LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 214, 3 September 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"* ™eton-Xdpl,» mail despatch of 24th July.arrived in London on the morning of 31st August.

"It's a creed of mine never to let i man off who hits a woman," remarked Dr. A McArthur, .S.M., the other £,v, "hen dealing with a man chared wii) unlawlully assaulting his wife. "New Zealand," s ays the AVestminst.r Uuctlc of a recent date, -can hard'v be said to have covered itself with g.oiy m the matter of a memorial !o the most famous of its Prime Ministers, the late Mr. Seddon."

'■What were your relations with the captain and mate on the vova"e»" ■) se .- asked at the th,» o her day. He spiritedlv replied amid laughter, "rin no relation o lie captain's, thank tjod."

°/ ","•' Taranaki "<*"*»(? Committee yesterday transfers of ai" couimodation licenses were .-ranted ns Hotel, Kile/ S ; J alter Little; Oaknra Hotel, Walt r ktaite to 1). .MeKiimon Bain. The Wsborne -brunch of the Farmers' In.on has decided to engage » a?y surgeon for the farmers oft l dwtnct Gratifying sup ,, on , ', ac-orded the scheme. Already thr," tion '"" h,lVe aPl,lie<i im the 1 :

ConH C T SUI,I ,- 01 ' tDigIltl y mating of Lomt Taranaki, A.0.F., was held hIt "as resolved that a letter of eon dotence,te sent to Bro. C. Andrew , hw saiUercavement through the loss of

.Our generally excellent postal service has Us occasional vagaries in important letter posted. at° Masterto Jctciday morning. The postmark iM'on the envelope explained the delav •Lhe missive had been on a trip to Auck-

I m glad to say that out of 32')0 patients in our mental hospitals tl.ercis only on<' solicitor." boasted .Mr Willonl m the House. Farmers, he addaeotiously were almost in a majority' in tie asylums, but he did not know «he her or not thi. r «-as i„ consequence ot the Government's legislation. That the management of estates in connection with mental hospitals of the Dommioa last year was successful i* shown by the results of the working J he produce soiu tor cash amounted 1o coWl.as against dPSGIi in tlft-.previous •*'"'• , Il ' o f luce hom the Porirua Asylum sold for .CIOOO .and from Wellin'«c mental hosp'itals last year was ±.11,041, as against £10,438 in the* previous year.

A writer in the Otago Daily Times Otago have th elr worst time to come. At tins stage, he sa.vs, a number of stock-owam in the interior of Ota^o sock tfwf ■ llStuke in feedil * tnSr stock with their w nter fodder "it too ea.ll} a period m the fall of the venr with the result that their supply i s of t c' exhausted prior to the advent of spring Mpenence has demonstrated that stock than R other periods of the year. Win,, the fodder all gone, the stock fall off iu condition through a shortage of feed and the fury of the elements.

A Palmerston resident, who has just, returned iron, a visit to Ol.akunc, states that the latter township is experiencing a boom one result of which being that and sa es are being made at exceptionally high pnees. A Chinaman, who was among recent purchasers of town propeity, paid £OOO for a quartei-acre section. (Jhakune is \y., miles from the lailway stanon, and the I'almersto,, lesident referred to states that it is practically situated in a gully; one is on the down grade on the journev from ho railway station to the township. At the railway station is a veritable canvas ;m ' ,'"'n m '" 50 IUKI lio tolts I'eing pitched there. Sly grog-selling is Imported to be rife iu the district.—Stand-

I" .the Magistrate's Court yesterday mo n.ng Sampson Roberts was charged wi h having failed to comply with an "nier or the Court to contribute 4s weekly to the maintenance of his dau«liler, now in an industrial school. The arrears amounted to Cll Bs. The delemlanl said that lie was unable to meet the arrears or tog,, o„ paving Uie instalments. \\ v st!l(( ; (1 he ,;.„, \,„ n under the impression that his liability lor the maintenance would have ecaseil when the girl reached the age of fourteen years. He also expressed a wish to have her returned to his home. The Magistrate said he could do nothing iu the latter request until the arrears were paid, but he would be prepared to consider an application then. In the meantime the money must be paid. He adjourned the ease for a month to enable the defendant to make some reduction of the amount.

