LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 290, 11 May 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. James Hawkins has disposed of the freehold of the Coronation Hotel, Eltham. The Territorial casuals leave by special troop trjiin for Takapau this (Monday) morning, at 10.50 a.m., Bull Block 11.5 a.m., Lepperton 11.22 p.m. The Nelson and Wellington central chambers of commerce have telegraphed to the Taranaki chamber, offering to co-operate in obtaining a better steamer service between these ports and New Plymouth. At the Egmont County Council meeting on Friday the Lands Department orwarded a schedule of "thirds," accruing to March 31, 11)14, and asked the council to submit proposals for expenditure of the amount. The circular pointed out that where new works were to be undertaken it was essential that the approximate length and locality of the work to be performed should be supplied. As. however, the amount only amounted to 7s, its expenditure will not need the preparation of very elaborate plans.

Best Hot Water Bottles, reasw hie prices—Davies' Pharmacy.

A Mastcrton settler has had a somcwliat unique 'experience. He allowed a buyer for a freezing company to go through his flock and draft the "fata.' For those he received a sum of 18s. per head. The rejects were put in the saleyards, where they were knocked down at ISs Sd per head.

At a meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of William Sinclair, of Chrisk-hurch, solicitor, bankrupt stated that when he realised on an option over some property he had he would be able to pay 20s. in the £. The Ollicial Assignee, however, he'd a different opinion. He did not think creditors would get X /-A in the f! There was an outbreak of measles on board the New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Kuahine, which has just arrived at Wellington from London. It was not very serious, however. When the Port Health Officer made the usual examination, he discovered seven cases and eight "contacts." The vessel was not quarantined, but the patients have been isolated. While the battle-cruiser New Zealand was riding at anchor at Berehaven in the West of Ireland, in the middle of March, a gale of unusual severity swept the British Isles, and Captain Halsey had an anxious time with his charge. The topmaßt of the New Zealand, with wireless gear and gall's, was carried away, and the vessel is said to have dragged her anchor about two miles; but she was never in any real danger. The members of the Egmont County Council are well satisfied with the results achieved since the introduction of their new steam roller. Though this arrived late in the season, and has so far not been able to cope with the work and follow close behind the metalling, its work has been very favorably commented on. One enthusiastic councillor remarked that the portion of t! .3 Eltham road treated was like a sheet of glass, and that it would have been good business to have purchased the roller years ago. Just because a man happens to be fifty or sixty years of age, or at the head of a big 'business organisation, it does not follow that he has any better knowledge of advertising than he has of law, or medicine, or surveying, or farming, or prize-figliung, or any one of a thousand other things that are outside his line of study and experience. _ The wise man, when planning advertising, calls in the aid of a man who knows, and a paper,which "does." The Daily News "does." It reaches the men who lift big cheques, and it sells goods for its advertisers.

With the approach of the end of the first period of training at the Takapau camp, it became necessary to arrange for the payment of the men who have been spending the past week under canvas. The sum required was £15,000, and a strong escort comprising twenty men, under Captain S. Trask, went to Palmerston North to convey the money to Takapau. The escort arrived by the 11 o'clock train and tookov«r the ammunition boxes in which the coin was packed at the local branch of the Bank of New Zealand, returning to the camp by the 1.25 train. Gretna Green revived its ancient glories last month, when a wedding after the old fashion of the famous "runaway matches" was celebrated between a nan living in Perth and a bride who had journeyed from Devon. They chose the place 'because of its romantic associations, and a villager, according to custom, acted as priest. The wedding ■breakfast took place; in! a cottage. The couple, however, left in a motor-car and not by a post-chaise. Under Scots law the marriage is valid if husband and wife, having resided for sufficient time in Scotland, accept on mother before a witness.

