LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 199, 20 February 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On a charge of having been found helplessly drunk in ti public place, Joseph Engley appeared before the Magistrate's Court yesterday, and was remanded for medical treatment. . The motor ear convoying the mails from Pahiatua to Pongaroa capsized over an embankment on Friday, Mr. L. Ward, the only passenger, uiid the driver, Mr. <i. Watson, receiving a severe shaking. The Mangaone Oilwells Company has abandoned the first bore, in the' P,nngomai district, and inlands putting down another bore on the property of Mr. T. H. Groves, at Tawataia. A portion of the plant has alrcjidv been transferred. The sitting of the Magistrate's Conn yesterday was of only a few minutes duration. Cases of breaches of Borough and County by-laws were quickly dealt with, the defendants pleading guilty, either verbally or by failing to put in an appearance. The .registrar of Industrial. Union;, notifies in the (lovermneut Oazette tliat unless cause is shown to the contrary the registration of the Taranaki Letterpress, Lithographers, and Machinists Industrial Union will be cancelled after the expiration of six weeks from February 12. "I have the authority of one of the greatest financial experts in the Dominion," said the Mayor of Wellington in conversation with a Post reporter, ''for saying that a £200,00(1 4. per cent, municipal loan could readily be floated at par at the present lime. The conditions are all opportune for a loan on very favorable terms.'' The Wanganui Beautifying Society is losing no chances in assisting Nature to beautify the town. In addition to planting thousands of beautiful shrubs and trees in barren spots, which are yearly becoming more beautiful, 20,000 New Zealand native plants arc being nursed, and 1000 Australian and othe> plants. Thcso will be planted in permanent positions this winter.

The Moa Dairy Company has fixed tho minimum test for home-separated cream to 'be received at its factory at 3H per cent. Husbands in New Plymouth may lie interested in the fact that a Vienna Judge lias decided that a husband cannot prevent his mother-in-law coming to his house to see her daughter. The arrivals in the Dominion from overseas during January toi-illed 41)01, compared with .5877 in' January, lillli. The departures for the same ' month were, respectively, 29111 and 21181 —Press wire. A New Plymouth resident, who eame across from Sydney on the last trip of the steamer Ulimaroa, states that 40 residents of the Australian States were aboard the vessel, driven out of Australia by the oppressive heat. At the Bell Block Hall to-night, Mr. I'. W. Henry, the liewiv-annoiiited agricultural instructor under the Education Board, will give an address to farmers on "Silos and Silage." ulr J. Connett, chairman of the Bell Block Dairy Company, invites farmers and f.ll iiterested to'attend. The native land problem i, to he discussed by a meeting of natives to toe held at Parihaka next month, at wliieh prominent Maoris from all parts of the North Island will be present His Excellency the Governor is lo be invited to visit Parihaka during the progress of the meeting. The contest for the Otaki seat at the General Election promises to be very interesting, says the Post. Mr. llobertson, tlie sitting member, will offer himself for re-election. .Mr. W. 11. Field, who formerly represented the -district, and Mr. Byron Brown, who was also a candidate at the last election, will stand for the seat. A London cablegram states that Mr. Philip Snowden stated that there v/ere 5000 blind persons in the workhouses, .1000 receiving parish relief, 7000 begging in the streets, and 3000 employed in institutions at less than 10s weekly. Mr Asquith undertook to consider an enquiry with a view to devising a scheme of national assistance. A farmer in .South Taranaki who was desirous of having the thistles on nis property cut down endeavored to secure labor for the work. He could not get an extra farm hand so he applied to a native pa. None of the young natives were eager for the work but eventually one came forward and offered to do the job at 2s per hour and "tucker"—providing lie was allowed to keep his own (lime! lie was not engaged, and the emblematic crop of Scotland continues to flourish. Inglewood people were plentiful in New Plymouth yesterday morning, and the beach at the breakwater was well populated with Inglewood school children and their parents, who had come in to spend a day at the seaside. The day was fully occupied in games, swimming, and the usual picnic amusements, and the many attractions which the stretch of beach over which the Moturoa committee lias recently assumed control, possesses, were enjoyed to the full by young and old. Under the will of the late .vlr Allan Steven, of Dunedin, flourm'llcr and grain merchant, the following bequests are made:—George Muller's Orphanage, Bristol, England, £IOOO- Foreign Mission Fund of Bristol Homes, £1000; China-England Mission, £>00; Dr. Barnardo's Home, London, £250; Dunedin City Mission, £250; Salvation Army (rescue work and maternity branch), £250; Christians worshipping iu the Choral Hall, Moray Place, Dunedin, £250. A large number of mission organisations receivo £SO. In the Magistrate's Court, New Plymouth, yesterday, the following fines were