LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 15 May 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

As showing the quantity of stock that has been changing "hands this season, says the Manawatu Standard, a well-known local firm has put through £20,000 worth of stock more each month this year than last year. A meet under the auspices of the Wanganui-Egmont Hunt Ulub is to be held over the property of Mr G. V Pearce, M.P., at Kakaramea on Saturday next. , Dairy farmers will have an exceptional opportunity on Friday next,, when Gillies and Nalder will offer, on behalf of Mr J. H. Pratt, at their Hawera yards, 400 Holstein and Jersey cross heifers, in calf. These are specially selected and will be sold in lots. There will be no -reserve. At the meeting of the council of the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society, held on Tuesday evening (says the Taranaki News) it was decided td request all holders of shooting licenses to hand on to the secretary the names of peis sons with dog and gun. This action has become necessary owing, to a.number of persons shooting i n the society's district without paying the usual fee for a license. Though there are two hundred and fifty persons employed iii the Commonwealth Government's military clothing factory at Melbourne, the provision of uniforms for cadets has so taxed the factory's resources that it has not been able to overtake the further demands for clothing for the militia. The harness factory at Collingwood, which employs about 90 persons, has been kept working at full strength. The buildings are presently to be enlarged to provide storage space, and make room foV further-employees. An unexpected touch of realism was imparted to a cinematograph drama at Brighton recently. The drama was played on top of a cliff eighty feet high. One of the actors, named Daring, who had the part of an English naval officer pursued by Spanish brigands;- was supposed to have been pushed over the cliff. It was arranged that he should step on a plank just below the edge, but he slipped and fell into the sea. Fortunately he was a good swimmer, and was able to keep afloat until the coastguards, who were summoned by the other members of the company, and rescued him. What is .believed to be a gemrrto relic of Captain Cook is in the possession of a well-known native resident of Waingake, who holds it as a treasured heirloom. It is an ancient axe, which accordnig to Maori tradition, was given by Captain Cook to an important Maori chieftain of the MaShia Peninsula m 1769. Many natives were living at Mahia at the time, the three- leading chieftains respectively being Whenuariri, Kahutia, and Powhero. It is related that the latter, considering Captain Cook to be merely the chief of a strange war party, desired to put him to deat'i, but was restrained by the other two, '•'liefs." To the latter Captain Cook *>^ade a present of an axe each, while to his would-be executioner he handed r.ome cabbage seeds. It is; one of these j rs.es .which is claimed to be the historic i family heirloom held by a direct doi scendan# of Whenuariri. f | "NAZOL" inhaled through the nose, j best done with a Nazol Inhaler, at once j clears the air passages and makes free and natural breathing possible. Its \ /soothing," fragrant properties penetrate ] where they are most needed and quickly I cure your* Cold. Price. Is 6d. *

The Carterton A. and P. Association has decided that, iir future. *11 'draught stallions entered at its shows are to be■■ subjected to an examination by a veterinarian. Our Mauaia correspondent says: A robbery took place at Kaupdkonui factory on Saturday night last. It appears that someone unknown entered a room occupied by the butter-maker, and broke open his box", and extracted from it the sum of £37. Newspaper vendors on the Wairarapa trains are quite assured that they have the bast run in any part of New Zealand (says the Age). The reason they assign for the fact is that the trains travel so slowly, that passengers find ample time to peruse several papers, not to mention a magazine or two on tha journey. At the sitting of the South Australian Education Commission in' Brisbane, Mr Peter Jensen, an itinerant teacher of Plain View, Oakey, said he found 35 per cent, of the parents in families which he visited unable to read or write, and some children were without any education' whatever. One man could only count up to 200. A man had I offered him £50 ,if he Avould stay with him a fortnight to teach him to read and write. He knew two station-own-ers who could neither read nor write The Eketahuna Express publishes a prediction from a well-known * Wairarapa sheep dealer to the effect that a ; sharp. rise in the price of sheep will take place next season. He bases his ; calculations on the fact that the phenomenal season has been responsible for a largely increased number of "fats," statins; that 50 to 100- per cent, more fat sheep have been sent by rail this season than last.

