Local ana General.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 1079, 23 March 1903, Page 2

Local ana General.

Winners of prize money at the recent Stock Show in connection with the Ohinemuri Agricultural and Horticulcural Society are notified that the money may be obtained from the treasurer, Mr D. T. Inglis.

Mr H. L. Harston, district secretary of the London College of Music, has received the names of those who have successfully passed their examination in Theory of Music! They are as follows : — Opotiki : Mary Carroll (elementary), Josephine Walter (elementary), Margaret Pile (elementary),' Catherine Donald (junior), pupils of the Sisters of the Monastery of M. Admirabilis, Opotiki; Paeroa: Alma M. Taylor /junior), Elizabeth M. Scott (junior with honours), pupils of Mr H. L. Harston, Paeroa.

Iwo impounding notices appear in our advertising columns.

The Ohinemuri Roll to b& used at the coming Licensing Committee Election is now completed, and contains 3954 names. The roll used at the late general election contained 5459 names.

Sergeant W. Maingay, of the Piako Mounted Rifles, has been notified by Colonel Sommerville of his selection as a member of the next New Zealand team for Bisley.

Mr Woodward, of the Bank of New Zetland staff, is at present in Waihi in order to relieve Mr A, T. Kenrick, manager of the branch. Mr Kenrick leavos Waihi to-morrow, and his holiday will extend over a period of four weeks.

Not content with the interest centred upon him by his performances in the ring, the elephant at Fitzgerald's circus (writes a Palmerston correspondent) attempted on Sunday night a little unrehearsed performance. While two men were standing near the stable door looking at the elephant the animal stretched out its trunk, seized one of them round the waist, and then proceeded to batter him against the wall. Fortunately the partition gave way before any very serious harm was dono, and the noise having attracted the attention of the elephant's keeper, the man was rescued from his dangerous predicament. Although a number of bad bruises had been inflicted, there were no injuries likely to prove serious.

The Government Commercial Agent at Buenos Ayres states that he has received several inquiries for butter-box timber. The Department of Industries and Commerce is sending samples of white pine with c.i.f. quo ations.

A good story comes to us (Truth) of an inquisitive young man and an obliging policeman in a country settlement, not more thauii huudred miles from Amberley. The civilian was anxious to ascertain how it felt to be handcuffed, ani the policemen carefully handcuffed him in. the approved stylo for refractories, with his hands under his leg. .Then it was discovered that the officer of the law had left his keys at home, and the inquiringl young man had to remain trussed like a fowl for six mortal hours until they could be procured. He knows what it is like to be handcuffed now.

A conspiracy by which a well-knowu New York actress, Laura Biggar, as- ! sistedby a physician and a justice of the peace, attempted to obtain possession of the estate of an old millionaire, whose companion the actress had boon, and whoso wife she claimed to be, has had a peculiar ending. The instruments of the conspiracy were a certificate of aiavriage (said to be a forgery) and a child, born after tho millionaire's death, and alleged to be his offspring. At the trial of the conspirators, the prosecution sought to prove that the child was not related to either the actress or the millionaire, but had been procured from some other parent in the interest of tho fraud. The result of the trial, which took place a few miles from New York, deserves to be noted as a curious example of the wisdom of a jury. Two of the conspirators—the physician and the justice of the peace —were found guilty, but the third, the actress herself., was acquitted! The two men. have gone to prison, but the woman has returned to the stage. Part of the millionaire's property was legally bequothed "to her, and she may yet obtain the whole of it.

The coal famine in America is settling brains to work to find a sub' stitute for tbe missing fuel, and one which shall be available in that day when the mines of the earth give forth no more coal. A Chicago scientist has laid before the chiefs of tho 'Agricultural Experiment Department at Washington a scheme whereby I pyery holder of laud shall grow his own fuel. THe'suggestion is that tho leaves and stalks ofpiants and props should be compressed and chemically treated. The 'residual products of the Wholp grain prop of tlie Unjted States, including corn, wfyeafc, oats, barley, and rye, would supply 200,000. 000 jons of potential fuel per annum. This, when properly treated, it is saidj 'would have a producing power in the o| gp tous of artificial fuel to fourteen tougi of cqa|.

