LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 283, 2 May 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Government has consented to the erection of a wireless plant at Canterbury College for experimental purposes,, and very strict regulations to secure this are gazetted. Instructions nave been received \>y \.Ka Palmerston poii;e authorities to o'.'-se the Palmerston 'Gaol. .Short term pusoners will be sent to Wangunui in fa-, ture. Last year £SOO was on the Intimates to be expended on gaol improvements, but the money was not used. The vital statistics of ])uncdin'«kho". that births registered in April numlwrc.l 119, deaths 02, and marriages 107. In April, 1913, there were 1:11) births, liii deaths, and 09 marriages. The inere ise in marriages is due to the fact ln.it Easter occurred "i April. The charm of the elusive is exemplified in present day fashions. As an i instance, merd man could not say whether ladies' frocks are high vruistwl or low waisted. Indeed, il is* necessary for ladies to visit Morey's in order to find out. See their advertisement: in this issue.

The Borough engineer • f.Mr. <'. Nkitrop) points out that the analysis of the waters of the Mangnmahoe null Waiwakaiho streams published in yeslerIday's issue is one made sums yours ago, [but in the light of recent criticism* Ire deemed it advisable to ma Ire tUn analysis public in order to correct any impression' that the borough authority* draw their water from anything but an approved s ° ur<: e> .-^—i_iji3Jia2a

The proposal for the Nelson harbor improvement loan of £)5,000 wag lost •t the ■oil,on Thursday, there being 86 votes short tf the required three-fifths' majority.

"If he gett the job he will be married within three months," was the Olifton County engineer's response to a query as to whether the applicant for a certain job was single or married. The opportunist got the job.

There if a rumor in Christchurch that Robert (Sample, now out on bail of £ISOO, is to be arrested on a charge of alleged addition tit a speech there on the ltfth, whioh was a repetition of Holland's uttoraacas, for which he was oonvicted.

The numerous supporters of Pukekura Park, who last Saturday provided themselvos with a supply of silver eoin for the numerous oollection boxes which ''Park Saturday" 'was expected to bring forth, are reminded that this postponed campaign on the public purse will take place to-day.

At a quarter past one this morning the murky iloude were riven 'by & blinding tkoet of lightning, followed by a sharp thunderclap and torrential raini wliiok soon filled the side-channels in the streets to their full capacity. The storm was of short duration., steady rain then setting in. A thrasher shark, 12ft in length, was found in the Calliope Dock, Auckland, on Monday, when it was pumped out after the eaWo steamer Iris had been docked. The tail of the fish alone measures 6ft. It is with its long and powerful tail that this variety of shark assails its vietims, which are often much largei than itself.

An interesting property sale affecting the North Auckland district was effected recently, when the Qkahukura Run, Kaipara, passed into the hands of the Hon. J. D. Ormond, of Hawke's Bay. The former owners of the property were Messrs Hutchinson and Maddison, and the run comprises 10,000 acres, with 4000 sheep and 1100 of cattle. At the annual meeting of subscribers to the Carnegie Library last night, a suggestion was made that magazines should not be allowed to leave the institution immediately on the arrival, but shpuld be left on the table for a short time for the benefit of the general public kefore subscribers were allowed to .take them away. The committee promised to consider the point. The Public Trustee, through Mr. Ernest Bowers, Reserves Agent, wrote to the Clifton* County Council drawing attention to the fact that any arrangements made with the lessees of the West Coast Settlements' Reserves for the removal of metal, etc., were illegal and void, and warned the Council that if it was at present taking metal from any of the reserves it must desist at once and account to the Public Trustee for such metal taken at the rate of 3d per cubic yard. As the Council is not at I present taking metal from such land, no action was taken.

