LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Independent, Volume XII, Issue 1020, 3 June 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Nearly fitteen bundled motor cars are now registered in Wellington. The motor is evidently rapidly superseding horse traffic, Mr Robert Fletcher, chairman of the Wellinglon Harbor; Board and a member of the Wellington City Council, has decided to con esfc the Wellington Central seat at the general election, against Mr F. M. B. Fisher, the present representative. Mr Holman, acling-Premier of New South Wales, is considering a bill making adultery with a wife living with her husband a criminal offence. He states that he cannot sanction the so-called unwritten law, whereby aggrieved husbands take action into their own hands. Next month the medical section of the defence forces will commence ja huge task—the examination of all youths between the ages of 14 and 21 who have registered under the new defence scheme. The principal medical officer, Colonel Purdy, is now engaged in arranging for suitable centres for medical tests. '• There are still huias in New Zealand, though the recent hunts in the wilds of the Upper Eangitikei failed to produce any. At the annual meeting of the Wellington- Acclimatisation Society, Mr W. Wakeman, of Pahiatua, osberved that he had the pleasure of seeing a pair of huias on the way from Mount Holdsworth recently. The New South Wales hangman, whose salary is £IOO per year, with sU.O for each execution, has resigned his position, presumably because there is: no call for his professional services Since the present Government took office there have been seven death sentences before the Executive,’ all of which have been commuted, 'The Hon. R. McKenzie mentioned at the Gabriel’s Gully gathering’ that the first gold discovered in New Zealand was at Shorlland 'Creek, Coromandel, when Bishop Selwjyn arranged with the Maoris for., for Euroneans tq work/ find was in Nelson it) 185/7. Nearly £78,000,000' worth of gold has been produced in New Zealand, iand of that total Otago has duced about £28,000,000 worth. I “If he hadn’t been educated, probably he would have paid his board; it is education that is responsible, in many instances, for- these delinquencies,” said Mr Cruickshank, S.M., at Invercargill, the other day, when a debt case|against a Maori came on for hearing. According to. law a translation must accompany a summons served on a Maori or half-caste living as a member of a native tribe. All doubts as to the defendant’s ability to understand the summons were set at rest when|it was mentioned that he was a university student, and that he had gone to shool with one of the lawyers then present in court. A man named Badcock is at present an inmate of a Wangauni hospital suffering from serious injuries, as the result of an assault alleged to have been committed at Mataroa township, on the North Island Main Trunk line, by three men. It appears that on May 13th there was a disturbance in the township, and Badcock was severely knocked about in a fight. He was able subsequently to make his way to a whare, where he was found in a deplorable state, all his teeth having been knocked out and his jaw broken, a piece of jawbone being smashed off. Three men have been arrested, and remanded for eight days. It is currently stated in the south that Kekerangu station has been sold by Mr Edmund Rutherford as a going concern, with about 20,000 sheep, to a syndicate of Christchurch land speculators, at a price approximating £65,000 —an advance of about £20,000 on the price paid by the vendor twelve or fourteen years ago. The station is a narrow strip of country north of Kaikoura, extending from the co4at in-

The nineteenth century has rightly be3o stvled “The Golden Age of Invention and Discovery.” Tomorrow (Sunday) evening at the Y.M.C.A. rooms, the Kev. J. Spottiswooda will deal with the inventions and discoveries of the nineteenth c nt iry : s the handma’d i of the missionary movement. The committee appointed by the Cambridge Borough Council to deal with the question of draining the Dismal Swamp has been over the groind, and arranged for the preparation of the necessary plans to be submittal to the Government for approval. One of the best crops of maize ever grown in Taranaki was to he seen on. Mr Halcombe’s property at Urenui the other week. He had intend'd it tor < ensilage, but on the night before he intended to cat it, caterpillars came on the scene in battalions. In tbs morning nothing but the stalks remained. i wo Scottish, women were arguing which of them was