LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81834, 29 August 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Melbourne-Brindisi despatch nf the 25th July arrived in London on the afternoon of the 28th inst.

The departure of the Sonoma from Auckland with next outward 'Frisco mail has been definitely postponed until the nth itrox.

Forty-four per cent of the old-ape pensioners, who were admitted in the hist year of the Act (1X80), were still on the books 011 March 31st last, The p.ice paid by the Government for Mr A. Bayly's estate near Toko is said to be between fit and £l2 ail icre. The esiate is now being subdivided for close settlement.

The total amount paid to Charitable Aid Boards and Hospital Boards during the past year by the 616 old-! ago pensioners who wore inmates of institutions under those boards was £14,350. The Taranuki Rifles fortnightly assembly will b ■ held ns i.sual this evening m the TJrill Hall, These socials have boon well attended throughout the winter, and have proved most enjoyable, an up-to-date cammitteo having charge of the arrangements. The Excolsior Lodso of Oddfellows met on Tuesday evening, W. G. Little presiding. One member was proposed for initiation. After usual lodge business was disposed of, the return card match with the Egmont Lodge was played, resulting in a win for the visitors by !!i5 paines to i'i

Special seryices will be licit! in the Queen street Primitive Methodist Ohurch on Sunday, to celebrate the <>2ncl anuiyersnry of the establishment of the church, in New Plymouth. Hav, T. 11. lyon will preach. On Tuesday a cantata " Day'aiid Night" will be i?iyeu.

We have to thank the telegraph operators m the local olliec for the promptitude with which they handled the Financial Statement last night, the 12,000 ocd worils coming to hand in uch g >od time as to enable us to make i yery comprehensive summary, The 'copy" moreover, was distinctly cleir ind legible. Messrs Wilson &■ Nolan have purchased the warehouse in Brougham ■.lrcct, New Plymouth, adjoining the railway yards, and lately occupied by Messrs Burgess. Eraser & Co. The building is being put in thorough repair, and will be used as a produce and implement store, as well as for the firm's monthly sales of hides, -kins and wool.

The colony's 12.582 old age pensioners last year held properly of the total value of ,£501,416, being an average, after tho deduction of mortgages of us, as against an average of X-5 2S, held ill the previous . ear. The total annual income earned by pensioners is £103,237, being an average " f 4s per annum per pensioner, as against £y 13s for the previous year.

The Council of the Churches has arranged for a public meeting next week in the Theatre Royal in conlcrlion with the gambling- evil, and 1 resolution will be submitted calling upon the Government to put an end to legalised gambling by abolishing he loialisator. His Worship the Mayor has promised to preside and various speakers will deliver adIresses.

'ilie North 'laranaln Hunt Club •olds its second meet 10-morrow in the ■'icinity of Lepperlnn. A good eonmgent of hui tsmcn from the Egmont•Vanganui Club will be present, and <ome fine fencing should be witnessed \frs Ellis-McTaggnrt is nuking great •reparations for the entertainment of uinlsmen and visitors, who are asked o meet at her house at 10 a.u.« At the close of an address on mill; supply at Christchurch recently, Sir lohn Hall referred Mr Kinsella to a remark he. had made about (he exx\l: ncr. of the Danish dairy herds, "id asked if these cattle were of any 'need known to New Zealand. Mr sinseda said lie thought not. They veie known as t,.e Danish red rattle, Old were a distinct local breed, the result nf careful selection. He sa ;j '.e had no doubi that with similar

ere and systematic breeding- New -'.(■ aland could also produce an equally good breed of dairy cattle. Mr J. A. Gilruth, Chief Government eLrinarian, will a [dress a meeting L farmers on Thursday night in (he Plymouth Town Hall. Acting on lie promises of farmers to attend from (11 parts of the district, the Agrieulural Society's live secretary is making ir.'augements for considerable seating >u addition to that at present provided. Ur Gilruth as a lecturer needs no •rai--o from us. Jlc knows that of •'lnch he speaks, and talks sound "»se in unmistakable yet thoroughly ••(cresting style. The address should ie of great benefit to farmers, who hoiild be present in large numbers.

