LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81886, 13 November 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Correspondents' letters from Maketawa. Opuna.ke and Raliotu appear on the fourth page. A special meeting of the Taranaki County Council is to be held on Monday next , The ieiui'T of M, T. X. Blackball, X-155", lj' '11 accepted lor tile erection ot a new Courihousc at Eltham. rhetc aif now o>s private lighting < "iifa c. oiis with the intini'.'ipa. electi.e lig'it iii= alia ion, and there art "Aeive application? in hand. Then aie intm.T.ius enquiiies fur lighting outside the borough. The income lor October wa-: Street lighting /134 l! > private lighling /'jy 1 4.

TIh a moist \\o;iti)"r Ins ''ncouraj>ed he proportion uf garden pons in • ndk variety. Tom.itoes and pumpkin* liav to stavo off the green aphides peaches and p.unis blaek injectd)-- -,ollc -jif( ;e•; siui"--, snails an'. 1 w-nl li«- art and iln- blight •- .11■ .in • !.r ilalt-rs. \\ an; • n i<- t.r\\ ];rii to ki-up gaHeinrs ;miuu.i. C'iin tin; ikaith L)epaniliL* 1i i < •!; 11 In ilie S..\i. I'-urt on M-indav di'iniiu; Mr Hutch n iiav. 1 i\i(iu|)V d'-ItlllU ill '.ln* following 1 :~or Walk'-r (Mr C'aude \\c'!;i ') *d.i 11in J.iii-i'ii, claim f\ j (i, > 5 - I Ail' W-*.i\u) v. r. J. 1 K.diui 11 -ad), t !j'u; £ l} |f, t it 1 _ '1 • " (1 ' ILi |T- ij(t ; Nlllie v. MaiiiU - Kt-r,iti\lv . c'a'm /i - t <». < ;>-ts 5 ; I *i'! v • ! »'a- ,l r ,iiiJ Co. 1 .\I rA . I\. .'••.■iid li v. < l.i lin « •'' /' i;. \\ !ii*= ..n-I *V" W»V n ) v. M ri< '.'•111 ' l o-i- /1 1 i

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ii;: 'h.' y ni' :• 1 av"i';ii;l( > cojidil i< ns. They wan- ill- ! twhr»\l tonup 1 . Otherwi>e thev nin;>o:-r m ;>o n> Canada or - '.in- lai'er i:'r tb:ic. Th'S'- funnels h.iv-.- had an

'';' 1 1 1 in M" rr,li»nv (|u"'tly " i; pyimr ile an '." We underhand (say--111 e W'"liir-.y.>)ii that (his :"ii''eman wcoinnvuds the acquisition ot reriain areag in the northern pan uf this inland.

Though the Waiwakaiho river wagieaty swollen on Friday by 'he heavy rain on the rangcrf: the llcnui liver, peculiarly enough, was hardly a fleeted. Thi' following le.ier-, received from places beyond ihe co'ony-. arc lying unclaimed at. the Chief Pot Ollice, New Plymouth:—G. I'oibes. J am" f • Cameron, Clus. A. Butler.

The laying of the new ton-inch water main is Egmont-sireet has been completed in a mo t expeditious manner, and the water is now available for fire and general purposes. The old main was u e'ess in the event of ; fire. The chairman of the Eltham Iliga School Committee (the Hon. \Y. C. Carncro-s) has been advised that the Education Department has made a grant of ,£650 for the erection of technical 1 school buildings in Eltham.

The estimated cost of laying the nt>xv main sewer in Devon street was £IOO, but the work has been done at 10 per cent less than that. The I borough engineer is hopeful that | very soon all the properties a'ong t'.ie ine will be connected with the sewer.

The Representation Commission, for deciding the number of electorates iii this colony and for fixing the boundaries thereof, will sit at Wellington en the 15th in t. Mr T. S. Weston, the Commissioner appointed by the Mouse of Representatives, and the Commissioner of Crown Lands (Mr S'mpson) leave here to-morrow to attend the meeting. The fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Egmont Lodge, 1.0.0. F., I M.U., was held last evening, N.G. iiro. H. H. Ford presiding. Several matters of interest were fully discussed, and the next quarterly meeting promises to be of a most intresting character. A notiee of motion has been tabled to appoint a committee to make arrangements to celebrate the jubilee of the iodgo next April. The lecture master conferred degrees on members entitled I to receive them

It is interesting to now at tln't-i juncture that a legal opinion obtained from the borough solicitor is to the effect that the Town Hall could not be erected on either Mr lloldsworih's or Mr Brooking's properties without legislation changing the purposes of the present Town Hal] site. The Carnegie Library Committee, in

launching- the new' Town Ha 1, library and museum scheme, did not publish this fact.

