LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 314, 28 May 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

- m* ■ ! ' Several letters are awaiting "H.H." at this office., ■ The 5-year-old wife of Cornelius Degroot, of Zwolle, Holland, eloped with her father-in-law, a deaf mute, 62 years of : age. „,„,,.-.ia&iiU: The Trimc Minister states that ' Thursday, June 20, has been definitely . fixed as the date for the opening of j Parliament. i .The painters' and decorators' dispute will be heard by the Arbitration Court this morning at 11 o'clock in the Borough Council Chambers. Mr. Clement Wragge cabled to the Press Association yesterday as follows: —The disturbance Aeneas follows Anchises. All the Dominion is warned. Lala Kiitrim Dut, a Hindoo barber, who died recently at Meerut, India, had for the last three years slept every night with two young pet pythons coiled up beside him in his bed.

The Duke of Argyll, speaking at the opening of a new tuberculosis dispensary at Stepney Green, London, said that in the case of tuberculosis children much good could be done by rubbing with hot sweet oil. "When this is not always on tap," he aciued, "you can always get ' some good hot fat. are many simple country cures which are not to be despised." At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., judgment by default was entered in the following cases:—Montague Loe Holah (Mr. A. Bewley) v. Frederick Inia, claim £5 13s, and costs £1 13s 6d; R.M. Williamson (Mr. F. E. Wilson) v. M. Howard, claim £5 18s lOd, costs £1 3s Cd; Webster Bros. (Mr. Standish) v. Frederick William Ansley, claim £3 12s Bd, costs 10s. The Opunake Times sayß the Eltham Opunake Carrying Company are evidently a progressive company. They have purchased a property in' Opunake and have decided to build stables for their own use. They have also decided to work two motor lorries in connection with the carrying business, and will be able to arrange if needed to carry e load of 40 persons at ay time to Hawera or Eltham. Judgment was given yesterday by Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., in the case of Teed and Co. (Mr. Govett) v. Dr. H. A. M'Cleland (Mr. D. Hutchen) claim £lO lis 3d, there being a counter claim for £3 5s 6d for commission on prescriptions from January 1911 to September, 1911. His Worship gave judgment for the plaintiff for the full amount claimed, less 15s and costs £1 6s. On the counter claim, judgment was for the defendant for £3 5s O'd and costs £2 6s. Among recent visitors to Gisborne was Mr. F. Black, the well-known consulting electrical engineer, who availed himself of an opportunity to inspect the storage battery trams. Mr. Black, as is well known, has not shown any inclination in the past to praise the system of tramways which has been adopted in this town. He made a minute inspection of the batteries, and carefully studied their operations generally. Seen on the subject, Mr. Black said that he did not wish at this stage to give his views on the cars, but it is not unlikely that they will form the subject of a report to another borough which is interested in tramways shortly. —Gisborne Times. The report of the Inglewood Public Library, which is to be presented at the annual meeting of subscribers in the Bor(■■■'g'l Council Chambers on Friday, May .' 0, shows the year has been a successful (me The year was commenced with a credit balance of £l7O 12s 2d, and concluded with a balance of £156 13s 6d. The number of subscribers at present is 98, and the subscriptions for the year amounted to £55 18s 2d, a considerable improvement on the previous year; 487 volumes were added to the library and a fifth supplement to the catalogue will shortly be prepared. The number of books issued to subscribers during the year ending 31st December, 1912, was 7510. The State School Section which has been in existence since March, 1912. has issued about IfiOO books free of charge to 81 pupils of the State School in the 4th, sth, and fith standards, thus extending the benefits of a good library to the young people of the town, and encouraging a taste for reading. "We are told that fanners are the backbone of the country, but I thinkthere is a lot of jelly about them as well," declared a Tuakau farmer at the conference of the Farmers' Union at Auckland. He complained that every class of the community was protected but the farmer. People engaged in manufacturing had their prices kept up by protection, but was there any such action as an attempt to keep the price of butter to, say, 2s per lb, and that of meat to Is per lb? The cry of the country was: "Let the farmers pay; they are only soft country bumpkins." He complained that the middlemen made a prac-, tice of extracting prohibitive prices from the farmers for agricultural machinery, and urged that the latter should stand more firmly against such impositions. "They have their motor cars and their mansions in the suburbs," concluded the speaker, amidst much laugher, "and we continue slaving in the backblocks to keep them going." The students of the Technical College and their instructors are to be congratulated on the success of the concert and dance given on Monday evening in the school to celebrate the end of the terra. The wide corridors made a splendid ballroom, while there couldn't have been a better card-room than the laboratory, with its convenient benches. Mr. F. P. Corkill (chairman of the Advisory Board of the College) presided over an attendance that must have been in the neighborhood of two hundred. During the first part of the evening, an enjoyable concert was held, pianoforte solos being given by Master K. Ward and Mr. G. Hooker, songs by Misses Gilbert (duet), Miss S. Thomson, Messrs. A. Gray, C. T. Mills, Meikle, Mills and F. W. Sanford. The supper arrangements were all that could be desired, and this big attraction was followed by a dance, with cards for the non-dancers. Music was supplied by Miss George (piano), Messrs. Wylie (cornet), V. George and R. Murphy (violins). The news that these functions are likely to grace the end of every term will be welcome to those who spent such a pleasant evening with the students. The annual monthly meeting of the W.C.T.U. will be held "this (Wednesday) afternoon in the Good Templar Lodge Room, at 3 p.m.—Advt. YOU SHOULD BE DETERMINED in reiecting the worthless and frequently injurious counterfeits which are sometimes pushed for the. sake of creator gain as "just as good'' as the GENUINE SANDER & SONS' VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Be not deceived. SANDER'S EXTRACT is recognised by the highest medical authorities as possessing unique stimulating, healing and antiseptic powers. The preparation of SANDER'S EXTRACT from the pure selected leaves, and the refinement by special processes, give it curative virtues peculiarly its own. Therefore, he not i misled. Demand and insist upon the GENUINE SANDER EXTRACT, and yon will derive the benefit that thousand.* have reaped from it before. When ill vbu should not depress yourself move by the common, bulky and nauseating eucalyptus oils and so-called '■' extracts." What you want is quality mid reliability in small dose; and this von find only'in SANDER'S EXTRACT.

