LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8005, 16 December 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On our fourth page to-day appeal commercial news, mail notices, and list of Sunday services.

The result of the football match, New Zealand v. Wales, will be posted outside the Dau.y Nkws' office on Sunday morning immediately on receipt. Details of the play wili be specially supplied for Monday morning's issue. The whole of the dredged area of the harbour is showing a marked improvement in depth.

The names of Messrs A. Humphries and J. Clark were omitted from the published list of the Star Sports Committee.

At the Board meeting yesterday the harbourmaster was instructed to make a start at onee in dredging out a berth at the new wharf, and to continue at this work until further instructed. Messrs E. J. Car! hew and Co. report having soli! Mr llealey's valuable fre.'liold properly, shops f.'ft. frontage to Devon street, residence and buildings, also } acre with villa and stables situated l'),evon street, all to Mr Mark Johnstone of Urenui.

Whitcley church—Sunday December 17th. Preachers: Morning, Itcv, J. Newman Buttle. Subject, The general election, its results and its lessons." Evening, licv. J. J. Pendray (Waitara). Cordial invitation to strangers and visitors.—Aiivt.

Miss Stanford's pupils commenced their Christmas vacation yesterday. The breaking-up ceremony was attended by many of the parents and friends of the scholars, Hev. F. J. Kvans presenting the prizes.

Madame de Lassollavs, who was charged, on the information of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, with the desertion of lies infant child, has made arrangements for keeping her progeny and has paid up her arrears of maintenance. Proceedings against her were accordingly withdrawn.

111 the action brought by James 0. Sieywright (late editor of the Mail) against the N.Z. Times Company for a year's salary 011 having his services dispensed with at three months' notice owing to the caprice of a new management, the jury were of opinion that sixmonths' notice should have been given and a verdict was entered for the plain, tiff for £lOl additional, with costs on the lower scale.

Mr T. Henderson, foreman of works, reported to the Harbour Board yesterday that during the month twentyeight piles, comprising four bays, have bec.i driven in the wharf extension work*, four sets of headstones and longitudinal stringers have been put in, and the decking carried forward twentv feet.

The Harbour Board's dredge worked eighteen days, making 217} trips, and removing 14,t17rt tons of sand and silt, After December 2lth it is the harbourmaster's intention to use the d-ed"e in the day only, dispensing with the services of the extra crew until more extensive dredging is required, ltepairs to the hull and suction pipe will be effected by the foreman at New Year.

During the four weeks ending December 12th, 42 steamer- berthed at the New Plymouth wharf, the aggregate gross tonnage amounting to 41.020 tons. Imports were 3321 tons, including 350 tons ot local coal and oiiO tons of railway coal. Exports were 1377 tons, making a total of 4(WS tons of cargo handled. Di -ing the month light and moderate winds and moderate seas were experienced.

Tlii' funeral of the late Mr W. Cottier on Friday afternoon was a lilting tribute to the memory of one who lias always been looked upon as one of New Plymouth's highly respected citizens. In the large funeral cortege were many of the old settlers and members of the 'l'aramiki Veterans' Association, who joined in their old comrade's last solemn march. liev. Osborne ollieiated at the graveside ceremonies.

li. Clow, with a handicap of nine minutes, annexed first prize in Thursday's cycle road race from New Plymouth to Waitara and back. J[. Crockett (10 mins.) was second, and . Skipper (3 mins.) third. B. "Wan put up the fastest lime, and lakes Mr Cooke' x innl.il fn» the meritorious performance of about 22 miles in o9 minutes.

lie-pite a bumper attendance, brisk bidding, and the mosl strenuous efforts of liulh of Mr Newtou King's auctioneers at the sale of furniture at Ihe Drill Hall vest crdav afternoon, it was found impiissihlc to dispose of the very large ipiantily catalog led. t| was therefore decided to continue the sale al the s-iine place at 2 o'clock this (Salunlay) afternoon, when we would advise our country friends to avail themselves id the oppnrtunitv of participiling in (he bargains which will be oil','red.

| lii connection with the breakwater extension, Mr Henderson, foreman of works at the port, reports that work was commenced at the end of the wall on November loth, and a section of 12 feet was completed on December 2n Another section is now being put dow and was to have been completed yu . terday. This makes a total of 9» fee; of new work. Repairs to the block' setting crane will be executed in the Christmas holidays, without causijg uuy delay to the work, \ I

A poll taken at Dunedin on Friday, on a proposal to borrow £50,000 for alterations and additions to the municipal gas works, resulted in the proposal being carried by 972 to 396. On Friday afternoon there was a good muster of mothers and Hends at Fitzroy School to witness the distribution of prizes to the children. After the ceroinony the young folk were entertained, a sumptuous tea beiug provided for their delectation.

A box collection is to be made in town to-day by ladies, on behalf of the fund for improving the football area in the Recreation Grounds, and the Committee hope for a liberal response to the appeal.

