LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The representative shield hockey match between Wellington and Auckland on Saturday, at Day’s Bay, Wellington, resulted in a draw, after a very bard struggle, both sides scoring a goal. The Taranaki District Court of the Ancient Order of Foresters is to meet ia Stratford on Tuesday evening next for the purpose of opening a new female branch of the Order. Air. George Burgess, secretary, hopes to see a full attendance of officers and members at the function to welcome the district officers and to assist in the opening ceremony.
A resident of Ashburton, who lost a valuable cbw by death a few days ago, held a post-mortem examination, which revealed the fact that he animal's stomach contained a number of 2jn. nails, two hairpins, several iron rivets, and a piece of tin, while a rusty din. nail was embedded in its heart The cow wont off its feed for ten days prior to its dcatii.
Gulf as an antidote for poor preaching was warmly advocated by Rev. J. G. Chap man, Minister of Taranaki Street Methodist Church, Wellington. “When wo ministers feci a fit of the blues we ought,” ho jocularly suggested, “to take our clubs and a dozen balls and go out to the links. Only. you good people won’t lot ns,” lie added. “if every Monday morning we ministers went out to t!ic links at Miramar, and had a good game of golf, 1 am sure wo would preach better sermons, and you would have better work done.”
At Halifax (England), a cattle dealer and a man in his employ wore charged .with causing pain to nine milch cows by allowing them to be overstocked with milk while exhibited for sale. Witnesses deposed that tho cows' had not boon milked for seventeen hours, and that their teats wore sbaled. Tno owner admitted to tiio society’s inspector that this was done to show a full bag in order to secure high prices for the cows. The
Bench looked upon, it ,as a gross case, of cruelty. One was fined £S and costs, and the penalty in the case of the. other was £2 and costs.••
The fact is vouched for that in Santo Rosa, California, there has just boon erected a nice little church capable of seating 1200 persons out of one single tree, a gigantic Sundcliroe. Witli the exception of bricks for the chimneys, glass for the windows, binges, locks, and church bell, every item of material was obtained from tin's one tree, of which only about two-thirds was. used. Besides the church there is a sort of school conceit hall, with loom for a hundred persons, an office for the minister, a toilet room and a porch. The belltower is orci - a hundred feet in height. The cost of the church, and other buildings was about £1125.
Editing a . paper is a nice thing, and no mistake. If we publish jokes, people say wo are rattle-brained, if we’ don’t, we are fools. If we publish original matter, they say we don't give them enough selections. If we give thorn selections, wo are'too lazy to write. If wo don’t go to church, wo are heathens. If we do,' wc are hypocrites. If we remain in the office, we ought to be out looking for news. If wc go out, then we are not attending to business. If wo attend every function, wo are looking for popularity. Jf we stay home, wo are
“stand offish.” If we wear o’d clothes* they laugh at us. If wo wear good clothes, they say we are extravagant. Now, what are we to do? oust as likely as not, someone will say that we purloined this from another paper. So we did.
The origin of rice-throwing at weddings is accounted for by a quaint Chinese legend. A great sorcerer, Chao, because jealous of the power of another sorcerer, a woman, and therefore conceived a plan to destroy her. Ho persuaded her parents to give hpr in marriage to his supposed son, and craftily chose the most unlucky day for the wedding, the day when the “Golden Pheasant” was in the ascendant, so that when the bride entered the red chair the spirit bird would kill her with his beak. Peachblossom, however, prudently gave directions for rise to be cottar nl at tho door, and thus she passed unscathed while the spirit bird was busy eating the meal she had ( lovided for
Some real poverty lias been seen in Christchurch tills winter, and the cold and v/ot weather lias taken its toll in lives (says Christchurch “News”), A moil;' old people the mortality has been very heavy. The claims made on the coal and blanket fund have been very nnmornns, and a financial statement prepared shows that un In •inly 18th the expenditure was fully £IOO in excess of that of the corresponding period of the previous, year. There have boon nearly 500 annlicants. The fund was drawn on for ■£lß2 ds Id lor coal, and Cl !7 os for blankets. There were 483 orders for coal alone. r i'ho sphere of operations has this year been extended to include Sockbnrn, New Erigton, Sumner, and Prebbleton.
r l']io pure white lustre of snow is due to the fact tiiat all the elementary colours of 1 io; 1 1 1 arc blended together in the radiance thrown off from the surface of ‘.he crystal. ft is quite possible to examine the individual suow crystals ■ll such a way as to detect these several colours before they are mingled xog. ther ton.nstilnte the compound impression of whiteness upon the eye. r l ho soft whiteness of the snow is also in some degrees attributable- in the largo onantity of air- entangled amid the frozen particles.- ■ Snow is composed of a groat number of minute crystals, more than a thousand distinct forms of which have hern enumerated bv various observers. Those crystals and prisms reflect the compound rays composing white lights.
