LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81884, 9 November 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Government sawmill at Kakahi. ten miles from Taumaranui, has a daily output of ii.ooolt of sawn timber. From 40 to 45 hands are cmployed, and the quality of the timber ,s first-class. University of New Zealand examinat ons fur the B.A. and LL.B. degrees are bc.ug conducted in New i'lymouth this and during next week. Tiiere ai'- five or six candidates, and Ihe Rev. S. S. Osborne is the supervisor.

"Vou can ask me any que-tlon you like.' said Mr J. Giliu.h, Chief Government Veterinarian, at a meeting lecenty, ' provided it has nothing to do with religion, poiji-cs, or the Land 8.11. ' —tLaugnter.j A Home film got frightfully m xed over the address of a Dunetlm business man. They lor'warded him a paice: by the last mail, addressed as iollows:—"Mr So and-So, iialclutiia una l'r.nces Sheets, Uunedin and Milton, New Zealand/' A ijentury ago ilie Hawaiins were savages and cr minals. Now there ale over 300 telephone wires in Use >n til.' city ot Honoltui, and even the plantaiions are in telephonic communication with tile captal. Some it tiri" planters now cut their cane at night with the aid of electr.c light. the gate money at the New Zealand Exhibit 011 is insuied for /.150, 000. It the buildings .become so damaged by fire as to cause the postponement or abandonment of the Exhibition the Government would re

tcivc £30,000. Both insurances arc u tli Lloyds,

The oiiiual opening of the New l'.ymouth Bowling Clubs season takes place to-day, when membeis will be pleased tu welcome their ladv friends ana vi-iling bowlers invnat.oiis having been sent to all the clubs in the province to b' 1 represented. Arrangement- aie made to hold the opining crcniony whether or not the wcadier is line enough for bowling. Gardeners in and around Pa'merstoii are complaining again about the pievalence of the bliglu on the potato crup . ft is also being found that 1 lie' dreaded pest :* attacking other vegetables, large crops being tints desli".vd. One grower of tomatoes on a vciy large -ea e ha- expeliena'd ihe u;iii"st Uillicuhy in keeping his plants clear. Dr.-pte the fact that all are kept under gas-, and aie fiequenily sprayed, lite blight persists in bleak tig out. I lis losses titis sea-oit Itave alieady been heavy. In concluding his Synodical report at the Christchurch Cathedral, the Bishop -aid : —'it did me good awhile age to -ee the clergy choir, and people of a (itv parish in procession through their streets. 1 wonder how many of my e'ergy have preached n a -treet corner. In some respects ii is the best training in the world. And dues ii not suggest a lesson uhiih bp of 1 lie Church of England have much t : > leant r I'nt off yoni Sunday liotiies. I'ut 011 your work UlO di(.-;s. (jet out of the pulpitir.lo the sU'"'i-. God he pus all, W" ate 10" 1 espectable,

SYKES'S DRE-NCll IN AUSTRALIA Not alone throughout New Zealand ha-- spread the name and fame of SYKI'.S S DRENCH, but ths sue ro-.sful New Zealand preparation hainvaded Australia a!#o.

Om 1 of th<' dairy produce imnbant- in Austra'ia writes : "Jlav nj: t<- lcd tlie virtues ni SYKES'S DRENCH and fotnvl it to. I,"- r'ie m 0.4 t f murknblo and vaiu.tblc ;iii inal ni'd<ine we have ever known I;> lie u v '- d t<) 1* cows, horse-, sheep ,'ik.' i) ;; v e havo completed arian.ue111< ■ w Iw.' hy -.v arc enabled f furnish tlv remedy t« our p.uronp; and throughout X:w S«>uth Wales. Falun and :/j. Market street Sydney." Thi' ouiK'tusively proves that the medicine luis mure than ordinary n>orit. Over a thousand farmers in Xe\v Z",dand haw written expressing :h- value thev place on ! SYKKS'S DRENCH." Try it for y. ur«?lf. but on having , SYKKS S DRENCH. Your storekeeper sells it at i/G per packet.— Adyfc, '

Tin' County Council is advised that ■ J175 has been voted as a £ for £ sub- idy lor work in the Oakura H I deviation. With the assistance i the lale-l nachines, a phce of leather can be transformed into a pair uf boots in thirty-four minutes, in which time it passes through tin" handi of sixty-

ilrree people and through lifteen mac.tines. At a special meeting of the l'arilwk.l Road Board on Monday, .he tesignation of Mr Knowlc , who has been cleik to tin- i),>a.;l for some tim ', was accepted w til re;; ret. Mr J. Gare.a was appointed tcmpor.-.ry clerk. li was decided to call .Pi locations for the c erk s hip. A Maori named Kaiuo died a- Uis levidence, Warea. on Sunday (wt tcs .our Warea correspondent)! Kvmo * liacl lived in the distiiet a long tme, and wa we 1 known.—Waiea has had ' a good deal of moisture lately, the lain falling continually for 36 hours. I The rivers were in a flooded o-ndi-

