LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8042, 1 February 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-day is the anniversary of the | founding of Nelson in 1841. Heuee the big carnival there. The train for the South steamer leaves at 11 a.m. to-day instead of 12.20, on account of the Stratford School Picnic.

Johnny A r ane, Hie last of the Ben Hall gang of bushrangers, has died in the Cowra hospital, New South Wales. He has lately becu engaged in farming, Messrs. F. Anioore, F. C. Davidson, E. Itcvell, and F. W. Retter have been nominated to fill a vacancy on the Elthaiu Borough Council. The election I takes place on Wednesday next. At the request of a large number of people, the committee of the Recreation Sports Ground euchre party have decided to finish up the party to-night with a dance. Those stopping to the dance will be charged sixpence extra, to defray the expense of the music. Mr Newton King reports having sold Mr Duggan's dairy farm of Zti'J acres, situated at Rahotu, to Mr G. R. Tyler, of Ureuui; also having leased a property, at Oniata, to Mr R. J. Eoyd, of Wanganui. The Minister for Railways, in reply to an inquiry from Mr E M, Smith, M.H.R., telegraphed on Wednesday night that the Sew Plymouth railway deviation will be proceeded with as soon as possible. The surveys have been in hand for some time, but they are not yet completed.

In confirmation of the Premier's telegram announcing the grant of £3500 for the Techuicul School buildings at New Plymouth, word was received by the Education Department on Wednesday night to the effect that the original plans, showing tour rooms, had been approved.

It is stated that the Hawera Baud Contest will result in a loss of about £IOO. It was not expected that the receipts would come up to the heavy expenditure entailed. A maintenance order, under which Charles Revcll, of Okato, was ordered to contribute 10s per week for the support of his wife, was reduced at the S.M. Court on Wednesday to 5s per week, provided Rcvell pays £5 in satisfaction of arrears within seven days. In addressing the parishioners for the first time on Wednesday last, the Rev. Harold Purchas, the newlyinducted vicar of St. John's, Latimer Square, Christchurch, said that he was strongly against the raising of money by means other than direct giving. If, after holding office for a couple, of years, he found that things would not go forward without the adoption of other means for "raising the wind," hewould resign.

The lot of a bailiff sent to occupy premises under a distress warrant is not a happy one, According to the story of an inquiry into the origin of a fire at the Magistrate's Court at Dunedin last Tuesday, the bailiff was confined to two small rooms, very scantily furnished. He had made arrangements with a small boy to deliver his meals to him, and in the absence of a bed, much less u pillow, he slept on two chairs. In addition, says the Otago "Daily Times," he suffered the indignity of being locked up when the family had retired, and the proprietor of the establishment, who made but little attempt to disguise his contempt for the unwelcome boarder so thrust upon him, said, in the course of his evidence, relating the steps he took after the fire : "I unlocked the street dojr to let the bailiff loose !'•' after the niin- | ncr one speaks of his dog,

Following is a good sample of American journalism :—The " Choctaw Injlinrer," in order to do justice to a great subject, rises to the occasion thus:—" Texas is a whopper. She is a peach. She's the widest, broadest, and longest country on earth, extending from cast to west, and also from north to south, She could put Rhode Island in her vest pocket, She could swallow throe or four States like Maryland, and wash 'em down by drinking the Mis. sissippi dry, and could digest 'em without ever having the colic. Texas is the Empire State of the Union, without any Kaiser Bill for an emperor. She is the chiefest among ten- thousand, and altogether lively, wild, reckless. She's the pebble on the beach. She's one of the old blue hen's chickens. She's the cock of the walk, aud the democrat of the world. She's a wolf, and it's her day to howl."