LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 272, 23 April 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Australian mails, ex Maunganui at Wellington, will arrive here to-night. Candidate: "'Now, my friends, when you vote, you don't want to vote for a pig in a poke; you want to vote for me —and get the genuine article!" The Marsliall road roller ordered from .England by the Taranaki County Council has been fitted up in- the local railway yard, and was yesterday given a trial run.

A final reminder its given to those incrested that the North Taranaki Hunt will hold their opening meet to-day, at Mr. W. Birdling's farm, Waitara. Throw off at 1 pm. sharp.

Ten. members of the lceal Territorials, under Sergt Southam, left by the mail train yesterday for Takapau, to assist in getting the camp in order for the main body of Territorials. At yesterday's meeting of the Taranaki Education Board, ihe chairman reported that since the last meeting" of the Board, 't'he Department had made a grant of £2OO for the purchase of additional land at the Vogeltown school. During the past year, the New Plymouth Fire Brigade has held 32 musters, 13 meetings, 11 practices, and 8 tires ana alarms, and Foreman Clark, Secretary Ford, and Custodian Doughty secured the full number of attendances, and there were several members very close up to them. At the meeting of the Taranaki Education Board yesterday, the chief inspector "(Mr. W. A. Ballantyne) reported that the shield presented in 1909 by the late Mr. U. Tisch, to encourage schools to improve .their surroundings, was secured for 1913 by the ivorito school (90 marks) after very Keen competition. The following schools were close up:—Norfolk, Kaimiro, Piliama, Oaonui, Bell Block and Bird. At the annual meeting of the Turanake Hospital Board yesterday, it wis decided to fix the hospital rate for the ensuing year at Is in the £ on annual value, this bcin<**the same as was struck last year. The contributions of the •various local bodies will be aa lollows: Taranaki County Council, capital value £2,200,981 (£llO3 0s MM); Kgmont County Council, £1,305,838 (£OB2 18s sd); Clifton County Council £972,027 (£4BO 0s 3d); New Plymouth Borough Council (£76!) 4s 9d); Waitara Borough Council, £180,577 (£9O 5s 9d); Inglewood Borough Council £148,248 (£74 2s sd).

A Masterton motorist, who has just returned from a trip to Ilawke's Bay, relates a story of what he describes as a record me<ui action. A motorist who was making for Napier, had the misfortune to have a disablement to his ear, which be could not repair. He accordingly left his car oni the roadside and took the itrairi to the nearest town. On his return, an hour or so later, with the necessary part, lie was surprised and disgusted to find that during his absence the sneak ithief had been busy. Everything that could be conveniently removed including the whole ot the outfit, was missing, and the unfortunate traveller had to seek further help, arriving at. his destination several hours late. It is officially estimated that the accumulated funds of the world's trade unions stand at more than £20,000,000, of which £8,000,000 is credited to British unions. The combined membership of all known trade unions is returned it under f1.000.000, Great Britain having one-fourth of these members.

On Wednesday of last week (says the Waihi correspondent of tJlie Auckland "Star") persons in the vicinity of the Tauranga bridge found a two-seater motor car capsized and considerably damaged at the foot of a declivity of the main road. The car proved to be the property of Messrs Deverill tun! Crimmins, coach proprietors of Waihi It had been taken from the stables during tiho night, evidently by some person or persons bent on a joy ride. One of the front wheels of the car was broken oIT at the hub, the wind shield w.u smashed, and ot.ier parts of the car were damaged.

"CAMBOC for me. plense!" When vim are invited to nmne vonr refreshment., call for' CAMROC DRY GfNGfiK AIX ft is guaranteed mHe from an original Belfast formula, and is absolute!-

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Sister Young haa resigned her position on the nursing staff of the Now Plymouth Hospital. Mr. F. j. C. Bellringer nas been re-elected chairman of tihe T-arauaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. "Long lessons and Ion;;; sermons art undesirable," was a remark made by Mr R. Lee, a Wellington educationist, at a Pahiatua school function.

An English sportsman-, Mr A. M. Naylor, states that -vhu finest trout-lishing in the world, obtained at Lake i'aupo, is being destroyed because o; tlrj failure of the authorities to remove diseased fish.

'Lwal Oppositionists are not punctual. A »i ■:ieinb..rs of the party organisation Mii'i in-:d i:i.s, n:ghi, and tit the hour lixed tm:ie \vr:v only three or four present. But they drifted in by 6nes and ,twos, ana towards nine o'clock there were about iorty present. The late Sir David Gill told many good stories, often against himself, lit used to delight', in telling how in an address as president of the Institute of Marine Engineers ne said: "Now we can measure within a hundredth of a second of an arc, which is like measuring a threepenny piece at a distance of a hundred miles," and how at the dinner afterwards the proposer of his health said tEat there was no doubt as to his nationality, "because no one but a .Scotsman would bother his head about a threepenny bit a hundred miles away.'