The New Plymouth youngster gives promise of being smarter than .in: town has been during the past decade. Noticing a new attendant in a .ollie shop the other day, a young hopeful breasted the counter and asked for "a penny rabbit, please." The attendant reached the "rabbit," a-d finding no price, marked, asked, "Did you ever buy one before?" Of course he had. "How much did you give for it?" A penny, of course. Sj he got away with his rabbit for a copper. That rabbit contained about half a pound of chocolates, and ihe usual selling price was a shiKing! Giving evidence at an inquest on the body of a boy who was drowned in Nelson a week or two ago, Dr Andrew said :—lt was quite an erroneous idea that a body, after drowning, would not rise to the surface until nine days had e.apsed. There was, the doctor said, no definite time in which a body would rise—it depended on the rapidity of decomposition and the generation of gases ni the abdominal cavity. Frequently a body would float in live days, and, in fact, he had predicted that Movnihan's body would come to the surface on the fifth day, as it had done. , The concert luid at Koru on Friday last in aid of ihe school and hall iuncU was in every way a success. Mr Tisch, with his splendid set of views, and Mr Atrill with his phonographic selections, filled the greater part of the programme, wheh was much enjoyed. Miss Carmichao. contributed a song in first-class style and the school children gave a glee. A dance was afterwards held, Mr' llaxton officiating as M.C., and Mr D. Patter-on presiding at the piano. At the termination of the proceedings liiu National Anthem was sung. Refreshments were provided by the ladies, Mesdamcs Sweeting, Mace and Pearson having charge. New Plymouth ratepayers threw ou- the proposal to borrow ,£2OOO or £3OOO to buy 1 and to erect a Carnegie library on, or the Council didn't mc.ude it in its scheme, or something, says the Wellington "Free Lance." I'ou might think New Plymouth did not intend taking a Carnegie library, out that isn't so. It wants uie humiliation right enough, but it wants a free oloclc ot land to place it on. There «va» a borough lot set aside for a town hall and it is like.y thai there isn't going to be a town hail, but an advertisement for Carnegie, llang Carnegie ! lie and the tourists are making K#w Zealanders a nation of crawlera.

A Dunedin correspondent says: — Inquiries made at the city registry offices show that the effect of the Exhibition is beginning to be fe.t here alieady. Applications for places a» domestic servants are becoming scarcer. At present the supply of glooms, 'light potters and male cooks IS about equal to Hie demand, but it is otherwise with female servants. One informant said they a.l want to get places up north if they can. If diey cannot get to Christcliurch t'ig'lu away, tGcy will lake positions at limaru or any other part of Canterbury, fairly adjacent to the 'Big Show.' It is consequently very haid 10.get female applicants for p:aces in Dunedin." With a view to still further raising .he status of the dairy herd on the Slate experimental farm at Levin, the Mini-ner for Agriculture (llon.K.McNab) has decided to make purchases Hum the choicest herds in iho colony. He has in that relation communicated with Mr James McLaugh an, of Wynlu.m, and commissioned that gentleman to purchase some high-c'ass milkers as may be required. Mr Mc-

Nab writes, inter alia: "Wo have cows at Levin giving considerably over 60 lb or over; the price would not stop lis from purchasing them. 1 wou d like to get about half a dozen of the best milking cows in the Mataura Valley. At Palmerston North show, the first prize cow : gave 571b average for four days; she is va'ued at about We have numbers that could beat her ill Levin. Ido not mind where the cow's are got from, if they are firstclass ones,''

The Argus reports that a very lai'gely attended meeting of ratepayer of the new Eltham county was heid 011 Saturday for the purpose of appointing a committee to deal with ihe quesiion of riding boundaries and representation. A committee of 13 was elected, and immediately prore ded with their duties. The new county is to have five ridings, namely, Kaponga, Mangatoki, Eltham, | Omuna and South. Kaponga ratepayers will elect two members, Mangatoki iluee, Eltham two, Omona one, and Sojoh liding 0,1". It was resolved to recommend "• tiie Governor thai the first electir 11 lv held on loth December, the first meiing of 1 lie new Council to be held at the 15 'tough Chamber*. Eltham. 011 jjnd December. Mr \X. J. Tiistram w.v' ,ipp"iiiicd aellng-elcrk and r.-Uiining officer- and will act in conjunction with Messrs Hock!ie and Maix. All the necessary documents in connec'ion with ihe gazetting of ihe new couiiiy wen immcd : atc!y signed, and 011 Monday morning. HOW TO SAVE MONEY.

