LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 292, 13 May 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The "Joan Craig" arrived at Moturoa from .Sydney last night, and will 1„. oortlipd at (5.30 a.m. to-day.

During the height of the gale on Monday a well-known local business man, m considerable avoirdupois, wis blown trwn Jus bicycle while rounding a corner i'ortunately he escaped without injury. The vestry of St. Mary's Church ha> authorised the purchase of Mr Kenvon's property at Vogcltown for the site' of a Sunday school, which will be erected shortly.

The only business before the Magistrate's Court, New Plymouth, yesterday, was the case of .John MeKcan v 1. K. A. Thompson, in which judgment by deiault was given for £27 lils 5d (costs

Someone took a screw plug out of the sea side of a ballast tank of the Petone when she was ill dock at l/y'ttolton, and when the dock was filled the tank filled ami heeled the vessel over. A diver had to be sent down to investigate', and then to put in a ping.

At a genera.] meeting of the Mo'uiroa '''iii'li (oiiimiltce improvement Sooictv ''•'ln on Monday iii K hl„ tl„, folloiviii" oll'i- <•'•'■■' "'ore elected:- President, Nl'r. ,] HonoyiieU; chairman. Mr. tSlmmnton; sen-clary.- Mr. 1,. S. Button: treasurer Air. A. executive, i\j,s--rs 0 lln-r. W. ,j my . p. Wi 'Williams, and \. Haily; working committee. Mew* Oleni'iw, Kendall, VV. Rsiil-v \ ■iJcii-'lcy S •'wlili'', ■'■ .fin-v. AV. .li'irv, A Omiirtt' N'. LovM-i.ljf,., „ m i c. |.,, w ,..

Tli(! statement 'has been the rounds of a section of the press that the A ''ii-i'i Ucof Trust have decided to Mn-l o;:;'i'atioriH in _\Yu- Zealand, and to that end thcv hew ;ii-i]iiirc<l tlio ( ><'<-m Jieacli h'roeziiiir Works at the Willi'. Sir .10-cnh Ward has siven the ioi.iciiin Mar auUiority 10 state that, -" for a-. his finii and th- reported acquisition „f their I'rec-zin-' plant are concerned, the report in question lias absolutely n,, foundation iii fact.

!; " ' ' ' t'-:' a summons fro.n the, Magistrate's Court must be interpreted for oven- Maori or Iwlf-oaste, in-espe:-li-.c of h ; s |-iiowl"dir,. of Kiurli-di, cH.-n leads to anomalies, bin, the absnrdHv ■d' C-riiiaiity i-ached its height w:l* closed ;„ Maori defend-! Nt, hiia•self a' inVrproto- ~-:,o-pratdi-cl pratdi-cl .-'or s<mi,- lime in \o\\- 1>! •- month. ;::i.i \.;:s forineriv emni'ived j n tile ul'lice oi tiie i'ubliv Trustee! '

About four feet below the surface of the ancient city of Shec.hem, in Palestine, Professor Selin, of Vienna, unearthed a. magnifying lens of semi-trans-parent horn, in a good state of preservation, and bearing a Hebrew inscription on the frame.

"I am increasingly struck by the frivolity of the average young married woman of the present, day," said Mrs. Creighton, widow of the lato Bishop of London, in an address on ''Married Women in Public Work,'' at the annua! meeting of the Manchester and Salford branch of the National L'nion of Women Workers.

Amongst the youths of Invercargill there has broken out an epidemic of hair-dying, and the chemists' stocks of peroxide, are rapidly dwindling in consequence. Auburn curls now glint hi the morning sun by doorway and footpath where once the dullness of Nature's outfit bobbed by unnoticed. In either instances the metamorphosis is not quite complete, and streaky yellow locks intermingle with mousey grey upon the fore-*' head of budding manhood.—Southland News.

At the annual meeting of the Taranaki No-License League last night, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year:—President, Rev. T. H.Roseveare; vice-presidents, the ministers of the electorate, with the heads of the 1.0. G.T., 1.0. R., AVAT.U., and Band of Hope; secretary, Mr. G. H. Maunder; assistant secretary, Rev. C. H. Olds; treasurer, Mr. C."E. Bellringer; eenenn committee, Messrs H. Cocker, C.' Aider, N. T. Maunder, G. W. Hartnell, V. Popperell, Blanchett and Miss Ambury; representatives to convention, Messrs C. E. Bellringer and the secretary.

The Rev. W. F. Stent, who has just returned to Manaia after a week's holiday to the north, stated to the local paper that he motored from Tauranga to Rotorua, a distance of 40 miles, the journey occupying seven hours at the best speed they could travel. There is no serious attempt made to keep the roads in order. If a hole is discovered it is simply filled up with mud, the consequence being that in wet weather the roads are almost impassable. This state of things is said by the people of the district to be due to the controlling influence of the coach-owning interests on the 'local bodies and the determination to make motor traffic on the roads impossible.

