LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 209, 8 October 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thi' fiovernor will probably open the Salvation Array Boys' Home'at Kltliim some timi' next month. A new milking machine, it is state 1. has been invented by Mr. C. Gane, of Xormanby, who in taking out patent rights. Work is being pushed along on the Stratford-Ongarue line, and the Kiore tunnel is now finished. It is fully anticipated that the first week in November will see the rails laid right into '!•: Wcra station —Post, A traveller's tall talel Duke Adolph Frederick, of Mecklenburg, lhae just returned from a scientific expedition into the interior of German East Africa, and tells marvellous stories about the athletic feats of a race of giants he discovered in the neighborhood of Ruanda, to the north-west of the Vietoiia Xyanza. These magnificent specimens of humanity, averaging 7'/ 2 ft to Bft in height, arc remarkable for their sinewy muscles and grand physique. Almost all their time is spent in jumping and wrestling, and land-to-hand fights with wild beasts are undertaken with nonchalance. The Duke saw several take high jumps over improvised apparatus that exceeded B'/ 2 ft. These were performed without runs or springboards. A photograph the Duke has shows one of the native giants jumping over a group of Europeans, including the Duke, who Is a six-footer} a space of at leant two feet is observable between the Duke's hat and the native's feet.

The cough that is contracted in the winter and which continues through the spring and summer nearly always indicates some throat or lung trouble, and should not be neglected. Tile ordinary cough medicine may soothe tile throat, but it has not the' power to heal. Kbcovery is not complete, and a second attack is more liable to follow. You cannot get a better medicine for coughe of this description than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is an excellent medicine for all throat and lung trouble, for it not only soothes the irritation, but.it heals the affected parts and leaves them in. such a healthy condition that the danger of a second attack is removed. For saio by all chemists and storekeepers,

It is 140 years to-day since Captain Cook landed at Poverty Bay. Mails for United Kingdom and Continent (via Vancouver) dispatched oil August 31st, arrived in Loudon ~n October 4th.

Petty thefts are reported in the suburbs. Clothes-lines) are frequently visited by night and robbed, or partly robbcj of their burdens. The Recreation Sports Ground committee is now proceeding with the toudressing of the sports area, in preparation for the cricket season. The Besses o' th' Barn Band is due shortly in South Africa, where an extended tour will be conducted under the management of Messrs. J. and N. Ta'it. About three months will be spent in Cape Colony, Xatnl, and the Transvaal, and then the bund will revisit Australia and New Zealand.

"Why," said Commissioner Hay, speaking enthusiastically of General Booth, who ie 81 years of age, "it takes us all our tunc to keep within coo-ee of him. When 1 was coming out to Australia, 1 said to the General how much we would regret it if we fell that his last visit had been paid to these shores. What was his reply! 'Don't alarm yourself, man, I'm coining out next year.'" The New I'lyiiiuodi Howling (inn's green was available for play yesterday afternoon. Tlk green was, as was to b expected, a bit heavy «,' the result ol the recent soakina rain-, but il play <i true, Mr. AJldredge. Hie caretaker, ha - I ing faithfully done his share. Son," enjoyable games were played. Tiio green will be open for piay on Thursdays and Saturdays until commences the season proper.

A certain amount of dissatisfaction has liccn caused by 111;' action of the Railway Department in taking the dining ciirs from the f1..">0 a.m. Palmerfiton to Wellington train and the 4 p.m. train from Wellington to Palnierston (says the Palnierston Standard). Passengers will, however, not have to go hungry, since the alterations and additions to be carried out at Paekukariki include a commodious refreshment-room. But a few days ago butter factories were refusing to accept oilers of H)%u for their outputs; to-day many of our ■best factories would accept H> : /j(l, but buyers cannot now oiler even this ledmed figure (says the Wellington Time*).

Consignment would appear to be fie almost universal policy this year, iiil from general appearances thosV faelori'S which have already sold may count themselves lucky.

