LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8055, 23 February 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Sentry Hilt sports were held on Thursday, and were well patronised. Good competitions were witnessed, the meeting being very successful. Brisbane advises that cable communication between Cape St. .lames and Haiphong is restored. The Turkisk l'oute is again interrupted between Busliire and Fao. The Tariki School children held their annual picnic at New Plymouth 011 Thursday. Three large carriages were required to accommodate the excursionists, who spent a most enjoyable day. A young 'man, named Turner, was sentenced to six months and 11, days (concurrent) on two charges of theft at Klthain, on Thursday, l,y Mr A. I urnbull, S.M. The Woodville Borough Council has accepted the tender of the Barrowfield Ironworks Company, of Glasgow, for (lie supply of a gasworks plant at the 1 price ol CMOIH. There were live tenders, all from the Old Cull ill ry. I Of a number of calves vaccinated for blackleg at Tnglewood on Thursday by a veterinary surgeon, several have since died. Several hundred were inoculated by Inspector Rowan at Huirangi and Mangorci on Wednesday and Thursday, but no information has been received as to the sequel.

A sad drowning fatality occurred at . Tnnki on Thursday aflernoon, by which the youngest son of Mr George ! Cartwright lost his bile. Deceased, in company with bis brother and another 5 lad. were bathing in Fabish's lagoon ' 011 tin Rugby road al lhe|time of the occurrence. An inquest will be held to-iliiy.

, It is return time in the Kducalion , Board ollice just now. and the Secretary, Mr P. ,1 Wuilcombc. spends long hours in adding, dividing, transcribing, and ad,j listing 'seemingly innumerable columns of figures. The number of returns now asked for is rather alarmnig, and the detail required even more : so. The toial salaries, salary of each teacher, of each school, sick pay, and house allowances, school repairs, new sellout<, re-instalenients, and a whole host 111 oilier heads, are aliuosl enough to exasperate anyoii". An accident happened on Ihc Sirat-ford-Ongaruc railway works al ifuiroa 011 \\ ediiesday allernoon, bv which a man named li. .Smith received rather serious injuries, lie was driving 11 tip truck when Ihc horse boiled. " The jolting threw the driver oil', and in falling lie was struck bvilic truck, and

rutlior badly crushed. lie wnv removed on an ambulance lo Douglasromi. and placed on the al'tcrnoun train to Stratford. Dr. Carbery was telephoned for and niel llic Irani at Toko. ITo found I hat Smith hud suffered the fracture of several ribs, and ordered hi- removal to the ,\Vw Plymouth llospiliil, whither lie Mas couvevcil by the alleniooii'lrain. A ueccssiiy is anything which is 'h'il- A desk is needed, because bltsiiios can be done belter with il "'an williom il. If man is doing any kind of work lie nalumllv 1 urns to a desk in work or.. If hi' is ;i ear. penter lie uses a bench, il u nicrchant, or ollice man. somelhing in harmony with his surroiindinijs is looked for. and many men want the desk at which I they work to be of the best wood mid liuishfd in the best manner, Wrilo for catalogue of desks 111 all prices and styles lo \ orex, Ibtrker anil Finlay, Ltd., of a Cuba-strecl, Wellington.— Auvr,

A painful accident occurred to Mrs Crawshaw at lief resilience, the Bank of New Zealand, Stratford, on Tuesday [evening. While carrying a kettle and a teapot Mrs Crawshaw tripped over a mat, and the boiling contents of the vessels were thrown up into her face and over lief neck and shoulders, resulting in severe scalding. A permanent school of telegraphy for cadets opened at Oamaru yesterday morning under Mr 11.I 1 . Iteaven, There are twenty-one learners from all over the colony, and there are more to arrive. It is expected that tin" course will last for about two mouths, when others will take the present learners places. It is expected that the school will lie kept husy all the year round. The rooms are in the Post Olficc building.

The properly said to have been acquired by the Premier at Kookaoroa, portion of the Te Mahanga property, Hawke's 11.-iy, is for liis son, Captain Seddon, wlio is retiring irom the public service, but Mr Seddon will reside on the property during his rare periods of "leisure. Mr Cyril Ward, son of Sir Joseph Ward, will also acquire land in Hawke's Bay, probably on his father's return from Koine. Mr Ward, who is about 22 years of age, met with a serious Accident at .Lincoln Agricultural College some time ago A serious accident was narrowly averted oil the New Plymouth racecourse on Thursday morning. Mr Dan O'lSrien's horses, Grenade and Multilid, started olf together for a spin on the grass track, the course apparently being clear. After the pair had traversed a furlong or so, it was seen that the caretaker's horse was standing right in the track of the approaching racehorses. The riders managed to pull their mounts, but in doing so Multilid got foul of the drain dividing the grass and tan tracks. The colt managed lu keep his feet, but when pulled up showed slight signs of soreness. ft is understood tlflit Multilid escaped injury, and his preparation will not be interfered with.

Mr Pulton, Chief Fibre Expert, who has been inspecting the flax mills in the Auckland district, and supervising the working of the grading stores, thinks the export this', year will be about the same as last year —threequarters of a million tons. There may lie a slight falling olf in the quantity of the main fibre exported this year, but there will be a considerable addition to the volume of low exported. Formerly tow was burned ; now it fetches from Co to t'7 a ton. lie slates dial few of the workings in the North were conducted as he would like to see Ihciu. Millers were greatly in need of iistructiou, and lie was disippoinlcd at the large quantity of inferior stuff that came into the stores at .Auckland. There was insufficient care in stripping, and not half enough lime or attention was devoted to cleaning. Much of the lidding was badly performed, and large areas were completely destroyed through cutting the blades 100 low, and grubbing. The visit of the New Zc.ilanders to the Mother Country, says the Belfast "Weekly News" ol: November ;i(llli, recalls the little known fact that it was chiefly through (he action of one of the Magistrates of Glasgow —Mr John Fleming; of Clairmont—that New Zealand was retained as a British posses, sion. He was about the first, if not the first, man ia the kingdom to direct the

attention of the Government to"tlTF| possibilities of New Zoaland as a British settlement. ■ He took up the matter with enthusiasm, and, enlisting the services of such men as Dr, Norman McLeod, Sheriff Allison, and Lord Provost Luiud™, convened a meeting in the Glasgow - Athcnanim on Slay 15th, IN HI, which was the moans of arousing public attention to the question all over the country, and brought iwout the annexation of the islands in time to pre* vent them passing into the hands of the French, It was doubtless the outcome of Glasgow's connection ivith|]thc ippropriation of the islands for Great Britain that New Zealand was hirg-dy colonised hy Scotsmen, Tiic National Cash Register Co., the pioneer cash register company of the world, and a concern employing more llian 7n:)il people and owning over eleven hundred patents, I !jh:is just won important victories over the Hailwood: Co.. also manufacturers of c.isli regis, tors. In America the law moves slowly, but in the case in question it li-is moved very surely, and the Cash Kcgistcr Co. were

awarded .sixteen claims. As a result of the award referred to, the National Company control the sole right of manufacturing any cash resistor which has a Riming device attached thereto. This company, in securing its eleven hundred odd patents, tiled no less tlian twenty thousand claims, and they have waged war continuously afainst other manufacturers who have been infringing t heir patent rights. It is doubl less, however, if any award has secured for the pioneer company such a sweeping victory as that referred to. In other words, the National C'asli Register Co. are placed ill almost absolute control of improvements essential to marketability of a cash register. This company is hut I wenty years' old, and such has been its growth that to-day it completes one cash register each two' minutes of every working dav, and Ships more llun Ii'JOO cash registers every month.*