LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81869, 19 October 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mount" Egmont was seen irom ;i trig station at Te Arolu the other day. The distance between [lie two points is about 150 miles.

The report of the Taranaki Athletic and Caledonian Society's second annual meeting and other reading matter will bo found on page four, It is stated that the P.-ilea steamer " Aorere " will be entitled lo a sum of between £2OOO and £3OOO for the salvage of the barque Lutterworth in Cook Strait. The money goes to the owners, captain and etcw.

Regarding the enquiries m reference to shild labor in dairying districts in Taranaki the Minister of Ltbor was asked if he had anything to say on the subject. The Hon. Mr Millar replied that he was awaiting a report on the result of tho enquiries, and his future action would depend upon the contents of the report,

Mr B. Bain, who was injured in the representative Kugby match Southland y. Taranaki, at Hawera, returned to invercargill last Wednesday (says the " Otago Times"). Mr Bain is enthusiastic m his praise of the treatment received by him during his enforced stay in Taranaki.

An important clause, presumably having for its object the control of bookmaking on recreation reserves, was added to the Tourists and Health Resorts Control Bill in the Legislative Council on Thursday afternoon. The ■H. m. G. McLean moved to give those in control of public reserves during days on which a charge for admission 13 made, the right to exclude or reject undesirable persons. The clause was added, with an alteration placing the power conferred by it in the hands of those to whom the use of such reserve may be granted. The potato blight has attacked several plots of ''Murphies" in and around New Plymouth. Spraying is in full swing.

The Hawera Chamber of Oommerco has decided 10 co-operate with the i'armers' Union in an endeavour to get a dairy school established in Hawera.

On the application of Mr Quilliam (Govett and Quilliam), probate of the will of the late Mr Paul was granted 1 y I,e Supreme Court of New Zealand to ttilham Litchfield Newman and I' lank Waldcn Hall, the executors named in the will.

The Oamaru Mail, which usually strongly Juppo/Si tic Government,' ' S f ,[ tler T ly Cl ajrrined at the dropping " r Land Bill, and remarks: — eear, depre-sion, and surrender were written large on the faces of those who occupied the Treasury benches ycsteidav, throwing into startling piominence the confidence, jubilation and beaming triumph of those who sat in the seats.

Hamilton burglars do not seem to manage their affairs with very much , , Iwo instances in point occuired last week.. I n one cas 0 the J-n'iising gentleman was disturbed and forced to beat a hasty retreat la another instance the intruder was discovered and cornered, the householder, who took the law into his own Jiancls with such thoroughness that hat burlier at all events is not like--y to have the courage to go burgling I c S ° me Ume t0 Auckland Star.

A sneak without sense or conscience has been at his miserable a t railway deviation. There aic some dangerous workings and cu ings which, in |hc interests, 0 f public safety, aro indicated at night by warning lamps. And it has , H« Pleasure of Mr Thief to steal the Limps. The value of these are not much, Inn the overseer is naturally incenred at this disregard of the public safety. Should a fatal accident "tcur, the thief ini«ht consider h:mto blame for it, and such a load " f,"""' slumbering conscience m m t"" n , a K ' l )unis hment. A man who, by such a mean action "oultl imperil the safety of p cup l c u ,] ing 110 streets, i s beneath contempt. Mauroto arrived from the Fiji Islands and brings the news that a European der ee Mr a VT ? la, ' ffed wilh ™ " ' 1 P'nder, an overseer in !e C fi 1 J ° f " ,0 Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Ltd., is in chatge t their plantation at Esivo, one of heir Lautoka estates, and has under is charge several hundred Indian 0 X rC oec ° nl >' Particulars t occurence , vcre obtainable in i>«va when the Hauroto left. li t c Uon w'i f Mr ? n , der had » "'Creation With one of the Indian labourers on luesday, tho 9 th i nst . Qn the spur of the moment, acting probably on great provocation, f or cer it n/ in r Xl ) dl f is a most ating individual at times, he hit the Indian a blow. Any serious injur? -utT T° U | ' f3r from his thoughts but the Indian, who had a weVkheart, died 12 hours later. Mr Pin arS ?T' ed '7 th ° P 0,I « Vnd <-nargid mth murder, beinc irlmit cat MrPM " ,e ' rial " f tlle " -Ui'hisL,ow^c^. greatfa ™ Wite

lufv r ,°M| an ( tiC marria B'° took plaeo on Jul) i/th (sa_v s tile New Vork com. spondent of the Daih- Express) £ MMLnX?' P<,nn l' ,vania ' bc'wecn -«.r, was compeliecl resort to the X t s he hi" a livallhou 'l- titular in hand, e Ins for many months sung and ayed in the streets of Washington making l dr g 0 sums of by tho beautiful notes of r s.'-Wi-ar'-BKiJ inT' ur 1 ? ol 5 ln ff °ut she recognised of the sin tier's 11 i ncver ~ean:l qfli i s marry him The hILT"' ° ffcrCcl to