Gene Greene, the! entertainer, tells this story: "There were floods once in Johnstown. They were the most tremendous floods ever known in the United States. Charlie Straight and 1 were in them. We were stopping at a hotel .n Johnstown, and the water started to rise. iWe were on 4Jie tirst floor, ami reckoned that we were safe. The water came up inches at a time, and finally it crept up to the window-sill, and flowed into the room. We reckoned it was time to leave. I got a mattress- off the bed, pushed it out of the window, and rafted myself out on to the seething waste of water. Charlie Straight accompanied mc on the piano." A report from Cincinnati, Ohio, describes a remarkable test given to a fireproof suit and helmet. To prove that his invention is all that he claims it to be, Mr Martin Pannian donned the contrivance and allowed himself to be cast into a great bonfire (the Daily Telegraph says). For five minutes, the report says, Mr Pannian was obscured to the witnesses by walls oi fire, and finally he stepped out through a blazing curtain of flame, uninjured, cool, and calm. The helmet is of metal with two layers of waiter and fire-proof canvas inside. Water also rushes between two similar layera of canvas that form the inside of the suit from shoulders to feet. To obviate the chance of the water becoming heated, vents at the hands allow it to escape.

London's water traffic is the greatest of any port in the world. The total net tonnage of vessels arriving and departing for the year ended, December 31, 1912, was 37,076,142, whilst that of shipping paying river tonnage dues for the year ended March 31, 1013. was 28,508,672. The tonnage of Shipping entering the wet docKs and paying dock dues amounted to 10,642,053, whilst the tonnage of shipping using the dry docks was 2,043.174 A comparison oi the value of imports and exports (exc'jding coastwise goods) of the six chief ports shows that London leads tho way with £383.629,052, though Liverpool 13 close with £373,365,515 These two are far ahead of the rest. Hull comes third with fBO,346,407, Manchester (including Runcorn) £56,717,909, Southampton £52,110,002, and Glasgow £50,785,181.

One result of the German war levy is that Berlin is rapidly losing its millionaires—that is to say, people who possess a million marks, which is only a quarter of what a man must have to be an American millionaire. According to a news message from Europe, they are flocking to Tegions where the taxes are lower, .People who return incomes of £SOOO a year or 3 per cent on £50,000, ranking us millionaires, have fled from the tax- gatherer. Also there have been heavy departures from the class whose , fortunes total between £20,000 and £40,000. The authorities are, 'however, overjoyed at the early results of the new war levy. Returns from Frankfort-on-the-Main, one of the wealthiest cities of the Empire and famed ior the number

of its millionaires, have already declared £175,000,000 more than ever before. This result, which it is believed will turn out typical, is considered due to the general amnesty for 'past sins offered to all persons who te]l the unalloyed truth regarding their incomes and property in con nection with the war tax. A cable message a few days ago stated that the Kaiser had paid .his own personal war levy, a heavy one, although, of course, not required to do so, an example which ought perhaps, to make tax-paying more fashionable than it has been in the .past among the aristocratic set. A funeral procession of thirty-two miles an . hour is the latest product ot this hustling country (says the New Tfork eorresnomlent of the "Standard"). In, England, 1 believe, it is said of a buy man that 'he would be run over bv a funeral, but such an acirdent might easily happen here to the most energetic. Tlie facts in the case referred to came

out in evidence at the Long Island City Police Court, when a chalTeur named Christian Frickey was charged with breaking the speed laws. He was employed by an undertaker of Manhattan, who makes a feature of motor funerals, providing not only motor taw for mourner?, but a motor hearse as well. The order of the procession was as follows: — A motor car led, bearing the wreaths and other floral tributes, and was followed by the motor hearse and motor mourning carriages. Frickey was in charge of the leading car, and set the paoe for tinwhole procession. Policeman Harry I'. Shelley was on his round, untroubled by the woes of life, when he suddenly caught sighl, of the procession moving at, such a pace that it even scandalised him, hardened ollieer of the law as lie was. lieing a man of action he' at once haiiiMi a. passing motor car and gave chase. When lie caught tip with Friekev the ear was going at thirty two miles an hour. A remonstrance served in bring the procession down to a more decorous pace, and Krickev was subsequently served with the summons which accounted for his presence if! ceurt. v!entence was reserved.

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