LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 214, 10 March 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The gross takings at the East End bazaar amounted to £lj2 3s 2d, which is expected to sho v a handsome profit. Ihrce cases of typhoid fever were admitted to the Ntw Plymouth Hospital ) estcrday from the V\ est End ox the town. Two Maoris, John Apahene and John ilattho'ws, who were lined in the IS..M. t. ourtj at Dargaville mi February 19 for non-attendance at military training, were arrested on Sail rday : nd taken to Auckland to serve ten days' military detention. The daughter of a gardener at Aix, in I'ranee, who had enclosed her name and address inside an opened walnut, which was despatched to Germany with a shipment ut fruit, was married to Carl Holzer, of Halle, who re* ceivwi tliu hut. Arrangements have ju.t been completed between the Government and the owners of the ketch Kereru for the maintenance of a direct mail service between Auckland and the island of Niuo, to the north-east of the Tongan group, for two years.—Press wire. Information hai been received that the New Zealaud Shipping Company's steamer Opawa arrived fn London on January 22 with her volunteer firemen all well. The men worked solendidly during the voyage, and will be given a free passage batk to/ New Zealand when disposed to return. V A little girl was told at school lo write about 200 words on the motor-car. This she did as follows:—"Uncle bought a motor-car. He went riding in tne country. Presently it skidded and ho was thrown out. That's about 50 words, I think. The other 150 words uncle said when walking back homo, and I mustn't write them." V\ hen the hatches v/ere removed from the steamer Stornibird at Wanganui yesterday morning, preparatory to unloading, a fire was discovered/ Two cases of hospital supplies were alight, but were soon extinguished. The damage by water and fire is about £2O Had the fire broken out at sea the consequences might have been very serious. At the meeting of tho Borough Council la3t night, it was decided to apoly to the Commissioner of Crown Lands at New Plymouth to have Rotokare (Barrett's Lagoon) vested in the Council as a public domain. The Council intends to improve the access to the reserve, and to open it up for the benefit of the public as a recreation ground. The value of municipal enterprise properly carried out is shown in the returns for .the various electric tramways of tlie Old Country at present under municipal control. The following are some of the gross profits made in twelve months: Glasgow £392,197, London County Council £983,657, Manchester £329,909, Liverpool £2-24,282, Birmingham £211,387, Belfast £115,725. Professor Starr Jordan, Chancellor of tho Leland Stanford University, American, interviewed at Fremantle recently, said Japan, since her war with Russia, hacs been on the verge of bankruptcy. The pcoplo are crying out against the heavy taxation, and it will take her fifty years at least to recover her financial prestige. Japan has less wealth than the county of Lancashire, and yet her national debt is a third of the size'«f Great Britain's. At the conclusion of a case in which the Aust?iira witnesses were concerned in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, I Mr. A. Crooke,, S.M., said that he wished to say how much the Court was beholden to Mr. J. Ritter von Fedoro•wicz, who during the three days on which the oase was heard had been a patient andT painstaking interpreter. Mr. Fedorowicz,. remarked Mr. Crooke, had tiine and attention to the easu for which the interpreter's fee would but poorly repay him. Paul Dufault, the popular singer, absolutely fuilif to live op to the general idea of a tenor. He is a man of fine physique, and' fond of all kinds of sport! His great pleasure, he admits, is found in athletics. "My favorite recreation is tennis," he confesses, "but I am an advocate of alt kinds of physical exercises, especially for singers, as it is a great help- in securing breaUi-control. One 1 of tlie finest exercises is i/inning. I frequently make a three-mile run, and amnot evem puffing at the finish." Under the* title of "God's Own Country," Mr. Jacomb, who claims to have had a six years* residence in Milduiu. Victoria,, liua published a book, in whiet he makes a Bplenetic attack on everything Australian. Mr. Jacomb declares» that the Commonwealth Bystem produces, ugly mQn, whose bad looks are aggravated by the- slovenliness of their air tire. His- says that nearly all the men swear habitually, and that good manners arc conspicuous by their absence. He further aserts that tho men display an utter lack of cthivalrv towards vmm As for ttte Australian woman, the author declares that she has no complexion, walka with a waddle, and is worn out ,at thirty. : Mr. Vincent Astor, the jtoung .Aineri■can multi-millionaire (whoae. father went down in the Titanic) has annotinced that Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Mr. Jutius Rasenwald (the groat Jewishmerchant aod banker of Chicago), and himself have entered into an agreement tacapitalise a chain of banks throughout the country to loan money at low rates to working men. In hio, statement Mr. Astor says: 'These lc&n ; banks, will be organised on a system' similar to tint which obtains in Germany. It ia an organised attempt to, put 'loan sharks' out of business, and- T think jt will very greatly benefit the, Worker, who, when he needs money, is,now obliged to p,nusurious rates ot: interest to moneylenders." The inception of the idea came from young Mr. Astor, and because he did not wis*, to go into the matter alone and preffltfed the experience and' advice of older men, he interested Mr. Carnegie and-' Mr. Rosenwald, who at once fell in, with his plans recognising that such t, scheme -would be of immense benefit ta the poor and thrifty.