the more thrifty. First woman: “Dae ye see that 1 puree? Weel, that’s ma first ane, an’ it’s as guid as the day I got it. Ye canna come up to that, noo.” Second woman: “Michty me! Whit a poor boast! Ye ken Dugald, my husband?” “Oh, aye, what aboot him?” “Weel, he’s my first man, an’ noo you’ve got your third. So dinna preach thrift to me again.” Mr A. S. Biss, .chairman of the New Zealand Golf Council, has received a cablegram from Sydney asking if New Zealand will guarantee £2OO towards the cost of Vardon’s proposed visit to Australia and New Zealand. It is proposed to get this famous golfer to play exhibition games in the principal centres. The visit will extend over three weeks. The principal clubs have been communicated with, and there seems to be no doubt that the amount required will be forthcoming. The oldest coal mine in New Zealand has just changed! hands. Forty-seven years ago a coal-bearing area at Brunnerton, Wetland, was taken up by West Coast people, and with a few intervals it has been worked ever since. The property, which is known as the Brunner mine, has been owned for a great many years by the Greymouth and Point Elizabeth Coal Company, which has now sold it to the Tyneside Proprietary Coal Mining Company, Ltd., the shareholders in which are Wellington and West Coast business men. “Anywhere in the world almost you will get face value for a Bank of England note,” said Mr W. A. Redmond, M.P., at the civic reception at Christchurch, when describing humorously a locfil experience of his, “but when I came.to New Zealand, to this great free country, part and parcel of the British Empire, I have had to pay 2s 6d on each note cashed. (Laughter.) I am not condemning that, for such a system as that of keeping yourselves independent and not dependent any other part of the Empire—that is what has made you the country you are today.” Sneaking of “marrying well” at Feilding the other night, the Rev, Colville said that it was claimed for this evil that it had the sanction of the King of Heaven, that it was righteous and that it was moral. To each of the claims he gave the lie. Marrying for wealth, for position, was a sin against the bodies and souls alike of the people. They all knew that any nation having lax Jaws about divorce fell to pieces, because such laws were a blow at the home, the children, and the whole fabric of society and the nation. He thought the Church’of England, though she had certainly raised her voice against easy divorce laws, had not spoken" often enough nor strongly enough on the subject. An excellent programme was placed before its patrons by the Empire Picture Co. in the Town Hall on Thursday night,- and was highly appreciated. One of the best scenic pictures yet shown .was that entitled -‘The Place Where Teak Wood Grows.” The illustrations of the teak wood industry from the time the tree-is felled until it .is cut into planks was exceedingly fine, and the manner in which elephants are utilised for moving huge logs, loading the sawn timber; etc,, was .an eyeopener to those present. Another excellent scene was that depicting a trawler at work, whilst the dramas, “The Gold Seekers” and “The Heart of a Sioux” aroused (he sympathies of the audience. The usual humorous pictures were highly diverting and the audience departed thoroughly pleased with the evening’s entertainment. Had anyone made the assertion without giving us ocular proof that ripe strawberries could be picked at this time of the year we might not have been rude enough'to hint that he was a disciple of Ananias, but we should, have had our own opinion as to his veracity. Seeing is believing, however, and on Tuesday Mr Richard Reynolds brought us in a buttonhole comnosed of strawberry leaves and perfectly , ripe' berries, grown out-of-doors, Mr Reynolds is, we are aware, a general favorite, but we did not know previously that Dame Nature had marked him out for special approval in providing him with ripe strawberries in mid-winter. ’VRheumatic Pains Relieved.—“l have been a great anfferer from rheumatism,” writes Mrs Jane Pierce, 1340 Sturt-st., Ballarat, Victoria. “The excruciating pains have caused me hours of misery. I thought I would never get relief, but'the first bottle of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm showed me it was possible. Now at the first signs of the rheumatic pains returning I apply hot fomentations, then rub Chamberlain’s Pain Balm well in and it certainly wards off what used to be days of pain and suffering.” For sals by E. B. Hill, chemist. Cambridge. CHildren’ 3 Hacking, Cough at night.

