LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 288, 28 April 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Assessment Court will sit at 11 o'clock this morning.

Householders are reminded that the school committee elections throughout the district take place this evening. A Swiss airman, Attilio Maffei, recently elected to the Grand Provincial Council, flew from Bellinzona over the Alps to Lugano to take his seat at a Council meeting. The new valuation of London is £45,000,000, an increase during the year of £250,000, according to an official statement made at a meeting of the London County Council last month. The Timaru Borough Council, after much discussion, decided to have some five thousand feet of monicr reinforced concrete main sewer pipes made by day labor, rather than accept a tender (plus cartage) of £1554. The Engineer re : ported that the pipes could be made at a cost of £1027, saving one-third of the tender cost.

A sitting of the North Island Railway Appeal Board is set down for May Ist at the Supreme Court buildings, Auckland. The cases of Messrs. K. C. Wells, F. R. Pope and J. D. McComish are to be heard. Dr. McArthur, chairman, and Messrs. C. T. Ryan and D. Dwyer, members of the Board, will arrive in Auckland > by the express train on Wednesday. Mr. M. Dennehy, of Wanganui, has been retained as counsel for appellants.

The control of London traffic by the police has been a matter of slow evolution. A century ago, when George IV. dined with the Lord Mayor soon after his accession, it took his escort five hours to force a way through the crowd which filled the streets from his palace to the. Guildhall. And it was not until about thirty years ago that the existing system of regulating traffic at crossings was instituted. At the beginning it required four policemen at every important junction to do with difficulty what two constables and sometimes one now effect by a motion of the hand. But the man in the blue stuck to their task and hung on to horses' heads and summoned rebellious drivers till the right of law and order 'was established.

What is a fair test in English to put to a foreigner seeking admission to Australia? The question (says the Melbourne Ago) is suggested by a case which came before the City Court recently, when a Hindu sailor named Ibrahim was charged with being a prohibited immigrant. The Hindu, who had deserted from a German steamship, was asked to write from dictation the following newspaper passage:— "Politicians of both great parties almost invariably speak of the north of Australia as 'a white man's country,' but is it a white woman's country ? If it is not—if woman suffers physically and her children or grandchildren degenerate—the problem of the Northern Territory is more difficult and more momentous than any Ministry has yet imagined." The Hindu capitulated on the spot, but whilst admitting defeat, he courageously offered to try to copy the passage if the official would write it out for him!

Have you studied the identity of cause with result? One has a direct bearing on the other. For instance, McCallum's '-PERFECTION" is the BEST Whisky (cause), and it is also the most POPULAR (result).

A school of dolphins was to be seen off Moturoa yesterday morning.

"Many married women are miserable, and all women who are not married are miserable," said the West London Magistrate recently.

It is rumored that the Labor Party intend running Professor W. T. Mills at the next general election for the Manawatu seat.

A pile of applications are to hand in Wellington for the position of city organist, some having come from England and Australia. The position carries a salary of £240 a year. A windfall which will eventually come the way of the Palmcrston Hospital was forecasted the other day, when the Board received from the Pubic Trustee a statement of the estate of the late Mr. A. H. D. Williams. At the expiration of a term defined by the life-time of a present beneficiary, the Hospital Board will receive a legacy of £5385. Mile. Thirron, aged 18 years, of Rhciins (France) swallowed a packet of needles a few weeks ago. A needle was removed from her chest by a doctor on March 10, and since then she shed forty needles from her left hand, fingers, both legs and her chest. Each time a needle makes an appearance the girl feels a slight pricking sensation, but she experiences no inconvenience, and the pricking, she says, is rather pleasant than otherwise. "It is like drinking soda-water," she told the doctor. What soda tale is that?

An English trade journal, the Grocer, reports that the shipments of New Zealand cheese to London up to March showed an increase of nearly. 30. per cent, over last 'season, which-was the largest on record. As for the quality of' New Zealand, cheese, the paper states that complaints throughout Great Britain are general. Some of the best brands are strong flavored, and of very open and loose texture. < The rind is also very soft, which possibly»accounts for the excessive loss in weight shown after arrival.

