LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 19, 23 June 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A proposal has been circulated among members of the Canadian Parliament to raise their salaries to £ 1000 a year. The recent death of Sir Arthur Guinness recalls the fact that his friend, Mr. Seddon, died on the same date seven years ago At last Herr Kubelik has paid cash in satisfaction of the historic claim of Mr. Hugo Gorlitz of £I2OO, and the famous Guarnerious violin is out of the custody of the German courts. "Half the time we are calling out for. inspectors and the other half we are ' cursing them," said a delegate, amidst laughter, at the National Dairy CoriTerenee at Palmerston North last week. The Minister for Education gave an assurance to a deputation from the Otago University at Dunedin last week that the necessary lands would be set j aside for the purposes of a veterinary college. Factory pays-out on the 20th Juno were:—Eltham (ll%d per lb) £2,218; Mangorei £1,041 17s ~9d; Oakura, £424 17s 3d; Uahotu, £417; Omata £319; Warea £374; Uruti, £241; Okato-Puni- ' ho, £807; Bell Block, £917. A good find of Maori curios was made the other day on a Horowhenua run. When a young man was riding over a sand drift he saw a Maori axe. He picked it up, and on digging into the sand he found two more axes—one of greenstone. A steamer with a full cargo (probably <55,000 cases) of "Shell" benzine will leave Sumatra immediately for New Zealand, discharging at Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru and Dunedin. Sue is due in New Zealand in four or five weeks' time. The Opunalte Times says the County Engineer has been authorised to enforce the heavy traffic by-laws and make a test case by introducing four or five carters with small tyres and heavy loads to His Worship. The "catches" are to be made from the four corners of the County. In connection with the subject of high herd tests the Eltham Argus states that Mr. T. W. Burke has a herd of 28 Jer-sey-Holstein cows, and supplies the Lowgarth factor}'. His test for the season just closed averaged 8 . tin's is a fine test for a whole herd, and is not easily! beaten. The French Government has conceived a novel idea to encourage the growth of families. Free trips to seaside resorts are offered to those motners and fathers who have three children under 16 years of i>ge. The excursions are to popular places, but so far the demand for tickets' has been small. On Thursday afternoon, Mr. 15. Miller, of Waverley, was the victim of a rather painful accident (says the Patea Pros). Whilst sawing a heavy piece of timber, a tooth of the saw broke off short, and, flying back, struck Mr. Miller with great force under the right eye, indicting a painful wound. In the course of his speech st Eltham on Friday evening, thanking <he contributors for a presentation of over £IOO, Mr. Astbury said his services were at the disposal" of the Liberal party at the next general election, when it was hoped they would wrest the Egmont seat from the Conservatives. Judge Aspinall, in refusing to grant excessive alimony to Mrs. Heye, the wife of a millionaire bank.-; of New York, said: "Society women make me tired. They go to fashionable restaurants and clubs, drink highballs and smoke cigarettes, instead of staying at home and making their husbands happy." "What is this for, Mr. Johnstone? Is it to give me an opportunity of seeing whether I am being charged too much?" —An exclamation from His Honor Mr. Justice Edwards, when Mr. A. H. Johnstone asked a Supreme Court witness, on Saturday, what was the amount of In's weekly bill at the White Hart Hotel. The local Argus states that the number of cheeses by the Eltham Dairv Co., made during the season was 31,001, of the approximate value of £77,500. The butter made to the end of May was 770,478 lbs., the approximate value amounting to £38,800. Cheese-making j s expected to commence again about" the end of August. "There, are too manv people in New Zealand," said Mr. Primrose MeCoimell in a paper delivered before, the National Dairy Association at Palmerston North the other day, "under the impression that all other countries are asleep except their own, and it is just the kind of feeling that in the end leads to stagnation and stimulates a pride which is not desirable." A leading tradesman at Christehurch, in conversation with a reporter, stated f hat though he had not yet made up his returns for the last week, he anticipated that, consequent on the establishment of the Saturday half-holiday, his receipts would show a decrease of close on £2OO. It is reported that another tradesman, in a fairly large way of business, took the magnificent, sum of one shilling and sixpence on the Friday night. Mrs. J. G. Ward, a resident of Cambridge, died under tragic circumstances at her home one day last week. It appears that while partaking of the evening meal a piece of meat lodged in her throat, completely blocking respiration, and although efforts were made by those present to dislodge the obstruction, they proved unavailing, and the unfortunate lady quickly suffocated. For some time past deceased had suffered from an affection of the throat which made it difficult for her to swallow food at times. In the course of evidence given in a case at the Supreme Court on Saturday, Mayner, an American oil borer, explained that when a bit was lost in boring, they resorted to "fishing," and when these efforts had failed, they endeavored to "side-track" it by putting down smaller casing. Later, *His Honor Mr. Justice Edwards had some questions to ask, and the judge was not at all satisfied with the answers. "Witness," lie said, "you may have side-tracked that bit, but you can't side-track me in this : business!" The American smiled broadly. SALE OF SUITS AND "JOB" SUNDRIES This sale at the Melbourne, Ltd., offers splendid saving opurtimities to purchasers of men's and boys' suits, etc. Heads of families and others buying in anticipation of the various Taranaki winter shows and the forthcoming visit of H.M.S. New Zealand will be well advised to make their purchases at the Melbourne during the currency of this sale. Here are a few of the wbnderful bargains:—Boys' tweed knickers, Is lid; men's all-wool 'varsity "suits, 10s Od; boys' Norfolk suits, 13s 6d; men's Kaiapoi suits, 28s 8d; ladies' costume skirts, 33 Cd; ladies' fabric gloves, 3d pair; men's' new Hydrotite coats, 29s 6d; Roslyn saddle-tweed trousers, 7s lid; RosIyn tailored suits (stunning value), 455; men's high-grade tailored suits, 59s 6d; and the famous Llama sui*« f o r 655. Ccme and see tbem.

Vc!»tor<!uy was tlie shortest day of the year.

The New Plymouth Brotherhood held a very successful gathering yesterday, His Worship tins Mayor (Mr. G. W. Browne) presiding. An address was given by Ma jor-Cha plain J. A. Lux ford: During the afternoon, His Worship announced that the membership had now reached 300. Two songs were given bv Mr. Norman Day, Mr. A. V. Carbines playing the accompaniments. The necessity for the readjustment of county boundaries was brought up at the meetii!'.- of the Moa Road Board on Saturday, w:i.ri an instance was shown where a si-U'.er whose property was in the Stratford county, but who was compelled to use the Moa Road Board's roads as a means of ingress and egress, because there was no road to his property in the Stratford county, to which lie paid about £lO per annum in rates. It was accordingly resolved to ask the Stratford County Council to donate half the rates received from the property to the upkeep of this road. A pathetic story of the mission field is told by a New York correspondent of the Montreal Daily Witness. When the steamer Verona had been moored at the pier, one of the passengers, Miss Margaret Reynolds, stepped ashore after an absence of two years in India, where she had been engaged in the famine-stricken regions. Awaiting her was Mr. Walter H. Thompson, of Chicago, to whom she was betrothed. But instead of the girl who left him two years age-he found a grey-haired woman of 24, bereft of rc'ai soiv,who failed to recognise him. The | suffering she witnessed in India drove . her insane, and she was brought back I to New York in charge of a nurse.