The Feilding Star says:— We nofico that Sir Joseph Ward is not saying a word about his visit to America. That may be because none of the interview.'« have thought of questioning him about that part of his tour. During his brief stop at Feilding on Saturday we observed to the Premier that our advice was that the millionaires had given him a good time in New York. "They gave me the time of my life," replied Sir Joseph.

In view of the fact that Japan has vetoed the development by railway ■>!

over a million square miles in Mongolia, it is quite clear that she is beginning t'ne creation of her new buffer State there, so Hint when she is ready for the absorption of South Manchuria Mongolia may be already in some measure prepared for her domination. If the peace of Asia is to lw preserved there must he an immediate end to this sort of thing.—National Review, Shanghai.

The caretaker of - the Recreatioi Grounds 1 , Mr. W. W. Smith, has effect <a a very great improvement in the path lending from the sports ground to the •band rotunda. What was hitherto a treacherous track, channelled by storm water, is now a well-made path, grass bordered, and cinder-covered; and the cutting of a little channel across the top will save it from being spoiled again by the waters from the high r

For the half-year elided September 30th, 11)09, the ' Wanganui Corporation tramways carried 582,211 passengc;. Kut the returns show a deficit of 124.) 15s for the period. It is quite usual f~' tramway receipts to show a big fallin.;otr during the winter months and co isichrinjj that the returns for the previous six months of s'ummer showed a profit of over WOO. the corporation has no reason for alarm as regards th:soundness of their position ill trninwav mattcrs.

Mr. K. S. All™, of Frankloigh Park, i-i a well-known exhibitor of potato's at locil horticultural shows. This year he li.td intended placing u collection of liftv varieties of Ins own growing "on exhibition only" at" the New Plynioutn Horticultural Society's December show. The crop was looking well until a few davs ago. Then came the destructive hliglil. and ninly one or two small rows leuiaiil. It is exceedingly hard hick for Mr. Allen, besides entailing a considerable loss of labor seed, and fertiliser. There was a record attendance at tfH' South Road Methodist Sunday School anniversary celebrations last night. In the evening a tea was held in the West End School gnnnasiuin, at which two sittings were necessary to meet the denumd*. This was said to be the first "tea" held in connection with the South Road Church for 20 years. A public meeting was subsequently held in tin church, when several very interesting selections vere given by the children under the baton of Mr. Deare. Addresses were given by the Revs. Chapman and Kellow, Messrs Black, Boon and Carter, a very enjoyable gathering closing after votes of thanks to all wh.o had helped to make the anniversary celebrations a success had been passed. Bee-stings are said to be beneficial for rheumatism, the following being quoted by a contemporary as a case in point: ''Tortured by rheumatic pains from which he had suffered for months, James R. Holt, head of the contracting firm .of Holt anil Gregg, of Redding, Cali-1 fornia, submitted himself to tile stings of thirty-nine honey bees, and next day walked to his office for the first time in many days, declaring that his joints were as limber as those of a boy. Holt had been so badly crippled \with the disease for some months that he was compelled to use a carriage to go from his home to his office three blocks away, lie spent two months taking the baths at a mineral spring famous for alleviating the sufferings of rheumatic patients, but -was not benefited. At last, on the advice of a friend, he submitted to the stinging treatment. Ten or a dozen bees were applied to each aching joint, while the patient writhed with the pain of their stings. After it w.is over he became nauseated, and a chill lasting more than two hours followed. He retired for the night, and finally fell 'asleep. When he awoke in the morning he was surprised to feel no aching in his joints. Ho found that they liad'limbered up completely during 'the night, and walked to his office, declaring he had not felt so well before in the°last ten years." Those of our readers wno suffer from rheumatism can try the remedy if they please; lv e would as soon stir up a hornet's nest as willingly take a plaster of well-nurtured bees to bed with us in order to give them a trial with stiff r licumatic joints.