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Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143769, 18 April 1912, Page 2

Mr. Fred Moore was on Wednesday re-clccted president of the Wanganui Agricultural Association.

The Hawera Star’s Wellington correspondent wires that the Opunake Railway Commission will also inquire into the question of tramways, as this matter is so closely allied with the general question of transport in the district.

An idea of the enormous size of the Titanic can be obtained from the fact that her length was such that if her stem was at the old Red Post corner her bows would bo at the Red House Hotel. She was also half as wide again as Devon Street.

Ship owners will welcome the time when New Plymouth is able to berth the Home liners. The Banffshire which has been lying off Waitara since April 6, was only able to leave on Tuesday, April 16. Poor tides in the river accounted for the vessel’s long stay. A Dunedin man (Mr. J. Herd, of Roslyn) has invented a simple apparatus for safeguarding those who go bathing in the surf. It promises to be effective, and if its usefulness prove as great as the promise the invention should meet with a big demand, for it is cheap and easily worked. It consists of ropes, cork floats, two piles, and an anchored buoy. The cork-floated ropes are attached to the piles in the sand and also to the buoy, the form of the whole .being a triangle, the base being the beach. Near the apex a line crosses from one side to the other, and from the apex to the middle of the base there is an endless line attached to a pulley on the anchored buoy. The size of the net (so to speak) may be equal to anything, but one running out to sea 100 yards and extending to 200 yards would be very serviceable, and it would only cost some £25 at the outside. If a bather got into difficulties there are many floats to clutch at, and since a drowning man holds on to a straw, it may be conceded that he would keep hold on a big corked line until someone hauled in the float like a kite. It has been tested at trials and found to be effective. The public' will be invited to so© it at work in the near future.

A fine lot of topcoats for little boys*sizes 3 to 6 years, has been opened out at th© Melbourne. The coast comprise a complete rang© of samples from an English manufacturer, and were bought at a discount of 25 per cent. Alto* gother a splendid selection, to choose from'.at 5s Xld-to-9&-6d**

Insurance Agent (to small boy answering the door): “Is yonr mother in the A.M.P. ?” Small Boy: “No; she’s in the kitchen,'washing baby.” Tho thanks of the New Plymouth Fire Brigade are due to Mr. Hoffmann for the loan of the piano used during the brigade’s recent function.

During the past year the Stratford County Council has considerably improved its financial position. At the end of March, 1911, the overdraft stood at £5586 18s 9d and at March 31 last had been reduced to £3597 11s 2d. In the recent military dispatch race from Adelaide to Sydney the cyclists carried a message 1149 miles in 69hr. 32min., which was 13min. ahead of the schedule time, and an average of over 16 miles an hour.

The Tukapa Football Club desires to acknowledge receipt of tho following donations:—Dr. Fookes £1 Is, Dr. Walker £1 Is, T. Bishop IDs 6d, Dr. Lcatham 10s 6d, A. Stansoll ss, and D. Teed ss; also Dr. Fookes and Mr. A. Stansoll for trophies. On the 13th instant, on the motion of Mr. Boy (Boy and Nicholson) probate of the will of the late George Penlington Jones, of Warea-, farmer, was granted by the Supreme Court to tho executrix named in tho will.

At the meeting of the Hospital Board on Wednesday, Mr. F. C. J. Bellringer was 'unanimously re-elected chairman of the board, several members speaking in eulogistic terms of bis services in that capacity in the past. Tho Hawera Hospital Board has adopted a rate of 10U1 per £IOO for the ensuing year, which means an increase of more than 100 per cent, in the. amounts the local bodies will bo called upon to contribute. Last year s rate was od.

An applicant for the position of hairdresser at Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum informed the managers that ho was seeking appointment in an institution as the fact that he was bald at 31 was no recommendation outside in the case of a barber.

A cablegram received hero from Sydney on Wednesday stated that iho Maheno sailed at 2 p.m. on that day for Auckland with Captain Amundsen and the footballers Francis, Gillctt, Savoury and Woodward amongst her passengers. The vessel is due in Auck- - land on Sunday.

Speaking at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum meeting last month, Dr. George M. Robertson, the physician superintendent, said that for the first time in twenty-one years there - had not been a- case of influenza in the institution. We were apparently developing an immunity to its influence, although, like other infectious diseases, it still found the young susceptible. .Judging, however, by the history of previous epidemics, the day of influenza would sooner or later come to an end. As will be seen in our advertising columns, the Grey Institute trustees have instructed Air. Newton King to offer the leases of the balance of the sections in the Whiteley Township. In view of the recent developments in the oil industry and the near approach of the electric trams, these sections offer a splendid opportunity to speculators. For convenience of tho public in describing tho lots the sale will bo held on the ground. The gift sent by the city of Paris to the Tsar, and presented to his Majesty at Tsarskoo Selo by tho Mayor of Paris took the shape of a superbly beautiful Easter egg intrusted with precious stones. It rested on a cushion of finest silk. The, egg is surmounted by a small golden crown of delicate work manship. Beneath tho crown is an almost invisible button attached to a spring. When the button is pressed the egg flies open, disclosing a charming portrait of the little Tsarevitch. An amusing incident happened at the Wellington Opera- House on Tuesday evening during Professor Norwood’s hypnotic, entertainment. A group of subjects had been duly hypnotised and given the suggestion that they were a fishing party, and that the orchestral pit and the auditorium was a river alive with big fish. One “subject,” in his enthusiasm, climbed from the stage to the corner of the dress circle, and so great was the alarm of one lady patron who was sitting near the comer that she incontinently fled from the spot and made her way to the back of the circle, amidst shrieks of laughter from the audience, while the “subject” calmly sat himself on the balustrade and fished among the heads of those seated in the stalls below.

