LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 25, 24 July 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tlio fire loss in Palmerston during the last three years was £48,000, of which the insurance companies had to make up £33,000. It is stated that all the motor cars in Palmerston North and Wellington have long been taken up, in view of the coming electoral campaign. Ben Nevis mountain, in Otago. has been safely negotiated by a motor-car. At 3000 ft snow proved a very difficult obstruction. The actual height of the mountain is 440Gft. It took four days to accomplish the feat. Rider Haggard, in his new book, ''Rural Denmark and its Lesson," describes a large farm which he visited. It contained 1100 acres, and the live stock included 400 cows and 1200 pigs. The farmer considered his farming would be unremunerative, as the cows only just pay their expenses.

It is reported that Sergeant-Major Wallingford, the great English musketry expert, and considered by many of the best military authorities to be the first rifle shot in the world, has been appointed to the New Zealand Staff with Ihe rank of Lieutenant. He will leave for New Zealand shortly. Large consignments of hares are arriving in Ashburton daily from the upper districts, and it is understood that buyers have already frozen several thousands of carcases for export purposes. It is stated that a number of sportsmen are making as much as £6 per week, clear of expenses, in snaring and shooting hares, which are said 1 to be very numerous in almost every part of the county.

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The Marine Department has issued a permit for the Harbor Board to continue to work the dredge Paritutu until January next before undergoing her annual overhaul, which will entail a journey to Wellington, where the vessel will be placed on the slip.

Some appallingly mean sneak thieves' occasionally operate in New Plymouth. As a variant to thieving firewood that someone else has laboriously cut, stealing covers off horses and cows on bitter nights appeals to a peculiar type of rogue. Settlers report such cases at Vogeltown and are engaged in an endeavor to fit the right person to the miserable crimes.

' At the local poultry show last week a guessing competition, to guess the correct weight of a cake presented to the society by Mr. J. C. Legg, of the Hygienic Bakery, was conducted. The cake has since been weighed by Mr. N. Allen, at Mr. C. Carter's Grocery, and registered 14lbs 3oz. On going through the tickets it was found that Mrs. H. J. Moverl'ey, with 141 be 20z., was the winner, with Miss W. Roberts, 141bs 4y 2 ozz., second. Several others guessed 141bs. and 14%1ha. The town clerk of New Plymouth has received the following communication from Mr. W. Armstrong, Commissioner of Crown Lands: —'By direction of the Minister of Internal Affairs, I beg to hand over to you for the reference library attached to the New Plymouth PuMia Library, Carnegie Buildings, seventeen volumes of old files of "Taranaki Herald," and nine volumes of "Taranaki News." The files of the Herald cover the years 1858 to 18G5 inclusive, and 1867 to 187f) inclusive. The files of the News are for the years 1870 to 1875 inclusive, and the year 1883." These volumes have been handed over to Mr. F. Ford, custodian of the library. A Sheffield man, named David Davies, and his sister, Mrs. Kennedy, have had a sudden rise to fortune under the will of a rich uncle. Davies has succeeded to £25,000 and Mrs. Kennedy to £15,000. Mr. Davies is in business as a manufacturer of hammers and l forgings, and has a dozen men in his employ. His sister is in very moderate circumstances, being the wife of a file forger, with a family of seven children. . Their money has come to them under the will of an unmarried uncle, the late Mr. John Bailey Davies, a native of Stockport, who left England for Spain about half a century ago, and established himself as a wine and fruit merchant in Valencia. He died two yeare ago, and his fortune is estimated at £150,000.

Private stamps are coming into use, and will soon be general at Home. Says a correspondent: "I have,;.jflst seen a communication from a large trading establishment bearing both upon the envelope and the enclosure the firm's own specially designed stamp . I hear of private individuals having their own engraved or photographed stamps bearing their armorial designs or portraits, their images and superscriptions, which they use as miniature book-plates or to give a note of intimate personal association to their correspondence. That fashion, once it gets well started, will run through middle-class England as the bicycle did. It will give rise to a new industry, start a new collector hobby, and possibly provide a new and considerable source of national revenue.

