LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 134, 30 October 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Appeal Court has made an order absolute striking Robert Taylor Wood, of Auckland, off the rolls as barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court, and ordered him to pay £ls las costs to the New Zealand Law Society.

It was stated daring utlhe hearing of a liquor caise at Kketahuna thait when a ke<* or box of beer arrived ini a nolicense place, it was considered to be the common property of everybody.

About ihalf-an-ineh of rain fell on Wednesday at Asliburton, which will benefit the countryside immensely. It was followed by a few dhowera of hail and sleet. The night was bitterly cold, ten degrees of frost heing registered in Asliburton. The effect on fruit gardenia will be bad. Mr. Pollard, of the "Delta," Marlborough, has offered £3OOO towards the purchase of a public park for Blenheim, and £IOOO towards the improvement lind beaut ideation of the grounds. The portion proposed to be purchased— YVaterlea —is the property 'of Mr Robert McCailum, and is valued at £llO per acre. It is within a few .minutes', walk of the town.

At the sack of Louvaln. three priceless works of art were destroyed—Roger van der Weydel's "Descent from the Cross," Bon't's "The Last Supper," and the Martyrdom of St. Erasmus," a Wonderful screen, dating front 1488 in the Cathedral. "The Last Supper" was in three wetions; tlhe central piece was destroyed. One of the wings now restu 'in Munich, the other in Berlin. Mr Olcey, M.P., who inspected some 'of the liiiahme's landed produce on Tuesday, informed the llawera Star's correspondent that it looks as if it can be saved from serious deterioration through prompt drying. Ue noticed among the damaged crates produce from 'Matapu, Lowgarth, Ifuiroa, Auroa, Melts, Alton, Rahotu, Eltham, Cape Egmont, •Royal Oak, Riverlea, Kapuni, Warea, and Tariki factories.

After 'having successfully avoided detection for neariy two years, Ah ('.hung appeared in the Dunedin Police Court yesterday morning. In December, li) 12, on a charge of having in Ms possession opium in a form which anight be: made suitable for smoking, lie was arrested and appeared in court, but the case was adjourned and accused disappeared. 'He was arrested at Wellington three days ago. Accused was fined £2, At a meeting of the Taranaki Employers' Association the following resolution was passed upon the motion of Mr 11. Goodacre, seconded by tMr L. A. Nolan: "That employers throughout Taranaki bo asked to suggest to their employees that they contribute a small sum, say 'sixpence each week towards the Poor in Britain, Ireland and Belgium Fund, moneys so collected to be paid direct to the local branches of the fund, and that a circular be sent to all Taranaki employers."

The annual report of the Immigration Department shows that the number of ■persons arriving from the United Kingdom was 1*2,'206 —0867 adults and 2500 children. Out of this total 5084 were assisted by the, Government The declared capital of those arrivals who nippMcd for assisted passages was £39.701. Of llhc C 064 assisted immigrants, I'IUS were domestics, 943 farmers and farm laborers. 553 children of farmers and farm laborers. YOU SHOULD BE DETERMINED in nijei'tlnj: t!i« worthless and frequent!* injurious ounterfeitij which are some times pushed for th«) sake of presitei praw as 'uisf, as pood" an the 0N! SAMJER & SONS' VOLATILE EUCA I.YPTI EXTHACT. Be not deceived SANDER'S EXTRACT H recognised Vn the higheat medical authorities as po* •cßsitig imiaue atiimiistinj!. healing 'mh l tutisopt.ie powem. The preparation o' >A"\ T I)EF'-i RXTRACT from the pure * ■eef.oii H i and +he refinement, by w -ia) p-rixwinps, jfive it eurntive virtue neenlisrij' its own. Therefore, be ii.-vt misled. Demand and insist upor, the •TBNUIXI SASDEP. EXTRACT, nnd •'o 1 : will >'«riv(> +1" that thou 'mv-f reaped from it heforft

There was * slight fall of sleet and suow at Stratford during Wednesday night, and a terrific downpour at Hawara,, On and after Monday night next the Manaia telephone exchange is to be open until 10 p.m., an extension that will be much appreciated .by the subscribers. Wlungamomona is becoming more like London every day, says the Post, At its meeting on Tuesday the County Council decided that notices should be postal requesting residents not to deposit debris and empty tins and bottles on tho streets.

