LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 223, 8 February 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On the 3rd inst., on the motion- of Mr. A. R. Standish. probate of the will of the late Minnie Buckley was granted to William Buckley, the executor therein named. The Government has decided to cancel the contract for the tunnel driving at Lake Coleridge, and the Public Works Department will carry the work on at ( the contractor's expense. Application has been made to the East End Reserve Committee by the Toko School Committee for permission to hold an excursion on the KesiTve on February 25. In all probability other schools in this district will come down on the same day. The request has been granted.

The Works Committee has authorised the Borough Engineer to over-spend hio tarring and sanding vote by £75. The Engineer reported that the footpaths tarred last year were breaking up and should be repaired now, as after the end of the financial year it would probably lie too late as the weather might then break up. A number of our contemporaries have been chronicling the appointment of "Mr. A. Herbert, Ilalcombe," to the Commission of the Peace, and diligent search has been made to discover the gentleman's whereabouts. It is Mr. A. Herbert Ilalcombe, of Urenui, who has been appointed. The Government has accepted the following tenders for contracts:—Erection of cottages at Arthur's Pass station, Midland "railway, A. Kingsford (Christchurch), £3271 10s 3d; erection of power house at Lake Coleridge, Taylor Bros. ' and Moorhead (Christchurch) £15,635 2s (id.

From information to hand we gather that a great number of local farmers, who have never shown before, have decided to enter stock for the forthcoming local show to be held on the 2<ith and 27th of this month, and although the entries do not close until Saturday, the 15th, the secretary (Mr. A. Clirl'f finds it necessary to employ extra clerical assistance at this early stage to cope with general show matters. There will probably be a great rush at the secretary's oll'ice (at Mr. Bewloy's) to-morrow. Reporting to the Borough Council, the Borough Engineer sates that the tar sprayer has been given a successful test on the footpath in Vivian street. "The machine," lie reports, "works splendidly, the tar being heated to a temperature of 1(11) deg. and sprayed on to the footpath under a pressure of 001b per square inch. . . . The following is the cost, including tar. sand, and labor: —' Tar, 10 barrels at Kis. £8; sand. By<ls at ,js. £2; cartage. 10s; labor, £4 2s'lod—total £l4 12s Hid. This is a fraction less than l'/l,d per .square yard, and under favourable circumstances can be reduced to l'/|d per square yard. With the bucket and brush this work would cost approximately 2'/od per square yard." ' What must surely be unique in the annals of rifle shooting in New Zealand —indeed it might almost claim to be a world's record—occurred at Wa'nvakaiho vestenlaw In the Pa tea Match, seven shots at'each of the 800. 900 and 1000 yards ranges, was in progress, and an enthusiastic East County rifleman lay down on the butts. His first sighting shot at SOO yards was an inner and 'vomited 4. lie was not satisfied with i this and refused to take it. Possibly he was sorry afterwards that he did not. as that was the only time he touched [ the target at thai, range. He also failled with'all his shots at'llOO yards, and at the thousand yards merely grazed the canvas with bis last shot, getting up with the fine score of three, one less than his discarded first attempt. A rather good story is told by a wellknown Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. F. V. Frazer, rather at. his own expense. At the (in f (he Waihi strike trouble, the Magistrate had occasion as visiting Justice lo pay :i visit to the Mount Eden Caol. Auckland. During the morning of his visit a prisoner had been reelased, and about an hour later the Magistrate left the prison. Before be had gone far. he noticed a man who from his appearance showed unmistakable signs of having been mi inmate of the prison. The man was evidently waiting for someone whom he expected out that day. To the worthy Magistrate's surprise, the exconvict lurched up to him, and said in a confidential whisper. "Say, any more coming out to-dav?"

