LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 299, 10 May 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Postal Department advises that the English and Australian mails, ex Niagara at Auckland, will arrive here by the Earawa this morning. Although the monthly meeting of the Taranaki Land Board has been postponed from Thursday May 15 to May 22, the land ballot will take place as advertised on May 15. The Wellington Office advises that the following ships were within wireless range last night:— Wimmera, Victoria, Ulimaroa, Maitai, Willoehra, Niagara, Nerehana, Navua, Pakeha, and Warrimoo. Chairmen of the various committees on the New Plymouth Borough Council have been elected as follows:—Works, the Mayor; Executive the Mayor; Finance, the Mayor; Abattoirs, Councillor Kibby; Reserves, Councillor Collis; Baths, Councillor Tabor; Electric Light, Councillor J. Clarke; By-laws, the Mayor. The Borough Council has had presented'to it a largely-signed petition from the residents of Vogeltown. asking that a footpath be formed from Victoria Road through Shortland Street, towards the Recreation Grounds. The road is dangerous to pedestrians, owing to its narrowness, and the absence of footpaths, and their inability to see approaching vehicles until they are right upon them. It is understood that the Bonz Motor Lorry Company have arranged In run two motor lorries between Mannia and Ilawera for a period of six months after which certain conditions being fulfilled, they will hand them over to the Kaupokonui Dairy Company. The New Zealand manager of the company has cabled Home for two lorries, and expects to have them running by the end of June.—Waimate Witness. This morning at 0 o'clock Morey and Moore, King Street, offer two yards of 72 inch herringbone sheeting Is yd., good, heavy stuff, just what you want.*

A London cablegram states that the sale of the Browning relics realised £28,000. Messrs. W. (G. Malone and H. B. Worthington have just received return for their first draft of 301 fat wethers from their Puniwhakau farm, whicji netted £302 18s 5d.-Post.

It can rain in other placccs than Taranaki. At VVainui, whence Wellington draws its water supply, the other day, over ten inches fell iii 24 hours. This surely must beat Ingle wood's record! For fighting in the streets at Waitara on Thursday evening, two men named Arthur E. Russell and Lawrence Hart were yesterday fined 20s each by thepresiding Justice (llr. W. F. Jenkins). The Nelson Harbour Board has adopted Mr. Leslie, 11. Reynold's recommendation for further improvements to the harbour at a cost of £42,400, and purposes placing the matter before the ratepayers immediately. Running a small steamer on the New Zealand .coast is not the "nice thing" for profit that some people imagine. The s.s. Tainui left Waitara on the 30th ulto., and struck a south-easter, which delayed her arrival in Wellington. After she got in port the weather got worse, and the vessel,could not return to. Waitaro on Thursday night, having been nine days away. Mr. A. Lash, a member of'the Clifton Football Club, met with a rather unfortunate accident in the Tukapa-Clifton match at Waitara on Thursday. He, with several others, was charging down a Tukapa man who was kicking the ball for the line, when he received the full force of the ball in the face, and was thrown to the ground:' Dr. Fo'okes attended the sufferer, and conveyed him to the New Plymouth Hospital in his car. His right eye was injured to some extent, and it is impossible to say whether he will regain his-.normal sight.

A rather serip.us accident befel Mr. Harold Street while out with the Taraaki houds at Mr. G. Foreman's property, Tikorangi, on Thursday. Mr. Street was galloping across a paddock when his horse tripped and, turning a complete somersault, ■ landed 'on its rider. As a result Mr, Street received a fractured skull, along with other injuries. Temporary assistance 'was rendered by Dr. Campbell, of Waitara, who had the sufferer conveyed to the New Plymouth Hospital, where he was attended to by Mr. Wylie, his condition being serious.,.On enquiry at the* hospital last evening we learned that his condition was 'unchanged. The number of passengers booked by the hew E.M.S. Niagara from Australia and New Zealand for Suva, Honolulu and Vancouver easily constitutes a record. The vessel sails from Auckland this morning, and she will leave port with almost the whole of her extensive accommodation taken up. In the first saloon some 220 people are hooked, while about 170 are travelling in the second saloon, and over 200 in the third class, making a total of close upon 600 people. Almost the whole of the first and third-class accommodation has been taken up. To give some idea of the great carrying capacity of the Niagara, it may be mentioned that the liner will take on board at Auckland 6200 quarters of beef, which is equivalent to 1500 head of cattle. The Citizens' Committee of the Band invite ladies and gentlemen desirous of assisting the hand in a huge carnival (which it is proposed to hold in September) to enable the band to purchase a new set of instruments and uniforms, to meet at the County Chambers in Rube Street on Tuesday evening, the 1:1 th Mist., when Professor Cardston will ]>' • before them the necessary preliminaries to make the function'a success. H may he mentioned that Professor Cardston, who will conduct the carnival, is a specialist in spectacular dancing, scenes and tableaux. At Wanganui and Hamilton the Professor was besieged with applications to he included in the various classes necessary for the carnival. It is hoped a large attendance will greet the Professor, as he has something most interesting to talk about.

