LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 281, 19 April 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The price of milk in Auckland is being raised from -Id to 5(1 a quart this week.

A horse-dyeing establishment, with a perfect plant for changing the color of stolen animals, has been discovered by the New York police. Four animals were undergoing the treatment at the time.

University men and schoolmasters were among the applicants for the post of assistant inspector of nuisances, recently advertised by the Durham Eural District Council (England) at a salary of 30s a week.

The feminine world in Berlin ,is furious at a new police regulation that has just been issued (says a cable in the Sydney Sun). The trouble is all over the ladies' hats, the ornaments of which appear to have been a source of considerable inconvenience, if not of danger. As a result of the complaints made by the male section of the community the police have prohibited women from wearing ornaments, feathered or otherwise, that project beyond the. rims of their hats, which are made so rigid by means of wiring. The sex is up in arms against the new regulations, and Berlin is just now waiting to see exactly what its womenfolk are going to do in the matter.

Here is a story from New York of a real,happening that reads like a cinema drama. Mrs. Powers, wife of a guard on the Rock Island railroad, was attacked on February 21 by burglars, and locked in a room of her house at Chicago, while they ransacked the plate. It happened to bo the room with the telephone in it, so she rang up the yard at Burnside, where her husband was on i duty, and asked him to come home at I once. The driver of his train took an j engine out of the yard, the line was cleared, and at sixty miles an hour the guard was driven to a point on the line near his home. He and the driver then dashed into the house, surprised the intruders, and released Mrs. Powers. In a special article in the Christchurch Press, Mr. Will Lawson says that the Northern Terirtory of Australia is no place for New Zealanders. He says:— "As regards the suitability of the country for white women, every man who lias lived or has visited the Territory is of the opinion that it is no place at all for white women. All that are living there are washed-out and run-down, while the children that are born there are a weedy-looking lot, with no brightness about them 1 , no Anglo-Saxon color and vivacity. Possibly, by a slow process of heat-seasoned Queenslanders and South Australians, the Northern Territory will become populated by a hardy enough class of white colonists. But it will take time. At present there ale 3000 whites and 3000 Chinamen in that vast Territory. Unless a New Zear lander has a large amount of money or a Government billet, he should certainly stay away." An uninvited visitor gave an unpleasant surprise to a farmer at The Levels, near Timaru, a few days ago. The farmer went home in the evening and found his house occupied by a small, gaunt, elderly man, with a dark tanned skin and Syrian countenance, and his face adorned by a small tuft of whiskers. His surprise must have been startling when he found his uninvited guest seated comfortably before the fire. A leg of mutton was cooking merrily in the oven, a pot of stew, including numerous mixed odors, was steaming vigorously on the stove, and on the table were eggs, flour and other commodities requisite to the making of a palatable pudding. The burglar admitted to a skill in cookery equal to that of a French chef. He had broken into the house bv levering the door open with a spade; and his adventure cost him a fine of £5, which lie was allowed to avoid if he wished bv going to prison for two months.

By far the largest proportion of gold produced in the world each year comes from the British Empire, South Africa, Australia and India still ranking high among or above the gold-producing nations. Of the gold output of the world nearly 40 per cent, remains within territory the prosperity of which depends upon the protection of Oreat Britain. For this reason the currency laws of the British Empire have great influence on the movements of gold, and are of grave import to the world. There appears to he great conflict of opinion among authorities whether the output, which has so enormously increased during the last 20 years, has not provided a surplus, after satisfying the demand for industrial consumption, above what is actually required for purposes of currency. It may be that the gold-burving Hindoos are after all in a rough-and-ready manner providing against a surplus of circulating gold. It is certain that a "ood deal of the golden metal is actually°l ost 0 st that way.

BLANKETS, RUOS, OVERCOATS, ADVANCE .SALES. AT THE MELBOURNE.

At no other period in our whole history have we been enabled to offer such astounding values in staple goods as at present. Various reasons may be adduced to show the reasons for this happy state of affairs, wider buying scopedue to the increase in the number of our branches—and foresight in forward buying when the price of wool was low. Our five Taranaki stores distribute such a huge volume of merchandise that manufacturers and "jobbers" are eager competitors for our' "spot" cash business, with the result that we buy and sell at prices that make .our competitors fairly wonder "how it's done." Just as we benefit by our 'spot" cash buying methods, so does the buver who deals at our stores, because the savings effected by us ure in turn passed on to him, thus consolidating our goodwill and increasing our sales. The savings on these offerings are line examples of the benefits derived bv shopping at the Melbourne. Three-quarter bed all-wool white colonial blankets, IDs (id pair; large double-bed size. IDs (id pair; singlebed grey blankets 8s 9<l pair; run's, °5s lid to l.os fid; little boys' overcoats, tis lid, (is fid to 10s (id; ladies' lovely raincoats, 22s (id; men's rubber coats 'ss• heavy tweed coats, 30s fid; Ihd'retite coats. 37s (id; men's grey raincoats. only 32s 6d.

At tin? morning and evening services at St. Mary's Anglican Church to-morrow, Canon (larhnd will officiate.

Tlie Appeal Court did not sit in \\ cllington yesterday, and Hip sugar cast will not be continued until Monday.

The English Butterfly Company, which is now Inuring the Dominion, is exneeled to visit New Plymouth next month.

The Appeal Court B.mch took a day off yesterday, and accompanied by members of tln» local bar pa»u a visit to the warship New Zealand.

The Mayor. Mr. (!. W. Browne, intends to call a meeting o? burgesses in the Town llnll for Tuesday next, with the object of stimulating interest in the forthcoming municipal elections. A big nieetiii'j; of Maoris is being held at Purangi to open a new church and also discuss oilier matters of interest with the native-'. Already a large number of visitors have arrived. Dr. Pomare will be present.

