LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 21, 15 June 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The coal output for the last week from the Westport Coal Company was 19,134 tons Bcwt., and of coke 48 tons 12cwt. The Westport-Stockton Co.'b output of coal was 5120 tons 19cwt—Press wire.

A man named Samuel Joseph Beaven was arrested on Friday on several charges of misappropriating moneys and was formally remanded to appear in the Magistrate's Court, New Plymouth, on Friday next.

Mr W. Lints, wilio so successfully organised the Inglewood Carnival Queen election, tolas left for Invercargill, where 'he has oeen engaged to organise a similar carnivai, for which there are eighteen candidates. 'After that he has engagements at Auckland, Christchurah and Westport. The gross proceeds from the New Plymouth Fire Brigade's recent ball in the Theatre Royal amounted to f 100 10s sd. The expenses totalled £2O 5s Bel, leaving a net balance of £BO 4s 7d. This is a record return, being the largest amount yet taken at the toll. A concert will be held in the Rolland Hall this evening in aid of Mother Aubert's Wellington Homes. The programme is well selected and will include items by Misses Cant, Blueman, Mace, Bennett (3), George, Doig, Mesdames Golding and Drury, and Messrs Goldsworthy, Malone and George.

There was a rumor in Waitara on SatI urday that the Electoral Department in .Wellington has decided to remove the chief office of the Taumarunui electorate, whfch/has been in Waitara far the past twelve, years, to Te Kuiti. This is an unusual step to take, as alterations or changes of an office are made only when the boundaries of an electorate are cb*nged. Mr. T. Buchanan has been Registrar of Electors and Chief Returning Officer during the twelve years, ami has proved a capable and courteous official.

The Postmaster-General announces that Post Office Savings Bunks' returns for May are not yet quite complete owing to the absence of reports from outlying offices, particularly in Hie Auckland district. The -figures, -which will, o f course, be subject to some slight modification, are as follows: Deposits for May have exceeded withdrawals by £177,321 as. eoniDared with £99,51« in May of last year. The excess of deposits in April was £79,5011, compared wit'hl £5727 in April of last year. The (total excess of deposits for' Anvil and May, 1914, amounts to £2»5,823.'a-i compared with £140,73:1 for the corresponding months of 1913. The total deposits for these two months amount to £?,175,54"i, compared with £2,081 .547, and withdrawals to £1,919,721, compared with £1,925,114, for the corresponding months of 1913.

GAVE INSTANT RELIEF. "My liftle daughter Maud was very oad with croup and I was quite worn out with loss of sleep," says Mrs. Catherine Holland, 465, Adelaide Road., Berhamporc, N.Z. "A friend had seen Chamberlain's Cough Remedy advertised for relief of croup and suggested my trying it. I did so and it gave the child instant relief. I have seen dozens of children relieved of croup by Chambertain's Cough Remedy." Sold by all chemists and storekeepers.

A despicable theft has been perpetrated at the Lower Hutt. A resident has given much attention to rose-growing for some years, and last year had made a large new bed and filled it with expensive plants, chosen with great care and tended skilfully. One night recently every plant was uprooted and carried away, the thief evidently knowing the choice, roses. Jas. Anderson, of Manaia, accompanied by a friend, made an ascent of the Mountain Accntly, and while both were on their return trip from Fantham's Peak, Anderson lost his footing on the hewn steps on the ice and was shot down the mountain over the rough ice for about one hundred yards, where he lay stunned, bleeding and helpless. His companion made all haste to the Mountain House, where he was joined by Mr Murphy, and a rapid return was made to the scene of the accident. They found Anderson very much in the same condition and unab e to assist himself, and carried and helped him along down to the Mountain House.

The great tract of country in the Poverty Bay district known as the Urewera Country, was the subject of an appeal by Mr. P. Keegan, of Taneatua, at the Fanners' Union Conference at Auckland, when ihe moved that the Government be urged to open up the area. It was an area of one and a-half million acres, he said, and was all splendid bush country. It was equally as good as the land on the Gisbome side, and would be admirably adapted for. sheep. European settlers had constructed good metal roads right up to the boundary, and, with the completion of the East Coast railway, it would be made easily accessible. At present the country was [declared a scenic reserve, and this restriction would first have to be removed j before negotiations could be entered into with the natives. The motion was carried.

A verw well known family nere (writes the Wellington correspondent of a contemporary)—whose head is a. most important personage in the legal world —had a most unpleasant experience a few days ago. There was soup at luncheon, and the hostess, after a spoonful or two, although she detected nothing wrong, felt a wave of sickness pass over her. She left the table, and was soon followed by the others, all of 'whom, save one, who had refused soup, were affected. There was all the extremely unpleasant symptoms of mal de mer. A doctor, who was one of the party, went to the kitchen and interviewed the cook, and discovered that she had, in gathering the onions, pulled up a daffodil root, and chopped it up with the other ingredients. The encyclopaedia, hurriedly consulted, declared that, not poisonous, the daffodil would, under certain circumstances, act as an emetic. It certainly fulfilled its mission.

The feat of receiving and sending wireless messages a distance of 15,000 miles, practically half way round the earth, is said to have been accomplished by the Marconi station on top of the Filene Building, in Boston, U.S.A. The operator, Harry Cheetham, picked up a short message signed by the Marconi men on the Pacific mail steamer Mongolian. Out of curiosity Cheetham answered and asked the Mongolian her position. He nearly fell off his operating stool when the answer came clear and distinct, "Two hundred miles east of Nagasaki, Japan." A hasty consultation of his world maps showed Cheetham that the snapping and sputtering of his machine had apparently "made talk" which spanned clear'to the other side of the globe. Henry C. Gawler, United States radiograph inspector, stationed at Boston, in discussing the message, said that it could lie explained only as a freak message that 'happened to (fall on extraordinarily favoraWe atmospheric conditions.

The impetuosity of a man named Ernest Stevens cost him three months' imprisonment recently. The man, a young well-built fellow, appeared to answer a charge deeming him to be a rogue and vagabond, in that lie was found by night without lawful excuse on premises at Ohira road. Inspector Hendry said that as a result of complaints, a constable visited the premises in question, and found the accused there. The man was in a filthy condition. One would not like to ride beside him in a tramear. Mr D. S. Copper, S.M., imposed a sentence of three months' imprisonment. Inspector Hendry was going to remark something about probation, when Stevens, hearing his sentence, rushed out of the dock in impetuous anger. The magistrate looked up in surprise to see the prisoner gone, and Inspector Hendry, interrupted by the hurried exit, concluded his appeal far probation by abruptly sitting dpwn, Stevens will now have three months' leisure to repent for his hastiness.

Members of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (First, and Second Groups) are notified that subscriptions will be due and payable today (Monday), at the Secretary's office, Currie street, from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., from 1 p,m|. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.—Advt.