A Kaponga correspondent writes to the Stratford Post: "Messrs B. Fearon, T. Preece, and C. Ilartly, of Kaponga, made what is claimed as a record caWh of 'fish off Kaupokonui on Labor Day, the haul consisting of one hundred and five cliarka, two octopus, one schnaipper and I twenty crayfish, atll except the crayfish j were caught on the line." | Thi! time when daily tlliere will be a passenger train, a goods train, and a ballast train on the eastern railway is approaching—perhaps. At any rate it is known that ,on several occasions lately the morning ballast train has had two and the evening passenger train, has been twice similarly honored during the past week. Last night the two engines had to pull out twenty-six waggons and two vans. —Post. A heavy hailstorm swept over Wellington on Wednesday afternoon. The morn-

ing had been gloriously fine, with a strong northerly blowing, but the wind suddenly changed, and a southerly banted up huge masses of black clouds within less than an hour. The hail took most people by surprise, and ladies- ir. white summer dresse3 hastening throug'i the falling globules of ice formed an unusual contract. Those city streets that are wood-blocked presented a novil appearance with the hopping hailstones on the surfaces. The hailstorm continued for some twenty minutes, and

wns followed by a steady downpour of | 1 rain, which was much needed in the sub- i urban gardens, ) » I ivnr extraordinary misadventure befel ] a married woman, Mrs Sarah. Kllen Tom- 1 'linson, residing in Wellington, on Tuts-] day. Sho left her bud about 5 o'clock in the morning, but immediately fell against the end of the bedstead and gave her husband the impression that she wa3 choking. He at once went to her assistance, picking her up and slapping her un the back. It transpired that she had swllowed her false teeth, but the prompt action of her (husband forced them up, accompanied by a flow of blood. Dr. Whyte was aalled in, and he found that the woman, who had a narrow escape from suffocation, had sustained hemorrhage of the throat. She was removed to the hosjpila.l.

A stlrange discovery of hidden itreas- j ure is ic-ported from Kapunda (South] Australia). Last week a brother and | a sister, Mr. and Miss Doecke, were re-1 moved to a mental hospital, and on a search, being made at their house, it was found that all sorts of tin® and. even pickle bottles, had been used as Bafa deposits. Bach contained large sums of money in gold, while rolls of 'notes were discovered in the thatch of a stable. Some of th<j tins had <been buried long enough tb almost, rus.t away, and the coins were black with a»e. The treasure amounted to close on £I2OO, of ■which about ft>oo was in gold. A emart trick practised in the big cities of Australia, for obtaining liquor without money, was explained by the Eev. E. B. S. Hammond, in the course of 'his lecture in Dunediin. The thirsty person places a dry sponge in a bottle, and then enters an hotei and asks for a shilings' worth of liquor, or perhaps two shillings' -wortHi, as the case may 'i>.\ Upon the bottle being filled, he announces that he 'has lost his money and cannot pay, and as'kg for the liquor to be poured out again and that his bottle be returned empty. This is done, and he goes outside, 'breaks the 'bottle, and sucks the sponge. Writing from Perth, West Australia, a young man who left Hawera some Months since, says in a letter to a Hawera resident;—" Things are exceedingly Sad here on account of drought and the harvest is an utter failure. When I was in South Australia, one farmer sold 30 horses for la's, as there was no feed to keep them. Hundreds of -homes were being shot daily to save the more painful; death of starving. Under the 'present' conditions, I would mot give a foot of Taranaki land for either the wHole of Western or Soutlhi Australia! On account of fawns being idle, liundrots of men are in Perth out of work, and the Government are issuing meal tickets to hungry mien. Dozens of email farmers are absolutely ruined. Australians seem to be prejudiced against New Zcalanders. I'll be glad to get back to New Zealand." Notice hasi been given by the Consul for France, M. J. liigoreau, to Frenchmen born during the year 181)5 reminding 'them that they will shortly become liable for military service. Military scr-

vice in France is compulsory and 1 universal, anil liability to service extends from tlio age of iiO to the are of 48. The term of service in tha first rank<;

of it)h« first line k>r "active" army is tilireo years, and the men join at t!hc age of 20 years. Those male subjects of France resident in the Dominion who are approaching the ago of '2O years have therefore been, asiked by tihe Consul to report without delay to the Consulate in Auckland or the consular agencies in Wellington, Christchurch or Dunedin with a view to the registration' of thoir pannes.

At the. Magistrate's Court, yesterday, Frank Herbert Jellvman was lined £2, and costs 7b, for failing flo clear gorse from Jiis property, block 1 and 10, Egmont. E. P. Maddison, an absentee holder, wivs fined £5 and casts 7s for a similar ofl'euce in relation to blocks 2 and 3, Cape.