LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 784, 30 March 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

During last month 3294 persons arrived in the colony, and 2065 took their departure.

Appk'-gi-owors ought to he doing prettv well just now. At Mr Newto» King's Mart yesterday 401b cases brought up to 9s 3d per case.

Several in"' applications for old ago i.easions came before Mr Hutchison, ISM., on Wednesday. Three pensions of £IS per annum, one of £l6, and one of £O, were granted. Messrs Dewley and Griffiths report having sold on account of Mr John Coxhit.d, of Huirangi, his line estate 1 n-own as "I'encarrow," com- 1 prising 500 acres, to a local ouyei. A cable ii-ess.vsc received by the MinS or for Marine announces thai the Shipping and Seaman Act, passed by the New ZoaUnd Parliament in 190 M, lec.ivcd the assent of His Maiestv the King by an Order-m-Council of March 20. The Act is therefore now in operation.

A public meeting held in Wellington <<n Wodncsdav night decided to take steps to medically »kl indigent, consumptives. The project bcloro the meeting was a. proposal to raise £2OOO by public subscription to build to UoUiii'gtort Hospital, where; poor people suffering from consumption Imuv he treated. It wns unanimousk agreed to raise the necessary sum Dr. Newman reported that he and Hr. Valintine had already collected £l5O, all local firms giving liberally, and another £l3O was promised. \ terrible tragedy took place at the Nicholas Theatre at St. Pctersiburg, during the January disturbances. The police entered the building in search of a youns student suspected of Nihilist sympathies, whom they had traced to the gallery entrance. Sighting their man in the uppermost tier, just under the roof of the theatre, they posted sentries at every exit, and then began to dose upon him during the progress of the performance. The student saw them approaching, and, finding capture was inevitable he rapidly clamoured over the seats and people in front of him, and! deliberately threw himself o\er the rail of the gallery. He fell more ' than sixty feet, and striking a barrier in the area of the theatre, broke his bacK and died almost instantaneously. There was great excitement as he fell, men crying out in alarm, and women shrieking. The body was taken away by the police.

On Wednesday at the, Police Court, before Mr Hutchison, S.M., a case was heard in which Edith Maude Hurle proceeded against her husband, Henry Isaac nHurlc, for a maintenance order towards the support of four children, t'ompjainant. stated that she had not lived with her husfli(and for the past six months, and he had not contributed anything for that period towards Iho support of the children. She was not willing to consent to re-union. The defendant explained the circumstances of the disagreement ami separation from his wife. He was always prepared to carry out his responsibilities to his family. His wife had the sum of £BO when the separation took place. Defendant further claimed a right to parental control. The Magistrate made an order for the payment of 5s per week towards the maintenance of each of three children.

The experiment of treating., street surfaces with oil in order to meet the dust nuisance was e.iterod upon

by the North Sydney Council some 18 months ggo, and has been watched with considerable interest. The Council has lately received a number of enquiries as to its success or otherwise, and the borough engineer lus prepared au interesting report on the subject. The price of treating a sVpiare yard of roadway, he states, is four-fifths of a penny per application, this including the cost ot labour as well as of oil. An oiling remains effective from R0 to 80 d a ys, and the expense is about the same as that of watering the streets ; tat it had been found to be much moro satisfactory, inasmuch as watered streets quickly dry. The fear that the system would produce an unpleasant smell of crude Kerosene in the sujbunb has proved to be unrounded;, and,, altogether, the experiment, as far us it has gone, is regarded as successful.

A meeting to consider the question of urging the Government to complete the Midland Railway with as little delay as possible was held at Christchurch on Wednesdayevening. There was a large attendance, and a prominent feature of the meeting was its representative character. The following motion was carried unanimously :

" Recognising the many advantages of railway communication between the West Const and Canterbury, and recognising the enormous cost of slowly constructing a line that can practically have no earning po-

wer until completed, this meeting of local bodies and economic asso-

ciationa of Canterbury and Westland now urge upon the Government to make an allocation of at least £200,000 per annum in order thalt this important l' n e ma y ~e completed within five years." It was also resolved " that the foregoing resolution be forwarded to the Kight Hon. the Premier, ami that nil Canterbury and Westland members of Parliament he asked to take united action in urging the Government to complete the EastWest . Coast railway at the earliest possible date, and that it be a suggestion to all our political organisations that special prominence bo given to the speedy completion

