LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The mail train was half-an-hour late in arriving at New Plymouth last night, the delay being caused by engine trouble.

A discharge in bankruptcy to Walter W. Jackson, 'bus proprietor, New Plymouth, was granted by His Honor Mr. Justice Salmond in the Supreme Court yesterday. Mr. I*. H. Quilliam appeared in support of the application.

The present sessions of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth will be concluded to-day. His Honor Mr. Justice Salmond stated during yesterday's sitting that owing to a previous fixture he would have td* be in Wellington for a sitting on Monday.

“I can only say I am surprised; the land agents must; have been perfectly well aware of the law,” said His Honor Mr. Justice Salmond in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth yesterday, the comment being drawn by the fact that in the case under consideration there was apparently an infringemet of the regulations regarding the rights of enemy aliens in holding land.

Mr. David McFarlane, of Wanganui, who was in Hawera the other day, has recently returned from an extended tour of Australia and the South Sea Islands. Speaking of the conditions in Australia he stated to a friend that the cables published in the daily newspapers gave the reader only a faint idea of the result of the mismanagement of the various Labor Governments.—Star.

Fifty-five applications under the Discharged Soldiers’ Settlements Acts were dealt with as follows at this week’s meeting of the Taranaki Lahd Board: Eleven applications to erect houses were recommended, 1 refused and 1 deferred; 4 applications for farms were recommended, 3 refused and 1 deferred; 19 applications for ktock were recommended, 3 refused, and 6 deferred; 2 applications for additional building grants were recommended; 1 application to transfer was recommended and 1 deferred; 1 application for stock was withdrawn; and 1 application to sublease was refused. “Doctors’ opinions have always been a puzzle to me, and particularly after what I have heard in this Court during the last few days,” said visiting counsel in the course of some remarks before His Honor Mr. Justice Salmond in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth yesterday. In this instance the barrister was referring to a medical man’s diagnosis of a certain complaint which, it seemed, was a combination of rheumatics and “nerves.” In his passing comment he no doubt had in mind the preceding ease in the Court in which there was a good deal of medical testimony on the question of sanity. The settlers of Huiroa are interesting themselves in forming a drainage board to open up a large area of swamp land which at the present time is more or less useless. They propose to form themselves into a drainage, board, with the object of raising money to drain the land, which is at present going to waste. Last Saturday Mr. Fox, one of the settlers, waited on the Stratford County Council and asked for assistance in forming a board, but although the council considered the scheme to he a very good one it could not promise any assistance. The settlers have asked Mr. R. Masters, M.P., to obtain full particulars in regard to what must bo done to form a board, and he is taking the matter up with the Minister of Lands. A young man named Patrick Malone, a resident of Palmer. Road. Mahoe, and a recent arrival from Australia, was admitted to the Stratford Hospital on Wednesday suffering from a badly shattered hand. It appears that he was out shooting yesterday evening and when getting through a wire fende his gun went off, and he received the full force of the discharge on one of his hands. On examination at the hospital amputation was found necessary. It is stated that the unfortunate man displayed considerable fortitude under the I circumstances. While his hamjl—it was , the right one—was hanging by the shat- ' tered tendons, he lightly remarked as he held it up: “Oh, I think I’ll give it the axe now!”—-Post.

Speaking at the meeting of the Maketawa Dairy Company yesterday, Mr. J. referred to the apathy shown by farmers in matters that concerned their own advancement. He instanced the fact that a branch of the Farmers’ Union had been established there a year ago, but had practically died for lack of interest. He had ridden five miles to attend a meeting and found only one or two others there. He recognised that it was difficult perhaps to keep a branch going in a small district, so he proposed to write representatives of the Farmere’ Union executive to address a meeting at Inglewood, with a view to forming a branch 'there, and he urged all farmers who recognised the benefits to be derived from the Farmers’ Union to attend that meeting.

Two small parties were at work on Baine’s Terrace, New Plymouth, on Saturday last. One was engaged in burning rubbish and clearing up and the other was employed in removing and replanting trees and shrubs, kindly presented by Mr. Erie Shaw. Some of the trees required five men to shift them. Miss Agnes Wilson, assisted by her niece, kindly provided afternoon tea for one party and Mrs. Stanley Shaw and Mrs. Eric Shaw were good enough to provide the other party with refreshments Owing to the inter-provincial football match between Wellington and Taranaki being fixed for to-morrow, work will be suspended until the following Saturday. Don’t forget the grand concert in the Okato Ha'i at 7.30 p.m. to-morrow. Soiled clothes soaked overnight with “Fairy Wonder ’ washing powder req 'ire little or no boiling on washing morning. All dirt will have been practically removed through the agency of “Fairy,” and all that is necessary is a light rinsing or two. Try this plan for your next washing. Bo sure and ask for “Fairy.” Your grocer stocks it.