Spend les.s than you earn. Simple enough, i-n't it Our way of trading -i just as easy. You get the very l;e:-i '.'ream Separator that money can buy. and pay less for it than an inferior aie eusis > when ynu lake dureb lity, iean s|J in ni •ng. cdsj of upkeep ;nl') acc(;unl. Our nlfcr t-.i run thr ""Alfa-T-nval" any cinptuitor. and takf it ' ;'< k free of to yen unless !) ,l a ;o ' it at every p'-hV—we make, m cond tions or r(v:eivat : ons—shows ' •iai our "deeds an; strorir»*-r than our

I Vi>ir our stand at the "International | ! '\!rbiiinn ;inc | s -- r (.lie !a!c t "AlfaI.nvaP' models, which pa : ned tho S;v>c -A (iold (J'.mo, i-joO) foj''st niprovenu;ntb in any mach'n<- or ">ip ! eni( nt. Caialns'ucs m-'ilf'd free. K. Griffiths and Co.. New P'ymoulh. local Solo New Zealand agents, Mason .Struther* and Co., Ltd., Palracrstou North and Christchurch,

The annual meeting of ihe Triranaki County Counci' will be he!d on lie hrst day of the Taranaki Agricultural Show.

The Borough Council is ofl'eied a modern street watering carl, with steel frame, tank and washboard-, I rotary sprinklers, and all the latest fittings, for /ISS 5/, f.0.b., l.ytlelion. The stoppage of the leak at the n'de-drivc of the waterworks tunnel has not, the engineer staler, been attended with any unsatisfactory results.. That's what the ratepayers want. There were any amount of unsatisfactory results and fears from the leak itself.

Our Kaimata correspondent writes ; —Mr A. S. Roberts, of Kaimata, lias 1 jut installed a Lauience-Kcnnedy j milking' machine, capable of milking 50 or 111011' cows. This wi.l enable Roberts t<> dispense with hired milkcis entirely. Mr A. Robertson, of Messrs McEwan and Co.. New Plymouth, fitted up the machine. Mi I Roberts has decided 10 substitute an oil engine in place of the steam engine and boiler originally supplied with the machine, At a Tar.maki school. Teacher, moralising about the temptations of th» world: "Now, boys, there are tliinga which it is well to shut one's eyes to in this world. You have heard me explain what ihey are. Tell me one nf them.'' A hand shot up. It belonged to a diminutive Pat. "Yes, call you tell me?" asked the) icachor. "Soap, sir!" ejaculated the" young Hibernian. The master had | to join with the scholars in the laugh that ensued.

The question of tho presence of the doctor in the schoo: will come before ihe forthcoming annual meeting of the New Zealand Educational Institute. The South Canterbury branch wili come forward with a resolution in favor of regular inspection of school children by both medical men and dentists. The Health Department's present proposals apply only to medical examination, and then only to the proportion of children whose defects have been sufficiently discoverable to be detected by the teacher—a proportion j'stimatcd at 10 to 13 per cent of the attendance. A visitor from South Africa who knows both the South African footba.l team now in England and also the famous "AH Blacks,'' informed

a Wellington "Post" representative the other day that the team now on tour, while a strong one, was not the

equal of the New Zealanders' combination. If a match could be arranged our informant had no doubt the "All Blacks 5 would be victorious, though they wou d be given a wiTing "go." The main feature of the S.A. team was the backs, which contained some brilliant players who would be a distinct acquisition to any team New' Zealand could put in the field. Solicitors brimming- over with business, and waiting ; newspaper reporters, with big tablets, waiting ; ihe Court staff, waiting; witnesses waiting. That was the order of the day when the S.M. Court sittings were fixed for 10 o'clock. Now the. Magistrate is not asked to take his seal till 11 o'clock, but on Monday, the ordinary Civil Court day, the oniy day 011 which chambers business can 1)3 conducted, it seems, the machinery of the law did not swing into operation till somewhat aftei 11.15. I hose who regularly have business at the Court have to be prompt in attendance; the rest is obvious. It s a bit early yet for county fxiunej.'iors to think they dan dispense with the I'apuae nightmare, the cutting, the sucam, ihe fillings, the mud, and tne recent blockage 01 traffic on the cutting will disturb the rest of the county ratepayers' representatives for a little while yet. The Council recently decided to determine the contract, but the contractor adheres to his challenge made in our correspondence column on Friday morning. "Let them do it," he says, "or at any rate, iry.it." U was iree'.y stated in Okato the other day by one Who claimed to be "in the know that the Council could not take the contract out ol Mr Harford's hands. The matter will be considOiod next Monday at a special Council meeting.

Oil the mai'i train to New Plymouth oil Saturday there was quite a commotion in one of the carriages. It was tea time, and the travellers were depg their to got first 'seats in the dining' car. in a carriage near ihe dining ear they found lit l door would not open. They were herded up, first one and then another trying his hand at the lock. Eventually, one passenger succeeded in opening the door, but a.= lie shot through he slammed the door, by design or accident, behind him. More elforts to open the door; mote failures. The carriage became full, and at the next station an appeal for help was made to the guard, who unlocked the dour, and the crowu swarmed in to get their tea, which for nearly an hour had been to them so near and yet so far.

