LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 111, 1 May 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I ill- kaipara electorate i i HO mile* ia length ana 3u miles m greater ■width. U povi.*-e?, an area of i)2jJ>oo acres, witji a population uf U.Ulltf lu the •in each i'f I In- recent. ucca-iuiin wlr ii the Theatre Ko\al has been used there lias Im'4'u an objectionable smell of L.i>t night the atmosphere in the building was very strongly impregnated lu Mich an extent as to ue very unpleasant. A paragraph is going the rounds oi the press to the dlect that 100,000 tees ol' butter were in store in New Zealanl at the end ot' March. A gentleman connected with the trade and in a position to know says this is incorrect, the quantity being 40.000 boxes. The Kquitablo Building Society held a meeting last night and conducted a ballot for two appropriations of £3OO each. Mr. 0. 11. W eston was successful in the iirist group, and Mr. W. J. Penn in the second. There were thirty shareholders present, and Jli.s Worship the Mayor presided.

Details of tlie last Christmas railway traffic covering the period from IStli Decviulwr tn January, inclusive, nn all tlie Government lines ,-liow that •■814,741 excursionists were parried in addition to 271.731 ordinary passengers. These ligure.- show an increase of <»ver the total for the corresponding period ill' the previous year. —A~suci.iliou telegram. Mr. G. V. Tale states that in the Smith things will go hard with the fanner'this year. There is a shortage of grasts, and the turnip crops have rotted in many cases, the l'e-ver-e is the state of things existing along the line front Wanganui right through Taranaki. tlie country looking bctU'i' and better as one comes farther northward. Mr. Tate says he has never peen the district looking so well at this time of the year.

. Ail alleged abuse in the Civil Service i- referred to in a letter in the Wellington Kvening Post, signed "Truthful -James." lie complains that, while many regular ollicers are debarred from further promotion because they have not parsed the senior Civil Service examination, others who have not passed even the junior examination are eligible for any position. They are appointed as "expert-." They may be merely shorthand writers and typists, but even for such qualifications they may be dubbed •'export*.'' and then they can laugh ai those who have entered and advanced in the service in the regular manner.

"Many people are more concerned lo sell tlip farm at a high price Hum lo obtain the best results from the farm by legitimate farming. That is 'frenzied linance' in New Zealand" said Mr. Tom •Mann at the Theatre I'oyal last night. C«»ininning, he *aid lie bad heard that on the Wainiate Plains land had changed hand* -o often, at an advance in pricn earh time, nnlil the figure now was such that no well-ltehavcd fanner could work the land on sound funning lines ami secure an income without calling upon bis wife lo do more than the ordinary household duties and rely upon the children to assist in the working of th«» farm.

Many people, even nowadays, ai" puzzled as to the meaning of the "freedom oi th" city." which is «-o often conferred on eclebrities in Kngland. l/'i'd Nclmui was presented with the disiiuetion « n many occasions. and one day. during the ceremony of the soil, iwo of his -♦• amen (diked over the math-,-, '•lack,'* saiil one. "what's the menuing of this 'freedom of the cit>' which they're giving to the Admiral?" "What, don't yer know?'' replied the other; "why. it'.s the right lo rollick about the streets as much as he please*, kiek up a row, get drunk 'when he likes, knock down the men, and kiss ail the girlv' "My. my!" exclaimed the first seaman, with a gasp of envy, "that's something worth lighting for!" iPumice stone bricks are being manufactured on the banks of the Rhine. The pumice stone bricks are white and coarse-grained, of light weight, hut of extraordinary resistance, being particularly adapted for the building of dwell-ing-house H t)ii account of their low heaij conducting powers. In manufacturing ; the hri<-ks, first the lumps of pumic stone arc broken up to pass through '/--iiu h niche*, T|, o screened pieces af« | thinly coated with wet cement an I moulded to shape. As little cement iused as is possible, but 4% tons of lime are used in the production of 20.<iiiii bricks. The moulds are of iron, with detachable wooden bottoms, and when the contents have set fairly the mouldes are removed, and the bricks left for a short time on the wooden bottoms to liecome ijiiite dry: when this is the ensthe bricks are ready for shipment.. The process of manufacture is wry fiiuple, and machinery, i.e., modern machinery. i- not used at al).—Work.

A few wivk> ;igo King Edward was talking with nome friends about the sadand happiost moments in his life. The King eonfessod that the saddest moJiioiit JlO ever experienced -was at the deathl>od of Quoon Victoria. "I i'olt- as though Iho whole world was tilled witn a great darkness," was Hi# Majesty's roiiiark. One of the proudest and happiest moments of the King's lifo was the -June afternoon on Ejwoni Downs when ho lod in his victorious Persimmon, and the crowd cheered ' itself huarser titan any crowd that even Epsom has known. "If I had any dunb's beforehand." hi< .Majesty remarked, laughingly. '* 1 knew that afternoon that I wa« really popular/' Persimmon retired to the stud in 180 S. and a son of his. IVrrier. i- to represent the King in this year',, |)erbv. The King was very fond of IVrsiininon. ;md mic of his favourite yifts to intimate friends was \ silver mtidrl of t!io splendid horse. The-c models wen- made by Mr. A. ]'. Hurtuji. the celebrated Mutuary fouudor. o| Thanic> Hilton, wlui-e work m bronze ■•ilver his attiiinod >neh unique* fam t . in the highest of arti-stic circles.