The residents of Shortland Street, Vogeltown. are petitioning the borough to complete the footpath to the corner of Caning) on Road, which, sharp and hidden as it is from ti".> view of approaching motors, is prohnblv the most dangerous corner in the town.

'Representatives of tile local cricket clubs will meet and confer with the Pukekura Park Board shortly, with regard to the topping of the trees on the west, side of the Sports (Jround, with a view to lessening the inconvenience caused bv their shadows filling across the playing ground. At the Tarata Slice]) Dog Trials held this week, the heading, bringing back and holding in ring competition was won by Mr. J. Hunter's Wobblet. the yarding event by Mr. ,T. Blair's Flip and the Huntaway competition by Mr. J. Blair's Cluskv. The amateur judging competition was won by Mr. A. McWilliam.

A mi: el in# of the Pukekura aPrk Committee was held last night. There was a wood attendance and a generous response to the appeal for workers today. Collectors were allotted to every district, and everything points to the canvass of the town and suburbs being as complete as it is possible to make it. "I have a drop of sixteen feet at my gate" complained a property holder at the Assessment Court yesterday. "That is an incentive to sobriety, Your 'Worship," commented counsel. "Yes." responded the objector, "but the Council lias lowered the level of the rond and raised the valuation. If they had lowered the valuation and raised the road I wouldn't .have objected." There will be a display of free vulcanizing by a new process at Stephens and Byrns Motor Garage to-day, starting at 10 o'clock and continuing throughout the day. Owners of motor cars and motor cycles are asked to take their tyres and tubes to the garage where they will be vulcanised and repaired free of charge as an illustration of the value of the vulcanizer.

About thirty-three Veterans, under the command of Captain J. Black, attended the funeral of' the late Mr. T. McGuinness, at To Ilenui Cemetery on Thursday afternoon. Six of the Veterans acted as pall bearers. Prior to the burial the llev. Air. Kemptliorne delivered an impressive address in the chapel. The Veterans' Buglar sounded the "Last Post" at the graveside. From October 22nd last to April 17th, the Paten Fanners' Co-operative Freezing Company killed 35,101 sheep, 3118 cattle (including ISOO bulls), 633 calves mid 23 pigs. For the 12 months prior to October 22nd, the following stock was Hllnl: —Sheep 15.125. cattle 4739, calves ('.32. pigs 7. Tn addition the tallow shipped during the past 6 months exceeds that shipped during the whole of last year by 220 casks. Oil Tuesday last a memorial was unveiled in the Upper Mokau Valley to Knahu lluatere. The inscription read as follows:—"Kaaliu Iluatare, born 1850, died October 10, 1911. He fought in the Taranaki and Waikato Wars. He was a man of peace, yet lie was brave. He saved the late Wilson Hursthousc and Mr. Xewsham, who were taken prisoners and locked up in a whare by Te Manakura. as the result of the prophet Te Wliiti's teaching in ISS2." At ihe meeting of the Land Board on Wednesday, the Land Commissioner made reference to numerous cases in which people took transfers at a heavy consideration, and then almost at once found a difficulty in meeting their rent, lie advised that before transfers were granted a careful enquiry should be made iinto the financial >:tnnding jif those applying for them. The Board in view of several recent experiences of the sort, concurred with the suggestion. A discreditable feature of the floods at Peru, in Indiana, was the extortionate charges made by boatmen for rescuing marooned victims. In many cases as much as £1 was demanded from each person rescued. A grim incident was witnessed during the rescue operations. A boat, while being rowed along one of the streets, passed a Hooded house, the upper part of which was in flames. The occupant of the buMiiig hailed the boatI mail, and forced hmi, at the point of a revolver, to come alongside and take off his wife and her newly-born baby.

"Mr. W. A. Collis. chairman of the Jfortli Egmont Hostelry Committee, has received a letter from the Chief Postmaster. Mr. C. H. Burton, stating that he is directed by the Secretary of the Post Olt'iee to inform Mr. Collin that the application of his committee for the establishment of a post office at Tahnrangi (Mountain House) has been granted. Mr. .T. P. Murphy is to be appointed postmaster, and will carry the mail to ltahiri, Messrs. ■ Xicholls and Son}, of Tnglewooil, carrying the mail from (hat point to and from the Kaimiro Post Office.

It Ims been the practice of Mr. Arthur Carrington, managing director of tlie firm of Messrs Carrington and Co., Sydney. whose factory was entered by thieves oil Sunday night, fith inst., to leave the safe keys on the top of the safe. From the. safe all money was first removed, aiul the idea of leaving the keys was that should a burglar eome that way he would see and use them, and not damage the safe with nasty explosives or cold chisels or anything of that sort. On Sunday night the burglar did come. He did see the keys and lie did use then). Then he seems to have sat down and written a little note of recognition. He wrote: —"Dear Sir, —After entering your premises with the aid of a friendly crowhnr, we made a bee-line for the safe. We saw, to our astonishment and joy, that we were to be spared the muscular effort of prizing it open. Providence was working on our behalf, for there, lying nonchalantly on top of the safe, were the keys. We unlocked the safe, but beyond some ledgers and contract papers, 110 splosh was perceivable. This quite unnerved. 11s, so we looked round for some solatium for our troubled spirits. This we found in the shape of a partlv-used tin of biscuits, some cheese and lemon-

ade. We were very grateful for these, and although we did not ask a blessing 011 ther" '"ss'ed the donors fnr 1 'wiv thought fulness in thus making provision for us. —Yours till the next visit, Bill Sykes and his dog."

Stimulating and comforting—a cup of "Cam])" Coffee in cold, frosty weather. Made by a new process, "Camp" contains all the beneficial qualities of the choicest berries. And isn't it's flavor fine? Just you try! 4