LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 37, 3 July 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Pukekura Park Board is in receipt of a donation of £lO from Colonel Heard, of the New Zealand Defence Forces. The Taumarunui-Ohakune mail bag, which was stolen from the train a week ago, was found on Sunday unopened close to the Taumarunui Post Office. The police enquiries so far are without result. Mr. A. .T. Roberts, formerly of Putea, ' lias constructed fi dirigible in Sydney. ! •Mr. Roberts if to leave for LonUon shortly, but 'before doing so be will give . public demonstrations 01 lii.s sSiip\i capa- 1 and also of some wireless inventions. Speaking at the railway smoke concert in • Palmerston, Sir Joseph Ward said that he could remember the first train that ran in the south. 'When it started, the Maori spectators also start- * ed to run. The Palnierston North gaol was closed on Tuesday. All prisoners will in future be sent to Wunganui for safe keeping, and taken hack to Palmerston North should they be required for the Supreme Court sitting. A party of twenty-two Swiss arrived from Europe, via Australia, by the Sydney steamer at Wellington on Wednesday. The new arrivals, who included several women, are," it is understood, to be engaged by the Nestle and AngloSwiss Condensed Milk Company. The licensee of an up-country hotel on the West Coaßt, in making application for reduction of the licensing fee, mentioned that for a week prior to making the application the only one to pass thy hotel, apart from motor cars, which did not make the hotel a stopping place, was a wagoner, and he was a total abstainer. ■ Mr F. F. Sjmpson claimw to have definitely settled the wet sheep question. Ife has patented an appliance by which the moisture in wool may be ascertained in the course of a few minutes. > Demonstrations havo been made before j shearers and farmers in Masterton, 1 which appear to have satisfied both parties.—Masterton Age. A splendid concert was given by the , scholars of St. Mary's Sunday School | last night in St. Mary's Hall in aid of j the Sunday School library fund. The j hall was packed, and the lengthy pro- i gramme submitted was a credit both to the scholars and to their tutor, the Rev. F. A. Crawshaw. As a result of j the concert the library will be able to be brought right up to date and placed on a sound financial footing. An officer of th<; defence force, in prosecuting a defaulting Territorial in 1 the Magistrate's Court at New Ply- ! mouth yesterday, informed the magistrate that the compulsory training sthenic 'bv 110 means affected every 1 young man in the Dominion who was of the prescribed age. Only a certain number of Ti rritoriate were required, ' and these were recruited from the > j < uths whom the Department considered best iitted for service, so that some young men were not asked to svrve at ' all. 1 The erection of a new picture theatre ' in Manners street, Wellington, has been ' prohibited by the City Council, which has refused to issue the necessary build--1 ing permit. The grounds upon which 1 the By-laws Committee recommended the refusal, and upon which the council ' acted, were that the building did not ! comply with the by-laws regarding the 1 necessity for side courts, and also that it was considered, after inspection of the plans, that the building would be capable of accommodating 1000 people. It was required that a hall o"f such size, must face ft street 60ft. in width, and Manners street did not compi'v with that condition

What is regarded by ex.pe.rttf ai« a remarkable ooo.uri'enco is reported from Rat-ana, near Wangamii, in connection witllii a fire whicih destroyed a house newly erected for a Maori sit a cost of about £10(10. An acetylene gas plant had been installed, and the generato." and appliances were placed right against the wall of the house; yet, although the flumes demolished the walls and brought part of the acetylene plant to a red heat, llhe generator, which was charged with gas, did not explode. The asflimnption is that the jets were melted off Hi? pipes inside the building, and. thus the gas became ignited and burned awav.

A singular story of the consternation caused at the Naumai sawmill settlement by the antics of a demented-man, was tad at (lie Dargavill.! police court 011 Saturday, \\<hen a young man giving tllw name of dames Laing was brought before the magistrate, and remanded for medical evidence to be given. Armed with a stick and bleeding' from three slight woundVi in the throat, Lainq oil Friday entered a boaa'ding-hoti-e, 'and drove Hie terrified occupants wit of door.-. Violent behaviour in the post office ciuised the lady official in clin.rg-e to flee, and a subsequent visit to H»* sleepin." quarters of tlie mill created lively Jiappenings for a fe,w minutes. Ultimately the man was arrested and taken to Dargaville. 'lt is believed that the wounds were solf-inflicted by mean!* of ■a blunt knife. Laing was -'lid to have gone from Auckland, and to -hav; been drinking heavily. Miss Doyle, employed as barmaid at the Masonic R:.lel. VVaitara, had a pain ful experience on Friday afternoon,

