LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7953, 17 October 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On Moiiilay w.rr.ii>K, <ti.- warn* uuin flank N.iiliaiiiH Nll -liolls, uli , 1,a.l t.nMi ttinan,lc>l on liw- chai'Rf of *»»- i„i,c,. was i).'i ,, ii' iht'S.M. lit 'Jh.wyil coiisiil.Tiilil'- iiii[iiu\l'lnriit .is tin- it-suit <il 1..s ivliiciiitiit, ;ui 1 was n.mu'l;.! ..ml ilisdiargul 1.11 a 1:i ■ .I.i'.t; ii n or,lor 1 liciivs .iirniiiM him. On llie c-harj<(- uf rliilil ilcsitliiip .liiiin Hum- was ii'iii.u,,k-l to Allti-lalill.

A Oinstchuiih mcss.iii,!' Males lli.it. I lit- ;iiii-ci i-i s hi llir Ciiuti I'lriiiT Hall t'imtj.iiny have din.l.d In iiuihc alien ;i'>ns id ilii' main hall al an cs11ill. icd.ciwi of tilUHii, with the obji ci uf .moment in; I In- iiif'oni'' and iririli ilic hall nioic suilalilc lor all clause.-, oi entrit-Mlimins.

"liie pf'Hisiiiii iif an amh.ilance to la- |.,e,. t» (I , t Ouiinake was lurtlur liiM'i.Miil liy I lii- Tarana,!.! liuspllal Uijirl.it Monday's iiiti'tjim. Mr IturHiat the sciiK-i's ha.i taken up the mailer. The cos | (lan-l----ot) will |,r aliiiui !.• \vhi»h it j* |II op.'Sl ;l |„ I',.jsi. li.li; 1 In- district. I lie llawoia .ii.l SnalH.rl I'.o.inls h. ire,; asked t.i t'linl ly centi ibuie t)it1. iliai i.i 1 1 r ul Hie ciisl. Il is iir-'i'<l Hill Opmiake IS central, an.l Ili.il th« aliiliiilance can he lelephoii, ,1 for from I.lhcl Mill rf Ihe iliNirjet. 'flic need f '". s "'cans i.i conveyn,-li.un-lils hy road under ihe easiest >l»'c is a tract of miles oi country | ( „ 1( .|„. ( | , |V . '«>!• Ule Hoard agreed, on the mi'ir" AI ; "uificss, 10 Conlrihuie a i|U.uiei tin- cost 0 [ ,| lt . I| . lljl . l| .

Ki-fcrriti; ;o \ii,. m . , '•hi, M.'ltwi.irui. I'uiich ' savs J, I,l }'' " rV, ' r '""I •» sin«i-r, .since n,!". "J 1 ' ""'SoH.ii <l.i >s ~f K A |,> ] lnv ,... s " uli<n au,lieices ' ,'° n " sl,r "" 1 "I' -such s,v, l( . s ' •li - "I"' .Ml SauiKlay ni-ln, w) '' s ,Hm "'Hi anil Women stood to dim'

.'ll.l .tJ.pl.Ul.l, 1„ Wi H,> 1,. U , !ian<lkrr t -t iJ( -:s. t(l j|( Wii)s li.ivt mi anist whose vocal gifts are llluniinaiert |, v sincerilv, spirit anil sentiment lias a puwer ami ,n iinijini 11 y ~wr 1 1n- feelings of .utilier.-, tvlit. in urn- sense, (||,in || w i o j. M-iipircl, sovereign in luLuiieUd cunq'liTijl."

It is understood thai Sir Joseph Ward has consented lo lay Hie Joumlalion stone ol the New Plym nuh post office at an early date.

"1 ho plans for t-he Stratford Hospital have been approved ti.v the chief officers of th> l Health and' Ijj the Hospital Jto-ard.

miring lite week .mled the Tth iust. letters i>f naturalisation were issued to thirteen aliens by live Colonial Secretary.

