LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81867, 17 October 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

So much appreciated is Sir Luke 1 !'ild>s' Academy portrait of Ouecn Alexandra, thai the King has ordered jo copies, fo,- presentation 1" each of die Colonial I'ai-iamenis and British Fmba-sics abroad. Mr A. 1.. I). Fra-er is asking the Minister for Justice wliethei- ihe hill"art" proe, iition, iii Auckland were initiated wiih his knouhdgc 01 : p pr, val, and ,f not will be „, future s"e that the PolJee |jcpailnrnt is prevented from bringing our Courts of Je.siice into ridicule? The lonic, whith atnved hom London on Tuesday, brought •-, Wellinglon no fewer than j,,., band in-ini-inents, valued al /i'looo. tcin oi,i be Messrs Boose,- and Co. for ilo- New pun- bra-s. oiiu-rs are sj| v c r .,,| :il c.,|,. and nut a few of tb'-ni are plated with

iS.-.rn Band, which is now mi the way ii"ii. i- -applied will) instrumcnt.made by ISoos.-y and t/o. N'n sc-inn, s;,ys ill.' \\ ellillod, ~1 MMP-iji'iHli'ii' 'f llic I'll pi,.mi:-,'- 1,, Ik- en.- of the jrrcatoM imuorlance vc held. Tln-ie »i!l |,e liner 1)1); ,ple-la,i,s linked. I ■ ; r ,l ill !ti-cl<-r will come tin- Land Hill, a measure that v.ill provoke an inn mv lii-d'.linu. Ni-xi wi:! oo,„e 'rcvi.sVm nf the TaiifT. ..„,-,,f ■'-,;. ~,,,-f dllli.-uli -nid iicl;li-l, ~,,,-t „n- a Mini.,,,.- ,-.,„ fa.,-. "TinLernu; v.!,h ,1,, Tariff.-N-i haiiih i in I In' < .kniy i- -o in- i -ni-! tK.mt as not '-' haw skip ■ in- H i manufacturer win' is tut inn ; ( -sii-rl j n J lin' C" -.ni. dut;-. A Tari'T Hill nt'h.i/'jiili. Then conies -,' Ma','„i! Land Hill- which k in>w in rirculn-' pot; and will be d'-ah with inxi session. Tli'* i- a nii'ii-.ii-o ,1 imnn'ij-,-, ■i.p'rlanoe In ill.. North Island am! il-; pass;,,,.' will In' watrh-d will, ureal interest. With the-.- thro,, bi-j i'ii'-;!'lire* in view members can make-' u;> their minds for hard work and a ; long' session next year-

The Melbourne-Naples despatch of the l:.th September arrived in Lond'ii ou Lhe Uioi'iiiuj? of the loth hist. Messrs Smart Rros.' Muff is now engaged in iusulliiu; liie electric light in the Government buildings at New Plymouth.

On Tuesday 5057 boxes of butter and Sill rases of chee-e were shipped from the breakwater for transhipment lit Wellington to the Home liner luituarii.

A movement is on foot in (ho Tank] district to start a cheese factory. The settlers who are interesting themselves in the matter expect to make i'-l per cow more from cheese than from butter.

The liarawu will miss her Thursday trip from Onehuii;ja to New Plymouth, onjaccount of her annual boiler-oleau-iug. Them will consequently be no boat from New Plymouth to Onehuuga on Friday night. A sample of mud taken from Mr J W. Harding's farm on the Norfolk Road has been submitted to the usual tests by Mr Teed, senr., of New Plymouth, who found it contained a good percentage of petroleum.

The Fire Brigade held its usual practice ou Tuesday evening at the station. At a subsequent meeting, Fireman H, Moon was presented with a certificate ou completion of three years' service.' It was decided to form a cricket club, Fireman Sadler being appointed secretary. The teams will take part in Saturday competitions. A special meeting of the brigade will be held on the (!tk prox., to complete

arrangements for the annual ball on the King's Birthday.

Mr T. Hutchinson, S.M., presided over a sitting of the Magistrate's Court at Waitara on Tuesday. The principal business concerned an alleged breach of the " Impounding Act, 1884," the information being laid by P. G. AVhite (Mr Ilutchen) against Bobert Wright (Mr Poy), which resolved itself into an agreement on the technicalities of the law. After a lengthy hearing, the S.M. reserved judgment. The only civil case was that of Eraser (Mr Townsend) v. Savage and Neilson (Mr Fitzherbert), of Mokau, judgment being given for the amount claimed CM Os 8d and costs. Two old age pensions were granted.

