LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7718, 21 January 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It was staled in u London- Courthouse last month that during the year 1904 nearly live thousand prisoners had been identified by means of finger-prints—and there had not been a single query. Fifteen Chinamen arrived at Wcili'ngton from Australia by the Warrimoo on Wednesday. Eleven of these are new to the country, and the Treasury chest will be augmented to the extent of £.llOO bv way of poll tax,

Mr Newton King held an auction sale of the utensils at the exhibition dining-rooms on Friday evening. The articles brought good' values, -and bidding for lhe Maori whai-es was also keen. The Cam'son Hand, which mnrched up from town, contributed a high-class programme of music.

I'elev Hansen, a settler at. Whflngarci, pleaded guilty of selling a heifer which the Stopk Department, had instructed him to keep buck from the sale as it showed symptoms of tuberculous. The I'tench pointed out that, the maximum penalty was £SO, but lit being the first case of the kind in the di'su-iet, and n 'heavy penalty not being asked for. a fine of £5 with costs K'i »s, was imposed.

| Several months ago the Common-" [.wealth Customs Department discovered that several firms who imported fish from N ew Zealand had given short weights to the department, ai*d had paid duty on those weights writs were subsequently issued at the suit of the Government against these importers, anil the cast's are | down for hearing i n Melbourne in [March. Mr Powers, Federal Crown Sol citor, it at pii-sent in New /kaland Inking evidence on commission I in connection -with the «m*> I

It having been brought under the I notice of the l'ostal Department that many . pictorial postcards on sale in the colony bear, on the address side an intimation that the Island postage is one halfpenny, and in consequents large numbers of such cards are posted short paid, with the result the addressees are reKfuestod to jwy t'he surcharge, the public are notilicd that the information is misleading, and are i\(.(|ics'tod to see that the proper postage is aifixed before posting, viz., one penny. A witness in the Police Court yesterday used the word "crook," and on being- called ,on for nn explanation defined the wont as meaning "ill." The S.M. staled that in criminal*, language "crook" meant .'thief," and appealed to Sergeant Haddrell for conlirmalion, but the latter confessed ignorance on the point, whereupon the S.M. expressed the opinion that the sergeant was not so up-to-date in that class ol literature as ho ought to be, avid offered to lend him a slang dictionary.

Judge Addison, of. the English County Court Bench, was reee-uny called upon to adjudicate upon a civil action, the hearing of which involved consideration of a mass of technicalities concerning motors. J is Honor confessed himself puzzled by the alarming intricacies of 'the internal economy of a motor. It was the lirst time he had been puzzled by * case. He consequently appointed an expert to sit with him. The expeit was necessary, because of bis (th'J Judge's) want of skill, and if Judges only had the courage to npptMit them in st'milnr cases), an enormous amount of time ind contradiction would be saved.

The quantity and vtvlue of dairy produce and frown meat passed through the Customs during December are given in a leaflet issued by the Department of Agriculture. The quantities are as under, the iigures for December, 1903, being given, in parentheses :—Mutter, .">l,393cwt, value £225.r>80 (fil ,54-lcwt, value £2371,07:1) ; cheese, 8899cwt, value* j £19,321 (13,222cwt i , value £32,(132) frozen beef, (>27oc,vt|. value £7120 (;9311cwt f value £11,208) ; frozen mutton, 49,287cwt, value £65,831 (65|. 333cwt, value £84,343) ; frozen lamb 24,947 carcases, value £13,415 (17,124cwt, value £7852) ; oats,. 112,817 bushels, £|)429 (3-12,394c,vt) value £25,675;. The Rev. .J. A. Crump, who has served several years in mission work in the New Britain Group, will visit New Plymouth on Tuesday next, en route lo Auckland. lie is expected by the soirthern r.steamer on that day, and will address a missionary meeting at lb.' i Whiteley Church in the evening, prior to leaving for the North. The Australian Methodist Missionary Society, under whose direction Mr Crump has laboured, is raising a sum of £ 10,000 by a special appeal in aid of extension work* in the various groups of islands where the society's agents are working. Mr Crump is now visiting the chief centres in this colony for the purpose of initiating the movement here.

At the Harbour Board meeting on Friday a letter was read from Mr G. H. Morgan, local manager of the Union Steam Ship Company, pointing out that the lack of guiding signals- caused great delay to vessels -berthing during thick and foggy .weather. He suggested that Cap- , tain Hood let off detonating rockets at the end of the wharf in response [lo steamers' whistles until a fogjhorn was procured. The suggestion to blow locomotive whistles was of little vulue, owing to the engines not being at the wharf early enough, and through the blowing of the -whistles at the crossings making the sounds misleading. Captain Hood was instructed to give effect to the suggestion regarding [the rockets.

A largely attended indignation meeting was held at Kuraara on Wednesday night to protest against tho action of the Government in suing for arrears due by miners in the district, including Goldsborough anil Stafford, for water supplied by the Government races, and, also to show opposition to the proposal that future water should be paid for in advance. Resolutions condemnatory of the action were carried amid great enthusiasm. Speakers pointed out that the proposed procedure was most detrimental to the mining industry and impossible of performance, owing to the poor nature of the. claims. The strict enforcement would mean the closing down of the whole goldficld. Several vigorous speeches were made. The Mayor presided,, and!, in the course of his remarks, declared, if the proposal to pay in advance was enforced-, he would have no hesitation 'in lending a mob and forcjibly opening the gauge box of the dam. The feelin.g of the opposition runs high throughout the affected districts.

A rather amusing incident is related in connection with the Salvation Army Biorama Company's visit lo Wai'hi (ways the Auckland Star). It appears that a dusky maiden from T'auranga way went to Waiihi to see the ]>erformance, and, being interested in the Army work, a lodging with kind friends was found for her'. The lady of the house, in order to liiako her just as comfortable as possible, provided her- with ni K ht habiliments, but the young wahiue, seeing .so much lace trimming, etc., thought she hud been given a white dress to wean at the biorama. With- delight she " arrayed herself in whfte " and proceeded to the academv, where of cour*, she excited the surprise of her lairer sisters. It was then necessary to explain to her .that she had" boon a little premature in adorning herselt with such u gown-that the ™' " !,s Wll * ""'ant for inside vtdi. Sh„ was not slow to take, in tho situation, and without loss of time did a Irghtning change, much to her sorrow ,:n haM,„ g to discard su h u- ■' taking ' dress.

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