LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 222, 7 February 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Seventy-two carcases of veal were shipped to Auckland by the Rarawa last night.

The local paper states that £BO an acre was offered for a farm in the Mitnaia district recently, and refused, the owner wanting £BS. Old settlers of Masterton aver that the past season has been the best for all-round farming that has been experienced for the past 30 years.

The directors of the Kaiapoi Woollen .Manufacturing Company, Ltd.. have declared an interim dividend of 3 per cent, on ordinary and preference shares for the half year. The January takings constitute another record for the Wanganui Corporation Tramways, being £1757, as compared with £O3O for the same month last year, and £BBO for January, 1011. After the usual payment to the Borough Council for power, the Gonville-CastleelilT Tramway Board has a surplus for the month of £l3O over its section of the system.

The East End Bathing Reserve Committee has decided to hold a picture entertainment on the reserve every alternate Thursday evening, commencing next Thursday evening. A big supply of deck chairs to be placed around the reserve is to be secured, and elderly persons especially should much appreciate them, fo pursuance of its go-ahead policy, the committee is obtaining plans and specifications for a building of considerable size, which it is hoped to have erected before next season.

The price of leather during the past eight years has doubled in New Zealand, and the question of the prices to be charged for repairs has been under consideration lately in several places. A meeting of local bootmakers, at which practically every firm was represented, was held in the Town Hall recently, when a uniform tariff for boot repairs in New Plymouth was adopted. The new prices show no overwhelming increase over old figures, and every tradesman is to charge the same. The meeting also passed a resolution favoring the adoption of Saturday as tlie uniform weekly half-holi-day. Tt was alleged against Ole Olsen. a Stratford farmer, in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, that he intended to fail to provide for the adequate maintenance of his illegitimate child. The accused was defended by Mr. J. H. Quilliam, who contended that Olsen had not failed, nor had the slightest intention of failing, to provide for the child. He had, stated counsel, already paid away a considerable sum in this connection, and had entered into a private arrangement for the child's future maintenance. The Magistrate (Mr. A. Crooke, S.M.) accordingly refused to make an order. Mr. C. ft. Weston appeared fo\- the 'complainant. Dr. Friedmann's recently-announced discovery of a cure for tuberculosis is still exciting the greatest interest (says a Berlin cable to the Sydney Sun). Professor Felix Clainperer has just succeeded in drawing from the arm of a consumptive patient living' bacilli which have been injected by Dr. Friedmann, and from which cultures have been obtained by the professor. .Scientists all over Germany are now in possession of Friedmann cultures, and experiments are in progress that will result in the great discovery being given to the world. One of the most significant tributes to the merit of the new serum is that given by Professor August Bier, well known as a violent enemy of Dr. Friedmann. Professor Bier has been experimenting with tubercular guinea pigs, and has effected some remarkable cures, all of which have every indication that they will prove permanent. The following new books have been added to the Carnegie Library:—"The palace of Logs" (Robert Barr), "Brown •Bread" (B. E. Baughan), "The Red Hand of Ulster" (C. A. Birmingham). "The Shadow of Power" (Paul Bertram), "St. Quin" (D. C. Calthrop), "The Blue Wall" (R. M. Child), "Corporal Cameron" (Ralph Connor), "The Knave of Diamonds" (E. M. Dell), "Through the Cloudy Porch" (K. M. Edge), "Guinea Gold"' (B. Grimshaw), "Borrowers of Fortune" (J. L. Herbertson), "Dirty" (K R. Lipsett, "Meadowsweet" (Baroness Orczy), "Faery Land Forlorn" (Mrs. 11. I-I. Penrose),'"Marion Lucas" (Canon Sheehan), "The Arm Chair at the Inn" (F. IT.- Smith), "Grynette Married" (M. Troly-Curtin), "Yonder" (E. 11. Young), "Sanna of the Island Town" (M. E. Waller). "Ashes of Incense" (Anonymous), "The Great Splendor" (Gertrude Pa we), "The Adventures of Bobby Orde" (S. E. White).

