LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 110, 30 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To nniny pel-sons it will come as a surprise to learn that Xew Zealand contains just about the same area as England, Wales, Scotland, and half of Irelaud—viz., about 105,0(10 square miles. The Racing Commission, whose findings were by way of establishing a racehorse trust. in New Zealand, cost £2HS per week. It consisted of seven persons, inclusive of the two secretaries employed. Xo wonder it wants to .sit again! The actual amount stolen from the Xapier Borough Council recently is now stated by the borough auditor'to have been LT>7O Bs. The auditor was voted an extra, fee of Co 5s for his investigations. Xo further clue has been found as to how the money disappeared. The I'ark Tennis Club's lawns will be ' open for play on Thursday afternoon for tennis and croquet. The ollieial openI nig of the season will be held on the following Thursday. Intending members should communicate with the secretary or any member of the club's committee.' •_ In the Supplementary Estimates there is a compassionate allowance of £4OO to the mother of the late Miss Alice Power, who was killed in the Xapier express by a falling stone at Paekakariki, There is also a grant of £IOO to Mrs. S. Claude for the services of her late husband in preventing a railway collision near Auckland, as recommended by the Railways Committee. There are gratuities of .£.".00 each to the following widows of late members of the Legisla°ture:— Mrs. Kirkbride, Mrs.' Smith,°Mr«. Taylor. A similar gratuity is "iven to Miss Pitt.

Speaking on the Public Works Estimates, Mr. Jennings asked the Hon. R. McKenzio what he proposed doing in regard to the bridge across the Mokau. The Minister said he had an estimate as to what the bridge would cost, and il ran to over £20,000. He was, going to improve the present ferry service by having steam power, and it would take across at one time MO bullocks or 1000 sheep. Mr. Jennings asked if the local bodies wore inclined to erect a ibridge would the Minister give, a subsidy. Mr. JfcKenzie replied that he would «ive up to £IO,OOO as a subsidy.

Taranaki votes on the Supplementary Estimates include £3OO for a post office at Awakino; £IOO for improving entance to Awakino river; £IOO for Uruti-Riverdale road; Kiwi road, £400; matiere township; felling and grassing, £200; Mangatoa road, Awakino, £3;)0; Kokakoroa road, £100; Maiigaiti road, £250; payment to R. Parr and J. Troughton for road work at Awakino (as recognised by Petitions Committee), £120; payment to Lars Andersen of interest and part of loan of which he, was defrauded by a solicitor (recommended by Petitions Committee), £244; rates on Native Lands, £450. A hundred pounds has also been placed on the Estimates for expenditure on the road to the Stratford 'Mountain house, and a like amount for the Dawson's Palls road.

Cases of attempted suicide generally reveal tragic and pathetic stories, bub a man admitted to the hospital in St. Louis, after trying to commit suicide by severing an artery in his wrist, gave what is .probably the most extraordinary reason ever recorded. The man, whose name is Philop Xicholsen, declared that he was fond of his wife, and wanted hrr to be fond of him, but he thought there ought to be a limit to wifely affection. He said: "My wife is too affectionate, and wants to sit on my lap continually and hug and kiss me. If [ light my pipe she complains of the smoke, and when I stop smoking she is continually kissing me. When I was away on business I wrote to her daily, and she quarrelled with me because [ did not write three times a day. It got on my nerves." he concluded.' Reporters are now waiting at the hospital for the appearance of this affectionate lady, and the patient has asked the doctors not to allow her to show too much affection.

To build a'vessel liki> the Olympic costs tlic capital of a bank, and to launch it after it is built swallows up a fortune. I; cost the Belfast Harbor Board, whicli draws no share of the Olympic's eariiin'.'s. £58.400 to get ready for the launching. Of this sum much went to deepen the channel to 32ft. Opposite the berth a pit ."illft deep had to be dredged in the bottom of the harbor to make room for the plunge of the stern before the. bow left the wuvs. Then Messrs Harland and Wolff, the "builders, had to spend £3734 to strengthen Victoria wharf opposite the berth lest the terrific commotion kicked-up when the monster struck the water would •cause the wharf to collapse. Three of the largest slips they had were converted into two for the Olympic and Titanic. Over the berth a double gantrv had to be erected li+Oft long, 105 ft wide and 320 ft high, and equipped with travellers and cranes capable of lifting from five to 40 tons. Besides this there was a floating crane to be provided at great cost to transfer the boilers to the ships after they were afloat. More than fiOO steers died merely to make her path into the water smooth, for 22 tons of tallow were used to grease the ways.

