LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7956, 20 October 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Under the auspices of the Tradcslni'ii's; Protection Association aimeet-. in;; of tlftise cngaived in the clothing, tailoring and boot business was held al the Town Hall on Wednesday eveniuit;, to consider the <|iicstkm of the credit system. There was u gonl attendance, Mr 11. Goodaere presiding. After considerable, discussion, itii wlr.cb ilsere was unanimity of opinion; as to the necessity for taking combined action lo restrict the'" credit, system, the nice tins was adjourned for a week.

Tbe Inspiclor of Technical Schools (Mr I-:. C. Isaacs) was engaged on Thursday in viewing Ihe manual work al the Central School. Since February last the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society has distributed seine 22,D5t) rainbow trout in the various rivers of the district. The lisb liberated were in size from three inches in the early pail of the season lo twelve inches, some 300 turning the scale atthnc-qiiarieis of a pound cadi. The work done in .slocking the rivers is veiy creditable to the sicrelary (Mr IJ.'.McAlluni), commit lee, ami boll, rangers of tbe Society. The fish have been liberated in ihe following rivers :—Okahu 2500, PungaMcere 1000, Kapoiaia 2500, Warea 3000, Stony River 50(1, Kaihihi 25(10, Timaru 3000, Oakura 3500, Waiaua 350, Mangorei 500, Te Ileum 500, Waimigona 1750, private waters 15(i, with 3011 yet to be put into the Waiwakaiho.

Tin- Trafalgar Cenlniarv will he ob-s.-ru-d at Kitzroy School Ihi.s morning, and after Hit' formal ccrcmony the children will be granted a holiday. Mr 11. Okey announces that lit- will meet the electors at the Theatre Royal n.-xt Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Tenders for several metalling connects are -invited by the Waitara West Road Board. Particulars will be found in our advertising columns. The cantata, "The Flower Queen," was produce! al tile Uhiieley Hall on TTritvday even.ng, when unfortunate1} Ihe uii|)ro|ii lions weather, logether, it may be said, with ih e lack ( ,f still.tleiit publicity, considerably afficted the aitcmbncc. The stage was tastefully decorated, but was somewhat cramped for ih ( . vii performers, who were appropriately adormd with the dillerent colours and emblems of the flowers which lb \ sevevally represent,,,! || was a: pretly spectacle, the group .'aim-in/ . in age Imm young ladiis ,o litth; , tots of six or seven. I'be tenet.il choius parts were all well render.,!, tli.' volume of nielodv ..nil 1-, il.m being very pleasing. Some e! ifci. U: , a . • lists were not so happy in the dainlv , sol,, numbers, ) }u \ j| ~n'sl |„, said , that on the whole the solos were capably treat.d. The essence of t| H . ■ c.niala, the clowning of the Rose as - <(iie.n of the FloWds. was admirable ; P"i'nraycd. Airs Gaukrodgcr is t„ \\. . cmpliiiienteil ,„ )lu . n , sul! ,. 1)f , |(ir , tuition, the young popl,. showing evi- ■ dines of careful training. Tbe p,rloiinersbad th,. benefit of K o«d music - 'unng Hie evening f,-„ m Miss Collis , (accompanist) and Mr Turmr's or<.ie.su a. At the,close of the mterf""" 1 '" 1 a tafty vote of thanks on "''>"•"' «| 11... Mev. J. N . Hut le, «■>■- accorded ,o all who l, a d assist!

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For shoot i,,,. „ in, t ,|„ , rs ( | (lsr , tho nuimigvi- of the Cover „t r.Ti-ni -it llamillon was tin, ,1 t.-,, ~,,. Vi ,|,„. '„,•

Wh.ii asked at Stratford if )„. »"!" yl.il.y of drunkenness. da s l '" Mi "-- "" « niM.al replc. -If '1- cnslal.le says so.' h- -aid. "I

«a,n W M, K oi-„ ,jver ~,. Sundav t,v -a local aii«ler. The monster mcnMircil ■"' :l1 " '"> 1-'ikMi and im-„,,| ,he -"ah at .'l.'iil,

