LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 253, 15 March 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

English mails, via Suez, will arrive her per Uarawa. this morning. Australian mails, re Moldavia at Auckland, will arrive here this morning per -liar.'.wa. "Anything a London man tells yon. don't you helieve it"—Mr. \V. D. Lysnar in his address last night. To-day is the last day on which objections will he received to the new Borough valuations, and objections must be lodged at the Magistrate's Court, which closes at noon. The High School girls' swimming sports, which were to have been held yesterday, were postponed until Thursday next, on account of the death of Mr. A. X. liewley. While a Mrs. Dowding (28), of Brixton (England), was displaying her wedding dress to some friends she tripped over a carpet and struck her head heavily on the floor, death occurring before a doctor could be summoned. Owing to the death of Mr. X. Mewley, the cricket match, which was to have., been played on the Recreation Grounds this afternoon, has been postponed, as has also the tennis match, which was to have been played at Waverley between the Xew Plymouth and Waverley Clubs. The repairs to the hull of the Hawera which went ashore at Pa tea some months ago. are almost completed, and it is expected the vessel will lie launched on the iivA hist. After the launching, the boat will proceed up the river to the railway wharf, when repairs to the interipr will be all'ected. Speaking at the opening of the Coronation Library at Little ltiver yesterday, Air. Alassey said (hat he was disappointed so far regarding the applications received for the sum appropriated by Parliament last yeai' as subsidies for public libraries. They had not been so numerous as they should have been. The Maoris employed in loading the punts with frozen meat from the Waiir.ira Freezing Works refused to work on Thursday evening, savs the Mail, on account of the Water Carnival festivities. Some while men were found to go at double pay rates, and Hie two lighters got out. The Alaoris resumed yesterday morning. The oldest married couple in Cennany. named Fedderson. live nn the island of Sylt, oil' the coast of Schleswig. ]!oth husband and wife are 107 years old. Formerly a forester, the husband is now (says the Alail) an inspector of the dyke> along the coast, and he works every day. The couple, who enjoy good health, recently celebrated Ihe eightieth anniversary of their wedding. A young Maori named Skipper nnd a pakeha named Roach appeared before Mr. W. R .Jenkins. J.P., yesterday morning at AVaitara, charged with behaving in a manner calculated to provoke a breach of the peace on Thursday nhht. After evidence had been heard, his Worship decided to convict Skipper and discharge him. as he did-not. look upon him as the aggressor, while the other oll'eud; er was lined 10s and costs. Two other informations have been laid as the result of another alleged to have taken place the same night. These charges will come before the Stipendiary Mng'strate.—Mail.

At an inquest at Masterton recently one of the most remarkable wills that can surely he on record in the world was produced. It was written on a field-glass case and the butt of a rille. The writing was carefully attested, and it will he used as the last testament of the deceased, no other will having been left.

A veterinary surgeon in Sydney (Mr. Eunicss) recently extracted a toQih from the butt of a horse's ear. The horse belonged to Mr. Cox. a Gloucester farmer, who took the animal to Mr. Enrness to have the lump removed, and was rather sceptical when told it was a tooth. Mr. Furness states that this is the second time he has seen a tooth taken from a horse's ear. He is forwarding the tooth to Professor Douglas Stewart, of Sydney University. The New York School World relates that in a case in which a man was summoned at Philadelphia for the nou-at-tendancc of his daughter at school, the girl, aged 13, waved a marriage certificate before the magistrates, and said: "I no go to school; I stay home and make beds, and get husband's meals." The father was fined, and the husband ordered to send his child wife to school for another year, or go to prison himself.

What looks like a deliberate attempt at burglary occurred at Waitara, on Thursday night. A ladder from near by had evidently been placed against a fence, and the window of the Cash Sup-

ply Company's »;tore broken with a shovel. By means of the apperture thus made a door had been opened and entrance gained. Inspection of the premises early on the morning disclosed the fact that no cash had been taken, and, as, far as could be seen, no stock was missing. A detailed examination was to he made during the day. According to Mr. W. D. Lysnar, the Danes, selling in Holland, fix thcii- own prices, from dav to day, on their produce. They sta'te that they want such and such a price, and they invariably get it from the London markets. Touching on another point. Mir. Lysnar saidthat at the present time the whole of the identity of our produce marketed at London was lost as soon as it got to the retailer. What encouragement, he asked, was that for one factory to produce a good class of butter and cheese, when it was faced with the knowledge that under the system prevailing it was getting only the same price as the worst

consigned. A remarkable feat has just been performed hy three children, James, Molly and Willie Philp, aged respectively eleven, eight and six years (says the Otago Daily Times). They started from their home in Qucenstown on Wednesday morning, ostensibly to attend school. No great alarm was felt when the children failed to put in an appearance at lunch time, but later search was made in all directions without avail. About S

p.m. it was ascertained that they had been seen passing the. shipping office and making along the road that leads to the head of the lake. It was then remembered that the two youngest, whose home is at Glenorchy, had on several occasions said in their childish way that they "would walk to Clenorchy one of these days." Consternation ensued. Crighton (25 miles distant) was communicated with by telephone, and it was found that they had "been seen passing there at 5.30 p.m., "going strong." A rescue party set out on horseback from filcnorchy about midnight, and after riding about six miles came upon the children huddled together in the fern, where they had been sleeping until rudely awakened bv the men's voices calling to them in the darkness. They were a little afraid, very cold and very hungry." A revolution in the fish trade (according to the Melbourne Age) is foreshadowed bv the invention of a Scottish-Aus-tralian' (Mr. J. 11. Henderson). This is nothing less than the abolition of ice from the transport- and preservation of fresh fish. First the fish is put into a cooling chamber and slowly brought down to a temperature of :}2deg. Villi, (this part of the process takes about two hours). Its purpose is to extract the latent heat of the fish. It is a wellknown fact that with fish which have been kept in ice decay starts from within, near the bone. This is because the latent heat has not been removed. The fish are next plunged into a tank of sea water fortified by the addition of 15 per cent, of salt.' to prevent the bath from freezins at the extremely low temperature— lldeg. Fab. or 21deg. below freezing point—to which the bath is reduced. At the same time the water is kept in rapid motion )>y 4 an electric-ally-driven pump. During its passage the water passes through a filtering chamber charged with willow charcoal and nodules of coke, which absorb certain noxious gases. After four hours the fish are removed from the tank, and then they are impervious to decay for anything from a week to a fortnight, and perhaps longer. The new process is extremely cheap, and also promises large economies to the trade in carriage. V>v dispensing witli ice about one-fourth of the carriage would be saved, in addition to the cost of the ice itself. The Anniversary Services of the Whitelev Memorial Church will take place to-morrow at II and 7 o'clock. The preacher for the (lav is the Rev. -I. W lbirtou. The morning subject will be: "Is the Church necessary to Christian Life''": and in the evening, the question will be dealt with. ••Why We Are Methodists." Special music will be rendered bv the choir at both services.