A particularly smart piece of work by tso Auckland Telegraph Department was recorded last Thursday morning. At 0.1 -3 a telegram was put ic.to file Auckland office, addressed to the “Star’ representative at Parengn, relative to the finding of a raft in tie vicinity of the North Cape. At 10.11 a.in. an answer had been received. This means that in a period of 26 minutes the message had been transmitted to the Far North, delivered. to the person to whom it was addressed, and a reply was received, transmitted, and delivered, all within tiie half-hour. A subscriber sends the Dannevirke “News” the following:—“ln your paper 1 lie other day you referred to a teacher in Fast Lothian who volunteered the information to her class that a hare was a male rabbit. There is no need to go to East Lothian for ‘howlers.’ What do farmers think of the following: ‘The tail of the sheep is short ana woolly. The animal does not require a long tail like the horse :;r cow, as its fleece is a protection against files and insects, as well _ as against cold.’ This is from tho New Zealand Nature-study Book’ for use in the schools.”
The president of the Victorian Methodist Conference, tho Rev. A. McOallum, delivered an address entitled “The Church and tho Marriage Question” in Melbourne last week. Mr. McCallum illustrated the deplorable levity with which so many young people treated what should be the most solemn moments of their lives, by narrating an experience of his own, in which he had been flippantly asked to “run the thing over in tho house,” because the bridegroom was too drunk to attend the church. Ho had refused, hut he regretted the day that some disgraceful man in a black coat was found willing for the sake of a foe to thus degrade his holy office as a minister.
A tall labourer appeared at tho Auckland S.M. Court the other morning to show cay.se why a judgment order should not ho made against him.. He said he was unable to pay owing to his heavy expenses, which included the paying off of the old debts. “It would take me twelve years,” he said, “to pay my creditors even if I were able to give them £4 a week. I owe £BOO to one brother, £2OO to another, £l5O to the Government, £77 odd to Leyland, O’Brien’s, and various other smaller sums.” The debtor said ho had been in turn a navvy, a boatman, a stonemason, a bricklayer, a builder, and an artist. He also said he had written a good deal on the subject of insect life, and when lie arrived in tho Dominion twenty odd years ago was worth £I2OO.
Mr. Smithers, S.M., had occasion to make an example of an interjector at the Central Court, Sydney, the other day (says the “Daily Telegraph”). A witness was being examined, when an individual in the body of the Court
shouted “Liar!” Tho question was a simple one about the letting of a room, and the answer did not suit the man sitting in the Court below. Mr. Smithers stopped the evidence. “Stand up, that man!” he said. “This is the second time within the last few days that this remark had been applied to a witness in the box. What do you mean by it?” The interjector confessed to a loss of temper, and was fired £2 for contempt or Court, the alternative being fourteen days. The man expressed his sorrow, and bc£an to weep. . Lecturing at the London Camera Club, Dr. Adolphe Abrahams said that'* with practice a- high speed photographer was able actually to see events before they occurred. He showed a photograph of the finish of a race, but with the tape unbroken, and ho said that he was prepared to make an affidavit that he saw the breaking of the tape before he released tho shutter. The anticipation of vision, and of hearing as well, was a phenomenon which was well understood among psychologists. The most rapid photographer had his latent or reaction period, during which the necessary stimulus was conveyed from eye to brain and brain to hand. This period covered aboiit one-tenth of a
second. Exposing at the moment he really saw an event happen, the photographer was able by anticipation of vision to catch the incident on his
plate, by the time it actually took place a fraction of a second later. During the past season the Kakarainea Dairy Company, paid out lOfJd for huttcr-fat, butter was manufactured from July Ist to December Gth and cheese from December Gth to May 2-ltli, 1911, after which butter was again made to June.3o. The Alton Company paid out lid per lb., with a bonus at the season end of Id, or equal to Is per lb for the whole season. This company stuck entirely to cheese. The Kakaramea Company arc-raged 23.451bs of milk, of 3.79 test per lb of butter, the overrun being i 2.28. For cheese the-average was 10.371 b of milk, 3.79 test per lb of choose, and 2.451 b of cheese per lb of butter-fat. The total output was 47 tons IGcwt 3qrs 22lbs of butter and 121 tons 9 cwt 1 qrs 9ibs of cheese. Total value of output Alton Company averaged 10.801 b of milk, test 3.790, and 2.G801b of chceso per lb of butter-fat. The total output was 300 tons T 4 cwt Bqrs 11b of a total value of £16,597 15s.
