LOCAL and. GENERAL.

Patea Mail, Volume XXIX, 13 January 1908, Page 2

LOCAL and. GENERAL.

Tie Patea Polo Club defeated "Wanganui by 5 goals to 4. Itisrumourudth.it all the bookstalls on the New Zealand railway stations will at the termination of I.heir present leases in March next be brought under State management. 'At Lodz (Poland) on September 23rd, sever; workmen and one girl were shot without trial for being infpiicatod iu the murder of M. Silberlsteiu, the factory manager. When Socialists really get a chance they do things spaciouily. Throe years a°-o they got control of the town ot 'Bitst. Brest has a population of 71,000 inuabitants ; 23-581 of these are now in receipt of poor relief. Religious folks m Edinburgh are girdin"- up their loins with a view to cornbaling Socialism. The Socialist Sabbath schools wherj the children sing J.L.P, hymns ar.d re id Socialist literature is the cause of offence. The Paten Polo Club players who visited Marlon and Wanganui returned homo on Saturday after having had a most enjoyable trip, t'hov speak in the highest terms of the ho-pitdity th"y re-ceivt-o. In the first match against Pern Flat iuu ;.!,M»o Bui not so one sided as the .'-core would indicate and the Patea , ky-'i-.s at first suffered • from ■' atage ri:.'-hi." The i ; : ni i-'!at and Wanganui tv . n;s will visit Patea sh u-tly. All ai:k rsiTKH—Tn saying that for all Stomach Trouble:; there is no remedy like Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules. Price 2s Cd per tin. 'Jhhdnabh; at 11. E. Deana's, agent, j?at«a.

Tho Paten Courtly Council moot tomorrow. The monthly meeting of the Palea Hospittd Board will bo held to-morrow afternoon. There is in Eketahuna, says the Express, a lady who, though over 80 years of ago, has never yet travelled in a railway I rain. Threshing mi'ls have already begun work in the Ashlmrtou o:>unty, and oats tbredting will In fairly genonl by the cm] of this w vie Owing (o the cost of labor and the difficulty of securing suitable men mauy Canterbury farmeis iini giving up arable firming in favor of sheep farming especially lamb fattening. In the Aornngi settlement the season is entirely satisfactory. Crass is abundant and luxuriant, and the milk tests are keepiug up well. Potatoes and root crops are fdiowuig sbrns of a rich harvest, anrfall kinds of vegetables arc locking beautifully fu'l Hnd fresh. A new syndicate has been formed to v/ork the cinnabar deposits at Waitahuna, Otago, and is endeavouring to curry out further developments. The working members of the syndicate have sunk a new sh«ft on the main lode, raid have got indications of cinnabar for n depth of 18 feet, but water is troubiiug them in this shaft. The election of firm-curing works on Rangawai Island by the Salvation Army, is stated to have proved successful from every point of view, and arrangements are now being mads to erect an additional smoke-house, and a large freezing pi mil, costing over £OOO. The enlargements, according lo Prigadier Albiston, are due to the demand in Auckland for fresh and smoked fish. As a result of the erection of tho fish-curing plant on the island, a means of livelihood has been provided for the Maoris resident there. Celebrations of some Mnori weddings now proenfd by the week inroad of'he day. It is r. very o'd custom to maintain tangis for a month, but the sustained wedding festivity is a matter of recent orowth. One is now proceeding in a South Island centre less than a day's voyage from Wellington (says the Post), and the simple expedient of "passing round the hat" is adopted every time the fluid in the barrel runs slow or the cake and cold pork fails to materialise. The celebration is already iu its second week, and another fortnight's run is confidently anticipated. The- Otira correspondent of the Grey Argus says: —" Very few of us can grasp 'fully how great an enterprise is the boring of the Otiro tunnel. The mere prepara* tir.ns are dismaying. Think of a job so big that it takes you nearly a year to collect your tools ami set your apron straight before you win begin. Think of ■ 25.000 tons of cement, and all other commodities on a like scale, and you b-'ghi to get the measure of this thing tb.it we are going to do. So far they are merely building workmen's houses, and thinking, thinking, thinking, though this latter exercise is wasteful and foolish, because the tiproo-n of any hotel on the line would gladly provide a solution for all their problems any time after 9 a m.''

There is likely to be a decrease in the output of flax'for the present quarter, says The Dominion. Owing to tin- pro nounced weakening iu the price of flax, several mills in the north are about to be closed. Speaking to a Dominion reporter, Mr M. F, Bourke stated that operation* were to cease at three of his mills in the Auckland district. The price was still sound enough to work if a miller was working his own flux, but if he was paying the royalty he (Mr Bourke) was in Auckland, they would soon find out that there was nothing in it. If the owners of flax would introduce a sliding seal" in royalties, the iudustry might be maintained continuously, but here was a case whore they had to pay the same royalty now as they were when flax was bringing £lO per tou more.

