LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 270, 15 April 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Scottish piper now ieads the Salvation Army'in Hustings. It is expected that several South Canterbury farmers will raise sheep in future instead of growing wheat. It was "28 years ago on Tuesday ot last week —the very day that the. second reading of the Home Eule Bill was carried—that Gladstone introduced his first Home Eule Bill into the House ot Commons.

Professor Prince, the Canadian fisheries expert, who is reporting on the New Zealand fisheries, will endeavor to devise means for introducing the herring to our coastal fisheries. The presence of herring attracts other fish, and should lead to an improvement in the quality of our fish generally. Writes a correspondent:—"A friend of mine, Jiving in a district served by a coach, tells me that it is real fun to sec the. scramble for the morning paper if it happens to be a wet day; and that at night times on other occasions it is also very, funny to spe the devices used by one to "beat" the other for his "turn"!

In an article dealing with ''Petroleum in New Zealand,'' the latest issue of the Mercantile Gazette:— Drillers are at work in the Weber district and near" Mangoane in the Wairarapa, but so fur as can be ascertained without any great results. The work being carried on in the Weber district is for the Shell Company, a powerful British concern, and it is not likely that any information will bo allowed to get to the public na to tln> results.

In a newspaper lawsuit heard at Wellington it was stated that, a lawyer had been prcsept at certain proceeding's and defendant's counsel suggested that he was taken there to settle a difference between proprietors in the interests of the paper. Mr. .(usticc lidwards: Hut you don't usually carry a lawyer about ( .o settle things in this way. Counsel: lie was to be the peacemaker. Uia Honor: Peacemaker! Peacemaker! The legal profession is adopting an entirely new role! Peacemaker! It's absurd! It's ridiculous!

As indicating how the motor is affecting the demand for oats, a member of an Invercargill mercantile firm informed a Southland Times reporter that lie had received advice, from a reliable Napier authority that in that district the quantity of oats required for feed was -JO,000 sacks less than it at one time was, and the reason for the falliug-off was entiiely attributed to the motor. The reporter's informant elaborated 011 the position, and maintained that there was a proportionate falling-off in the demand in every uistriet in the Dominion. The diminution in the quantity consumed 111 the North Island alone he estimated as 'icing easily 4.7(1,DU0 sacks.

tuder date (ill, March the London correspondent of the Post writce : - I'riends at Oxford |, aV e received a cowinnmcalion lrom .Mr, Diamond Jemiess the yoniig Xcw Zealand scientist who i.s with Stelannsou 111 the Canadian Arctic showing that ,hc is safe and happy, or was in November. The letter, dated in N"\ ember troni the north coast of p, . ' Wfts Sl ' nl 'lo civilisation bv an postman. It slioys that the Kar]„T' ei ! -I , Wm ' " 1;u ' 001 «' , l when the \ailuk dnfted away m a storm were the secrnL p r i Vd te ■- . .ai,j ami t| le cinemato<;rapher (without his app.-ira.tujO. The Eskimo tin"!/'!>] "! V""' I!iUTOW was fort Uh only ].,() distant, and lb thc.r they toiled over -the shore ice. t'>' journey was rather irksome for '>!• •Jenness, who suiicred from 5. ~-e-uincnce uincnce of Sew Cuiuea malaria. Aft"r .1.1 ivinsat I> ort Harrow, Dr. Jeniiess was V'■ tl "' willtt ' r with wi-J I,""? 111 y 0:l l"' -"'alkett, | ° he able to amass a •- oil dial of aiithropomcitrical informtl"' 'juiet months of the "inter. n 0 sa ys the Eskimo snowfT' ilr " 'l ll,tl ' snujr. hut thev arc apt •>". -somewhat crowded, 'especial! v w neii a dance is in progress,' and 'this appears to happen quite often.

HKCOM MENDS THEM TO lIIS CUSTOMERS. " r or some time T have suffered with '"ingestion caused by disordered liver and ftomaeli." says Mr. f!. M. Harvev, n-T^? h ' i,ot ' Rnilwa y Town, Broken "Tlio only tbnij? tliat gfivc ™° rcl!cf was Chamberlain's Tablets and I _ consider them unequal for disorders Of the liver and stomach. I stock them m my shop and recommend them to ail of my customers; in fwt. I cannot speak too highly of Chamberlain's 'fablots." Sold by all chemists and storekeepers.

Dainty Rimless Eyeglasses. Ernest I aviea, fclip London-qualified optician.

A sample room in the New Zi-rtiaiii'. Expres Company's building was broken into en Monday night, and goods to the value of £3 were stolen.

Owing to tile very unsatisfactory weather conditions prevailing yesterday .the YVestland pioneer memorial uv veiling ceremony -and hand contest have been postponed until a later date, probably june 3, -

The monthly meeting of the Tarnnaki Agricultural Society wis held last night, when the reports of sub-com-mittees set up to nandle various sections of the winter snow schedule were received. Tne cnairman (Mr. J. is. l.'onnett) gave a review of the work done at the recent conference of agricultural societies.

In answer to the petitions against the lifting of the reservation from the Kverett road reserve, the Hon. W. K. Massey has written to .Mr. VV. A. Collis as follows:—' i beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th ultimo., forwarding a petition from residents of Taranaki objecting to the lifting of the reservation from the Everett roau reserve. I note the suggestion that part of the land might be used for settlement purposes and the remainder as a reserve. The reservation was removed by statute during last session of Parliament in accordance with a recommendation of the Forestry Commission."

The old-fashioned husband, whose word was always taken as Inw, and who felt that if his wife did not do as she was directed he. had the right to exercise physical punishment, apparently no longer reigns supreme. During the last week of February at least two husbands pleaded to London magistrates to protect them against their brutal wives. One ill-treated Willesden husband was refused a separation order. "My body and legs are covered with bruises where she kicked me," ho said. The magistrate: "And what were you doing while she was kicking jou ?" ' "Nothing, sir," replied the man; "I dare not. She says she will sever my head from my body." Here the applicant broke down and sobbed. In the second case a Battersea husband summoned his wife for assaulting him. "A few days ago," he said, "she struck me with a photograph frame, breaking niy nose. She also blacked my eyes and hit me with the heel of her boot. She challenges me to fight her every week." A well-known East End social worker said that she knew many a husband who would Btnnd up to any man, but wns afraid of the physical prowess of his wife. "Husbands have been getting meeker nnd meeker, and wives' tongues sharper and sharper, and in nine cases out of ten you will find in certain quarters of London that the wife is a bigger bully than her husband."