LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8006, 18 December 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hay-making o]MT;itions have commcnccd in this locality, principally upou rye-grass lands. For the convenience of his customers. Mr T. Awry will keep his shop open ill tin' evenings during this week.

Tin- watch presented by the mothers of the AVest End school children to Miss MviKitt was procured from the well-kim'nn slock of Mr .1 Bennett, Devon Street.

The West Ibid school record is beaten by Master Victor Kelly, who has been attending Mornington school for ten rears and has never been absent for a single half day.

The cock's shrill clarion, with a more subdued accompaniment supplied by his female partner or the rythmic •ipiack. ipiack.' of the duck was greatly in evidence at the town auction marts on Saturday, the supply of birds shouing a big increase owing (,> || lo Christmas dinners looming in view.

A local farmer is strong in |t„. )„.. lief that a very useful dairy cow will be evolved from the Kerrv-Sliorlhorn cross. The Kerry cow has line mill,-ing.pi-ilitics. g„„d „dder, good (cats, and a strung constitution. :m ,| j,. ),.,,. land, as this fanner says, people al«ays liked a "dash of the Kerry" in milch cow*.

Everyone who "showedout " in New Plymouth on Saturday was attacked by one or other of the ladies culleetiug lor I lie Recreation Grounds improvement funds, Besides this, a house to house canvass was made, and ilie contribiilion boxes were in evidem ,- in the evening on Devon street Town Baud played several ' The effort realised £SO 7s. JH '

Mr C. M. Townsend, 8.A., Ims passed his final legal examination, entitling him to the degree of L.L.IS. Mr Townsend is at present with Messrs Govett and Quilliam. The Wanganui Licensed Victuallers' Association met the. other day and scattered guineas broadcast among athletic and other institutions. Several other promised donations, which were dependent on continuance, being carried, have since been made in various electorates.

A piece of harness used regularly in farm work and in bringing loads to and from the town markets each week for twenty-five years is somewhat of a rarity. Such a thing, however, is owned by a farmer living just oulside New Plymouth. It comprises a home-made set of breeching of a pattern not in general use.

At Inglewood on Thursday, before Mr Turnbull. S.M., J. Purdio, J.P., of Wailara, was charged with illegally impounding 28 cattle, the property of Andrew Neilson. Mr Thompson appeared for the complainant Neilson and Mr Quilliam (Govett and Quilliam) for the clefondant. The information was dismissed.

If variety of entertainment spoils] enjoyment, then the Mayor and Mrs Cock should have had a pleasant afternoon on Thursday. Tho fact, how-1 ever, that each " crash " —to use a society term—followed so rapidly on the heels of its predecessor, and that the various functions were held iu the town and widely separated suburbs, must have detracted largely from the pleasure that would otherwise have resulted. At 1.30 p.m. the Mayor and Mayoress attended the prize-giving ceremony at the West .End School, and this was suck a, formidable order that the appointed hour of half-past two o'clock had slipped by bofore the phaeton drew up at 'the Convent schools. Here the children gave of their best in singing and music, and in the midst of the concert the Mayor delivered sonic remarks highly suggestive of eulogy of the manner in which our Catholic educational institutions arc conducted. Then a very hurried trip was made to the South Road, where His Worship was commissioned to make a host of commendatory remarks about the Methodist sale of work. From this to the Fitzroy bowling green was the next move, and, for aught we know to the contrary, this may have been followed by other semi-public or public business.' A r crily, the lot of the Mayor of New Plymouth is a busy one.

Just landed our first consignment of Xmas jewellerj ami solid silver wave Now on view in our windows a lovely display ot new engagement rings, new brooches, new bangles, now solid silver goods. Quality the very best. Good value beyond dispute. Carefully r.ole the address.—J H. Fabkeb, watchmaker, Jeweller, and optician, next Railway Craoging, Devon Street i entral New Plymouth Advt.