Local and General.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 1081, 27 March 1903, Page 2

Local and General.

In connection with the Easter holidays, the Railway Department notifies that cheap excursion tickets will be issued from April 7th to April 13tb, available for return tip to May 12th.

The Rev. C. Abernethy of Te Aroha, will conduct the sei vices in the JVlethodist Church on Sunday. 1

To preyent misapprehension, we woxild romind the public that all Parliamentary electors are qualified to vote in the election of Licensing Committees, the only condition being that their names are.on.the roll. <■ :

Hindering home unendurable for the rest of his'family by'an unsalable passion for whistling, David Dunn, of West .44th- Street, New York, was* brought before Judge Wyatt by Ids inoth.er. -Even in thfi court no ouo was able to ke^p the boy o^uiet, and he annoyed the" judge by whistling all tho popular airs of the day, He was committed to the hospital fpr in(|uiries as to bis sanity.

A recent case, in which a young lady failed to obtain an injunction to restrain the use of her portrait for advertising purposes without her consent, has led to the introduction of a Bill into Congress, making it illegal to use any name or picture of a living person for"'advertising' without the person's consent in writing being first obtained.

Speaking at Cheviot, the Hon. W. Hall-Jones'; ' Minister for Public Works, said^that, with reference to future surpluses, he thought something should be done to assist widows and children left in poor circumstances. He made a list of husbands who had died during the past fiye year : @, and a 1 Towing for the gift of £100 to each widow and £5 to each child under 14 years of age, he was agreeably surprised to find £100,000 would meet such an expenditure.

