LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 258, 10 April 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

• Messrs H. Cattlcv and ,T. F. Eustace, J's.P., attended at the Court House yesterday afternoon for the purpose of i%vising the jury list. The contractors for the electric light and tramways construction in Liardet Street expect'to finish the work before October. The car-slied, workshop, etc., at Fitzroy will be ready in a fortnight. A farmer at Somerset, England, lias provided one of hia lambs, which was born minus a leg, with an artificial limb. Now the lamb runs about as fleetly as any of its companions on the farm. There are some astrologers in China, but not many, as astrology is a very perilous profession. When one of these s<)-called prophets predicts an event which does not occur, he promptly loses his -head. The Greymouth Star states that the wife of a sawmill employee along the Otira line last week presented her juisband with twin boys, being the fourth set pf twins, and making up a family of ten children in ten years.

A crop of nine acres of tares at the Weraroa Experimental Farm, on which sheep grazed during the winter months and which has been shut lip for harvesting in the month of August, has given a return of 330 bushels, or just on 38 bushels to the aero. \

< The Prime Minister, in acknowledging receipt of a letter from Mr. H. ,T. Okey, M.P., in regard to the stock of ehwse which is accumulating at the Moturoa Freezing Works, states that stops haw already been taken which will, he trusts, have the effect of remedying the position.

Large quantities of kahuwai have bsen caught off the Waingongongoro lately, and the Maoris especially have made large hauls (says the Hawera Star). It is estimated that 400 were caught on Thursday. A small fish brought up in one of the nets is new, at any rate, to many persons; apparently it is one of the herring class.

An example which is worthy of being followed by many of the younger generations of the gentler sex has just been set by an old and respected resident of Wanganui East. , A lady, who is in her 8!) th year, has knitted seven pairs of bed socks and six pairs of mittens as a contribution in response to Queen Mary's appeal on behalf of the British sick and wounded soldiers. The parcel containing this acceptable gift was received by the lady superintendent of the St. John Ambulance Association.

Referring to the train fatality at Palmcrston on Thursday,. the Eltham Argus states that Miss Broad had not many acquaintances in Eltham outside of her relatives and their friends, but those who had the pleasure of her acquaintance knew her as a bright, hapnv young woman of particularly cheerful and vivacious disposition. Heartfelt, sympathy is felt for her reeatives in their terrible bereavement. Miss Broad wlm was a sister of Mrs. J. Lindsay Weir, had, along with her mother, beer paying a visit to Mrs. Weir.

11l tlic course of.a speech at the nn- ' mini meeting of the Hawke's Bay Liberal ' League at Hastings last week, Dr. Mc«ab, M.P., said: "People say there will : not be another election. I hope 110 one will go away with the idea that there cannot be another election; the only thing they can be absolutely sure of Is that there will not bo another member (Laughter and applause). The decision will!be given between the 15th and 20tli of April, and the election, if it is required, will come off in the middle of -May, ho you must hold yourselves nrepared." (Applause). An unusual discovery was made last week by a lady resident of Nelson street Auckland. She relates that she was passing.a drain at the back of' her house when nhe heard a rustling noise. She had a look at the spot from which the noise appeared to have come, but could see nothing, and came to the conclusion that a rat had attracted her attention. Later in the day she again sxamined the outlet to the drain, and saw what ap pea rod to be a fish-head. She poured some water down the pipe to force out the obstruction, but with no effect When she next aproached the pipe a pair of short legs and part of a scaly bodv were connected with the head, but it was obvious that the creature was not of the (ish family. What particularly struck her, she says, was the fact that" the reptile remained perfectly motionless for nearly an hour. Not liking the appearance of her mysterious visitor, she covered the drain over with a sack and waited until her brother arrived home from work. With the aid of a long stick he was successful in drawing the captive from its place of refuge. The curator of the museum was notified of the discovery, and immediately declared it to be a particularly fine speciuient of the New Zealand tuatara lizard, but he was unable to explain its presence in the city. Tho reptile, which was fully 22 inches in length, is now In the company of three other members of his family. ' The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.. have altered the. date of the Kohuratahi sale from Thursday the 22nd to Thursday the 29th April Clients will kindlv. note.