Harper's Weekly has an anecdote which will doubtless be noted by advocates of spelling reform, A physician of Chicago, with a large practice among the poor, received a communication from the mother of a child, asking that he should come at once to the youngster, who, it v.-cs explained, "had a very bad cold." After he had attended the needs of the other patients, the doctor made his way to the lodgings of the woman who had sent the note. To his astonishment he found the child suffering from a complaint, having no lesemblauce to a cold. " Can't you see," he impatiently demanded of the mother, " that your child is down with measles ? What on earth did you mean by writing he hnd ' a bad cold ?' " After a moment's hesitation, the woman reluctantly explained; "To teil you the iruth, doctor, I didn't know how to spell ' measles.' ''

E?wi gramophones are the victims of Russian oppression in Poland. Some of the instruments were recently confiscated because they played " disloyal " airs—that is, Polish national airs. Their owners were summoned to account for the wickedness of their machines. When the case was tried the owners of the machines and their makers were in court to prove that as these airs were not accompanied by words there could be no danger or insurrection. The makers of the machines and the plates swore that, should the co-art takj action all their stock of Polish airs would be ou their hands, and they would suffer considerable loss. After a lengthy deliberation, the court announced that the owners of the instruments would not be fined or imprisoned, biit all their plates wou'd be destroyed and the manufacturers forbidden to make or sell any more plates with Polish airs.

A St Petersburg correspondent writes that the impression, that with the lapsing of the temporal;? law regarding the military field crafts' ordinary peace-time iustice is again being dispensed iu Kussia is a very mistaken one, for the system of seizing (the wvcmg person sometimes), connecting, and hanging is as faulty as ever, and ever more r-ipid. At the same lime the on the press is being tightener}. "General 'DiTite.bevsky. the Chief of Police in St. Petersburg, formally announced that " the publication m the press without authorisation of any information concerning his Majesty the Emperor, or the members of the Imperial family," will be punished by " the m-fiict.-on nf a fme of 3000 roubles, or imprisonment ror threa months." With regard to religious matters, the promise of "the Czar to grant religious freedom has not been unite fulfilled,

TWO SOVEREIGN REMEDIES, THE F\MOUS SANDER & SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT was proved by experts at the Supremo Court of Victoria to possess curative properties peculiarly its cm, cv.d to he absolutely safe, effective and reliable.' Tuereiore, do not aggravate your complaint by one of the many crude eucalyptus oils which ure now palmed off'as " Extracts,'' and from tho use of win -h a death was reported recently, but ipj-a upon the GENUINE SANDER & SO,\S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, and reject all i hers. , For wrinkles, sunburn, pimples, blaeii heads freckles, cracked'hand.-;, dry and m Harned skin use SAXDEH f> SONS Si;PERBA SKIN FOOD. No .! ~dy sbouln oe without it. Allays irritrJion, produces, a char aiid'spciies.. (.■ 4 r;-;::.le:;'i-";:i : ei;,: :•. .-:o ; th ami supple skin <..,■-.! REMEMbER that SA.xOEH A- hWAS SUPERBA SKIN' POOD is not an oruuiaty face cream, and uuliko any of them, pro' duce 3 a permanently beautifying ellcut. Chemists and stores, '

Extensive bush fires in (Southland and grass fires in the Wairau Vailey, Marlborough, ara reported. Owing to the illness of Conduclor Crichton, the Wauganui Band will not take part in the New Plymouth contest.

An alien, no matter how undesirable he may bo, is allowed to walk ashore at any port in Great Britain, so long as he brings a first class ticket. It is calculated that there weie 1,000,000 men, women, and children playing diabolo in London and its suburbs in November last.

Japan is organising an international exhibition, to bo hold iu 1912, of which Viscount Kaueko is to be director-gen-eral. Diabolo has become sueh a craze on board vessel* iu the Mediterranean fleet that diabolo sets are now rated with parrots and monkeys as " prohibited pets."

Tho last Irish survivor of the wreck of the Birkenhead, which went down with troops on board, has just died at Dun-g-unions Comity Tyrone, in the person of Bernard Kilkeary, aged eighty. Tho shortage of gold in the United States has led a Transatlantic humorist to remark that "coin is so scarce iu Indiana that the children have to cut their teeth on certified cheques." The Wauganui Harbor Board have decided to appoint a resident engineer in connection with the extensive harbor works about to be undertaken. Mr Leslie Reynolds wai appointed consulting engineer at £2OO a year. A newspaper in Fle»t-stroet boastad the other day that "-London recently held two kings and .three queens —• a good hand." The answer came pat from across the herring pond: "But New York always holds four ace? and a deuce." The retort ©f the London paper scored: " And a few knaves." Fiction second best again. A lady liviug iu Staffordshire picked up, in a