Ihc tohunga appeals to hold swav in tin- Cook Islands (wires a Wellington, correspondent of a contemporary) as well as in New Zealand. Colonel Gudgeon, Kcsidcnt Commissioner, in 'lis annual report, states-. "The lohuii»a is as dangerous to (lie well-being of (.lie people of tin- Cook Islands as lie lias been in Xcw Zealand for any lime, during (lie, lasl live years, and in eillroplace lie will not easily he suppressed, lor the simple reason that Hie Maori has more faith ill the tuhunga than in the doctor. There, are certain aspects 01 the Maori mind most difficult to deal with. For instance, if the lirst dose of medicine does not, ell'ect an immediate cure, it is no good, and he will have II" more of it. Auaiu. he eailllol mmthat the food he eating can have any connection with or ell'ect on the malady from which he sutlers, and ther.-I'in-e if his complaint he dysentery he will continue to eat I are or unripe mangoes, and his wife will neglect to cook him proper food, because she cannot see the necessity for so doing."

Ill's. L. Peters, Miramar, Welli-.ig.on, N.Z., says: ''l can safely recommend Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and. Diarrhoea Keuiedy to anyone suffering from pains in the stomach. .A irvp, days ago my little, boy, aged six years, was .suffering agony with this complaint. 1 only gave him a few doses, of Glinmborhiin's Colic, Cholera unit Diarrhoea Remedy and he was soon Tell and has not been troubled since.' T think this remedy should be hop! in every home." For sale by all chemisia and storekeepers.

Complaint is made to us that the street lights at the west end of Devon street have been "off duly" U urin S the [last two or three nights.

An examination of volunteer oflicers was conducted in New Plymouth yesterday by Lieut-Colonel Okey. Tlie following candidates sat for their examinations.—Captain Hcuty and Lieutenants ODea and Francis (Opunake Mounted tidies), Lieutenant Sutherland (Hawcra Mounted ltilles), < Lieutenant Wright (llawera Infantry), Captain Hinc (Strattord), and Captain Hope. Magistrate Kettle took occasion at the Auckland Police Court recently to admonish women for extravagance ;n dress. "There is too much gaudiness and striving after ell'ect among young girls nowadays," he said. "I believe it would be a very good tiling for girls if it were made compulsory that tliey should wear simple dress—no matter to what class they belong. There is too much devotion to dress altogether."

The old fetish of "prime Canterbury" still crops up in the reports of London sales of i\ew Zealand mutton, despite the tact that the Auckland muat has long ago readied the same standard of quality as the Southern article. Advices just received by the secretary of the Auckland Farmers' Company show that a line of frozen lambs sent to the Home market from Auckland brought from sy s d to o%d per lb, and a quantity of Auckland beef sold at 4d and 3%d respectively for the hind and fore quarters. A young lady, Miss Emily Barrett, of Maryborough, Victoria, recently suffered from a, complaint which prevented her from walking without the aid of crutches. She had been under treatment by a local doctor for some time, and had made good progress. A few weeks ago it was deemed advisable to put her legs in plaster of paris, and instructions were given to procure an iron boot 10

support the limb, which was contracted to a considerable extent. One evening Miss 'Barrett was sitting on a chair in the dining-room when & very peculiar reeling came over her. She said that she thought she was going to faint. This sensation soon worked off, ami when it did the girl, who had been crippled for over eight months, got up from the chair and subsequently walked to Dr. Deane's residence to inform him that there was no need for the iron boot.

Dealing with the causes of insanity the Inspector-tleneral of Mental Hospitals, in his annual report, says:—''lnsanity is a somewhat rave malady in the absence of heredity, whether the heredity be direct, or other neuroses, or even the expressed error or sickly or illmatched parentage. A nearly allied condition, one of lessened resistance, may be acquired by early or prolonged malnutrition, giving the term its widest application. Undoubtedly a potent underlying cause of unsuspected weaknesses must be sought iu early malnutrition. Care during the formative periods miy do much towards combating evil heredity, but ignorance assails a goodly heritage. Indeed, so accustomed are we to inherit weaknesses that, instead of comI bating danger, we find ourselves avoidI ing it instinctively in the fancied mauj ner of the ostricli with its head in the l sand."