POX AND DIPHTHERIA

wouia certainly not have attained such proportions if the hygienic fact WtfTe more generally known that the disiafec lion of the mouth by a reliable and varmlesa antiseptic is a great proitcling lactor against all nilmonk wk-rc the Infection is through the throat or r«k Ipiratory tract. By nutting 3 drops of SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT oh I piece of loaf-sugar, and allowing it to dissolve in the mouth, that cavity is thoroughly disinfected. The volatile nature of SANDER'S EXTRACT makes penetrate every*crevice. SANDER'S KXTFACT is not nauseous nor depressing like the common eucalyptus, and posteßSiis,, great antiseptic power. By using SANDER'S EXTRACT, you avoid the uncertain composition of the lozenge j you have top benefit of the strongest antiseptio that can be used with safety, *nd the result u protection 'from all in-

Owing to the interest in tin: recent tug-of-war at the East End beach, tha committee has decided to organic ft monster event on Easter Holiday, for which arrangements are now being made. John Runny, the world-famed picture actor, receives the stupendous salary of ■camxi per iinmini. Mr. Bunny also gets a Christmas box from the concern that employs liini, and special bonuses from time to time when he makes a particularly line film. Xow and tlum lie is permitted to go into vaudeville for a week at a huge salary. The Krupps arc stated to have succeeded in producing a for safes that is not easily fused or even penetrated by the oxy-liydrogen and oxyacetylene burners now iu u«e by >.eieiitilic cracksmen, and able In ivist the best boring tools. It is estimated that to burn a hole 3.2 inches in a plate of the material lGin thick would take from six to fourteen hours, and necessitate the use or 3000 gallons of acetylene and 3000 gallons of oxygen. Newspapers in other countries continue to give forth weird information concerning New Zealand. The latest, from the Birmingham Weekly Post, is as follows:—''There is scarcely any crimo in New Zealand, largely because tkey make a strenuous effort there to arrest, try, convict, hang and bury a criminal within two weeks of the commission of the crime, if this be murder, or, if not # hanging ofl'enee, to get him as quickly aa possible into a disagreeable prison, where lie will have to work hard and fare upon bread and water/' The esteem in which the New Zealand press is held by people from afar is shown by the following excerpt from a letter just received locally from a clergyman in Ireland:—'''The paper shows many things, and especially shows that Now Zealand is, by a very long way, leading the whole world in the illustrated press. All the English illustrated papers are clumsy and tasteless things. Some of the American that 1 have seen 1 have thought prettv good. But this paper you have so kindly sent is, far and away, the most beautifully illustrated paper I have ever aeon in my life. In fact, I would call it the perfection of taste and of art. liesiifes, the printed matter, together with tha idea of the country and its life' and Manners, is very clever. Altogether, I'm charmed with your beautiful present." To celebrate its five years of suec*-9S ful existence the Women's Bank in Ifeilin has decided to issue a daily financial journal for women —the first in tfAr world. It will start with an edition'* of 30,000, which represents the bankV present list of shareholders and clients; The paper will be devoted not only to .the interests of the bank, but also to all financial and commercial topics of feminine interest. The assets of this bank, which is the only financial institution in the world exclusively organised by and conducted by women, now amounts roundly to £30,000. It accepts deposits and transacts general banking and stock exchange business for both seXtof- One of the attVaetions held out lo Wi:men depositors is that they can keep ;i dic<|!ie book "without the permission of th" husbands." which is a formality the other banks enforce. A 5 per cent. dividend was paid in 'She-dairy in;;' industry oil the _.Vlu nil i n'jr lli\i' | - . !'i l s never previously fcifil Mi as is the case at presen;. ;>.n'.'c ;;i,. winter rains.no falls of importance have been recorded, and consequently the pastures have been (subjected to a test that they have been unable to stand. Fodder conservation is a lesson that is extremely hard to teach in a district that has been lavishly favored! with good seasons in the but it is nevertheless one that is going to be learned by bitter experieaeei Mr. Hampshire, dairy instructor for the North Coast, has recently made a .tour. e£ TOrioHs parts of the Manning district,, and he asserts that the present outlook is anything but encouraging. Tile maize crops will be light. A point iaa planting has been secured by the present adverse season—that is, not to plimt t&e- whole area at once. The later crops sometimes make good the deficiencies of those sown earlier —and tlie eatiier at times prove better than t.h'c llrtt- ones.