LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 22, 26 June 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tli(! Australian mails, ex Willoehra at Wellington, are expected to arrive here this afternoon. The inquiry into the Boot Factory fire is to be held next Wednesday in the Magistrate's Court. In the Mangotoki district at the Dominion Dairy rShow yesterday, were two cheeses, one the product of the Mangafoki Dairy Company (Mahoe), which topped the grading points at Patea, and the other from the Lowgarth factory, which topped the grading points at Moturoa. What a record!

Thirty applicants for eleven sections in the, Tariki block, were examined at the New Plymouth Land Office yesterday, six being rejected. The tenure of the land is on the renewable lease system, with right of purchase at any time. A block of 12)334 acres in the Omara and Taurakawa districts was offered, but no applicants came forward'. This is the second block offered during the past six weeks for which there have been no applicants.

It will be remembered that while other provinces have made gifts of their produce to our Dreadnought, Taranaki has not been so generously disposed. However, the Taranaki Agricultural Society is determined that the province's reputation shall not suffer in this respect, and quite a quantity of butter, cheese, vegetables, etc., will be sent to Auckland to the big battleship. If there are any farmers who wish to contribute towards the supply, the Society will be pleased to accept their contributions up till 10 o'clock on Friday morning next.

The headmistress of the Auckland Diocesan School for Girls stated at the prizegiving ceremony that she considered the most serious drawback in her nine years' work, was the floating character of its population. She had looked through the school's register of entries the other day, and she estimated that of the 450 girls already entered, only about 50 had been at school long enough to give the teachers a chance of educating them. The rest (over 200, exclusive of those still at school) were temporary inmates only. "I suppose," said Miss Pulling, "a girl should spend at least her last five years without interruption at the same school, if she is not to waste the most valuable part ofVhat it offers."

An interesting return, showing the salaries paid to school inspectors by the Education Boards of the Dominion, has been prepared bv the Taranaki Education Board* for the purpose of considering the salaries paid to their own inspectors. Auckland has six inspectors and pays salaries ranging from (.'OOO to £4011; Wanganui has three, ranging from £575 to £340; Wellington three, from £550 to £400; Hawke's Bay two, from £075 to £400; Marlborough one, ."400; Nelson two, £450 and £350;

"estland one, £360; North Canterbury Cree, £550 to South Canterbury ( us £550; Otago three, £SOO to £400; Southland two, £52.) to £475. Taranafci's two inspectors receive only £375 and £3OO, and yesterday the Board decided to increase their salaries. The annual balance-sheet of the Bank of New South Wales at, March 31, 1913, is published over our leader column in this issue. The Bank has had a very successful year, the profit and loss account showing a credit of £285,745 18s lid on the vear's working, to which is added an amount of £84.838 Ifls Id. brought forward from previous account, making a total of £370.584 15s. Of this amount the shareholders lmve received £15(i,338 10s by way of a 10 per cent, dividend, while those shareholders who have paid up capital in advance have received 5 per cent, on same, which accounts for £1.742 7s lid. The officers' provident fund and the Buokhnid fund absorb £25,000, while £IOO,OOO is parried to the Reserve Fund, leaving a total credit balance of £87.503 17s Id to carry forward to profit,and loss account after meeting all liabilities. The Reserve Fund now stands at £2,250.000. which is made up of an amount of £2,150.000. being bi la nee carried forward previously and £IOO.OOO from profit and loss account. Tlie export of blue cod from Wellington to Australia has assumed fairly large proportions (states the Wellington Post). A large consignment was shipped by the Wi Hot-lira on Friday for Xydnev. ' The Chatham Islands Fishing Company alone forwarded 550 eases of frown fish, all of which were caught on the line at the company's station nt (hvlienga. The fish is brought to Wellington by the company \s steamer Himitaugi, and is kept in cool storage at Wellington until exported. On her last trip the vessel brought 700 eases. Some of the fish finds sale in Wellington, but the bulk of it is shipped lo Sydney » w \ Melbourne, where it always commands a ready sale at fancy prices. Across the Tasman Sea they will tnke as much of the blue cod as New Zealand can supply. As a matter of fact, in all the principal towns in Australia, New Zealand blue cod is to be found on sale. The Chatham Islands Company has its own fishermen, its own boats and its own factory at Owenga, on the eastern side of the 'island, while 'at the northern end, at Kaingaroa. Mr. W. McLean's station is maintained,. Fish are very plentiful at the islands, and the only drawback is the liekleness of the weather. But for this the catches would be much bigger. As it is, the companies' employees are, on the average, unable to fish for more than fifteen davs in each month.