Captain Berry accomplished an \mprecedented feat in England when he descended from an aeroplane by means of a parachute. He rose in a biplane piloted by Mr Jannus, and when a height of 1500 ft had been reached the airman steadied the biplane and Captain Berry let himself down through the frame. He then caught hold of the rin<r,s of the parachute, which were attached to the bottom of the aeroplane, let go, and dropped 300 ft. before the parachute opened. He then drifted slowly to the earth unharmed. When a recent visitor from New Zealand was touring England, he visited a brass foundry of considerable size, and he happened to ask one of the proprietors if his firm wns represented in New Zealand: "I believe so, if not we have- a representative in Australia," was the reply. "Oh, no," said another head of the firm, "our a Tent is in Jamaica." "Well, I knew I was not far out." replied the first captain of industry spoken to. "I knew it was somewhere in that virinitv." Tt is poor New Zealand that suffers by this ignorance; and she God's own country, too! The King received a Welsh cripple boy, Idris Thomas, at Buckingham Palace recently, and presented him with a jewelled scarf pin.. The boy went to the Palace to thank the King for contributing £5 towards providing him with artificial feet, and was disappointed at not being able to see his Ma*i jesty. When the King heard of this he sent for the lad, and made many enquiries of him about his health and his prospects in life. I Fresh interesting discoveries have been made in the newly discovered section of the "Street of Abundance" at Pompeii, A."short time ago an admirably preserved temple was excavated, with frescoes representing all the divinities of Mount Olympus. Another equally well-preserved building has been brought to light, with frescoes representing sacrifices to the goddess Cybele and the figures of other gods and goddesses. Cybele was the mythical daughter of the skies and goddess of the earth. She was the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter, Neptune- and Pluto. The discoveries are the most remarkable made for many years, and people are flocking from all parts of Italy to see them. The Wairarapa Daily Times recorded last week that Mr W. Kemp, of MasI terton, was suffering from blood poisoning, and had been rendered temporarily blind. Mr Kemp himself wrote to the paper as follows: "I beg to inform you that I contracted poison from a climbing plant commonly known as Ampelopsis Hoggi, correctly Rhus toxicodendron, or American toxicodendron. I had occasion to root out one of these plants, but I shall give them a wide berth for the future. It appears that this plant is a very dangerous one, and should on no account be handled, as anyone so doing is liable to contract blood-poisoning. A Masterton medical man has had two or three cases of blood poisoning from this cause of late, and he states that it is not necessary for the hand to be cut to contract blood poisoning from the plant. The latter exudes an oily substance which enters the pores of the skin, and does its work. Rhus toxicodendron belongs to the Sumach genus. It is the poison ivy of North America, a shrub fj:om one to three feet high, when it is called poison oak, or a climber, with leaves of three leaflets arid a milky juice, which becomes black on exposure to the air. The leaves have been used as a stimulant of the nervous system." Services will be held at St. Mary's, Hawera, on Thursday, May 16 (Ascension Day). The Hawera Mounted Cadets are required to hand in all rifles at once. A tennis ball' will be held at Kapuni Hall on Friday, May 17. A list of persons to whom shooting licenses have been issued is advertised. W. C. Henson has a farm of 242 acres for lease. Office care and worries are .quickly relieved by a dose of Steams' Wine of Cod Liver Extract. It soothes and quiets the nerves and clears the brain. —Advt. The Australian cricketers appear to have commenced their tour against Notts on a bad wicket, but the man who purchases his shirts, pyjamas, etc., from Messrs Adamson and Robb will find it easy to score well. See this firm's replace announcement in to-day's issue. * Particulars of 12 fine farms have been added to James and Gillman's advertisement on page 7. Elsewhere in this issue will be seen an announcement headed "Don't be a 'Putter off!'" Messrs Adamson and Robb introduce .the subject of Winter Show Tailoring in this unique manner. , * Ladies, bring your husband to Dixon's and have the value of the O.K. Washer pointed out in the way of saving you bard work on Washing Day. Classes in Bee-keeping and in VeterI mary Science can be taken in Eltham, Hawera, and surrounding centres. Apply Director Hawera Technical School. * The naval manoeuvres in Weymouth I Bay, with 120 warships massing in a comparatively small space, and with His Majesty the King in command, must have been an impressive sight. Perhaps the most important feature was the hydroplane, and this machine appears to be a perfect weapon. Its perfection is in no degree greater relatively than that of Crescent Tea, which is of superb merit, and suits all palates. Sold in three grades, Is Bd, Is lOd, and 2s. * ! Two guineas for four lines of poetry! | Read Tpnking's Linseed Emulsion, intimation every Saturday amongst news-*

