LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 16 February 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Large numbers of Maoris continue l-o pass through New Plymouth en route to larihaku to take part in the To'im Ungi. «f T, 5° ,- U ' S , fc «f the Taranaki v. w X 'i 8 * wili tak(: P'aw "t the New Plymouth Borough Council Cham"ers on Monday, at 10.30 a.m. It is understood that Mr Boddie, of Milium, will be one of tho Farmers' mon men to reply to the Government Island I)robab, y 'n 'he South A 278-aere farm at Manaia was sold tile other day to a successful dairy farmer tor ii3(l per awe. The Manaia land carries a cow to the acre pretty nearly the year through. Mr J. Bennett has already generously donated a points prize to be competed for at the first gathering of the JNcw Ilyinoulh Caledonian Society to be held on Easter Monday. The committee of the projected New lJymonth Lowing Club has made satisactory arrangements for housing a boat. Mr Cathro, interim secretary, visited Waitara in connection with the obtaining at a boat for temporary use yesterday. J

the Pungarelui Dairy factory Company h.-uv decided to lint in a cheese making plant. Laud has been purchased, and it i s expected to have everything m readiness for the start of next season, T he Oaonui factory jj„; y to s° 1,1 for cheese luakf lic average valuations of New JSeawool show tee following war"' l^, b l l" ox l« l » s *°n in the last } • »• JJOI-2, 4.54J per lb; 1002-3, 1004 5 'Mr I 7.37U per lb; M-i-o o.oyd per lb; 1005-ti, 10.45 d per i Ivm 190 M showj ' thu s an . 1 ance in this respect equai to about Ho pci cent upon 1001-2. A Manawatu paper states that a far mei on the West Coast ha s put up a •good performance this season Beinnunable to secure later, he and twS *>oi,s have harvested nearly 150 acres Cr ° P ' T d lli3 bill £o '' outsit ~ . ' c '; mu o under ;il)s. Jlesides tills, tliy have niaiinged to milk U tows night and morning. The Maori kaingas all along the coast from i\eiv Plymouth to the Wai■tr*' i"" S i l '" 1 bL ' yo " d aru l"'acticaJly LL -J"' myv 011 of the ' ? l"'°eeejing llt J'arihaka, over e death ol the late lo„u„ga, Tohu. ,f , Provision's nre pournig into S^n 1 ' 0 "' aU big harvest. One Maori ,p CIlt i,oi> 011 'Jhnnday for ru"\s t . lone, loliu's 000, put aside" to cover the co*t of the tangi, fe eaten up almost alrcad v

The hfth Autumn Show of the Opu'.'Mke Honienltuial Society WIW held on i'i." iTi-?' a, "V ras Die ■ w v f' l>t 11 " u " lbL ' l ' peoprs'Tn, r m :i dista,iec ' ti,c 1 r'u', . i f J ? r iU " 0l " ltwl to £ll lis i bahy show the prize under 12mo llhs uas won by Mrs Guv's bov ■ I!" , 1 ' 1 ' by Jlrs Ijurton's boy', •'"'I ; mider two years by Mrs John3i.ulu,s' driving was " , ' AU'letk. The llowers - -is v. v T", IKTL '' ,uld tll,! u-iy good, but the vegetables ami coking wore poorly represented. Th, ■ h 0.,1 Hill.liens work- wa.s fiiiit-clnss. wnte.- our Upuuake tonespoudent, I lie Member for ligniont (Air W. T lo"l'! ' :,U r ■' W 'n " as J '" Bt 1)TO " oil il visil ' lK j C°iintry, a part of which included i„ | lis t . loct „ ra , to js f Main Trunk line will he constructed |,y the end of next year, po tar as I can see there is nothing to :,T ' ' the completion of the 'ulh i y, ,iU '" Ct ' Ml ' ssis Anderson. wl'» have the contrart for this work, :,i ! hi( ' on the ground, and "! 11 iK i-eady lor placing in po"l I'-)' '"'o having great dillioty with the concrete foundations of the viaduct. You know, perhaps, that the* have ]„ (TOSS ~ ylll . v ;u]l wide gully, ami at the bottom i s a e 111, above the narrow clock bed. It is 011 I Ins Hill tiial one of the peers of the jiiers ol the viaduct is placed, and this is n hen* the .lijlicully is greatest. ft is a most dillieult piece of engim-erin" did not Visit the northern end of the southern section of the line, ii'oni Wellington, so i am' unable to say anything of the progress "I the work. Them is. however, a splendid coach road between the railHeads."