Rumors are in the air of a burst up, among the Canterbury and Otago m~embers conpernjng railway construction matters.. ;V northern member has written to a fripnd in this city intimating that the question of railway communication is sure to be a burning one neixt .session, and will xi?& rise to plenty of interproviucial Jealousy. If? says that Mr Fowlds has put the fat in the ai% and it will take soi^thfng j$ fmother the flame.—Lyttelton Times. . .

Writes a correspondent to the Manawatu Farmer:—-We hate heard of horses acquiring a taste" for beer, but a farmer possesses a moke that has developed a fondness for cream. His <k boss ■' informed me recently that the brute mopped up two gallons qfoream, before you could say "Jack Robinson," which most surely constitutes a record, jf the horse, immediately after " mopping " (I like jihat term) two gallons of pream had been galloped rouad the paddock for half-an-liour, what would the contents of his stomach have been: cream or butter ?

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Mr Arnold, M.H.R., was guilty of a " bull" recently, in speaking at the Methodist mission, of a man " standing alone with twelye other men around him." '

A member of Parliament for Ohristchurch City received notices to attend eight meetings the other day. He said that as it was impossible for him to cut himself up into pieces he could not be present at all the meetings, but managed to attend four of them.

1 If results of recent experiments are as claimed, there will be rejoicing in the ranks of Australian fruitgrowers (says " The New Idea "). It is said that the days of the woolly aphis, the codlin moth, and other fruit pests are numbered. The new process of fightjng orchard insects is unique. A hole or socket is bored into the trunk of the tree, and in the opening is deposited a compound, to be taken up by the sap into the branches of the tree. I| is claimed that not; only are fruit and tree pests thus destroyed, but that the tree, by its absorption of the injection, is made healthy and thriving. The compound injected into the tree consists of gunpowder, salt petre,copperas and sulphur. Pulverised and mixed and applied according to a patented process, the ingredients are said to be readily absorbed by the tree. Thoroughly diseased apple and peach trees experimented upon were purged of their pests, and the quality of the fruit improved, and the trees grew steady under the tonic effect ot I the insecticide.

In replying to a toast at the gathering held in the Club Hotel on Thursday night ia honor of the Masterton Riflemen, Captain Welsh said he had never seen, during all the years he has been attending the New Zealand meeting, a cnampion " dogged" so much as rifleman Hyde x was. The Captain said that the officers stood over the ex-champion with watoh in hand for every shot, and under these conditions he did not wonder at any man "breaking up." Some latitude he thought should be allowed the champion, The regulation time for each shot was a minute, but in reality only half a minute was allowed. This year civilians, who did not understand the business, superintended the scoring. One competitor would shoot, and before everything was clear the scorer would give the signal for the next man; but he would have to wait haif a minute before things were adjusted. '* They dogged the life out of Hyde," exclaimed the captain, " and he hadn't a chance under those conditions from the first." He did not blame Colonel SouimerviUe—he was too much of a-sport; but* it was the officers from the Defence Department. No doubt that accounted for Rifleman Hyde "breaking up" in the one match.:—Maslerfcon Times.

Wellington Times remarks:—-Tiie up-to-date ideas of the Japanese and their characteristic thirst for information was shown in the questions which were put to the officials of the Department o t f Industries and Commerce by the Japanese envoys. They touched on every conceivable topic and sought information on matters which on first sight appeared to be of no possible interest to Japan. They have obtained from the Department a mass of-information which will be used either for the purposes of the internal administration of Japanese institutions or in furthering 1 the interests of trade between New Zealand and Japan.

At a meeting of the Masterton Borough Council a councillor objected to the use of the word " embryo" in a Council document, on the ground that only simple language should be ijeet!, language the people could understand. :

During the hearing of a case at the Magistrate's Court yesterday at Wellington, in which an expresssman was charged with touting for hire on the Government Railway Station, Mr Jellicoe, who appeared for the defendant, argued that it was no crime to, solicit employment. "Are ttere. no touters,?? he agked, Mm qther trades pr professions ? Take the profeasxQn to which I have the honour to belong, One has only to walk around the police cells of a morning to see if there are no touters. There are touters in all trades and professions."

A case was mentioned at the meeting of the Wellington branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in which fout youths had ill-used a horse at Kaiwarra. The afiirqal was attached to an express, and the offenders are stated to have flogged it 6n thY head 'until it Was bleeding all the "nostrils, 'and was otherwise severely knocked about.