LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 9, 29 May 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Typhoid fever is reported to be fairly prevalent amongst tho Maoris of tho Gisborne district, A young man named ISorenson, who was working with his father on the farm ait Smart road, had Ms hand badjly cut 'by the father's axe.

It is the intention of tho Hon. R. McNab, who has been selected as the Liberal candidate for Hawke's Bay, to take up his permanent residence shortly in Hastings. It has been estimated that, at the present rate of progress, it will he fully five years before the Otira tunnel is finished. Tho work has now been in hand now well over six years. Mr S. Ramanujam, a mathematical prodigy, 20 years of age, who is said to have solved intricate problems which have baffled some of the best English mathematicians, was awarded by the University of Madras a research scholarship to enable him to go to Cambridge. The Pope was visited last month by his brother, Angelo Sarto, who is the postman at Riese, the native village of the Sarto family. It is characteristic of the Pontiff (says an English paper) that he has never bestowed on members of his family privileges of rank or, fortune.

Great .prices were paid for Holsteins at the breeders' consignment sales in Now York this year, 180 head averaging a shade over £IOO each. This is claimed ■to be the highest average ever recordied at a sale of Holsteins. The banner price was £3BO for a bull. Young animals sold as high as £2OO.

One otf the coastal clergy met with an accident a nig'ht or two ago. Dusk approaching, he got out of his gig on title main road near Okatto to light liia lamps, tstopping the vehicle in the middle of the road, the right to which was disputed by an arriving; motor car, with disastrous consequences all round, particularly, it is said, to the car. It is reported that Lake Ellesmere is getting dangerously high (says the Cliristchurch Press). Apparently the outlet is not fulfilling what was expected from it in the way of keeping the level of the lake at a normal height. It is anticipated that if tho water in tho lake does not soon subside, crops in the vicinity of the shores are likely to be swamped. A remarkable story is told of the sagacity of a horse belonging to Captain Watson, of Ardow, Mull. It lost a shoe, and, managing to get out of the field where it was grazing, travelled a considerable distance to a blacksmith, who was astonished to find the horso standing in the front of the door holding up a foreleg. The horse was shod, and it galloped back, happy, to its ieU.

When the adjourned maintenance case of Meta Marie Francis against Thomas William Francis came before the Mag/ist.raitc's' Court, New Plymouth, yesterday, defendant did not appear, but Mr F. E. Wilson'explained that he was away on a search for work, having visited several towns in the North Island withoult success. If a sine die adfounrment were agreed to, he would undertake to keep Mr Roy posted nil to hi-) whereabouts. The adjournment was granted.

An interesting question came before Mr Justice Sim in the Dunedih Supreme Court the other day. John and William Kemp, {farmers, borrowed, £550 on their property from the Palmcrstoii Oddfellows' Lodge. After a while they repaid £250, and this sum was repaid to John Crisp, solicitor, who did not account for it, and Orisp has since been sent to gaol for misappropriation of certain funds. The question is whether Crisp was the Lodge's agent to collect. In other words, do the Kemps or the Lodge lose the £250?

It seems as though the dearth of domestic servants in Australia will, remarks an Adelaide paper, force men ,to enter the field hitherto chiefly abandoned to women. It has already come to this in England, where men are attempting a practical solution of the domestic problem by taking upon themselves household duties usually considered to lie wholly within the women's sphere.There the male "general" is no longer a rarity, he is. in fact, said to be slowly replacing the female of'that class. The usefulness of the male domestic servant is not confined to the duties of n "gener:il";he is willing and able to undertake the duties of housemaid and cook. '"We get a great many application* for male servants," said the owner of a registry office, "to (ill posts as housemaids, cooks and generals." Of course, applications for a man and his wife grow more numerous every day, and, as a rule, sailors are asked for because of the general belief frhnt they are handy. The servant girl must look to her laurels or she will find herself ousted altogether.

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