Tlie maximum weight of parcels which may Ire placed with a twopenny left-lugga-gv label in the'cloakroom n't the Government railway stations has been increased I'roiin -SIT) to ,"i(ilh.

Jtirferenco lo -llh'j map ujill sbo'w, up tile west coast of North Auckland, a, land-loekrd sheet, of water known as Kaipara llaihenr, with the Kaipara river in at Ihe southern end, and the Wairoa river al the northern ; -down one river u-nd up the oilier is a waterway -beside which no otlver inside the coast'line ot Ibe eolouy can -tye con .pared lor w nil-mint. To -describe it -as a.iiarbour. sa\s -a recent visitor, really conve.\ii no i-dea of its far-flon-g proportions : it is an inlan-ds.a, with no less t-han 21KIO miles of coast line, thai is to say Hint live larvd surrounding it has .2'U'nt mites of water frontagv. All the navies in tlw world could be broad bosom, and scarcely lie seen from the other shore.

Proposals respecting tile Sparrow, will, says the Premier, be submitted in slue course. There no youths at present on (he vessel, which will accommodate . about eighty boys. They will -be drafted from the imlus-| trial schools, and will not include reformatory cases. Tf ibere nro not sullicient boys availa-bie, tho(?overnment will arrange for taking lioys who comply with conditions lo -lw tixed by regulaiie.n. After th« boys have. Irei-n traineil, the Premier adds, a large number of them w-ill -be available for the Australian d.pia'dron and for our mercant-i'le marine.

False packing, it would appear, ia not contine.l to wool, for complaint has recent lyljven made in T-imaru of the fraudulent tilling of the fat sob 1 , at Ihe lortuightly auction sales. It i<,al]eged that sometimes a laiyer fitids on opening up his purchases of, tat. that the tins -have in them a good dtral besidos fat. l'olten potatoes. and applies, lumps of iron,parts of thu entrails of sheep, an-d other ohject ionable mixtures bring added to till lip space n-iwl jnake up Weig'hl.

The Tourist l>cpartment has Iwcn advised thai Mr l'aniel C. Nugent, one of tho wealthiest merchants of si . Louis. is a l/out to vis»t New 'A -aland. With his wife and famiily <Miss I.ouisa and Messrs H. Casey and Morgan 'l*. Nugvirlj In- left St. Louis 4/11 September X. and is to leave Honolulu «. 11 'the ISU) inst.,by the Sonoma Ji/r Auckland. The Nil•..eats will remain three or four weoks in the colony, visiting; all places oi iult-rrs'. and v ill, then go •(«» Australia in the continuation of theirvoya/oround the world. The movements of the Nugent family on tour *V4 M-t. out in h beautifully-printed and illustrated booklet, which they have circulate! among 1 their friends at homi' and abroad. 'Phis 'is the latest Americanism.

Mr. y, Cliis'i' 11.-al'tlv onic«?r iDr Cape ('olon\) speaking at a ling of til;- J'.ritish Medical Assoriaiion iviviitly held in South Afri-

c.a. said that the .colony, or innn.\ part* of it. had h. . n considered by many men as Ix-ing n certain cuivj for c twnnplion. but it would surprise many io learn that tuberculrts-

i-; was becoming one ol th*« greatest >ci. , nt'iri k s Ui«\v had denl especially in llif native I'crritories. V if-\,:-u i r twenty y<*rs ago 1 iibereulosis was practically unknown at aiJfori West : but it had become a health resort for eonsiinipt ixe pa - tients, and at present the death-rat"' from tuberculosis amongst nat ives in that place was 17 or IS |>er loon, ih against a V.uroju'an- -leath-rate of

7or H J>er 1 «m»i». That clearly show«d that lhe climate had no efTert at all. or that. if it had. it was in favour of the spread ,of the disease.

