LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 187, 6 February 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. Hugo had a. large-attendance in St. Mary's Hall last evening. The lecture was profusely illustrated, and the platform delineations created much amusement. The next lecture will be on Monday evening. "Tho country is wonderful, weird and fascinating in its natural features. Tlu i Tourist Bureau is a welcome in itself," were the remarks of a tourist from Brisbane who called recently at the Wellington Governnuvil Tourist Bureau. In the case between Mrs. Eva Julian, the widow of Edward Julian, who was killed in the Kaimata, tragedy, in which judgment was given in the Supreme Court on Wednesday for Mrs. Jjilian, costs were allowed yesterday to the plaintiff according to scale, 'with £3 3s costs of interrogatories served on the plaintiff's solicitor by Mr. Weston. This evening the XI Regiment band will leave for Auckland by the Rarawa, to take part in the band' contest to be held there. The band will compete in the two tests, and in the quick-step competition. Messrs S. Griffiths (bass). | 11. Yoght (bass),C. Austin (euphonium) and L. Nippert (horn) will compete in solo events. Mrs. George will travel with the band to accompany the. soloists on the piano. The Mayor of Wnuganui and the borough engineer recently .visited Gisborne toi make observations in connection with th'o tramway system in that town. They have '-reported to the local Council, showing that they were adverse to the storage battery 'system. The Mayor assured the Council that, judging from what he had heard from reliable sources he would not bo surprised if tlie people of Gisborne abandoned the storage bat- | tery system in that town and went in [for tho overhead trolley system.

' A rather valuable "catch" was secured in Wellington harbor. When the tramp steamer Strathdene was heaving her anchor preparatory to coming to a berth at the railway wharf she hooked a heavy anchor and some, seventy fathoms of utout chain. These were brought in '.y the vessel, and were landed on the Railway Wharf with the aid of the 20-ton crane. It is plain that the anchor has been slipped from a sailing ship. It had apparently been in the water for some time, for the chain Was covered with marine growth. There was a huge influx of visitors to the East End beach yesterday, when the Miiual picnic of the United Friend! v Societies of Inglewood was held, aui despite the fact that the weather was ■»t so pleasant as it might have been, a very pleasant time was spent on this popular picnicing spot. The morning trains as they arrived each deposited its quota of Inglewood folk at the reserve, and all were soon busy in partaking of the delights of seaside amusements. All day games and competition-. of every description held sway, and it was a tired, hut happy crowd which the trains eventually carried homeward.

In the height of work at a freezing works near Timaru the other day, a slaughterman, evidently with sympathies for other than the new union formed .last; year, suddenly announced that everybody on the premises belonged to the variotV known to a select few as "scabs." The challenge was accepted by the nearest man, who answered sturdily and effe;tivoly, by knocking the rude one down, and within a very short ?paM of time he found himself out on the ro.id. without a job, paid up to lh:> -ninute, and with the wholesome that such linjiuagc was not permissible la modern tin 08, and was not allowed at that particular works. Ho has departed, let it be hoped, a sadder and a wiser man.

A woman died in Paris the other wcek who professed to Invvo recollected o former existence. Mine. Laure Raynaud was a hospital nurse, and some years ago she (old a doctor that she had once lived in a foreign town and hail died at the ago of nineteen years in 1840. She described the town and the house she had occupied, though site had never been out of France. The doctor thought the town might be Siena, in Italy, and without telling hei' where she was going he took her to that town. When she arrived there she walked straight to the house she had described and then to a church, where sho fell fainting on the tomb of a girl who had died in 1840 at the age of nineteen. The incident was .the subject of a, great deal of discussion at the time, and tho nurse naturally was accused of fraud. But she stuck to her story and the people who knew her best seem to 'have been convinced she had never been in Siena until the doctor took lier there.

A witness in the Groymoulh S..M. Court admitted to counsel that he had of late been the "subject of hypnotic tests at the hands of one or two travelling shows, whose principals declared they were possessed of mesmeric influences, but .when counsel suggested that such tests had some effect on the i imagination of witness, the latter vehemently protested against such an al>i surdity. He further admitted that lie i had travelled as far as Reefton with one I of the "professors," and that if his Wor- ! ship desired it he would let the Bench into tho secrets of hypnotics as revealed to witness (and for which the witness had been paid to accept and act thereon), but he was not going to give l.u> learned counsel or others the benefit o' his experience or divulge the secrets :>f the profession in open court. The M-.igis-tretc did not accept the proffered confidence of the witness to initiate the liench into the mysteries of hypnotism, and, not being apropos to the charge ]>efor<. the. Court, the witness still hold* Ct- "secrets," so far as the public exni':n.ition into the alleged use of "insult- ;"-> words" arising out of the ween' f r ; ke is concerned. H has been arranged tint the Huni- ■ ':.' baths shall be open for famiiv '• 'Vng to-night, under tli ■ supervision •i M>e Amateur Swimmii!;;' Clul>. Th:; '!'"s will be from 7 to 0 p.m.* 'f'le heat of summer sovclv tries Ihe ■■'■ : rt and Complexion. Use Sykes' ■ : :cerine .Telly; it quickly removes '.-.'• prickly sting.

Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.l'., in an address to his constituents, said:—"l am tired to death of this patchwork of local nolicensc. I don't believe it check* evils. . . . I have always voted three-fifths, but I say this night for the firat time: If Mr. Massey will throw away the local no-license business, which, in my opinion should be ended, and make one Dominion vote, so that every man who casts a vote casts it for or against liquor, I will vote 55 per cent. . . . Otherwise 1 will continue to vote as I have voted before."

Tlio Hawera .Borough Engineer informed the Star that the water tower on Monday was only seven inches out of plumb, having come "over 23 inches in about 14 days. The undermining, combined with the assistance of the water in the loww tower, is bringing about this satisfactory result. The engineer has arranged for adding supports on the south side as soon as the tower is exactly plumb. He is able, he says, to stop tho movement as soon as re quired. Chinese cabinetmakers flooded tlie Chief Industrial Magistrate's. Court in Sydney the other day for no ftover than 54 charges against them. There were about 30 defendants, and they were charged with various breaches of the furniture trades award—for the most part failing to exhibit copies of the award, not keeping time and pay-sheet*, and not paying the prescribed rates of' wages. The majority pleaded guilty, and fines varied from' 15s to £S, with costs. The defendants thus paid nearly £3OO into the coffers of the State. ' There was a good attendance of ladiei at the gift afternoon "at home" given by the ladies' committee of the East End Bathing Reserve in aid of the bazaar funds. The pavilion was prettilv decorated by the ladies, who served it dainty afternoon tea. Music was supplied by Mrs. A. George (piano) and her son Rupert (violin). Songs were rendered by Miss Cant, Miss Gideon, Mrs. .Golding and Mr. Henrichs, The gifts were good and numerous, and several money donations were made as well, all 'going to swell tho funds for the bazaar. While travelling in a railway carriage on his way to be married, Mr. W. U. Parkinson died in tho a-ms of his brideelect Miss Roberts (sivj a Melbourne paper). Both were residents of Echuca, and were on their way to Castlemaine, whedo they were to have been wedded. But just before '.he rrain reached Castie mainc Mr. Parkinson, collapsed. Efforts to restore him were of no avail, and just before he died he spoke cheerily to the grief-stricken Miss Roberts, saying he would be all right in a few minutes. Cm the journey Mr. Parkinson appcarsd to be in good health, am! ('diverged with i his friends in the rooms.