LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7803, 20 April 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Bullion valued at £16,300 was sent to London on Monday by the Waihi Gold Mining Company. A meeting of the New Plymouth High School old boys will be held at the Council Chambers at ".ISO this evening.. The annual meetings of householders for the election of school committees will be held throughout the district on Tuesday evening next.

The ffate of the military Imill to !'be held by, the Taranaki .Rifles has been fixed for Victoria Day (May :24th). A strong committee has the arrangements well in hand.

Mr E. M. Smith, M.H.H., has received a telegram; from Mr Seddon, statin;; that tho I'arihaka Hoad Board loan had been approved, and passed through, Messrs Hew ley and Grifliths report the sale of Mr W. G. Richardson's 101 acre farm, Surrey Hills Itoad, Oakura, to Mr C. H. Moss, of Woodville.

A Lincoln sheep brought into Ta'ihape the other day Had been running wild for the past three years. It was estimated that the sheep was carrying about 101b of wool. The sheep was in splendid condition, notwithstanding this great growth of wool.

The mountain track is reported to be in fair order. Parties taking their own provisions and bedding would be' wise to make arrangements for pack horses from the radius line, as conveyances would not be able to go up to the house at present. At the meeting of the Taranaki Education Board on Tuesday a circular memorandum was received from the Education Board with regard to insurance. The secretary wus directed to reply that the Taranaki Board has not yet taken any action with regard to insuring its school properties. The Dairy Commissioner (Mr J. A. Kinsella) intends this year, if possible, to get the report for his division of tho Department of Agriculture published earlier than usual, so that the rccommondations and suggestions for the new season may get into the hands of the farmers before the season commences. I The recommendations made with [regard to the re-organisation of the [Stratford High School cadets were approved at last meeting of the 'Taranaki Education Board. The officers nowly appointed, with the sanction of Lieutenant-Colonel Loveday, are : —No. 1 Company—Captain, J. Thomas ; first lieutenant, E. Clarke ; second lieutenant, R. Tyrer. No. 2 Company—Captain, Thomas Blain ; first lieutenant, Walter Thomas ; second lieutenant, Alfred Grant.

According to the Carterton correspondent of the New Zealand Times, Martiniborough has been visited iby a millionaire deer-stalker. who, it is said, had good luck stalking. He made an offer of £IOO for a deer head, but the owner asked £l2O. The millionaire then withdrew the offer of £IOO, and left the owner lamenting. The visitor, however, was very liberal, and Ucsiides paying his guides extremely well, made several presentations before leaving the district.

Messrs S. Carleton and G. h Gorge, acting as commissioners in the stead of a school committee at Stanley Road, tendered their resignations to the last meeting of the Taranaki Education Hoard, as they considered they no longer had the confidence of the Hoard, or that body woulij not so long delay their requests for certain trivial improvements. A question, of fencing was cited as an instance. Mr Mackay having mad« an explanation of the circumstances, the Hoard decided to defer consideration of the fencing until after the election of school committees.

At the Police Court on Wednesday, Mr Hutchison, S.M., issued a prohibition order against a native named Tiki Here, of Rahotu. John Pauley, an inmate of the Old People's Home, renewed his application for an old age penßion. A. Farrar, manager at the home, gay,o the old man a good character. The S.M. granted a pension of £lB per annum. A civil action was also heard, in which T. Foot, storekeeper, of Waren. represented by Mr Hoy, sued H. Schwwmm, of Midhirsl, for £l7 2s;, thj} cjijiin being for goods supplied. Judgment was. entered by default, with costs amounting to £1 I3n fid.

The unusual spectacle of schoolteachers on strike was recently witnessed in Wales 1 . Owing to the action of the Aboi'dare Education Committee in passing n resolution depriving the whole of the assistant teachers in their service of the right of infheUng corpora] punishment, the. assistant leaches i( re-w ago decided to tender their resignations en li|cg. Tlie.v sjgnetl notices terminating (heir »>iKiigi-iucirt>; at the. meeting. At a niceljng 0 f 11,,. \ wu \ branch committcu of fl>,» National I.'nlon of Teachers the head teachers of Abci-dare also |)t'ofested against the ICducation Committee's action. In regard to the separation of the Waitara Horough from the Taranaki County, a meetfiig was held at New Plymouth pa for tho adjustment of account, s', Messrs H. Okey (Chairman), J. Audrpws, and J. IT. Hill representing the County Council, and Mpssrs A. Vt. Ogle and O. V. Tale: repi'(isen|,ii(g (lif Waitara Horough Council. A statement was laid on the table showing that the Lolal valuation of the whole district w&s £|,()71,127, I'ncluding ££.3,245 for-the Wajta|;a iloi;o|jg||. 'J/h'ij a<j~ sets of the cpunty amounted to' £i(i, : iflli, which the liabilities exceeded by ttUya?. Th<) pommittce found -(hat;, the amount payable by (he Wniiavn Horough Council as its quota of the liabilities js £65, and it was - agreed that bank rate of interest bo allowed on this amount until paid over to the County Council. 1

