LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 154, 16 November 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The police are enquiring for the owner of a pair of pince-nez found in Liardet street. The Rarawa's cargo for the North last night included 60 boxes of butter and 52 bags of fungus. ' James Barlow, who was arrested on Thursday on a charge of having failed to provide for the future maintenance of his alleged illegitimate child, was brought before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., yesterday, and remanded to Greymouth. Dr. Brigham, an American visitor to New Zealand, speaking with reference to Maori curios, said that when he was in, Hamburg he had seen Maori tikis being made, and these tikis were afterwards sent out to New Zealand and sold as the genuine article. The Maoris themselves bought these tikis, most of those of their own manufacture havirig either, been sold or lost.

■ The committee of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will meet .on . Monday afternoon at four o'clock. At a meeting of the committee this week the Inspector (Mr. Ralph Collins) repbrted having warned two drivers against driving horses with sore shoulders. The public are asked to note that the inspector's address is Devon street East, opposite Dr. Wylie's. Efforts arc being made to hold a provincial tug-of-war in St. George's Hall on the Show nights in February next. The proposal is that the town teams be drawn from the trades and industries, and country teams representative of the various centres and districts. The prizes will probably be £45, £lB and £9 respectively. Mr. H. Brooks is endeavouring to make arrangements on behalf of the promoters. A rather unusual case was heard at the Ohakune Court, the postmaster having applied for leave to prosecute a member of the Ohakune Borough Counoil for criminal libel contained in a letter to the General Secretary of the Post Office, Wellington, to the effect that a local Chinaman, when before the Court on a charge of sly-grog selling, had stated on oath that he had procured the liquor he had sold from the postmaster. The S.M. dismissed the application, on the grounds that the applicant had a civil remedy.

During the last five years the groat Powers have pi.t nearly £3oo,ooo,oooapart for land and sea forces. Great Britain paid approximately £20.000,000 for her army and £39,000/100 for her navy; Germany £38,000,000 for her soldiers and their requirements and £21,200,000 fqr her sailors and their ships; France £25,000,000 for her army and £15,700,000 for her navy; Russia £49,000,000 foilier land forces and £11,000,000 for her naval forces, besides £5,000,000 divided between the two. Germany, says Dr. E. J. Dillon in the Contemporary Review, set the example of increased expenditure which is literally ruinous, and will, perhaps, force on a war as the supposed lesser evil.

A beautifully spectacular event will be included iii the programme of the Central School Carnival to be held on the Recreation Ground next Thursday, in the shape of "The March of the Flowers." Under the direction of Mr. W. Lints, the 'children have already had several rehearsals. In the march'ninetysix lipys, dressed in their neat cadet uniforms, are divided into eight squads. Every boy carries a flag, the different squads being distinguished by different coloured flags. Sixty-four girls will also take part and they, too, are separated into eight companies. All the girls camwands decorated with flowers, and here again the members of each squad will be dressed to represent a different flower. The whole produces a brilliant colour effect.

The work of the flying men is no longer done in the limelight, the world having ceased to regard the aeroplane with wonder, but at intervals we hear of a feat that demands more than passing notice. Such a feat was the breaking of 'the altitude 'record recently by a Frenchman named Garros, who" placed more than three miles of air between himself and the surface of Mother Earth Garros equipped himself with an oxygen breathing apparatus and a set of' fur garments, as lie knew that the air would be rarefied and the cold intense at the height he intended to reach. He started from a. point near Trouville and reached an altitude of 0400 feet, far above the clouds, 'n ten minutes. Then he rose slowly but steadily in the teeth of a gale, with his eyes fixed on the selfrecording instruments, which told him the distance from the earth. The record was 4000 metres and Garros passed that level with his motor misfiring and his supply of oxygen running short. But he was grimly determined to place himself far beyond his competitors, and he "nursed" his machine until the indicator showed that'the 5000 meter level had been passed. A few moments later something snapped, and the airman found himself with a disabled motor, which stopped altogether when he was still more than two miles and a-half from the ground. The rest of the jour.ney had to be performed by means of a voiplane, and the aeroplane 'slid downwards like a gigantic kite, its pilot checking the speed when it became dangerous by moving "uphill" for a short distance. He passed through the clouds again at a height of about 5000 feet, and a few minutes later landed unharmed in a field. One imagines that few men would care to attack the record that is held now by the intrepid Frenchman. IT IS THE RESOLVE cr, obtain the GENUINE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT which will procure for you si remedy of sterling value and will protect you from having vour health injured by one of the many crud.3 oils and so-called "Extracts" which are passed off by unscrupulous dealers as "just as good, arid which arc, according to authanti