Tlh' (ioYerninent authorities at Hawaii have ;lori'.lr.i In iilli'iiipt. to <lestroy 111-' iioiiblosomo ((ireitni niosqiiiui.s that iniVsl iln' islaml lo iit'il-i-.il!!; a lisli rail,-,I Ihe piH'oiliilao. Tii.-y Ivave nnfam'il Mi' Alvin Sealo.of 1 [.;• Stanford I nivoivity. to stip-'iln-t.r.l lb.- experiment, which is crc-a-li„K considerable inti-ri'sl amongst M-i.i\tisls. Tbv tish thrivo in ihcmim iml.-s and lau'oims ol" tho soiitlioni I iii..l Stairs—the l»>>-.l;hi;- pbuv oi llio nii.si|iiito,s—ami i. ,'d tartly 111 ill,. poisonous insvet ; iwh'od, Uroir iood consists almost entirely of the ;ir\ao of ' ncosiiuW o,s. N'hen tbii iasi mail Ml, tlu- fish xvi" doing a .rn-at work in tin- waters oi Hawaii, anil ii was ihoiijrbt that their in- : ri.-'lnri ion wonl.-l ti'iul to ft considerable measure of relief.

One oi the attractions at the bt. l.oiiis Uorlils l-.ur was tiic iiispiaj ,>iwii li\ initaal Clonic and a nuiuur of Boil's. Since the C'osin:: of the Fair the Hoii's seem to have ulkn on evil times. '1 he New oik colTtspowlelit of a I.ondon daily pallor says : —"Tlie Great lioer .show," which came to nft latel>, is dt'Ci Ifdi'y mote ontu umint m cotlapso whan when m lull blast repreisfcilingi mimic balUlcsj (fn,-tJw vn.dt I i the benclit of Auiericai sightseers. '1 he tli-relict and loan liusos still atllael ptople to lMi£hton iitvach, just outside New York, and spteiai tot respondents teltgiapii liii-ir impressions irom the Seat of wai. A |-pa ii inly liie real Uoer war kas only just couimeneid, and tho is now not lor independence or ajiplaiis.', but lor salaries. General Crone and his wile liavo taken to kopjes, aiui tho lul'tner relates that ii" justice is mueii loiija-r del.ijid he Will, appeal as a l iitish stiliUel ior the uw.istahiv oj i'lie Hi il.isli'L'l.usul in l ejiati ial llioso Hoots who limi lliein ,elu-s unable to pay their Way hack to .South Africa.

A W.uicUnjra rtsiileni, Mr \\. 0. Wo! Urcj vjwn, has set • an CX.linpI 1 ' rl piJldiC-Spil liul llUiM]*! cei.Cf \Uucii is wed worthy ot imiIml.oii i:y othei He has recently convtjed },y (| tr( i t ,( gift to tlii' Liowj) a cliotce patch of native iotesi, s»ction 2, biucK 11, at Kaluui ! r<\, in i t!ie survey disll'jct, as a stvnic rcsei'Vi'. The siciiun is ahotit nine acres in area, an• approach iroiu the KahauiaJ'a louJ, and is known locally as the

' Kjhautiiu liush," The land had 1-een laktn yvvr hv the i'ouiist iaJ»at inu-nt under the Scenery Preservation At'i, anil has Imtii fenced, and <i [H'otielivf hell of hardy uws nas been planud round it. This reserve is now, with (he exception of the kalnkaua forests an the Kuaniahunga rivt'i*, Jhe orly piece ol hush rein the Kahautara district. The reserve eon tains .some very kahikaUM, rinui, and totar A illes, wllh many ti-palms and mixed vegetaliun, and is a beautiful spot \iewid i'i'oiu the adjoining road. In the years to come ii will he lo»do'»l upon as an valuable relic of the vanished Nairarapa forests. The (Jowrunient, through Sir .Joseph Ward (Minister administering tin- Tourist Department), has tliaiiknl Mr Williams (who is a very <J,I colonist) lor his gem Tons iJft.

