LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81828, 22 August 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Okato residents arc notified thai Hie social to Mr H. Kothery lias been postponed till Monday next.

Messrs Gilmorc and Pattie report the sale of Mr Baby's farm of 200 acres, Mr Flynn's 273 acres, also Mr Meßoth's 580 acres.

Mr J. Skinner, county engineer, expects to place the plans for the new bridge, over the Waivakaiho, on Devon road, beforo the October meeting of llie County Council. Mr Webster, secretary to the Hunt Club, expects a big meet some time between tho 23rd inst. and September 4th, Arrangements will be made at the meeting of tho Egmont-Wauganui Hunt Club on Thursday. Mr Monkliouse will move at to-day's meeting of the Education Board to the effect that in applying for positions, all teachers must furnish medical certificates, stating their freedom from any infectious disease, and that, should the chairman have doubts about a teacher's health, ho may call for a medical certificate.

St. Joseph's euchre party on Monday night was well attended, and the play was fast and exciting at times. Miss Nash won tho ladies' first prize, with Mrs Mclndoe second, and Messrs L. Patterson and H. Goldwater tied in the gentlemen's section, the former winning in tho play off. Supper was followed by an enjoyable dauco, which lasted till midnight.

Attention is drawn to the fact advertised in another column that Mr Bligh will deliver a lecture on Friday evening, on " The Perils of Impurity." As this lecture is an exposure of the tactics of medical quacks, it should receive a good hearing. Over 3000 young men listened to Ins wonderful oratory in Wellington, and the Governor expressed himself satisfied with the methods adopted by Mr Bligh.

Mr Tiscli asked the Chairman of the Education Board on Tuesday night to explain why there had been so many resignations from the Board's teaching ■service recently. The Chairman said that he could not account for it, but thought legislation should he enacted compelling teachers to servo for a year in a situation before endeavouring to secure a change of location. The Chief Inspector said that Taranaki teachers were being snapped up by outside Boards perhaps on account of the knowledge of technical and manual work gained here. There was a great scarcity of teachers just now, however, and even Otago, Canterbury, and Wellington were compelled to go abroad 111 order to till vacancies. He was sorry that this district was losing some valuable teachers, not through anv dissatisfaction with local conditions, but simply because other districts required men of their qualifications. It was very hard that " just as a man had been broken in, he jumped across into some other fellow's paddock."

Mr Jas. Hill, of Hillsborough, suggests that the co-operative dairy companies in the Stratford, Clifton, and Taranaki Counties should contribute towards a butter trophy, which should bo annually competed for at the Taraniid Agricultural Show, the competition to he I,pen only to the factories in those counties. The directors of several companies have been approached, and all hive promised to support such a scheme, if brought before their directorates. At the Taranaki County Council meeting on Tuesday, tenders were accepted as follows: For supplying 100 yards of boulders on Mountain ro:id, between the old toll-gate and Norfolk road, J. Tarry, 2s lOd per yard ; carting 100 yards crushed stone from Waiwakaiho crusher site to Breakwater roid, J. 11. Colesby, 4s lid a yard; 100 yards boulders, .function I'Qad, between Inglewood and Kainialn A. 11. Cl-irk, at 5s ftl per yard, if stone is taken from Middleman's pit; otherwise tin; next tender will be communicated with. Tlie county engineer was authorised to arrange with the contractor for fencing approaches to theP,iakau bridge. Mr M. Jones, of Tariki, was appointed foreman in the Moa riding. Tenders will bo called for metal supplies.

There was considerable excitement in a railway carriage of one of the trains from New Plymouth on Monday. At one of the side stations a number of Maoris of exuberant spirits boarded the train, and entered it car wherein were comfortably situated a young man and his best girl. The Maoris hilarity got on the nerves of the malo pakeliu, wlio gave utterance to his disjmst 111 terms understood by one Maori maid, at least. " Who you, anyway," she exclaimed, facing the young man, " the Maori, he as good as pakeha, he never carry the swag, anyhow." " No, there is good reason," replied the while," lie's got no sense." Pulling herself up, the dusky maiden looked defiant, and in a twinkling her arm lashed out, catching the unfortunate full in' the face. Uecovermg himself, he tried to get out of her way, but she sprang at him agam, and was not content till she lauded several additional blows on tho same place.

The well-known eyesight and spectacle specialist, Mr A. Green, D.S.A.O. of Auckland, is now on a visit to New Plymouth, and may. be consulted daily from 31st August at the consulting room in Messrs Bewley and Grilliths' premises, Devon street. Mr Green needs no introduction to this district, where there are many people can gratefully point to him as having given them renewed sight. Anyone who is suffering from defective vision, and. who require the use of spectacles, cannot do better than call at once upon Mr Green, who has come fully prepared to deal with any stage or kind of eye trouble. Sufferers would do well to remember that where the eye requires attention delay is dangerous, and that an opportunity does not often occur of consulting a first-class specialist. If you Lave the faintest suspicion that your eyes are not just right, that your glasses don't suit your sight, if you have to hold a newspaper further from you than you should, or you cannot see at a distance, or if yon suffer Jrom headaches, painful bloodshot eyes, inflamed eyelids, crossed eyes, etc., then do not go io the aver-' age opliean or spectacle seller, 11s he is unable to distinguish between optical defects and diseases, but consult a good eyesight specialist, who will thoroughly examine your eyes, and give you good glasses, which will improve and strengthen the siedit. The optic nerves will secure rest, headaches will thus he prevented, and there will be an absence of dizziness.—Advt.