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Another performance „f "The 'Ucisha" will be given in the: Theatre Itoyal on Friday, November 29. The attendance at the Wangr.nui Show is estimated at 12,000, the takings for the two days being £404. A rumor is current in "Wellington that the position of Chief Commissioner under the Public Service Act will be awarded to a prominent business man of the metropolis. A robbery is reported as having taken place at Pdverdalc on Tuesday night. A thief entered the sleeping quarters of the employees and relieved one of the men of £l2 in cash (savs the 'Waimate Witness) . The Patea Pros* states that though the local Harbor Board has been in possession of a dredge (which cost £470 in Greymouth and will cost £4OOO to put m repair) lor over a year, no dredging work has yet been "done, and eonijiiainsts of the action of the Board in not obtaining the best expert advice on the question of dredging the river port ire bein-* made. °

In proposing the toast of "Fallen Comrades" at the annual re-union of the members of the Second New Zealand Contingent at Christchnrch recently, Major Fenwick. who presided, made 'a brief, but pointed speech. "Tt is fitting," he said, "that T should prouose the toast. I was only the doctor but I was with these men in camp, with them on the field and with them.when they died. I never heard a Xew Zealandcr complain and they went out like gentlemen. Also I never saw a Xew Zealander shirk; and I don't exoect to!"

The Postal Department lias agreed to extend for a further three months, from November Ist, the trial concession made m the Wellington provincial district of carrying books between public libraries and country subscribers for one penny per lb, instead of fourpence. The first trial of the scheme failed because the libraries in r,he country were ignorant of the privilege. The idea is that country libraries might procure for their subscribers text books and works of reference not usually stocked by them from the Wellington Public Library and be responsible for them while' in their charge. "It is a lamentable fact that the number of uncertificated teachers in New Zealand at the present time is greater than ever before." This statement was made by a vnembcr of the latest Royal Commission on Education at Dunedin. He pointed out that as far'as the Commission could see, the fact that four training colleges were turn lug out .200 students would not solve thv of filling vacancies with certificated teachers. It would seem that ii. the country places there are lonely ir -n who need a "teacher," a tender comrade and wife. That explains the dearth, allJu-airh there are three women to every man in the teaching profession. Mr. Albert Herpin. of Tivnton, Western Australia, is said not t>, have slept for thirty years. In an hi l "mew with a representative of the Syihu-y Morning Herald, Mr. Herpin, who is now sixty years old, stated that k passes lii's nights in a chair, not even iimmentarilv experiencing drowsiness. I!r was attacked by this strange malady shortly after the death of his wife, more than thirty years ago. Mr. Herpin states that he suffers no inconvenience from this prolonged insomnia, and often dreams while he is awake. He has come to the conclusion that sl"op i< not necessary to a man, and is deli<rhl.d at the idea that he has not lost a ".at part of his life in unconsciousness

"This case should be a v nin"- to young girls who become .it iclied, or think they become attached, '.i young men of whom 'they know hj......; or nothing," said Mr. Justice Cooper at a sitting of the Divorce Court at Auckland on Monday. In the ease in question, a young girl had married a man to whom she had been engaged for about seven months, but during the time she saw him only at week-ends. Immediately after the wedding he commenced drinking heavily, and had contimv. .1 to do so ever since. "It is almost certain," continued his Honor, "that this young mail contracted the drinking habit before his marriage, for it would be ah unusual thing for a man to start drinking to excess a few days after his wedding. Young girls should always know a considerable amount about the habits of their future husbands before ihey get married." .

The Prime Minister state! to an Auckland Herald interviewer Lli- = I a vigorous policy is to be pursued in connection with the High Commission-rs office in London. The Hon. Thos. V -,k .nzie has been given carte blanche as to improving the utility of his department. Not only is it intended to select a more suitable type of immigrant for the Dominion, but steps are also to be taken to actively disseminate facts of vital importance concerning the attractions this country has to offer both vo the worker and the tourist. More prominence is to be given to New Zealand by means of 1< >tures and advertising. Already, Mr. M sey says, several well-known colonist, have expressed their willingness to lecture about this country in the Homeland, and in other ways to co-operate with the High Commissioner. Mr. Mackenzie will himself visit several centres in England and deliver lceturss on New Zealand.