The San Francisco Chronicle stated thai a new turbine steamer called Hie Mankeino is to he placed <>n the PugH Sound-Australian service. The new vessel Was tube l'eady to the builders' hands in for Australia last mouth. She has a veKisiry of tons, with an indicatid horse-power of (ifimi, and will he eapiiblr of *ni hour. Ihe Chronicle says, erroneousiy, that the Mankeino will be the li'stl tin hilie \esscl in the Pacific,: evidently not heintc aware of the existence of thp prohahle that hy the Mankeino is meant the Maheno, hiiilt hy the Unicn Steam Ship Company of New '/»et» Ia nd \vX the »Sy d i j ey-Vanc cut vei S'ixiCe.

The Auckland-San Francisco mail despatch of Sept. 15 arrived in London or the M tit ins I. A Might lias attracted the _ bluegum plantations in South Cantevlmry, ami is killing the trees in all -directions. Sir William Steward suggests the importation of two species of lady-bird,, said to be the natural enemy of litis blight.

The local Hospital Hoard lias bc;»p advised that the new oonsumplive annexe in connection Willi the kelson llosxiil.il will 1» complrlfd shortly, when the opening ceremony will be performed by Sir .Joseph Ward. Taranaki's lead in this waiter is being followed by several lios-

pital districts. KcpoL'liug on the Old Peoples' | Home for the month ending October | lf>, the manager (Mr A. K. Farrar) states that there was one arrival awl one departure. There are now 11 inmates, H 3 uiak's and 8 females. The discipline is good, and the general health of the old people as satisfa'clory as can he exprclcd. MrRock has been appointed assistant at the Home in place of Mr J. Lee. The report of the medical superinlemle.nt (Dr. Leatham) shows thai during .September 31 patients were, admitted to the New Plymouth Hospital, and 37 discharged. There were two deaths during the. month and on September 30, there Were 86 patients in the institution. Eleven opera-

lions were performed. It is reported that some half-wit-

ted hoodlum is scaring ladies in town by suddenly springing in front of them. As a good look-out will be k<ept by certain people, of muscular reputation, the culprit stands a good chance of severe handling.

The grand social and dance in Che Drill Hall on Momlay evening was Well attended, and passed off most pleasantly. An enjoyable dance programme was carried out, Messrs H. C. Uakcr and C. T. Mills actiig as M.C.'s. The music rendered by Messrs A. James (piano), Blanchetl (violin) and Deare (flute), who gave their services gratuitously, was vwy, much appreciated. Duriug tho evening vocal items contributwl by Mfts Murphy, the Rev. A. M. Hradbury, and H. Cooper, added to the pleasure of the social. Refreshments woro handed round by the ladies. Tli« admirable arrangements were creditable to the committee, including Mr* Dockrill, Misses Quinticy and Kirk-by, and Messrs 0. Tisch, A. E. Farwr, H. llobbs and R. J. Cock.

Tnc pump worked sluooHjly at the Moturoa bore on Monday, and Uk? manager was abl<? to report that tho quantity of water wa.s decreasing and Uie proportion ol oil increasing. Oh inquiry wo were informed that the pump was to work all night, as Mr Fair expected to exhaust the wafer hy this morning. Visit the Kgmor.t Tobacconist and tlairdressing Saloon, near the

tion. Our uew expert /rem Auckland in hairdressing and sha\it<g will give you complete satisfacticii.*

Just landed—Our first consignment of Xmas jewellery and so!Hi Bilverware. Now on view wi .»ur window a lovely display of new rings, new broodies, iiew !:ang!rs, new soli.l silver goods. Oinli'y \\q .very host. (ioo;l value hryoud dispute. Carefully nolo tlie address : 3. H. Parker, Waiehnukor, Jeweller and Optician, railway crossing, Devon Street Central, New Plymouth.*