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Out of tlit! profits made by the magazine issued by the Primitive Methodist Church, over £IOOO lias been voted to the homo mission fund of the church to aid work in the liackblocks. A gazetted return places the European population of the Dominion at December 31 at 1,0,-1-2,545, an increase of 27,139 for the year. On December :u there were •2520 Chinese in New Zealand, including 102 females. Of the European increasethe excess of births over deaths contributed ]5,212, and the excess of arrivals over departures 9827. The birthrate for the Dominion in 11112 was 20.42 per 1000/ of the mean population, and the deathrate 8.05, compared with 25.97 and 9.3!) respectively, in 1911. Mr. Harry Lauder is now on a two months' tour of America, from which he expects to make £I2OO, after paying all expenses. "My son does not accompany me," he said an interview. "He is pursuing his studies at law at Cambridge. He was showered with presents recently at Dunoon on his coming of age, the value being, I am sure, fully £2OO. It is more than his father got. When 1 celebrated my twenty-first birthday, I received a pair of blacklcad brushes, a paraffin lamp, and a stick of Irish roll tobacco. That's a fact."

A frequent source of trouble to drivers of motor ears with fixed wind screens is the collection of rain on the glass in small globules, which are very detrimental to the vision, and, in consequence, necessitate frequent stoppages for the purpose of cleaning the glass. An effective method of preventing this is to carry a bottle of kerosene and glycerine mixed in equal parts, to rub a few drops over the surface of the screen. The rain will then spread over the glass in a thin sheet, enabling the drive to be continued in comfort.

A reminder of the sanguinary intertribal encounters of the North, Island Maoris is to he seen among the sand dunes of Titalii Bay. Heavy winds have blown away the sand covering half-a-dozen skeletons. The bones are apparently very old and the local Maoris have not interested themselves in the matter, though the gruesome collection is doubtless all that is left of the victims of an old-time fight. The remains are on native land leased to a pakeha farmer. Maoris have a partiality for burial near the sea coast, and it was a common custom to carry their dead long distances to comply with this wish. Tt was through a dream that Watts, the Bristol plumber, made £IO,OOO. One night he dreamed that while soldering up some defect on the roof of a church, I he let the ladle of molten metal slip from his hand to the street below. On hastening down to recover the utensil, he found to his surprise that the metal which it had contained, instead of lying in an intact mass, was scattered around !in a myriad of minute globules. On awakening, his curiosity prompted him I to repeat the experiment, when to his surprise the falling lead behaved exactly [as it had done in his dream. This discovery, which he at once adapted to the making of lead shot, brought him the above substantial fortune. Mr. C. A. Wilkinson, M.P. for Egmont, iwho has been touring Otago and Southland as one of a Parliamentary party, ! has sent the following telegram to the Opunake Times: —"I would suggest that Opunake people be very active in railway matters just now. The Otago people ! have just spent hundreds of pounds I showing the Parliamentary party over I Central Otago proposed extensions. Opunake's claim for railway connection is second to none, and should he pushed to the front and urged without intermission. Opunake should be included with the first new lines to be constructed as soon as money is available. Southland people have also motored the Parliamentary 'partly nearly B{jo miles to show their requirements, which will show the activity and enterprise of other provinces in getI ting their public wants supplied." 1 Mr. G. B. Joyce, of Timaru, has just received an interesting letter from his eldest son, who is at present at Nnraguta, Northern Nigeria. Mr. Lionel / | Joyce, says the Timaru Post, is a young man of much courage and enterprise. Me was at one time on the Cold Coast as a surveyor for the British Government, and then went to Siberia, where he spent twelve months among the mines look-' ing for copper. He is now engaged at Northern Nigeria surveying the tin mines, which cover an area of twelve square miles. Mr. Joyce's life has its exciting phases. He writes: "The pagans are fairly quiet just nowi but now and again they take a notion for a feed of wliite man. Their last victim was aman I knew well on the Gold Coast; they tortured him to death, but were well punished, losing about 500 -men and women over the deal." Mr. Joyce j also mentions that they were to have a race meeting at Naraguta on Christmas. I Day. and that the population is nlvnt twenty whites and "goodness knows how many niggers!"