to the secretary, Mr. A. Cliff.

The protruding hatpin nuisance was in evidence on the People's Day of the Manawatu Show. One aged gentleman had his face badly scratched by a hatpin which protruded quite a number of inches. It would appear as if the authorities will require to take stringent measures to put a stop to this menace to society.

Last month 52 cows, 125 bullocks, C calves, 093 sheep, 122 lambs, and 134 pigs were slaughtered for local consumption at the municipal abattoirs. Compared with October of last year the figures show an increase of i 7 cattle, 72 sheep, 7 lambs, and 23 pigs. Four cows, three bullocks, twelve pigs and one lamb were condemned. One cow and three bulls were slaughtered for export—a decrease of 20 head.

Following on the recent prosecutions at New Plymouth against two persons in the Awakino district for the alleged sale of liquor in that prohibited area, sumhave been issued against the three hotel licensees at Waitara for allegedly supplying liquor for purposes of resale in a prohibited district, contrary to the .provisions of section 14C of the Licensing Act of 1908. The cases will shortly come pn in the local Magistrate's Court.

A former butcher of Marton, who had supplied moat to a resident, and was obliged to sue for the reeoverv of the amount represented, said' in the Court that, of all the many accounts on his books the case before the Court was the only one he had had to sua for. lie did not mind wiping out deserving cases, but when a man was left £IOOO, as the defendant was, he (the defendant) should be compelled to pay for the "tucker" that he and his family ate. An exciting incident took place at the Te Puke saleyards recently. Mr. T. Tanner, junr., was in one of the cattle pens whilst a bull he was offering was being submitted, when the animal charged him, and despite his efforts to ward off the attack with a cudgel he was pinned against the fence and then knocked to the ground. Some of those present seeing Mr. Tanner's predicament, at once came to his assistance, and Mr. J. Mcßae, with a well-directed blow between the horns, inflicted with a piece of piping, brought the bull down, and enabled Mr. Tanner to escape. The affair created quite a sensation while it lasted. The following morning, as the animal was being taken from the yards, it rushed Mr. ,T. Carruth, who, however, was prepared for it, and stunned it.

Through the drowning of an old woman of 77 in a watercress brook near Rennes it has come to light that a member of the oldest aristocracy of Brittany, the Comtesse de Costere, had been reduced to earn a precarious. livelihood for many years past by hawking watercress. Her maiden named was Rosaline Lechanche, and she was possessed of rare beauty, besides being a great heiress when she married the Comte de-Costere. His financial genius was not of the highest order, and when he died his widow was practically penniless. Gradually she sank until to obtain the few pence necessary for her meagre subsistence she began to gather cress, which she sold from house to house, While engaged in getting her daily stock she fainted, and fell on her face into the shallow brook, where she was drowned in a few inches of water.

A Mexican who has just died at the alleged age of 185 has been predeceased (according to an American paper) during the past dozen years or so by a citizen of New Brunswick, aged 132, and a comparative youngster of Valley Mills, Texas, whose age was only 115. The Englishman in the street will be pardoned for thinking that the 185 had been inadvertently transposed from a cricket report. Among ex-Biblical heroes probably Old Parr and Henry Jenkins will stand as the best authenticated instances of super-longevity. The monument at Bolton (Yorkshire) records that Jenkins attained "the amazing age of 169." Jenkins was able to give evidence on oath concerning matters 140 years or so previous. As a hale young centenarian he was in the habit of swimming the Swale "with ease," and as a boy lie is • said to have taken a horse-load of arrows to be forwarded north for the battle of Flodden. IT IS THE RESOLVE to obtain the GENUINE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT which will procure for you * remedy of sterling value and will protect you from having vour health injured by one of the many eruiLa oils and so-called "Extracts" which are, passed off by unscrupulous dealers as "just as and which are, according to authenti, testimony, very depressing to the heart The GENUINE SANDER EXTRACT if! aJbeolutely non-injurious, and brings instantaneous relief in headaches, fevers, colds, bronchial and gastric affections, and its great antiseptic powers protect from future infection. Wounds, ulcers, burns, sprains, are healed without inflammation. SANDER'S EXTRACT is endorsed by the highest Medical Authorities, and is unique in its effect; purity, reliability and safety are its distinguishable qualities. Therefore, get the GENUINE SANDER EXTRACT; insist, if you have to, but get it. and derive the benefit.

The high winds and generally unseasonable weather experienced during the past few weeks have had their effect on local fruit trees, particularly plums, which will be very scarce this season.

The .succulent lettuce is not very plentiful in New Plymouth this spring. The local crops, except in isolated instances, has been a failure, and many of the shops have had to get their supplies from outside.

Some of the Canadian Cadets have with them pete collected in the course of theL- peregrinations. Thcv include parrote . :id wallabies, and involve no little troupe on the part of the bovs, who are taking them to Canada. The fine, soldierly bearing of the New Plymouth High School boys at yesterday \s parade was the subject of general commendation. The work of the troop is a credit to the officers commanding and the subordinate officers.

A meeting of all citizens interested in the welfare of the Taranaki Garrison Band will be held in the Town Hall at 7.:i0 p.m. on Wednesday, for the purpose of considering the' question of reorganising the band. Tt is of the utmost importance to residents, unless they wish to see the town without a band,'to attend the meeting. The trade route across the Andes has been resumed (says a message cahled to the Australian papers). The'railway line, was considerably damaged by a series of gigantic avalanches that followed a terrific thunderstorm. The herculean labors necessitated in clearing the railway may be gathered from the fact that in one place the-line was buried under about 0000 tons of rock.

The filobe Tavern, at Dumfries, a famous, haunt of the poet Burns, is in the market (says an English paper). Many "a rieht guid willy wacht" was quaffed by the poet and" his friends in this old hostelry, which contains many relics of the poet, including a window on. the pane of which, by means of a diamond, he wrote two verses. There is also a punch bowl, a jug. a cup, a Prince Charile wineglass. Burns' favorite chair, Mrs. Burns' work-box, and other articles. An American visitor to Dumfries recently endeavored to find out if it were likely that the pane of glass would be cut from the window and sold separately, as he was prepared to put down as many dollars as was necessary. He was immensely disappointed when informed that such an action would be looked upon as sacrilege.

Blast furnace gas has a great future before it, and any gas suitable for internal combustion engines is attracting much attention. German engineers (says Engineering) have developed undreamedof possibilities, not only in the wilder and more economical use of gas, but in the application of petroleum to engines of the Diesel type of large dimensions. The difficuitifa of removing tar or dust or other impurities seem to have been effectually overcome, and with great ease, as the combustion engine is indifferent to the origiu of the material with which it is fed, for the gas-producing apparatus is a part of the plant of every well-equipped engineering concern.