LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 22, 16 June 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Postal Department advises that Australian and English mails, ex Manuka, at Auckand, will arrive here, iper Rarawa, this morning. A borough workman nameu Cameron was working at the Powdenhara street retaining wall yesterday, when a heavy piece of timber was accidentally dislodged from the scaffolding which is being used for pile-driving purposes, and struck Cameron on the back of tike head. He was stunned for some minutes, but beyond this and a scalp abrasion was not injured. Mr J. A. 'Roberts, of Lemon street was taken to the New Plymouth Hospital yesterday for X-ray treatment as the result of a fall which ihe had last week, in which his side was injured. The treatment became necessary in order to ascertain whether he had broken or dislocated (has hip-bone.

"I am employing two men now at cas ual labor in my garden. They are nol especially good men, but I have to pa) them 9s day and give tiliem three cup; of tea each day to keep them im ; good ihumor. I'm glad to gc. them.' This was the commentary of a membei of the High School Board on the laboi manket yesterday. "The milk he was selling became palei and paler each week, and finally the customers complained to the authorities. Then the inspector was sent to investigate, and it seems that this man was selling city water at Is 4d per gallon." '.This wag said -by Inspector Hcndrv the other day. in Wellington of a man who was charged with selling watered milk. He was fined '£lo and costs, should be the happiest place on earth. A conference of senior Territorial officeis throughout the Dominion with General Godley, Officer commanding the Forces, will be held in Wellington 011 22nd and 23rd inst., for the purpose of discussing the defence scheme generally and seeing in what way it can be improved. The conference will be assisted in its deliberations by General Sir lan Hamilton's report, which should be made available by them. A conference f Senior Permanent Staff Officers with General Godley will be held on 2!) th and 30th inst.

"Did you throw in an adjective anywhere?" asked counsel for the defence in an assault case of the complainant at Wellington Magistrate's Court on Saturday. "An adjective!" ejaculated the complainant, "what is that?" "Well did you swear?" asked counsel. The complainant understood that. "Xo! 1 did not," he declared with emphhsis. Later on counsel was examining a hostile witness. "Have you had any financial connections with complainant?" lie asked. "Financial er-connection," replied the witness hesitatingly. Then the light of understanding dawned upon his " face. "No, I am a married man, and ho is single, that is all," he replied with confident irrelevancy.

We have a fine assortment of styles in Warner's Corsets, in' order that we may on'urately and comfortably fit every wcnr.i who comes to our counters io/ a cf rset.- -Taranaki Prapers.

A lad ten years of age called at, one of the continuous picture shows in Christchurch on a recent evening and said he had tost Ha six-year-old brother. Ho had searched for the missing one all there was a chance that he was in the hall enjoying the entertainment. The searcher suggested that his /brother's name be shouted out, in order to ascertain if there was a response. The manager said that he would not do that, but ne kindly turned on the lights so that the search could be made. The little fellow was found in a seat in the body of the Hall, watching the pictures that had fascinated him. He had sat there from 1 p.m. to 7.30 p.m., and had seen the programme four or five times. Ho left with evident reluctance.

The construction of the retaining wall in Powderham street is making good progress. It is a work of some magnitude and difficulty and is exacting the constant attention of the Borough Engineer (Mr C. Skitrop). The old wall had first to be underpinned, as it had not a solid foundation, and is now being brought to the level of the street. The new wall is then to be constructed so as to form a concrete retaining wall from the culvert over the stream to the back of the News office. In order to get a solid foundation for the new portion, twelve cylinders 22 feet long are being driven into the ground to a solid foundation filled with concrete, and reinforced to support the wall, which when finished will be about 260 feet long.

On a recent night, at Ractihi, a youth in search of a handful of carbide, struck a match over the aperture of a large drum of carbide, and immediately there followed a detonation which rent the drum vertically from top to bottom, scattering the contents and filling the small room with fumes. He was dazed, but, fortunately unharmed youth, who came to himself some minutes later, about ten yards from the gas house, having been ihurled through the doorway Which was providentially left open. The theory is that the damp air had operated upon the carbide, turning the space between surface and. contents of drum into a gas chamber. To those who use acetylene, the incident is worth remembering.

Imports of motor cars into the Dominion during the year ended December 31st, H 913, totalled 201-3 chasscs, and 2731 bodies of a value of £678,590, while parts and materials for these and for steam motor lorries were imported to the value of £274,737 (says the New Zealand Trade Review). The number of motor cycles imported in the year was 2091, valued at £51,459, and parts and materials for these totalled £30,199. This is a grand total for ears, cycles and materials of £1,034,895. Fully 96 per cent of the cycles were of origin, of the cars 1042 came from the United Kingdom, 962 from the United States, 811 from Canada, 60 from France, 13 from Germany, 19 from Australia, and 6 from Belgium and Italy.

How the driver and fireman of the Main Trunk Express, which dashed into the goods train at Whangamarino in the early hours of the morning of May 27th, with the loss of three lives, remained at their posts was recorded at the time of the accident. It was not, however, known until the resumption of the inquest regarding the death of the victims on Wednesday that, after miraculously escaping injury, they set to work to extinquish the wrecked engine's fires, in order to prevent an explosion.. As _ the engine ploughed it's way through 'the trucks, as if they had beem so much matchwood, the driver (J. H. Stone) and his fireman (F. G. Pardington) stayed at their posts. The engine left the rails and rolled down an embankment into a swamp, carrying with it its human freight. Neither the ■fireman nor the driver left his po'st until the engine came to rest. Then, practiT cally uninjured, they crawled out through the window of the engine cab, Tihey immediately thought of the possibility of an explosion of the engine boiler, with its attendant dangers. Setting to work in practically pitch darkness, they turned on the water from the overturned tender, transferring it by buckets to the fire in the engine. Finding the water insufficient to put the fire out and thus prevent any chance of an explosion, they procured more water in buckets from the swamp, and were thus enabled to achieve their object.

A story illustrative of the humors of Maori elections comes from the ifnr North. A few days ago (savs' the Auckland Star) the. Chiefs of tli'e ,Xgapulii and kindred tribes held a meeting at Otiria. in the Bay of Islands country, for the purpose (if selecting a candidate for the Northern Maori seat in Parliament, in place of Dr. Te Rangihiroa. For two days they discussed the great question, debating the merits and demerits of the aspirants for political fame and the £3OO a year. Meanwhile through all finis mighty volume of talk the women of the tribe sat in the background listening, but refraining from speech-making. At hist their patience became- exhausted, and they quietly foTmed a "komiti wahine," or women's committee. They left the hall in a body, and returned presently to annumce that none of the proposed candidate.-) met with their approval, and that they had decided to support Mr. Tau llenare. This gentleman was sitting mildly in a corner listening to the debate, totally unaware till then that •he was the desired of the Ngaptihi ladies. He was not even a candidate, but the "komiti wahine" nominated ihim straightway. This unexpected display of feminine rights staggered the voluble 'men folk, who adjournd the meeting in order to think the crisis out. The story goes that Jlr ITenare become the chosen of the wahine* because of his good looks and his youth, ami the ladies admitted as much. But they are determined to have the tribal Adonis and no other, and as a block vote of the ladies would probably carry the 'election, it is extremely likely that thle 'wise men of >pipuhi will have to submit to thie superior strategy of their women folk aid send Mr Henarc to Parliament.

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