casual fashion, a scrap of paper, on which she read the death notice of her sister, with whom she had had no communication for nearly twenty years, A war balloon was sent up at a point three mile? from Lydd Camp, R-mmey Marshes, and allowed to reach a height of 400 yards. Then the artillery at the camp opened fire on it to show what they could do with au enemy's war balloon and brought it down, a mass of wreckage at the second shot. One of the great new public buildings that hayo been built, iu New York in the pa<t 10 years was completed and placed in use last week The New York Customhouse, which has been six years iu building, is one of the finest monumental structures in America. It cost 7,250,000 dollars (£1,450,000), whi-.h sum, it is estimated, will be cleared in Customs revenues within two weeks from the opening of the buildmg. Au important by-law decision was given in the Magistrate's Court at Ashburton, on Friday, by Mr J. G. Day, S.M., in the case of the Ashburton County Council v Thomas Rniuey, who was charged with driving a traction engine in a traction engine rnn on ths Main South road. The Migrtrate dismissed the information, holding that the Conuty County Council had uo power to make by-laws governing road* which are uudcsr the jurisdiction of road boards. Notice of appeal was given.

An American ju r y has b'ien -bold enough to make a declaration as to the comparative value of a mother. Two small children in New Jersey, Mildred and William Carter, lost thoir parents in a wreck, and a jury sitting in Camden has jmt awarded the orphans £4OOOO damages—£loooo for the loss of their mother and £3600'! for the loss of their father. There was no insinuition that Mrs Carter was not a good mother, but, being a woman, it was assumed that her value to her children was less than onetliirct that of the father.

The British Dabyman must look to his laurels, for he is threatened with a very serious competition from Germany iu the form of frozen milk, imported in blocks. Instead of measuring out his commodity into jugs or cans, the future milkman will drive round leaving piut or gallon blocks of milk at his customers' doors The American Consul at Chemnitz, in a recent report to his Government, deals with the many advantages of frozen milk over the liquid article. Apirt from the facilities of transport, frozen milk, ha fays, preserves unchanged its original properties for weeks.

Street lectures on the London TJ ulsrground Electric Eailways, is the latest development in the competition for metropolitan passenger traffic. Outride the new Strand Station of the Piccadilly tube —which is shortly to be opened—a man stood repeating well-turned sentences, in which the advantages of the complex system of underground railways wore emphasised. The background to the lecturer was a blind, on which was drawn a map of the various routes, set out in strong relief by a powerful limelight.

One story told about Mr W. K. Vanderbiit, juu., goes to show that he is not lacking in the family astutpuess. Near his New Ham osteoid residence he coveted a little lake, for which he offered the town authorities £IO,OOO. _ The authorities declined the offer, however, and not unmindful perhaps with whom they were dealing, stuck out for £20,000. Whereupon Mr Vanderbilt quietly bought up all the land immediately adjoining the lake, and so cut it off from its recalcitrant owners. They may look across the intervening strip of soil at the mocking waters, but they cannot reach them without, trespassing on Vanderbilt's land.

Saturday's Southland News sivs: " The country never looked better," was a remark made by a Winton fanner to a representative of tins paper to-day, and he added, " You cin almost see the turnips growing, while the oats are splendid, promising a prolific yield, and first-class quality," Southland farmers could not have been bettor favored by the weather than they have this ye n\ There have been warm davs, which have been of such duration as to exercise a beneficial influence, followed by rain that could not pay its attentions in more-ac-ceptable measure. But the Winton farmer's remark has caused general application, a visitor t"> the eastern and western districts during the holidays having the same bright tale to tell, everything being fresh and green Shearing operations, which have suffered some slight delay in consequence of the ram, are now proceeding ap.ice, though there is less haste thim usual on the part of growers to h >vo the wool taken from the sheeps' ba -ks owing to the unsatisfactory state of the market, though it is reassuring that latest a-.lvic-:s show a slight improvement iu the Bradford market, THE PREMIER SEPARATOR The new principle covered by the " Baltic " patents is rapidly establishing this machine as the Premier Cream Separator. The Split wing system has been discarded, and a special and very simple arrangement feeds the whole milk to the separating phanes without disturbing tho cream layer. Results achieved in actual practice with the " Baltic " have astonished practicpl factor; moo, and the really marvellous capacity and clean skimming have exceeded anything hitherto known. Practical proof will bo given on application to J. B MacLwan & Co., Ltd. Egmont street, New Plymouth.

England defeated the " All Golds " by 3 goals 4 tines to 2 goals and four tries.

