LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 29 January 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An Auckland-San Francisco despatch of 2lith December arrived in London on the 27th inst.

The latest announcement regarding the next outward 'Frisco mail is Ilia', it will close at New Plymouth on Saturday evening.

'•I think we are all interested in see ing that pure water is supplied to a milkman for his cows." said the Mayor at last night's meeting. "For no other purpose. y„ m - Worship';" queried (Jr. Jlellringer. The Council -smiled.

An error crept into our dairy produce export returns published on Monday. The exporls of cheese by the Corinna yesterday were IID 7 cases, not llfl-lli cases, (he latter figure being tnc total export for the month.

Farmers coming imto Invereargill on Saturday, says the Southland 'Times, were most optimistic regarding the approaching harvest season. Turnip crops are looking well, and should turn out very satisfactoril|y. Oi<!s are. springing rapidly and filling splendidly, giving promise of a bountiful yield. At the Ho rough Council meeting on Monday. Cr. Rellnnger moved that ihci engineer attend to the drinking fountains in the town. lie considered the present ones were iu a (lis graceful state. Cr, lluiciicn: We've omy got out. Cr. Bellringor: AVeo. there 'ought to be more. On llu» suggestion of Or. (.'„||is. it was decided that the engineer report on ihe cost of fixing several drinking fountains in the town between the Town Hail and the boundary at llenui,

The failure of a brake on a biovole caused a big smash of glass severe damage 1„ ,i,y machine ami slirlil damage to the rider on .Monday uf.cr noon. A young man named I'enwarden was cycling down the Courleuay street incline, between Clinic and Liardet streets, when the rim brake failed I o grip. The rider lost all control, failed to turn the corner inio Carrie street, and. Hearing (lie kerb, .-mashed into tin- windows of (he "Xows" Ollice. narrowly missing collision with (lie verandah post.

Even from Iceland a letter has 'come to Mr T. \i. Donne cmpiirinu about Ihe pastoral and industrial condilious in New Zealand. The writer is a Britisher who has ovidenth grown tired of Hie frozen north. From an.olher unusual quarter a letter has been received. A New Zealander. who has made Iris home on tin; west coast of Sumatra, requests information about tile cost of travel, routes, and so on, from Unit countrv to New Zealand. He suggests that'by "judicious advertising" Dutchmen seUlVd in the East Indies would be, induced to pass their furlough in Xew Zealand.

The divining rod appears to have scored a success in Auckland. The Captain Cook Jirewery wanted a good water supply, and Mr Davis of the company, decided to put the rod to a practical test. An agreement was come to under which Mr Kirkwood prospected the district, and pointed out a spot where he expected a good supply would be found. A well' lias been begun on the spot indicated, and Mr Davis has written .to Mr Kirkwood informing him that the well is giving about 12,000 gallons per day at about | JOft. Mr Kirkwood is of opinion I that by sinking deeper more springs would be sapped.

Among the letters received bv the Tourist Department by the last Kan Francisco mail was one from a citizen of Traverse City, Michigan, who in thanking the Tourist Department for information he had received, said: "I have been very much interested in your country as well as delighted with your civil laws and iustrlulions. You are leading (lie world in niaiiv great principles of reform. Your political economy is an object-lesson to all nations. May t,ie wi-dom of the great Father of all guide you to a grand and glorious future." Speaking of the Maori and his future, Sir .Robert Stout said he believed there were great prospects before (lie ! race if they could only be taught the true value of thrift and industrial and agricultural pursuits. (n this COnncction, the Chief Justice -poke in the highest terms of a native school which bo' visited at Wai-iti, near liotorua, lie had visited hundreds of schools ill Mew Zealand, but he had seen none to equal iliat a( Wai-iti. The master, the Rev. Alt' Ilcaley, was away at the time, but from inquiries made his Honor learned that the iulliieiico of til.; work carried on at the school had had a most marked ed'eet on the Native children, and (hat complete order was obtained by the teacher without in any degree resorting to corporal punishment.