A iocal mini called m at our oflice yesterday—lie is but one of many and gave us some information :rs to 1 he amount ~( "gram j u t|,j s pi-odc that occurred to him as the result ot his own experience concerned the payment of a local bodv's account to one of his subordinates, a'nd t I»>.ve« deducted 7s (id discount, wilii (he express instruction that 110 'discount must be '.shown on the receipt. When (lie proprietor clinic in and saw the journal entry that suliordinate had to make a hasty trip to the ofliee of (lie local body and demand repayment <»r that 7s Ud. ft was paid/and the I"'" has not had an opportunity of .supplying a siiillingsworth to thai; local body since. lie trusts sincerely that the "News" will keen at it, and if po.-sible, eradicate the evil, which' he says, is worse than we. know of! J.here are many other similar stories told us. bul there is no necessity to reproduce them all. Anyhow, the palm-greasing contingent will have their Claws clipped by legislative aclion before Jung. -Ml' W. X. Jennings, M.H.K., sees a great dillcrence in the sel l.lcnienit of the King Country. During his recent tup, in* visited file Ohura, settlement, ..Jlatiere, Manga roa. and .Mangapapa Valley. Said -Mr deiinings to an Auckland Herald rep.i'iter:—%'reiit iuiprovenicnits have been ell'eeted there in what was only ;t tew years ago terra incognita, -the settlers are of the best class of New /calami pioneers, and they are succeeding beyond expectations, notwithsiauding the serious drawback of the waivfc at roads. When I went 1.1) roil,uli this country somu fI V( . , llU j twenty years a«?o it like oxpluvnig a liew country. \ o w there are comfortable little settlements wilii schools, telephones, and other adjuncts <" civilisation. Jiut llicy are baillv in need of roads—very badly. At Mangar,,:, they are gelling gravel 'out of ,he Mangor,,;, river.. and reading the

township a nil!., each way, so thai the Children Will be able to gel u, school ill comfort. Tile settlers generaliv are buoyed up with hope, and they nave unbounded failh in their district, and they are arranging for the establishment of a. hulter faclorv at a eonycnient site. If ti„, y ,„ ITV I!|is into elleel. their (roubles will be praelieally ended, far as making a Jiving is eoiicerneil. At the Aria township J was present at a, large sports gathering. Now, two and a half years ago there was no one fh. r.- bi,; Maoris i)' surveyors; but on occasion over ~(11) people were p ,j || u , sports, and in the evening I presided at a crow-Jed nieeling at which it was decided to go on with negotiations for (he establishment of a dairy factory j„ Hie township of Aria. It I estimated hat supplift. he obtained „oi.„ ' ton cows. i

-U Hill-,street, Key li. A. Kinvood "■■II preach cm Sunday, at ]| "Tin. " a ' .'it -i p.m., oliiUlien'-s ■ .' rv tec, "Me Story of Samuel"; „i 7 p.").. to young iiH-n, -A Ci olden Opportunity.' All w.-k-oino.—Advt. The services at Whileley Church »" Sunday will l, : . conducted in the morning 'l>y till' Kev. J.; .1). Patched and in tlic ovcninji by the Rev. T. <l. " Tll< - ji'rf for (he owning senice will l.e "Tin; Rev, , Mm icy, Missionary and Martyr." Dmim; the service a portrait -oi' the martyr missionary will 1... unveiled.—Advt, ' lIOUSJJUOLD SIiPAItATOR.

In order to meet the long felt want of a Simple, «i».ly handled. and, al.ove all. cheap skimming iiiaeMne the '•lloiiseiiolil" Separator ha, been spec lally constructed, an.l is now o nVred to the Public. This small and ■decidedly unique separator is not a. toy. lull, a perfectly practical appliance suitable for Households. Pnstry-Cnoks! 1 lakers, and keepers of a wnpl.- cow. Tn fact, it will hi; !"ound useful whereever it. is a question of separalin" a ■sma.ll' quantity of milk, fay, up to IWO gallons at a time. Price £3 5/ each, from nil leading ironmongers, or from ,T.B. MncKwnn and Co. Ltd., Kgniont Street, New Plymouth Chief agents,

The Auckland San Francisco despatch of tin' 1 Lilli January arrived in London oil the 14th inst. The express Drain last night conyeved a large nnmbcr of Salvationists, returning from tlic Conference at 'Cliristcliurck, Among tlie number were "spec'als" for tlie Sunday services in Neiv Plymouth. The new officers to take charge of the local corps will arrive on AConday.

"What did you think of the outlook of thu King Country towns, Taunuulunui and Tc Kuiti V" \va,s a question put to Mr Jennings, M.li.K., who Ims just been in the 'towns named. "They have clone remarkably well, and have developed beyond my expectation*. Signs of progress are on every side; but expressing jny own opinion entirely on tin; subject 1 would any Unit tfieir deviftojpinetj- if* bojing arrested by the system of land tenure. Jf the freehold wore obtainable the tojwns sections you would Jind both towni would go ahead as vigorously as Taihajte ami Slratfiml have done, even it they did not surpass thejn. The coin* : jtarative *)iort leases ot" '2.1 years for 'town lots i's, I am sure, a hindrance to the quick development of these two towns. .1 received deputations on these matters from both the Tauniariinui Town Hoard und the Tc Kuiti Vigilance Committee. it wa» pointed out to me that the growth of both towns was arrested on account of (heir being native township's. Taihape. on the southern section of the Main Trunk line, ci)rreHpondß somewhat to Tau-» marunui, on the northern section. Now, at TailmpCj they liavo goo<l roads, steady growth in business, and all the ace mpaniments of permanent settlement. The towuship was native land, acquired by the Government; but the section-holders have the freehold, and where that can be obtained, ithere you will find a more permanent ail* of settlement about the place than you will in places like Tauntarunui or i T» Kuiti, where the Mauri is the land- ; lord, not that the yettlers in both | townships are wanting in industry or i business capacity.' 7