The annual meeting of subscribers to the Bell Block? Hall Association was held at the Bell Block Hall on Wednesday night, and was fairly well attended. Mr. E. King, president, occupied the chair, and submitted a balance-sheet of the last vear's operations, wherein it was shown that as a result of socials, etc.. the Association had taken the. sum of £73 15s 6d, from which was to be deducted expenses, amounting to £55 19s 6d, leaving a credit balance of £l7 16s. The bank overdraft had been reduced to £23. This was considered highly satisfactory. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:—President, Mr. W. Hoskin; vice-presidents, Messrs J. Holmes, jum\, and L. Rundle; treasurer, Mr. J. Connett; secretary, Mr. J. •W. Downs; auditor, Mr. R. Pepperill; committee, Messrs H. and A. Giddy, G. Rundle, S. C. King. S. Hoby and P. Hoskin. Mr. J. W. Downs, who has very capably discharged his duties as secretary to the Association for the past nine, years, was granted an honorarium of £3 3s.

Owing to alterations at the baths, there will be no swimming for men at the Municipal Swimming Baths to-night. The baths will be closed after the ladies' hours finish at 4.30 p.m.—Advt.

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11. is estimated lluit a train of trucks loaded up with the earth and rock taken from the lied of the Panama Canal would reach twice round the world. 11l researches on dill'erent methods of preparing food, a physician has proved that both beef and fish are more digestilde in the raw state that when cooked, that beef is in general better digested than lish. and that fish is more digestible smoked than in any other form.

Evelyn Thaw, the wife of Harry Thaw, the millionaire who is now in a lunatic asylum, has admitted, through her solicitor, that she is penniless, and cannot stand the expense of contesting a suit brought;by a linn of jewellers to recover £4OO worth of jewels,, which were bought when 'Thaw was awaiting his second trial for murder. Great briskness in the local grain market is looked for towards the end of next month (states a Dunedin correspondent). There is a keen demand from the north for grass seeds. Potatoes and this season's grain yields arc expected to be very heavy, reports from the country show that a rich harvest is promised in all districts.

A Los Angeles cable says:—Mrs. Marcollena Elizelda, aged 105, a wealthy widow, has been granted a license to marry Pleasantino Leon, who is 80 years old. Leon is now trying to have a recent order of the court, which appointed Mrs. Claudia Lugo, a granddaughter, guardian of Mrs. Klizelda, set aside. Mrs. Lugo is opposing the application. "I am sorry to learn that the Harbor Board has had to give five per cent, for the quarter of a million it is seeking for on the London market," said the Mayor of Auckland (Mr. C J. Parr), "because it may mean that the rate will in consequence be hardened against the City Council's next flotation. One thing is quite clear to my mind: that until the market in London eases, it would be unwise for us to go in for new works. Indeed, it behoves us all (corporations and individuals alike) to take stock and go slow, as I am afraid New Zealand is in for a long period of dear money." A rather painful experience fell to the lot of Mr. Night McCartney, a prominent swimming enthusiast, at the Maddison Baths, Hastings, last week (says the Napier Telegraph). Mr. McCartney gave an item known as "The Monte Christo Dive." in which he was enveloped in a huge hag. This is lighted and the swimmer jumps from the spring board into the water, frees himself from the baggage, and unexpectedly comes to the surface of the water at the other end of the baths. In order to give a better effect he used some red flare powder, which gives a fine spectacular effect. However, the ignition was too rapid, and before the "leaper" knew where he was his skin was badly burned. He jumped jnto the water" instantly and put the flames out, but he had to at once receive medical attention, and does not expect to be able to use his right arm I for a fortnight. Mr. McCartney's ghoulI der and head Were, also badly burngd,

In some very interesting reminiscences of the early days in Wellington, Mr. Donald Eraser, of Bulls, writes:—The first racecourse was on Te Aro flat; the winning post was -just about where the Royal Oak now stands. I rode.there myself in 1840. There was no handicapping. There were only one and two miles races, in heats, the best two of three. We had horses that would carry men up to 12st or 14st a hundred miles in 15 or 16 hours. Breeders did not have to Btudy how to breed monkeys to ride them, as nowadays, with these short races and monkey weights; and it is hard to get a horse now that will carry a man of 12st or 14st a hundred miles in 15 or 16 hours. This is, in my opinion, going back. There are two things that have to be dealt with in the breeding of racehorses now: the handicapper first, the totalisator next. The actual breeder had no say, although we have, I think, the best climate and soil in the world to produce a. good horse.—Exchange.