LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 173, 21 January 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Renewal of land agents' licenses were granted yesterday by Mr. A. Crooke, S.M.. to V. P. Corkill, Newton Kin", (!. W. llartnell, J. S. H. Medicv, Giliuour and Clarke and It. P. Cornwall. There will be family bathing at tile Municipal Paths this evening, under the rules of the New Plymouth Swimming Club. Children under 14 years of n»c will not be admitted. " ° In a report on the recent camp of the -New Plymouth High School cadets, .Major A. 0. Temperley, who had command ol the boys, comments verv favorably on the work of the. camp' and the elheiency displayed by the boys. Holiday traffic on the Auckland tramways surpassed all previous records. In 11 days from Christmas Eve to January 3 inclusive, 1,700,078 passengers were carried, as compared with I, 4011,174 in the'same period last year. The. largest number in any one day was ils,7!)o„jei.i Christmas Kve. The receipts during'the period totalled £ll,sos.—Press message. The following are the amounts paid out for December butter-fat by some of the dairy companies in the neighborhood of New Plymouth, the figures in parentheses showing the amounts paid out for December, 11112: Mam'orei ■C4707 10s (£4137 is 10.1); ■ Oakura, £IBBO 4s !)d (.C173!) Kls Id); Omata, £1155 10s lid (.11040 Its 3d); l-'rank-ley road, £420; Taruriitangi, CB-J4 5s ( £403 Os «d).

In the magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., judgment for pbiintill' by default was given in thes following cases:—A. It. Herbert v. Albert Cluis. Wilmsbursl, £3 9s fid (costs 10s); Mary K. .Smith v. Prank M. Wbitmore' £S 8s (£1 & Od); Herbert Cocker v. George Placker, £1 15s (155).; (i. p. Hruce v. George V. Dempsev, £2 »& (Us); \)v. 11. A. McClcland v. Win. O Sullivan, £5 5s Oil (£1 3s lid); G. U Milliard v. Charles Mcl'hee, £lO 10s (£1 ISs 0d). Pveryone in New Plymouth who desires to support tlie' XI. Kegimental Land, and at the same time listen to an enjoyable musical programme, will no doubt be present at Messrs. Sole Pros.beautiful grounds on Sunday next. "Aotea" has never presented a more attractive appearance than it does now, and full advantage should lie taken of the generosity of its owners. The band's programme will include the pieces to be played nt the Auckland band contest. A collection will be taken up in aid of the expenses to be incurred in connection with .sending the hand to the contest, a worthy object when the benefit which the band will reap from the experience gained at Auckland is considered. At a meeting of the East tin" battling reserve committee recently, the question of the somewhat overcrowded state, of the dressing-rooms in the committee's pavilion was discussed at some length. It was decided to apportion parts of the rooms for the use of children, the larger spaces in each room to be for the use of adults. The boxes in the ladies'room will he kept exclusively for their use, and small girls will he expected to disrobe outside these, lint inside the room. Tt is possible that if the attendance at: the reserve cent'nines to be so numerous as heretofore, further additie.'.s will be ni"de to the buildings. A plumber has been engaged to see to the ilr lies, whieb ■li:'"" been the cause of a little com-pl-iiut. The ijUesiion arose in the Magistrate's Court yesterday as to whether that good old reliable "important lm-iness obicwhere"' was sufficient excuse for nonattendance at a court, of the pariv lo an action. Mr. A. K. Slanilish applied for one week's adjournment of a cane concerning a claim fur land agent's commission, in which lie was acting /or the plaintiff, on the grounds that his client was engaged in important business in the north of Auckland, nml rould not attend court.' Mr. A. TT. Johnstone, who appeared for the defendant, objected to the adjournment. The ease in question was, he remarked also ''important business." This client hail attended at considerable inconvenience. After further legal argument an adjournment •was granted, .til Is costs being allowed .to the, defendant's solicitor.

l'uvis is slirvi'il ''■;; s\i-.-.>iUcr pearl mystery. A linn which makes- insect powder is including .: :[;;i-isl circular with all the goods it surd out stilting tlmt n valuable pearl-a famih heirloom—fell into a i|iiiintir.y of the powder during maiml'uelnre, and <:;"c;iii;; a reward of :tiit to liny person r.Uiniing it. The powder is selling niccl;,.