1 The second of the Sunday recitals being given by the Citizens' Band will ’ take place at Everybody’s Theatre on • Sunday next (29th inst), at 8.15 p.m. A ? collection in aid of contest expenses will bo taken. J Messrs. J. R. Hill and Son advertise in .ithis issue an exceptional!}' cheap farm ( I of 100 acres or so, close to New PlyJ mouth, and first-class land. Early in- . i spoction should be made. ' > Tt was proved at the Supreme Court ’ | of Victoria, at that (1) ! SANDER’S EXTRACT is much more i ’ powerfully healing and antiseptic than ’ ordinary ' eucalyptus preparations; (2) ! SANDER’S EXTRACT does not dei i press the heart like the so-called “ex- (‘ tracts” and crude oils; (3) SANDER’S ; , EXTRACT’ is highly commended by many authorities as a safe, reliable and i , effective household remedy. Get the i genuine—insist if you have to— and be

Pukekos are becoming troublesome in the Makino district, near Feilding, and farmers state that they have attacked and destroyed crops of mangolds as soon as these field roots have matured.

“The grime in the atmosphere and the fog ana mist that intercept the violet, rays from the sun are responsible for the pasty-faced, anaemic individuals that we see about. Therefore, I want to get all the coal out of Christchurch and have everything worked *by electricity,’ said Dr. Thacker during a health talk at Chistchueh.

“The slump is reflecting itself in our work,” said a Greymouth police officer recently. “Not for a very long period Jias there been such a lull in polic activities on the West Coast” A genera! shortage of money all round, he said, was the cause of the quiet time. The work of Ratana, the Maori healer, was referred to by Dr. Thacker during his health lecture at the Y'.M.C.A. at Christchurch. He said that he believed in the work which Katana was doing. He had had given to him personal experiences of Ratana’s cures by two people. One was a woman, who suffered from cancer in the breast, who had suffered for a long time, and now said she was greatly improved. When asked how she had been Improved, she said she had been communicating with Ratana and he had helped her. “He’s the wonder in New Zealand to-day,” said Dr. Tharker. “It may be just faith, or it may be some telepathic business which he sends from himself. Ratana may by means of telepathy be appealing to cells in the brain which have never been used before, stirring those cells up, unknown to us, to greater activity. If you go back to the early Christian era, you find the great Master doing the same, saying, "If you Jiave faith you will be healed.” Ratana is doing the same.” Joseph Wolsey was charged at the Hawera Magistrate's Court on Wednesday, with having on May 13 assaulted at Hawera Patrick Joseph Nolan, a farmer, residing at Turuturu Road, who said that on May 12 last he was M.C. at a dance at the Foresters’ Hall. During the dance he had occasion to speak to some men about their conduct, but the accused was not one of these. After ’.he dance witness, with three others, was talking near Watson’s boarding house. Someone came out of the board-ing-house with his sleeves rolled up, and struck witness in the mouth, breaking his fake teeth, which had cost him £6 6s to replace. Nothing further was said. Besides hitting witness accused followed one of his companions to the roadway. The accused \yas convicted and fined £l. and was ordered to pay the value of the teeth, £6 6s, in default one month’s imprisonment in New Plymouth gaol. Time was asked in which to pay a portion of the fine. Sergeant Henry objected on the grounds that accused was a bird of passage. The bench allowed no time.

The restoration of a family Bible which had been taken from South Africa during the war was a unique incident occurring during the gathering held at the Star Hotel, Auckland, on Friday evening, when the South African veterans of Auckland made - a presentation to the Springboks. One of the veterans present, a member of the Seventh New Zealand Contingent, on returning from the war,, brought with him to New Zealand the Bible which had been taken from a Boer farm. He had travelled about considerably since that time, and had carried it with him all the time. His wife had a superstitious feeling that bad luck would pursue him until it was returned to its rightful owner. Whether or no, he had experienced some hard times since the end of his war experiences. Some little time ago the wife died, but the man still remembered her •wish that the Bibld should go to its rightful owner. The possessor of the book noticed the name of Mr. .1. S. Olivier among the footballers arriving in Auckland. From the name in the Bible ho concluded that Mr. Olivier might be a relative of the owner, and took the book to the hotel on the off-chance. Very brief inquiry showed that Mr. Olivier was a relative, and also that the Bible had been a cherished family possession. It was consequently handed over ‘o Mr. Olivier, and now. after over twenty years’ wanderings, is. well on the way to being restored to its original owner.— N.Z. Herald.