PERSONAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7703, 4 January 1905, Page 3

PERSONAL NOTES.

Constable McHae, of New Plymouth, is to exchange with Constable de Loie, of Palmerston North. For some days past complaints have been mado that wines and beers have been disappearing from the stands in the exhibition, and a detective was sent to investigat a detective was sent to investigate, with the result that a visiting member of the police force, who was sleeping on tho premises, was found in possession of several of th? missing botllcs. He was promptly suspended, and ordered to Wellington, where ho will await the decision of the Comniiissiioner on, tho evidence taken" here

The London School Board maintains eighteen schools for deaf and eight for blind children. As a sequel to the Opunake races (says the Star), on Monday night a thief went through the popkets ft f the lodgers in Middleton's Hotel and got away with about £2O. Most of the rooms in the hotel were visited. The police have the matter in hand, but so far there is no. clue to the culprit. When the Panama Canal is completed—asithere is a, prospect of its being in American hands—it will lessen the journey to Great Britain by something over 2000 miles. Indcod, from Port Chalmers the line of travel will be almost straight, and with few of the islands of Oceania to endanger navigation, 1r addition to which the dreary journey round Cape Horn will be avoided ; and though S the tropics have to bo negotiated, there is a minimum of ocean currents till Panama is reached. With turbine steamers in use, as they no doubt will be, we may anticipate doing the run Home in the year 1915 in from 20 to 25 days. Information has been received by a Wellington resident (says the correspondent of the Lyttelton Times) to the effect that a well-known settler in the Auckland district, who departed for the Old Country a few months ago in order to assume the title and estates attached to a baronetcy, consequent on the death of a relative, has found things not quite up to his expectations, and he intends making haste back to the colony. Beyond the empty honour of the baronetcy there is little inducement for the New Zealandcr and his family remaining in England, the .. former owner of the baronetcy having -, willed the greater portion of his pos- J sessions to another relative. The native-born of Kajkoura, Marl- "1 borough, have banded themselves together into a I'oung New Zealanders' Land Settlement Association, the object of which is to promote land settlement and to direct a search- ( light oty the- methods employed in subdividing and letting Crown lands. The department's policy and the pol~ . icy of the land- boards come equally ' withjn the scope of the association, which it is hoped will, expend to a\\ parts of New Zealand. The association has commenced by singling out for approval a plunk of general policy to be urged on the department, and it has also singled out ior protest a particular sample of subdiviL sion proposed by the Marlborough Board. The policy proposal is tho L acquisition on the voluntary principle for closer settlement of large ' freehold estates, especially where ' they are not being utilised to their fullest capacity, but not of estates inflated in value by the construction of Government railways, or t 'by abnormal value of produce. The association invites young New Zealanders throughout the colony to form branches of the organisation. Do you dread washing day ? Then j buy a tin of Washinc and cheer up. _ See a list of storekeepers who stock e it. ASd tin sufficient for a week's j washing.* '', WHAT STOREKEEPERS THINK OF RIIEUMO. A Northern firm writes : " Please send us another dozen of Rhcumo ; wc are pleased to state that it is giving good results for rheumatism wherever it is tried. We havcthrce branch stores, and will distribute Rheuino to these branches. Sold by all chemists and storekeepers, 2s (yd and 4s (id. Wholesale agents, Kempthorne, Prosscr and Co.* 6 WHY IT SELLS. If SYICES' DRENCH were not backed by real : merit it would have been dead long ago. Do you want to knowH why it sells ? WORD OF \_ MOUTH■ ADVERTISING. A farmer buys it, perhaps through chance, D ' f maybe a friend recommends', it to t _ him. However, he gives it a trial. L A valuable cow's life is saved ; next ',_ time several of his pigs are sick ; n he tries it again ; and so it goes on t _ until after two or three more trials s he finds it can be depended upon, jj When his neighbours cows are sick ,j he says : " Why don't you use te SYKES* Drench ? Best thing I ever r _ struck;" Get a packet old chap, and v - t just use it' accbriiikg to the direc--3r tions and it will do the rest." n . This friend tries it with similar res suits and recommends it to another, jn and so it grows constantly because e t it faithfully does its work. Each st Packet of SYKES' DRENCH conla tains two drenches. Price Is 6d.— Advt,