LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 272, 18 April 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The next meeting of the New Plymonth Harbor Board will be held on May 11. Most people will agree that the following cabled news item needs careful punctuation: "He struck his wife who was packing clothesi on the back of her head with an axe and afterwards cut her throat with a knife."

The Harbor Board lias decided to institute a scheme of tree planting on the sand hills on the breakwater beach. Mr. E. Maxwell has been appointed to confer with the harbor master as to the most suitable variety of trees to plant.

Mr. .John Burns uttered an amusing "bull" in the course of a debate in the House of Commons last month. . Alluding to one of the Labour members, he said: "I would like to throw the lion, member a life-line so that I might pluck him as a brand from the burning.'' Mr. C. W. Russell, M.P., has stated that the Liberal Party are arranging fof a fight throughout the whole country, members being organised to take every section of the Dominion. After Easter the campaign will become general throughout New Zealand.

Though the official report is not ready yet, it is understood that the receipts at the Wellington municipal fish market were over £2500, over 40000 separate sales being recorded. It is under»tood the market paid its way durintr the year ended March 31, covered by th'e above figures.

The Wellington Hospital Committee on Thursday resolved to recommend the board to grant the following annual increments to sisters and senior nurses from April l:~Sisters, £75 to £IOO. to he by two annual increases of £lO, and one of £5; nurses, £SO to £OS, to be bv one annual increase of £lO and one of Hi.

The New Zealand Casein Company, with headquarters at Wanganui, is skipping by the Star of Victoria 560 sacks of casein, bringing the total shipments t„ date up to 3694 sacks, equal to 26* tons. To recover ih.U quantity of case- '- Tl! -iw«;-r-'». '-»"' ■», r „nl r .'Vl" ■ ':»: p'>'i:i:'.i ... ii,...:.- .-.- ss .-wuci:.

"Unique opportunty to purchase one of the Bahama Islands, freehold, Crown title; about 600 acres, healthy climate, good house, electric light, 4000 cocoanut trees, 200 acres sisal, remainder good land. . . . Price £4OOO, on terms.' —An advertisement in the London Times in March.

The residential qualification for enrolment on a municipal roll practically includes any one who has been in New Zealand for a year and in the particular district for three months, provided that he or she is a British subject by birth or nationalisation, and over the age of 21 years.

The happiness of a bridegroom was somewhat (married at Bluff recently when person entered liia home and stole his trousers, in the pockets of which was £22 18s 2d. The garment was found on the lawn at a later hour, when two ten-pound notes were found to be missing.

It was reported a few days ago that a Wairarapa orchardist wae marketing a second crop of strawberries. In this respect, however, Otago Central excels the Wairarapa, states the Dunedin correspondent of the Lyttelton Times. Strawberries of the second crop have been forwarded regularly from Central Otago during the past six weeks and are still being sent to market. Last week in Dunedin fine quality strawberries realised from Bd. to Is per punnet wholesale.

Mr. Rockefeller was ono talking to a group of New York business men, all of them millionaires, but none of them American-born. "After all," Mr. Rockefeller remarked, "when one comes to look at it, you fellows are only intruders. None of you were born .here. You're immigrants, and you're apt to forget what you owe us natives for letting you in." "Maybe," commented an Irishman thoughtfully. "Maybe. But you forget one thing. We came into America with our fares paid and our clothes on our back. Can you say the same?"

Genera] Sir lan Hamilton offers no apology to the Peace Society of New South Wales (or his conduct in wishing the cadets at the Military College at Duntroon "Good luck, rapid promotion, and (smiling) plenty of ware." When the society's resolution of cenßure was brought under his notice recently he smiled again. "Why. it's an old regimental stock jest," foe said. "Even as far back as the days of the Peninsula war officers used to drink to 'bloody wars and quick promotion.'' It was understood to be a jest by everyone present. My remark was used in exactly the same way."