M. Jacques Bardoux, writing in Paris L'Opinion, says that no nickname is more undeserved than "Perfide Albion." He thinks British policy often lacking in discrimination, and sometimes in generosity, but "when the British Foreign Office has pledged its word it is invariably loyal. Great Britain is never 'oombinazione,' but always 'gentleman.' " M. Bardoux does not expect English approval of unnecessary military adventure in Morocco, and would not regard the absence of it as disloyalty to France. "The Radicals," he says, "are in office. Arbitration is the subject of the moment. William I. is in London." If France, however, were coerced or attacked she may be assured that Great Britain and Russia would not fail to take their places beside her. Neither of thorn could afford to see France isolated and mined. It is. equally true that France could not a second time surrender her will as she did in 1005. French public opinion would not allow it. True wild horses, intractable and terrified in man's presence, have been the subject of some interesting experiments. It was long believed that true wild horses with unbroken wild ancestry were extinct, but the animals discovered by Prjevalski in the Gobi Desert, in Asia, have been pronounced by Russian naturalists wild horses of a distinct kind, with no relationship to the ass. A few years ago about thirty of the horses were captured. They were mere colts, most of which have grown to maturity in Russia, but a few were taken to the estate of the Duke of Bedford in England, They have developed from their shaggy and awkward youth into animals of good appearance. They have some resemblance to the domestic horse, with the same neigh and frightened snort, but all attempts to tame them and make them useful have failed, and they are still badly frightened when any person comes within several rods of them. Efforts of the Mongolians to tame the horses have been equally unsuccessful.

Some amusing references to the characteristic of Ananias, of Biblical fame, were made during the hearing of the Massey-Times libel appeal in the Court of Appeal (says the Wellington Post). In the cartoon there was a representation of a donkey, bearing the word "Ananias,'' and hitched to a cart. Tn his summing up to the jury, Mr. Justice Chapman said: —"So far as the allegory is concerned, it is somewhat -puzzling. Ananias is represented as a deliasedlooking donkey. My recollection of Ananias is that ho was an unbusinesslike business man who transacted a transparent: piece of business by means of a sordid lie. We are accustomed to hear the term used to describe not merely a liar, hut a sordid liar. Ananias was not hitched to a cart; lie was hitched to a wife." In discussing the meaning of the word, Mr. IT. J)." Bell, K.C., pointed out that be had taken the trouble to look up the exact reference, and had found that Ananias was not by any means so bad as the reputation he appeared to have earned seemed to indicate. All he did was to hand over to the Apostles only part of tlfe proceeds of his own property,_jiustead of the whole, as lie said. Mr. .Wstjce Di'nniston remarked that it wag to I attempt to whitewash Ananias " |

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A London wire says their Majesties the King and Queen have returned to London.

A London cablegram says that the thermometer registered 90 deg. in tilic city on Saturday.

The Ijltham Dairy Co., at ite special meeting on Wednesday, decided to pay a bonus of .B,'id, making a total payment so far of lid.

A baker appeared before the Ormondville Magistrate's Court on a charge of selling a loaf that only weighed 31b 13oz instead of 4Lb, and was fined £5. The costs c.'ume to £9.

Mr. Bates reports that a southerly storm has developed and that colder weather and heavy rain may be expected. Snow will fall on the higher levels, and floods on the eastern coast of both islands.

The Waitara Mail states that the Public Health Department, on the advice of the Inspector-General of Hospitals, is placing certificated liurses in various parts for the care of the Maoris, and one of the two for Taranaki will reside in Waitara.