A private letter received in Wellington this week from an ex-New Zealaixler, now living in China, slates that the Chinese Government will in the not dts.ant future insist upon the British Government removing the present obstacles to the free admission of Chinamen within the British dominions. The. Chine-e oflicials in authority make no secret in their determination to push all the white races out of the Empire if the restrictions are not removed. They are said to have Japan at their back in this matter, though the Mikado's advisers veil their movements in secrecy. The Writer says that the fusion of Ihe Chinese and Japanese foices is a grave menace lu Australasia, and he has it on the authority of a mandarin 01 the highest rank, who is intimately connected with the Chinese Court; that it is on y a question of time when the Western nations will have to acknowledge ihe supremacy of their Eastern rivals. The mandarin said the Chinese army would then be in a positon to show the world that it could bear comparison with Ihe bestdrihecl forces of Europe. Probably few Taranaki residents who wear Panama hats know much of the methods of manufacturing those head coverings. The finest Panama hats are produced in Ecuador, and are woven in early morning hours, when the atmosphere is damp, as the heat of the sun makes the fibre briltle and unlit for manipulation. At night the hat is hung out in the open air, where it absorbs the dew, and is the next daj' again in condition to be worked. This accounts for the great length of time required to make a hat of the best quality, one of the finest grades requiring upwards of thrre months to produce. The hat is wovsn on a block which is held between the knees of the operator, a though some of ihiTvcry coarse hats are woven 011 the knee of the native too poor to own a hat block. Men, women and children among the native Indians of South America are engaged It, weaving the liaK To 'lie ciiihii.ii i., entrusted only the making' of the coarser grades, and ihe youngsters acquire increasing ski'l from year to year, and in time some of them become experts capable of making the exceedingly line hats. Those who have been 'ong engaged in th'.' handling of Panama hats know from a glance at the button from what locality the hat conies. Tile button is the little central portion <)f the crown of the hat, at which point the weaver begins and ou ] K , mU low aids the edge. THE CEI.EISIJITY OF SANDER AND SONS I'UKK VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, is universally acknowledged Royalty l.ao'irs it. and tic entire medical" proPssu n lias adopted its use. Imitations sprang up without 1111m-1 bei The latest ~f tli.-m—;ill siyled

Ksnaels —was an oi] fMis ; cd upnn I hi' irnstin.u' and unwary, under |hr ;.'uwest misuse of Sander and Son-' imputation. Sander and Sons' ins!i luted an aelion ai tin- Supreme C< ur l ••f Victoria, before his lienor Ch'ef Ju-"ice Sir J. Madden, K. C. M. G. e:c and al ilu; trial a testified that he had to stop the usr of rnunterfcits mi account of the irri lati'm produced.

This shows -what cavo is required obtain an artirln that is srientifirallv tosted and approved of. As SllC *d'd S °^ e^r cnc^orSoc ' anc ' recomTHE GENUINE SANDER AND SON'S PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

The Wcstport Coal Company's out- " put last week was s| 1 L tons, S) cwi. inlluenzit is at present raging throughout South I'urauaki, apparently making its way lioi'lh From Wellington. New Plymouth chemists should note. Writes our VVarea correspondent The three southern districts, Funiho, *. j L'tingarehu. and Warca, have united to welcDiue the Kev T. Fisher at Warua on Wedncs lay evening. Tho valuation of the new Eltham County is £850,000. As most of tho land west of Jilthaui is at present only valued on the upset prices, the forthcoming new valuation of that district will bring the total valuation to close on a million pounds.

llawera is putting in a strong bid for the establishment of the Government Dairy School within the borough. I : Tne Council has offered a site of live . ■ ores or more in the borough at a

ueppei'corn rental for the purpose. The Hon, Mr McK ab is to be invited to visit the Egrnont A. & P. Show, and inspect the site offered, aud, failing bis coming, an influential deputation is to wait on him in Wellington in connection with the matter.

The Taranaki and Egmont County Councils will appoint their representative on the 2Sth in-t. on the Taranaki Hospital Board. The 'l'aranaki county has four votes, and the Eginont county one. Never did the province of Taranaki

look more verdant than at present. Grass is not only plentiful, but is also licsh and crisp. S'ock are looking very sleek and healthy. AH the factories are going at high pressure, and those engaged in the dairying industry are well satisfied with mi'k and butterfat yields.

In reply to a deputation representing a Wellington syndicate, which u'aited on the Inglcwood Borough Council to apply for boring rights over certain borough sections on royalty terms, the Council decided that it does not at present consider it advisable to entertain any applications for boring rights.