Will beef become dearer? is a problem that no one can yet answer witfc certainty. Several dealers expressed the opinion in reply to inquiries that there was a prospect of a rise during the winter but whether the increase would be maintained no definite information could be given. Pastoralists, they said, were on a good wicket just now, and the big profits accruing would, the dealers thought, induce many dairy farmers to sell their milking heYda and go in for beef-raising. There was a very big demand for heef as well as mutton, and witu the erecticn of additional freezing works, as now seemed probable, !the exports from the Dominion to other countries across the seas would increase very rapidly.

The duty of paying back £3400 sent by various people from all over Australia, in .response to an agency swindle, has fallen on Detectives Walker and Pearse, says the Sydney Daily Telegraph. A man recently advertised that on receipt of -2s 6d he would send a roll of silk to any address in the Commonwealth. The offer was made to advertise his business, etc. More than 30,000 people sent along 'half-crowns, 22fi boin« residents of New South Wales, 5381 ol Queensland. 3579 of Victoria, 2245 of •South Australia; 14(56 of West Austrlia IS,O of Tasmania, and 4185 of New Zealand. The silk did not materialise, and the advertiser has been put in gaol for three years. Now the detectives are sending back the money as fast as they can. Since the arrest, over 20,000 letters addressed to him have been intercepted by the Superintendent of mails, and were returned to the writers

; A London correspondent writes under date February 27:-«Soots me n froan -New Zoa and who come Home this year will be able to Uke part in the cclebraR?m f^ 6 600 th a ™ivorsarjr of the B<ttle of Bannockburn. A committee lepresentative of Scottish national feelmg has the matter in hand. One of the mtcntwns of the committee is to erect a permanent memorial on the field of battle. It is suggested that several th Til am! ShoU ! d be ,bou g ,lt r »«nd burn t °"f T tllo field 0f Ba ™°<*- burn, to bo laid out as a public oarkand that a volume of historic 1 S tud e, .hould be published. I n connection "vith the volume, Professor Rait, who occ Pics the chair of Scottish' MZrjZ the work. A national holiday is ll Pccted to be proclaimed throughot 'Scotland on the anniversary of the S i iT, U \ and tho B ~' mS

■Tin, first drilling development in the Has U ken place m Siberia. The chi >f obstacle to the creation o, trade r a t;ons with Central Siberia by way of tt tan, ||i;,?n lnK almMt ,M «M«ke<l. re- , " • "*> lcn ' !lI '«l «'us bare «ci'«s dun„ K t i, e snr>rt S0;1 "; l » lYcncK,., and Ooi Kivers. Th™ river, oun*;».v.l MM „ traded Si beran R-iilu-n. t ' -ir.ins.I ess ,K 'l'' ' C!,,ty ; thr ™ M;lro( >"i oulhpr, ? h:lVo , '"'° : l CTec *«d on the * then, shore „f U , e ivara Sea, and the erection of an additional MUkm on the norihe,,, si ,, o is '"e Kara Sea. Nation* keep observation «n to ononnng vessels. A seaplane is now b «;"X »;«'-l', the floats of which will be fni' ~T ."" , tlmt '* ma 3 T ■«« adapted »" <w <>n land. Risim? to a height •' MKmt Kmoft this seaplane wilHake in t; , ■ ■ , ' ,,0, ' ,i50n l>f ww, and. fitted with wireless, will be *!,!„ t „ fiive „,,. vance information of ice movements lonwhin nnV ,° tll " 1 ' m, ' n,ls - Ai "0 I™? whilst assisting navigation WOIIW it „„ "■ln! upon l„ cover more than IfiO "'•if;', nor, at that km son of the year. won (1 i he machine or nilot liave to'ontend v,-;t!i rrgour* of climate. I!y „,ea»s or ino-y twm developments of modern nterpive, aeroplanes ami wireless, n is (|inle likely that the North-east Tassa.w to the Pacific will be available :„ satety within n short time.

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Ten and a Jialf degrees of frost were registered at Ashburton yesterday moi'iJBfl.

luglewood' is to have its Queen election. The local fire brigade is inaugurating the contest.

