LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 192, 23 August 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

' Reading matter will be found on our fourth page.

The s.s.fMoa, with coal from Greymouth. is due at the breakwater to-day. This evening there is a " Privates " night at the Guards Club. A concert is to be held, commencing at 8 o'clock. The Borough Council are inviting tenders for the trenches required for the water service to Mtzroy. Trains will leave for the Breakwater today, connecting with steamer mentioned below, as follow:—C a.m., Gairloch (Irom North); 9.30 p.m., Gairloch (for North). The annual meeting of the Scenery Preservation Society takes place this (Thursday) evening, at 8 p.m., in tho Council Chambers,

Tho football match in the Recreation Grounds to-day will be enlivened by the City Band. The proceeds go to the Board's fund. Messrs. Bewley & Watt report that they have sold, on account of Mr. Frank Macmahon, 500 acres freehold, at Mimi, to Mr. A. Southey Baker. i The Gothic arrived at Wellington yesterday from Hobart, bringing as passengers [for New Plymouth, Mr. Kowin and five steerage. The Scenery Preservation Society wish to acknowledge the following additional donations:—Mrs. Capeland, £2 2s; Messrs. H. McCleland, 10s 6d; N. King, 10s; W. H. Skinner, Gs; C. Rennell, ss. Messrs. Callaghan, Medley & Co. report the sale of Mr. McKeown's 178 acre farm, situated at Wostown, to Mr. T. Wright, of Waitara.

At the Auckland Police Court on Wednesday, Gin Ayon was fined 10s, and costs £lO lis, and £IOO deposited by the, Union Company was forfeited, on a charge of entering the colony without payment of poll tax, The Magistrate declined to believe the defence that thi accused was identical with Fung Foo, to whom the Magistrate at Wellington issued an exemption certificate. The monument which it is intended to erect at Okato to the memory of the late Trooper Hempton is now finished, and is on view at Mr. W. Holyer's yards, Wellington. It is a shaft of polished granite, about Bfr, high, on a pedestal of Now Zealand stone, and bears the inscription : " In memory of T. A. Hempton, who died on 4th April, 1900, while serving the Empire in the Second New Zealand Contingent during the war with the [ South African Republics."— Post. A telegram from Sydney yesterday stated that the railway revenue ior the year deI creased over £50,000 as compared with the previous year.

The police at Adelaide forced an entrance into the house of an old couple named Coleman The decomposing body of the man was found lying on, the floor, while the woman was a helpless imbecile and in a filthy condition. A statement has been made that two outside steamers are to be placed in the New Zealand trade to bring cargo to Melbourne. The Commandant at Sydney reports tSat the war in South Africa has had the effect of increasing the value of horses by about 30 per cent. The colony sent 2560 horses to Africa, and the Imperial Remounts Com-' mittee purchased about 7090, chiefly iu New South Wales.

The Earl of Beauchamp, with a view to facilitate the proposal that the GovernorGeneral should be sworn-in and live in Sydney, has decided to retire from the Governorship. He leaves Sydney early in November.

In the Perth Legislative Assembly, Mr, Illingworth, Leader of the Opposition, as an amendment to the Address-in-Reply, moved a want of confidence motion. The Premier adjourned the debate for a week. A similar motion was tabled in the Council.

According; to a contemporary, Mr. W. Ran- | stead, a South Island settler, at present on a visit to England, is arranging for the emigration to New Zealand of no less than 200 young men, who he describes as being physically strong, and who will each possess a certain amount of capital. Several of the men propose to bring their sweethearts with them, the girls, it is stated, being willing to go into domestic service until the men have got settled and are in a position to marry. The party will also probably include some married couples without children. It is, says Mr. Ranstead, the intention ,of most of them to work on farms for some time, and then take up land on their own | account. Most of them, he adds, are temperance men, and "the fact that they have been able to save out of the scanty wages some of them have been receiving proves that they are thrifty." The party propose to lcavo fcr New Zealand in August. The War in South Africa (writes Mr. H. W. Lucy, in his London letter to the --Sydney Moniinu lletahl) has already enriched the language with two words likuly to prove as popular and as permanent as the verb to boycott that grew out of the Land League campaign in Ireland. One is " Mafficking," the other "Khakii.'-m." Mafficking is accepted as a conveuiei.t and picturesque description of the buoyant stood in which pi-oplß go about the streets celebrating a h-ippy public event. Khaldism has a profounder, subtler meaning. It is a modification <■:!' another word, born 23 years ago, also in time of war. There was, however, nothing respectable or attractive about Jingoism. It was a word of unalloyed contempt, levelled at pubiic-hoiiso patriots, music-hall niasqueraders in patriotism. Klrakiistn, though used in some quarters as a term of reproach, is a very different tiling from Jingoism. It means a spontaneous, overwhelming outburst of the military spirit which Napoleon, through ]5 years' cosily si niggle, fuund underlying the ordinarily pholcgmatic nature of a people ho spitefully described as a nation of shopkeepers.

N.S.W. estimated expenditure for the year is£7,S4l,ooo,>md the revenue is £7,4t8J000. Last year's revenue totalled £7,4H0,000 and expenditure, £7,1118,000. Principal increases are income tax, £33,0110, customs £20,000, and railway- £OI,OOO. Imports show au increase of £81!(,000 and exports of nearly £3.000,000.

