LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 106, 28 September 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The adjourned inquest concerning the death of Minders Hursthouse wiM be reguimed 'by tiho Coroner, iMr. A. Crook q, tf.iL, to-morrow. Tho welcome Tain of Friday has bean followed by a distinctly cold snap, and tho conditions last night were more lika winter than spring. T ! lie heavy downpour, however, will bo of lasting Ixmuliit to tlw pastures, A man named John Slvanpe was arrested yesiterday morning by Detective 'Serjeant Boddain and Constable O'Neill on a charge of assault and robborv, whith ia alleged to have been comtmitted on an elderh- gentleman on SatiirI day night. Accused will bo brought before the Court thia morning.

Few of tho people who talk glibly about Russia putting eight million men in the field liave the least idea of what the figures inoan. A million of mien, if each was given a yard of ground, would cover a front of 50 miles 10 deep, and learo 20,000 men over foir emergencies.

It in buliovod that tiho dsfcind of Mindanao jvroduces the largest itower in the worid. Its halbiiboit is high up ou tue I'iircKj Mountain, wliMlt ia 2500 feet above tiho levcll of tho sea. The natives give it the name of bolo. Its full-blown blossom*, five-potaHed, is moire than three fecit is diameter, and weighs 221b. Tho flower was first found in Sumatra,, and was caWed Itaflllesia Schandeabuirgia, in honor of its discoverer.

Members of tho Maori party wQio were received by tlie King amd Queen at Buckingham Palace retu/red to New Zoaland Iby 'the lliverina, which arrived at Auckland from Sydney yesterday. Tho party comprised Te Rata (tihe Maori ''king"), Tiidu Taingakawa, Te Waharoa, Meba Karaka,, and G. G, Pawl (tlie interpreter and secretary). The party declined to discuss the question of their grievances, stating that tho negotiations were not yet completed.— Press Association.

The pajncipall northern suburb of Melbomrno lias hitherto borne the German name of Brunswick. After keen diacusion, the Municipal Council resolved, by votes to seven, that steps be'taken to a'ttarfi some other name to their borough. Portion of ithe territory aujoinjing Brunswick (whoso new name ,'lias not yet 'been decided upon) is called Coburi* and the Coburg Council will lie asked, at its next moating, to send the German name out to tho rubbish tip, and adopt the name of Dudley, in memory of a former Governor-Gen-'oral of Australia,

There flaw been a n extraordinary ■rush of "war weddings" in b/orofon, and tire Archbishop of Canterbury has given permission of the Faculty Office (better kmowa as the Doctors' Commons) to be kept «pan day and niglilt tla accommodate navail and military men .who widh to bo married before goiing to the front. A epical license foe costs £29 53 2d, tat this !haa ibeem no dotorront in tho ease of officers, and here has been a daily inoneaaing numbur of applicants ready to pay the iiiffli price demanded by th« Ohurth for urgent nuptials. In the case of "Tommies," who can hardly harve boon expected to save £2O marriage fee out of Ia 2d a day, tihe diurch issues a mairniago license of £2, where fifteen days' residence on tihe ipaxt of the prospective briido and bridegroom can be proved. ,

Of 23 oerttemarians who died Ja,9t year Commonwealth, eleven were reaidentu of Naw Sautlh Waileg and seven of Victwiia. Tho ;odde(iti centenarian on the list which is included in a return by the Commonwealth Siwutigtician (Mr O. H. ICflibba) was a grazier of Kew iSauilih. (Wales, who had the misfortune to meat -his death When 11.2 years of ago. Ho lhad lived in the Cloramonwcallth for 90 years. Twio women, aged .respoatively, 108 and 102, succumbed to burns. One of thorn had resided in Australia for S3 yeara. Tho longest residence in the Commonwealth was 107 ywira, by a. groom who wa* born *t Mid lived till hi» 107 year# da Australia. Of two Australian natives, the elder WIM 11.9 TH wtnl '"umber q{ Yean* of tile 23 centenarian* was 2304, but only in thirteen cases was senility give* M the cause of death . Te Puke, «omu months ago, made application to Mr Ail-drew Carnegie, of free library fame, for ft grant for the erection of «. puWie librae in tho town. A reply just to hand states thait, owing to request* for such grants being so numerous, they are only made to CGinmiuiniitucs of a size and with resource# sufficient to caiwy on a. free mtblie library from the proceed* of a rite levied far the purpose, tihe minimum sum being £IOO a year. In an interesting suiimmary of events in London; in the dayu following "the declaration of war, tho correspondent of the Sydney Hun writes:—From first to last iiis King novor appeared until his signature had to bo fixed for proclamations, or .unitil Ma subjects begged a glimpse of him on the balcony at the ■Pailace. Until .tihe full 'history of those las* over-wrought days are written, the people as n whole will never know lnow much they owe to the sagacity, the rteadiiusa, and the energies of tlheir Sovereign. Frail though lie may sometimes look ia physique, King George is m tough rm the toughest hickory. Tor four da.yi on end he cuuid not have had more than an ihoiw J » ffltful sleep. His ministers motored across from Downing street at n® houirs of the day and ®ijjhit. Three mornisga in succession the Priime Miniate! waa dloseited witli him at 2 ft.m. Mr Asquith, in fact, coul-1 not keep up the pace, awd some of his colleagues had to wait upon King George. The most perfect system of news-getting wße provided at the Palace. Tapes from all the news agencies, telixiAonoa from the Fowign Office, telegraphs from tihe Central Telegraph Office, all ended in the King'* study art the Palace; there was no item of information, real or imaginary, official or unofficial, which was not instantly acquainted; hi* vigil was ceaseless, his energy cxhaustless, his good-humor endless; he dbeered his ministers, and by his splendidly compact meseages to tho Army and Navy he heartened the nation's defenders, and it wae at his insitnTica, more than that of the ministry, that Lord ICiWhener waa appointetd Secretary of War, to the great delight of hj» fellow-countrymen."

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