Our South Sea island possessions arc coming along the road of progress, 'flic | animal report for tile past year, prei seined to Parliament by the Minister in Charge of the Cook Islands (Hon. Jas. Jlcduwanl shows that the revenue of the Cook and other Islands, including the balaiKe brought forward, amounted to £0773, while the expenditure was £618!), leaving a balance to be carried forward of £3585. The revenue of Nine, including a .balance brought forward, was £3503, and iho expenditure £11)10, leaving a balance of £1743. The import and export returns of the islands were as follow:lmports, 1007, £50,750, as against £41,41)7 for 1000; exports, £51,578 ( £10,025 for 1000). The hulk of this trade was done with Mew Zealand. The trade of Xiue realised £B4OI for imports, as against £0707 for the previous year; ami the exports £7055, as against £8315 for 1000.

A New Zenlander who has just returned from a visit to the Mother* Country declares that the Chamberlain policy will yet be the policy of Great Britain., and that at 110 distant date, 'though the present Liberal Government is avowedly freetrade and defenders of the cheap "loaf,' 1 he maintains they are protectionists at heart. Their patent law, which lias just come into force, is proof positive of this, for a more out-and-out protectionist piece of legislation has not been enacted in any country. By this law Dlie Government has decided that no patent anicle of any description can be sold in I!rent Britain unless manufactured on British soil. The immediate cff?ct of the law has been a boom in factory erection and equipment. Hundreds of factories are being established all over England to manufacture foreign puteats for sale in the United Kingdom. Writing from Aitutaki (Cook Islands) under date 17th Augusl, the correspondent of the Auckland, Herald says:— Last week the district of Vaepae w:is fined for not sending out food to the quarantined lepers on tlie Motu, named Motu-rakau. It appears that every week the five districts of Aitutaki take turns in sending these lepers provisions and water sullicicnt for one week. Wednesday is the appointed day, but the annual house inspection (tutaka) took place on that day, hence the delay, and it was Friday before the necessary supplies were sent out. There being an abundance of cocoanut trees on the island, the lepers suffered little inconvenience. In connection with this lepsr island an incident occurred two weeks ago worthy of notice. It appears that the wife of one of the lepers lives on tht mainland (the quarantine island is within the lagoon), and, wishing to visit her husband, although such visits are prohibited, she clandestinely obtained a canoe at night and paddled out to the island, a distance of aliout two miles, wearing male apparel. She was thought to be a night fisherman, and no notice was taken of the occurrence at the time. Later the local police heard of the visit, and tlie woman was discovered on the island. An edict was issued, and the faithful wife was prohibited from returning to the mainland, and she now remains on Motu-rakau as cook for the three unfortunates there.

"Darling Downs Native" writes to this "Wairarapa Daily Times":— It may not be generally known tSiat the Queensland Government pays a liberal commission to land agents lor inducing persons from abroad to settle there. I lmve nothing to gain in writing as I do showing tne serious drawbacks to Successful fanning in Queensland, therefore my remarks will carry greater weight. It docs not matter where a Queensland farmer is, he 'has some plague to contend with J and I am not at all surprised when 1 receive letters telling of heart-broken ruined farmers giving up in despair.! The low price of the land must carry conviction that it is not a desirable country. -Much has been said about rich soil t'hirty or forty feet deep. f never knew anv fanners cultivating to that depth, 'in New Zealand, the first foot suffices to lead Australasia in farm produce. Some would say, if all what I say is true, it is surprising

that people live there at all. Hut use i- second nature. Take the comparatively small number that die from snake bites for instance. This is not because snakes are varo, but hecau'so everyone is continually looking for them—quite unconsciously, and the remarkable turn of speed even the aged and iniirni display when a snake is sighted. I Imvc oven trod on them [and had them coil round my leg "and still escaped lieing bitten. Most of t'iie country schools are equipped with the nweSsary appliances far the cure of snake bite. When bitten, especially by a dentii-adder, the chance of reaching a hospital is small, the vlclim dying ivitlhiu half an hour. This is not the first 'time that Queensland lias been boomed—iiimiiirralion lecturers have been in Circat "Briliiin at various times describing it as a land* Mowing with milk and honev. Tiimiigninfs cnine in great numbers, but the maioritv soon found their way to the =outihcni States." ' I