LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 197, 9 January 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Australian mails, ex Maunganui at Wellington, will arrive in New Plymouth this (Thursday) afternoon. The Sumner Borough Council is convening a conference to draw up by-laws to govern sun' bathing there. Robert .Hums' razor, whose handle bears live, silver plates giving the names of its subsequent owners, realised £2O at Sotheby's salerooms, London, in November.

"In Athens the woman who wears a large hat in a theatre is lined 40 dollars," says the New York Evening Sun. "Speak to us no more of the decadence of Greece!"

To what base use's! The Gothic priory of Rochefoucauld, Prance, dating from the year 1000 A.).)., has 'been acquired by a butcher, who wil'i use it as a pigbreeding establishment.

There are over a hundred municipal police women in America, most of these being detailed lor special duty in connection with sanitary inspection, the drink and white slave trallic.

The grandmothers of Chicago are to have a clubhouse of their own, as they consider they are the most neglected portion of the population and are not welcome at young people's clubs. A man who had just insured his life for £20,000, and had the receipt in his pocket, was run down by a train and killed -on the Baltimore and Ohio railway, near Claysvilie, Pa., U.S.A. On 21st December, on the motion of Mr, A. R. Standish, Mr. Justice Cooper granted probate of the will of the late Joseph Terrill, of Tikorangi, farmer, to William Frederick Terrill, the executor in the said will named.

Of a'd the young men forming the winning team in the rifle exercises at Christchurch, only one smoked, and that but lightly, while all were strictly temperate in the use of liquor, man}' of them not touching intoxicants. «

A minister's wife in New York who had been collecting used stamps for thirty years, "to get a poor boy into an institution." has sold her collection of 10,000,000 stumps that had a face value before cancellation of £40,000. Blackberries on some of the farms adjacent to the roads leading towards IMt. Egmont appear to be thriving luxuriantly "this season, and unless active steps are taken to at once check their growth, there should be a splendid crop of the succulent and objectionable berry. A nonagerian might have been seen the other day doing up the grave of his mother in St. Mary's Churchyard. The old gentleman, who had walked from his home a couple of miles away, ig still hale and hearty. He is equal to a good deal .of work yet, so he assured a friend. A cyclist who left his machine standing outside a shop in New Plymouth for a few moments last evening found on his return that some mischievous miscreant had removed the top from the bell, and not satisfied with that had deliberated mutilated the tyres with a pocket knife.

Three hundred and seventy-six vessels worked the port of New Plymouth during 1912, against. 367 in the previous twelve months. The aggregate tonnage of these vessels was 180,486, against 172,517. The imports for the period amounted to 78,260 tons against 71,675 tons, and the exports 13,680 tons against 15,510 tons.

A motorist was proceeding up Devon street yesterday morning at a leisurely pace, when suddenly with a report like a cannon one of the back tyres .burst, and incidentally departed from the wheel. Bad the car been travelling at the reckless pace adopted by somemotorists on country roads, there might have been a serious accident to chron-«, iele.

The convenience, of passengers bv the incoming mail train would be better studied if the railway authorities did not throw the platform open to the general public until a minute or so after its arrival. As it is, the public are pushing their way in through the not very wide entrance while the passengers, who have just alighted, are at the same time endeavoring to make their exit. The result is a struggling mass of humanity, recruited from opposite directions. People in'the backblocks have other things to contend with besides bad roads. In one locality there is a rough narrow track skirting round a wi',d- looking .bush-clad hill. At times, in just about the narrowest place, a highwayman pig. a gigantic black boar with leading tusks, holds up the unfortunate traveller. For days the brute will not be scon, and then when least expected _or wanted he grimly appears. There i s only one instance so far where he has actually attacked a horseman, but several have, been Mocked for a time. Efforts have been made to meet the pig iby men armed, but so far the callers upon his Highness have not been received.—Feilding Star. The Cross Road between the Mangorei and Carrington Roads is now almost completed, there only remaining a heap of metal to spread to complete the work. The bridge over the Henui River has been finished for some time. This route will bring settlers of' that district twenty minutes nearer New Plymouth, besides which the Carrington Road, despite the heavy traction traffic, is in fine order, and presents a much smoother surface than does the Mangorei Road. It is not surprising, therefore, that settlers have already commenced to use the Cross Road, although this at present necessitates their vehicles negotiating a huge heap of metal, stacked across the road, which will shortly he used to macadamise, considerable length of the new formation.