Odour-yielding scales, somewhat heart-shaped, with plume-like tips, are found on certain butterflies. Giving an account of these at the London Royal Institute, Professor F. A. Dixey stated that the scales appear only on the males, and always on tlio tipper surface of the wings, and a eamol-hair pencil brushed over this sin taco takes up the special scent. The odoriferous principle seems to bo held in a cavity of the special scale. Hie odours are various, each species of butterfly having its own, and the agreeable ones resemble the perfumes of such substances as sweet briar, eras root. lemon, sweet-pea, honeysuckle, and jasmine. Some "butterflies, however, have disagreeable smells. In certain tropical and subtropical species they are particularly offensive, and suggest such substances as musty straw, stable litter, rabbit hutches, acteylenc and bilago watciK The pleasant odours are supposed to play an important part in the relation of tho sexes: the repulsive ones to give protection against insect-eating enemies.
“On entering an Englishman’s house, the first thing one notices is how well his house is adapted to him,” says ?»fr. Price Collier, in his interesting book on “England and the English.” “It seems to have grown up around him, as in -o many cases it has, and to have taken on the folds of Ins character, as,a coat often worn moulds itself to the figuse of the owner. On entering un American’s house, the first thing one notices is how well lie adapts him-
self to Ids house. In England the establishment is carried (n with a prime view to the comfort of the loan, and tins applies to riett and ]or r alike, and to all conditions (f society, in America the establishment i; carried on with a prime view to the comfort and exigencies of the woman. Mon arc more selfish ‘ban women; connrqnenily the English Monte is, as a rule, at any rate, from a man s point of view, more comfortaolo tlan the American home.”
. 'Pho ordinary meeting of the BoroUghr Council - will bo held this cvcni Cr. Whittington has been appointed Mayor of Hawera, vice Mr. Burton, resigned. The Patoa Waterside Workers’ Union has cancelled its registration Wider the Arbitration and Conciliation Act. •Mr.’E. W. Mills, recently of Mangaweka, has purchased- Mr. W. C. Gar gill's stationery business in Strat-
Dairy factory directors and milksuppliers are, asked to specially note tHat the dates of the meetings called; by Mr. Arthur Morton, President of thd 5 National Dairy Association, have boom altered. Mr. 11. Ellison will now speak at Opunake oh Thursday, August 17th, and in Town Hall, Stratford, on Friday, August 18th. 'The names, of Messrs W. Ambury, W; :L .Newman, J. B. Roy, and the deputy-Mayor, Mr G. W. Browne, are bemg mentioned in connection with the’ New Plymouth mayoralty, says thA:“Nows.” The Borough Council has the power, of course, to elect one of its own members to the mayoral chair. At the meeting of the Eltham County Council on Saturday a let-ter-with regard to the. merging of Iparis was received from Mr. Dive, M.P., who wrote that the position was hrlSatisfactory, but Mr. Poynton had informed him that a Bill was to be brought down. If the position was uiisatisfactory to Mr. Dive he would then have an opportunity of moving ari. amendment. /At, the half-yearly meeting of Courts of Forestry in Taranaki held at'k'Wfiitara ’ sixteen delegates were present. The' district officer’s report'. stated that the funds of the O-der had increased by the sum of jfiSp.969, and during the past sis mpntihs four members and one raemIfifo Had died. Nomination or officers resultedD.C.R;, Bro. Fawcetta.