J A commercial man confesses that many j men are poor through missing opportunities to become rich. About ten years, ago he was offered several hundred acre* of land at 7s Od per acre, and did not take it, for at that time most of the Nelson orchards were on fiats ''by the river, whereas the land submitted to him for purchase was on a slope. To-day mcuh of it. is planted with fruit trees and is worth £lO an acre at the very' least. He believes that in a few years the Nelson orchards alone will fill all the needs of the New Zealand trade. A splendid euchre party and dance was held in the Brougham Street Hall last night, in aid of the funds of the Taranaki Circular Road Race. The hall, which was beautifully decorated for the occasion by Mr. H. Brookes, was well filled with tables to the number of over forty. The ladies' prize was won by Mrs. John Harvey, with Mrs. W. Saddler second. Mr. Bishop, of Bell Block, won the men's prize, and Mr. W. Knott was runner-up. An excellent supper was provided, and after the cards dancing was indulged in till the early hours of the morning, the music being supplied by Mrs. George's orchestra.

A special article in the London Times' Engineering Supplement deals with the system of airship construction planned by Mr. A. Boemicr. The proposals show (says the writer) on what a grandiose scale and with what minuteness of detail the building of airships is now being carried out. at any rate on paper. Briefly, it may be said that he contemplates an aerial cruiser capable of carrying 300 persons, with all the comforts of a firstclass hotel, for a distance of 4000 miles without intermediate lan'ding, at an average speed exceeding GO miles an hour. The total length of the chassis is 966ft—longer than the largest ship afloat-and it has a width of 82ft. Upon it is mounted a platform, 138 ft wide, which carries the gas baloons, each 46ft in diameter and 72ft high

On the subject of the well-tested superstition which sailors entertain regarding black cats, a correspondent writes to the London Spectator as follows:—"About twenty years ago, when I was resident in North China, the British squadron, then in Far Eastern waters, was steaming out of the port of Chefoo, when a Jittle black eat fell overboard from H.M.S. Wanderer. At once the ship stopped, signalled to her consorts 'cat overboard,' and the entire squadron came to a standstill. A boat put off from the Wanderer and picked up the cat, which was swimming for dear life after the ship. The officer who told me the story said the sailors would have been furious if the little cat had not been saved, for not only was she a great pet, but they firmly believed that disaster would follow if a black cat were allowed to drown."

The word "jingo," used to describe a noisy advocate of war, came into use in Britain during the progress of the RussoTurkish War of 1877. A large party, including both Liberals and Conservatives, wanted Britain to go to the aid of Turkey and drive the Russians back from Thrace. "The men of action got a nickname," writes Justin McCarthy. "They were dubbed the Jingo Party. Some Tyrtaeus of the tap-tub, some Korner of the music halls, had composed a ballad, which was sung at one of these caves of harmony every night amidst the tumultuous applause of excited patriots. Ihe refrain of this war song contained the spirit-stirring words: 'We don't want to .fight, but, by jingo, if we do. we've the ships, we've got the men, and we've got the money, too.' Someone whose pulse tins lyrical outburst of national pride failed to stir called this a party of war enthusiasts and jingoes." The name has ne rs,sted. and is serving the purpose of the anti-nuhtarists at the present day