The Taranaln Educat'on Board has received from the Department an intimation that the technical education authorities in Hob.irt are arranging an exhibition of technical work for February next, the object being to arouse public interest in technical education throughout Tasmania. The secretary i-ks for a small exhibit representative of the work in the technical schools of 1 his colony, mid offers to pay the cost of transit of any such exhibit. It is slated that the exhibit could be returned at the (dose of the exhibition, but that it is hoped that exhibits may remain on loan indefinitely to form the neuclus of a technological museum. The subject will tome up at next meeting of the Taraniiki Education Board, md it is quite probable that Taranaki will be represented at the Hobart Exhibition.

An old mau who had spent the night in the liccrealion grounds recently, admiring ihe stars that peeped through the leafy canopf o'erhead, descended on tlie Secretary of the I'aranaki Charitable Aid Beard with his tale of woe. la lluent language and excited he told of ids family eon nection with folk in high places, his I ills, his hardships, and asked for enough to pay his fare to Auckland The secretary evidently could not see the force of giving public money to assist a man who, besides being in apparently robusl health, ostentatiously displayed an elaborate watch-chain The voluble mendicant nndertook to dispose of his witch and chain right quickly, and took the road, vainly impbring the passers-by to buy his .jewellery so that he could lay claim to charitable assistance. Then lie rei timed to the * ollice, and swore lie .vouldn'l budge an inch until he gol .ltd. Ills presence became a nuisance. "Get out of here," said the secretary. Not a move, except a further assertion of his intention to get aims or sit light. ' If you don't go, I'll have you shifted." No trove. So the secretarystepped up to the telephone, and ringing up, said " 17'J, Police ollice, 'please ! " It brought the assertive and troublesome visitor to his bearings and to j;his knees, imploring the sorely pestered ollicial not to send for the police,—and away he went. Speaking at the School Exhibition at Palmciston on Thursday, Mi Pirani pointed out that one of the worst phases of a teacher's work was the ignorance of parents as to the work their own children were carrying out in the schools, or at least their dislike to be bothered with the details. Educationalists wanted to secure the attention of parents, for then they would be able to realise the value of the woik being done. To give some idea as 10 what can be saved by adopting the milkingmachine, a well-known dairyman of Taranaki insiaiices a case of a bo cowdairy which he was working on shares 01 the hand-milking system. The cos; of which ran into £235 per year. By using two machines, one man does the whole of the work, and the total cost 01 wages, interest, depreciation, repairs, etc., amounts to £\s2, showing a saving of £lO3, or £1 SO per cow per annum. That these figures tire in no way exceptional s borne out by the experience of other well-known users.—Hawera Star. Mr Upton Sinclair, whose novel, "The Jungle," resulted in the refoim ol the Chicago packing- houses, is pieparing a novel which is expected to create an equal sensation. It is called "The Financier," and dca's with the accumulation of vast American e-tales and llieir subsequent disposal. Mr Sinclair has visited Pittsburg, Newport, and other cities known as "millionaire centres,'' and tie- material whith be is working into "The Financier,'' under ihe guise of fiction, is said to reveal many startling facts about certain rich families, and ihe rollenness of social life among tic so-called -'smart set.-" Mr Sinclair is assisted financially by prominent socialists who declare that his new novel will bo a terrible arraignment of the modern American plutocrat.

The historic island of St. Helena, which used m be an Important British colony, paying its Governor /Jio.ooo a year, is plunged into depression a 1 present, owing lo the Government's mcnlb. A writer in ihe Monthly Kcm-d of the League of the Empire •tales that, after the withdrawal of die garrison, the.population, consisting of jooo, 200 of whom are Africans, will have for Iheir sole defence and guard tivu policemen. "The island has no trade, no products, and n.l icsoinces in itself. Tin- islanders, who are a quid, gentle, and loyal people, will be Irft almost in staiva-ii-'h. iheir ore- means of living caiering and v.orkng for the miliiary and for die English settlers on the island—being gi>nc\ Thev eannoi •;o 10 Soiill, Alrica, as thev are ,i,.i all-.wed to bind viihoui /Nn in Iheir noekois. What is to be their future ': Tl" re :- >alk of .-1 flax indusiiv being.