The weather being favorable, there was a very fair attendance at'the North Taranaki Hunt meet at Mr. G. Foreman's, Tikorangi, on Thursday afternoon. Mr. Foreman's fences, together with those of the surrounding farmers, had been sparred, and there were several runs._ Although there were a few falls, the jumping, on the whole, was very good, and the hounds worked well. Owing to Mr. H. Street sustaining serious injuries through his horse falling, the meet was brought to an enrly close. Subsequently an adjournment was made to the residence of Mr. and.Mrs. Foreman, where afternoon tea was partaken of. Thanks were tendered to Mr. and Mrs. Foreman, for'their kindness, on behalf of the members of the Hunt, by Mr. A. H. Halcombe, and he also expressed sympathy with Mr. Foreman in the loss of his hunter, Barney. The next meet will taken place at Mr. ft. X. Skelton's Waihi.

The proposal to scour out the Patea river and give a depth of 10 feet on the bar was dealt with at the Patea Harbor Board meeting on Friday. Mr. Barton, chairman of the committee elected to investigate, stated that the scheme was, offered them for £IOO, plus £IOOO if it proved successful, with £250 in the meantime for survey work, finding, out the best side for the barage to impound river water, etc. The latter expense (the £250 item), was met by the committee agreeing to bear the expense. • An understanding being arrived at with Mr. Hansen, the promoter, and the scheme appealing to the committee as feasible it was submitted to the chief engineer. Mr. R, W. Holmes, who appeared favorable to the idea, but insisted that'unless it produced 10 feet from % the wharf to over the bar it _ should b"e declared a failure. The upshot was that Mr. Vickerman and Mr. Marehant (New Plymouth Harbor engineer) art to report. After that the Board would further consider the proposal, which was still in a nebulous position pending expression of expert views. The Board agreed to pay Mr. Hansen £IOO. Should the opinion's of the engineers named be favorable the Board will at once proceed with the steps necessary to obtain authority to raise £25,000 the estimated cost of harbor improvements.—The Patea Press.

The brotherhood meets as usual tomorrow in the Good Templar Hall. The speaker will be the Rev. J. W. Burton and the subject, "What our Brotherhood Means." The chair will be taken by Mr. J. B. Roy. Mr. J. H. Haslam wiil be the soloist, and the new Brotherhood hymns will be sung. On Monday evening the annual meeting will be held in the Whiteley Hall, when the election of officers for the ensuing year will take place. Strange to say. the old-fashioned method of external treatment of rheumatism and its allied ills, is still almost a fetish with some people. They seem to believe that a liniment or plaster is the only way of obtaining relief from uric acid troubles—and so they get worse and worse until their rheumatism becomes chronic. Liniments and plasters can give but temporary relief. No cure can be effected until the cause is removed. The trouble is due to excess uric acid in the blood, and this must be eradicated. RHEUMO is the one real remedy. It. goes to the root of the trouble and expels the uric acid. Thou•anfe *«,ve been cured by Bheumo. o,<

The art. gallery in connection with the forthcoming Auckland Exhibition will oontain paintings valued at £500,000. Mr. J. Gillett, of Urenui, was kicked on the forehead by a horse in Waitara. on Thursday, a nasty flesh wound re. suiting. A Gisborne confectioner was fined £1 and costs last week for keeping his shop open on a Sunday for the purposes of trading. The Dannevirke News says that it is reported that the Defence Department has purchased the land at Oringi where the territorial encampments have been held. As a result of the poll in favour of Saturday closing, says a southern paper, the various sports clubs in Christchurch are (biding already that with their in-, creased number of members who wish to take advantage of the afternoon for indulging in sports, that their accommodation needs to be extended. During the present year five comets are expected to make their appearance. Holmes' comet, which -was last seen in 18D2, will be the first to become visible. Next month the Enck'e visitor will be seen. Others announced are Finlay's,. De Vico-E, .Swift's and Westphal's. The last-named has not been seen for nearly sixty years, and is of unusual size. "A child's brain," Dr. Truby King stated in Wellington on Thursday, "increases as much in the first twelve months as it does during the whole of the rest of its existence. It should increase in the first twelve montjuj by three-quarters of a pound, and it will not further increase by nny greater amount'if its possessor. lives to /be a (hundred." Suppose land now costs any given sum per acre to work. To get a basis, call this £SO. By the invention of a machine this is brought down to £25. Thenthe price of land would rise by at least 5 per cent, on the lowered cost; of production, which would be £1 5s per acre. Every invention which by displacing manual labor cheapens the cost of production of any commodity raises the price of land.—Napier Telegraph. The Defence Department have decided to make Hawera their headquarters for Taranaki, and the various officials will be removed thither from Stratford very shortly. The new staff when the change has been effected will be, Captain Stevens, officer in charge of area group 8 (Taranaki) and adjutant for Senipr Cadets in group No. 8; Lieut. M'Donnell, Adjutant 11th Regiment TaTanaki Rifles; Regimental Sergeant-major M'Glade; Q.M.S. Collins, 11th Regiment Taranaki Rifle 3; Regimental Sergeant Major Dunham; Q.M.S.. Dallinger, Senior Cadets in Taranaki; Area Sergeantmajor Maloney, in charge 81 area. The new English Bankruptcy Bill makes an interesting departure in prescribing punishments for those who have become insolvent through gambling. The law is always chary of making itself a judge of morals, and adheres in the main to the principle of letting everybody "go to the devil in his own way." But (says the Pall Mall Gazette) theman who has gambled away not only his own assets, but the security relied on by creditors, has obviously overstepped the boundaries of his charter; lie has, in effect, squandered what was not his own, and is really in the same position as the embezzler.

