LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 204, 17 January 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

r ).hp. factories which have joined the Iwcom combination are: Eltha'm, Mangatoki. Xormanliy. Opunake, Pihania, and Awn tuna. Further licenses under the Land Agents Act have been issued, as follow:—Medley and Bundle, W. F. Cornwall, and L. A. Xolan and Co. Messrs. Matthew*, Bennett and Co., ■f. Snthoi'lnml. Pereival and Messenger. J .Uibbs, and P. G. Xops have applied to the Tnglewood S.M. Court for land agents' licenses.

Tn reply to questions asked by members at yesterday's meeting of the Taranaki Land Board, it was stated that no information had been received as to when the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. J. McCluggage would be filled.

A paragraph of which the majority of Taranaki newspapers, including ourselves (pays the Stratford Post), have been guilty, stated that the Xgaire factory was manufacturing casein from the skim milk. Midhirst is the factory which has gone jii for the new by-product of the dairying business.

At Ilawera yesterday afternoon earpiercing yells drew attention to the piti'til plight of a mail engaged in the erection of a building in Princess street. He was handling an iron bar for concrete rcuiioreement and allowed it to rest on a l»c electric wire. His hands were terribly burnt and he received a severe shock—Press Association.

■The Paritutu Working Bee will resume' operations on Thursday, the 23rd inst. It is expected that there will be a good niu>ter of workers on this occasion as som,. of the citizens who, on account of tnristinns and other engagements were una hie to help will now be at liberty. Moreover, we are told that a number of young men have signified their readiness to join in the movement to push the town ahead.

-Xolin Joseph Larkin made no appearance in the Magistrate's Court yester.,la - v 'J 1 answer to <a charge of "havinncommitted a breach of a prohibition or- «<•>'. m tiie Criterion Hotel. The accused admitted the offence, and pleaded >n exteniiiition that it was Xmas Eve when he obtained the liquor. lie was mulcted j„ fi nc 0 f j os ;u)( ] cog( . g l lionins L. Kyle was similarly charged, pleading guilty. He was found in the aranaki ITotel. A fine of 10s and costs. Leonard Callaghan, who it was alleged liad driven a. cab without a license, was proceeded against by the Borough Inspector (Mr. B. Tippins). The defendant did not appear in Court, and was 10s and costs 7s. The Inspector WiK also the informant in the case in winch A. "IT. Ambury pleaded guilty to I'vclni'.; oil the footpath. He was penal!sed to the extent of 5s and costs 7s.

A chiirgo of having cruelly ill-treated a Morse by working it while suffering from severe girth gall under the girth on the lore elbow, was preferred against Frederick Albert Bridgeman, laborer, of New lymouth. in the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before Mr. A. Crooke. VW. According to Senior-Sergeant Tiad dre 11 the horse was being driven into town by the accused in a light gig, when Constable McLean noticed its condition. It was bleeding freely from an old wound which had broken out. It was a thing liable to happen to any horse, but it could be avoided with a little care and attention. The accused, in plendinnr guilty. admitted that contention. He knew the horse was not fit to be driven just then, but it happened to be the handiest one about the place at the time, ami business of extreme urgency called him to town, his wife suddenly being taken seriously ill. The Magistrate, .after asking Bridgeman why he had not borrowed a horse, inflicted a fine of 20s and costs 7a.

The New Plymouth Harbor Hoard meets to-day.

It is reported that the (loveriiment intends to establish a hatchery at Waikaremoana next season.

It is stated that a recent Wellington bride was presented by her father with a dowry equivalent to £IO,OOO. Tile first prize of £130,000 in a Madrid lottery was won by a market woman. who had bought a single ticket.

Freak names for houses are popular in the United States. Kumonin and Justamerehouse arc two specimens that have just been invented for large country houses.

Senor Alsera, a Spanish telegraph operator, has perfected a machine which is capable of sending and receiving 1820. words a minute. A series of practical tests has been entirely successful.

A dairy woman named Wright, whilst assisting in a milking-yard at Parkes (New South Wales), caught an unrulycow by the tail to prevent the animal kicking. The cow suddenly swished its tail, and pulled the woman on to the rails, fracturing two of her ribs.