Several ancient manuscripts have recently been discovered in the Dominion Museum at Wellington. They were presented to the institution in 1877 by Mr. D. B. Mantel], and have lain unnoticed formany years. One of the most interesting is a letter signed by Oliver Cromwell, and dated 1642, presumably appeall ing for funds for the defence of Cambridge.. It was addressed to the parishioners of Fendrayton, a village in tbo Fen country, and drew a response of £1 19s 2d. Other interesting documents are some curious German baptismal certificates, an autograph letter from Scott Archer, the inventor of collodion proofs. and pieces of burnt paper from the fire at tlie Treasury in Paris in 1871. Lady Gwendolen Guinness, better known in New Zealand as Lady Gwendolen Onslow (daughter of an ex-Go-vernor of Xew Zealand) has just started on a very practical experiment in the , training () f educated young women for colonial life. At a farm in SuVrey she I has established a small school where girls who contemplate going to Canada | can receive instruction under a Canadian lady of wide experience in domestic and allied work (poultry-keeping and buttermaking). About two years ago Ijidv Gwendolen's husband. Mr. Rupert (iuinnesa (of the Dublin brewery firm), established near Woking a training farm which has already prepared 250 bovs for emigration. To an Auckland pressmen, Mr. .T. 11. Lang, who has just returned from India, declared that he hud I lie greatest admiration for British rule in India, because of the complicated problem which lias to be faced. In common with other countries of the Ka.st, lie said, India was passing through a crisis, cducatiomiih-. socially and politically. Most people mnde a mistake in thinking of India as a united nation, whereas it contained no fewer than twenty nations, which never had any national consciousness until the advent of the British. The population was no less than 31.">,000,000, while the languages spoken numbered 150. ''Why," added Mr. Lang, ''the varieties of nationalities is so marked that a man

fromHhe north, say, of Punjaub, would be to the people of Southern India as great a stranger in languages, habits and customs as he would be to the people of Auckland."

Among other things, golf evidently has a tendency Jo make its devotees selfreliant. An instance of tin's occurred at one of the local links last week. After u couple of strenuous rounds, a couple of player* went to hike a refresher from the cup that "cheers lint not inehriaies.'' l-ni'nrtiin.-iti'ly, however, no uiillc was available. Xotbing daunted, the thirsty ones espied a couple of cows grazing iii the vicinity, and promptly rounded" up oik) of iliem. While one of .the two *>olhed the animal by care-sing its heed and iiltcriii; endearing terms.'the other executed a (lank movement and surreptitiously hut dexterously extracted Mifl'ieionl of llii! lacteal fluid, and soon they were in thorough enjoyment of a nice cup of lea. The lady' who owned the milk providers did not <piite appreciate the incident, which she witnessed from

a distance, and the lea-drinkers and a friend who undertook the pari of Mediator, had d. rather bad quarter'of an hour when they attempted to explain the matter.

U there, such ii tiling as si new di-eu.se (asks Mie Melbourne Argus). Kx-ry- ! body is familiar with the epidemic of'a | new diK'tor who bfeomes. an authority I »ii some ailment whieh those who have time iu be ill itre anxious to claim as ! their own. But the malady is usually an old friend, and sufferers are merely anxious to compare notes of the now man. Any evidence for a new disease is an extremely difficult matter to jnde'e. Nll far as evidence goes (here is no malady 01 modern times which was not present in every past civilisation. Plague dates back recojniisably to the second century. Smallpox lias been diajrnc.scd in a iinir.iiiy of the twentieth dvnastv Ion;: !:.-l\,re the Christian era. 'Tub. r.lc was known to Hippocrates, and recognised as infective Jiy f'alen. I'ln'Umnuia wa.s described by' the Creeks. Lioni-v was fami'iar in Kft.vpt .1000 years ay;o. And many nf the acute infections which havi! been comparatively recently differentiated rerlainly existed before tlcv Were m.i well understood. •TfsT \Y.IIAT YOU SW.ft. T.axo-T..nic Pills can be taken at all times and under all condition- bv ba •

yoiin'.' aiv! n'd alike without tl:e s:;r:lret ri-,!; an] without danger of unpleasant alier rliects. Laxo-Tonic Pills as- ?!<■ lb- processes of nature, pve relish t'l th- foi"!. removing exhaustion, aide headache, am! many other aMnicn'.s. I..i\n-T..i'le fills iii'i' a popular pill at :: pojnibir ric. Obtainable everywhere. We. deliver medicine promptly—-jDj.-v.itfs' PhariMcv.

Mr Ford, the Aiai vicar. ? iiiiwii in who makes JTord motor <. .s, i eiy, very rich. The other day '.:■! re n\-d a dividend warrant for a million and a-quar-tor dollars (which is £::s(>.-K)uj, put it into his waistcoat pocket--and forgot all about it. A few days inter he remembered that he ought to have a million and a quarter dollar?, made enquiries, and alter a q;:iet, unexciting search, found the wan ant in his pocket! Of course. Mr. Ford \' r, is pleased, but' not very pleased. It dil not really matter much to him.

Mr. JJassey, who ill i entered Parliament for a North .1 u-ldand constitUr ency, and who know Irm land/question from Jong personal <. v ericuce as a settler, asserts that th, .'.pialisatioH of the two races is the sola:.on of the native problem. That this ,v 11 be the ultimate solution n-e di not doubt, but while the countiy is '■ ■ -,ng educated to its acceptance settlem nt must proceed. It is intolerable that ...;,m: blocks should be given over to uoxio::? weeds and rabbits, or exhausted of iheir fertility under a leasehold syst- a which has ion its object the imposition of a Maori landlordry over wildi.: ncs-dearing British settlers. To ti.e opening of native lands, to the seti b-aient of workedout gumland, to a vigorous public works policy, and to the steady development of its limitless resources, the North of Auckland—as other fereat North ißlnne? districts—must look for prosperity. Everybody knows what the Continuous Government did in these directions. If the Reform Government does no more, after having had reasonable opportunity, it will similarly deserve public condemnation.—Auckland Herald.