I .Mr. Sydney Fry lias contrilmti'tl tin article In a ivri'iu nilniht-r of |.]u> Uni;i i-fini.ii .1 nll .Minim; -loiii'iinl of Xew Norl, fin v. lull in- ; i, ,|j s . '■o \*e I' \ (,| 4-'-!►}>!' 1- lire \\ ]llell llll|n-;| IS 'u lie ah, Hit ill'' HI"--! |>rnllli-ilm Hint lias l"'cn 111 nil- ill New XpsilitTil,. !...!• '■■ i I 111 Mount I;a,ii;,|,<. I I "until r.i-i n|" Kiiriiini';i, a scl I lenient nI lliv mouth ol' tin: Karamea i-ivrr un Mr \\ est (oa.it. aliout -la miles norMi ol' HVljioi't. Outcrops nf tlie me have liccn found lor n distance ol' live miles lil'iii" I lie strike, an,l in the lilies ol

ilie jrorge nt 1 In- Lit tie river ill a depth (it 2oni) f< ot below the outcrops first found. "In short." ,-;i\s Mr. l'ry. "it iiiiiy In- .l. sr-vilir-d hrielly' as an enormous lev. «radc dr)nisit with prolialily '""Hie f iini;inzas of (ire in place*: '"'l il will lake suiiij' prospcel inj, r on a lai-c will. 1.i'f.,1-- il <•;,,! In. ascertained Willi i'r rt ;i id I \ win her II"' «ra.le is lli«ll enough In hj,. paya tile nll javer'ni,,|> i' I water in Mil! locality. Hi,. /calami M j m . s purlnii'iil is at present const rucl in;,' a fiacK |'» Mount Unilinnt Ironi Karainei fo facilitate prospecting operations." An American mining syndicate has lieen inquiring iilionl the property, with a view- to working it. an.l tlie property I- now lioinn, inspected 011 liehalf of Alls'trnlhin investor?. SANDER AMD SON'S fiENTTTNE PURE VOI.ATITE ETTCAI.YPTi EX- " >'"• - proved ' * exports uf. ti:cSupreme r„nrt nf Victoria to pos="s f curative properties pcivliarlv its own and to In. ntp-HeiiwHv >.-.<oh>tHv =afn effective miil rolinhlr f.. r interna! , H o , Therefore. d" not --i f r r r:,va!n r .«ir -omi- , plaint by the use of one of the many •rude eucalyptus oils -.vhich arc now ! palmed off as "Extractsor un ler fancy nam.-s. hut insif -|„. iENI'JXB SAN OKI! A'. I) kit " HIA'PTf EXTIM!'T an,| reje.-l '.,11 )""M"s. I'Yir u riiil.'ii l -. soul,urn. pinip'.-s ilaekheads. ircl-lcs. er:'c!; r d h.,rid*. dry md inflamed -fin use SANDER ANT) «V\ r S' cri'lCntiA SKIN FOOD. No ady shniit,! !„. without if. Allav* irri VIIIU lo rverv face and ' iTifi 3 find etoroa. ■il'DDl'V r.11.1, l\ TKMI'KI!VIVRK - u'eiteralh - a forerunner of an epidemic I !!•> prepared l,v •I'pfn" a Mil.. I.i Dr. Sheldon's Ww M-emvry in OlilaineU.. verywherc. I

The £ixißeturn from raisin vineyard* at Ali'ldura (Vic.) tliis season is estimated at £29 per acre.-. i'lii' Now Zealand Times iuis been nerved with a writ for libel at the instance ot' All*. Oliarltos Kurle. editor of U:: "Dominion." Damage* are claimed to the extent of £5Ol. Norwegian funneiy are wise, ami aiv eager to j<o.s IMS farms -A the earliest ■nppurlunit.y. instead oi working for other people. Tlrejv are about ]2U,UUU farmer's in Norway, and H)D,UUO of theni own farm*. At Sydney last week a witness in the Arbitration Court was giving evidence as td (.he increased cost oj Jiving. "J lien, wliaL about bread'/'" he was asked. "Oh, i don't know about bread," \ulli a lace like a Judge, "you see, it's this \\a\, I've heen dealing oil' the one man for—well, my father dealt olf hin la-lore me, and my grandfather befm'. him. and so I never look al his bills. 1U jibt says ,s<) and so, and I clings liin Ihe money. and that's all about it.'' In hi» remarks at tin 1 opening o|"iln Chrysanthemum .Show at the v. m»ral Mali, Aueklaud, the (lOvernor referred in terms of thv highest appreciation to the climate of Auckland from a U '-rticultural standpoint.. lie said: "\Wieu

I write Home jtml tell people there Unit I have opened a chysaniheuiniu show uii SI. George's Oily, and thill w<- are sin, bring supplied roses, they will, J know, think it only another uf the extraordinary stories 1 have told ihe:»i about New Zealand."

