LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 302, 16 May 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Kumeroa correspondent of a Danncvirkc paper says he has been told of a | man at Pahiatua who cleared £SOO from three acres of strawberries. The Chief Postmaster advises that a money order office and savings bank has been opened at Mokau under the charge of Mr. L. Jacob, the postmaster. A meeting of the North Egmont mountain hotel guarantors was held last evening to select a plan for the proposed hostelry, but no decision was arrived at.

The average attendance at the Stratford Public School last week was 028. Of this number (says the Post) 200 are in the infant room. These figures are an indication of the growth of population in the district.

A conference of Taranaki hospital boards will be held at Stratford to-day to consider, amongst other things, a proposal to convert the present New Plymouth hospital buildings into an incurable ward for Taranaki when the new hospital is erected. The removal of the Old People's Home to Westown has proved vary beneficial in many ways." Some of the old men who had ''cronies" in town, and frequently Obtained leave in the old days when the home was on the old site, are inclined to grumble at the distance, but this has its compensating advantages. On January 31st last Mr. Thomas Bell, a local conductor on the Canadian Pacific Railway, took his breakfast in a Fort William restaurant, and among other good things ordered a dish of oyster stew, says a paper. In the stew he found a pearl, which has been valued by a local jeweller at 2500 dollars (£500). A defendant in one of the cases in the local court last Thursday (reports the Wakatipu Mail) appeared without his coat. The magistrate thereupon asked the individual why he did not appear fully clad in court, and received the reply that he had not worn a coat for forty years. The magistrate accepted the excuse. Two men were charged with drunkenness before Mr. W. H. Fitzherbert, S.M., at the court yesterday morning, and, being treated as first offenders, were convicted and discharged. One of them, Hugh Francis Riley, had to plead guilty to a further charge of resisting Constable O'Neill at the time of his arrest, and was fined £1 and cpsts, in default 48 hours' imprisonment.

A perusal oi the schedule? attached to the recent harbor legislation under which the last harbor board election was held, discloses the fact that the Manaia town district, except as a portion of the Waimatc West county, has no voice in the election. This is one of the grounds urged in the petition for the voiding of the pqll, and the- unseating of Mr. D. J. Hughes, jun.

Many citizens flvcr that, for many years there lias not been so great a plague of rats Ideally as now. While the authorities are doing nothing to minimise the nuisance, citizen* in self-protec-tion are gathering large harvests. One successful trapper exhihited a nit on Saturday that was easily the largest seen in N'ew Plymouth. He also had sixteen friends and relatives of the mighty . disease disseminator.

It is said that a great deal of illicit shooting is taking place. A member of j the Auckland Acclimatisation Society stated that in one district where only about two licenses were taken out last year, about TO people took part in the shooting, "There are about 50 men shooting there this year," he added, and I do not believe that a single license has been issued." The same might be said with equal justification of some parts of Taranaki. At the recent banquet to the Minister of Public Works at Whangamomona, one of those present recommended the Government to borrow as much money as they possibly could, and with it help the' people who had braved the battle of early settlement. Tie could not tell them all the hardships they had suffered —it would take too long. They were thankful to the Government for pushing on the railway, but if it had come, a few years ago it would have been better. To-day there were only eighteen left of the 100 original pioneers.

A very successful practice was held last night by the New Plymouth Operatic Society. There was a large attendance, and under the able baton of the conductor, Mr. Renaud, the chorus made good progress, their last season's work, "Dorothy," standing them in good stead. There are still vacancies for a few contraltos and tenors, the other voices being very strong, but as the committee intend to close the membership list at an early date, those who would like to join should make an early application to the secretaries for enrolment.

The first of the railway euchre parties and dances was held in the Brougham street hall last evening. There was a good attendance, sixteen tables being occupied. Sixteen games were played, and when the count took place, it was found that Mrs. .T. Trigger was the successful lady (with 13 games), and she was presented with a handsome silverbacked hair brush, and silver-mounted scent bottle (donated by Mr. N. Greiner). Mr. C. Jury, the successful gentleman, won 14 games, and ho was presented with a suitable inkstand (donated by Messrs. John Avery, Ltd). Supper was then handed round, after which arrangements were made for dancing, this being carried on till the small hours of the morning to music supplied by Mrs. George's orchestra. Everything'went off well—a result due to the efforts of the hard-working ladies' committee and the secretary (Mr. T. Smith). Mr. J. Hoskin made an efficient M.C.

"There is not the least doubt your country is far ahead of this," wrote a Canadian settler in a letter which Mr. Robert Mac Donald (late Under-Secretary for Lands in New South Wales) received last week. The letter, which was dated Lloydminster, March 22, continues: "Why. to be comfortable here a m : an has to lay out about 10,000 dollars in buildings alone. These winters are a perfect terror to those who have to work out in them, and that means 00 per cent, of the farmers. But it is not, safe for anyone to speak the truth about this country until he gets out of it. I am going to try and say good-bye to the frost and snow as soon as 1 possibly can. Tt will take me some time to clean up. I am just to bide my time and sell to English or American settlers. Canadians won't buy. Not they. Thev know their country is not fit for a white man to live in, and if they helped people to leave it bv buying them out. it would bo like taking their own bread and butter from them."

W.P.T.IT.- The. usual nmnthlv meetins of the W.<-'.T.U. will lip lipid in tlio Baptist riinrcli. Oill-stroet. on Weil'"«ilay next Mav VT. at 3 p.m. Executive meet 2.30 p.m.—Advt.

A new parish hall ia being erected at Kaponga by the members of St. ■ JVS ark's Church there, to coat £3OO. The hall is urgently needed for Sunday School purposes.

