LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8036, 24 January 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-day is the anniversary of the proclamation of King Edward VII. as King of England in Will.

All loyal Scots will, doubtless, have noted that to-morrow, 251 h January, is the anniversary of the birth of Scotland's poet, "Bobbie" Hums, in 175! l. The tender of Messrs. Forbes .v. Brown |.1;231) has been accepted for the erection n[ a teacher's residence at Mahoe school.

Negotiations are well under way for the completion of arrangemon's for carrying children from Waugauiomona township io school by brake. The members of the Taranaki Education Board will inspect the latrines, which have just been erected at the Xew Plymouth schools, this morning.

Tile Finance Committee of the Taranaki Education Hoard lias recommended the acceptance of Mr M. Andrews' tender (t233) for additions to the Urcnui School.

Mr Harold Trimble, recently elected to the Taranaki Education Board, took his seat at the Board meeting in Tuesday night, being accorded a cordial welcome by the old members.

Nominations of candidates to (ill Ihe vacancy causal by the resignation of Mr G. Tish as a nieniber of the Xew Plymouth Borough Council close to-day at noon, at the Town Clerk's ollieo.

For the past six weeks n vast and unnatural peace has reigned in .Stratford, the e.ause whereof has been unfolded to the Taranaki Education Board, in the form of a elnim for 15s damages sustained by the Salvation Army's big drum, when Die mipils of the Stratford School were occupying the Army Hall as a class-room.

The Klthuai 'rradesmen's Assncialion are endeavoring to bring Klthani within Section 21 of the Shops and Ollices Act, and to have the shops of lhe town closed at 5.30 in YVm'cr and I! p.m. in Summer and !l p.m. in Winter ami !l.:ti) p.m. in the Suminer on

There »ns a large attendance al Die Army Uarracks. .New Plymouth, mi Tuesday night to farewell Adjutant Dickens, wliu lias been transferred to YVanganui, The Adjutant's leclure was interesting and well received, and [he whole meeting was characterised hv good feeling toward the popular oilier. Adjutant Dickens leaves for his new charge on Thursday morning. TIIK YStITOJIS or' J:lt>.» JIA'MMIII

Tin- sMnp i-- i,r rheumatism iishs.llv leave no liunlii as lo whal is I he mallei Willi llie sulleivr. Sharp pains are fell inlhc wrisl. knee, elbow, ankle, or other joints, which are usually hot, red, anil swollen. The pain often.shifts from one joint to another one Hay it may be the hand, the next perhaps, the foot is seized willi lance-like pains -while tho pari llrst affected may be much easier. No matter how severe the symptoms of rliciuiiulisin, lihcumn will completely banish them. Hundreds of well-known poo le testify its wonderful power of conquering rheuma ism. Price 2s 6d and 4s (id, from all cheuiisUs and stores. I

" The Blno Pox Clonk," an interesting Russian stoi'y, appears on the fourth page of this issue

Tho Ballauee Dairy Company has received a cablegram stating that its consignment of butter for London per the Jiumara realised HUs per cwt.

The Baud Contest Committee, at Hawera, is endeavouring to have the special train timed to leave New Plymouth at 0.27 a.m. to-morrow, delayed to leave at 10.30. Mr Major, M.H.R., interviewed Sir Joseph Ward on the matter at Wellington, and last night wired to the Department urging immediate attention. At the lime of writing, 1 a.m., the Department had not replied.

The multiplicity of methods of recording votes at local bodies and other elections seems to he causing considerable confusion in the minds of the electors. At the recent election for a member on the Taranaki Education Hoard out of 201 votes recorded, no less than !I2 were rejected as informal, accounted for in almost every instance by electors confusing the system of | voting under the Local Bodies, Electoral, and Education Acts.

