LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81874, 26 October 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

in the House of Representatives /■■stei'day, the Waimate iN'oi'Lh County iill was re 1 used a se ond reading, the eport of Ihe Local Bills Committee jeinp unfavourable.

In our report of tho Borough Council meeting, Mr Kendall was made to i&y that it was well to " keep in " with rhe Health Department. What he ciid was " work in." The difference is jbvious.

At the National Championship Meeting of the Amateur Athletic Union, held at Travers Island, United States, William Nelson, of England, easily annexed the five mile running championship. Anotuer rebuff for the i Yankee.

A cycle roa I nice for a sweepstake was run on i'liursdayiifternoon at New Plymou hj, the course being from the HedHiusc corner to Bell Block unci back. W. Whitaker won the r:ice jwith s imctKinff, t) spare, T. ft-orgo being second. There were 10 starters. The race was arranged as a practice fur competitors for a trophy to be ridden for later on. The world's amateur record was broken in a two-mile scratch walking contest 111 the South Wales interTown sports recently. Six competitors startod, including A. T. Yeamans (2 miles amateur champion), who won easily by a lap and 20 yards in 12min. olHsec., beating the world's record of llimin, 11 2-osec, put up by G. E. Larner at Manchester in July, 190J>. Adding insult to injury. After a rough and wet ride over some ten or twelve miles fclie other evening, ; drenched to the skin, a secretary of a dairy company found on arrival at his home a telegram from a city firm of ; butter buyers asking if the dry weather was likely to affect the supply of butter! fortunately there was ample , time for him to consider his reply, or . it might have have been more forcible than polite.

The applicants who wero unable to

obtain shares in tho Inglewood Oil and Prospecting Company unanimously decided to leave their application deposits with the secretary awaiting a probable lurther issue, so that a goodly propori ion of the new issue of a hundred shares is already, applied for. A word of explanation may be necessary id reference to the number of shares

allotted. The capital of £SOOU, iu atJU shares of £lO, was over-subscribed, yet only -IT'S shares were allotted, inclusive of three paid-up shares given in consideration of facilities given by property-owners over whose sections the company holds boring rights. The directors liaye 22 shares set aside for use in similar cases, so that with 475 allotted to applicants, three to propertyowners, and 22 held, the live hundred are accounted for.

The honey industry of the colony appears to be going ahead. The Government Apiarian (Mr Isaac Hopkins) in his annual report says:— The progress made during the past year, both with regard to the general management of bees and the.expansion of the industry of bee-culture ill New Zealand, has been very satisfactory. This improvement has been most marked in the (northern part of the colony, where most of the oldest and most experienced bee-keepers have largely extended their operations, lookfng forward to a larger output of honey in the seasons to come. I consider this one of the best signs wo can have of the future stability of | the industry.

The recent sad tragedy at Hills, New South Wales, when two lads named Pettit and Aiken were clone to death by a demented Chinaman named Charlie Tye, has been the means of bringing out one of the many good points of the Chin-sc. As soon as the terrible news came to hand. Mr Yee Hifag (president of the Chinese Merchant/ Association . f Sydney) at once forwarded a letter of sympathy to each of th? bereaved parents, and called a meotVng of Chinese merchants for the purpose of ascertaining what could b« done in ihe way of relieving any distress that may have been caused by the unfortunate incident. The outcome of such meeting was that delegates from the Sydney branches of the Chinese Merchants' Association and Chinese Empire Reform Association visited Thornleigh and Pennant Hills and handed both Mesdames Pettit and Aitken chequos for substantial amounts, and at the same time expressed their deep sympathy and sorrow that the terrible tragedy should have been caused by one of their own countrymen.

