LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 264, 6 April 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There are 04 places of amusement in Auckland, and o9 in Wellington. A . second rise of 10s pen ton on flour was made on Friday last, making a rise of £1 during- the last month. freezing works slaughters between 110 and 120' sheep per day. At 27s (id per hundred his earnings are about £9 per week.

cost of living continues to increase. Bakers have been advised of a further rise in the price of flour of 10s per ton, bringing the total increase during the past month up to £1 per ton. The backblocks are not only crying out day after day. They're paying, paying, paying out every day, and getting nothing,for it." Remark by member of the, Clifton County Council at the meeting of that body on Friday. In the Magistrate's Court, New Plvmouth, Saturday, before Mr. A. Crook'e, S.M., a young man was charged with the theft of a horse valued at £25, the property of Felix McGuire, of Te Awaniutu, and remanded to Hamilton. A motor-cyclist at Fitzroy on Saturday afternoon was riding some little distance behind a young lady on a "pushbike," when she "suddenly attempted an acrobatic feat, turned round, and ran into him. A badly-buckled wheel for the motor man was -the only damage. upon ithe recommendations of the health officcr"s and medical officers' reports, the Borough Council ihas decided to enforce from to-day the by-law regarding nightsoil removal from' portions of the St. Aubyn and Fitaroy distri«ts. In the special circumstances, the 00-oper&tion of residents is »oli«ited and is desirable. During the last week over 16,000 cases of fruit, mostly apples, were exported from Motueka. Tie biggest shipment that has left the port in one bottom was taken by the Acnhor liner Kaitoa on Thursday, when about 7000 cases were shipped. Of this number over. 6000 cases of apples were for transhipment to the s.B. Rangatira at Wellington for South America. Quite a crowd assembled in the streets last night to listen to the oratorical flights of two long-haired and bearded evangels, preaching a new doctrine of eternal life. They forcibly asserted that they were not Mormons, but Israelites from Michigan, U.S.A., bent on accomplishing the millennium by the sale of certain small books containing the recipe for eternal Me and the ob&ervanco of other rules and doetrine.

Canon 11. Furchas, of Glenmark, Canterbury, has almost completed his "History of the Anglican Church in New Zealand." The manuscript will be ready for the printer soon, and the work wiil be published probably, in October or November of this year. It will begin with the first divine service in New Zealand, conducted by the Rev. S. Marsden on Christmas Day, one hundred yeais ago, and will end with the present position of the church, dealing with the whole of the century. The Surrey arrived in the VVaitara roadstead on Friday morning, to load cargo from the Waitara Freezing Works for \\'cst of England ports. _ The vessel expects to sail on ..Sunday afternoon with the following cargo shipped from VVaitara: i-or Glasgow, 1000 carcases of lamb and 1250 carcases of mutton 450 quarters and 500 sacks of beef; for Avonmouth, 800 quarters of beef; and for Liverpool, 800 quarters and 300 sacks of beef, 200 carcases of mutton, 3100 carcases of lamb and 140 casks of tallow.

A flock of Ryland sheep is being built up at the. Weraroa State Farm. The manager informed visitors from Apiti the other day that this breed was the best farm liad for producing fat lambs. The Ryland ram crossed with the Roipney ewe gave a lamb which fattened three weeks before any other cross. and, this season the farm's lambs had been sold for 17s 4d per head. The Ryland was a hardy Bheep, which would do well on any country, and not only have good fat lambs, but was a fine mutton sheep as a two-tooth, thereby beating the Downs.

A most kindly and ormpathetic action has been performed by an old lady anxious to help the sufferers. in tluj Hutt disaster. Last week the old lady went to Mr R. If. Webb, chairman 0 f the Board of Trustees appointed at Hutt, . and stated that she .had lost her husband m the Brimmer disaster, and had been left with seven young children, these .had now grown up, and she was aoixious to help the sufferers in the Hutt disaster. She eould not give money, but she contributed a bundle of infants' clothing, to be sold to help the suflerers. The old lady makes a living by making infants' clothes, an( i took the above course of demonstrating her sympathy. J

A young man named H. T. Whiteman, an employee of the Upner Hutt Town Board, had a narrow escape -from death Oil Thursday afternoon, it Uppar Ilutt. He was attempting to recover a number of eases of benzine that had been dropped'down a well at the back of the Provincial Hotel on the night of the big explosion. He descended the well liy a rope 30ft long, and had sent up three cases and three tins of benzine. He gave no further call „„ the rope, and i_.i Thomas Edwards, a member of the I own Board, suspected an accident. He went down the rope, and found Whiteman lying unconscious at the .bottom of the well, overcome by the fumes escapw? - m , , l \ -T,l( ' y««ng man 'l ul «My brought .to the top, but it was not till early next morning that ho retimed consciousness. ;

rimy (lo tliinirs in leisurely mailnci on the West {'oast. On Tuesday mornni.t' tlie passengers by the Reefton-OreM-mouth train » Wr treated to a rather unusual experience. When descending mi incline iieai Totara. Flat a little bov put Ins head out of the window ami t ried: Look daddy, Uicre's another train in front us."' The boy's father looked out and found to his astonishment that .(he train was tiavelliiU' in Uvo secLioim, the engine and three' oui wng-jroHH )iciv;n«.; ]»y somp. means Ift»«om« nuconplwl AW \ fionp on .ih?:id wliile (lie pasmifrer section sofallowed afler. The pare.nl of the toy so alarmed cjuirtly hurried thromrh to (lie Riiard'p van and acquainted him w(h (he state of affairs. The S u:,rd immediately put nr. the emergency brake, nicked up to iis loitering enriKort ami effected a irendc junciion. So ended without. accidenl a r.Hher startling inwueiit.

[ 1 he sunlit isles it I the rtiuniiiei' nea (.'learned pay in (.he waters Wue, I'iit the heart of I lie man was ill at ease And his face was of pallid hne. But. his soul revived when a boat arrived With a era/i'o of life-ienewer, And he laughed like a bov-le was fn.'l of joy— When he'd taken Woods' Peppermint Cure. 1,