Ifpon-enquiry at tfe Hawwa. Hospital ffe J2fc£r Ulg ■■& '%&■ «***««• teamed that t^F^oung Swiss, Ca*l Sehuker y who met -with an accident on-Sati^ay mgttt is* doing very: well. G. JftdEL who broke hisf leg ori Tuesday, luwFth* injured limb set last night, and ijf setting on nicely. During the week we have sold private- - ly several lines of cattle at the fol- *- lowing prices: Mixed weaners, £2 to £2 *»: colored, in calf, heifers, £5 to £5 5* and £/ 4s 6d for a nice line of 50, sold " to Waikato buyers; 3-year-old steers. «fl;i2 nd/.f' herd of dairy cows realised £6 1 <s 6d. The following dates have been fixed for the Chapman-Alexander mission meetings :n JNew Zealand next yearTimaru, Jan. 28, 29 and 30; Oamaru Jan. 31 Feb. 1 and 2; Christehurclv Feb. 4 to 2o; Wellington, Feb. 27 to March 16; Auckland, March 18th ta , April 6; Invercargill, April 10, 11 12 and 13. ' * A Government dairy, instructor speaking at a Farmers' Union meeting at Gisborne recently, said that in future when a man wished to sell a cow ■-» or herd of cows, he would have to pro- \ duce records to show their milk-producv I ing qualities. "It may not come for rf some years but it will come ultimately, said the speaker. Since the order went Home for the V new armament for the New Zealand field batteries, a new panoramic sight ' has been adopted by the War Office and the despatch of the New Zealand guns has been delayed in order that the new sight may be added to their equipment. The Peel Forest correspondent of the Press writes: "A week before the closing of the fishing season, Mr Thomas Fraser, Peel Forest, fishing in , the Upper Kangitata, was lucky enough toland a magnificent 181b trout. The fish "•' was in splendid condition, fresh run irons the sea, and was caught in tha i river oehind the village at Peel Forest, about 25 miles from the sea, During a heavy storm at Hobart the gable end of a terrace of houses was. blown out, and the debris smashed through the roof of a cottage on to two beds where a man and his wife and two children were sleeping. The occupantswere buried by debris and mortar to; a depth of oft, and how they escaped serious injury, if not death,'was miraculous. The wife and one girl were badly cut abo;it the face, and suffered severely from shook. Last month the Christchureh women's Employment Bureau of the Labor Department received 265 applications from employers, but placed only 42 girls. In Wellington the applications. ' from employers numbered 209, from women and girls 76; Dunedin, 102 and 35; and Auckland, 186 and 66 respectively. ' :

What is believed to be the oldest.organ in existence has been discovered by a German musical director, who visited churches in Gothland, and'in'a'Village called Sundae came upr/i the remnant of the quaint old instrument. The case alone has survived the fret of seven : : centuries, and its exterior is« adorned with paintings from about the year 1240. v : " y > The highly original will of a bachelor, Eniil yon Brizony, is* published in. the Hungarian papers. M. yon Brizony, the brother of a well-known Hungarian deputy/ was 65, detested wbmen, £Hd<S'.as on bad terms with all his relatives. Although the owner of a. gieau deal of land, he lived so.frugally that he did not spend the tenth part of his income. In his will he bequeathed all his real and personal property to his--12 draught horses. This would have gladdened the heart of Dean Swift, who, in his great satire of Gulliver, vastly prefers horses to human beings, to whom they are, in his estimation, superior on the score of good sense and morality. The members of the Anglican Church. at Ashburton, shortly after the com-r mencement of the recent CQal strike ia\ Great Britain, collected the sum of £20, " [ which was forwarded to the- Rev. Prebendary H. V. Stuart, rector of Stoke-on-Trent. A letter acknowledging the gift has been received from the rector, who states that the authorities were feeding about 10,000 school children every day, about 1200 in Stoke alone, independently of infants, which the mothers brought. There are still uncouth people wholike to practice the old boorish joke of drawing away a person's chair just as he is about to sit down, and to watch the tumble that results. But sometimes the tumble and the fun are not the only consequences, says the Woodville Examiner. A friend in Palmerston-— who is likely to proye a very expensive friend, indeed —played this joke ont Miss Grace Brightwell, of Woodville, with the result that she fell on the floor striking the end of her spine. Following on that she had to be,taken to the hospital, and remained there in a very serious condition, with a possibility of being a permanent invalid. LaHies interested in forming a class in cookery will meet at the Technical School on Tuesday, 21st inst., 7.30 p.m.* *