The Xorth Egmont mountain house committee has decided to re-floor the large dining-room at the house. The present floor, it is interesting to notice, was first laid when the building formed part of the military barracks on .Marsland Hill. The North Egmont mountain house committee yesterday passed a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Lyxons ici his gratuitous work in laying out the road and site for the new accommodation house or hotel. The road has now been formed and metalled.

After being deluged with complaints from telephone subscribers, the New South Wales I'n-itmaster-Geneial is adopting the novel method of hearing details, and is hiring the Town Hall and inviting all subscribers to attend. He and the engineer will hear the grievances.

An elector complained at Mr. Buchanan's meeting in Carterton that there was too much education, lie stated that a man was compelled to send his children to school every day without excuse, and the children were not given an opportunity of gaining a knowledge of domestic duties. Mr. Buchanan retorted that education was the best asset a man could have.

Mr. Cattley points out that the paragraph printed on Saturday relative to using a watch as a compass needs rectification to make it applicable to the Southern Hemisphere. To use one's watch as a compass in the Southern Hemisphere, point 12 o'clock to the sun, when a line drawn through the centre of the dial halfway between twelve and hour hand will point true north.

A Nelson resident, now on the way to England to witness the Coronation festivities, sends the following per postcard, from Melbourne, to a friend who has fruit-growing interests:—"Talk about the ">OOO eases from Nelson, why, nearly 210,000 eases were sent from Hobart the week before I reached there. One steamer took 103,000 cases, another 70,000 cases. Five steamers in all loading at once!"

The committee which had made preliminary arrangements for the holding of a coronation ball on June 22nd haa decided to hold a grand Imperial concert in the Theatre Royal instead of the bull. The explanation given is that probably entertainment will be provided for more people than at a function wholly given over to dancing. A committee has in hand the matter of arranging a first-class Imperial programme.

A cowardly and senseless act was perpetrated on Sunday night by some miscreant at present unknown. It appears that during" Divine Service at the Pres-. byterian Church a stone was hurled 1 through one of tlio" windows, falling' amongst the congregation, fortunately without striking anyone. Splinters ol glass, however, were scattered broadcast, and one of them struck Mr, Robbie, headmaster of the school, on the cheek'. 1 It is hoped that the perpetrator of Mich a wanton *?t'Br. mischief will be brought to book and punished in a salutary manlier that will ser*e as a warning to others.-—Patea Pre?!,

The output of the Mangorei dairy factory is now 29 boxes every other day. The factory is now running three days per week. The tests are very good, ranging from 4 to 0.1. This year the factory grades sixth on the list at Moturoa with 03.15. Last year it came fifth with 02,87, so that there is, a distinct improvement. The factories that take the leading places for the average grades are in order, Tikorangi, Lepperton, Bell Rlock, Midhirst, Huiakama, and then Mangorei. Of these Midhirst is the only one in a similar position to Mangorei as regards the number of skimming stations from which milk is handled.

The Minister of Public Works told the deputation at Hawera that there were four or five main trunk lines to complete yet, upon which the Government was spending a million and a quarter a year, and he clearly gave the deputation to understand that no new branch lines would be constructed until these main trunk lines were finished. Surely not! If Opunake has to 1 wait until the Midland trunk line, for instance, is finished, science will before that time have unravelled many mysteries, and many "Old Mother Shipto" prophecies will have been fulfilled, whilst tombstones will be erected over many fathers' sons who will have died from old age—Opunake Times,

The way Irishmen vote for Home Rule | was illustrated by Mr.. Hazelton, one of 1 the Trish delegates, at Palmcrston North recently. Six men came all the way from America to vote for Mr. Keitle, at Hast Tyrone. The majority was only 14. Tu Mr. Devlin's contest in Belfast the Unionist candidate had ascertained through a previous municipal election that 45 names on the roll were of persons who had gone to England, and, therefore, hadn't voted, so he was prepared for impersonation, and when strangers presented themselves and voted under these names, he had all 45 arrested. They turned out to be the genuine voters come over from Kngland to help the Nationalist in, and the other man had to pay £lO each as compensation for wrongful arrest !

Dr. Herman Lawrence, by the use of radium, for the last twelve months has been treating at the Melbourne Hospital eases of rodent ulcer, which is one of the least malignant forms of cancer. The medical superintendent of the hospital (Dr. Mackay) stated in answer to questions last week that radium has apparently a more curative effect in cases of rodent ulcer than any treatment previously tried, but to make a general statement to the effect that radium is a cure for all forms of cancer would be taking at present far too optimistic a view. A number of cases are now being treated by Dr. Lawrence, who has a supply of radium, with very good results. Whether those results will be permanent is a question for the future to decide. The patients attend at the hospital twice a week, and they are treated by Dr. Lawrence until apparently cured." Though the results achieved are hopeful, it cannot be definitely stated that the rodent ulcer will not break out again on the patients.

YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND That i>y using the Commercial Eucalyptus Oil, which is now boupht up at fid per lb weight and bottle, and, on account of the larjie profits, pushed, rnu are exposing yourself to all the dancers to which the use of turpentine will expose von—irritation of kidneys, intestinal tract and mucous membranes. Tlv insisting on the OEXTHXE SA\'DER KUCALY?TI EXTRACT you not only avoid these pitfalls, but vou have a stinililatin?, safe and effective medicament, the re«ult of a special and careful manufacture. Remember: SANDER'S EXTRACT embodies the result of 50 years' experience and of special study, and it does what is promised; it cures and heals without '"inrin? the constitution, as th» oiU on H'e market frenuently do. Therefore, nrnfeot yourself by rejecting other tetrad*.