Last Wednesday night a middleaged man, apparently a farmer, according to the Lyttelton " Times," had sup. plied himself with a wad of about lll'ty pound-noles, which he thrust singly into the hands of passers-by and threw promiscuously about the roadway. He purchased about £7 worth of postage stamps, and commenced (o dance a haka on them, hut the police put a stop to his eccentricities before he could unburden himself of any more cash. He was taken before a Magistrate, and lcommitted to the Sunnyside Asylum.

'•'Letters of recommendation" are not always worth the paper they are written on. In his capacity as Magistrate, Mr YV. 11. Bishop found out this long ago. The matter was touched on during the Waltham Orphanage inquiry, and Mr Bishop expressed his views very tersely :—" I must say that I don't place much faith in letters of recommendation as a general rule," he observed; "my experience of applicants for the old age pensions has taught me not to place much reliance on tliem. I have had men bring letters to me in which they were made out to lie perfect- paragons, and within n week or so I have had them brought up for drunkenness."

The Danncvirkc "Advocate" says: —" A painful impression was created at Ihe Rifles' rump last night by the discovery of a blunder, which, had it remained undetected, might have caused serious mischief. II appears that blank carlridgcs were being served mil, when one «f the men noticed lliirt liii package was heavier than usual. In? vcstigatioii revealed the furl thai llie parcel contained rounds of ball cartridges. Tt is understood that the ammunition came from Wellington, and strict ini|uirics should be made into Ihc whole matter with the view of sheeting home the responsibility for the blunder to the proper quarter."

A " Post " representative on Thursday last visited the wreck of the barque Addenda, which went ashore at Palliser Bay, Wellington, during the tierce gah' which prevailed along Ihc coast in October, IUOf. The vessel is lying in the shingle a good many yards above low water mark, parallel with the sea. She is on an even keel, having been placed thus by the use of hydraulic lilting pumps and screw-jacks. The work of righting the vessel was a slow process, but now she is in a position from which it will be practically easy to slide her into the sea. The vessel certainly does not look a wreck —she is only a wreck theoretically. The barquentine is practically as sound as the day she was launched. Nothing is broken; nothing stove in. She is whole. The only defect is a "started" rudder trunk. She, of course, wants a good dell ot caulking, twelve months' exposure l« (he sun's rays having opened the seams out a little. The yards have been taken down, and ibis is all the dismantling lo he done. It is expected that she will be re-launched to-day or 10-niorrow, provided the weather keeps line, and a lag will be in readiness lo low her down the six stout Oregon skids, 75 anil 50 feci in length, which have been taken to the locaiily.

Tho Kogistrar-Geiieral «iv«-s in (he Government Gazelle some interesting particulars I'i'ktivi' (n immigration so Fur as Xew Zealand is concerned ilurnig tin' past jvar. He said the iirrivals in the colony lust year (32,1185) exceeded the nuniiier recorded in WO I (32.1>32\ mul tJie departures during l'.IDo, which numbered 23,38:). were also, greater than those in the previous year—viz., 22,277. The excess of arrivals over ile]iarturi's last year was U302, against 10,355 in 11)1)1, The colony has drawn to itself in each of the ten years ISUB to 1!)05 more iiopulation thau it lias parted with. The arrivals from the United Kingdom for I'JDS show an excess of 3(i!i!) over the departures, and from Australian Slates there is an excess of 57(15, but for other countries a loss of 102. OF the 32,N(15 persons who came to New JSeulaml last year, 3535, or 10.52 per cent, of the total, were children—i.e., under twelve years of ago; and of the 2:),:)W3 departures the children numbered ISSI, or 7.11) per cent. It is somewhat remarkable that the largest number of our foreign immigrants come from Austria. These numbered 2(15, and of that total 25!) were adult ; mules, live females, and one a male infant. China swelled our population by 221 males and It females; the United Slates of America sent over 217 adult iua!e>, 7.S females, ami 2S children ; Germany gave us 171 new colonists, France" 121, the I'aiiliMauds 2S, and .Japan only 1, an adult male.