LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81838, 3 September 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A southern debating socicly recently discussed the (juesiiin, "Would pn'liibition be a benefit to the colony?/ Mr Tippler was put up to reply iu"the negative. The inoculation oF calves is again in full swing, many sct'lers being anxious n dispose of their young stock. Tins, of course, cannot be done until thev 'lave ben va-cinnteil to render them immune agand b'ack'cg. Captain roung. Government Veterinarian, will 1-e at Waiwaka boon Wednesday foreno n to inoculate any calves that may e fortheomrg, Wailara saleyards on Fr day forei oon, and at Urenui yards on Saturday at noon. The two-year-old son of a farmer at C.-i nlill v. as missed on Friday afternoon, and was not recovered till Saturday morning, having spent the night in the ap?o. without lood, on the banks of I he IMca river. The police and settlers min'inncd an unsuccessful search throughout 'bo night. In the morning the child's, erics attracted the alienion of I wo mi'ii on I lie opposite side of ilie river, who found him appirentlv mine the worse for the adventure. ThV night was bitterly cold, and it is considered remarkable I lint -o young n child could withstand ilie exposure. The new season's butter is beginning to arrive at the Moturoa Freezing Works. It is unlikely tint, with the present high prices ruling locally, much of it will be exported, but the buyers from the factories will place 'he luiller on the Colonial market. Buying al elevenpence a pound or a liiije less, and selling ;jI Is Id or Is 2d without the cost of shipment, should be fairly

enmnerative business. It must be einenibereil, too, (hat the butter non icing made from the young grass is .01 of the class likely to' Mini out avorably, after the long journey to he Home market.

Tjjoso centrally situated promises adjoining Mr Jf. (Reiner, between (lie railway crossing and the National Bank, liave hi'ou taken by Mr Walter Bewlcy, who severs Ins " t . oll . ncclionwitli (he fit- f Messrs ISewlev and (Jritliths on HSili nist., iln-ir ln;<i"ncss having been an|iiuvd l.y Messrs Wilson and Nolan. Mr Bewlcy with If is son Air >.'. Bewlcy, will continue their land agency an I sharehrosing business as heretofore, also comliielinL' the agencies of the Bi.au lard Insurance (.'•mpaiiy, New AccidcnUn surani'e, the Nation ll Mutual lj,. Association, and Baldwin and Haynard's Patent Agency. Mr Be.vlcy has seeured an eminently suitable locale, right in the heart of the town, and wiiii his already extensive clientele should have no dillicuily in securing H large share of business m these lines. Mr Bewley retains the secretaryship of the New Plymouth High School Board, '

The newly gizettcd blackleg regulations tv prietienUy the same as have be,'ii i.i J'or-.v for some time past. Chicago is re-labeling its meat tins. Invhow, big printing lirms in Yankec'and have orders for millions of labels tint tell the people the within meat is Australian or New Zealand product. The chairmen ot the Primklcy, Ciirrinsrton and Eliot lioad Hoard's met on Saturday to discuss the f-lrmatien o? the proposed suburban borough, the object being to c-eapc payment ot rates to the county council, Irom whom the ratepayers derive little expenditure, if any. Tliere was little done, and the conference adjourned. A Kaikonra deputation waited on tie Minister for Linds on Siturday, and urged that assistance be given to settlers at Kaikouri in lighting the rabbit pest by Hie procuring and liberating of .ferrets; also that the Agricultural Department should inoculate ferrets against distemper. The VI mister promised to consider both recommendations.

A spectator at a ladies' hockey match on Saturday states he was amused, yet somewhat surprised, to see a player deliberately put out her stick and trip an opponent who had a better chance than herself of reaching the ball. The trip was effective, and the player measured her length on the turf. Our informant says he thought these practices were confined to rough ( and ready football. The Stratford ladies' hookey team, yclept the Hincmoa, tried conclusions with the Whakatika A's on Saturday at New Plymouth, and after a good game made a draw of it. The visitors had all the best of the first spell, which ended in tlicir favor by two goals to nil. Theirs was the next score, but then they seemed to tire, anl the home tean shot three goal*. The foremost phyers w. re Misses Elko Knox, T. Biackett, and E. Bray shaw for the visitors, anl Misses Ethel Ponn, O'Coanell, j\. Bre«B':or, and I>, Bedford for the ho: e team,