The big joli fair which opens at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning at Morey and Moore's, King street, is to be an a'f-Fair of big importance to inoiKM--saving shoppers. The 2s Ud room holds astoundiiiL' bargains for all. TJio line of tablec oths at this price i s the biggest snip the firm has ever olio rod. Got alon« early.* *>

AI-'TKU TWENTY YEARK-ANOTHEH KiaiAKKARLE KIIIOIMO CURE There could he no greater proof of -heumo's wonderful curative properties tban the testimony of Mr. K. M. Eudman, of (olhngwood street, Xdson. i] is wns "'deed a chronic case of gout and rheumatism; yet liheumo completely cured Itini. L'hese are his own words: '"'lt »ives me much pleasure to be able to sav that rnri"™? r^ 01 "' tt ' o,,,l «rfnl medicine, JvHhUlo, I have been completely cured ol gout and rheumatism of which I have been a sullVivr f (l , 1110 p . ls( . ~ years. I may say I have not had the slightest symptoms for 11,,. paßt two years, and feel convinced it is a permanent cure." This is proof enough indeed and should convince you that Blieumo will cure too. It matters not how long you have bad your gout and rheumatism -give Ttheumo a trial'ami it will surprise you. It is a remarkable specific for the cure of all uric acid troubles—"out rheumatism, .sciatica, lumbago, gravel' stono and the lick. Oct a bottle to-day and prove Rheumo's eflicacv for vonrself Of all chemists and stores, 2/0 and

The Wanganui District Nursing taaguf has a credit balance of nearly £OOO, two collections made during the past twelve months realising £052. Dr. W. McDonald, editor of the Agricultural Journal nublished by me t.o-veiuim-nt of the I'iiion of South Africa, while lecturing before the Koyal Colonial Institute, said that o-drich farming was probably the most profitable farming in the world, and it was commonly understood that some of the principal men engaged in it in South Africa were making profits of something like £50,00(1 a year each. A British traveller, who has recently been through tlie Amazon region of South America, says that in this vast and littleknown region slavery is rampant. When he was in the Madre de Dios region the market price of a man was £OO, of n woman £4O. and of a child £lO. For good men, used to collecting rubber, much higher prices prevailed. The traveller saw a group of twenty families, or about eighty persons, bought for £3(100. lie says tlit in the Madre de Dios conntry the slaves are as a rule not unhappy, but he did not penetrate into the back country, where the slave-owners are free from restraint. In a recital- is.-iiie of the Sydney iSuu ajipc-.-. -.d . , ■ , -,' : ;' "-K-t that among the ynr"-'- f <>! applicants for land in the new Stapleton district, Northern Australia, was Mr. Robert Grillith,.- of Tokoniaru. It appears that the settler iitVri\ '. ' Mr. r..)1.;-ri-r:iioii,'i Perrouu, of Tokoniaru, where he has been in business for a number of years. Mr. Perreau has been allotted 1016 acres of State land free under the Government scheme for settling the Northern Territory, laud in question is well watered by the Fimtis river, and it' is being allotted in large blocks. Mr. Perreau received a cable last week conveying the news of his success, and he expects to leave about Christmas time with his family for Australia. A remarkable incident occurred at Mirboo North, Victoria. A dark-skin-ned woman was married at St. Mary'i Church of England to a white man. fb'e bride, dressed all in white, even to the orthodox orange-blossom wreath and veil, left the church, accompanied by the bridegroom, the best man and a bridesmaid. About a block from the church, the bridegroom suddenly thought of an urgent appointment, and moved off down the street in a great hurry, three blocks in front of the bride. Then the best man also recollected an appointment, and a little later on the bridesmaid went away to do some shopping. The bride, in all her finery, was thus left alone in the street. There were a lot of people about, but the dusky bride appeared quite unconcerned at the gaiety she was arousing. The necessity for a prohibitive duty being placed on certain foreign soft goods lines was emphasised by the mnni ager of the local branch of a firm carrying on an extensive business throughout New Zealand, when conversing with a Wellington Post reporter recently. He instanced ladies' straw hats as a case in point. There was, he said, a great importation of "straws" from Italy, and this importation was growing by leaps and bounds. Whereas in 1008 the value I of Italian hats imported was, roughly, £IOOO, last year their value had mounted up to £-20,000, out of a total of £120.000 worth of the imported article. Labor in Italy was infinitely cheaper than it wan in England, and the result was that tinItalian manufacture, being considerably less expensive than the British-made article, was having a great vogue among the ladies. The informant further added that he understood the Imperial Government was moving in the direction of protecting British manufactures as far as the overseas Dominions were concerned. He suggested that a remedy would be to take the Customs duty off the Bri-tish-made article and to increase th« duty on the foreign one in proportion, which would practically mean the exclusion of the latter. As timber supplies are being exhausted in other parts of the Dominion sawmillera are transferring their plant to the King Country and setting up their mills in what may be regarded as the last stronghold of the New, Zealand bush (writes a Taumarunui correspondent). An important move has recently been made by the Egmont Box Company in going into Kakahi. This company contines its operations to the making of but-ter-boxes, and as the demand for these is steadily increasing, consequent on the extension of the dairying industry, and as at the same time the supply of white pine is becoming greatly reduced in other districts, the company appears to have been well advised ih securing a footing in the Tung Country. Its bush skirts the Wanganui river for several miles, and is, so far, co-terminus with the property of the Tonga riro Timber Company, ft contains 28,800 acres, and lias a large proportion of white pine, as well as other valuable timbers.