inflicted by Mr. A. Crooke, S.M. for breaches of the New Plymouth Borough and Taranaki County by-laws:— A. J. Douch, of Inglewood for driving an unlicensed vehicle on the county roads, 10s and costs 17s (id (Mr. .1. ii. (iuilliam for the county); Ci. 1". Hutchinson, for driving a car without a registered number attached, 10s; K. YV 1 . Griffiths, motor cycling after dark without lights, 10s (7s); and Frederick Henry, ">s (7s). Mr. IS. Tippins, Borough inspector, prosecuted in these eases. The well-known war correspondent, Miss M. Durham, lecturing on the recent Balkan wars before the Peace Society, said that instead of deepening and strengthening manhood, wars were disgusting and loathsome, and had not a single redeeming feature. The women were like a set of carrion crows going over the field of buttle. Pots and pans, tobacco, and anything they could get hold of, they gathered up like misers. The hospitals were veritable infernos. Human bones were thrown under beds that contained suffering patients, and unauthorised persons, who assumed the Bed Cross badge, grabbed the food of the wounded. Mr. 11. 11. Olsen, of Egmont Village, judged the Ayrshire cattle at the Dannevirko show last week. In conversation with a Dannevirke News reporter he said: are coming into popular favor more and more every day, and my opinion is that they arc the ideal dairy cow, especially when crossed with a Jersey. Why, look, he said, referring to the awards in the dairy cattle section, "look at the great run Ayrshires had in that class to-day—that is, Ayrshire cows and two and three-year-old grade, and purebreds. The exhibits by Messrs 1). Buchanan. T. Fl. Colpman, and J. U. (i. Slack stood out on their own." In conclusion, Mr. Olsen maintained that the classes which permitted purebreds to compete against grade beasts should be altered. "I don't mean that the classes should ha done away with altogether. I mean the classes should be made separate—the same classes for purebreds and grade animals, only each must compete under their respective titles. It is unfair to ask grade cattle to compete with purebreds." VOD SHOULD BE DETERMINED in rejecting the worthless and frequently injurious counterfeits which are sometimes pushed for the sake of (greater gain as "just as good" aa the GENUINE .SANDER & SONS' VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Be not deceived, SANDER'S EXTRACT is recognised by the highest medical authorities as pos sessing unique stimulating, liealiog and antiseptic powers. The preparation of SANDER'S EXTRACT from the pure se lected leaves, and the refinement l>y spe cial processes, give it curative virtues peculiarly its own. Therefore, be not misled. Demand and insist upon the GENUINE SANDER EXTRACT, and you will derive the benefit that thou sands have reaped from it before. When ill you should not depress yourself more by the common, bulky and nauseating eucalyptus oils and so called extracts." What you want is quality and reliability, in small dose, and this you find in SANDER'S EXTRACT. 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According to a Timaru message, a garden fete held there yesterday in aid of the fund for the improvement of the park netted .IMHi. The domain fete, is becoming an annual institution itt many progressive centres. In the course of a recent address in Palmerstoii, Professor Mills stated that the Social Democratic parly had decided that only in districts where they ha 1 500 bona lidc members of the party would seats lie contested by tliem at the next general election. Vp lo the present, lie knew of probable coiite-,is in some 2',! feats, and he was sure of .it least. I'i of these being successful. As far as I'aliucrslon North was concerned, it possessed only :H bona tide member., of his organisation. Hop-picking is expected lo commence at the end of the month in Nelson, but the work will not be in full swing until the, first week in March, It is believed that fully -200 residents" of Wellington will,cross the Strait to assist the growers anil their families to pick the crops. ■Xew Zealand hops realised Is (Id a pound last year, and it is expected that an equally good price will be obtained this season. One settler in Hiwaka in formed a Post representative that he would not be surprised if 2s (id a pound was obtained for choice lots. The handling of fruit on the railways was a topic of discussion at last week's meeting of the llorowhenua (fruitgrowers' Association, and growers bitterly complained of the way in which fruit was knocked about. An instanoe was given (says the Horowheiiiia Chronicle) ill which twenty-live eases of cherries, forwarded by a grower at Palmerstoii Xortli to Auckland, were five days in transit, and when they arrived iit their destination were rotten. Another spent some time watching the unloading of Hawkc's Bay fruit at Lamb ion Station, \\ ellington. The cases were packed on the trucks, and instead of taking them off the top a few were prized out of the bottom, and the lot allowed to fall. Fruit was treated just the same on the wharves and on the way to the auction rooms and at the rooms. There is a lamentable lack of knowledge of fruit amongst those engaged in its transport. If thev can only be brought to realise that a lot of -oft varieties of fruit are more susceptible to damage than eggs they would perhaps be more careful.