LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 155, 18 November 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Tiseli Memorial Avenue is being | metalled and the official opening will probably take place in two or three weeks. During four weeks, eight persons in Whangarei were declared to be of unsound mind. They were all business men, worried by customers not paying their accounts. The committee of the Xew Plymouth Swimming Club has finally fixed upon Tuesday, December 10, as the opening night <ff the season. The Club has also decided to join the Life Saving Society. The Moa Road Board lives well within its means. Last year it did not have an overdraft from the bank at any period, and its interest account in this respect was nil. The previous year 17s Gd was paid to the bank for interest on overdraft.

An accident occurred to Mr. T. O'Dea, formerly of Opunake, but now manager of the Ballanee butter fatcory on Wednesday, when he. had one of his toes rather badly crushed by the crank of the engine, and \vas taken to the Pahiatua Hospital.

An old established firm in Dunedin received through the mail last week an envelope containing £3O in bank notes. The letter was unregistered, and merely contained a typewritten slip, containing the following words: "To replace amount stolen ten years ago, with loss of interest on it."

Farmers between New Plymouth and Opunake are very busily engaged ploughing for autumn and winter feed. The wet season has hindered outdoor operations, but despite this the quantity of land under crop will considerably exceed that laid down last season. The need for more intensive farming is evidently being realised. The total number of bales of hemp graded during October was 8870, as compared with 7340 for the corresponding month of last year, an increase of 1522 bales. For the 12 months ending October 31, 1012, the number of bales graded was 03,041, as compared with 95,000 for the previous twelve months, the decrease being 2505 bales. A naval .ivent of real importance, though apparently of complete insignificance, took place last month. This was Ih' 1 promotion of Lieutenant T. J. S. Lyne, of tho Royal Navy, to the rank of Commander. Captain Lyne was originally of the lower deck rating. He is the first Commander in the Navy to rise from the lower deck. "It would be absolutely unsafe for a doctor to travel that road at night, as he would be certain to break his legindeed even by day it is dangerous—and as I have bad inflammation of the lungs ■even Limes I can assure you thai it is no joke to be living where one cannot o-et a doctor when one is required."—Deputa uonist at the Moa Road Board meeliug on Saturday. On Thursday afternoon tho public will have an opportunity of viewing the historic colours that were presented to the Taranaki Volunteers after the memorable engagement at Waireka. The colours will be carried in procession by a colour-party from the 11th Regiment, accompanied by representatives of the Maori . War Veterans, Navy, Collegiate and Primary School Cadets, Scouts and Natives. The parade, which will be held in connection with the Central School Carnival, will be a sight well worth witnessing.

•ltsilppayors in the Moa Road District are evidently well satisfied with the manner in which the members of the Board arc administering the affairs of the district. lint one ratepayer 'beyond the actual members of the Board troubled to attend the annual meeting of ratepayer's, which was advertised to be held in on Saturday''afternoon. The busiuii was purely formal merely to pa=s the balance-sheet as audited by the Government auditor and the proceeding occupied a very few minutes. Members expressed satisfaction at the bal-ance-sheet, which for the second time in succession was minus any tap;, which cinlainlv redounds to the credit of the clerk, Mr, W. Ogier.

It lias often been said that the scenic attractions of New Plymouth would require no "boosting" if only outsiders would come and see for themselves. This is borne out. by the case of a Masfcerton resident on a visit to the town, who went out of his way on Saturday afternoon to buttonhole a News representative, and unbunli'ii himself of an eloquent panegyric about our "beautiful Recreation Grounds," "the magnificent fetretch of ocean .beach." and New Plymouth in general. Tli Hospital grounds, St. Mary's Church, and places of historical or scenic interest likewise came within the range of his praise, while, as a bowler, he considered the Xow Plymouth Club's green as pood as any lie had seen, and better —although it was a hard thing for him to confess—than that of his own town. Summed up he said that he was of the opinion that ' New Plymouth is the best piace I have ever seen in my life." and he was a man well on in years. Ilis wife he added, concurred in his opinion. "But f wish." he concluded, "that your streetsweepers would not talk so loudly in the early hours of the morning, when opposite the local hostels." The New York police have succeeded in recapturing a burglar, George Wilson, who escaped from the Tombs Prison two months ago. His recapture was effected through Wilson's returning to his old employment and committing a robbery at Atlantic City, the fashionable seaside resort in New Jersey. It seems that since his escape Wilson has been posing as a fashionable guest at one of the most exclusive hotels in Atlantic City. He has been received as such, and has made many acquaintances among his fellow-guests. One of these, a rich young lady, at dinner remarked that it"must bo one of the most dramatic experiences possible to see a masked burglar at his work. That night Wilson donned a mask and entered the lady's bedroom and robbed her at the point of a revolver of nil her jt-.wls ami money. On Saturday he called upon her and expressed his very great sympathy at her loss. The police, who had been called in by the hotel people, recognised Wilson as a man they had wanted for some time. They immediately arrested him, and found some of the gems he had stolen from the girl in his pocket. He will be taken back to the Tombs, and will have to stand his trial for this crime as well as the one he was formerly arrested for.