A great improvement in the fishing at Lake Botorua is reported (says the Auckland Herald). Fine specimens are daily secured, and the fish are in good fighting form. A Maori lad caught a 141b brown trout on the fly, Many fine baskets of fish were secured by visitors during the holidays, one particularly; successful angler taking 37 fisll. The late Mrs. Jessie Blair, of Lee. Creek farm, near Outram, left €llsO among Dunedin charities. The sum of £250 goes to the Presbyterian Orphanage at Grant's Braes, £2OO for St. Margaret's College, £3OO for Knox College endowment fund, £2OO for the Salvation Arm)', and £2OO for the Karitane Hospital. '

"Can you speak English?" was the Magistrate's question to a native witness at the hearing of .1 civil action at Gisbornc last week. The witness, a 'Maori girl, shook her head, preferring the services of the interpreter. Subsequently, in the course of her evidence, she admitted that she had obtained a scholarship at college. In referring to the high price of land in New Zealand, Mr. Baxter, a South Islander, who has just returned from the Old Country, says he was informed in London that good dairying land could be obtained fifty miles from the great city at £ls per acre. Dairying, however, is neglected at Home to a great extent, butter supplies being mainly drawn from the Continent and colonies.

A "sticking up" case occurred in Napier on Monday evening (says the Telegraph). Whilst a cyclist was re-lighting his bicycle lamp a stranger approached and demanded money. As soon as it became apparent that the request was not meant in the nature of a joke, the cyclist, after a few preliminaries, "got into it," and knocked the stranger down. Two others immediately appeared out of the darkness, but the first to reach, the cyclist suffered a similar fate, and the tiiird made off. Before assistance was secured the fallen two had also made tracks.

Mr. Thomas J. Chia. a well-known Chinese gentleman, and formerly first secretary to the Chinese Consulate, was married at Melbourne last week to Miss ftunice Camille Russell, a young lady of Brighton, who at one time played in Mr. Julius Knight's company. Subsequent to the wedding a reception was held at the Oriental Hotel. Canon Hughes, of St. Peter's Church, who performed the marriage ceremony, in proposing the toast of the bride and bridegroom, said the wedding was going to break down the insular prejudice of the English race, and it would tend to the blending of two nations.

A humorous story is told of fi hardworked sporting newspaper proprietor in England, who, not being satisfied with the work done by his tout, gave him notice to quit. The tout came up to see the proprietor, and made the most unfortunate defence he possibly could. Tie said: "To show the esteem in which I am held, sir, only last week, as I was leaving the Downs, the trainers met and presented me with a gold watch and chain." Replied the proprietor: "The man I want is one that the trainers will be on the look-out for with a .shot gun." The London Times in a new year leading article says: "History is made, as it were, before our eyes. The result is that we have acquired the spectator's habit of mind to look for the spectator's amusement from the process of contemporary history. The natural result, as the Archbishop of Canterbury pointed out, is less intensity of feeling and therefore less sense of responsibility, Th# danger of the modern wealth of news is that it tempts us to waste our highest faculties and turns us into spectators of great affairs when we should be actors in small ones.' So that we think of ourselves as gods watching the world from a height, when we are really men, with a little business of our own to perform, on the plain."

Pelorus Jack has a rival, but as he is as far away as Scotland, 110 trouble is looked for between the two. The newly-djscovered pilot haunts the upper reaches of the Firth of Forth. As soon as an approaching steamer sounds her siren, the whale, which is only 10ft long, and apparently just a plain whale, goes down the Firth to meet the newcomer. When the animal sights the ship it swims round it, and then precedes it until it has reached the wharf. So far, however, Pelorus Jack still retains thb unique distinction of being the only individual animal that is protected by an Order-in-Council,

The correspondent of the London Daily Mail at Rome, in telegraphing to his paper a few Aveeks ago, said: "King Ferdinand and Queen Eleonora of Bulgaria have ordered from a firm in Yenice a mosaic portrait of themselves as the Emperor and Empress of the BalThe portrait is to be made on the lines of the mosaic representing the Byzantine Emperor Justinian and -the Empress Theodora, which was found in the church of St. Vitale, at Ravenna, Ttaly." The Byzantine Empire was the eastern division of the Roman Empire, Constantinople was its capital.