LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81889, 16 November 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■ The Niew Plymouth .Haijooulr, Board meets to day. Wiiilst it is reported to be almost impossible 10 secuie hams and bacon iocally, bacon companies aic exporting largely to supply the Wellington market. Among the projected additions to the buildings of commercial firms in New Plymouth are the premises for Messrs L. Griffiths aud Co., fronting Lgmoiii, King and Ariki streets, and a warehouse for Messrs Macky, Logan and Caldwell on the corner of Brougham and Powdcrharu street*. Both buildings will be of two storey, and will be a decided acquisition to the atciiitectuie of the town. Mr Frank Messenger is the architect in I each case.

•Mr T. Hutchison, S.M., hold Ins usual sitting al Waiiara on Tues day. Several civil cases were; dUposed uf and judgment was rc-erved an a claim by Dr. Goodc (Mr Town--end) against James William-un (Mr Roy) lur medical attendance. An application for a summary separation older by Mrs 1-'. C. Wilson against her husband was -partly hoard and adjourned to New Plymouth fur Friday, jOtli inst.. at "11 a.m. The grounds in which it was based were cruelly and willul neglect to mainvain wife and child. The supplicant's evidence was lengthy and aileged a lamentable? slate of affairs. Mr Claude Weston appeared fur the wife and Mr Mutrhcn for the hu-band. An intoimalion asking tor sun-tie-a«ain-.t committing a broach of the p ace wa- next heard, in which the inlmmant. Joseph Ilailloy, uas repre enicd by Mr Claude W'e-ton and the deiendant, Henry Johnson., bv Mr Tottii.-.,iul. The panic-, were' two railway men. and it appeared during Hie hearing thai !!„■ dobaKiam iv.i= about ti. leave ,),e district, rendering' Mie mfoimation unnec-- (arV. After healing- evidence on bull side*, His Worship di-missed the information.

THE BALTIC PATENTS. A great deal of ?;:;)iiul is sought :•• be made our of alleged imi'at ons '•; o;i" Ci"am S'parator bv anoiher. Ue challenge an exainii.at.o,, of il;e Hah c Separator in this respect, as tli" hum p:ej U (l c..,l ])eis,;i l mu-t admit the evidence of his own eyes. TI." Baltic i» bu'li ~n , in entire'v new and imptoved ptinciplc throughout, anil in place of im i a t ng others, it has to-day set tln> standard of excellence at such a high av.-l that older c-tab-lishod and less modem machines are cracking every sinew, using every argument, and even mis-quoting- the Bib e in the r unsucce sful efforts 10 keep level. The fteo tr ; al we offer against all machines is the best and faiie-t means of verify ng our claim of supremacy. Write to J.B. MacF.wan and Co., Epmont street, New] Plymouth, for '

A3 the result of the Taranaki Petroleum Co.'s meeting, the share market has brightened, and holders of vendors' scrip are now asking 17/ ii. A gentleman who recently returned from Australia states that frequent I comment is mado concerning the paucity of news from New Zealand. The only items cabled, lie says, are earihquakes, suicides, and murders. Not a bad collection of inducements to stay out of " fiod's owu country." A practical facmor from the Wauganui district whs a recent visitor to South Australia. Talking to a farmer in a railway train, he ascertained that

it cost 22/3 an acre to produce a crop of wheat, A conference of fanners lixod the price at - 29/o, but tins allowed I for leaving the land fallow'for a year. In conversation with an official in the Department of Agriculture the New Zealander said that, exclusive of threshing the cost here was about £'i 13s Cd, and the threshing cost was counterbalanced by the returns from sales of straw. " How on earth do yon liyef" asked tho Australian, in wonder,

and mentioned that even in Australia, with its lowor cost of production, there were no fortunes in growing wheat, ten | bushels to the acre, at 3s a bushel. Then came the turn of tho Maorilander. " Just reckon 60 bushels to the acre, and see how that suits." It was a bit of a staggerer. I " Aotea," Mr 1. Sole's property on

the Avenue road, includes one of tho prettiest pieces of native bush scenery that it has been our lot to see. Many visitors, in fact most of thorn, aver that the seven acres of bush and fern glade on t.hc banks of tho Henui stream surpass in beauty the Recreation Grounds, and in some respects this is true. One