A uiau named Thomas Smith was drowned at Dunedin on Sunday through a yacht capsizing. The preserving and pickling season is at band. Messrs Boyle & Jones have just landed a large stock of jars, rubber rings, vinegar, etc Notice is given by the Pataa Borough. Council that all rates, rents, and lighting accounts unpaid by the 23rd iust will be sued for. The annual gener.il meeting of the Pate* Racing Club will be held in the Borough Council Chambers on Friday evening. Statistics compiled by a New York hairdressers' society show that 56 per cent of the adult male population of America, wear beards, 25 per cent wear a moustache, and 20 per cent are clean shaven. Bush fires between Waioue and Pongaroa are doing great damage. Log and grass fires are raging in the Wairarapa and the Forty Mile Bush. At Hastwell (Forty Mile Hush) the creamery and several whares and outbuildings were burnt- One settler lost 100 sheep and 200 acres of grass. The Hon Waiter Bothsohild, well known as an ornithologist and zoologist has published au elaborate work on "Extinct Birds," price £25 nett. Another point which makes tbe work notable and remarkable is that its 4-5 colored platps are printed on paper which, it is believed, will endure for all time. Every year the market porters of Paris hold a kind of sports meeting, at which is decided the question as to who is the fleetest as well as the strongest among their community. This year the ebfcmpionship has bseu won by Jean nicaud, who supported a burden weighing about 6cwfc on his shoulders, which he carried a distance of about sixty yards in fiftyeight seconds.

Farmers in the South Island express their intention of going out of wheat growing altogether if the demands of the Laborers' Union are given effect to. As showing the decrease in wheat growing of recent years, one of the farmer's representatives said ttiat while in 1898 there were thirteen million bushels grown in the Dominion, there were only live and a halt miliion bushels grown last year,

A Parisian pianist named Margay, whose wife deserted him some months ago, had a tragic encjunter with heron a recent night. He met her on the Boulevard de Cliehy with another man. She was very handsomely dressed, while Margay, who had given way to driuk owing to grief at his wife's desertion, was almost in rags. He followed the couple to a restaurant and saw them go upstairs. The waiters prevented him,from following thsm, and, seeing a piauo close by, he sat down to it and played Chopin's funeral march. He then rushed out, laughing hysterically, and shortly afterwards his dead body was picked up in the street. He had stabbed himself in the heart with a dagger.

A Parisienne who had lost eight of her only brother for twenty years discovered him recently in an extraordinary maimer. Noticing a blind man on the Pont des Saints Peres, she gave him a small coin. His voice as he thanked her iemiuded her so strongly of her brother that she looked closely at the blind man, and to her great joy discovered that he was iu reality her brother. The two rejoiced so loudly that a crowd collected, ami a policeman, not believing the story, arrested them bjth for creating a distur-

bauce. At the police station they were immediately released, and the woman l«d off her brother iu triumph, declaring that she would provide for him henceforth. The Motueka correspondent of the Nel3on Colonist states that the fruit crop of the district is not a heavy one, with the exception of apples, which seem to have set heavily all over the district. Peaches are light except iu favored situations, ■whilst apricots are patchy, some heavy crops being reported. Pears have suffered severely from the black spot, in

spite of the fact that fungicide sprays have been used freely. Plums promised well, and their freeness from the majority of fungus make them a profitable fruit, iii spite of the small prices. The acreage under hops has been materially reducad siuce last year, aud the prospects for next season do not give the grower much heart to undertake the expensive cultivation that this crop requires. _One of the loaal growers has just sold 30 bales of last season's crop at 3d per lb., aud he estimates that he was out of pocket to the tuue of £l2O. The opinion is gaining ground that the district would have been more prosperous if the plantiug of hops had never taken place.

MR JAMES BRIGG 3 SUFFERED ' SEVERELY FROM RHEUMATICS. QUICKLY CURED BY RHEUMO. Mr James Briggs, of S.S. Aorere, Wellington, testifies to the great benefit he received from Rheumo. He writes from Wellington on September 6th, 190.7 :—"For a considerable time I suffered very severely from Rheumatics. I tried all kinds of liniments and pills, but they did me ho good. I heard of several people who had taken Rheumo, and how they had been benefitted, so I took a few bottles. lam pleased to say it did what you claim for it —relief and cure for Rheumatics. All suffering from Rheumatics and. Gout should give it a trial, as lam confident they will be cured—JAMES BRIGGS." All chemists and stores sell Rheumo at 2s 6d and 4s 6d. Wholesale agents, Kempthorne, Presser & Co To Cuke Indigestion. And Stomach Troubles it is necessary to take after meals some harmless preparation which will supply the natural digestive fluids which every weak stomach lacks. And the best" preparation of this character is Dr. Sheldon's„Diges tive Tabules, which contain all the natural digestants which nature re quires for prompt digestion. One or two taken after meals will prevent souring, fermentation, and acidity, and ensure complete digestion and assimilation. Obtainable at TT. j E. Deane's, agent, Patea.