LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8028, 15 January 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A general meeting of the Now Plymouth Tradesmen's Association will be held this evening. The latest in a New Zealand lawyer's bill of costs is the following:—''To your calling at my oflice when 1 was not in, liis Id."

There is too much hole and corner business about the selection of judges for the Mpnnwatn Show, with the result that incompetent men are not infrequently appointed, nays the local "Times." There were iusiancc* of this kind at the last Wilder Show. Some of the members of the Association know this, and why it is so, and yet tliey seem afraid to speak.

A ('harming love story, entitled " Repaid by Love," appears on the fourth page.

A good haul of schnapper was made by a New Plymouth boating party on Sunday. Twenty line specimens, \)kfides other Pisli, were taken. The traek to Dawson's Palls Mountain House is in splendid order this year, lieeently a brougham, contain ing a parly of ladies and llieir "swags," was driven right to the door of tin hostelry. The number of visitors to the various houses on Egriiont's slopes promises to lie larger than ever. Mr (_'. M. Grav, Mayor of Christchurch, who is in Hawera recently, states that lie heard t-lie Woolstou band at t'liristchurcli recently. They played brilliantly, and in Mr Gray's o])inion they will take a li)l of heating at the Xorlh island l!and Contra .

The "Wondnllc Examiner" says that an amusing complication lias arisen at one of the Maliara'iara schools, it appears that some two years ago the School Committee let a portion of the school reserve, but by some clerical error the lessee appears to have the title to the whole of tlie school reserve, including the school and other buildings. The less e has now taken poslession of t.ie school, anil refuses to quit. Further developments are now awaited with interest. Hawera has been most unfortunate in the matter of lire alarm apparatus. All sorts and conditions of hells have been tried and found wanting. Big towers and little towers on .which to hang the bells have been erected at various times and at considerable cost, but the problem still reminds unsolved, and Hawera's slumbers Viay not yet be disturbed by the ringing of her fire bells At a' meeting of the llawcr Fire Brigade on Wednesday, no les • than nine of the firemen asked to b excused for not attending the fire call on January lith, all complaining thai they had not heard it.

Many people go through life in a semi-apologetic manner : in other words, llicy simply drag out an existence instead of living. H a man wa.ds to be happy ami successful in b isiness, he must be healthy, for licalth and happiness are synonymous. If you are suffering from any mental or physical trouble, and have failed to discover the cause or got satisfaction from medicine, consult Mrs and Mrs J. Goodman, the natural healers, who wil l cure you. If they cannot cure, then you cannot lie cured at nil. The above specialists may be consulted at the Imperial Hotel.—Advl.

On Tuesday evening an entertaintaiunieul of music,il merit is promised at St. Vary's Hull, New l'lymou.h, when Her. .1.. Jflynii-Anderson, who was through the Hotf War in Cie capacity of Chaplniii'With British to ccs.is to deliver an illustrated lcuti'.e entitled ' Camp Fire Yarns " or " W'th Briton and Boer," has been in the colony for ionic little time, and lias given liis entertainmentin all the principal cities to crow.ded houses, is described as a splendid lecturer, brimful of wit and humour. Over 200 lantern slides will be used in illustrating the lecture, the proceeds from which are in aid of the South African Government Railway's Mission.

At the Tailiape Police CoiP't < Thursday, Ben jamin Senrby was fin .CIO or three months' imprisonment f i using the title of Dr. without bein registered. He went to Tailiape on the ISth December last, and set up in practice as a doctor, and advertised to that effect, lie was also appointed by the Oddfellows' Lodge and received fees accordingly. Accused had been in the colony two years and had every opportunity of registering as a physician He was also charged with obtaining the sum of £2 from Martin Anso, under false pretences, and was lined fcii or one month's imprisonment. Another charge was also pending for obtaining £lO (join Tims. Gari'tl, a'so under false pretences.

