LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7946, 9 October 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A prijvate lettee, received from Auckland tells of a nil her momifying experience uf a daffodil grower. This lady exhibited at a church bazaar a number of blooms from her garden, and anions these, senne. expert discovered a ~>om of an entirely new variety. An offer of £25 for a hull) was promptly made, but the flower could not remember in what part of the garden she picked the bloom, and up to the present tha bulb of Phis new daffodil is still somewhere in this plot of ground. In the meantime the precious,bloom has been placed in a block of ice, and is lo he sent to Kngland Excange.

A very old resident ot Mastvrion planted some oak tries in his garden nianv vears ago. The trcis have, grown, ami the old settler informed seme iricnils a day i r two ago that he was about to have one ot litem felled and sawn into beards at a local timber mill. With the hoards he proposes to make collins for himself and his aged wife, and keep them in readiness for the day when they will be required. This case, however, is not so remarkable as that of an eccentiic old resident of the Hull, who some time ago had an expensive tombstone carvid in readiness for bis own grave. The order was placed with a Palmerston North linn, and while it Was being executed the old man paid several visits to that town, and showed keen interest in the manner in which his own toinlvstone was designed and carved. The monument is said to have been completed, and now stands erected in the Hutu Cemetery, and at present an occasional nocturnal visitor to the spot is lie whose form will one day rest beneath it.

The, Stratford Post states that the. local Public Works office reports a shortage in labour for the Strat-ford-W'hanganiomona railway. Some twenty additional men are icpiired, and during the past month only about three applications for employment have been received. When he was seen or, Hie subject, the local agent of Hie Labour Department, L'onstaWle Ryan, said at present there were very few men seeking work, ami as it was desired to put married men on railway works, it was difficult in supply *tlie- demand for labour. At this' time of the year work in (lie country Was plentiful. He had received a'number of enquiries for m% -„ m \ voiitlis for milking, and few of this class were making application (o him for employment.

Ihe ChaiM-1 Street I'.s.A. Savins (I'M.. Illackl.uin. into which nearlv XI l.oiui was ~n i(, ~v UI . M , w0 ,. k ,,-J during the year. <listHl.in.MlijluMiioi.il '•A laul.v. I'll men liHnir eneae.il i„ ' tl"c task. There we.v over three thou, sawl .vapi,.nls : anil '.'uoo sovereigns besides half-sovereigns „,„! si i Vll '' were carried away. The police lent a wnli-hiul owrsight to the procmlings "Iher distributions will bring the total up to i.-,<i,lK)(l. This jnone.v is saved by the workers, a small cum each week, for the holidays. II"- "I her ihi.v an American ndverJised in most .if H». couulrv paper, ll.roi.ghoni Hi,, states thai he <lmd ,lise,»ver,.,l a 'reliable" methoil of destroying the potnt,., bug. ami .would forward particulars on receipt of 10 cents. Thousands replied to the advert is„meni. Th,..\) rcrciv.-d l,v an earl.v post two iieall.v-whittled' slips of woo.-l and a print.-.I instruction. 'Catch the hue;," said tlie writer, 'and placv him hvtween the slicks. Then press them together." In tlit- Civil Court list published on Saturday the cases of the Hoard of School Coiiiiiii.-siomTs (Mr Quilliam) v. I-:. 11. Stevens, ami J. Ward and Son (Mr C. Wright) v. O'Driscoli, were iiiKhencncly included. In both instances the amounts were paid, and ihc cases were only iiierilione<l on the <|lll'Sl,oll <ii costs.

Messrs (lilmour and Panic have been appointed representatives for tins district of the \ew Zealand Retailers' Protection Society. An oflicc Will he open al Napier lark r, t\course on Tuesday and Wcd'f <l«y. I'Hh and (Ml, his,. 1],,,,,* "I altendai.ee, !i a.m. |,> 5 p.m. kronomic hous-wives are referred .'" ""' l ,ril <' Us' inserted in to-dav\ issue by Mr T. \\ . \\ t .| r |,. ' ' The opening cvnjnoiiv in connection Willi the Grand Uaza'ar and Knncv rail a, the Drill Hall will he „e,'""•'uc<l l.y the Mavoi at T.;jll U >- I""™' '•veniiw. The alt I act ions dur■nn Ihe currency of the Hazaar, from ...s. ay evening „, Krjl , will lie numerous and varied of'W,s' a 'tV our f,rsl «'"siKn.„,.nt wa,i' V„. l '' y - imi S " li(1 S»«Ton Street Central v - Vi. K ' '""' l| . Plymouth.*