Dr. Samuel M. Peacock, just sentenced to death ln Melbourne, is 71 vears of age. and Mary Margaret Davie's was „ single woman, 27 years of a »e The woman had been living with her parents at Crescent. South Melbourne, and disappeared from home on 4th Aumst Tt transpired that she went to accused's house on Bth August. A voung 1„ who had been intimately acquainted with the deceased, visited the house, and Miss Davies was then ill in ~e (1. Hc contimca to vis. deceased, and she told him that hei. The last day on which the youn» man saw jii 8g Davies was on 16th August, and she was then in. a dvin» condition._ Subsequently he visited'the house again, but was not allowed to see her. On 2th August hc met accused In Mzroy Gardens by appointment. Dr. Peacock then said Miss Davies had died and asked the young man not to say. anything.about the matter until he (accused) could secretly dispose of the bodv. Later the detectives made a search of the house, and there were found articles o jewellery and clothing which had been identified by the young woman's parents as belonging to her. A portion of the jewellery was discovered in Dr Peacocks personal possession. The body of the woman has not beqn found

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Mr. Jennings, .\I.L'. .for Taumarunui, will address the electors in St. John's Hall, Waitara, to-night. The Bangitikei Sawmillers' Association on the Main Trunk paid duringthe last year upwards of .t:y!),(IO(l in wages.

It is rumored that a large British oil company contemplates establishing a depot in Wanganui in opposition to the American company in Xew Zealand.

When a case supposed to contain accordeons was opened by Messrs P, I layman and Co.'s warehouse in Auckland recently, it was found to contain nothing more valuable than eoal.

Mr, P. H. E. Surrey, the well-known Jersey cattle breeder, of Huiranga, lose his valuable eow, Golden Gem, which was very successful in the Taranuki show rings last year, last week. The animal was valued at lOOgns. Two items of interest as to the progress of the women's cause in, Europe. The two Houses of the Icelandic Parliament have unanimously given the political franchise to every man and woman 25 years of age. They have also given women full equality before the law, a* well as the right to hold every ollicis in the State. The women of Zurich have been granted equal suffrage with men in the election of Boards of Trade.

The Japanese Antarctic expedition, on board the Kainan Mora (which called in at Wellington last year on her first voyage to the southern ice), will leave Sydney ahout the middle of. next'month for the ice-bound fastnesses of the South Pale. It will comprise about 30 members, of whom the majority arc scientist*. The scope of the expedition has been enlarged, and three or four more scientists will arrive hy the next boat from Japan, and as soon after their arrival as possible the Kainan Mara will sail.

It has long been the custom in the. Amoy part of China for returning Chinese who have become wealthy during their absence abroad to construct at their own expense some useful public improvement in their native city and present the completed work to the people. One of these men has recently returned from the Philippines, and \n accordance with the custom, sought some suitable improvement for his native city, Chann Chin, so*ne 40 miles from Amoy. As one of the useful bridges is in need of repairs he decided to construct an entirely new one. He has arranged with a Manila firm to erect, a hridge of reinforced concrete at an estimated cost of £3700.

If we would seek the cause of the, present industrial unrest (says a writer on Labor topics in an cxchangel we must,go far deeper than the mere set of rules laid down by a body of legislators. It is the people themselves whohave caused the unrest. Education, environment and opportunity are vastly different things from what they were fifty years ago, and just as we look for the growth of hereditary influence in the characteristics of a bulldog just as much must we look for a different outlook on life from a person who has been? taught to use his capacity, personality and intelligence. To workers of \"ev Zealand. at least those of the present generation. h?.ve been trained in a school from their childhood upwards which is as wide asunder from what their forefathers .as ore the ideals of a Solomon Islander from those of a German philosopher.