An eminent Chinese authority states thai ihu IJoxers' action Vnr-i:.'i ers is taken as a protest a-ain-t anv aii.inptod .-•iiuversion of iheir anuout and mi< ccssful system of civilisation by which Hat, of Westerners i'i coiiirarison, is, say the Chinese, buti a mushroom growth, as of yestwdajf

The Rahotu school has been closed for a fortnight owing to an outbreak of scarlatina in the district.

The Government have undertaken to inquire into the offer said to have been made | by the late Hon. John Ballance to set aside 50,000 to 100,000 acres of land as an endowment for the New Plymouth Harbour. Temporary leave of absence has been granted to the following school teachers on account of illness:—Misses Strauchon and Brins and Mrs. Moore.

The increase in the quantity of dairy produce exported during the past season over that exported during the previous twelve months was fully forty per cent., but there is every indication that even that remarkable development will be exceeded during the coming season. Though the first shipment will not take place for two months yet, the majority of the outputs of the factories have been already disposed of, a number are consigning, ani only a very few are still undecided as to how they will deal with their produce.

The number of dairy factories in the North

Island at the present time is 152, connected with which are 161 creameries, centres where the cream is skimmod and then forwarded to the factory to be made into butter. Out of this number 90 factories and 68 creameries are situated in Taranaki, Wellington have 33 and 45, Auckland 23 and 42, and Hawke's Bay 6 and 6. The South Island has less than half the number of factories registered in the North Island, the figures being— ll factories and 38 creameries. Of this number Otago claims 49 factories and 23 creameries, Canterbury 16 and 13, Westland I and 3, Nelson 5 factories and Marlborough 3. '. Mr. Fantham, junr., of Hawera (writes the Herald's correspondent), was, I see, at the Prince of Wales' stock eales at Bandriugham, a few days ago. I do not know whether he secured any of His Eoyal Highness' stock for the colony. The chief inspector of machinary, in his report for the year ended 31st March, 1900, says that no fewer than 431 defects were discovered in boilers and their fitting, of which 87 were dangerous, many of which, if neglected, would have undoubtedly led to accident to life and injury to property. At a meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society a discussion took place upon a proposal to introduce the English grayling into the streams in the Wellington district. The motion, which was strongly opposed on the ground that the grayling, would be fished for when trout was out of season, was lost by a large majority. It was decided to make inquiries with a viow of introducing several species of South African birds and game in the colony, and to ask the co-oper-ation of the Government in the matter.

Public opinion is based on scare-heads, The papers are now devoting their scaretype to Ohinese cables, and the Boer kick-up received quite casual headings. Consequently, the public is in a fair way to entirely forget Kruger and the Boers, and to quite overlook the doings of "Our Boys" and at the very time when " Our Bojs" are engaged in real fight. A quarter-page of black and rampant capitals would have beon given to those recent Orange State battles had they happened four months back. The average man buys a pen'orth of opinions every morning, and they last him all the fay—Bulletin. Auckland butchers are agitating for the i Government to grant butchers full auction I prices as compensation for animals killed by [the Government Inspectors as deceased. [ Tho measure at present before the House provides tor payment at the rate of £1 per head only.

Some interesting figures to hand concerning seven of the traction engines hauling stores to Lord Roberts's army point to the economic advantages of these steel sappers. Butweeu them they do 5000 ton miles of profit work per day, and compared with the cost of carriage by bullock train, it is calculated the traction engine pays for itself in ten days, or for itself and carriage twice in each month.

Auckland chemists are petitioning the House, through Mr. Napier, that they may be compelled to close their shops one halfday during each week from 1 to 7 p.m., with permission to re-open from 7 to 9 p.m., and that there shall be no exemptions.

Ten Thousand Pounds pub Annum may be Earn kd at too great a sacrifice, if we ruin our health and happiness during, its accumulation. Although money is a neces sary article to possess in order to obtain the means of existence, it cannot purchase love, friendship, or immunity from the dangers and pangs of disease. ' The millionaire has often envied the toiling labourer his hearty appetite and sturdy health, and would gladly have sacrificed a large amount of his wealth in exchange for these blessings. Holloway's Pills, however, can give health to the most delicate They are the precious key which can open the door leading to the smiling valley of health. They purify the system and give the essentials of strength for the blood. -Advt.

[ -We are now in the football season, and during the short winter afternoons the welkin will ring with the loud and vociferous shouts of the barrackers. It .behoves all players to be careful of colds, which they are liable to catch through getting over-heated in and then cooling off rapidly after their exertions. Whenever the player is attacked by a cone or chill he should- seek some remedy, old that has proved'its efficacy. We cannot do better than recommend to him Sykes' Oura Cough, All Chemists and Storekeepers Advt. A CONVINCING ANSWER. "I hobbled intc Mr. Blackmon's drug store one evening," says Wesley Nelson, of Hamilton, Ga, "and he asked me to try t Chamberlain's Pain Balm for Rheumatism with which I suffered for a longtime, I told him I had no faith in any modicino as they all failed. Ho said;' Well if Chamberlain's Pain Balm does not help you, you need not pay for it.' I took a bottle of it home and used it according to the directions and in one week I was cured, and liave not since been troubled with rheumatism." Sold by New Plymouth Co-operative Society.