LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 180, 17 December 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rarawa will „ot sail from One ll »>8» on the 2511, December or ?lan2i"v 1. consequently there will be no boal SthH W , P ' ymonth for North on th 20th December and January 2. €,Ve,KU],g €,Ve,KU], g ™tive inebriate was fhe AT y /?y ,Ctl ' <l ftml Charged "' Sl ? P f ? th ° C ° St of the cab hi " inclined in his removal to the lock-up. "Fifaroy Resident" writes :-"Whose duty is it to fix up water tans? Should not an examination be made of the different taps? I am certain that a lot of valuab o water is running to waste through defective taps." Pukekura Park suffers from the depi edations of animals, four-footed and two-footed alike, luit few would have thought it necessary to make provision against damage by the feline species, lot this is the case. These nocturnal prowlers have lately taken to scratching and seriously damaging, the trunks of the young puriri trees. Now they have a toot or two of wire netting,' which has been placed around the foot of the young trees, to exercise their claws upon. That the germs of disease can be carried by letter is a well-known fact. It was demonstrated only recently in New Plymouth. A local gentleman received a letter from a friend in Canterbury who had written it whilst in the throes of a severe bout of the "flu." Two hours afterwards the first symptoms of the trouble began to manifest themselves, and the illness that followed was exactly of the type with which his southern friend was afflicted. Previous to reading the letter, he had been in the enjoyment of exceptionally good health

The tea rooms and bathing shed in the Pukekura, Park have just been painted as a generous donation from Messrs. Cooper Bros. By virtue of an Order-in-Council, including the remaining portion (some 25 acres), of the St. Aubyn Town District, in the Borougn of New Plymouth, which has now been gazetted, the Borough Council has now taken over the whole 'of the administration of the town district, including loan and ordinary work, and the collection of rates.

The recent dry spell, aided by the heavy traffic, is having its effect on the Main South Road, which is cutting up considerably, especially in the Egmont County. In many cases the metal has be'Jn ground to powder to be gently distributed over the surrounding paddocks, and ultimately over the ordinary pedestrian, when raised in clouds by passing motor cars.

ess Esher's house near Grosvenor-square on any afternoon you may assume that Viscountess Falkland, Lady Helen Brassey, Lady Altamount, Lady Duckworth, and even so many more of the.bluest of blue blood are grouped around the kitchen range wrestling with the mysteries of fried lish, liver and bacon, and sausages and mashed potatoes. Whether this choice of viands is due to the new democracy or to the comparative ease of cooking deponent sayeth not. Up till Saturday last, says an Auckland telegram, the total amount placed to the credit of the Clyde Redshaw Relief Fund came to £1242 10s. Several lists are still to come to hand, so that the grand total will be close to £ISOO. The response made to the appeal by .the school children of the Dominion has been magnificent, schools from Capo Maria to the Bluff having contributed to help the little fellow who lost both hands in a railway accident several months ago. Of this total contributed no less than £025 3s has come from the pupils of New Zealand schools.

