LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 217, 9 October 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Inteieatlng reading matter will befonnd on page four of this issue. Entries for United Band of Hope competition eloae with Secretary (Mr S. E. Hulbert), Saturday October 17th idv'fc. 14 A meeting of the New Plymouth Cycling Club will be held in the Guards' Club to-night, Friday, the 9 h inst, at 8 p.m. sharp. All intending members are requested to attend.—Advt. The Norwich and London Accident Company ara extending their business to this colony. Mr Keriwt, of Wellington, has been appointed general-manager. Mr Clarence Bunnell, Secretary to the New Plymouth Harbour Board, is on a visit to Wellington, aegompaned by Mrs Rwwll.

The walking crane appears to have] reached Now riyniouth, the drapers being the first to take it up. The following! teams have entered for tho Drapers i Walking Kaoe to take place on November I oh, viz: ltowbottom and Knight, P.! V.'hito and JWen, A. anc H. Goldwater, Lightband and Thompson, W. Ambury iwnr. and Shipton, Routby and Hoskin, Edgecombe and Beale, McGahyand Way. Others are expajtod to enter. After this tjiasa is cut, the McCorouck hay rake will bo found lo meet every requirement of the agriculturist for gathering it into windrows.

The following are the amounts oaid for the jear ending Marsh 31'*''. last to the revenuo by the commercial banks doing business in the colony for the privilege vt issuing bank notes :—Bank of Australasia L 2355 19* 3d, Bank of £»ew South Wales L 2996 15* 6d, Bank of New Zealand Ll4>ss£ 2s lOd, National Bank of New Zealand ! 4937 2s 9d, Union Bank iif Australia L2OG9 13a sd, total L 27,515 13s 9d.

The mortgages registered in New Zealand from March, 1902, to March 1903 were as follows:—Auckland L9l4,B7l.poverty Bay L 282,219, Hawke's Bay L 720.333, Taranaki LI, 140 155, Wellington L 2,433,034, Nelson L 162 893,

vlarlborongh J,103,788 Canterbury L 1,808,483, Otago, L 570.991, Southland L 517.373. Westland 138,076, total L 8.693 218. li, the Westland district there is an amount of LIOOO lent at 25 percent. Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury and Westland each have sums out at 20 per cent. At a ballot for land on Thursday at the Crown Lands Office, the following sec tiohs were disposed of-E. W, Plummer, sec. 4, block 9, Waro (25 applicants); W. J. Lowes, sec. 6, block 9, Waro (only applicant); Jno McGillicudy, sec. 5 block 5, Waro (only applicant) ; J. O. B. Walsh, sec 5, bbek 9, ' Waro (two applicants). The long spell of dry weather is having.; a very detrimental effect upon the West Coast mining. Many claims have stopped for want of water. Two applications for coal leases, near Brunner were before the Oourt, one of which is said to have English capital at its back. The Northern Company's new steamer Rarawa is expected to leave Auckland 'on Sunday en route for Onehunga. She will call at Hokianga on the trip round, and probably reach her destination on Wednesday. She is due to leave Onehnn?a for New, Plymouth on Sunday 18th.

On Tuesday we had the pleasure of seeing a very handsome silver mounted ebony walking stick, presented to Captain Norbury by his Exoellency the Governor. The stick is a very valuable one, the solid silver mounting being inscribed "To Captain W. F. Norbury, ss, Ngapuhi, from Lord Ranfurly, September 1903." It was accompanied by a letter signed by his Excellency in which he spoke of the " satisfaction of myself and wife " at the

consideration always shown to them on both the Gairloch and Ngapuhi. Captain Nor bury is naturally very proud of both letter and stick. We are asked bv Archdeacon Oole to state that the 0:h of December next will be the Diamond Jubilee of the planting of the Church of England in Taranaki, and that the Bishjp of Auckland will be here for that occasion. The " Hawera Star" in connection with the iron industry and A. J. Oadman and Messrs Berry and Smith, says : We should be sorry to depreciate enterprise, and accept our contemporary's correction, but the fact remains that for a quarter of a century there has been a vaer amount of talk and promise, but no iron, in a commercial sense.

In the appeal case Alison and Reid v. Willis, Hia Honor. Mr Justice Edwards said he would have to deal with the appeal in some way, but as the Magistrate who heard the case in Stratford had taken no notes of the case, His Honor had nothing to guide him to a decision as to the reasons by which the original verdict was arrived at. The tase would, there fore, be referred to the Magistrate, to be reheard when proper notes of the case should be taken.

In connection with the Premiers reply re the Now Plymouth High School, Mr Smith moved the adjournment of the House as a mark of dissatisfaction with the action of the Government in regard tc. the Board of Governors. He had tried every possible way to get redress and failed to do so, Be blamed the Govern

ment for not giving effect to the recommendations or Seleot Committees of Loth Houses, and he thought the Premier Would have been the last man to have

interfered with educational endowments

If the oase at present before the Courts went against the Board of Governors, it would throw up its responsibility by re signing in a body. He asked for a sum of money to be plaoed on the Supplementary Estimates as compensation for the improvements taken. The thoroughbred stallion Glenapp, purchased for 200 guineas in England for the Department of Agriculture, arrived

at Wellington on Tuesday by the P»panui. The horse is five years old, and is by Enthisiast —Pinnart.