LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 170, 17 January 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The St. 'Mary's Sunday 'School picnic will ho held next Thursday at Frank■lcigli Park. . A nestling swallow which was "ringed" at Skebnorlie, Ayrshire, ou .lulv 27, lfilti, was found at Riet Yallei, Orange River Colony, on .March ]fi, Mil,'). The Te Puke paper states that tho smallpox outbreak at Te Teko is not so serious as at first rumored. Nearly every new vaccination has taken, and the suspects and contacts are almost over their time of isolation. The Canterbury A. and P. Association is raising a fund to wipe oil' the mortgage on its property. A run-bolder has given £rm\ and with the amount, previously in band, and anotbei jesiil) to be raised, the Christchurch showgrounds will be free of debt.

A case which revealed a sordid side of married life.was heard in.the .Vhii-i.s-tratc.'s Court yesterday before .Mr.' A. •Crooko, S.M., when Ethel Annie Wells (•llr. A. 11. .lohnslone) applied for a maintenance order for herself and three children (the. eldest of whom is four years of age) against her husband. Jolm Henry Wells. She also applied for a separation order and for the custody! of the children. U transpired that the defendant, and his wife, had 'been residing at Opunake in November, 11M-2. Di" feiulant then went to Marton, and from there lie sent small sums of money, .but since then his wife had heard nothing of him until his recent arrest in Auckland. She had 'been in receipt of chariUble aid in tlie meantime and a child wax 'bom during his absence. The defendant stated that lie was a cook, cumin!.' ;!l).s per week and his .keep in the Girlton Hotel at Auckland. He consented to a separation order and to a maintenance order for £l, per week, his wife to have custody of the children.

A press message .states that Parliaiiieiit has been further prorogued to February 13.

The Masterton Chamber of Commerce decided yesterday to protest to the Hailway Department against the ordinary railway time-table"being suspended to suit the convenience of the Wellington Racing Club.—Press Association. The Tarauaki Regimental Rand has been reinforced by a large number of new players, and good progress is being made in the practice of inarching m view of the forthcoming contest. The band lias arranged to givo a concert at Xawaroa Park at 3 p.m. on Sunday.

A lady at a mieoling in Eketahuna the other day lamented tho dearth of competent judges of cookery at shows. •She declared that sho had seen prizes awarded for cakes, which cakes, had they been brought in at afternoon tea in her friends' houses would have been thrown out to the fowls. (Laughter). The business of the New Plymouth Harbor Board yesterday was transacted in a somewhat "go-as-you-please'' fashion, members seeming to be imbued with a spirit of laxity born of tho heat of tho day. It was no uncommon occurrence for three or four members to be found talking at once in a conversational manner, a course that did not tend, to an expeditious disposal of the business.

The chairman of the Mountain House Committee explains that the reason for adding Mr Upson to Mr Graham's stail of assistants is in consequence of the, work of the "hostelry having increased so much that it would not only be unfair but impossible to expect Mr Graham to have the additional responsibility of the guiding on his shoukio.i. Mr Upson having had practical experience, climbers will feel quite safe under his guidance.

At yesterday's meeting oi tlie committee acting for the deputation that waited on the Borough Council at its meeting on Monday last, it was decided: '•That owing to notices of motion to rescind the resolution granting an extension of hours to billiards saloons being tabled by councillors, and to the fact that it is understood that at the next meeting of the Council the matter will receive full consideration, this committee decides to await the Council's decision before taking any further action." Complaints were frequent and pithy yesterday morning, when it became known that the Northern Company's steamer Karawa, from Auckland, had failed to connect with the mail train for South. Enquiry at the office of the local agent for the company elicited the fact that the Rarawa, crossed the Manakau bar at 7 p.m. >on Thursday, some two hours later than she should have done. The agent received no intimation from the head office concerning the delay, or the reason for it. The boat appears jo have had a good trip down, but did not arrivo at Moturoa until 7 a.m. yesterday. The Manawatu river at Foxton h very low at present, and owing to silt and sandbanks steamers have considerable difficulty in reaching the wharf. The local Borough Council has decided to Jviro the Minister of Marine protesting against the insurmountalble difficulties in which the Harbor Board is placed owing to insufficient revenue to keep the channel open, thereby causing a flourishing industry great hardship, and also the community at large, owing to increased cost of coal through blockage of steamer trailic, and urging the Minister to approach Cabinet with a view of placing the Board on a better footing. The English death duty laws would appear to be somewhat unwieldy. A gentleman who recently returned from the Old Country remarked yesterday that an estate in Northumberland was said to have been rendered bankrupt by succession duties. For 30 years the variout successors to this entailed estate were elderly men, and in that tune the estate was mulcted in death duties eight times. At last it owed the British Government so much that (so the story goes) eight official receivers and trustees entered into possession at salaries Tanging from £2OO to £4OO per annum, and they administered the estate for the Government, paying the owner a small income from it.