America has the reputation of having forgotten more about advertising methods than Europe lias ever known; but we doubt whether the American business man ever devised a more ingenious meth od than that, adopted recently by a Dresden tai'ior, who is, inter alia, "Holliefeiant." lie addressed his circulars, describing the excellence of his military tailoring, to officers of the reserve in imitation official envelopes, with the printed inscription, ''For Mobilisation." The distributors were dressed in military uniforms, and commenced operations simiutaiieously in several German towns. Wives 'of absent reservists were terrified 'by the appearance of the fateful envelope at a time when mobilisation and European war were in the air. !!ut the advertiser had scored his point by impressing his name upon his victim quite indelibly which is. we are told, the essential end of advertising. Tlie idea is unique, surely, in the annals of advertisement for boldness and absolute callousness.

TWO DOSES A COMPLETE CURE. •'I am subject to bowel troubles which cause pam and inconvenience," writes Mr Alfred Wane. 18.5 Auburn Ed., Auburn, Vic. -but have ahvavs found two doses of Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Komody to effect a complete cure'. 1. am pleai-ed to know that there is such a safe ami certain remedy as Chamberlain's' Colic and Diarr'hnea Remedy and always keen a bottle i::<m;y."_-.Alf chemists and 'torekeepere.

Mr. Vincent Astor, the young Ameri< can multi-millionaire, came of age la3ti month and entered into absolute pos* session of his share of the estate left bj; his father, Colonel J. J. Astor, who was drowned in the Titanic. Young Mr. Astor's estate i s of about £13,000,000. Mr. W. Waters, of Mangaweka, while riding a motor-cycle with a passenger; in a side-car during the Christmas holidays, ran into a swarm of bees. The swarm settled on them and rode along for three-quarters of a mile, but evidently dissatisfied with\the experience, the unwelcome guests departed without even leaving a sting behind them.

A Masterton farmer told an Age representative that he had offered 12s a day for men for harvesting work during the holidays, and could not procure them. It is expected that, now the holidays are over, that labor win* be more abundant. The crops are ripening very fast, and harvesting should be. general in the course of a few days.

Some startling revelations are made in the annual report of the British Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. , 'The report declares that during the past year no fewer than 1255 chi.dren in England, Ireland and Wales have been killed as a result of ill-treat-ment. During the year compaints regarding -crneltv to children numbered upwards of 50,000.

"It is a peculiar fact that, for its'. size, New South Wales prints less Hansards than any. other State or the Dominion of New Zealand," says Mr. W. A. Gufiick, New South Wales Government printer. ''The Dominion is abno> mally prolific in this respect. Where we turn out 1700 copies, they print 9500.. Where we give each member of Parliament six copies daily, New Zealand gives them 75, while Victoria gives its members 20, Queensland a dozen, and South AustraVia aud Western Australia one each." Mr. Gullick humorously accounts for the difference in the Dominion with, the remark, "They must eat Hansards, in New Zealand-"

A cable from Dublin last week stated that a cattle-dealer named Fitzpatrick died in the fields of Kelts, and was taken' to the mortuary. His St. Joseph's cord was cut in the process of laying out the body, and he recovered. The incident is popularly regarded as a miracle. "St. Joseph's cord" is worn round the waist by the members of an arch-fraternity, having its headquarters at St. Mary's College, Dundalk. v It is practically, unknown in New Zealand. It is .blessed and worn to the gr,eat honor of St. Joseph. The Very Eev. Father Price, Administrator of the Christchurch Diocese, was s.een about the above message* He stated that it was not taken seriously. ' . . . , . A ' A plucky rescue from death by drowning, under very trying circumstances, "is reported from the Kawhia district. It appears that several ladies were bathing when one of them got out of her depth, and was in danger of drowning. '.. As she rose to the surface for the last time another lady of the party went to the rescue but was grasped in such a way that she was also drawn under . the water. iThen Mrs. Parker's attention was called to what was taking piace, and the spot pointed out where the two had disappeared. Being fortunately an expert swimmer, Mrs. Parker lost no time in diving to secure the two victims, and succeeded in bringing them to shore, where restorative measures proved successful.

Morey and Moore, Cash Drapers, King street, have just secured a big line of ready-to-wear goods, consisting of dust coats, linen costumes, silk blouses, underskirts, &c, &c. This big lot is now in their showroom, and will be ready for sale on Friday morning at 9 o'clock> when buyers can take their pick for 7s lid. We understand this is a record low .price for such goods, and should draw a .big crowd. —Advt.