It xi! eeloTanhcd ti-otriLondon Hi: t tic "Daily Telegraph" in n. leading article indica'c.l tbe possib'lity of a public subscription on behalf of the family of the late Premier—"on lhe ground that he only left £2OO sterling, having refrained trem amassing wealth or providing for his family," The ■' Wellington Post " says it is difficult to 1 understand how a great London dally paper could have been influenced to make such a statement in its lending article, for it has been stated here by those who should be well informed that the value of the united estates of the lato Mr Scddou and his widow cannot be set down at less than £20,000. while three members of the family draw from the Treasury an aggregate of more than £BOO per annum. A New Ply noutli potato grower who was anxious to prevent the bight attacking his main crop vegetable, decided to try the "Tongaporutu mixture," his determination being helped somewhat by the recommendation of a vendor of ingredients. Doubling the wisdom of lining Iho stuff at its full s rcngth housed double the quantity of witer prescribed ;' and, instead of shaking the tubers for 21 hours, allowed t'icm to remain 12 hours in the solution. Presently stories of ruined seed began to reach him, and he investigated his plot of "murphies," only to tin 1 that despite his precautions the virility of the lot hid been destroyed. Mil gardening account shows al present : Debit, Northern Star potatoes 15s; labor 8s■ and the cost of the •' preventive" ; against this he has n quantity of blackened and ruined seed. The only consolation is that having killed the potatoes, he has of necessity prevented dissemination of blight in his own garden, so far as this lot is concerned,

The settlers on the King. Up'ind an I Hursthonse roads h ive forwarded a pelition to tlio Minister for l'ubl'c W irks, asking for some assistance 111 the mnin'en inee of these roads, w'dch lie ipihe Egm.-mt road district. The petition sets oiit, flint the land wa op.me.l by the (tro'.vn some tifiy years ag), and being lull,. a ud very'heavily limbered, it was impossible then for ill.! surveyors lo lay out the roads in hj; most advantageous manner, the result bei n!? tint the settlers have dace had to bear the heavy cost of nakmg deviations, besides which the number gf streams and the steep gra'cs liny,; made the cost of maintenance very heavy. The original'cost' of formation, borne by the Government in mve favored parts of the cobny, '1 d in Ibis case keen borne by the settlers' Oq : ng onto the question of riling, the petition montions that the settlers have to bear county, road board, harbor, hospital, and snceial rites, totalling 3 l-16d in the £. and asks for assistance so that they wdll no longer have to convey milk to the f>irtory by wading through mud for fully half the season. Copies of the petition are in the hands of the district numbers of Parliament. The debate on the Juvenile Offenders B'll in the House on Thursday nisht give member-an opnorlunity to criticise the present, methods of criminal procedure. Mr Lwenson slated that in Christchurch recently, the secretary of a Druid's Lodge had been sentenced pa five years imprisonment for stealing about L3OO, while a man whose d'fal cations ran inlo many hundreds a isouplg of months later was sentenced to two years. He knew of a ease where a man, who, in a state of intoxication, hal fjrged a cheque for L2 3s. had been sentodced tn seven years' imprisonment. He had offended previously, but the amount involved did nj total more than LIO. He had drawn the attention of tho Minster for Justice to this. Jt was high time, he declared, that a criminal court of appeal was set up in order that a system of equality of penalty might be assured. Tho time would como when juries would not only find the verdict, but aportion the punishment Mr Bmme (Auckland), who has a Bill of a similar character before the House, said that children should not be made spectators of the miserablo drama which went on in our uolico courts from day to day. The Bill passed its socond roadiug without opposition, the only regret expressed being that it did not go far enough. Members of the Equitable 81111 line; S-cietv of New Plymouth (First and S eond Groups), aro notified that sub siriptions will be due and payable today (Monday) at the Secret .ry's o,'lice, Currio-strect, from 9 a.m. to 12.30. from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m„ and 7 p.m. lo !/ p.m.—Advt,

I STATE FAE\I CALVES, Mr Mulcahey, manager of the Bunkum Stale Farm, says that bis calves costs :■).< 3d each to feed on Gilr ith C ilf Food for a whole season, and are worth from 10s to 15s more than ca'ves not fed on this food. Mr Mulca'iey lound o'her foo's unsatisfactory in coai.cinson. Prices from J. B. \licE .en i Co., New Plymouth.