Mrs Wigwag: “How is your husband. Aunt Mandy?” Aunt Mandy: Poorly, ma’am. He was gittin’ along all right, but now de doctah done say he got de convalescense.” - Presbyterian Church services will be held tomorrow as follows Cambridge, 11 a m., Mr White, 7 p.m. Rev. W. Gow; Maungatautari, 2.30 p.m., Mr White; Horahora, 7 p.m , Mr White; Matangi, n a.m.,.Rev. Gow; Eureka, 2.30 p.m., Rev. Gow. On Friday evening Miss E. Huge, who is severing her connection with the establishment of Mr R. T. Tudehopo after a period of about nine years, was presented by Miss Livingstone, on .befall of the staff, with a handsome silver cake dish, and by Mr Tu V hope with a cheqje, in recognition o/ the esteem in wnich she is held and the re-' sret felt at her departure, Messrs Ollard and Lockett, estate agents, report the sale of Messrs Souter and Co.’s house in Williams-street to Mr Smailes, of Auckland. Also Mr J. A. Hair’s house and section in Queenstreet to Archdeacon Willis, and Mi K. R. Court’s house in Queen-street to V a local buyer. The properties changed -I hands at satisfactory prices. A A fortnight’s “Evangelistic Mia- ' sion” frr'the deepening of the Spiritual life ia to be conducted in the Leamington Church, commencing tomorrow and continued each evening throughout the week"at 7.30, to which the Leamington residents are particularly invited., The mission will be conducted by the Revs. W. Tinsley and H. Foston. An opportunity for farmers to replenish their herds will be afforded on Monday, when the Loan and Mercantile Co. will sell on behalf of Mrs J. G. Ward, at her “Springwoid” farm, Tamahere, 33 choice cows and heifers, young stock, pigs, draught horses and implements. There; will also bo sold at the same farm, on behalf of Mr Jas. Shaw, a herd consisting of 30 cows, 14 heifers, and 26 calves. The sale starts at 12 o’clock sharp, luncheon being provided. On Tuesday afternoon next a,Welcome will be tendered to Mrs Barton, who will speak in the evening, in the Town Hall, on the subject of “The Liquor Traffic and its relation to social reforms.” The reception will take place in the Y. M.C.A. rooms and all ladies interested are invited to attend. Aq effort is being made to induce the Governor and Lady Islington to attend the military ball in Cambridge on the 16th inst. Major-General Godley, Commandant cf the Forces, has also been invited. “I have come to the conclusion that : there are two Jand’orda in this country - that ought to be taxed very heavily. One of them is the State, and the other the Maori.” This is the opinion of Mr C. H. Ensor, a Canterbury farmer who has teen spending a holiday in the North Island. Mr Ensor continued to justify his remarks by saying that the two landlords he had quoted were holding, in the North Island, the largest amount of undeveloped land he had ever seen, and that land was getting overrun with weeds and rabbits. The worst feature of it was that the land was lying idle and creating no wealth at all. There were millions of acres * of such lands in the Rotorua and Wai- , kato districts that could be brought into cultivation, and some of it was •' splendid soil, as proved by a few isolated patches that had been cultivated. An extraordinary thing occurred on the Tarahua golf links at Vogeltown, ■ New Plymouth, recently. It was noticed that a terrier belonging to a visitor had a golf ball in his mouth. The \ canine was relieved of his mouthful, whereupon he made a dart for some long grass on the roadside (a “bunker” in golf parlance), and brought another. On this ball being taken away, he promptly sniffed around in the vicinity again, and a further nail was the result! -The golfers then took the dog all over the links, and by its means sue- : reeded in finding, in “bunkers,” trees, gullies, swamps, and fences no fewer than forty balls. The dog had a keen nose for the rubber balls, and never once made a mistake. The club wants to buy that dog, but he ia unpurchaseable. .At the meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board on Thursday, the treasurer gave the total valuation of the various contributing districts in the hospital area as £9,680,549, and the amounts allocated were as follows;—Waipa County, £84716s sd; Waikato County, £746 654 d; Raglan County, £630 14s 9d; Waitomo County, £417 5s 4d; Piako County, £4OB 0s lOd; Mataroata County, £378 7& 3d; Taupo County, * £223 4s 8d; Awakino County, £l7l 2a 2d; Ohura County, £169 8s 3d; Kawhia County, £152 6s lid; K'aitieke County, £136 18s sd; Taupo West County, £92 , 13s 9d; Rotorua County, £4B 8s; Rotorua Town Board, £259 7s Id; Frankton Town Board, £lO2 2s 7d; Huntly Town Board, £64 7s 8d; Morrinaville Town Board, £34 10s lOd; Cambridge Borough, £lO9 10s6d; Hamilton Borough £349 7sßd; Te Kuiti Borough, £lO4 3s9d;TeAroha Borough, £4l la id* Taurnarunui Borough, £ll 12s 9d! • These contributions totalled £5500. Messrs Dimock and Co. and the Auckland Bacon Co. announce the dates upon which they will receive pigs ncx week. %*Her Objection To It.—“ The only objection I have to Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is that the children are * always asking for it,” writes Mrs J’. S. Phillips, of Rockwell-st., South Broken Hill. N.S.W. “My kiddies have both been subject to colds-and croup ever since they were born. My eldest boy was so bad at one time that he was in bed for a week. In fact, we despaired of his life, but thanks to . Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy he was: i Bonn tuoll qitq WlA 1 , Uw..n