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'l"<i'- mnarkaljl" !,-„s,. ~f ~ illal , uh.i.s.- ...m-s- ,lr,.|, „„l ),.,s ,„.,.,, '■'■•"'.•-In in ih.. n.iiit - ||„. |j,.|.|i n .M.lllCll Association. Tile lii.li.-lil who h,,s Hiiiisiii.ll, p,-„i,ii,„.„i CVcs' i.s a lii.ii. hi ;,.; xonr.s Hi, km-' „,', smld.-iih ~„,. nijj-hi „i,|, I" 1 ' 11 - I"" I'l'Miil his |,.fl 4 -\ r hi,,,. ~„ ill'- pillow. -|„ii with the aiil' of his relatives »;is ahh- 1,-, ~„i i| |, m .|< lUain. Il„. si-hl „„i |„.i„.„. Ml AM »i'i a11..i-i..1. If lli,."pal,ici,l leans imv.anl the ~.\,. win i,| M , |- iIM ,„,, »i) thai Ih.- unfortunate miM , i s i„ 1' ',nisi sli f Ici-i-,,]-. Soillolilllcs il is Hi,. |,.f| .|,„| .5,,M1,-lillli-s 111" i-iylit e,\ol,nll which falls mil. A start was mail,-rrc.-nHy i„ I„,r--iny fur artesian water in Marlon Hi" pi|."l."iii K driven :in fool ihioiiK'h sands In Auckland anil milmii-lis ihn-iiml Ih" ilasl -ffwolu. mmilhs (iTH new h.nisrs Inn,- i, -Imilt. At Ms last ti:.vtin S Ih,- l-'.llhain 1!,,r,,,ic,1i C.uiicil accepted ih,. lender ul' Ih.- \\i.||iii»li,n (las Company fur I.'i.iiuii gallons of iai- at :'..;,! prr .uallmi. H is mi -si, -ml. sins an oNchiineo. Ihal a ChrislcliMich -cut lonian in-! 1.-n.ls to u i\,. a Gordon p,.-,,,,,., c„p.I oil a-, small seal.-, lor a Now Z.-ala.al i Ciiiisiili-ni'l,l.. consternation is c.iis,.,| in Hi" rniiuav service at l'eu- : alia i\ ic.) I,v Ih,.- severity of I hu \isioii ami haaniic, 1,-sis beiim con-' dueled l,y Ih-. SiniUi. of ('-nrliTliin. ' Tuenli-liw p,-r i ~f the emplov-) ""S so far o.viliiined IliiM- failo,l In pass Hi,- leMs Some ill,-a of I hesi i ill iialiire of the lesl.s nia.\ lie -.-aiiied from the fad thai two hours , are occupied will, each num. Cine of.j Ih" S-i-'lll 1,-sMS consisls c'f reildhlUj With one eye h-llers till -(-i-llts I if an inch hi-h nl a dislance of JI ft. It is ni.-iiiilv , ver th,' londini: nf l In--,- lell.rs ihal Hi,- inch Itavclail-i-il. Tin-: all assen Ihal Miei are capalih- of ilislinKiiishiiie- ih- si-nals mil the colour, .I li-ht-. as i-,.,|iii,. .1 ii urltml wurKiii!;' i-ijiuliiioii;. i

Pr. Tizzovi, a professor at llologna' I niversit.v, lias presented to the scientific academy of that town the results of his long osperimonts in the cure of hydrophobia by the raysi 01 radium (says a Daily 'lVlegraph Jlilan coi'ivspoiukmt). lie repeatedly injected several rabbits with tl'w) most violent hydrophbin virus, and then submitted them to radium rays. All the animals recovered within six days, including those whose treal""•nl 'did not begin it the malady was at its eliina.v. Suclr •U'Sionishiiig results would render useless Che I'as-, leur inslitutis. It i s „ow ev|)ect.-d 1 hat expenm, ids will |„< ,„ iW |,. .„ hiimnti beings sufTeriiis from h\ rmlPhbia.

Kvidciilly Hie fear (hat sheep ace likeh to S o back in priee is groundless so Uit- as present indications 410 (says the Malaura Kiisig-n). A lino of Iwo-loolh ewes was sold at Kiversdale 11 few days ago at the record |irice of ills per head.