Scone: S.M. Court in a Tarnnnl-i lw ».' with old , IRe » ; applications. Sims ,m ,i J) nt ' ol J weakly anaemic-looking the , P a rk of s .. e ' , f f ?™ al ijuestions an ,1 - n a ' nw lifcloss' voico unti 1 ' queried, "Do y 0 , <"in touch intoxicating l'iquors? ; li'H'nv toiicrecl ojf ' Th the 0,1 of nin, lC v , k ' , COUIUr . v ''«-»Vn,"t- ly r hT m o l' ,l,< ' "K.ral? Tmf'm, , W ,u ' rc 1 Mlcfs and habit" "t,''' °' : ;l staunch lei'tofillr.r n '' i, 0,1 r-ndv one «|,„ li-,,1 •' i,' a| ' l)al vvisolv. and b„i|, • i KTcl nnt 10 '■•■ncW in J" t'L'i ls 't arDument in f pos,,in ' aiion? favour of m od

'■ r MER3' LOSSES ■»-,£« l «" : ™<>n«st their slock arc\ f" 1 ""' iu-1 in *1,,.;,. • 0 surolv u'i- , ,I,' ' «••(. ('t irmcchtis »{nt ;ru - S «r,' l„ eradicate (hi 4 '" iicm ihcrr herds. »,»: <°- r »vners have tried t | rw .-- l ' 'rouand hay# '■ '" ly s(,)ck " Hundreds \v)'' s various fence -°und them useless »**•■ r 'ir s 1 'g-s's ,™ MS ' '■i?t rcsnrt i . SO| n«times as a tl-m effeetivT Hei'ter *'-»T found "J- first, before wJstZ Srj "nrtiVvr er ii mcn j inff - Tiips, o™ (i °- fnr nfl t 3 816 SaV ' n ff IllOnev you ® d ° the same for

The dreaded Queensland fruit fly lias been imported inio Whangarei by means of Island oranges. The Chambor of Commerce is taking iminediaate steps to protect the local industry and is endeavouring to get local fruitgrowers to destroy shipments. The Government pomologist and the Agricultural Department have been communicated with.

[ln f. or tllo last few years (writes the Times' " Paris correspondent) experiments have ben carried on at Eiffel lower in the effort to communique between Paris and the French forts in the east and south-east and with the naval ports of the Channel and Atlantic seaboard. They have been so successful that the Minister of War. M. Etienne, has asked the city of Paris for a concession at the Cham de Mars in order to construct a permanent central station for French military wireless telegraphy. In the "Times' " Financial Supplement of August 20 is a very pungent jnticj.e upon fire insurance j(n , h<k United States It states that fire losses in the States are four-fold Svhat they are in anv other civilised country that no British company over the past ten years has made anv profit in America, and that their £g, 200,000 payable in San Francisco will place many of them on the wrong side. Then comes the lock-up of funds in America, forced upon the companies bji State lawS, which aro difficult to recover, the disabilities and Iroubies imposed upon the companies by 45 separate insurance commissioners in the different states, with taxation and fees, and something more to keep them friendly These officials i n America can keep their automobiles and live correspondingly. They compel companies to advertise in newpapers they appoint, and fees of 400 dollars for half-an-hour'a inspection of books are mentioned, which the companies rcgatd it as "unwise to refuse."

Probably, even to those familiar with American affairs, it will be a surprise to hear that of 10.000 miles between New York and Rio, over 6000 miles are already covered by rails upon which cars are operated, and that 3659 miles more of rail will give the continent a complete rail service almost from end to end, of mails and ti asportation and—what is of equal importance—a backbone of defence. even sanguine Pan-Amoricans say that the filling up of this gap can hardly be hoped for in less than 10 years and the hesitancy and parposed indecision that mark the pro-gtess-or repress „f the Panama Canal, lend a good deal of colour to tin* pessimistic view. Still. some „f , hc men who ; as a duty, have served on this special committee—such as Mr Carnegie Henrv G. Davis, and An-t-re n Jackson Cassatt have for more than a generation been pioneers of urnjrress, and the phrases of their offic'al report teem to say that, as soon a, U ashinglon gives the word that the set hour of American development has come, thev will do the rent