On Thursday next a monster children's picnic will he held at Kawaroa Park. At a. general meeting held in the bungalow last night to arrange full details, the amount of enthusiasm displayed augured well for the success of tlie function. An invitation will he ex-, tended to Mm general public, and all facilities will be provided for ensuriii" an enjoyable time for the pickniekcrs. Hot water, tea and sugar will be provided free. Sub-committees have been set. up to arrange for children's sports and competitions of every description, for which liberal prizes will be given.' For adults, there will be skittles, quoits, ringulet, and all the popular seaside amusements. The Indies' committee will provide afternoon tea. No charge will be made for admission, but a collection will he taken up towards beautifying the 'grounds - .

In speaking of the New Zealand Defence scheme to a News reporter yesterday, Mr V. W. Marehant let fall soma remarks which seemed to indicate that, while in England recently, ho had heard something of the Sellars family, who returned to England lately, ostensibly because they did not approve of the Dominion's scheme of compulsory military training. A Quaker told him, he remarked, of a family who returned to England because they would not conform to the "tyrannous laws of tho country" in that respect, and when Mr. Maivhant. remarked that the country was better without them, the peace, man waxed most indignant. •Speaking of the fund which had been raised for the Sella rs by one of the London dailies, "Mr Ma reliant remarked that the London newspapers would raise a fund for Mephistophele*. if lie found himself without a place of residence.

POX AND DIPHTHERIA would certainly not have attained such proportions if the hygienic fact were more generally known that, the disinfection of the mouth by a reliable and 'Harmless antiseptic is a great protecting factor against all ailments where the infection is through the throat or reIpiratory tract By nutting 3 drops of SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT on > piece of loaf-sugar, and allowing it to dissolve in the mouth, that cavity ia thoroughly disinfected. The volatile nature of SANDER'S EXTRACT makes \t penetrate every crevice. . SANDER'S iIXTRACT is not nauseous nor depressing like the common eucalyptus, and possesses great antiseptic power. By using SANDER'S EXTRACT, you avoid the uncertain composition of the lozenge; you hsvo the benefit of the strongest antiseptic that can be used with safety, Mid the result is protection feom all inftw>+iQn,

The Canadian Dairy Division states that flies cause great loss to the dairy farmer by so irritating the cows as to reduce Hi ilow of milk materially. Tho setting around, in shallow pans, of a mixture of sweet skim milk, two parts, and formcliii one part, will do miieli to reduce the pest. Fashions iu the slit, hobble, balloon and! hoop skirts as worn in ancient Crete a'bout aiOO 8.C., were shown in a lecture delivered More the Twentieth Century Club at Pittsburg from photographs taken by Dr. Edith Hall, archaeologist, of Pennsylvania University, during her excavations on the island.

The London Times link just issued another of its wonderful special numbers. It issued a "Textile Supplement" a few months ago, which was a masterpiece, of the. journalistic art, and it follows it up with an even greater production devoted to the portrayal of "Fuel," defiling principally with the coal, gas and oil industries. It is profusely illustrated, and the accompanying articles are written 'by the experts of tho world In newspaper enterprise, the Times still leads the world.

. It was reported to the Hawera police that a cheque for over £SO had been stolen from a residence 'in Victoria street, Hawera. It seems that a shop assistant, who had been entrusted with tho oioney by a fanner to pay his employer, on returning from his j-ounds at ti.UO o'clock, placed the cheque in his pocket book, and placed in in a top drawer of a duchess in his [bedroom! lie then went to tho beach, and on returning late in the evening, noticed the window open and the drawer pulled out, and on investigating found that th» pocket-ibdok containing the cheque was missing. Payment of the cheque has been stopped, and an investigation into tho affair is heing made by the authorities. The young man states that thers were footprints near the window.