How a severed nose tip was speedily restored to its place is related by the Munich Medical Monthly. A student, it is stated, had the tip of his nose slashed off in a duel. The wounded man coolly picked up the piece of flesh, and, placing it in his mouth, hurried to the hospital. There -he was complimented by the surgeons, who declared that the patient's procedure was scientifically correct, for the warmth of the mouth had prevented the cellular death of thesevered organ. The nose tip was duly washed, and there and then Sewn on the student's face, and he departed smiling. A sensational incident happened in connection with Messrs Stratford and Blair's sawmill at Patara recently (says the Ureymouth Star). The locomotive was crossing the bridge over the Arnold river, when one of the suspension ropes gave way, with the result that the engine capsized and fell into the river, running swift and deep, fifteen feet below. At the time of the mishap two men, named Dunn and Kelly, were -on the locomotive, but luckily they fell clear, and got ashore a quarter of a mile lower down the stream, none the worse for their untoward experience. The task of raising the engine promises to be a formidable one, and it is probable that it will be a week before it is again in commission. In the meantime, the mill lias closed down.

The Riverton, Star states that one of the heaviest losses through the flood was sustained by Mr. William Fullerton, <>f Thombury. He had 107 acres of wheat, which was considered the best in the western district. This has been entirely destroyed. The loss is estimated at €IOOO. Quite a number of sheaves were gathered by the fishermen on the Riverton beach by means of a long pole with a hook attached. A speculative Chinaman'guaranteed to buy the output at so much per sheaf. The employees of Messrs Moore and Sons' railway works had a sensational experience as a result of the flood. The water invaded, the. tent at night time," and they had to wade through water waist-high before reaching terra firma. Fortunately, beyond a wetting, the occupants were none the worse for their somewhat trying experience.

Says the "Look-out Man" in Fairplas r : •"I see by the Argentine papers that efforts are to be made to create an Argentine oversea mercantile marine. Mr. Pablo A. Luison is apparently shocked that so very few ocean-going steamers fly the Argentine flag, and he purposes to build about a dozen passenger steamers of about 12,000 tons dead weight each, to be fitted with refrigerating machinery. He offers to provide the vessels without any subsidy and to carry 10 Argentine seamen or engineers on each steamer to train them for the Argentine navy. The only condition he lays down is that his vessels shall have a reduction of 20 per cent, in port charges. The vessels are, according to the promoter, to carry passengers, emigrants, refrigerated produce, and coal and other cargoes, and, in addition to other attractions, the third-class passengers are to be re- • galed every evening with, cinematograph ■ pictures. An unusual case was heard by the S.M. at Manaia, when an application was made for a prohibition order against John. McPhillips by G. D. McKenzie, licensee of the Manaia Hotel. Giving evidence in support of his ap- i plication, Mr. McKenzie said (the Witness reports) McPhillips came into town at occasional intervals, remaining for some days. During those periods he was constantly drunk, and while in that state came into his house and made himself a nuisance. After putting him out through one door he found his way in through another. The mau had been previously prohibited, but he obtained drink through some source, and on one occasion had been found lying drunk in a paddock with a bottle of whisky and sonic bottles of beer. Though prohibited, the liquor was supplied him through some agency. In reply to the Magistrate, Constable Carroll said the man was about 27 years of age. The order was granted. YOU SHOULD BE DETERMINED in rejecting the worthless and frequently injurious counterfeits which are sometimes pushed for the sake of greater gain as ''just as good" as the GENUINE SANDER & SONS' VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Be not deceived. SANDER'S EXTRACT is recognised by the medical authorities as possessing unique stimulating, healing and antiseptic powers. The preparation of SANDER'S EXTRACT from the pure selected leaves, and the refinement by special processes, give it curative virtue's peculiarly its own. Therefore, be not misled. Demand and insist upon the GENUINE SANDER EXTRACT, and you will derive the benefit that thousands have reaped from it before.

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