There will be two breaking-up ceremonies in connection with the Central School this year, and owing to other fixtures in the town it has been decided to curtail them somewhat. The children attending the Courtenay street school will receive their prizes in their own school room at 1.30 p.m. on Thursday, while the distribution to Central School scholars will take place -in the Good Templar Hall at the same hour. We are requested to state that parents and friends will be cordially welcomed at both places. The presentation of prizes in connection with the Technical College will take place at the College at 2.30 p.m. on Friday. The West' End ceremony will be held in the schoolroom on Thursday afternoon. The Egmont Lodge, 1.0. G.T., met last evening in their Lodge room. The holidays are beginning to be felt in the attendance, but not in the enthusiasm of those who do attend. Bro. L. Peppcrell opened the Lodge at the usual hour, and the formal business was transacted. The minutes showed that the Dutch auction held last week was quite a success. The secretary intimated that he would be away at Christchurch for some weeks, and requested that a substitute be appointed. Bro. G. Maunder was so appointed. The progiamme for the evening was musical with, additions. Brother Boulton gave a piano solo (encored), Sister B. Connett a recitation, Miss Butler a song (encored), Sister I. Connett piano 'solo, Miss B. Butler recitation, Mr. Blank a song, Sister Rusden song. Then daintly served refreshments closed the evening's entertainment. "It is a reflection upon our literary taste," remarked the Rev. J. W. Burton in the course of a sermon on the Bible-in-schools question on Sunday, "when we put into our schoolbooks, "We are Seven,' and leave out the twenty-third psalm; it is an outrage upon our deeper instincts when we prefer the 'Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington' before the fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians; it is literary degeneracy which places Macaulay before Isaiah, and gives the drama of King Lear, while it leaves out the sublimest piece of literature in the world—the drama of Job. Nothing but the best is good enough for our children, and because much of that best is in a Book that men have quarrelled over, is that a reason why young and developing imagination should be cheated of its most glowing inspirations?" The Stratford Post says:—There is a possibility that the Stratford-Te Koura railway may yet not run through the Tangarakau Gorge. Mr. Stewart, assistant engineer of the Public Works Department, is now engaged on a trial survey, and it is hoped that a more favorable route than the one originally proposed may bo obtained. The track, now thought feasible, would run from where the Raekohua river joins the Tangarakau river, and across into the Heao Valley. Should the trial survey confirm the hopes of the -departmental officers, an immense saving will be effected. Quite apart from the initial cost of constructing two or three viaducts, and several tunnels ranging up to one and a-quarter miles in length, all of which face the engineers in the construction of the line on the route at present proposed, the cost of maintenance will bo enormous. On the other hand, the route now suggested appears, on a cursory examination, to offer no extraordinary engineering difficulties. It would be rather longer in mileage, and many short bridges would be necessary, but these would fade into insignificance beside the obstacles presented by the Tangarakau Gorge itself. Fascinated by Olympe Lajcunesse. a Canadian who taught her skating at a fashionable Parisian rink, pretty Mile. Marthe Moddled consented to elope with him, although lie was married and 15 years her senior. The couple,went to Montreal, Mile. Moddled taking with her £l2O, which she found in her father's writing desk, and all her mother's jewellery, worth about £SOO. Seventeen months passed, and then the girl wrote that she was willing to return home if her parents would send her £4O. The sum was duly forwarded, and Mile. Moddied duly returned to Paris and with her the "professor" of skating. When M. Moddled learned of the Canadian's presence in Paris he had Olympe Lajeunesse arrested on a charge of complicity in the theft of Mine. Moddled's jewellery. The trial has just taken place, and although Olympe pleaded that he believed the jewellery was Mile. Moddled's property the Court sentenced him to four years' imprisonment. During the hearing of the case an impassioned letter from Mile. Moddled was read, in which she declared that she would never marry anyone but Lajeunesse. It appears that he endeavored to obtain a divorce in America, but was unsuccessful. IT IS THE RESOLVE co obtain the GENUINE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT which will procure for you a remedy of sterling value and will protect you from having vour health injured by one of the many eruia oils and so-called "Extracts" which are passed off by unscrupulous dealers as "just as and which are, according to authenti testimony, verv depressing to the heart The GENUINE SANDER EXTRACT is absolutely non-injurious, and brings instantaneous relief in headaches, fevers, colds, bronchial and gastric affections, and its great antiseptic powers protect from future infection. 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A Sydney cablegram states that tlu British tennis team left for New Zealand last night by the Marama. ■The milk cheques for the month are: —Ngaire Co-operative Dairy Company, £3/51; Lowgarth, £2092; Cardiff, £2102; and Stratford, £oooo—Post

As a protest against the action of the education Board in declining to submit the names of more than one candidate tor a position on the teaching staff, the Napier Main School Committee resigned in a body. "