lion, but have no.v subsded. The rivers In the neighbourhood of Optmake are now well stocked with tiout, and should be much visited by angkis this season. Last Saturday ■ne cnthusia-t, a member of the -chola-t c professiin, while on his way to the Teachers' Saturday C asses, stopped for a few minutes at a stieam. and soon filled his basket with 3 and 4 pounders, which lie very consider ately distributed among "his feilow leachcrs. Carrington-road ratepayers, after lengthy discussion on Wednesday u gilt, decided to purchase land from Mis Noonan, Messrs Healy and Tribe for the widening of Vicioria-road. and to recommend the Road Board to raise a loan in order to provide the necessary funs. ]t was also decided to approach the Taranaki County] Council and ask them to undertake the I gluing of tlie Vogeltown subui bs, deducting the cost from the subsidy paid to the Road Board. Few houses in Wellington are . changing hands just now. A few months ago the people were land spe- , culating mad, buying up sections on . the small deposit, long-t'me-payment , system, and awaiting further rise in , pi ices. They seem to have about

"outrun the constable," as section are now a drug" in the market, everybody wanting to sell and few caring to buy. When suburban sections reach ,£8 a foot it is a most time the public recovered their senses and hesitated before committing themselves 10 crippling liabilities. The Opunake Branch of the Taranaki Teacher's Institute is very much alive, the meetings being well attended, and much appreciated by the teachers, to whom they are of mutual benefit. At the monthly meeting on Saturday a paper on "Nature Study" was read by Mr A. V. Sims, and was followed by a free discussion, a I present g.ving- their experience in teaching that subject of the new syl'abus. '? Details were discussed connection with the coming schoo spurts to be run by the recently form ed West Coast Schools Athletic Asso ciation, the committee being deputec to draw- up a programme next Sat urday,

It may be- that the racing Jot at Home is wickeder than the more simple and guileless sports of New Zealand, says the Masierton "T.mos. We asked a racing man, who knows as much about horses as any ownei •n New Zealand, if lje cou d make money by backing hoises, W'e were aware that for some inscrutable reason it was not his habit to back horses, but we wanted to know whether, it he tried backing them, he could, with Ilia expert knowledge, make money. In his opinion he could not; and we wondered what chance there was for the thousands of people who possess no expert knowledge, but who are w'ont to take every opportunity of wagering which offers. Tiic Klcliam " Argus" opines that il is quite possible Sir Joseph Ward would not- be averse to ft defeat in the House. It has to be remembered, says the " Argus" that tho present House wns elected under the Seddon regime, and it is quite likely that the present Premier would like to work out his political destinies at the head ol a party elected unler his own banner It is yery probable then that Sir Joseph Ward would accept with eoiuplacenej a defeat upon the Laud Question. Mi Massey, with the Houso as at present constituted, could not hold the Treasury Benches for many hours and Sir Joseph Ward would then in all probability bt afforded an opportunity of goiug to the electors. He would thuS'be placed is a position to test the country on a policy of entirely his own making ami would be free to formulate a new political platform. We consider then, that a general election a year before its due time is not by any means beyond pjlitical probabilities." When in Wellington recently a member of the News Staff inspected the houses recently built by ilie Government at Petone for workmen. There is a street of houses, twenty five in all, of all shapes and s zes, from ;owwalled, small "windowed' 1 domiciles, styled ''bungalows,'' to two-storied imposing-looking 1 edifices that one would expect to see in a row of houses of professional men. The houses are wei! built and well appointed, quite up to the modern standard and have been made to last in contradistinction to the jerry-built article so frequently seen nowadays. The contractors, it is said, all lost money over the houses —they did not count on the rigid inspection to which their work was subjected, But the hotises are not serving. and will not serve the purpose for which they were intended. In the majority of cases the rent is too heav\—jusi as heavy, it is said, as the rent of most of the ordinary private l )- owned houses, and besides they arc too far away fiom the nearest rail■way stat on. The Government in the first place paid too much money for the land on which they are built. As a matter of common knowledge, the land could have been uought a year before the scheme was under taken for nearly 200 per cent less than was pa-d for it. Again, the Governmeni or Land Board have not .given sufficient publicity to the terms and conditions under which the houses are let, with the result that there is a 'ot "f misunderstanding about the houses. Many people think that if they rent the houses, the Land Board inspector will periodically inspect the interior, and generally interfere with the domestic sanctity. Only about three of the 25 homes are at present occupied. The advances to workers scheme is a t.ir better scheme than erecting workers homes thai are too dear, 100 ambitious, and inaccess'b'e for the ordinary working man.