It is stated by a Ma.nawatu paper that one day last week two Jersev bulls were sold at Sandon public pound. One realised 6s and the other 2s 6d. Poundage foes amounted to £2. No explanation is friveni of the odd incident of such animals being so sold. A fatal ease of diphtheria occurred at Tikorangi (Waitara) on Thursday evenin?, the victim being a seven-year-old child. The child had only been ill since Sunday (says the Mail), and serious symptoms did not assert themselves until Thursday, when the doctor was sent for. Just as he arrived at the houM the little sufferer passed away. There is jusit one superfluous female in Patea, judging! by the returns which show a. population in that borough of 459 males and 460 females. In New Plymouth tliere are plenty of girls to spare, there being 2788 females and 2450 males. In other Taranaki towns there ia a preponderance of the male element. Tilth am'« population is 888 males and 849 females.

During the evening service at the Epsom (Auckland) Presbyterian Church on Sunday a sneak thief entered the vestry, where the members of the choir had left their wraps and overcoats. Fortunately nothing of great value had been left in any of the pockets, but the thief took an expensive coat belonging to a lady, and a gentleman's new hat. It was evident that a thorough search had been made, for the various garments showed signs of a hurried examination. The matter has been placed in the hands of the police.

A flexible armor of concrete brickg strung on wires is a novel anchor for a sand deposit, and is a French solution of the problem of preventing the washing away of river and lake shores, and even the shifting of dunes exposed to the ocean. The bricks, weighing ten tons each, are pierced with two holes each for the passage of galvanised iron or copper wires. The slope being properly graded, a horizontal wire cable stretched along its bottom, wires are attached to this, and the bricks are slipped upon the wires, so as to lie close together in regular rows. The bricks can be made and laid rapidly, the gravelley sand of the locality being used with cement. A number of applications of this method of land protection have been made in France, and have successfully resisted water, frost, and ocean gales for two or three years.

Motueka is fast developing its fruitraising industry, and a very practical illustration of what the prospective returns will be is given in the value of land suitable for orchards in that district. Land that could be obtained at about eight shillings an acre six years ago lias since changed hands at a minimum of £lO, while in some cases £2O is quoted. Planting is going on so rapidly this winter that 011 one day over a hundred tons of fruit trees were landed at Motueka wharf. It is estimated that growers have imported 200 tons of Tasmanian apple trees this year. Production has already reached such proportions that it is hoped to get a caniplete cargo away from the district to Englaand next season. If nothing but fruit is carried in the refrigerating space it is considered that the difficulties met with in trial shipments will be easily surmounted, ami the apples be landed in just as good condition as Tasmanian apples are. Commenting on the banking returns for June, a prominent G'hristchurch business man said that although in the early part of last month the chairman of the Bank of New Zealand, with his wide knowledge of the position, had sounded a note of caution in business circles here, it was somewhat dilficult to realise the necessity for it. At the present moment there, was an extraordinary amount of idle money in Christchureh available for investment, while 011 the other hand there was an unusual dearth of securities, and the stocks of mercantile and trading companies were at a very high figure. "While we may be more happily situated in Canterbury than in other centres," he said, "it is' obvious that there is a lack of confidence and enterprise. At present our chief product, wool, is meeting with an adverse market, but unless there is a marked drop in the value of other important products, I do not see any occasion for uneasiness in the near future.

Evidence given at the inquest on Sir William Gilbert showed that he died through his exertions in trying to save a young lady from the risk of drowning. The strain would not, perhaps, have proved fatal to a younger man or to a man of perfect health, but Sir William was seventy-four and his heart was weak. Sir William was bathing in his private lake near his house at Harrow with two ladies, Miss Preeee, a girl in her teens, and Miss Emery, who lived in the neighbourhood. Neither could swim much, and Miss Preece, being out of her depth, screamed for help. In broken sentences she told the Coroner the story of the tragedy that followed. Sir William swam to her. "He told me not to splash. I put my hand <in his shoulder, and he then sank. 1 thought T was too heavy for him, and managed to struggle to the shore." She expected Sir William to follow her, but lie never rose again, and was only brought out of the water with difficulty by two of his employees, who fished his body out with a pole. "A very honourable eiul to an extremely distinguished career," was the Coroner's common L

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