The present cold snap bids good-bye to the summer of 1014. Winter is either li'rc or close handy. Ergot is reported to be affecting some •f the pastures in the Mastcrton district at the present time. Mr. Bnu-e, of Xew Plymouth, who is competing in the New Zealand draughts championship at Auckland, was fifteenth on the list of 21 players last night, with a. record of .12 games, seven won, twelve drawn, giving him 13 points. The leader has won 22 games out ol 30, and has 23!£ points.

A man fell in the water in Wellington late on Thursday. Two seamen jumped in and rescued him. Whenbrougrt round, the rescued man resented the enwhich had been made on his behalf. He was arrested and taken to the police station, but up to latest advices had refused to give bis name. : In reply to an enquiry from Mr. U. Okcy, M.P., as to to the reason for removing the gang of men engaged in surveying the Mloturoa-Opunake railway route to Te Roti, the Minister for Public Works has replied that this was done only on account of urgent work which had been left unfinished near the latter j place. As soon as this work was comI ipleted the .survey would be continued.

Messrs George and oohnstoa have purchased from Mr. W. A. Jury his mail service between Waitara and Awakino, subject to the Postal Department agree- , ing to suggested time of- arrival and departure at the several places. The first named firm would run the service by motor car to the end l of the metal during the winter, then by coach over Mt. Messenger.—Mail.

A meeting of ladies was held last night to make arrangements and allot districts for the collection in aid of Pukekura Park next Saturday. "Park Saturday" is now a recognised institution, and itis i hoped that the people will have saved j from the recent rush for small change | something to assist the Park Board in I maintaining and improving the prettiest park of its kind in the world. The la- . dies wish to remind annual subscribers , that they will be called upon earlv in j the week for their subscriptions. Each ■ one will be given a badge, the wearing I of which on PaTk Saturday will be suffij cient to warn and ward off the colj lectors. J In India there are 35 millions of I widows. The fact is arresting, but when it is remembered that the greater number of these widows range from 13 years of age down to babyhood the imagina- . tion is staggered. Such a condition of affairs springs from the fact that to have a daughter unmarried after the age of IS is regarded as a disgrace to the parents. Fifty-six years ago, in the interests of reform, a cultured Indian I braved persecution from Mb people by refusing to have his daughter married at such a tender age. The father per. j ished by famine, but the daughter deI veloped into a beautiful woman of rare I scholarship, in whom the desire to secure J better conditions for the women of India j in general, and for the helpless, cruelly j wronged child wives in particular, became a, passion. That patriot has become known to the world arf'Bamabai, and the centre of her field of work is Mukti, whore as many as 2000 Indian girls at a time are cared for, educated and trained in tho work of enlightening tiheir people and spreading the message of Christianity. Says the Eltliam Argus:—"Thisjournal, we believe, was the first to draw attention to the grievous wroncr that was done to the people of Inglewood by an act of last session which rendered the Everett Road Reserve open for Bale. Since then the Daily Newst has done the people good service by ventilating the question. But there are indications that all protest is in vain, that this little bit of bush scenery is to be laid waste by axe and tire to please tine utilitarian souls of a few political wire pullers. But what on earth arc the Inglewood people thinking of? Is there no one amongst them with sufficient energy to convene a public meeting and get a resolution of protest passed? This is election year, and a resolution passed by a meeting of a couple »f hundred people would not bo without its effect. Of course t'.-ere is an aspect of the question that we have not « yet discussed. Perhaps the, Inglewood people don't care a ra*> whether "the rel serve is destroyed or not. Perhaps them is no one amongst thorn with sufficient soul to appreciate beautiful scenery trees and birds. Perhaps they are so selfishly wrapped up in the present that they are not able to look forward and reserve beauty spots for future generations. We do not believe that this is. tincase; but if it should he, then whv should anyone bother about the matter? let the sordid-soulwi have their way; let the utilitarian ovcr-wrisrh nil those who would fain preserve Wie beautiful and let tht Everett Road Reserve flouratively and literally go to the blazes!" .With reference to the publicity civen. we would point out thai, the first newspaper protest against the desecration came from our Stratford correspondent months ago. The services in the Whitcley Memorial and Fitzroy churches to-morrow will be taken by the Rev. <!. H. Olds. H..A. who will be accorded services of welcome.