LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81914, 7 January 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Tarauaki County Council meets I tV-riay, \ Humours are afloat of another I petroleum find,the "smelly" substance being unearthed at a depth of only a couple of feet. "When boys are marching M - ithou.t " arms" they have to keep one arm swinging." A local bull let loose in Devon street military circles the other day. /

Tlie following letters received from places beyond the colony arc lying at tlie Chief Post Office, Now Plymouth: —F. Andrews, W. Mulieri, McDonald, Scales and Co., Alexander D. McDonaell, h'dwiu Korthrop.

It is believed that the Miv-icrton Acclimatisation Society will have,'o re- ] stock all the creeks in the vicinity of the lluamahangn' River owing 10 the asifci from bush, fires (lcciiialinn the trout. Dead trout o£ all--i/As ha>c' been seen ia the deeper holes. *~

Local horticulturists. asserJ that the past two weeks hayo produeutl record growths ia both kitchen aiid flower gardcus A goodly quantity of rain, followed by a succession of'warm and sunny days, also set the grins growing freely again, and feed is abluudaut. From a casual glance at the ]' oil indications" at the Kew Zealand International Exhibition, visitors to the colony are sure to get tho impression

that Ihe Xaranaki oillielc'Ms of secondary importance only, JThc Hotukti Oil Syndicate (Grey/mouth) makes

quite a display of large photographs ot

the boring operations, handsomely framed / In the course or 7n»e wc/hopo to see the colony weaned altogether from a ami I service wli.'ch covers about . three-fourths of tlnjfelisfance under a foreign dug, andflWilule.ly bars J;ritis>i ships on fflj i'lyeifjc section of the route ; but ihe tinn,' Francisco contract has -just been renewed for two years at the least, and present endeavours must l)e limited to supplementing its long intervals and -its deplorable irregularities. Wellington Post.

In the House of Cornnons- (writes our London Mr Snow- ] den, Labour member |,r Pluekburn, Lancashire, asked the Prime Minister ' whether he hud seen the report of Mr P. Hayes, Commissioner of Taxes for -\o\v Zealand, in which lie stated that the effect of basing raffs on the unimproved value had been greatly to stimulate the building trade in 'that colony by forcing land l„ U(J mlt to the best use, and whether, in new ot the depressed state of the lmihlhi" trade in that country, hj, W ould introduce legislation here on similar lines at ui, early date? The Prime Minister replied: "lcs. the- rcpyl't had been brought to my notice, anil I quite appreciate its importance, but all I can I say at the moment is that the whole question is being considered by the Uivcrmucnt." „ I