LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81899, 7 December 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ratepayers scarcely need reminding that the pjil on the proposals to borrow £IO,OOO for electric light extension, £IOOO in connection with waterworks, and £IOOO to provide additions to the drainage, system, is to be taken to-day. The polling places are:-—East Ward, Mr S. T. Crocker's shop; Central Ward, Town Hall; West Ward, Mr G. A. Corney's residence. The polling booths will be open from i) a.m. till 7 p.m. As we indicated a day or two ago, we are in favor of the proposals, which we consider about the best business proposition ever put before the ratepayers. The date chosen for the Marc Narellc concert v> the '22 nd inst. Only one concert can be given, as the company has to have by the next, steamer for Auckland. Arthur Garland, a milkman, summoned at Mistley, Essex, for selling milk containing only 2. 7 per cent, ol milk fat, said the deficiency was cwsul by the dry weather and by 'he operation of thousands, of flics who ii'inovetl the cream for themselves. The case was clis missed.

Some workmen in Auckland the other day ki led a shark that ran into shoal water near the reclamation works. When the shark was killed the jaws were taken out and sold to a Cecal dealer for £6. On opening up the botlv the only contents was a piece of timber about a foot in length. Good luck has followed the band of enthusiasts who have set out to make a "spoils ground in the Recreate grounds. Fine weather has favoured each function arranged, eyen tliougn it rained for a week before and after the event. Again, fine weather has been the genera: rule during the progress of tlie work in the grounds, enabling operations to be conducted on the most, rapid aud inexpensive lines. Way their luck never fail.

The paintings of the Maori chiefs, «»niri and Waikato, of the Ngapuhi, whVvisiteu when George I\. was iv.,!." "' ■" o' land, arrived by the I'aparon recent!}. The pictures have been presented to tha colony. They have hung fur decades on the walls of the Missionary Society's meeting hall in Salisbury Square, London. There is also a third painting of Ilongi and Waikato with Mr Kendall, a missionary.

Fifty men have been discharged from the liiangaliUii end of the Rcefton-ln-angahua railway line, including a largo number of married men.

A newspaper war is proceeding at Taihape. Kecently the Taihape Post was converted into a company, the leading business men of the town being induced to take shares in the concern. Xow its rival, the -News, edited by Mr J. Ivess, has gone one better by announcing that it will be published as a daily evening paper from January 2nd next, There are lively times in store for the newspaper men in Taihape. The vice-president and manager of the Auckland Savings Bank has handed to the Board of Education M cheque for £lo..ntlO donated by the trustees of the institution for the purposes of a technical college at Auckland. The manager mentioned that the Bank was 33 years old. When he took sole charge the Bank's profits for the year were only £3OO. Mr HoUlis, vice-president of the Bank, has made a personal donation of £IOO to the same object.

I'nder the provisions of the pro-po.-etl new Hospital Act, members of b".~pi|:il hoards are to be elected under •be Electors .\cl. 1(10-1. elections to be '"•id on Hie last Wednesday in April '..:.! sub-cquent elections will be held •wry Ihinl tear. The board mav patIn its chairman an annual allowance. '<'}><• I ; 'll pro|ioses to continue the subsidy on local bodies' contributions £

f". C f«.r throe year.-, then a gradual lii|ii'rin» nil' for the next throe years —Lis in t!i,. c-and liiiullv rcd'ticiu" -llh-idy to Ills in tin: ,t. "