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Tlie water lilies in the Pukekura Park are now in flower and in a few days should present a very interesting sight. As the result of some ''sky-larking" at Bashford's Hotel, Manai.-t. J. Col tart sustained a broken leg, and after receiving attention from |)r. Milroy, was taken into the public hospital at Hawera., states the Witness.

Owing to the .Stratford Show next week, the usual monthly meeting of the Education Hoard has been put forward a day, and instead of being held on Wednesday, November 27th, it will be held 011 the precding Tuesday. The Pukekura Park Board has decided to make a new path from the Vogeltown entrance to the foot-bridge and, thence across to the racecourse for the residents of Vogeltown and district. Extra labor to carry out the work is to be put on at once.

The Warea School has this year put up a performance that, for a school of its size, would be hard to beat. It is a small school staffed by a headmistress (Mrs. Barak) and assistant (Miss Andrews). No fewer tli an eight pupils were recently sentf to Itahotu to sit for their sixth standard certificates examination, and the whole eight secured proficiency certificates. At a meeting of the Timaru branch of the Farmers' I"nioii on Saturday, a letter from the I'elorus branch asked for co-operation in carrying out a method of enabling farmers to buy and sell stock to each other without the intervention of an auctioneer or dealer, by means of a sort of registration of stock for sale. The branch considered the scheme impracticable, as the auctioneer is to a large extent the financial agent of the buyers, and iias better menus of collecting moneys than farmers have.

Mr. Harry Purser, of Wanganui, and his brother had an unpleasant experience whilst motoring through Mokoia on Friday, en route to Hawera (says the Star). They were passing some bullocks, when suddenly one of them rushed straight in front of the car and before the brother could bring the machine to a standstill the bullock had become entangled with the front lamps and radiator. The lamps and light work in front of the car were reduced to a shapeless mass, but otheiwise no damage was done.

The employees of the Xew Plymouth Harbor Board, to the. number of 1G; have decided to give the Scenery Preservation Society a half-day's work each on forming a footpath from the foot of the wharf to Paritutu. The work will be taken in hand next Saturday, and the Society are arranging with the ladies to give the men afternoon tea. The men are to be commended for this publicspirited act, which is not less worthy than the giving of several guineas by others more comfortably circumstanced to improve the town's attractions. A very painful accident befel one of the pupils of the Patea School on Wednesday afternoon. Joseph McXaughton, son of Mi'. V. McXaughton, of Whenuakura, had ridden to school in the morning on a young horse that had been shod for the lir.-It time the'day before. At the close of the day's school young McXaughton went to the school paddock and approached the horse with a view to saddling it. Suddenly, without warning. the animal lashed out with its hind feet, one of which caught the boy full in the face, smashing all the front teeth in the upper jaw, and drivinp inwards those in the lower jaw, without, however, breaking them off. An examination of his injuries showed that they were not so serious s as anticipated (i=ays the Press), and now the boy is progressing as favourably as can be expected.

Tti the course of ail after session chat with a TTawera. Star representative, Mr. C. A. Wilkinson. M.P., said "the Opunakc I'ailway Authorisation Act is. of course, sonietiiing. hut not as good as if in conjunction with a money vote. Tint the latter will come: it is now only a question of fairly easv finance, which may not he far off. The point of junction is not yet determined, and all interested will no doulit put. their best case to the Premier and Minister of Public Works when they .pay their promised visit, which should come off shortly. If would, however, be a calamity if a route fight came about. There ate five suggested routes, and four must be left. If we dispute, then there is always danger of the whole t hiiiLr being hung up. Light railways are under consideration, and no doubt something will be done shortly. Taranaki could stand several, as the transportation of produce is passing beyond the capacity of any road we can put down." Canada is going ahead by leaps and bounds, says ZSIr. Walter Hill, who has returned from a visit to Britain and America. "Xew Zealanders who have not actually seen what is going 011 there," he says, "can have little idea of the position. The tens of thousands of British and American people who stream into that Dominion every month arc completely changing the face of the country. Towns are springing up out of the prairies in alt directions. Tn a few years they have populations of from five to thirty thousand people. I met a man. a hosiery manufacturer, who has had a practical and an eminently satisfactory experience of, this characteristic of modern Canada. Tie went out 011 the prairies about ten years ago and bought some land that was then away back in the wilderness. The Canadian-Pacific railway made the place a divisional point. Saskatoon was established there, and it contains 30,000 people, while the man I met has become almost a millionaire. This is being brought about by the Government acting with the great railway companies. The work of constructing the railway lines has caused an immense sum of money to be spent. The 'principal factor in the development is the free grant of land." '"lt's an absolute disgrace to the Board that a road can be in such an abominable state so dose to civilisation —within a mile of a creamery, tfio," remarked an indignant ratepayer who deputationised the Moa Uoad'lioard on the state of,the Kaipi Road. "If other people stand it they have 110 love for their wives and families," he added wanning up, "1 have tried to get out of it, but the state of the road absolutely precludes my selling. Clients have been satisfied with the land and with the price, but the road absolutely cripples it." A stream of water, he said, runs gaily down the road 011 which he alleged that not £lO had been expended during the last twelve years; indeed, he was absolutely certain that only

