LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 200, 13 January 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Zeahmdia with the Vancouver mail is four days late, arriving in Auckland on Friday instead of Monday.

The Rovers Cycle Club will hold a race to Waitara and back on Thursday next. Entries close on Monday evening. If the weather permits, the Harbor Board's big dredge, the Paritutu, will leave at the end of the week for Wellington for her annual overhaul . A Hastings business man, writing to a friend in the South, slates that tho, farmers of Hawke's Bay are jubilant. "They are having perfect weather, and what with the high prices ruling for wool and meat, the shops are having a record year." The writer adds: "Thirty-five motor cars were sold in Napier immediately after the first wool sale." A brass bed equipped throughout with eiectricity is the latest Yankee notion. The tops of all the four posts carry an electric bulb, while an electric fan is mounted on one of the posts, an electric heating pad is plugged into a special outlet, and other "outlets are arranged for connecting up devices such as a water-heater. Switches cunningly introduced into the bedposts control each of the manv. devices.

Refr.Tmg to the visit of the Hon. Jas. Allen, Minister for Finance, to England, the Financier (London) says:—"New' Zealand is just now going strong,'and the outlook is bright. The revenue is buoyant, exports are increasing, and new settlers ought to be attracted in large numbers by the liberal land policy of tha Massey Government, which gives them an opportunity of acquiring the freehold under exceptionally easy terms." The wisdom of keeping fire-killing (apparatus in private houses is strongly urged by Superintendent Woolley, of the. Auckland Fire Brigade. Provided they are used in time, within a restricted area, the superintendent considers that the} are of the utmost value in coping with fire outbreaks. It is rather interesting to note that in the central fire brigade station itself, where the most up-to-date tire-fighting equipment in the Dominion is to be found, patent lire killing apparatus is also installed, for use at any time that a conflagration may occur. There was a good attendance at the Theatre Royal last night when a sacred concert was given by the "Gay Follies," in aid of the Hospital Funds. The collection wag not commensurate with the size of the audience, but with the Government subsidy the Hospital will benefit to the extent of about £l4 or £l.). The chairman of the Hospital Board, who is indisposed, telephoned his appreciation of the efforts of the company. who had only the assistance of one local amateur, Mr. Nippert. but there was naturally some comment at the fact that 110 member of the Board and no civic official was present to assist at the concert.

"Yes," remarked an Okato settler, whilst motoring down the Omata Hill, "they lire making good progress with the regrading of the hill, but I consider it a scandalous waste of money. The hill in its present state has suited requirements for years past, and would do for many years yet, and it is an outrageous thing to utilise the money for this purpose, while there are miles of road in the Okato riding crying out loudly and insistently for metal. It is not right that the money should be expended in this way. even though the Omata riding might be in a good financial position, as it ought to be. considering it gets a share of the toll money." In conclusion, he added, that he was not against the regrading of the bill, but he considered that the ordinary maintenance and remetallitig of other parts of the road should be attended to, before what might be termed luxuries are undertaken

Mrs. Hetty Green. America's richest business woman, is seventy-eight years of age, and despite her millions she persists in attending to her own business in Wall Street in her own way. She is best described (the New York correspondent of the London Telegraph says) as the feminine counterpart in the finaninL world of the late KusseV. Sage, America's thriftiest financier, but. unlike Sage, she gives largely to philanthropy, and she is always willing to tell her fel-low-countrymen the secrets of her success. So far as one can judge, the secrets consist of great natural 'business capacity, rugged health, and unlimited energy, which enab'ie her to dispense with the usual recreations of a septuagenarian, and to derive joy from persona! strife in the business world. Old Mrs. (Jrecn. plainly dressed and looking the picture of health, was chewing onions in her office when she received a delegation of pressmen on her birthday. "'You may smile," she said, "but the healthy color of my cheeks is due to eating onions; they are the finest things in the world for the health, and T am never without one handy." Mrs. Green chatted with the reporters for an hour, giving tliem much useful advice relating (<> thrift, virtue, industry and accuracy i" their reports, as she usually does on her birthdays.

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t The Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. A. Crooke, has granted licenses under the new Land Agents Act tot the following further applicants: Messrs. Newton King, Walter Bewley, Carthew and Co., and J. H. Wood.

Some strange yarns come from the prohibition areas. An Elthiira resident (remarks the Argus) drove his motor into a stable at Te Ktiiti and asked for accommodation for hi.s car. This was quickly arranged, and then the man in charge said, "Is there any benzine in your ear?" "Of course there is," was the reply. "Then you had 'better lake it out."' "Take it out! What for?" "Well, yon see this is a prohibition district, and it is quite a common thing for some fel'iows about here to shake benzine when they are hard up for a drink." The tourist thought that his leg was being pulled, but subsequent enquiries proved the truth of the strange statement that had been made.

A case in which a woman's death was said to have been caused by sheer fright was investigated by the Willisden (London) Coroner recently. Mrs. Grace Ethel Frost (SO), of Staverton road, had used, as was her custom, a carbolic' mouth wash. A few minutes later, in a state of great excitement, she entered the room where her husband was sitting, and said: "Oh, I have swallowed some of the moiijth wash, and it is poison!" Almost immediately she fell down and expired. The doctor who made the autopsy stated that although the mouth-wash.' was labe'ded "Poison," it was so weak! that the whole contents of the bottle' would not be harmful. Mrs. Frost had died from heart failure ca used by fright. Members of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (First and Second Groups) are notified that subscriptions will be due and payable today (Monday), at the Secretary's office, Currie street, from 0 a.m. to 12.30, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.—i Advt. *