LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 57, 28 July 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Two patients from Inglewood are in the New Plymouth Hospital euffarin" from scarlet fever.

A meeting of the executive of the Expansion and Tourist, League takes place in the own Hali ttids evening.

There are 46,922 owners of land of more than five acres in New Zealand, and of these oniy -25,5000 pay land tax. Of these 10,000 pay under £3, and 19.000 under £2O iff year. The Pukekura Park Board wishes to acknowledge a donation of 20b from a few Vogeitown through Mr, 1 Little, towards improvements fo the pathway used by them a,s a daily thoroughfare.

A correspondent wrote to the Ohristchurch Sun in reference to tie milk supply, and complained that on two successive mornings his then supplier left in the aggregate three snails and two worms with his milk.

It is not often that woman is beaten on her own ground—the kitchen and culinary art; but at the recent Puerua Show (says the "Balclutha Free Press) the first prize for sponge cake went to a lad of sixteen named Garnet Grant. A well-known wool king of the Upp-:r Ulutha district, who scoured his wool and shipped it Home, states the Dunstan limes, got a cable last week conveying the pleasing information that it had averaged a fraction over 22d.

The usual weekly meeting of the El<mont Lodge, No. 112, 1.0. G.T., was held tot evening in the dodge room of th? d Templar Hall. Election .of officers for the ensuing quarter took place, and the programme for the same period was arranged.

According to a London cablegram, the society for tho Prevention of Mental Cruelty to- Animals protests against pigeon racing. It declares that an owner would never dream of taking a favorite dog miles and allowing him to find his way horme. Miss Catherine Barker, Who is 18 years of age, whose home is in Michigan nn-F ancl whose fortune amounts to £6,000,000, wishes it to be generally known that although she had received literally thousands of proposals of marriage," she is at present not engaged. A delegate to the Farmers' Union Conference in Wellington stated that a nurse to his family once remarked that each child born was a monetary asset to the extent of £3OO. He did not believe it at the time, but fully realised it to-day. Another delegate said he had nine assets worth £3OO each, if that was the case.

y !u ; following have been appointed an entertainment committee .to arrange entertainments in aid of the funds of tihe circular rood race:— MessrsH.Moon, M Ww b To<^® ' a Sadiw ' F - McKay, n ' F , Vlncent > N. Henneij, Q Bond, J. Elliott B Tippins, G. Malam, O. Mayner, A. Lealand, G. Tabor. W. Chong, and G. (Mclsaac.

The young man, named Harris, who :?" ested ' n New Plymouth on Satf;da> ,°" % of theft of moneys ,? p th _ c Inglewood branch of *iho Society, appeared on remand yesterday before Mr. A. Orooke, S.M. and was further remanded to appear at lnelewood l on Pridav n«xt Bail was allowed in one surety of £SO.

R - P °PP- speaking at the meeting New Zealand Educational Institute the other night, said that in grade three under the Education Bill now before Parliament there would in a short time be 628 teachers waiting to fill i4S positions, and the Government ougnt to provide waiting-sheds for them and also provisions. "High-class teachers," said +> PC V a i rC ? Ucl ' a raro commodity +W. ,!$ 1C - t salary one COU W give them would be inadequate."

At the Midhirst Dairy Company's z r s *r sterd% l red to the rumored erection of a, tollpte at Waipuku. This might, he said inflict a hardship 0 n go mc 0 f fjW],! shareholders, and he suggested thai the .+nW% pay thrce -f°u>"ths of any rav r SU PP H " S have to P sa "l, should be referred L Th rSt r f ° r filTOrilble wnsidera- ; T f ohainnan Kli(1 I]lat tWa on , i cferred to about four suppliers. The idea found general favor, and will be acted upon. '

An elderly lady named Elizabeth Gibson, who ill as been « resident of New P jTn'outh lor some few years, made an attempt on her life early yesterday afternoon. It appears that she had been m dispute us to her occupancy of tile house in which she has been living and yesterday the matter came to a head. Constable O'Neill, who was summoned ,to the woman's house, found that she had gashed her wrist and throat, with a table knife. Dr. Wade was summoned;, and the woman was' conveye to the hospital. It is understood mat. her injuries are no,t serious. Four views of Auckland taken in 1852 tove attrMted a good deal of attention ; ■»/ frJ d ?y s -. T ''ey are on view 111 Messrs Wests window, Devon street and are owned by Mr. W. T. Jennings! Auckland, as shown bv the viinvs, wits a small place in those days. Old St It? l ® dl ? rcl1 ' ®t. Patrick's ohbrch,, and the Wesleyan church are shown, but only U. Patrick's remains 011 the original site, St. Paul's being demolished when Port Britsmart was cut .down, and the We'sleyom church is now used as a magistrate's court. In fchv days when vir 6 '!^ 16^73 were I»ken, the waters of Waitemata were clear blue and phosphorescent, be:ngivery little disturbed by the modern vessels that commerce now demands to meet the requirements of Auckland s great transport. The s<fceamer seen in the picture is the General Wynyard, the first steamer built in the colonies. These views of the Queen Cit.cf the north are very rare, and were the aa-tistic work of Mr. Hogan. I

Women s Christian Temperance Union. —Tlie monthly meeting of the above will 1 36 lielil on Wednesday next, July 1 29, in the Good Templar Lodge Room, at 3 p.m. Important business to discuss. Members urged to try and attend.— Advt.

Jseaily everyone is liable to uric acid trouble., and yet many persist in disregarding the first signs—pains and swellings in the joints, stiffness and soreness m the muscles. These symptoms show that the liver and kidneys are not doing their work properly-—excess uric acid is accumulating in t.lie blood. This unc acid may accumulate for a long time without serious trouble. But as soon as you are ran down or exposed to cold or damp, it will surely assert itself This excess uric acid must be removed, and the only one remedy that will do it is RHECJMO. Rheuiiro•"naturalises and eradicates the excess and leaves the blood free and pure. Thousands have been ,cured by this wonderful renicdv Read (how RHEUMO cured Mr Mat. Oiannitch, the popular proprietor of the Temuka Hotel, well known throughout Canterbury. "For a long time 1 suffered from llhoumatism. using »]] kinds' of remedies. Hearing of RHEUMO 1 tried it. T have not felt better for the past 10 years, and I can honestly say that Ufi F.UMO in my case has been a great B.UCCCSB." Act now. Get a bottle of RI-lEUMO to-night from your chemist