The Federal House, by :-to to 11, adopted .Mr lieakin's motion lo vote £2.">,111K1 to the Uue.ii Victoria Alemorial. nfler (iiuendiiieiits favouring devoting the money too hospital and raising the a mil by voluntary subscript ion h«d bee,, rejected. The scow Moana, which went ashore lour weeks ago near the mouth of tho Moknu Ui\er. with the loss of all bands, seven in iiuui'lh'l', is breaking up. Mr . Stubbs, of Waitara, pur chased the wreck, intending to refloat, fhe scow, bu-l this is now considered impossible owing to thedama.ge caused by basl weather.

Kretcbmar, an cx-Gennan naval officer, while travelling in a Berlin to Paris train, was robbed of a •heque" for £53,000. Nine hundred indentured coolies in Ihe West Indies remitted tir.;,t)o« lo Calcutta in ten years.

President Roosevelt has given memlieis of his Cabinet power to remove .summarily, without hearing the case, any civil servant who, al the personal knowledge of the. head of a Department, has been guilty of misconduct, or is inefficient.

A cal.»li£ message 1 announces thai Karl Cowley. who ( was co-respondent in Ihe llartopp divorce suit, is lo marry Lady llartopp al Colombo. On Wednesday last, Moors fired upon a British destroyer proceeding! along the coast between C'euta and Teluaii. They hit the vessel|, but no one was injured.

The Chief Commissioner of ihe Loudon Metropolitan Police, in his annual report, shows a great decrease of serious criminality.

Kounee.-i degrees of frost was cxperieucid in Scotland and nine In London on Wcdncsdav. Th.- Japanese have' relloal.d 1 he, liussiiin l.aMlrshi,, I'ohieda and the ""T"'" boul Ciirdnmsk. In reply to Mr Masse.v, tbe Minister for Lands stales 1 tint it is not mis of £.-,,i,i t'„r a 'milling machine, as' tb. le are several maehinvs now on the market, and the agents of these would no -doiibl be prepared lo milimil them for trial. One has already been tried at Himkiira experimental I'nrii'.. and smother has been promised for trial when'completed.

Several Taranaki jietitions praying for the construction of a railwav'line. from Opunakeilo (■he l Jl.niivtaiu Hoad have Ii 1' referred to the Covernnieiil for coiisideraliou.

A London cable slides that Karl Spencer, who recently had a seizure, is now out of danger.

C.Tinan advices from Liimi (Fast Africa) stale ibal a nuiiiber of unlive prison, -is were court mart iall.il .in.l HI shot instead of hang.d, as Ibe natives -bad i-epoil.-il thai Ceri.ian lilies were unable lo kill. The Citizens' Life Assurance Company. 1.1,1., -has inki'iuup n Oi-iin of till.ooi) r.-ipiir.-d in eonnoclion wilt, ibe l>alii,oi-Moir North .Iraimvgtf sebein,', -aird also,a i:'2(>,Wo kiail i-e-| iiuii-iil foe the town water supply exlension.

It has been said that Uie camera, never Ins. Il is the peculiar <pialil.\ ol lli-at meebaiiisii, Unit nev,.r t.-lls th.. I nub. Nothirg c0.,i,-s twecli the object ami li.e image except the .'.un. and Ihe distorting power of lire sun. which cannot select., makes the image monstrous and inhuman. F.verytbiiig is twisted out of proporl ion.—Hbiel.wtiod's Magazine The Norwegians have given us a. splendid proof of their pnrtiolism. Atierce, strong,, and generous people, among whom th.-i'l, muru.'i', and the nefarious passions so common in other countries are unknown, they have dining this protracted period of

'interregnum" without a monarch,or a chief of any kind, governed their country with wisdom ami tact.—Trillium, ltonie.

While playing (in tv loiirsoiue at. North Herwiek, Mr Halfnur was ob-|l vioiisly inn oft his game by one oi the spcelo'l ors who persisted iu coughing just at tbe critical moments. Mr ISalfour's caddie, a regular old stager, authoritatively stoplied the game. and. addressing the onlookers with -givat polit.twss, said, "(.'an any of you gentlemen oblige Ibis man wi' a .iuiulie '.' "—Thy Work', and His Wife. !

The Roads Deparlmenl lias accptcd tenders for reformation work on I lie Oliura Road. Particulars arc not yet available.