enthusiast has said that it appeared as if Darne Nature, when she came to this part of her work of making the globe, had a bundle of odds and ends cf scenery; she mixed them up, and jumbled them all down in this hollow. Mr Solo has gone to immense pains to have walks made, fish-ponds dust and stocked fvitb. goldfish, and ferns planted in all directions. Seats and benches are provided all oyer the place. A little lawn has been sown as a stand for the bands that may play there from time to time, and at the rear is a " Maori house" of pungas, with a piece

of. genuine native carvin? over the front doorway. The whole place is wonderfully pretty, and wo expect to see a large crowd wandering about the grounds listening to the Garrison Band on Sunday afternoon A man named James Good, accused of having broken into the lnglewood 'Hotel on Tuesday evening, was arrcstrd in New Plymouth on Wednesday, and sent on to lnglewood for trial on a charge of theft of certain articles from the room of a boarder. His raid on the White Hart Hotel in New Plymouth was nipped in tho bud by the niglit porter, who ejected him before he had managed to annex anything. He had entered ihe building by the fire escape. From 1857 to 1905 (inclusive), NewZealand exported gold to the total value of 07,230,584. Towards that vast sum the West Coast fields contributed £26,063,813; Otago, £25,86y,735; Auckland, £i3,7Q4>3o!i; Nelson, ,£1,154,564, and Marlborough .£346,637. The greatest provincial return for any one year was from Oiago in 1863, when gold to the value of £2,380,750 was exported. The ] West Coast in 1806 produced £2,140,946 worth. Excepting wool, our much more talked of staple industries have a long way to go to produce Jic wealth that the colony's goldfields have and are yielding. Mokau Jones enacted another scone in his drama before the Registrar in Chambers on Monday last on an ap- ■ plication of his own calling upon the District Land Registrar and two sublessees of portions of tho MakouMohakatino block, to show cause why his caveat on the title should not be extended for sufficient timo to enable his solicitors to get instructions from England on which to base an action. After hearing councel, the Registrar adjourned the application to Wellington. Mr T. S. Weston appeared for Mokau Jones and Mr Hutchcn for the tenants. Mr W. Lawrence, of Lawrence Bros., Waitara, has recently had patented a very useful article in the shape of a spade or shovel cleaner, its purpose being to scrape from the blado of tjhese Implements any sticky earth or clay. The blade of the cleanor is five inches long, and five-eigthths of an inch wide, and turned up at one end. In this shape the cleaner achieves its purpose admirably. The cleaner fits into a sheath, which later is tacked on to the shovel handle, and is therefore always available when required. ■ The whole apparatus only weighs some two or three ounces, and is ■ made of thin sheet metal. We un--1 derstand that Mr Lawrence has arranged for a large supply of the ! scrapers, which will be available for i sale at 6d apiece. The patent is an ingenious one, and should supply a • long felt want to those engaged in earthwork, etc.

On arrival of the Warrimoo from Sydney on Wednesday afternoon, says the New Zealand Times, Lmil Steiuer, a native of Prussia, although able to speak good English, was unable to pass tlio handwriting test, and consequently was not peimitted to land. He was promptly locked up in a cabin to ensure that he did not elude the autlioritieSj and will be transferred to the Monowai at Lyttelton to be returned to Sydney. Steiner is a German subject, thirty-, six years of age. He admits that ! e is unablo to write in any language. He explains that for many years ! e has sailed as fireman and trimmer in British steamers out of London and Liverpool to North and South Ame rica and the East Indies. In November, 1903, he secured his discharge from the Lund linor Commonwealth at Sydeny. Since then he has followed various avocations ashore in Australia, varying font cane cutting at Bundaberg, Queensland, to harvesting and farm labouring on the Darling Downs. He has enough money to keep himself for a couple of weeks, but as lie is a strong ab'ebodied man, he did not anticipate much difficulty in obtaining work. He complains bitterly at beng treated as an undesirable.—A Press wire received yesterday states that Steiner has been allowed to come ashore. Coached by the German Consul, he was able to write sufficiently well to satisfy the authorities.