An Anglican clergyman in Stewart ) Irsliind was quite sure a little? while ago that a Presbyterian brother was a Pagan (says the Post). The Governor was oh holiday down there—so an unauthorised version of a true story runs —and when Sunday came round Lord IMunket announced thftt he would go to church. A message was sen{ to lh»» Anglican pastor, who at once Ix-stirred himselt to got a record congregation. The people were promptly (old al>oiii the honor that awaited them, and whe i i 11 o'clock—tlie hour for the service—arrived on Sunday the bell was run#

it had never hcea rung before; but His l'AoeHeney tarried. The bell was rung niojv. it was rattled till about noon, ami there was no Governor. The pom* parkin discovered that Lord Miunkvt had mistaken the direction to (he Angli- j can Church, and had strayed into a neighboring 'Scotch kirk. Hi- Rxeellencv id that once he was inside the buildin# lie did not care to leave, but this explanation did not convince the Anglican shepherd that his Scotch contemporary had not set a snare for the viceregal fieet.

I'ossibly 110 ancient city, not even, in China, is so ghost-haunted as Constantinople. It is with no great surprise that one learns, oil the authority of the C'l'i de Paris, that the real reason for the retirement, of M. Constaus, the French Amliassador in tlie Turkish (Mpi- ' tal. was that his lite had been made unbearable by a ghost. The palace which it> his summer residence lias long borne the reputation of iieing haunted, ever -nice a certain prince was found liangel there. It seem- that M. Constans lias been subjected to various kinds of aniioyaucvs by the ghost. All sorts of ,-trange noi-f.> bine lilled the palace, and 011 several occasions M. Constans, who is a soiuewlial stout man, has been roughly shaken in his lied ill a most extraordinary manner. He decided to change to tiie Winter Palace, but now it seems the gluwl followed him to the Winter Palace also, and manifested its presence ill a decidedly unpleasant and dangerous fashion. During the last few months several sudden deaths have occurred at the FrenHi Embassy. First of all. M. Constant's dragoman died uiont mysteriously; shortly afterwards (lie sudden death occurred of the: intcndaiit; and then ltigo, the Kmbassy portcr, expired in an equally uiystcrion, wa v'.

The rubber tree is one of the most curious provision* nttule by nature for the utie of mankind. From earliest times what is -narrowly described as imlia-rubber ha> contributed to native lile and pleasure. It is a cosmopolitan 1 product of Hie Far Kastern and Southern worlds, sweeping round to the forests of America and Mexico, the West . Indies, and across to "West and Central Africa Dusky maiden?, from the Nile, to the Amtozon, have turned it to account as n means to personal adornriH'iit. The .rebellious locks of Fuzzy- \\ u/./.y have been br'ought into subjection by means of it'. A forest beauty, says I he Magazine Of Commerce, anxious io secure a lin.guout. will lightlv i,tal» a rublwr tree and leave it to bleed to deat'h. so Jong as her pristine purpose be served tVom this trickling, vital j stream of black tluid. Blood in oceans has been shed t'o setnire, in past times, a rubber •coneesnion, with as well as without concessions. White traders on the big Equatorial rivers have betrayed their Christianity to the limit of sharing in a cannibal least rat»her than not '"do trad?" with a savage king of a rubber 1 track. The lust for rubber and palm oil is bringing even a "European kingdom down to the dregs of barbarism. -Soon in the weird moonlight in a tropical forrat, the grey ghostiiness of tine rubber tree seems lo speak lo the traveller of unspeakable outrage, waste, knavery, and of all the cardinal sins of human infamy ciommitted in the name of the trade it represents. The love of Mrs. Hough, of JJes I Moines, lowa, for -Mr. Cottrell, a mem- | her of the lowa S/tiate Legislature, has been made the text of a remarkable s|n-cih hy the lady to a. local society to which she belonged, and in which she held a C-JOO .policy of life insurance, according to a Daily Mail Account. Although she had an estimable husband and wis Ihe mother of children, Mrs. Ib'titfh fell in dove with Mr. Cottrell, who was a married man with a fortune of Cini),li(il). There were separations, divorce «uiU, and eventually reconciliation. The public had supposed the scandal over whetii .hej* hwal nociety summoned Mis. Hough to take her trial on Ihe charge of immorality. The society's Committee on Morals had obtained two letters .written bv Mrs. Hough to Mr. x Cottrell. After these had been rea<l X aloud. Mrs. llougli, pale and resolute, though shaking with emotion, said: "My sisters, von have never loved. I knew it wah wrong, but could not help it. He is so liiiio, -o good. Ilis love made pain pleasure and turned grey skip* blue. I was like a young girl again. There was no sin. It ,w;is pure love. It made me Not wen you ,-ou)d help yourselves if love over really came to you . Irom a good man. I don't want to leave 1 you. but my love for tin- man C!o<l mad,, lor me is greater than any humiliation. J Non brand me with tshame when you should help and protect me, but my m'u ? is not as great as you imagine." Cast- ( nig her certificate of membership on th 0 * table. .Mrs. Hough withdrew. I