I Tn a s|iavc mnnicnt a member of the Post statl' made a few comparisons li.aw.Tii Mil- prices of proper! v in Welliinxlnn ami C'liristcliiircii. as indicated by iidwrtisi'iiienl's in the local papers, The iir»t ChiT-dcliuich announcement thai .seemed incredible 1., the Welliii}?touinu. whose) hopes of ever owning his own homo arc verv visionary was. for C.'iiO—this is no slip 0 ( (hi'' p,m a "Mill;; o-roonrcl house, verandah. m.'iillcry.w. ii„ t-o|i|icr, workshop, do., liiii.l ", aero. »i(li beautiful-fini, ires, and flown- »ard.'ii: low deposit, lullmice at Yll weekly, on I'upauui road.'' 'l'll.' lir.4 oho (o correspond at all in .•>iz:' iilnililoil on in Wrlliiiirl.-m list read: "Superior I doomed r.-siilcnci-, I'liorndom hay window. liallii'"(.iii. ll and c. waler. etc. land lill hy !IOl'(, price U7H.V Then amiin at, ,S\denliaiu. Christehurch, is oifi'ivd a. comfortable U-roouicd dwelling, h. and .'. wain'. %\>, over i', acre, ?!0"'1 orchard, close to electric (ram. price C-120. line); in Wi'Hin.uton is found a liijrhly finish.'d residence in Broiniliam street, (I larpo rooms, 41) hy 1001'!. price Cl - 00. Tn Annual- str.'i't, Christehurch—verandah house, S largo rooms «nod L'iU'don, fruit trees, "cite., for C:(T">. described as a. ''snip." lint horo the "spare liioiiii'iit"' wild."'}!'. Of course Christehurch is not Wellington. The Saltwater Baths will lie open for cveninjr swimmine; this ireek. s;entleinen on Tuesdays and Indies on Friday, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in each case.—J Ad'vfc. ' i

Tli<! Ventura, with the 'Frisco mail, left Honolulu ill, midnight on the 211 th. The new Post OJlice at Now Plymouth is nor. likely lo be opened for a! least another mouth. The AetingPrcinier is to he asked to perform the opening ceremony

Until last evening (Jr. J". Pcllringer was under the impression that no electric light was generated and consumed on Sunday nights. And he seemed prepared In back ids opinion at hist night's Council meeting. We have to thank Mr C. W. Ecvef, of Warea, for a box of some of the best and largest plums we have had the pleasure of sampling. They were grown by the sender, who is'to be complimented upon Ihe quality of his

Mr Trask, representing Messrs Rob' erts and Stakes, is endeavouring to arrnngc for one of his principals to visit New Plymouth and confer with the municipal authorities concerning the proposal toestab.ish an electrical tram system in the (own.

''You were 00 years of age. and single, and then married a widow after, a liKiutld's- acquaintance-,. Yon| deserved all yon got;.. - ' said Mr Jii.-hop in the .Magistrate's Court in Christchurch a few days ago to the defendant in a maintenance case, after he had detailed the (roubles he and suffered '.hrough his wife's temper. .Mr ,1. Deem, Stock Inspector, of llawera. has pointed out to the lln'wcra Star that Hie liackiej; regulations provide for a minimum penalty of £2, with a maximum -of £2OO, per day for failing to report any death from blackleg, either before or after vaccination, and that in future if any fanner fails to reporit any such death's it is his intention to strictly enforce the regulation.

The first number of the "School Journal," to be published under the auspices of the Education Department, is not likely to be issued before April Ist. The .Minister of Education hail hoped to have the, "Journal" circulated on the reassembling of the schools after the holidays, but it has boon found impossible' to do this. There is more labour attached to lire preliminary arrangements for the publication of such a magazine than was at first supposed. The intention is not to make it a teacher's journal, but one! for the use of school children, providing: supplementary reading matter partly of a general character and partly with special reference to certain subjects of the. sciiool course— nature study, geography, and history in particular. If this aim can be carried out, it is contemplated that 'the "Journcl" may serve the special purpose of a reading book in geography and history, and thus obviate the necessity of so many reading books having to be purchased by the parents of the children,