of this important work." A valuable hoard of jowcllery, believed to be the proceeds of a series of robberies by a well-known burglar named Theodore Huber.. has been found buried in the shingle of Folkestone beach. Huber was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment for burglary and attempted murder at Margale, where he shot and seriously wounded a policeman who attempted to capture himi While he was wait, ing for triaWthe police received a bag of jewflKery from a woman with whom Huber had formerly resided. The jewellery in this instance was the proceeds of burglaries, and the owners were traced as :?ar as this was found possible. One woman re' ceived back nearly £230 worth missed two years previously. The police believed, however, that more ;ewellery had been hidden by Huber. While he was in the hospital suffering from a self-inflicted wound, he referred in his delirium to " digging a hole in the sand," and gave a further clqe by repeated references to Folkestone,. Search- was made on Folkestone beach:, but was fruitless. A few days later, however, a policeman noticed a paper-covered package in the shingles, which is covered by the eoa except in low tide. On investigation it was found to contain watches, chains, rings, pins, pencil-cases, and other articles, worth severa'i hundreds of pounds. Dr. McArthur, the Wellington magistrate, has given a pretty clear indication Uiiit he does not propose to: allow himself to Co influenced in his judicial capacity by an outside Ijody. The other day, when a woman was charged with having ie'ft an adopted child alone in the house from 11 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, during bcr abswiuc at a picnic, he dismissed the case, ruling that wilful neglect had not been, proved), and thereupon the Society for the Protection of Women and Children sent him a resolution regretting that hp should have dismissed the information, instead of using his power of cancelling the adoption papers. The committee also urged that a more careful preliminary investigation be made info the lioness of persons applying to adopt children. lie, .McArthur replied to the resolution as follows :—"I duly received yours of the 11, th inst, (orwnrdiijg resolution of your committee re my action on a recent case before the Court. I wouid rospectfully point out 1o your committee thai, the magistrate is in a much better position lo judge o," (he circumstances of a case than' is yom: committer, and that he is not going to be influenced by any extraneous body, no matter how good its intentions* may We. In reference to the last paragraph of your letter, T beg to inform youii committee that the most careful investigation is m.-,,Je into t-h L < fitness of persons npplviug to adopi. young children."

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No less tlinn nine race'horses were shipped North by the Rarawa last nighti

The Land Commission took evidence at Pnlmerston South on Wednesday, but nothing new wns elicited.

We have been requested by. Mr A. E. Farrar to state that any donation of old clothing will bo welcome for the use of the inmates of the Old People's Home.

The Thames Drainage Board has decided that the Government pumping plant should work to 050 ft to j facilitate the development of the I lower levels of mining properties.

At the Police Court on Wednesday H. A. Lcnnon, for whom Mr Wright appeared, admitted having ridden a bicycle on the footpath in Dawson SU\et, on the 17lh insl. A line of 5s and costs met 'the case. The Hon. J. McGwvvan will be at Thames on April 0 to lay the foundation stone of the public library ibeing erected at a cost of £2OOO, the lirst New Zealand grant for the purpose ifrom the millionaire, Andrew Carnegie.

An inmate of ilie OKI Homo, named Henry l-'ordhaiu, died yesterday afternoon at tho ago of ', 1. Deceased, a Londoner by birth, had been 40 years in New Zealand, 1.-eing admitted to the home from Stratford in November last.

The remanded ense of the man Sydney l'alfry, alias l!eo. Barrett, aged SO, .who- was charged with being an idle and disorderly person without visible means of support, came before Mr Hutchison, S.M., at the Police Court on Wednesday. Tho man, who had been remanded for medicall exaimina'tiion, was discharged on the understanding that he would obtain employment nt once.

At the clearing sale on the Flaxbourno estate, which is being aci quirodby the Government for closer. settlement, some 20,800 sheep were disposed of, the great bulk being [taken by Southern dealers, the chief buyers being R. Latter and W. Clarkson, of Canterbury. The Christchurch Meat Company bought 1500 fat sheep, giving from 21s- lid to ' 22s (id, the latter price being a record for the district.

" A milk supplier who distributes 1000 gallons of milk a day.will earn a gross income at the present price of milk of over £(K)O0 per annum " (says Dr Armstrong, the Sydney health officer, in his annual' report). "If the milk contains 10 per cent.

of water he will be actually bo making £6OO per annum clear profit on the sale of water, since the price of water in Sydney is small enough (Is per 1000 gallons) to be a negligible factory in such calculation. Now, £(500 a year will pay many fines of 20s, or even 40s, a nd still leave a goodly balance at tliu end of tho year's transactions. So the game goes merrily on. There are not a large number of firms or single inidi-

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