LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8036, 25 January 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A new Catholic Convent School is to he opened at Eltltam on Monday. Mr E P. Webster has been elected a Councillor for the New Plymouth West Ward, vice Mr Tisch, resigned. A meeting is to bo held at .Stratford shortly with the object of cstabl : shin H a branch of (he Society for Prevention of Cruelly lo Animals'there.

A dairy farmer in the Oainaru district hist mouth averaged ill 7s per cow fruni forty cows. This is the best season he lias yet experienced. The new pnsl ollice al Pnlmerslon North will be opened by Sir Joseph Ward on Friday. Mr .1. T. Wake, of Hastings, who paid C5(H'( for a Li-acre section some time back, recently sold half for tlOOl), |thus showing the liig advance in the I price of laud in I he borough. The local settlers al Mokauili have petitioned the Education Board, through Mr Jennings, M.H.H.. to erect a sclnolin that district.

Writing to the Taranaki Education Board regarding lack of facilities for schooling in the Whangamomona district, Mr Browne says: "It makes one for the moment blush as he looked at the uncultivated and ignorant youth around him." Entries for the Fcilding Show on i February 7th are 101) in excess of last year. The competitions average 27 each event. There will be 311 pens of sheep aucl record entries of horses and pigs.

Kiclnird Holder, a Hamilton settler, has discovered in a small limestone cave near Waihenio cave, the wellpreserved skeleton of a moa. The bones are slightly coated with carbonale of lime. The lerni of the present Licensing Coiinuiltees' tenure of ollice will shortly be expiring, and in the ordinary course of events, elections for the appointment of new committees will be held.

The South Canterbury Education Board will offer for competition by the primary schools next mouth a nice challenge shield for swimming. The amount necessary for ils purchase was derived from a grant by the Government for Ihe encouragement of swimming. A man arrested at the Thames last week, and who hail been attacked by delirium tremens, admitted having got through toll during a week's stay in Auckland. He was under the impression than an imaginary man in Auckland was discharging liquid electricity U|. him. School teachers are in especially strong demand just now. The Weiliuglon Education Hoard is calling for applications for fourteen vacancies in ils primary schoo's, including head teachers for Carterton, Kaiwarra, and Fevni'idge, and seven vacancies in secondary departments. There are other

vacancies, which arc to be announced in a few days. This is the largest list the Hoard has hail on hand for at Ic.ist two years. In addition, the Board is also calling for applications for nine positions on the stuff of the Training College. Those who visit the Xew Plymouth p'lblir I'eailing-rooili will appreciate changes and improvements now being made. A collide of stands have been creeled for liliug the two .New Ply. ! lunula "dailies," anil the other newspapers of the Colony arc fastened In the benches by means of brass littings. The benches themselves have been widened, and on the walls appear | slips designating the positions of the various periodicals tiled. Owing to in.iillieieut space, H has been found necessary to file two papers together

in a few instances, bm this is a 'minor inconvenience compared to the old style of allowing the papers to roam about the benches at random. One of the most 'radical naval re

forms announced in the recent, memorandum of Admiralty policy, says an exchange, seems to have escaped'attention. And yet there could scarcely he anything which was a surer index to changes in the navy (hail the bald statement: •• No more contracts for supply of salt beef have been entered into, as it has been decided to abolish this article of diet." Almost ever since Britain had a navy, salt beef and hard lack or biscuit have keen'the mainstay of sea rations. Mow (hat pretty nearly every war vessel, apart from "torpedo boats and submarines, possesses cold storage, there is no longer any necessity for feeding Jack on preserved provisions. His menu has gradually been brought up to the level of that which Tommy Atkins enjoys ashore, and this last step will complete the process.

While about, n dozen bolii't'i-rs in chemical compounds luivc been struggling for Ihe past livi'lvo months at Totara lo prove dial their composition will eradicate llie Canadian thistle, Mr Thomas Medley, whose, farm is on the lvakauui Elal, has compassed the destruction of a largo area of tile Ihislle by simple means, When the ihistle hall ripened and the stalks were hollow, he put a hack-delivery over lliein. The hollow stalks lilled wi'.h waler. and the water, Following down Ihe trend of the roots into the ground, rolled the plants Old. At all events, Mr Uedley has now a splendid crop of turnips on the land that previously was a mass id' Canadian thistles, and there are now no thistles. We mentioned several years assays the >'orlh. Orago Times) that Mr Crawford Anderson, of the Chttha, had accomplished the same desirable end by lite same method, It is an inexpensive means of overcoming a grave menace lo Ihe farming community, and although Ihe culling may not be followed by the necessary rainfall (o make ii complete, yet it is worth Irving, even four or live times. It costs very little, and thill is greully in its favour',

Those who remember Ihe beautiful art work shown by (In- Singer Sowing Machine Company al I lie lale Tarnnaki Exhibition, will lie glad io know this well-known linn has arranged |o give all old ami new, and also prospective. ''"fin f" five tuition m this beaulil'ulj work at I heir promises in Devon street. Tl is, ol' course, known thai Mr .1. Wough. the local manußer. arranges a sale of this world-tamed sewing machinc. on terms to sail all clients. During Mr V. McCartbv's visit, for one month, special concessions will he madc.-A<lvl,

There Is a •• house of call" in ICgmont street. M uite of the Continental plan. Al Ihe Arcadia Cigar Store, a man can enjoy his cigarette or pipe in a cosy silting-room, write a Idler or two, play his game of chess or draughts, and I hen conliuuehis busin'ss. Here, the morning paper, (he '•Daily Xews," and )l,e Wellington "Times" .■an be purchased with the early morning smoke, E. Van Jlelden, Ihe proprietor, lias a smoke Io -nit anybody. Call m.—Advi.

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At the Police Court, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, Clias. Hevcll, of Okato, was proceeded against by his wife for £l:i maintenance arrears. Afler hearing evidence, the S.M. awarded four weeks' imprisonment, tile warrant to lie suspended so long as defendant pays ten shilling per week. There will be no alteration in the special train arrangements for the H'mvera Hand Contest to-day. I lie lieparllurnlfinding il impossible, at thistage, to agree to the eomniillee's reipiest. As origimiily adverli.cd, the special train leaves \'ew I'lyni h this morning at il.'.L">.