Bight shopkeepers were prosecuted m the Pahiatua Police Court on Wednesday for failing to close their shops at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, the day before Good Friday. The defendants pleaded guilty, stating that they had continued business until 9 p.m. on Thursday in order to close their shops on Saturday, which they oid, thereby giving their employees the full benefit of the Easter holidays. The Inspector of Factories explained that there was some feeling in the matter, as the defendants did not constitute a majority of the shopkeepers of Pahiatna. They plainly committed a breach of the Act. They could only have continued business legally on Thursday evening by presenting a requisition to the Mayor, signed by a majority. The case was brought as a lesson. Counsel for defendants said that they had done the right thing in the wrong way. The Magistrate recorded a conviction in each case, ordering the defendants to pay costs at the Police Court.

Yet another pastime has been found for tho ardent sportsman. The bays about Bussell teem with great kingfish, and to make prey upon them with rod and line is a game that only the experienced can tackle with hope of success. Two Wellington fishermen, Messrs. W. H. D. Bell, M.P., and A. W. Blair, found the occupation a brisk one during Easter time, and returned to Auckland fired with enthusiasm. “It is a sport for kings,” said one of tho party to a Herald reporter. “It puts trout-fishing very much in the background.” The party went out to the Heads in a launch with"a veteran deep-sea angler as guide. The sport was exciting and arduous, so game wore tho fish. Mr. Bell, after a hard tussle, landed one that tipped the beam at 4.0!b. With each rod they had 800 yards of line, and it was not unusual for a fish to take out 200 yards in his first run. At first the lines were not of the requisite strength, and several beauties got safely away, hook and all. The average 151 b. fish made fast play for half an hour, and after bringing hnn alongside the fisherman felt glad of a spell. The kingfish wore also highly praised because of their excellent eating qualities. Another recent visitor to Bussell expressed an opinion that the sport will soon be attracting many to that place every season. The fish were the gamest in the Pacific waters, and tho supply seemed ■unlimited. Warm winter clothing can be procured very cheaply at The Has• They have a splendid line of men s tweed overcoats at 23s 9d, warm, fleecy singlets 3s 3d, fleecy underpants 8s 6d, all-wool flannel singlets 2s pd, allwool ribbed and plain sox o pains tor 2s 6cL*

The Wellington office reports that tho Victoria, Moana and Uliraaroa will probably be within wireless range tonight. Mr. C. E. Street, local agent for Messrs. Dimock and Co., Ltd., has received advice that the price of pigs has been reduced to 4d per lb. Members of the New Plymouth Bowling Club are reminded of the meeting at the pavilion to-night to say good-bye to Mr. Harry Goldwater, who leaves New Plymouth to-morrow for Auckland, en route to Sydney. Colonel Robin, Adjutant-General to the New Zealand Defence Forces, who recently had conferred upon him the order of St. Michael and St. George, was formally presented with the honour by the Prime Minister (Hon. T. Mackenzie) on Monday in the absence of his Excellency tho Governor. The installation of a tramway system for Invercargill has, among other advantages, increased the returns of the various business houses. Those especially who are situated close to the terminus of a line can bear evidence of this fact, and report (says the Southland Times) that business has gone ahead at quite a remarkable rate during the past few weeks. Tho “conscientious objections” of some j’oung men to registration under the Defence x\ct, cannot be very deepseated in some cases. One youth was recently brought before the Court and was fiiicd for refusing to register or take the oathl It became necessary to trace him for the collection of the fine and after making enquiries _ the police discovered that ho had joined the Navy 1 It is stated that the amount of the fine was paid by the naval authorities, who will doubtless debit it against his pay.

Dr. Frengley remarked on Wednesday at the meeting of the Hospital Board, that measles, mumps and whooping cough were not, although infectious, gazetted as coming under the heading of infectious diseases in the Public Health Act. They would, however, he forcasted, soon be put on the list. New Zealand, said the doctor, was in advance of England in respect to dealing with infectious diseases ; for tuberculosis had only lately been recognised in England as infectious, whereas it had tor many years been on tbe list in Now Zealand.. As illustrating the toughness of the native head, an amusing case was heard before the Resident Magistrate of Graham’s Town, Cape Province, recently, when a Kaffir named Vry was charged with escaping from the lock-up at Alicedale. The man had been arrested for being drunk, and as he had boon violent he was left in the coll handcuffed, which was securely locked. About an hour afterwards a constable went back to the cell, found the door smashed, and the prisoner gone. The officer at once made a diligent search around the place, and at last came across his prisoner, still handcuffed, walking down Wilmont street, where he was first arrested. Vry told the constable that he had smashed the door by hitting it with his head. The door was too high for the prisoner to have kicked it, and as he was barefooted it would have been very difficult for him to have broken out by tills means. The door was quite a substantial one, and must have taken a- deal of smashing.

Mother knows when the youngsters catch colds—Tonking’s Linseed Emulsion cures them.