LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 267, 9 April 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Australian mails, ex Moeruki at Wellington, will arrive this (Thursday) afternoon.

There will be no issue of the Tararuki Dailjr News to-morrow (Good Friday). We will publish as usual on Saturday. A London, cablegram states that Lord Howard de Walden lias sold his ltegent's Park estate for £500,000. It covers 62 acres, with 750 houses', 20 streets, four large schools, sJid eight hotels. In view of the approaching holidays, subscribers to the telephone oxcvi 3iiould specially notice that niibscria'ion-' arf to be p«id by noon to-day (1" m>'--day), failing which connections will be cut off.

The executive of the Thirty Thousand Club in Napier has decided to run another Mardi Gras Carnival, with a Queen election next Christmas, and has appointed, Mr J. Hopkins, who so successfully the first one, to organise it.

At a meeting of .tlie Pa tea Harbor Board on Monday, Mr Bayfield was granted an extension of his option ♦vcr the local ironsaiul deposits. He stated that works would be started in tho district within 15 months.

"The day is coming when people will not have New Zealand timber in furniture. It gives and takes too much. My own factory uses more than jO per cent, of oak from abroad,".said Mr. S. S. Williams at the Wellington Central Chamber •f Commerce recently.

Hiinking his lady-love was too big for a man of his small stature, David Cunningham Armstrong, of Melbourne refused to marry her after three years' courtship, with the result that he is being sued by Eleanor Jane Amy Flanagan for £IOOO damages for breach of promise.

There. is a movement on foot in 'Wellington to get the. principle of a sixdays week, as embodied in the new .hotel workers' award, extended to other trades, and even the police are said to be anxious to assure themselves of a weekly day of rest. The Trades and Labor Council has been approached on the subject, ami it will consider what action can bo taken at its next mooting.

A case of "infantile paralysis" has made its appearance in Queeiistown, the uinortunnte victim being an active bright-eyed boy of 12 years. The limb «i flee ted is the left leg from the knee down, llow the child beeiuno infected with the disease (states the Mail) is a niystery, as he had not been out of the town nor in any quarter to which suspicion might attach; it can only be a surmise that someone from the outside midst hUS aCtCd aS 41 " cai ' ri( ' r " to

lMK|Uiri(»s made in regard to tin- frozen "lent, industry show (says tlu; l'ost) that t here is more capital (expended on the extension of freezing works this year uian vu any previous season. Most of the capital .being invested is British. Amongst the new works are the follownjf:—Wakatu (near Napier). for which tenders iiave been let; freezing capacity sheep daily; cost of works £70,000. ijixtoiisioii, Wuitani: freezing cuD:ioi( v 10(1 hii I locks and 1000' shoe]" per dav-' cost, f(i(),00q. Extensions at Paki Pak'i (near Hastings); capacity, 131)0 slieep per day; cost of extensions, £ 10,000. Jwtensions, Longburn; free:<iug.,eapacitv, . s,| eep Per day; Cost C-IO,<)!)(). it is also proposed to establish works at Hamilton, Te Kniti, and Stratford

Tho Hon. James Allen's circular to local bodies inviting suggestions as to tne employment in temporary service of young fellows exempted from trainin" under the Defence Act, on the ground's of conscientious or rel scruples, came before the Clutha County Council at its meeting on Friday (states the Otago Daily Times). It was agreed that the. Minister for Defence be .informed that the Council had no time to worry about finding employment for, the exempted .young fellows, but would submit the following motion as a recommendation: —"That the Minister find some means of employing the 09 religious objectors in acting as servants to the territorials n the camps; further, that the | Clutha la<ly rifle-shooters will fill the places) of the so-called religious objectors,who are too cowardly to defend the country."

_ P e , M ' Regiment Band wild fall in at 7.30 tins evening, march, to the skating carnival m the Coronation Hall, and pfey there during the evening.

A find of mOa bones has been made by a member of the Naturalists' Society 12 miles from Invercargill, in the direction of Rivsrton, at a spot known as the Sandy Domain." The skeleton is complete, with the exception of some parts of the head, and when reconstructed will stand 10ft high. Several minor finds of bones have been found in the past it the same place.—Press wire. In referring to the recent strike, Ml'. J. B. Laurenson, President of the Ohristchurch Industrial Association, spoke a» follows the other day ut the association's annual meeting: "It was foredoomed to failure. It was a distressingly ill-advised attempt by a very small minority to establish a precedent which, if successful, would-have enslaved every man and woman in qje Dominion in a bondage more cruel and unjust than any state in the history (5T the Empire. Just in proportion as tile strike betrayed the weakness of the Labor leaders, it established once and for all the extraordinary unanimity and solidity of the vast majority of the people. Nothing was so cheering and inspiring. as the response to the call for law and oader."

At the conference of 'representatives of A. and P. Associations at Hawera on Monday, Mr. J. S. Connett referred to' tlie possibility of the kinematograph being used for the purposes of educating the children in the agricultural and farming industries. If this could be done in an .interesting way ho believed it would be the means of educating the children better than* by book-learning. He admitted that the pictures would have to be carefully arranged, and that the services of a competent person would •have to bo secured to explain to the children the different phases of the industry that were shown. He moved that the Minister for Agriculture be asked to consider the question of the instruction of the children in farming and agricultural pursuits by means of the kinematograph, either through the schools or in a public manner. The mover added that the agricultural elasses of instruction should be retained. The motion was carried with one dissentient.

One of the interesting novelties to be seen at a recent electrical show at the Grand Central Palace, New York, was a pair of motor roller skates, adapted to be driven by electricity obtained from a battery carried by the wearer of the skates. The inventor of this machine demonstrated the practicability of the skates M' making exhibition runs around the building, and also on the side-walks outside. Each skate is provided with an extension to the rear, on which is supported a small two-pole motor. The armature shaft carries a sprocket pinion, which is connected by a chain to a sprocket wheel on the rear roller aile of the ikate. The motors may be connected to one or both cells of the batterv, as desired, by means of flexible wiring." The battery is strapped to the back of the skater, and current to the motor is controlled by two button switches, one for each motor, so that the skater may conserve his battery by cutting out one of or the other skate, defending upon which is idle. It will lie understood, of course, that the skater may merely stand on the skates, letting them be propelled by the motors, or he may skate on them in the ordinary- way, using the motors to give him a much greater speed'. The Otakeho correspondent of the Uawera Star says:—Something in the nature of a mystery has occurred here. Mr. I''. Dorn recently turned a herd of two-year-pld heifers on a paddock of white turnips on- his farm, and last, Tuesday noticed that some of them were suffering considerable pain, and at onca sent for a stock inspector. This oliieer, Irhen informed that Mr. Dorn had been spraying weed-destroyer on a few blackberry bushes, concluded that the stock had been poisoned. At the time of writing seventeen of Mr. Dorn's finest heifers have died, and with a probability of a few more., To add to the nivstery it should be stated that Mr. Dorn, when he had the turnips sown, manured the ground with blood and bone manure. Now the questions confronting the farmers here are: (1) Was this serious loss of stock caused by the eating of the turnips?; (2) was it caused by the weeddestroyer; or (3) was it caused by disease contained in the manure? That this matter should be investigated and traced to its source is beyond question, not only in the interest of farmers generally, and the cause of this serious loss of stock should be given publicity in the hope that it will avert a recurrence of it. Ah Photo Goods.—Davies 3