LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 234, 21 February 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

According to the Waimate Witness £BO an acre has been offered 'for and refused for a farm near Manaia. the owner demanding £BS. The Waihi Daily Telegraph states that the population of the town, which had decreased considerably during the industrial trouble, is now fast recovering. Mr. A. Cliff's Zanzibar was very successful at the Masterton «ho\v, securing firsts in the two classes for which hc°was eligible to compete, viz., the cob class and harness horse.

During the past' two weeks the. treasury of the New Plymouth Borough Council has been enriched by £1 at the expense of Wanganui, being the license fees on two motor cars owned by. residents of that city, one an ex-Mayor, which the übiquitous Ben noticed in the Borough without the necessary regisration numbers. An opinion has been expressed in some circles that the production of "<!et Rich Quick Wallingford" on Saturday night will be abbreviated in order to allow of the company leaving for Auckland the same night by steamer. There is no foundation whatever for this statement. The company carries two,lots of scenery for' the production, and the scenery used here will not go on to Auckland until next week. We are assured that the. performance will be given here in every detail exactly as it was given in Melbourne and Sydney and the larger towns of New Zealand. The Land Board at its meeting yesterday approved of the offering of a. large' Amount of Crown lands, aggregating about 50,000 acres, which it is expected to place on the market next month. It is proposed that a portion of the land shall be hallotted for. The ballots will take place at New Plymouth and Taumanmui. The blocks which comprise the land are situated all over the district and are known as the Whakaihuwaka South and North, Taumatamahoe, Aratawa, Mapara, part of Haupeehi. Blocks fi and 10, Aria. Tapnwahine and other miscellaneous sections. It is also intended to ofTer the remaining sections in the Spotswood Settlement in the beginning of April, and it is anticipated there will be considerable inquiry for these lands owing to their proximity to Moturoa.

A( largo and enthusiastic meeting of citizens was held last night in connection with the proposal to hold a floral fete in order to raise funds to cover the cost of the electric light installtaion at the new North Egmont Mountain Hostel. The Mayor (Mr. G. W. Browpc) was appointed chairman of the committee, and Mr, W. donas secretary and treasurer. The following were elected a committee:—Messrs. G. Tabor. A. M. Bradbury. J. Abbott, J. Elliot. H. Yincent, A. E. Svkes, E. Carter. E. Jonas, T. 0. Xellv. W. Lints, W. Dineen. W. H. Fletcher, P. Flanagan, IT. Brookes, H. Moon. 0. Malam. B. Green. G. Griffiths, C. Sadler. B. Tippins. F. C. J. Bellringer. and J. Hawkins. It was a very successful meetino. and armnsremonts were made for holding the fete'on March (1. On that day there will be a procession through the town, headed by the Garrison Rand. The committee trust that all those possessing vehicles of any description will take part in the grand parade on Ihe irroninl. The committee will meet again next Wednesday, and would like to see the general public take sufficient interest in the whole function to enable it to be the success of similar fetes held I in other towns.

A TROUBLESOME CASE OP ftASTTUTTS CURED. Many people imagine they have hearl trouble, when really they are sulTcrinji from palpitation, caused by indigestion. The food (hey eat fails to digest, and gives oft' pas. This gas inflates the stoinacli. causing it to press up against the heart and thus impede the action of the latter. The only effective remedy is TCE\yiE'R PEPSO. Tt dispels the' pas and helps the stomach to perform its functions naturally. A well-known Wellington resident. Mr. C. T. Estall. So Vivian street, savs: "I was troubled with gastritis, and was not able to eat anything- solid without suffering with palpitation of the heart. T tried n bottle of Renzie's Pepso, and the first dose had a marked effect. After five doses T felt like a new man. Tt is needless to suffer when you can obtain such a splendid remedy.—Cl. T. Estall."' "Ren/.ie's Pepso is sold bv nil chemists and stores at 2/0 per bottle. 8

Dr. Euiil predicts that uiik-ns thi) spread of tuberculosis in Alaska is cheeked the native population will be completely exterminated within 70 years. ■According to Dr. Kulish, 15 per cent, of the natives are infected with the disease.

A Sydneyite who paid a visit to the North Island of New Zealand recently advises hi. s felow citizens, through the Sydney Sun. as follows:—' - . . . J would advise those who can spare a few weeks to take the boat to New Zealand, and they will spend an enjovable time in the North Island." One of the Petone butchers; who found himself out of employment, as a result of the slaughtermen's strike, sold his overcoat at Ecatherslon to enable him to reach Masi.crton. This (says a local paper) prompts one to ask whether .t'-l 10s a week for work is not better than no work, or £4 10s per week, and no overcoat.