One of the most inlcre-,iiiig romances of stamp collecting is 'vailed liy the find of autograph let:;:-; in Sardinia. Tli« most valuable >l,a.:.p in existence U said to lit! tin; "IV t ihiice" .Mauritius, which is worl.li about £151)1). dust after the postal authorities had received the issue the po-t i.lii-.e was destroyed in n hurricane. lb't die OovcriKir icail given a ball, and a- an act of courtesy had sent invitiiiions to friends in England. The only specimens of the stamps known to exist are those which were allixed to the i-iivi-h.pes of the invitatio»s.

■ An oflicer o> 't'ae battle-cruiser New Zealand, writing to friend in Auckland, mentions a rumor ih.it the warship may he employed to lake the Prince, of Wales to Canada in April in-tead of joining the first l'attlc.crui>cr Squadron, as was earlier understood. The same correspondent mention, that so well has the ship borne the WKI-milo cruise that when she comes to relit at Portsmouth the whole of the defects in the engineers' department can be repaired' in three days. It i, interesting to note that the ship's company utilised a photograph of the New v., aland at anchor in the Waitcmata as their Christmas card. A report from another source credits the Admiralty with the, intention of placing Captain lklsey in charge of the. , seciiou of the Pacific Squadron in these I waters.

A Manchester m.-reliant, who was supposed to bo :\ millionaire, (lied suddenly inlcstato, ami :i[.;>nrt?ntly penniless. There were certain immense, sums noted in liis diary as "In Till," but there was nothing' in Hie .-haju.' of a till either in his house or in hi-, counting-house. So all his goods, including his library, were sold to keep hi--family from starvation. Weeks fitter the -alj the lawyer who had superintended it, having a happy thought, went to tin' bookseller who hail bought the hook-, and, under the pretext that liis wife, in a pious (it had taken to religious reading asked the price of an old copy of 'Tillitson's Sermons.-' which lie .not for a shilling—to iind the pages interleaved with hank notes of fabulous \a!ue!

A peculiar adventure hefel Canon Hughes while returning from a funeral in Melbourne. At the cemetery the handle of a door o! a mourni.ig coach in which Canon Hughes was seated came oil' in the hand of an attendant, who was frying to turn it, and the. door remained tightly fa-iened. Canon Hughes, .however, left tin- coach by the. door on the opiiosile\si'.h'. When the residence of Canon Hughe- was readied after Iho service, the hand!" ..f the oilier door also came off. and both doors delicd all efforts to open them. A- Canon Hughes was unable to yet through the windows, it was necessary to drive the coach to a .blacksmith's shop to secure his release. Wireless telegraphy has made many .strides since ttie y.'ar liKI-l, when the .firt ocean daily iiec-papcr was published on board the Cmiard liner Campania, en route to New York, and another distinct point in its progn ■•s was registered on •November 20. when, for the lirst time on record, news bulletin-: taken by wireless were, displayed on a moving train. As already reported, a series of experiments in virelcs.- despatching- and receiving have been conducted for some time past on hoard the Lackawanna Railway, Ltd.'s. express, running' between New York and Ihili'alo, and the results were so encouraging apparently that the officials have made arrangements for a news service which is unique in history. Passengers on the (rain weiv astonished to see the late-i foreign and home despatches spread before their eyes as they were being whirled along at (ill miles an hour. Message- thorn NciV.uto'.t gave passengers the h'.i,..;, news of the Mexican situation, lie- -tock market quotations, the White ilouse wedding, etc. Several traveller- - nt messages to their friends telling the e.vicf position of the train and the liuie of arrival at their destination.

"Anvbody can he brave in company," said nil old war correspondent I writes a correspondent ni' tao Sydney Daily Teleffiiipli), "ami comaae is easy to display in broad (!iiy!i.u!:f. The greatest lost of nerve;- that 1 know is to be on sentry ihiiy at when tilt enemy is close at hand, and inifiht at any time show up. To 'lie under fire in tin- day time with tin- chanee of beinjr liuishi'd suddenly with a bullet which conies from an unknown rifle, is nothing to it, and even waiting for a bayonet oharjw when your ammunition belt i- empty is sport to sentry-j;o in tie- darkness, with the knowledge that a man mifilil pounce upon von at nuv mota-iit." The talk fell to ilio. binvc-f in: a known I.y members -of the company. "The lira vest man I have known," said a colonel, who fotijjlit ■in the Smith Afri-r.u war, -''was a bit;, flabby, and, n.« far as 1 knew him, distinctly lazy arm} nirjjemi. lie came to us late in the war, and as he had the V.t'. and seem-d such an unlikely man to po:-:sa-s it. i made enquiries about )i()W it era- won. lie was under lire at one of the early lights against the Fioers, and found a man who had been shot through an artery in the lliigli. lfe took hold of ;'ie woimd with his hand u-mporarih to stop the blcodim.'. and immediate!'.' afterwards the tivimr became so ho; iha!, all his own fellows retired and h-fi him (here in the open, lyinj,' beside tim wounded men. For live hour; he 1..0.e.< ..n to that artere under a vei-v hoi .-.in, and in a:i e.vjnvr.l portion. Tile . aomv lY.uml lii-.i. and evidentlv thou-h; la- was merely kr -.-pire; c|iiiel. for while he !;:■ (here he wy-i shot five times. When hi- men :,ot him ha was just about lini-l-ed from 10.-s of hiood. I'olh of fa.-n v;."„v ( , r ,-d. an.! (he doctor, when -on;;. ,-.f (hem tried lo talk to him about ii. -..1 d Hint, helm; a lazv man ami toad of ..varanh, ha found if .piiie to his Ii!.:-: (here in the nun.''