The battleship Lord Nelson was launched from tlie PalmerCompainy*':

lyard at Jarrow-on-Tync. The ceremony was performed by Viscoulntess Ridley, and was witnessed by thousands of spectators. As the vessel left the ways deafening cheers were raised, and the National Anthem was played. The Lord Nelson is 4iofeet long, with a 79 feet beam, and her displacement is 16,500 tons. Her engines are of 16,750 horse power, giving a speed of 18 knots, her complement 865, and the total cost mure than a million and a half. Her gun power is enormous. She will be armed with four 12m. gums and ten Q.2in. guns. The 12m. guns will be mounted in pairs on barbettes fore and aft, while eight of the Q.2in. guns will be in twifo barbettes, the remaining two being in single gun barbettes in the centre of the broadside. In addition to these weapons there will be thirteen 12-pou'nder quick-firers, twenty-three three-pounders, and two Maxim guns, together with two guns for boat or field use. The ship will also have five submarine tubes for firing torpedoes, two on each broadside and one on the sierfa. The plating 0,1 the broadside is -i2in. thick, all the vital parts of the vessel being strongly protected. Mr Russell Sage, the American millionaire, whose death was recently announced, used to lay stress in his advice to young men on the importance of saving money. From the time when he was g,n errand boy, earning 4/a week, to the last ye 3r „f lvs life, he was beliovetl nevpr to have spent a dollar 011 any luxary lie could conveniently dispense with. Mr Sage disputed the idea that any rieh main becomes rich by trickiness, and declared that the great financiers . f of the world have become so by honest work and hard work. lie told a friend once (hat his first £2OO was made by small savings, and that lie thought it better for a boy to be born poor Mian rich. He believed that penny savings banks should be connected with the schools, and that thrift should form a part of every boy's education. His advice to every .voung man was to live within his income, lo spend less than lie made, and to ilnvest what he saved. He believed a man should save 1/ out of every 4/, and more if possible. A voting Englishman on a visit to the I'liited States asked the great financier what pleasure lie found from his million-. "Plea-uies," said Sage thoughtfully; ''l have but one pleasure, and that is 10 make money. I lie pleasure is in the making ; the deal—the risk— and then the delight

or winning! And then—\v<4l, I j u st put the money jii the bank and look forward to the next deal.'' Ma told his v sitnr that he was al hi* oflici' every day, and all day on busy days, silling mi his sido] till 10 o'clock al night, amd having his dinner, a steak and a bottle of layer—brought in bv a messenger boy.

A GREAT SEPARATOR. Wo presume the dairy farnK'r, like ilic rest of the world, is after more profit. Tn j>-ot til is lie miißi be ever .v.id'' :i\vakc and in Tara»naki his principal study should be ''Cows", as it >s li<>ni them he looks to S'.vuri* his «t"»'atcst prifrt. Oik- of thu main ninv.-s of leakage is the separator. Now iln* MeluiU'. if you have one. will ti ( i( only .-'op ihejenks bin cut a big } J < M ' off the moritfajrn every year. Mii' Melotte is well known and from it .'you will deiive a very lasting- benefit With a "Melotto 11 you cafi fi'oip four cows as much buttor a- you can fiom five without one. This make you think. Besides ii lakes 33 \h t per cent. Ics* power to drive it. You will easily understand that if you examine one. It is the ♦•as'csi to clean, in fact cleans itself. Call round arid let us show you one. Wilson and JJJalant Sole agents for TaranaHi-

In the manufacturing lrnd<* a scarcity o{ labor I'xistn al present in each •A the centres of the colony.

Last Saturday the Kaupokonui Co. paid out a shade over /,"().000 in advances on milk supplied. This is, the "Waimati Witness" thinks, the largest disbursement in the district.

Messrs \V. J. lio'yce (secretary of the recent boxing tournament at Okatoj. J. Browning- (referee), and John Kngleficld (timekeeper) were in Wednesday each fined 5/ and costs for having promoted a boxing" contest without a permit having been obtained. \V. Rothery, John Power and Robert Gray, successful competitors, were similarly fined. Mr Quilliam, who appeared for the defendants, stated the breach had been committed through ignorance of the law. In a letter publi-hrd in the New Zealand Herald, Mr M. Campbell formerly of Taranaki, says that the Can ad an is certainly a firstclass cheese maker, and his mechanical methods in butter-making are just about perfect and much in advance of New Zealaind ways. But for quality of production he is sadly behind, the principal reason being the practice of taking a supply of gathered stale cream. Generally speaking, he says, the dairy herds are no better than they are in Tarainaki.