■I im educed, but ihat ,'H b"-i wid In •;a small affair. There is talk of Cm- - I'liinn'.ni n'-viiij.',' 'ompcnsaiion tn tin nut ulvc piiKCCiiun In tin' island nt saUiiint;- 'tatinn, or prevent die decay lhat must tome to its reads, mms. L'li phones, and barracks, all nf which were kep' up by the mil il.are. There will be ne.iie leu p- carrv «n then viurk. a savings n.vvK rni; dairy i'AR.UKRS. 'Which is ;ln- l,esl Heparainr:'" is --P^ie -I- , ■!:■ n a-k.-d. Tin- S-par- ! i' i'mi-'ii--'li:,rAr-,rk.'" byname'is : linn expiiul patents, hut no equals. I Our . li'er in run the "Alfa-I.ava!" ' a;;ain-t all comer., and take ii back ; in- in .vtn-ns- t„ ,-..„ „,,]„ v , j| 'l' l '"' prelects veu. The w-u'ld has im-d- -, Iran--, pall, l„ ,„„■ ,],„„-;; ; I eeu (.n !. v.-u <an'l alb.id 1., b, lew a "w II o' the wisp" and (ind v„,,r self in tin- V», „f oxp.'ri"nce : us ,-;■- i-ensive. Cntaloßutos mailed free. !••.. Grifii'lis and Co., Local Affcnts. J New l'lyinouili.

A freehold properly in Cuba Street, Wellington, consisting of a block f bind 70ft by 151/1 Gin, on which arc erected several bu inc-s premises, was offered at auction on Wednesday hist, and was sold to Mr Roberi Hannah at ,£2OO per foot—a lotal of .£14,000. The present rentals amount to close upon £7OO per annum. The falal inslinct of a drowning person unable to swim to clutch the nearest obstacle was illustrated 'n a sad manner in the Blenheim disaster. M' Baldwin, who was a strong swimmer, wits held by someone on each side, so that his arms were completely imprisoned. "For God's sake, |ei me go, and I will save all of you," he was heard to say; but alas! that strongest of all instincts proved as irresistible in his case as in many another.

Dr Valintino, in his health report, tells how he found ,1 very filthy dairy, and interviewed the managers of the receiving company next day. They owned that the milk from this farm generally arrived in a filthy condition, but denied that it ever was allowed lo supplement the supply of an important institution for which they were contractors. "What do you do with it , then?" "Oh," naively replied one of the managers, "we send that milk en our street round, where people are mostly bad marks."

A writer in the War Cry says : "Brigadier Perry, who is now in Christchurch, is more than busy getling ready for the opening of the Exhibition, and the professional duties in connection therewith. The Brigadier is engaged by the Tourist Department 10 take all the dims that arc required by the Government during the currency of the Exhibition. 1 may say that the Tourist Department has ordered twelve copies of the film that Brigadier Perry took of Pelortis Jack. The following- figures given in evidence at the Burnham Industrial School inquiry give an idea of what becomes of the inmates of the school :—During the first five-years the total number of boys that passed out of die control of the authorities was 235. Of ihat number takingauthentic information, the Department is able to stale definitely thai 153 are mnv of distinctly good character, X may be classed as only fair character; 2.5 as bad; and 5 as weakminded ; while 23 are missing. Three died tit sea, and two at the institution in al service,; 1 was discharged under the age of 15, and is therefore not counted, while there are 15 whose characters are not stated. In regard to the missing ones, it j s pointed uut that the mere fact that ihe police have no information about them, is an indication that they are not of distinctly bad ch'aiacter, except in the lew cases where they may be in gaoi under assumed •names.

"Of all classes of agriculturists who show eagerness to avail of the wider I'ilope a'nd 'opportunities of coloniallife the Scotch stand ' easily first," wrote the London correspondent of the Sydney Telegraph, on August 24. "On this account both the Lowlands and ihe Highlands have tot many years been a favourite recruiting ground, not only for the Canadian Government immigration office--, bin for the innumerable agencies of the big American shipping companies and the C.P.R., who have held forth alluring advantages in the way of accessibility, cheap faics, and glowing prospects. The result is dial many fanning districts have been .practically depopulated of ail 'he mosi energetic and ambitious families. Still it is clear thai many who have gone to conditions wliiflh arc climatically liltlej belter than thcilr own, and often not so favourable, have >ent home and brought home stories that serve to make many of the 'cannier farmers and laborers pause.

Drunkenness among women has "o inc eased in Liverpool that out of 7.000 charges for drunkenness, 3000 were preferred against women. An effort is being made there by the licensing branch to prevent women being served with intoxicating drinks before 11 o'clock in the morning. The l.ivrp'ol City Council has aullw eiiy wiih po-teis describing 'the menial, moral and phv.-icai injuries brought about by the use of alcohol. The posters will draw particular attention to die high raie of mortality among children of drunken mothers'.