Enquiries made in Christchurch show that the officers of the police force in that district are taking a keen interest in the recently-instituted system of promotion by examination, and tln\t already many of them are hard at work at their books (says the Press). The syllabus is an unusual one, and there has been some casting about for tutors able at once to teach and to fit in with the necessarily rather irregular hours of the men. So far as can be gathered, it is the mathematical side that the men regard with the least pleasure, as when many of the older ones were at school the decimal system of weights and measures was scarcely known. Making monthly shipments amounting to nearly £2,400,000, the South, African gold mines take extreme care the treasure is taken down to the coast in safety. Since most of the shipments are sent from Pretoria by rail many attempts have been made to hold up trains. To make successful robbery impossibln, the nine companies have built a oar that is substantially a safe on wheels. Tt is equipped with lights that show every inch of space under, over, alongside, and on each end of the body, nnd is bullet and bomb-proof. As further protection a guard is locked up in the car with every shipment, and cannot be released until the destination is reached.

Some remarkable allegations are made against a Tainan official. A telegram received by the Sydney Daily Telegraph from Port Moresby states:—"A serious charge has been brought against a Goyernment official for unlawfully assaulting Mandatti, a boy in his charge. The boy's statement was that for an act of disobedience the ollicial held him over a slow fire and roasted him. He then hanged the boy by the neck for a short space, and struck him with a spade over the face, and fired four shots at him with a revolver whilst he was. running away. The chief medical official gave evidence as to the burns and the wounds on the boy's body. The case was adjourned for rebutting evidence to be produced." Rather a peculiar coincidence occurred at the first meeting of the Parihaka Road Board on Thursday. The Board comprises six members, each representing a particular ward. One of the wards (Warea) at the recent election failed to return a member. At the first meeting only three members were present, and as under the provisions of the Act three members have to retire each year, it was necessary to ballot to decide who should retire at the end of the first year. In order that all should be above suspicion the two reporters present were appointed to do the balloting, and by a peculiar fate the ballot fell on the three absent members', who will duly retire in twelve months time. "It will'look very suspicious in the paper," remarked bnW of the members present.

BLANKETS, RUGS, OVERCOATS. ADVANCE SALES. AT THE .MELBOURNE. At no other period in our wliolo history have we been enabled to offer such astounding values in staple goods as at present. Various reasons may be adduced to show the reasons for this happy state of affairs, wider buying scope—duo to the increase in the number of our branches—and foresight in forward 1 buying when the price of wool was low. Our five Taranaki stores distribute' such a huge volume of merchandise that manufacturers and "jobbers" are eager competitors for our "spot" cash business, with the result that we buy and' sell at prices that make our competitors fairly wonder "how it's done." Just as we benefit by our 'spot" cash buyingmethods, so does the buyer who deals at our stores, because the savings effected by us are in turn passed on to him, thus consolidating our goodwill and increasing our sales. The savingt on these offerings are fine examples of the benefits derived by shopping at the Melbourne. Three-quarter bed all-wool white colonial blankets, 16s 6d pair; large double-bed size, 19s 6d pair; singlebed grey blankets 8s 9d pair; rugs, 5a lid to 15s Od; little boys' overcoats, s*. lld, Gs Cd to 10s 6d; ladies' lovely raincoats, 22s 6d; men's rubber coat's, 255; heavy tweed coats, 3Ds Cd; Hydrotite coats, 37a Gdj men's grey raincoats, onlv *2s Gd. " *