£5 hud boon expended during throe years. A member pointed out that the doputationcr was only paying 25s annually in vales, and could not expect much for thai, when ho, who was paying about £4O had to put up with a mud road. This, however, drew a powerful oration from the ratepayer, worthy of a 'Waihi orator "I'll go to gaol bofore I pay any more rates, unless something is done to the road. I might as well be in prison as live down there. Ojiu would be better treated in prison any way. I'll test it. oven if my farm is sold. I've been in New Zealand all my lite. I've lived for ju?tice and," (waving his arms frantically) "I'll die for justice under the British Hag." l T rie acid poisoning in the cause of such troubles as gout, rheumatism, lumbago, and .-ciatiea. The outward application of liniments and embrocations may perhaps relieve the pain, but they cannot cure. RHEUMO is a specific which drives the uric acid from the system, and seldom fails to cure the most .stubborn tascs. Chemists and stores, 2/0 and 4/C a bottle. 45

A whale, perfect in shape and only four and a-lialf inches in length, wa& secured by the Norwegian whalers at Russell recently while cutting-up operations on a big mammal were being pursued. The diminutive whale i§ highly prized as a curiosity, and tlie whalers state that such a specimen in perfect shape is unique in the history of the industry.

"I take fits, your Worship—they grip me like electricity, and turn me round and round and over and over like anything," pleaded William Henry Dickenson, in answering a charge of drunkenness at the Carterton Police Court. "I might take one now!" he continued, and the somewhat alarmed Bench quickly convicted accused, and fined him 10s. in default 24 hours' imprisonment, before lie could illustrate the easiness with which the affliction could overcome him.

Too old at forty does not apply in Japan (says the London Daily Express). Wakao Tppel, the richest man in the province has just celebrated his 93rd birthday, did not learn to read until he was 60, nor had he begun to amass his great fortune. He was a rag-picker, and his first money-making venture was the purchase of a number of crystal balls, which he sold at an enormous profit. After reaching the age of GO he engaged n tutor, and as soon as he had learned to read, began Chinese classics, a study which he pursued until his 00th year.

It was reported recently that Mr. Joseph Fels, a millionaire soapmaker and single-tax champion, has promised a do ■ naion of £20,000 towards the cost of this year's campaign by the follower* of Henry George. Mr. Fels is a remarkable personality. "He is only a tiny man so far as physique is concerned," says the London Daily Herald, "but hj« has a big brain and a big heart, and since his arrival in England ten years ago innumerable causes, all on the side of the people, have been aided and helped bv him; poor, struggling women and men who needed a friend have found one i* him; i!n a hundred and one ways the Labor movement has been assisted financially and morally by him. He studied the problem of poverty while doing his daily work in America, and, like many others, imagined that what was needed for the poor was more opportunities for work; and at home in Philadelphia, seeing idle land within the city, and idle men within the city, he set to work to form the Vacant Land Cultivation Society, and now in Philadelphia and other large American towns gardens in tint midst of the city may be seen, the making of those gardens out of waste, idle land being the work of men and women who would otherwise be unemployed Dur- - ing the winter of 1904-5 he witnessed the trouble in connection with the unemployed in London, and by bis help ft very vigorous agitation was set on foot. He bought land at Laindon, in Essex, and let it to the Poplar Guardians rent free for a labor colony instead of n workhouse, and it still remains, to prove that men who have so fallen as to be obliged to enter a workhouse can be taught the very' best forms of gardening and farm work. He bought the Holleslely Bay estate for £32,000, lent it to the central unemployed body rent free, lent, several thousands of pounds for buying houses, and this place even now is also showing that land may be used to train. London men, and that these men, with real opportunity given them, could get their living out of agriculture. Members of the Equitable Building Society of Sow Plymouth (First and Second Groups) are notified that subscriptions will be due and payable today (Monday), at the Secretary's Office, C'urrie street, from !) a.m. to 12.30, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.. and 7 p.m. to !) p.m.— Advt.