LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81903, 15 December 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The'potato blight Fus appeared in the east end el' New i'ijmoulli.

Uu Friday morning, sit the S.li. Couit. a prohibition enter against a New I'h-aouth resident was renewed.

The following team has been chosen as the result of competitions- to re present tl," New Plymouth Fir? Brigade ill tin' Exhibition Tournament at Christcluiich:Lieut. JJoon, Sect. 11. Ford. Foreman .F. Clark, fii-l-.iliiin .1. Wav, Fireman W. Hnnlwics: lir-,1 emergency, Fireman .1. Sadler: second emergency, Fireman W. Prior.

A well known authority, who li'.s been through Finland. Scotland, and Ireland recently, reports that the s.,le of America!) Limn d goods r dead. He ltop.-d Unit frozen meat would benefit, but stales that chei se is the oniv article ivhicl bus replaced canned food to am- extent. The consumers of tinned meat want a r.dish. and thov will not go on to fresh meal because'it has to he cooked.

A Wairnr.ipa resident, writing bis nipiessions ef Australia in a eon ( empoiary, says that trucks of chait nil corn are now pouring into llel-' lourne, and Algerians seem to be Hie nost common oats. His impression m arriving hack in Wellington was hat New 'Ze-ilanders are a ta'Jor, .loader and healthier looking people ban any on the other side, and that >ur women are better looking.

llessrs E. t.'rilliths and Co., the Taranaki agents for llessrs Mason, Struthors and Co., have just com

'pleted- the Koru creamery for the Oinata Dairy Company. A prominent ollicial of the company is so pleas ed with the working of th' plant that he is prepared to give a testi monial as to its satisfactory running. An Alfji-Laval separator is now being installed in the Mangorei Dairy Com pa ivy's I'ppei'-road creamery. The New I'iymontli Homing Club's Hock race was to have been llovrn from Russell to New Plymouth on Wednesday, but tie hamper was over carried and the birds were liberated at Manganui about - forty miles further north. R. YV. Dixon's Archie was first, in 9hrs olmin, velocity "Tily'ds 2ft lin per minute; K. Ward's Soap, fllirs ofiiiiin. veloeitv 77!lyds lin, 2; W. Holding's linlisii (,lueen. Uhrs ;j(>>/.min, velocity 772 yds j 3in, 3; Hi- L'orney's Rex, Sl'hrs oS'i mill, velocity 770 yds 2ft -lin.

The West End school bazaar resuited in the addition cf about .Clio to the funds, an dmost of the goods were disposed of. Guessing competitions were won: Hean-guessing, Jlrs Jliichell 3<iO, actual number :l">(i; penguessim.', Jlr J'etty 543, actual mini her 54« i doll's name (Dorothy), Mrs .1. li. Roy, doll's height, Jlrs Home, 24% inches, actual height, 21 '/i inches; weight-guessing, cake, Jlrs Gilbert and Mrs Doare. 20'/,lb. Unifies re suited: Splasher, Jliss 1). Hoy; table, Mrs Herralge; cushion; .Mrs JlcGrath; oil painting, Mrs 1!. Cock.

A contriliutor scuds the following item to a contemporary: —"Skim milk as a fertiliser for crops is interesting many farmers abroad, several of whom declare that astonishing results have oome from its use. In (lie vicinity of one farm a dairy had a lot of skim milk that could not be sod. Two farmers (ook the milk and poured it on their lands as an experiment. One emptied seventy-live cans and anothei one hundred and fifty cans. lie markablc results have been obtained. Their grass is now seven times as vigorous as ail adjoining fields whore the niiil; viiis not used, but which were covered with commercial ferti- ! Users.

The lecture bv Dr Mason, Chief Health Ollieer, at the Ilutt, attracted a large audience of vouths and men. "Sidelights on Physical Culture'' was the subject matter, and in dcai'in;.' with it the lecturer imparted a great jlcal of valuable information. A number of breathing exercises we're illustrated, and the doctor remarked that not .">0 per cent, of athletes understood file necessity for propel breathing, and the way to arrive at it. Another essential was the washing of the skin. The intestinal canal was really only a second and internal skin, and hud to be washed also. The j drinking of water was a great aid. land should be followed bv exercise. Answering questions. I),- .Mason lylWlfiThs were necessary, but if one had to be given up it should be tin cold one. Dilated heart in athletics was due either to over training or to a lack of knowledge how to breathe. Another answer of much general interest was that there was no danger in going in for a cold bath when in a heated condition, if the bather did not remain in too long or go for a long swim. As in most things, however, the personal equation came in. and what sailed one man did not suit another.

! Theiv was consternation writ on •'News' reporter attended to obtain a report of the proceedings of the Board of School Commissioners on Friday morning. lie was gravelv in formed Unit this was not a public meeting, or a. meeting of a public I body, but a meeting of trustees win. had sometimes to discuss the private nHairs of individuals, so that tie news man ought at once to grasp the fact that he should take his leave. Mr , J-'aull, however, considered the Hoard were executing a. public trust and spending public money, and therefore the public were entitled, through the Press, to a report of the meeting. The secretary said such a course was unheard of in the Hoard's historv. Mr Fau'l mentioned awl maintained against strong contradiction that a I reporter used to attend and take [notes some years ago. The secretary, iin answer to Mr Jennings, said the Press reports were obtained from the Hoard's minutes, whereat Mr Jennings said he was not at all satisfied with the reports supplied. At any rate, he would move for tie admission of the reporter, as a matter of principle. Mr Major took a similar stand, for the same reason, and the chairman said he knew the pressman would use Ids discretion. He had found, in Kducation Board matters, that the „\'ew Plymouth reporters stayed their pencils whenever requested to. The motion to admit the Press was thai put and carried without dissent.

The Xew York correspondent of the "Sydney Morning Herald.'' wriiinir under date October 20th with ret'cionce to the Panama Canal, says:— The (iovcrinuent has at last confessed that it is unequal to the task of building the Panama Canal, and (lie work is to lie given out under open bidding to contractors. This is gall and wormwood to all who favour the expansion of ollicial activity, and especially tu the friends of municipal ownership, As usual, the spie.-tion at issue plainly has two sides. The contractors win, no doubt, hire Chinese coolies, and will get even from coolies the very last stroke of work; and it may thus quite possibly be'come true of the canal, as it cert.-.in-ly was true id' the Panama railroad, that every foot -and some peimle even »M every inch—of .progress co*t a human life. That will in: an rolled;,! reproach and humiliation | u the contractors' principal... But to build Ihe eana! with eight hour dav, I'gh priced organised iabour wou'hi mean a trebling of the cost, and (lie imposition, directly upon American farmers and indirectly upon (he world's commerce, of a burden not to be endured. In three out of every four Congressional districts no caiiilidale on either side could safely champion cither tl xlreme view of the claims of labour or the extreme view of tile rights of capital; indeed as to hardly anything else in the old proverb truer—Hie middle path i s the safes!. Stfil, the final decision of the (iovenunent shows which scale, just at present is the heavier in the balance. "MELOTTE," THE BEST AXI) CHEAPEST. It is false economy to buy a separator license of its price only. The "Melotto" saves you money every day because it lias practically friclionless bearings, therefore it runs al a very high speed with very little wear. About "It l-.'l per cent less power is re quired to drive it, and about "ill per cent less oil to lubricate it. All these points count in the profits at the end of the season. Some separators cost their price over again in a short time for repairs. Wo could point to "Meloltee' separators, which have been running ten years, costing a few shillings for repairs.—Wilson and Nolan, New Plymouth,