LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 15, 5 June 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Burglars stole a number of watches from a shop in Alpha road, Surbiton, hill, London, and a notice in the window of the shop now reads, "Our watches go without winding." The Minister for Public Works has

notified the Tarana'ki County Council that a grant of £250 ha» been made for wonk on the Carrington rood, between the Kiri and Momona streams, and that information is awaited aa tb wtoat form the Council would propose the work to taike.

The days of "knocking down" big cheques are not yet evidently done. A week or two ago a man came to Masterton (says the Age) with a cheque for £4O. He went to Wellington, and on his return on Wednesday night he applied to the sergeant for tea, bed and breakfast.

A Bermondsey Borough Council recent return shows that in a period extending over less than a fortnight one inspector put through the destructor 3 tons 2cwt. 3qrs. of bad eggs. Another inspector destroyed 038 tins of various tinned goods because they were unfit for human consumption..

The Hon. Minister of Internal Affairs has fixed the dirawing of the art union in connection with the Band Carnivii to take place at the County Chamber; on Saturday evening at 6 o'clock. The Citizens' Committee extend to the public an invitation to be present at the drawing, which will take place punotu ally at the advertised time. Professor Henri Bergson, the newest and most popular of French philosopher*, delivered the Gifford lecture at Edinburgh University the other day. He tontended that the illusion that obsessed some people of living a past life over. again was due to the attention flagging while they were converting a perception into the memory. Thereby the details of the scene were thrown into the recollection, while the scene, as a whole, was recognised to be new. Mr J. Larsen, of Glen Oroua, had an encounter with a bull last week that might have resulted more seriously than it did. He was in the act of mending a gate on his farm, when the animal charged him, knocked him down, and rolled him into a ditch for some hours, hut eventually it went far enough away to enable Mr. Larsen to extricate himself from.his awkward predicament. Mr Larsen was considerably bruised, and will be confined to his house for some«ays. Sir John Ramsden, one of the largest land owners in England, whose death is announced i>i his eighty-third year, owned 150,000 acres of land. Some years ago it was stated that he owned the land on which every house in Huddersfield was built except one. Being desirous to obtain possession of this piece of land, Sir John, to tempt the owner—a Quaker—offered to cover the ground with sovereigns. "All right," was the reply, "I will sell it to thee if thou wilt'put them on edgeways up." The sale did not take place. The subject of land versus income tax is discussed in the last issue of the Farmers' Union Advocate. "The land owners of New Zealand," concludes our contemporary, "contributed last year the sum of £728,636 on the annual value of £10,648,173, based on 5 per cent, of capital value, while incomes assessed at £12,999,338 contributed only £402,990. In the above computation of annual value no allowance is made for exemptions, while the assessed incomes are only those over £3OO, so that the comparison is even more against the land »wner than the figures seen to show."

There wag a serious motor car smash at Otaki shortly before midday on Wed-no-day. A five-seater car, belonging to Mr Martini, of Te Horo, and driven by a young Maori, was crossing the line a few yards north of Otaki railway ■station, when a mixed train, which, had jusft left the yard, crashed into it. It seems that the driver of the car saw the train approaching, applied the brakes, and came to a dead stop right be fcween the rails. The engine shot the motor about tmienty yards' ahead, completely wrecking it. The driver, howwas thrown clear, and miraculously tspaped death!. He sustained nothing more than a- few bruibes.

Speaking to a Nelson Mail reporter, Mr A. E. Tyrer, of Auckland, who is well qualified to speak on the subject, and who has just concluded a trip round Motueka and Riwaka, said he was surprised at the enormous waste of fruit at these places for the want of a canning factory. It was a mystery to him that the matter had not been taken up before. Much money was spent annually with America for canned fruits, which could be produced here, besides being of superior quality. The sinful waste of fruit should be met at once by canning for export and home consumption. It would spell ruin for a number of growers if something was not done. If the glut of fruit was stopped in the Nelson district, it would mean that tho price for first-grade fruit would rise in Wellington and the grower would not only get the top price in Wellington, but would also get a good price at the factory. .

FOX AND DTFHTHEIUA would certainly not have attained such proportions if the hygienic fact were more gererally known that the disinfec■on of the rabuth by a reliable and •.armless antiseptic is a great protecting iactor against all ailments where the infection is through the throat or reIpiratory tract. By putting 3 drops ol BANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT or. i piece of loaf-sugar, and allowing it to ilisaoive in the mouth, that cavity it thoroughly disinfected. The- volatih nature of SANDER'S EXTRACT make, H penetrate every crevice. SANDER'S EXTRACT is not nauseous nor depressing like the common eucalyptus, and pos ICBses great antiseptic power, liv usin° SANDER'S EXTRACT, you avoid fluuncertain composition of the lozenge: you iive the benefit of the strongest antiseptic that can be used with safety, and the result is protection from all inf«4»'.on.