LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A woman resident in the Miilioe district is at present in the Stratford Public Hospital, suffering, it is reported, from the effects of injuries received in a domestic row, being found insensible in a paddock near the house. — Stratford Post.

Of the three freezing works operating in Taranaki, at Patea, New Plymouth and Waitara, only the Waitara works are running on full staff. The Patea works are not killing up to capacity, while Smart Road (New Plymouth) is totally inactive. The result is a constant traffic of stock northward to Borthwick’s works at Waitara. On Monday goods trains passing through Eltham were crammed with stock for the slaughterhouse and the freezer, and on Tuesday a special train—an interminable string of twenty-seven wag gons—took an assortment of animals to the same destination, says the Argus. Among the South American delegates to the congress of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science is Sir 'William Sowden, who recently retired from the position of chief editor and part-proprietor of The Register (Adelaide) and its associated afternoon and weekly papers, so that lie might devote himself to other forms of literature and to further travel. Whilst in New Zealand it is his intention to investigate the subjects, of prison reform and forest administration.

It is not often that one finds a member of a drainage board who applies a sentiment to business (says the Waikato Times.) This occurred at the lastmeeting of the Hungahunga Drainage Board at Te Arolia, when the clerk, Mr. F. Wild, stated that the board was temporarily “on the rocks.” A sympathetic member immediately wrote a cheque for £5O. which would stand against his coming liability for rates. The pessimistic views held bv some people-, regarding the likelihood of Lake Coleridge proving inadequate to supply the water necessary to generate 12000 k.w.—the full capacity of the power station as originally planned—are, it appears, not to bo realised. The eoncrate portion of the dam at the outfall lias been finished, and it is estimated that in two weeks the remainder of Ibe work will be comnleled. The effect of this work, when finished, will bo to permit the lake level to be raised to 1670 feet. Regarding the completion of installation of the sixth’ (and final) generating unit of 3000 k.w., some essential equipment has not. yet come to hand from America, but this will not interfere with the testing of the generator. All the connections have not yet been made, but it is anticipated that everything will I>e ready for the test in a few days. The fourth pipe line (which is th serve the sixth generator) .has been emptied after a preliminary test, and is being refilled in readiness for the final test.

In a recent jetter from Mr. F. A. Hornibrook to a friend in Christchurch mention is made of a serious accident which Mrs. Hornibrook (nee Miss Ettie Rout, author of the censored book “Safe Marriage”) suffered at Cologne in November last. Mrs. Hornibrook fell through a trap-door in the hall of the hotel where she was staying into the cellar below. The distance was some 30 ft., and she would probably have been killed but for the fact that she fell on the proprietor of the hotel, who incidentally had some ribs broken and q-eceived I’lsevere bruises. Mrs. Hornibrook suffered from concussion of the brain, and was paralysed in both arms, but under skilled medical attention she made a good recovery.

In a stock waggon which arrived at Eltham on Monday, on the way to the slaughter-board at Waitara, there were seven cows and a bull. The bull was tied by the head to prevent him from damaging the complexions of his fel-low-travellers. However, his bovine instincts were not to be denied, and lie succeeded in getting five of them down and tramping about among them, to the great detriment of their hides. By the time the waggon got to Eltham tlie beasts were unable to rise, while the cause of their prostration was raging in a fearsome manner inside his travelling prison. Attempts were made by the Eltham .station staff to get the cows to their feet, but even that usually infallible means of persuasion, the high-pressure hose, failed to do the job. So the truck was taken to tlie stockrace and the animals forced into the yard. One eow was found to be dead. The others were separated from the bull, and placed in another waggon, while he was put in with the carcase again, and sent in its company to pay the extreme penalty for his sins.— Argus. (Beautiful Foulard silks at 14/6 j-ard can be bought for 8/11 yard at 0. C. Wards , Ltd., clean-up sale. Best quality cotton Foulards reduced from 4/6 to 2/11 and 2/11 yard to 1/11 yard. Wonderful value in Jap. crepes, 1/6, 1 educed to 1/-, 1/9 reduced to 1/3; beautiful colors.

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