(states the Waitara Mail.) She detected what she thought was an unwholesome smell about the bar, and she sent the porter out to purchase a bottle of lysol. On it coming to band, she poured some of it into a glass; and diluted it with a little water, then sprinkled the liquid about the floor. Being called upon to serve a customer, she put the glass down. A couple of minutes later she was asked to pour out a drink for herself, and putting 'her hand on the glass with the lysol, unthinkingly, she drank it. The poor girl was immediately iu jreat pin. J)r Campbell was sent for, and later l)r lilaekley From New Plymouth. The stomach pump was applied, but for some time, it seemed that the efleet would be fatal. However, after about four hours, the girl felt better. On Saturday, she was taken to the hospital.

YOU SHOTJT/D BE DETERMINED in rejecting the worthless and frequently injurious counterfeits which are sometimes pushed for the sake of greater pain as "lust as pood" as the GENUINE SANDER" & SONS' VOLATILE EUCA'.YI'TI EXTRACT. Be not deceived.. ZANDER'S EXTRACT is recognised by the highest medical authorities as pos .-icssing unique stimulating, healing and intiseptie powes. The preparation of EXTRACT flora the. pure ie oeted 1' i • 'B, and 'he refinement b? spe ■ial pni:.'.wcs, give it curative virtues noculiar'.v its own. Therefore, he not misled. Demand and insist upon the GENUINE SANDER. EXTRACT, and con will derive the berefit that thou sands have reaped foni: it ucfore. When ■ll you should not Hepress yoirrsoir morf w the common, bulky anr! nauseating ■ncal,vptns oils und noealii"! i xtracts" >Vhat y«' want if q'.iniU.* mid reliajility, iu small do«e, tM -.his you find in SANDER'S VZWMIf.

'lfa liead of a targe business house bought n large number of those "Do it now" signs, and hung them up around life oflices. They are effective beyond expectation, and" yet it can baldly be "said that they -worked well. When, after Hie first few daya tic business man counted up the result', lie found . that the Siiead cashier liad nHripped oil' with £2OO, the head bookkeeper had eloped with the typi?|t, three clerks had asked for a .ise in salary, and the office boy ihad set out to become a {highwayman. There are two hundred fevrer men employed in tlie sawmilling industry in Southland at present than there wee this time last year, states the Invereargill correspondent of the Lyttelton Times. When a native of Nine dies, he ia usually buried 011 land adjoining a roadway, and some of the public thoroughfares of the island are more or less lined with the ornamental graves of departed residents. But the thing that greatly interests visitors is the islanders' custom of placing upon a grave some article that was much valued by the deceased in his life time. Thiis lecent callers at Kiue saw upon the graves such articles as a green sunshade, a watch, a pair of roller braces—this is the property of an island gentleman who had met in Auckland an enterprising second hand dealer —a s.ullyi rusted typewriter. The goods placed upon a grave are perfectly safe. The average native would sooner kill than interfere with the disposition of a dead man's property. An ingenious variant of an old trick has just been exploited by a couple of thieves who-have now been -safely lodged under lock and key (says the Paris correspondent of the Globe). Their modus operandi was excessively simple. They would go to the larger shops and order merchandise to be sent on approval to certain addresses. These were all in good class neighborhoods. In some way the thieves managed to arrange that the goods should only be sent at a time when they knew that the master and mistress of the house would be out. > A couple of minutes after the parcel had I been delivered, one of the "escrocs" ! would ring the bell and tell the servant that a mistake had been I made in sending it. Then the parcel '\ as handed over, and n'otliiiug 1 more was seen or heard of it. In this ! way the two young men managed to get (hold of over 20,000 francs worth of j goods.

j The value of the mineral production lof Australia to date is £300,000,000, and that is on the low side, if anything. This statement was made by Mr C. A. Sussmilcli, F.G.S., principal of the Newcastle College, who delivered a lecture on "Ore Deposits" in Sydney last week. There was much more mineral wealth) to be got from the earth's crust in Australia in the future, he said, than there had ever been taken out in the past. Too little ÜBe had been made up till now . by those controlling mining operations of the knowledge to foe gained by adeJ quatc geological study of ore deposits. Many thousands of pounds would be j saved by mining companies if they had | given attention to tne geological proJ blema involved, as well as to the purely j engineering problems. A better know- ' ledge of geological conditions and of the peculiarities of particular ore deposits would have resulted in large savings 011 unnecessary and ill-advised prospecting and development work.