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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143550, 15 July 1911, Page 2

, I spent Os to have a doctor prescribe for mo for a pain in my back, and now I don’t know whether I have been cured or not. The doctor gave mo some pills, and the directions read: “Take one pill half an hour before you feel the pain coming on.”

file health officer of 'Aurora, Illinois, has taken a drastic step to compel pleanliriess in the town. With the consent of the police, he issued an order to the residents that they must take at least one bath per week, or be locked up. In a report on living conditions in New York the Charity Organisation Society states that there arc now over 100,000 beggars in that city. This number is easily a record, and the society reports that the total is increasing to an alarming extent. Lord Brassey (who is 74 years of age) announced his conversion to votes for women at a suffragist meeting held at Hastings, with Lady Brassey in the chair. He ia.id he had found sitting on the fence very uncomfortable, and ho would no longer differ from his wife.

Insurance against sickness among the poorer classes in Denmark is carried on by some 1500 voluntary unions, controlled only by the Government. They have 666,000 members—ono-quartor of the population of the country. ThS members pay £300,000 a year themselves, and |he Exchequer supports the unions to tire extent of £125,000 yearly.

Considerable interest has been roused in/agricultnijlil circles in France by an invention for preventing tho formation of hail. It takes the form of rockets, or Ipil-dispeUing petards, which, exploding at altitudes varying from 1300 ft. to 1600 ft., break np the hail clouds. F,ighty firing stations have been set up for the protection of 59,000 acres of rich land at Limagne. The cost of the chief parts. of a modern British battleship are as follow:—The two 12in. turret guns, with their mountings and protection, cost £IOO,OOO. and £l5O is the price of firing each shell. The torpedo' tubes cost £3OOO each, and the weapons thetnsolves £6OO each. The armour—about 4800 tons—costs something like £l2O a ton. Lastly, it costs about £l4 an hour for fuel.

A man.in a country town was recently fined for assaulting a policeman, and, considering himself badly treated, made abusive remarks about the court as he was leaving the dock. A constable was sent to bring him back, and he was again fined, this time for contempt of court. “My man,” said the magistrate, ‘’if you' had been more chaste and refined in your language you would not have been chased and re-fined.”

The scarcity of butter, which has resulted in a considerable advance in price on the Auckland market recently, is. becoming more stringent, the supply not being equal to the demand. Butter merchants on Friday notified a further advance of Id per lb. for butter in pound pats, making the present price Is 3jd wholesale. Although abnormal rates aro now being paid to farmers for such small supplies of butter-fat as are obtainable, the heavy cost of production leaves little margin, even on the present prices. The drought of the autumn is approximated to have caused the loss of £350,000.

According to Mr. Fowlpls it is doubtful whether the North Island will gain two or possibly -only one seat in the House of Representatives as the result of the recent census. The difficulty of giving a decisive opinion is, due to the fact that the quotum of electors in towns is 25 per cent, higher than in country electorates, thus it needs some calculation to work out tho required figures, and this has not yet boon done. If the North' Island gains one seat it will probably go to the neighbourhood of the Taumarunui electorate ; if two scats, the second will be for a new electorate near Auckland. ■ A convict prison, containing 116 men and 35 women, at Landcron, near Neuchatel, Switzerland, was set on fire by a defective chimney. Fanned by a strong wind, the fire spread rapidly, and, in spite of the efforts of ll fire brigades, five of the ten buildings, including the Governor’s house, were dostroved. The greatest service was rendered bv the convict fire brigade, who practically saved, with the aid of women convicts, ‘ other buildings where men were confined. The convicts worked hard for four hours, and during the panic many could have escaped, but not one of them is missing. Tho Governor complimented the convicts. The women were sent to Witzwil Prison, while the men returned to their cells. The Rev. R. J. Liddell will preach in Queen Street Primitive' Methodist Church to-morrow evening on tho subject, ‘‘The, local press in its attitude towards Tattersalls’ colossal gambling .system.”* The services at tho Wbiteley Memorial Church will be conducted morning and evening by the Rev. J- W. Burton. Tho morning subject will- be “The Christian and the World,” and in the ' evening Air. Burton will give a special address on “Gambling—is it Ethically Wrong?" Reference is frequently made in the press to tho evils of excessive gambling, while it is almost for "ranted that there is no wrong in the thing per se. The attempt will lie made on Sunday evening to show that tho act of gambling is in itself unethical and therefore under the ban of the moral sense. » Members of the Equitable Building Society of Now Plymouth (First and Second Groups) are notified that subscriptions will be duo and payable on Monday next, at the Secretary’s Office,. Currie Street; from 9 a.m. to 12.80, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 8