Recognition of kindness is not frequently made in public. It is, therefore, pleasing to record that at the Fitzroy School prize distribution oil Friday, Mr W. Mclndoe, driver of the Fitzroy 'bus, was presented with a handsome silver mounted cigar bolder, in token of the children's appreciation of his kindness to them, especially on wet days, in giving them a lift homewards,

Fancy a business having a kid glove for a foundation! Yet this is true of one of our well-known New Plymouth businesses. Messrs Morcy an' 1 Moore's big glove bargains a few years ago laid the foundations of a big cash business. To-day glove bargains are the rule again. Gloves that usually bring as Cd in other stores are selling here at Is lid per pair; the 3s (id line is selling at the same price. Town.and country residents alike aro ; iterated in this startling reduction.

We have received from Messrs Whitcombe and Tombs, .Wellington, a copy of " Gardening in New Zealand." The present edition has been almost entirely re-written and brought up to date, and for the first time illustrated throughout, and contains no less than 118 illustrations, livery department appertaining to garden management has been exhaustively dealt ita, but in the simple style and language which tended so materially to make the former editions popular. The work is published at 3s (id, contains 312 pages, and is obtainable from any bookseller throughout the colony.

Lord Ranfiirly is ininu lsely popular in Ireland among his tcaantvy at Dung.union, County. Tyrone, savs the " levelling News." He not infrequently reads the lessons at the local church—reads them from a Bible with a history. It is the Bible which was used in the old Irish House of Commons. He is accustomed t > many phases of life, was a successful fruit farmer in Australia, and among the Maoris of New Zealand he is a brother tnd friend. They invested him with signal ho lours among his leave-taking—gave him of the feathers of their Iribe, and wound about his shoulders a rug of dog-skin. Beyond this Maori ceremonial could not

The "Oamuru .Mail" learns on the best of authority that the majority of the public,ins in Oamaru have decided to charge i'l per day for aceommoda;ion, contending that, in view of nolicense, they cannot make their establishments pay unless lliey increase the tariffs materially. The "North Oiago Times " says thai " it. was current talk in town " that a number of the licensed victuallers had met and decided to increase the tariff to os each for meals and bed. This ought to mean good business for the boarding houses and restaurants.

Mr 0. K. Fortescue, Keeper of the Pj'inled llooks in; the British! Museum, speaking at the London School of Economics, said that the catalogue of the. Museum now contains more than H,B(iO,nno entries', ami is growing nt the rate of 60,000 a year. The , library) contains forty-three miles of shelves, and every year 270,000 newspapers are added t 0 the collection.

The largest and most extraordinary of all the vultures is the South American s]»ecies called the condor. The wings, are of vast extent, measuring somu fi'tcen feet'Troni tip to tip. In its flight'war theigrouml tlio Stephenson riggwl up the first steam whistle.

There was 0111j a small cause-list at tlic Magistrate's Court on Friday morning. Judgment was given in undefended cases as follows :—Pott and Go. v. J. l'reston, claim C 5 Os 3d, costs £1 10s (id; Andrew Collis v. Frederick Butterworth, claim £3 4s, costs ss; .1. and T. A\ery v. William Ellerm, claim .624 13s, costs .£'3 (is. In a judgment summons case, C. E. Scrivener v. Frank SehafFer, amount due, ft 3s (id, an order was made, as means were admitted, for payment of 20s per month, first instalment on December 23, in default one week's imprisonment. Three other judgment summons cases were adjourno.l. The only defended case was that of G. If. Lindstrom and Co. v. I!. Hannah a".d Co., a claim of £ll 13s 4d for leather sold and delivered. The evidence for defendants in this ease had been taken in Wellington, and yesterday the witnesses called were the plaintiff and W. F. McAllum. After hearing arg iment, Mr Hutchison, S.M., said he would reserve judgment till 10.30 11.111, on Monday. Mr F. E, Wilson (Hoy and Wilson) appeared for the plaintiff, anu Mr T. S. Weston (Weston and Weston) instructed by Messrs Skerrett, Wiley and Weston, of Wellington, for defendants.

R is' worthy, of note that near!t all the leaseholders represent town constituencies, or /electorates comprising a majority rf town workers. The country disli icts, where the people are settlers, or hope to become so, and who know the conditions most desirable, have voted solid lor the freehold option. There are very few "sing-le-ta.ws" in the new Parliament : and so far as we know every candidate who advocated a complete cessation of the sale of Ci'own lands :has 'been rejected -by the people. There can be 110 doubt as to what the land policy of the, future will be. It will he n sano and mod-crate policy, 'the leading feature of which will be the continuance of the forms of i.plional tenure introduccd Jjy Sir John IMcKenzie, with the modification that present and future under the lease-In-perpetuity wilt be -given the option of converting into the freehold. This will be a sal isfactory solution oH-ho question. The fetir of settlers tailing into lhe u hands of usurious momw lenders may -be dismiss, d as groundless, as /the Government's cheap money \sclicmo will keep d'own the rate of interest on freehold securities, while th« limitation to be imposed on tlie area of land that may be held by one person or company will dispose of 1 the dread 1 of fe-aggrogv-vtion of large estates that lias liven expressed by some pessimists.— N. 7.. Times.