The best /.medicine known is Sauxdeb and- Sons' Eucalvptjo Ex- I tract. Test its eminent powerful effects in couglis, colds, influenza ; the relief is instantaneous.- la serious eases and accidents-■. of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scalds, bruises, sprains, it is the safety remedy—no swelling, no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, diarrhoea, dysentry, diseases' of the kidneys-' und urinary organs. In use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe patronised by Flis Majesty the King of Italy! crowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article, and reject all others. Advt. Mr J.)hn Grotty, 'storekeeper at parua, has been taken seriously ill frum eating- honey from tame bees, and was brought into Kawliia on Saturday morning in a dying condition. Messrs Hamilton and Mace attended him promptly, and greatly relieved the patient, but the result is doubtful. The bees had collected honey from the Waeriki flowers. Owing to an order prohibiting them from chewing gum during working hours sixty-five girls employed by the [ Samuel Cup pies" Envelope Company, St. Louis, Missouri, went out. on I strike and refused to return until the offending order was withdrawn. In view of the -; agitation for the [adoption of State fire insurance, the 'following remarks by the chairmaa of the New Zealand Drug Company (Mr T. W. Rempthorne), made at the: annual meeting of shareholders •' at Dunedin, are interesting : "I think," he said, "it necessary to point out to the shareholders that we have a difficulty in getting as -much insurance as we would like, as the premiums fixed for our class of business are' high. Under the present insurance companies' combinations in the colony they will not allow us to go outside for any cover which they cannot take themselves unless we contribute 5 per cent of the value-, of such premium in their favour, for all risks taken outside the colony with other insurance companies, such outside premiums not to be under the local rates. Now I think this a most . unreasonable position. To maintain uniformity is doubtless advisable, but in respect of any risks that the local companies cannot take they should hot debar insurers from going elsewhere, at their premium, without further handi cap. The matter" wants prompt alteration, and I hope speedy action may be taken to set this additional percentage aside." Good news for topers! No more need for temperance societies and licensing bills ! People may now drink their fill of whisky, wine and beer, and yet remain teetotallers. That will be the result if all is true that 13 told of a discovery by a famous Paris scientist. It goes without saying that this scientist's claim is based on the discovery of a new microbe. It being settled that germs producefermentation, and fermentation alcohol, where was the germUhat would step in at the psychological moment set forces at work that would,annihilate the alcohol and render whisky and champagne a3 suitable for temperance purposes as lemonade or sarsaparilla ? According to reports from Paris this scientist has discovered the microbe and set it to work so successfully that he can manufacture choice -brands of liquor which are no more intoxicating tli:m cold tea.' -Imagine members of thn Women's Christian 'Temperance Union enjoying a banquet -where all drank claret, sauterne and champagne, as freely as water without transgressing a single principle ■, of their organi isation! Married, couples are making £200 a year milking ou shares in Taranaki, at/ least one couple is (says tho " Dairyman "). In this case the wife is a champion milker, and her husband is a fairly good milker too. The employer gives them two-fifths of the milk cheque on the 20th of each month., arid they work the whole year round —there is no off-season on this particular farm. A free house is provided, free firewood, free milk, but butter is not allowed. / The number of cows milked :by these young people is fifty-two and the gross yield for last season is rather over £550, and of this amount the milkers got £200. • Tho baby sits in an improved-' baby jumper during the milking time, and is carried put p the shed in all weathers. The carbines on issue to garrison ai tillery and submarine miners' corps in the colony are to be immediately called in, the fact long since patent to the men —that these weapons are altogether faulty in regard to sighting— having been recognised by the Defence Department. A man who is out of work was offered a day's work at Dunedin, but refused it because he had to attend a meeting of the unemployed. A young Lyttelton girl who met with three mishaps last week, winding up with falling off her bike and breaking her arm, put her bad luck down to tho iuat that it was her thirteenth birthday. ' 1 The Government has decided to use prison labour in connection with tlie planting of the gjrojmdg attached to the sanatorium "at Hanmor,, and also to plant trees for shelter for stock in quarantine on Somes Island. For New Season^ Goods try J". N f Heape.—• Advt. A sailor on the s.s. lonic has been sentenced to six months' hard labour for passing a hawser overboard when the ship was between. Hobart and Wellington. The hawser was valued at £§0, and had it got entangled in the propeller,'the vessel would ha?e been completely disabled. l A Nelson fruitgrower is endeavouring 1 to arrange'to send Home a shipment of apples. The variety proposed to be sont is the Blenheim 'Orange. Hopes are entertained that other growers will bo disposed to join the movement, and thus unable a fairsized consignment to be got together. In speaking of Fiji customs at the mission meeting in Christchurch on Friday (says the Lyttelton Times), the Rev. W. Slade said that in his work as missionary lie had almays endeavoured to give the natives a per-' iq^ial iutevo'st in the church by speal?iijg t<> them ot "our church,.-' <( our house,", and "ouv circuit." One Fijiuu, however, had gone rather far in lhos > courtesies when lie had alluded to Mrs Slade as " ouv wife '' Tho. 0.-it. says that there has been somo talk of late of a piojected scheme by the Government to buy out'the shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand and sot up a State Bank on a large and generous scale.

If an ostrich feather is held upright, it is at once seen to be perfectly eve t and equal on both sides, the ste.u dividing exactly in the centre. . Too stems of other teachers are all .move or less on one side. Perhaps this is why the ancient Egyptians choose the ostrich feather as a sacred emblem of truth and justice.

In a letter received by a Patea resident, a friend in New South Wales asks to be sent a blade of gn en grass, as the writer says for months such, a thing has never been seen in the locality written from.— I Jress

I have just met a colleague back from Brittany (says a writer in a Home paper); he tells me that the failure of the sardine harvest has led to an appalling state of misery. Nothing in Irish famines has ever equalled it, Paris is pouring down thousands of francs for relief, but. the bleak and barren province seems dead with misery. ■ ~« The spectacle of an unusually dapper sandwich man attracted considerable attention in the streets of Wellington. The amateur, who was quite a young man, and welkdressed, carried himself and his cane with an air of jauntinesa not usually seen in those who get their living by this monotonous means. Investigation revealed that he was cheerfully working out a jesting wager, the value of which is stated at £5 and a case of champagne. For this the stranger was to carry a sandwich board through the streets from nine to five, to call at each hotel in the city, and without staying more than two minutes inside to have a^drinkin each without paying for it.\ The layers of the' wagor, walking on the footpaths, followed their friend the whole day, their glea becoming graduaHy and beautifully less as the approach-. | ing hour of emancipation made his chance of winning. the bet greater. Long before five o'clock it was quito evident that the sandwichman would win the wager.