The wonderful growth in the output >f '• Champion " roller flour from the No them Company's Auckland mills uust be attributed in a large measure 0 the fact that the company has steadistly refused to join the Flour Trust inch a big concern, of course, has to >e taken into consideration by the :onib;ncd millers, who have repeatedly aaJe overtures to the " Champion " to om in the ring. The people's chain--11011 has, however, nailed h's colors |j he linst, with the result tha', rtot r is old at a fair rate instead of the ruin)in price which might he charged if '.he trint held full sway, The gameriess of the " Champion " has beon ■ally apiirei-iated by the people, and he demaud for the Northern Comiauy s jiroducls is daily increasing.

, Mr H. J. Man son, the New Zca•'licl Government agent in Melbourne, has received a letter from the manage r of the New Zealand Farmers' ■ o operative Distributing Company, '; l ''■. ' n which the opening- Australian farmers have for building up a 'rade m potatoes with this country is referred to at length. Incideni--1 ly 11 is pointed out that the average shipment lrom Australia contains 1 bout 50 per cent, of undersized po■atoes, ranging from seed size down to tiny marbles. Potatoes are also sent forward in unsound sacks, and ''leakages" occur. These facts iave Since it appears been brought Older the notice of tile Victorian Minister of Agriculture, Mr Swinburn, and it is more than likely that a system of Government grading wili "be initialed. The Minister informed a deputation that lie would go into the eler with Mr Knigbt, who recentv vi-ited' New Zealand.

I lie pitiable, conditions of many ■villus and their families in the back /'"'''"u'lits for want of medical aid ia> led the Govcrnmejit (savs t| u . "" Ul: ' 1 ''Tort of ihe Lands llepan- '"' nl ' 10 materially increase the am'iinl given by way of subside towards this desirable end, but at the ■ :l "ie time to safeguard these coniibiition, by insisting- that the seti'i> do their share in contributing- '■> Uir salary of a resident medical 'mm. When ;i|iplica:i< nis made for ' subsidy (lie first condition imposed is lo ! In- cftect t| lal ;j u . bcui( . rn ], hiS| """ themselves into a medical ciub ;i association, elect ~ c | l; , 1,1 uj.;,] wlif-ni ij )( .y omiiminirriic with ' lie depaiiment, and then st a :e A 'at .111 Kiijiil wil] ]„. |o ra [| v raised •"id paid to a medical man. The " f subsidy, (if course, varies H"' needs, ol ih' l particular dis'l " ' :mtl , li "' scattered nature of Ihe ' hrs demand.

'""r ten davs only, Mr A. Green. and spectacle specia.isl Of Auckland, may now be '•nsuliecl aMiis ioom» adjoining- Mr ■ l.ewey's auction mart. Ills ,n "I rn nsultaij„n will be from "'• ■-."'l In -I daile. Mr C.reen's «oik is favourably known in ibis '""'""e, 'Hid he is here to deal with anv Mage or kind i f eve trouble. -uHei'a-s would do well to rememb-r 11 Wlloie 1 !)e eye l-equip S attention IS ;, m ! that ;m nil'""'"liify n _ ■U UI\U" ;i slicei;vist.—Mvt. STKONw VTKAT.TfIV CALVKS. I It l niiivinuint (ni;nit : ty of tho Gil "illi (;< 11* I'nnd i s i \vn IHM fri't]. | \v (l fc."(|s pf-r clnv Cisl l -: 1 v ' 'T f >r 12 wrrK-s. I Ins js (!).» (11 1 ; 11';' < ( ibe ci'i-aoe-i r feed in the market. .!• P>. MarK.v.m * Co.. Xciv Ply niuulh, aru tho agents, ' 1