YOU SKOfJID BE DETH3MINKD in rejecting the worthless and frequently injurious counterfeits which a>v sometimes pushed fur the sake of Rivatcr gain as "uist ns yno,i' ; as (he C'EXr.'lS 1 !: SAXDFR <v ni,\'ilL] : : KCCALYP'IT KXTKAI'I. Hi; not. deceived, PAXDEF: ! S KXTRAi'T is ivcovnisea bv Ihe lmfc-t ni-:'.li.- ; i» seniorities is pos sessin:; UTiiriiH! -(hii'i' ■'■!■'. he-lin-..' j-.nil antiseptic powers. T ■• 'iiviiar.-iiem of SANDKIVS 10XT11.VV <-m-. II- ~v;v •■:■■ ectcd leaves, and ''.r : ,,, •■•-•i>i !-y r ;r,e cial processes, r ; iv" .-".(''v. i-i;■ ( :: ■ peculiarly its own .-■for. Iv do: misled. Demand a:. \i\--W. upon (lie fiEXUIXi': PAXDT' ■*:•"'■•'.■•";■. aw! you will derive i]:- <\i iy.\i Mirr. sands have reaped fr. . '; heiivv. When ill you should not dee•■••ss voiusiilf more by the common, hull . ami eucalyptus oils and •uiealler't extracts." What you want fa equality and reliability, in small, dose," and this you find in SANDER'S EXTIIAfT. '

A largo number of Patca residents have been carrying water for household purposes for sonic days now. 'Die local liorougii Council lias placed the Uoroiigli Council chainliers at the disposal of ihe Cnited Press Association, the New Zealand Newspaper Proprietors' Association, and the -Master Printers' Association, which meet here next mouth. Special attractions will be provided at the Ka.-t End bathing reserve on Sunday next, in tlr; morning the members of the Surf and Life-saving Club will give two exhibition runs with the reel, and in the afternoon .Mrs Oorge's orchestra of live instrumentalists will provide music.

When (says the Christchuivh Press) it was decided tli.it the sportsmen's memorial to the Antarctic herens should lake the form of a bust of the late Captain Scott, it was also agreed that its sculpture should he undertaken by 1,-uly Scott, if i-be would accept the commission. Subscribers tp the fund will be pleased to learn that the editor of the llcfcree has received a cable message from Lady Scott accepting the commission, and indicating .lime as the probable, date of the completion of the bust. It is the intention of the -Minister for Education (the Hon. James Allen) to visit some typical schools of (he Dominion, and to get into touch with as ■ many education bcards.es po.i-ible before he sets to work to c'.raft the Education Hill prom is. >d for next session. His arrangements will not permit of bis beginning to collect, such information as be wishes to have' l;?fore him until early in February, and it will probable tic the end of March before he will be*able to set to work on the Bill.-.-Dominion. Judgment, was given by Mr A. Crooke. S.M., yesterday in the case Pehimana v. Itanicra. The case was beard on Dej comber £l, and judgment was reserved for the purpose of considering a noilI suit point raised by Mr Weston, who : appeared for the defendant. The plaintill', for whom .Mr Hughes appeared, claimed £.l damages for pulling down a I fence which was being -greeted by the. j plaintiff on the land occupied by Lev but vested in the Public Trustee. '.Mr. Weston contended that the Trustee was the proper person to sue. His Worship dc- | eided against this contention, and gave I judgment for the plaintiff for £l, and I costs £3 6s.