The Woodvil'eKvaminer " says;— | The Uacou Company last; month obtained 30il pigs from Taranaki, and only 100 from a'l oilier sources, principally Palmcrston. The Taranaki pi were infinitely beltcrtlian llieothers. ft; would seem that flic Palnierstou folkr.'e supplying another company with thrv best pigs, and sending along sluih-fcd animals to Woodcillc. \eedless to say the directors arc determined to exclude the cast-offs of another company. The Taranaki farmers, too, arc very pleased that the Woodvillc Factory buyers have cut ereil their district, for they are now getting Ijd per lb more for their pork than they used to do.

A correspondent writes to the '' No Zealand Times " as follows: —" l'a isongers from the llawke's Bay, Bns>., and Wairarapa districts are not abie to reach IS'ew Plymouth under a day a'yl a half, and on returning the joumoj occupies from 7.30 a.m. to 10 p.m., owing to the absurd ami unnecessary delays at Pahiici'slon North and Woodvillc stations. As the Government is practically unopposed from Now Plymouth to Gisborne, it ought to run ail up-to-date train service to accommodate the people of Taranaki, Wang.inui, Mauawalu, llawke's Bay, Hush, and Wairarapa districts; and if the; Parliamentary representatives of these const it ufneics are worth their salt, they ought to compel the Railway Department to carry out this crying necessity."

Mr F. R. Benson, son of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, in writing an " appreciation of Sir Henry Irving," in the November number of " Review of Reviews," stales the following:—" The New Zealandors, if | may be allotted the comparison, by refusing to impute virtue io methods, apart from (lit- idea which thev represent, have infused vigour mid life into a game which had become somewhat dull and mechanical, In a similar way Irving cut himself adrift from the older school, and galvanised and elaborated the niichanism of the actor's art. Others of his contemporaries were associated witli liiiii in this work. .Hermann Yczin and one or two more were aide to make au'ell'ective compromise, bill it was iu part the limitation, an.' in part the n:itlii'-'.l expression of Irving':; genius that he islands ns the eitrei representative of what might lie caller, the natiP'alistic school of roinantii acting."

The London "Globe" says "it is not generally luiown lh:it the New Zealandors receive numerous proposals of marriage .after each game, Mistakes sometimes happen, One of the three-quarters. who was erroneously reported I" have scored a brilliant try on one occasion, was ivi|iiesied nest [day, by lelter, to hand on I lie proposal sent lo him to an agile live-eighths. 'Since wriling,' ran the letter, • I have discovered that il was really he who scored, the insertion of ynur name beoig due to a printer's error. In these circumstances. I can li" nothing more than a sister to you. - Vein's laithiully, etc.' *'

Tin' l.'lin'finrm ill' lla' Associate I Banks li:is been interviewed by t 1 c Wellington tirimiiiK paper wmwrnii , I In l absurd multiplicity <>f Bank liol • days in tliis Colon v. Tin 1 Chitirni:.. said t!n'i'e were no direct complaint and we lire ol tin l opinion that if thei'o were it would lie all tlie same to those ami inslitutiojis—(lie Bunks. Occasiona'ly the ordinary business man discovers that lie canno* pay wages of a [Saturday because that day happens to be a N iiii s Pay, or a All Fools' Hay, or sonic oilier ridicul-. otis Bank vacation. Hanks are associated and do exactly what they like. Even the legislature d;u\. not meddle with them. They don't, as a rule, even take the troubL to let their customers know when ij special closing .'unction is about lo lake place. A customer, perhaps, comes in from the country o do business, and linds that lie is the victim of an unexpected Bank holiday.

Big risks are rim by cyclists who ride with no bell or lamp. The local authorities are watching for " law breakers.' Domt run any more risks, when you get a good out tit, or any separate article to complete your cycling kit at J. llurle's npi'osite the Post Office, and at, prices low enough to touch the ground. Repairs of all classes are a special delight here, and we are only satisfied when our customers are with our work,—Advt, 1