Word has been received in Wellington from Captain Hasle, who recently investigated conditions in New Zealand -with a view to starting the whaling industry in these waters, that the “New Zealand Whaling • Company, Ltd.” has been .formed, and that the full amount of the capital has been subscribed with the exception of £SOOO, reserved for Australasian shareholders. The head of the firm which inaugurated the enterprise is Mr. C. Nielsen, British Vice-Consul, Larvik, Norway. A young man named John Wilson was arrested by Detective-Sergeant Boddam yesterday afternoon on a charge of theft of four pictures, valued at £6 2s 6d, the property of A. M. Burrows, atEltham on June 5. Ho was brought before Mr. J. S. S. Medley, J.P., in the Police Court this morning, and remanded to appear at Eltham on Tuesday next. Bail was allowed, accused in his own recognizance of £25, and one ' surety in £25.

“They had measles in the house, and ho was unable to have his evidence taken before ho went away.” Such was one of a series of excuses advanced by counsel in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court 'on Wednesday, when urging that an adjournment should’be granted owing to the absence from New: Zealand of his client. Dr. M'Arthur’s eyes twinkled when the above excuse was advanced. “Isn’t that rather a measley excuse?” was his quiet rejoinder, and counsel collapsed, amidst the laughter of the cotirt. 1 The blight which attacked the mimosa trees some years ago is again in Nelson. This blight is also very bad in Wakefield, and is not only attacking gorse, but gooseberries, red currants, rose trees, fuchsias, petunias, and other plants. The Waimea County Council is endeavouring to get a consignment of ladybirds (vedalia cardinalis), which feed on the scale. ■ Mr. E. M’Pherson states that spraying trees with a solution of caustic potash, two ounces to the gallon of water, has been found effectual* br a couple of dressings of kerosene emulsion will check the pest.

About 5.30 p.m. on Friday a horse attached to a gig belonging to Mr. Lightband, of the United Insurance Company, bolted from VOgeltown during the. tempdVary absence of the owner. The animal dashed down the old Carrington Road, throwing out a dog which was in the vehicle, and turned into Currie Street. There the home swerved to avoid an express, and carried away two verandah posts outside Mr. C. Buchanan’s shor, At the next post, however, tho vehicle stopped, with one wheel on the pavement, on tho inner side of the post. Tho traces parted, and the Jiorse went until ho was caught 'fmlher along Currie Street. Strangely, neither the gig nor the horse was injured. Venerable greybeards some of them—but still sports.' Not content with administering the affairs of civic state, the members of the Waimairi County Council, just to show that youth cannot always have its own wav, are going to'play with the girls. Hockey is, to be the particular torm of recreation,. The girls, in tho form of the AVaimairi Ladies’ Hockey, Club, challenged them, and the council, with glistening eye and whole-souled unanimity, have accepted. The great event is due to occur at the Papaiiui Domain at 3 p.m. on Thursday, July 20, and a collection is to be taken at the gate on behalf of the proposed Home for Incurable Consumptives, The council team will comprise at least three grandfathers, and their captain will be their worthy chairman, Mr. S. A. Staples. Councillor Spencer will officiate aa full-back. The girls feel confident of success, but there is an old sporting phrase that “You never know what is in the old horse yet,” and the chances are that if the councillors con only accommodate themselves to their flowing skirts (if they wear them), there will be a record game in the annals of hockey. The Sydney-Furniture Trades’ Society considered ,at a recent meeting the case of an apprentice who, according to an official report, had been discharged by his employer for whistling “YMp-i-adcty” at his work (says the Sydney Morning Herald). It appears that the employer, who evidently disapproves of classical melodies had warned the apprentice against the repetition of the offence. The musical soil! of tho boy, however, refused to be caged, and he was put outside the premises with the proverbial sack on his shoulders. It was pointed out at the union meeting that, nowever grave such an error as that committed in,the case might be, an employer could not discharge an indentured apprentice. He has one of two courses if he finds the melody intolerable—he may transfer the indentures to another employer, or lie may take tlie apprentice before \two justices of the nonce or a court, and'ask for their cancellation. The secretary was instructed to interview Mie/omployer who objected to “Yip-i-addy, and pointed out that he is liable to heavy fines under the Apprentices Act. It seems that in one way or the other the employer will have to face the music.