Messrs George and Johnston, of Waitara, who have purchased the WaitaraAwakino mail coach connection from Mr. W. A. Jury, took over the mail running yesterday morning. During the summer months cars will be run right through, but in the winter, as it is impossible to take motor-cars over Mt. Messenger, these will only be run to the end of the metal, where the passengers will be transferred to horse vehicles. The new service v/ill effect a considerable saving in the time of the journey, an hour and a half being saved on the outward journey and two hours and a half pn the inward trip. Alligators infest the rivers and swamps of the Northern Territory, and the shooting of the saurians is the principal sport of the inhabitants. Mr Graham, a surveyor, who arrived in Sydney by the Montoro, last week, said that the shooting was not an easy feat. When one approached the river hank the alligators were off like a shot into the water, and the tips of their noses,. which was the only part exposed, were not much of a target unless a man was an exceptionally good shot. A few weeks ago a couple of black girls were seized and eaten by alligators at a bathing place near Da'rwin and a similar tragic event had occurred a short time 'before that.

In the course of iaii| interview at Dunedin the Hon. I<\ M. B. Fisher said the Electoral Department had now completed the issue of the supplementary rolls right up to March 31. They contain the mimes removed since last election. A reform will be brought about this year which will take the place of the method of compiling rolls by means of temporary canvassers by an arrangement with the Postal and Police Departments. The enrolling and checking of enrolment forms will be carried out by the letter-carriers and policemen, who will be paid by the Electoral Department. By this means every name on tic roll will be carefully checked. The New Plymouth -Hospital Board and the Borough authorities are takin™ prompt steps to get at the cause of the epidemic of typhoid fever which iias recently broken out in the St. Aubyn district. Dr. Valintine, Chief Health Officer, was in New Plymouth yesterday and in company with the chairman of the Hospital Board (Mr. F. C J Bellringer) Inspectors Kendall and FieJder, and the Borough engineer (Mr C Skitrop) visited St. Aubyn, the West End sehoo , the native hostelry, and the Mangaotuku stream. Dr. Valintine will bo in Acw Ilymouth again on Monday. He intends to spend some weeks in the town, and will make every endeavor to locate the cause of the outbreak. In proportion to -its population, All - traha, devotes more time and money woild. It is the gambling, dement, of course, that sustains the racing to such »n extent, and in Ijfe for May, just pub■slied, the question is discussed, "Has the general public that supports the. racing a fair chance of coming out on the nght side in its transactions with he bookmakers?" (J. M. Dash, who has Had a very long and varied acquaintance with /racing, argues the question vei-v closely, and produces a list of arguments and examples to illustrate the felicitous logic of the racecourse gambler. i{ 0 analyses many of the systems and superstitions upon which the man-in-the-street speculates his money, and shows how tutile these are. Without in any way adopting the pulpit attitude, but merely as a hard-headed business man he reiterates Punch's advice to those about to gamble, "Don't."

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The income of Mr John D. Rockefeller, the American multi-millionaire, is estimated by the income tas ef i«iels at £20,000,000 a year. "When Igo out of office—it may be sooner or it may be later —I hope I shall be able to Bay that I have left this country better than I found it."—The Prime Minister when being entertaiaed at Warkworth.

The .Maori people of Rotorua, membors of the Anglican Church there, a few days since, at the opening of the new church built on the historic site of the old one on the shores of Lake Rotorua, contributed in cash at the opening services the magnificent sum of £I2BO towards the cost of erection.

Mr Massev is apparently Hot on the track of the land jobber. "There are men," says Mr Massey, "who buy land ani sit tight, Telying on the industry of others to increase their values. I say plainly that I am going to put a stop to it. I want to see the land ocoupied and used. If men buy land for speculative purposes without, using it they will have, to pay for the luxury." \ An "Optimists' Club" is expfected to come into being shortly in Wellington as an off-shoot of the parent institution of that name in London. The English club makes its appeal to business men, and its object is to promote good feeling between employer and employee, and generally to encourage the adoption of modern business methods and welfare work. A preliminary meeting is to be culled at an early date. > Sportsmen who spent some time in quest of red deer in the Tararua Range* report that only three heads were secured, but these were of more than average quality, one fourteen pointer being an exceptionally fine specimen. One experienced deer-stalker states that the Tararuas will, in time, become one of the most favored resorts of red. deer, and in a year or two excellent "heads" should be secured. The fact that the country ia extremely rough and inaccessible, he opines, will tend to keep "pot-hunters'" from the locality.