Ike New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Otaki arrived in Waitara roadstead on Saturday, and the loading is being proceeded with. The cargo is a lar<ro one, and, it will b e Wednesday before everything booked fe got on board. Wool will run into 1000 bales.—Mail. Air. W. T. Jennings informs the Waitara Mail that he has known of the existence of Hie waterfall talked of as being recently discovered in the Tangaraku, for many years. It is up Matiere way, and can be reached by taking the Ana-Kaeaea road, passing Messrs. Hunter and McFadden's homestead. The aristocratic ladies of England (states the Kan Francisco Argonaut) are turning their gossamer intelligences in the direction of cookery. Viscountess Esher is the pioneer in'the new movement and her own kitchen is the schoolroom, If you should happen to see a Jine of automobiles outside ViscountThe Petone Borough Council has received word that the well-known firm of Messrs. Lever Bros., soap manufacturers, have definitely decided to open a factory in Petoue. The firm have completed the purchase of. three acres of land on the western side of the railway line, just at the foot of the Koro Koro Road. Messrs. Lever Bros, will cmplov !a large number of men. A Duuedin telegram state,? that at the annual meeting of the Union Steamship Company the chairman intimated that the directors had under consideration proposals for an increase in the capital to provide fully for the company's extending business. If they moved in this direction the opportunity would bo taken Ito permit an alteration in the memorandum and articles of Association, to bring them up-to-date. The attempt made by the Methodist people of the Papahoctoc district to build a whole church for themselves in one day was successful, for during the hours between dawn and darkness on Saturday a fine little building was erected, and, in a major sense, completed ready for the first service, which was conducted by the Rev. W. Ready on Sunday morning. Work was started at daylight and completed by gaslight in the evening. All the work excepting the plastering and some of the plumbing was given free. As it is, the building will now cost some £4BO. It will be used as a hall on we; k days, for the congregation wishes to swell its fund to pay off the debt.

In regard to the cable message having reference to the seizure by bailies of Kubelik's violin in satisfaction of a claim by Mr. Hugo Gorlitz for £1250, it appears that the claim was for moneys alleged to be due to Mr. Gorlitz in connection with an American tour of the violinist, in which the plaintiff was interested, which case was heard by the Supreme Court of Xew Zealand during Kubelik's tour of Xew Zealand. Mr. Gorlitz (who is the husband of Miss Amy Sherwin, formerly known as "the Tasmanian Nightingale") was settled for some time in Xew Zealand. He was for a time manager for the Dresden Piano Company at Timaru, and subsequently managed the concert tour of the Ellwood trio. Mr. Gorlitz left Xew Zealand on business connected with tne Sheffield Choir.

A dramatic love tragedy ia reported from Weissensee (Germany), where a young gardener named Walter Mueller was found asphyxiated by gas fumes. Before his death he had converted his bedroom into a chapelle ardente. The walls were hung with black draperies, and the bed on which the body was found lying was adorned with the choicest flowers. At the head lay a large wreath with long black streamers, on one of which were painted in white the words, "Dedicated to myself," and on the other the inscription, "May Mother Earth lie lightly on thee." A black-bop dered letter which he had addressed to a friend ran: "As 1 am not permitted to marry my love, I leave the world, for without her it is hell to live in. Those who have parted me from her shall know no rest on earth, for my spirit shall haunt them day and night. I die without owing a penny to any man. The wreath and the flowers are an offering to myself."

This is how the Austrians refer to King Nicholas of Montenegro, the man who for some eight weeks past has been hammering away at the walls of Scutari, and has not knocked them down yet—perhaps never will, for an- armistice is more effective, if less costly, than a Turkish sortie. We are afraid King Nicholas, mountaineering chieftain and father of queens though he bo, must be held guilty of something nearly as bad as sheep-stealing. A few years ago a perfect avalanche, so the story goes, of money orders from Montenegro were presented at the post offices of the chief cities of Austria and Hungary, and duly paid. At the end of the month, when the balance was struck", there was a big remittance due from Montenegro. But it was hard to collect. The draft came back marked "No funds," and all the piotests in the world, diplomatic and otherwise, could get no better satisfaction. Finally the Austro-Hungarian postal authorities declined to honor Montenegrin money orders. Then King Nicholas—no, he did not pay—acknowledged the debt. Hence, possibly, the term "the old sheep-stealer."