Air. Arthur Holmes, of Pnpanui, who is now'on a visit to the Old Country, sends to a member of the staff of the Lyttelton Times an amusing account of an incident he witnessed {tt Epsom Downs on Derby Day:—‘Pgrohed on the top of a rather obsolete four-wheeled cab, near Tattonham Corner,” he writes, “was a leather-lunged individual styling himself ‘Lew Burnett.’ After roaring out the odds"that he would give he would assure his hearers that he was no ‘doer,’ and that he was not frightened of being ‘hit,’ etc., etc. However, when these who were fortunate enough to back the winner of the second race made their way to the stand of Lew Burnett (made strikingly effective by the adornment of huge fingerposts and .-placards), they found that their host had vanished. A sudden ripping of painted canvas was the first sign of discontent. Then suddenly those in the vicinity were startled at seeing the cab,thrown over on its side. Not content with their mischief, the crowd (about one hundred) immediately started to break the conveyance to pieces, and finally set tho wreckage on fire. Six policemen complacently gazed oil during the entire proceedings, and only interfered when tho crowd got too close to the burning mass. The last seen of the effects of ‘Lew Burnett were the two front wheels and axle being pulled alone by some of the gaydressed costers, all the rest of the vehicle having vanished in flames.” A bundle of price# from AVhite’s sale list;—Children’s three-quarter cashmere sock in cream, all-wool, 9d per pair; 360 pairs girls’ all-wool stockings. Is per pair; slightly damaged knitted petticoats for children, Is lid. each; art muslin, usually 9Jd, sale price 4cl; all-wool coating serge, Is lid per yard, ip navy and cream; linen glass cloth, 4d per yard; knitted golf coats, 37s 6cl for 15s; seal set 105 s for 30s. * Warm items for tho cold nights.— Boys’ pyjamas, sizes 3 to 14, 4s 3d, rise 3d per size from 3s; boys’ and youths’ singlets, 2s 7d; •boys’ overcoats, frbm 10s 6d; boys’ Norfolk suits, from 11s 6d; men’s all-wool sox, 3 pairs 2s 6d; men’s all-wool singlets. 2s lid; men’s overcoats, from 25s.—The Kash.* Mr. C.' Carter has a replace advertisement of special interest to phonograph owners. ■■

It will be remembered that the officers who were attached for instruction to. the training camp at Tnuherinikau at the beginning of the year, and subsequently were posted to various stations throughout the Dominion for duty, were given probationary appointments covering a period of six months’from the date of joining the camp. The probationary period has now expired,- and among those confirmed in their appointments with the temporary rank of captain is F. Dampen, AdjutanMlth Regiment (.Taranaki Rifles). , An educationist who has just returned to Dunedin.after a visit to several of the technical schools in other parts of the Dominion expressed - the opinion to a Daily Times reporter that the domestic course provided at the Dunedin Technical School must be-re-' garded as one of its outstanding features. The importance' of this branch of technical education seems to be fully recognised, and in order to meet the increased demand for tuition in domestic subjects special classes are being undertaken in physiology, cookery, dressmaking and needlework.