A few days ago. according to a cable to the Sydney Sun. there was a huge mountain slide in Argyllshire. Tens of thousands of tons of rock and earth i-rashed into a valley and Idled the bed of the river ('roe, a huge lake being formed. A shepherd and his family rushed for safety while the debris thundered past, and were .-iu-ce.ssfi.il in reaching a haven.

In Baltimore (I'.S.A.). a new employment lias just been found for the blind. Very recently an experiment was made with a blind girl as a telephone operator at one of the exchanges. Her work was so good, and she was so accurate and careful, that the telephone company decided to secure other girls from the Maryland School for the Blind. There are now over twelve of these sightless operators being employed in Baltimore, and they not only give satisfaction, but are declared to be superior to girls possessed of their sight. Apparently we are not to have an eightpenny piece (says a correspondent in a. Home paper). It would, indeed, be a breach of precedent for us to be provided with a small silver coin which was not a sub-multiple of a shilling. But it occurs to one that it might be convenient if the old fourpenny piece were revived, and the present threepenny bit withdrawn. The new coin would be -ju.s.t a trifle larger than the threepenny piece, and two would make up the Sd, now so much in request. Considering the main use of threepenny bits nowadays one would imagine that the ecclesiastical authorities would welcome the change. Pity for the folks who are compelled to work seven days a week was expressed the other day at the Methodist Conference by Mr. L. M. Isitt, ALP. On his proposition it was agreed: "That the Conference, having been informed that there are classes of workers still struggling to secure a weekly dcty of rest, is of opinion that every man and woman is righteously entitled to one day's rest in seven." The motion was prompted by the receipt of a telegram from Mr. I*'. J. Carey, secretary of the Hotel Employees' Union, expressing a hope that the Conference would not dissolve without recording its endorsement of the principle of a weekly day of rest. Some of the expert slaughtermen who are now out on strike are very contemptuous in their references to the work of the amateur killers who have taken their places. One of the men who used to work at Petone assured a Times representative that the amateurs are not killing the sheep, but are murdering them. "It is shameful," he said, "and if the inspector of the S.P.C.A. were to go out there he would have a busy time prosecuting for cruelty." Another slaughterman declared that if the strangle-hold were barred the amateurs would never kill anything, for now they practically twisted the necks of the lambs before they could finish them off. The Ethical Society, according to a delayed London cable, have issued n manifesto abjuring the suffragettes to abandon their campaign of violence, and to adopt a system of ''spiritual militancy." The society suggests that processions of 1000 women, dressed in deepest mourning, shall march to St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey and demand that their claims shall be championed from the pulpit. If they get no attention, then the Ethical Society advise them to cry out during the service '"Lord have mercy upon us." The suffragettes are also advised to attend the theatres and principal concerts, and make other demonstrations.

Satisfactory progress, it is stated." is being made with the extension of the Rtato collieries at Point Elizabeth, and the Department hopes that regular supplies will be available from the now mine, in another month. Hitherto the work' of extending the railway for the extra four miles has been done by using the sinking and depreciation funds in connection with the old mine, but the Department wishes to obtain this money back and invest it in reproductive quarters. It is accordingly gratifying to the officials that provision has been made in the new loan for extension of the State coal business. The sum allocated is said to be £IOO,OOO. The new seam Coin prises excellent coal for steam purposes. Just at present, the supplies are equal to the demand, which is not great during the warm season. The iiew mine will doubtless yield full supplies before next winter.

The Rev. Father Hay den, of Manly, who returned to Sydney a few days ago after spending a year abroad, had the uncomfortable experience of being held up in Constantinople for a week while the Greek warships were bombarding the Dardanelles. "We had just got to Constantinople." he said, "after a very long journey, and as soon as we were inside the place we found we couldn't get out again. However, we didn't mind it so much, because it gave us an excellent opportunity to view the land. We spent a. week there, and we saw the Sultan pay an official visit, as head of Islamism, to the mosque near the palace. Tie was received at the door of the mosque, by some of his Ministers, and my impression of him was that he is a heavy, uninteresting man. He eyed the Europeans very closely as he passed by. At that time the war had just broken out. hut the people took very little, if any, interest in it. Thev seemed to me to be an ignorant, stolid people. We took n special train and passed quite near to Tchataldja and Adrianople, but there was no sign of warfare then."

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