(lnglewood); D.S.C.R., Bro. B. V:iKiveil (Stratford) j D. 8., Bros. A. Jj Way (New. Plymouth), and J. Anf'tJWSi (Eltham). The next meeting •’Pbruary) will be held at New Plymouth. ' ( _ * Thursday the Fire Brigade will bold competitions for the Bishara Cdp'and'for Halleristein Bros’ trophy, bijfi flf which have to be competed |df.v every "six months, and both of ■wjhich piust be won twice in succession ortihree times at intervals. Three iricmbprs. of the brigade : have legs-in fof\Halleustein Bros’ trophy.. The cplnpetitioris will be started on the jifual location in Pago Street at 1.30 as to enable the public to, bo present before proceeding to the foothill : matc,h; 'Speaking at Christchurch, PnflcsBpr TW. T. Mills made a strong appeal ftty a reformed system of spelling English- He said it was a gross waste of'time to spend six or :even jears trving to teach children how to spell Alatlguage which no living, man coold shell, and .which, the more rational afman’s mind, the less ably he cov.ld Bbill'iit. The time wasted in le:irnipg r spelling should be devoted to rational and useful - oducat : on on scientific linos,, including t’emeutary mccHanics- and- agriculture. The funeral of. tho late Mr. G. Tisch, at New Plymouth, on Saturday,' was highly impressive. . All I daces of business were closed, and crowds lined the route to tlio cemetery. . There, f woro ; , : forty-nine.- yft- ; Ipcles in the procession, and following these, were a large number of citizens representing all branches of public life arid sport in the province. Over severity wreaths were received, most oil- the public bodies in New Plymouth being - represented. At , St. Mary’s Church reference was made to Mr. Tisch’s death by tho Her. Wilkinson. , study of the physical basis of the colours in the petals of flowers has brought out the fact that tho brilliant , appearance of many flowers ii: due, not to the character, of tho pigment in the cells of the petals, bait tb the presence of air spaces between the cells in the deeper layers. Those inclosed air bubbles reflect from their siirfaces in such manner as to give the’ brilliant appearance. The great variety of colours among flowers is produced by a comparatively small Ojilriber- of■ pigments.* The' explaiiaf oh. for this lies in the fact that v a few grberits combined in different ways ot'.in;’ different proportions produce a ykvioty bfi efferits. Thus, a combiritiladft of two complementary pigments, cfi»e of which absorbs the light rays Pot absorbed by the other, will produce, the effect of “black.” In a simile mariner grey tones and browns are jpkpduced. - The shape of the skin ceUA is also found to modify the effect :by modifying tho • refraction and xhb reflection of light. ?vA, Cablegram published on July 26 f. Australian newspapers employing Independent service, states that spine radical changes in the style of tHeri V garments are . contemplated by aksbeiety that has recently been brought, into existence in Berlin. The hfew- body numbers about seventy faierjibeip and embraces all profestibris. The one great change at Which these dress reformers aim is wie-yabblition of trousers, for which k‘ is proposed to substitute knickerbockers. Then it is desired that tho epat- and. waistcoat, should give. wav K|i kind of loose blouse hanging well odWp.vtp the .knees. The r lorr. ers mother propose to discard all sorts of .V’THe!k < *G6lbgfte Gazette” points Germkny has hitherto had no ip-ffu'ence in male fashions, a circUin r stkricertrt attributes to the predornm : Sheet bf the military uniform over tho dyuiarb" dress. The paper considers the frishion in men’s garments ririll continue to be set in London.
Paris is, suffering from a srr'ke of tfife -‘‘rnourredusl’’ ivnich is a. guild known only in the French capital. it w -the, style and title susumed by the fefubbers after worms as bait foraugIWs, who ply their .trade chiefly m the mud by the docks .f lii Beyne. Unfortunately for them, a marine dffedger has lately been at vi rk on their grounds, and its mechanical shrivels and scoops make all competition; impossible for mere manual tollers. The men in charge of rhc dredger have as many worms as can he. wished for emptied out before them, arid, being quick to perceive their advantage, have started a competition, which the “mourredus” consider riiost disloyal and unfair. They began by complaining to the Maritime Prefect, who decline') to interfere, and they then resoi/e-i to strike. Up to tne present this had riot had much effect, as the worm Supply is , kept up by the dredger. They threaten, however,' to i erriain on ktrifce when the monster hasfinished arid gone elsewhere, and this might be father perplexing to the angling fraternity.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 147, 14 August 1911, Page 4
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