About one thousand men arc now on the pay-sheet at' the Broken Hill Proprietary Company's steel works at Port Waratah (N.S.W.). By the time the works are ready to roll steel rails the total number of hands employed will be something in the vicinity of 5000. What tliis will mean to the Commonwealth in general, and to Newcastle district in particular, calls for no very vivid imagination (says an Australian paper). The preliminary stages of the construction works incidental to the establishment of this mammoth industrial enterprise have not eccupied, roughly, 12 montliß. In that time very many thousands of pounds have been expended in labor, material and machinery. An ingenious method of gold-stealing was brought to light on the Golden Horseshoe Mine at Kalgoorlie (W.A.) a few days ago. The gold-bearing solution from the filter pr»ss-room, k> pumped to a tank which stands on a trestle, about 00 feet from the ground, and from this tank it gravitates to the precipitation boxes. The metallurgist, having occasion to examine the tank, noticed a piece of bag projecting and closer inspection revealed the fact that the tank contained nine bags, partly filled with zinc shavings, the zinc being used to precipitate the gold held in solution by the cyanide. The zinc, on being smelted, yielded about £'2oo worth of gold. Detectives were informed, but news of the discovery had leaked out, and there was little chance of apprehending the culprits.

"There are no statesmen now in Australia," comments a Melbourne paper gloomily. "Great men arc very much wanted'at tliis moment. A continent of immense natural natural resources, and a people of natural vigor wait for them. Opportunity is here; we want, the men." And four or five front-rankers would do. Two or three in the Commonwealth Parliament (one to give his heart and soul of the question of the Northern Territory), and one each for the States with a future, Queensland and West Australia. With five or six real statesmen at the head of affairs—young, earnest, large-minded and i»:g-hcarl.cd men with man-like grip and foresight—Australia might facu the future with confidence. As it is—well, who can feel like throwing his hat in the air when he contemplates the dull and unctuous Fisher and the snarling parish-minded Cook!

"A meat famine is ;i riio.st alluring prospect," said a well-known West 13ml physician at St. Thomas's Hospital, in discussing the doleful prediction of llu 1 president of the Chicago Meat Pack >•»' Assoeialion that before many .years have passed meat will be a luxury for enjoyment only by the rich. "Expensive meat would fce the greatest blessing to mankind," the doctor said. "It would force us to look arniiuil for other forms of food and make us dependent on fruits and cereals. People may regard it as a beneficial change. Wc 3hall be forced hack to the cereal age, and we shall rebuild British physique. Our forefathers who lived the simple life and ate oniy such r.'.eat an they hunted witli primi-' live weapons, were stalwart and strong. The natives in South Africa were line, powerful men until they made the acquaintance of gin and meat and. other noisome foods and drink of civilised people; but since Urn they have shown signs of physical and moral degeneration." ••- i l; ,ve \ ....•r.ueriain's Pain Balm and found it invaluable for sciatica," says Mrs K. Burnett, 07 Wicksteed St., Wanganui, SU. "I have also found it a wonderful healer for cuts. I don't think you will find anyone more enthusiastic, over Chamberlain's Pain Balm than 1 am." AH chemists and stores.

There are no fewer than -t.) laxicibs plying for hii-e in Wanganui at the present time.

The mass of detail to be dealt with by the Prime Minister ami other Ministers of the Crown may be .gathered from the fact that during last financial year it was calculate;! that Mr. Massoy must have signed his name 34,0000 timeg.

The arrival of the "Walkure" from Hull may be looked for at any time now. It was estimated that she would take two months to make the trip, and this time expired yesterday. She did not arrive however, much to the disappointment of expectant enthusiasts on the water front.

The high wind which jumped up out of the south a day or two ago whipped the sea into angry loam, ruffled ladies, and played pranks with headgear, but yesterday it assumed more alarming proportions. The most serious damage credited to it was the destruction of the derrick just erected for the Taranaki (New Zealand) Oil Wells Company, Ltd. This structure, which was not quite complete and only stayed with ropes, was blown flat, and literally smashed to atoms. Its height and exposed position, no doubt, made it an easier victim to the force of the wind.

The Taranaki Territorials returned from the Takapau camp by train at 9.15 last night. They were received by quite a crowd of mothers, sisters, friend's and sweethearts at the station, and accompanied to the drill hall, where the claiming of baggage from a conglomerate heap occupied some little time. The general opinion seemed to be that the weather wa3 "the limit," the food "good but hardly enough," and the camp strike | "fierce." They had all drawn pay for the extra days' encampment. Some of the j country men remained in town all night.