'i' Tie Amateur Athletic Association I has given its sanction to the amateur events included 'in the Star I Football (.'lull's sports programme lor Easter Monday. Nominations for the.se events will clofc w'itli thu secretary, Mr. J. Elliott, to-day, | The Board of Trade report on Uie condition of agriculture labour in the United Kingdom gives the present 'a virago wage earned ,bj farm hands ias JBs Hd per week. The highest !turn paid is 22s 2d, and the lowest —this is county Mayo—is 8s 9d. lhe average English labourer with a wife 'and four children cannot spend moiv I than IBs (id a week on food, and in counties where Hit, wages are small, "beef or mutton is only purchaso.V once a week—on Sutmxlay—lor consumption on Sunday." Mr It.. 11. In-,gli.:-Malgriive has just read an Interesting paper at the lioyal Statistical! Society bearing on the same subject. •• 1 "think,'' he said "we may roughly take it that the farmers' proiits, and the wages of the numerous labourers who have left the land rime 1877, and who arc no longer supported out of the produce, would ' have amounted to at least one-thiio i of the gross price. This is los't to . I tne various interests concerned, am ' in round figures amounts to £300,- : 1000,000.

We have received a circular in connection with the Seddon Testimonial Fund which states that at a public meeting in Wellington it was decided to afford an opportunity to the public to mark their sense of logret that an attempt has been made to o.ues'iipn the personal courage and capacity of Captain Seddon, an attempt which admittedly would not havo been made had full information been obtainable. The meeting felt that an undeserved reflection was cast on the colony which it was Captain Seddon's duty to resent, and; that Captain Seddon, in defending ms own and comrades' reputation, hail been involved in largo monetary responsibilities which ought never to havo been cast upon him. It was decidad to collect sufficient funds to cover Captain Seddon's legal expenses, and to present him with an address. A committee formed to carry this out will welcome any donations towards the fund friends may feel disposed to make. Sub-

scriptions will be received by Mr W. A. Palmer, Victoria Street, or Mr W. H. (Juick, Feathirston Street, Wellingtonj

Writing under ilalo February 23rd, the San Francisco correspondent of the Melbourne Age says :—Four legislative boodlers in California have been as neatly and securely entrapped as the keenest detective could desire. The Legislature of California meets once every two years for n session of two months. There Is always a scandal. This time it is a bigger one than usual. The acceptance of a bribe has been absolutely proved against four Senators—Bunkers. Wright, French and Emmons, by name—and they are now within measurable distance of the prison doors. A committee of the Legislature was given the task of investigating the building and loan associations of the State, some of which are known to be downright swindles. The four Senators named, were mjembcrs of that committee, and proceeded to make profitable use of the opportunity. Whether the Senators intimated that they were open to accept hush money, or whether some of the companies offered money in return for immunity, is a matter of dispute. Hut certain it is that the companies learned that the proper amount of cash would buy them a favourable report. Three of the companies combined to trap the Sena tors. They gave to the agent of the boodling legislators £7O for each of them, and arranged with this agent (one Jordan, a newspaper representative) that a representative of the companies should watch Klm hand the cash to the Senators, so as to t,e sure that he paid it. Unknown to Jordan, however, two detectives. loH'owcd, and saw him actually hand the money to two of the boodlers. Then the fat \vas in the fire. The secretary of one of the companies came bo/ore the Senate, and in a sworn affidavit related the fact of the bribery. The rising of the sun in the wefct could not have given the Senate a bigger sihock. A committee of investigation was appointed, and it has recommended that the four bribe takers be expelled. Jordan has confessed, null corroborated the testimony of the detectives, admitting that ho paid all four of the Senators'. . CriminiaJ proceedings againt the boodlers are now in pro. gross.

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