A L'hrishnas Iree fete 1„.|,l (lfc ( | IC missi,.,, hall at .Momroa „„ Thursday alloriioon »as very successful. Jlr ( otvio ivas responsible |„r (|„, allair. and. with the assistance of mane trillni- workers, hrouuht about a very lileasant fiinciioii, which was attended '=.*•- Mends t>™< all over the distriel. I'll'' idea teas to -ive a holiday to the children attending the \Vestoun iv;, »- and Motuvoa Anglican Mllld.iy-ellool-. the Christ ma-' tree <•"-!. A small l,a.nar for the sale of M"lic ■! 'iioiee -lectio,, of ,„„„|., „,, s "I'.|eel 01 oxllmjuishine; (|„. ,1,.|, t „„ mi:-;,,,, hall. Al iikdii „ ~„„,.,-, „ :ls I'elil. and very largely altended, Tilt; "MKbOTTK' is Y.ASY To CI.KAX. I.aljtmr-in iki-ia instead of .'abouv■|;v<ts would xui'-ably apply to m«*t 'd the separator- „ n the ma i'kci bo- '■ »>eo, lie. 1,,, ; c; m , U nt „f c V, inM , iv-imred : ,|,.-r each day's .epa.a-n^ l' l: ' '" ' vl " r " 'il'-' "Mdotlu" beats lie ni. b is :IJ e.oy |„ c 'ean. One -•' '; " : ' •■■!' ■■i.itej niiik. t (Ml i v ,-o H-ailon or e,l,| ~.,.„,., ~,,.,,,,( ~,...,,,„.,, ii!iim-dii.--y afar « p-raiiiijr, pn.a'i- <•"! y c-l'-.ins lee machine while the speed is tunning down. The re-.i of the ehaiiiiifr ran be done in a few minute--, ,-s. ov-im; to the extreme simplicity of the "Meiotie," every part is leadi y accessible. Tlrs one advantage alone should be sufficient ti induce you to favour tho "Melotle" if you are wanting a separator. But tliis is cn'y one reason. We can rivo you other; if you will ca'l on us. Soje agc'iits, Wilson and Nolan, New Plymouth..

The English cricket team arrived at Wellington by the Coriutliie yesterday. Fox, the wicketkeeper, met with an accident a few days ago, spraining his ankle badly while at practise. Tayernct, tho other wicketkeeper, will take I kis place in the first few games.

A message from Auckland, received at 11 o'clock last night, stated thai the 'Frisco steamer Sierra had been sighted at Tin, and was expected in the harbor about 12 30 a.m. The southern and IjNapier portions of the mail wi'l be brought down by the Takapuna, leaving Onehunga at 3 o'clock this afternoon.

The fourth and last performance of

West's Pictures and the Breseians on Thursday night was very well attend 'd, and again the audience was most enthusiastic in its appreciation. The railway building series were of special interest. Another good set of films concerned a visit to thti zoological gardens. A highlv sensational series was of a very fanciful "trip to the sun." "Tlie Waterman" was repeated by the Breseians. The whole scries of entertainments has established a standard for New Plymouth. It was found on arrival of the Corin-

thie at Wellington yesterday morning, that 82 passengers had not been vaccinated. Dr. Mason, after some persuasion, induced all these to submit to the process. Iu one case the parents refused to permit an infant to be vaccinated. Dr Mason assured them that there would bo no serious effects,

and promised to pay the parents £5 if anything serious to tho child resulted from the vaccination. The parent succumbed to this proposition. The Hon. Mr McNab, speaking ~ro

an Eltham " Argus" represeutative, said that he found during his tour in the north that large numbers of the small tarmers had been carefully educated up to the belief that the Govern-

meet had some dark scheme in view to rob them all of their freehold. With this idea firmly planted in their minds considerable hostility was to bo expected, lie had enjoyed the trip very much, and particularly those meetings at Papakura and Clevedon where the hostility had been most pronounced. Last Rugby season—quite a long time ago—a referee was assaulted by a spectator after a football match, says the Wellington " Times." The Wellington Rugby Union inquired in o the case. Later, the New Zealand Onion took it up, expressing its dissatisfaction with the efforts of the Wellington Union to find the culprit. The Wellington Union indignantly remonstrated. The New Zealand Union held on its course, and the other day the police, at the Union's instance, were about to effect an arrest. But as the time approached, the person it was iutended to arrest was not to be found in his usual haunts. There the matter stands.

At the annual meeting of the Taieri and Peninsula Dairy Company a few days ago tho chairman remarked that the business of the year was some .£31)00 ahead of that of the prey I ious year, and that there was every probability of this year's business showing a further growth. A proposal to grant a special bonus of id per :b to suppliers of butter-fat during May, June, and July was rejected by a large majority.

It is reported that two horses, owned by Mr Johns, of Brighton Road, Parr.e:l, Auckland, have had their legs broken within a few mouths in an unaccountable manner which has caused suspicion. The horses usually ran in an orchard paddock, off Brighton Road. In January last one of the horses, a valuable animal was found with its leg broken near the fet'!ock joint. The cause of tnc 'bieak could not be determined at die lime. The animal was destroyed. Last week another of Mr Johns' horses was found with its leg broken, tli's lime higher up the leg. It is stated I that there was nothing in the paddock to cause the break. There were two I ponies in the same run. and it >s said that even had they been plucky enough to get near their larger companion, and kickod him, they could not have broken his leg. Besides', no signs of a ki'k could be found.