The council of the Auckland Chamber of Comerce on Friday afternoon considered the proposal of AVellington Chamber that Wellington should, be made the distributing port for the Suez mail, the proposal being that the mail should arrive at Wellington from Sydney On Friday morning and be forthwith distributed throughout the Dominion. On the motion or the president (Mr. Leo; Myers), it was unanimously resolved to approve of tho pro--pbsal, provided that it docs not interfere with the present weekly steam service between Auckland and Sydney. A somewhat remarkable coincidence has just happened in Opotiki, Some three years ago a local settler agreed to purchase a piece of land, from a Native named .Kurei. A meeting was arranged to complete the .transaction, but on the day in question the parties concerned missed each other, and next morning Kurei was dead and his son reigned in his stead. Negotiations for the 'and proceeded lately between the settler and.the son, and it was arranged on Friday last that tho deed should be .completed on Saturday. • The settler turned up, only to learn that Kurei number two had been found dead in lus lied that morning. An incident occurred at Hope. (Nelson) last week which, in the interests of other stock owners, should have publicity. Mrs; , Vincent Clayden, after pruning shrubs ill her flower garden, threw the cuttings into the paddock adjoining, where ii) due course they were to be binned. Three cows in tho paddock, however, ate the rhododenuron cuttings with avidity. The cows were afterwards discovered to be suffering severely, the symptoms being similar to those of tuju poisoning. The cows were eventually saved. A former resident of India 'states that-it is well known in that country that cattle must not bo allowed to eat rhododendron foliage. To carry out the systematic magnetic survey of Australia is the mission of .Mr. E. Kidson, a younij 'New Zealand scientist, who arrived'm Australia a few days ago by the R.M.S. Moldavia. Mr. Kidson is a member of the staff of the Carnegio Institution of Terrestrial Magnetism at Washington/ and has for some time been engaged on thesurvey steamer Carnegie. His work in Australia will occupy about throe years, during which he will carry out surveys of the whole of the States, establishing where possible stations. The work should .prove, of great advantage to Australia (says the Melbourne Argus), as it will check all errors of the compass and enable surveyors to carry out calculations more accurately. While in Melbourne he will train another native of New Zealand, Mr. E, N. Webb, in magnetic survey work. ■ The annual report of the-V\A"ellington Employers’ Association remarks; “Although Parliament has laboured during tiio past twenty years to satisfy tho demands of labour, tho workers say they are no better off than formerly, and it has to be admitted that many industries which should be flourishing in our midst are really languishing. Your committee believes that it is in a large measure due to tho fact that the workers are relying on the Government and the laws to better theirj condition rather than depending .on their own exertions and improved efficiency, as entitling them to claim better condi- w tious. Workers have yet to fully recognise and appreciate the Met that they must give reasonable value in labour for the wages they receive. Otherwise the limit of employers’ resources will soon he exceeded and- , our industries' cease to exist.” What the skilled surgeon cannot do' the quack will lightly undertake (says the .Melbourne Argus). Recently a man, who said he was oier eighty yean, of ago, presented himself at the Melbourne Hospital, and seemed disappointed because none of the medical staff would pay him a fabulous price for what he described as the marvel of the century—nothing less than a certain cure for cancer. Last week the man again visited the hospital with another old man, who had an arm in a sling. Dr. Piper examined the hand, an.d with difficulty repressed a cry of alarm. The wrist and aim were black, and a malignant cancer had eaten deeply into tho flesh. It appeared that the discoverer of the “marvellous” euro had been experimenting on the patient, and had allowed the cancer to grow unchecked. His treatment sec-mod to be the application of vinegar and caustic. Had the patient gone to the hospital. instead of permitting the old man to humbug him. the cancer might have been stayed. Now he will suffer the loss of his arm. What was advertised as a mooting of the Anti-Military League to which the general public was invited, was held in tho Socialists’ Hail, Wellington, on Wednesday evening. Eighteen youths and men and two women were present, and Comrade Meidena presided. The secretary of tho league announced that at a committee meeting cf the league the same night it had been decided to change the name to the Anti-Conscrip-tion League. This recommendation of tile committee was approved by tho meeting. It was agreed that subscription to the league should bo on a voluntary basis, and that a public meeting of protest against the Act 'should be held in His Majesty's Theatre on Sunday, July 23. It was further agreed to write to certain persons asking them to speak at the meeting in question. When the chairman was about to put the question relating to the appointment of speakers, a youth .hot up and stated that he had n suggestion. “It is this,-” he said, “that when thoy strike, up this God-save-the-King wipe wo get to the piano and drown it with ‘The Red Flag.’ ” A thin laugh greeted this remark. The meeting then fixed tho details of the public protest to be held in His Majesty’s Theatre. A minimum of expenditure at the Melbourne approximates to a fairly considerable expenditure at stores which give credit and discounts and are bound to increase the selling price to allow for bad debts. You yourself may possibly prefer to pay cash, but it is -well to point out that if you buy for, cash at a credit store, you are paying for credit to others.*

Joseph Nathan and Co., of Palmerston North, received an order for two tons of their dried milk from Dr. Mawson for his Antarctic expedition, similar to that which Sir Ernest Shackleton used and thought so highly of. The firm makes this new product at Bunnythorpo’, and Dr. Mawson writes that the milk with pemmican will bo the sole dependence of the expedition on the final dash for the Foie, and that no other form of milk will be taken On board. ~ The milk has to meet Dr. Mawson at Hobart in November, and its manufacture will be at once undertaken, milk of a specially high fat content being used so as to generate ■warmth in its consumers.

As a result of it., having been foun<) that in the past medical practitioners have neglected'to report cases of infectious diseases occurring among NativesMhey attended, the Health Department obtained the opinion of the Crown Law Office on the subject, and the department has now been advised that it is obligatory upon medical practitioners to report such cases, as in the case of a European suffering from an infectious malady.. It might also be pointed out that it is equally obligatory on the Natives themselves to notify. - Maori parents and those in charge of patients must at once notify the Hospital Board and the District Health Officer of any infectious disease.

It will be remembered (nays the Stratford Post) that at the recent criminal sessions of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth, Lewis John Pepperill ■was indicted and tried for. carnally knowing a girl under the age of sixteen years at Toko in May, June, and July, 1910. The jury, after a retirement or over four hours, were unable to agree, and weio discharged. A fresh trial was applied for by tho Crown 'Prosecutor at the same sittings, but on the application of Mr. Spence, counsel for the accused, the new trial was fixed for the next sessions in September next. Mr. Spence has now been advised by Mr. Weston, Crown Prosecutor, that a nolle prosequi has been entered by the Crown.

“Witnesses are allowed what they have lost through attending the court,” said Mr. Kettle, S.M., during the hearing of a case on Wednesday. There were six master grocers before him claiming expenses and it was contended that they should only bo allowed for a half-day. “This, is my half-holiday, and I have lost some fresh air and sunshine,” said one. “Five shillings will be your share.. You can go for a trip to Birkenhead before sunset on that,” remarked the Magistrate. “And to the pictures afterwards,” added counsel. Another more generous grocer said, “Well, I q;on’t be too hard on the court—los will do mo.” The last one remarked in a voice with a marked Scotch accent, “1 don’t know that I’ve lost anything, hut I might have been able to make something had I not been at court.” ,

A judgment debtor made some surprising statements 'at the Auckland S.M, Court on The debt was for medical attendance, and ho toldj the magistrate that he was a barman, huthad been out of work since December. “Why can’t you get/work?” asked Mr. pottle. “Because I am in arrears to the union.” “Do yon mean td say that because you owe money to tho union you cannot obtain work?” “That’s so, sir, .1 owe £1 6s,' and I have seen and asked , Mr. Long, the secretary, to put me on the books, but he refused uptil I pay up.” ' Mr. Kettle: “It, seems to me incredible.”' Mr. Skelton, the solicitor to the union, who was present in‘court, informed .the magistrate that it was a rule of the union not to put a man en the books if he was in arrears. However,/ if, the debtor had put his application in writing it would have been brought before a meeting and considered. Eventually Mr. Skelton said he,would bo happy to bring the matter before the committee. The debtor further told the bench that he had a wife and two children, and his only source.,of income was 32s a week from lotting .rooms. Out of this £1 a week had to bo deducted for rent.