LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 18 February 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Tarasaki County chairman and the other members of the M'oa Riding on Saturday accepted the tender 01 \V. for breaking stone on tlve Mountain-road «t 3s 3d per chain. The /provisional njt the, New riymoull; Rowing Club have been aide to borrow a clmker four-oared •mlrigger for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the water between Moturoa and the town is suitable for racing and training iu skill's. The Waitara Club has generously lent the boat and equipment. The dry spell seems to have all'ected the growth of grass on the Western Park. If is suggested that, after Sunday's heavy rains, the ground should be in good order for disc harrowing. resowinjr, ami rolling. This would mean another good sward for the Caledonian sports on Easter Mon- / -The Moa Rilling of the County is usually about XIUUO overdrawn, and another riding £IOOO on the 'other side ot Ihe ledger. Those latUT ratepayer naturally object lo paying interest on our overdraft. J>ut- it will be all the same next -year, for their overdraft will be as big as ours/' said a County 1 (_i»uneilU>r at Inglewoud on Saturday. Til.? riding referred to was the Waitiii'a Hiding, which wilt have to ■overdraw in order lopay for the new Waiwaka:ho bridge. Cargo costs 10s per ton from Wellington or Auckland to the breakwater by Ijoal. Erom l-he breakwater lo tiio station, a distance of biu two miles, the cost is «Js per toiu almost a third. The "Country Party'' in tliw House of Representatives, consisting of the freeholders 011 Lhii Government side of tin: House, has (says the "Times") come to the conclusion that for the present at any rule there is 110 necesmiy for commencing an active campaign aga-inst tliO provisions of the: A contractor wus explaining his difiienlties the oilier day lo a local body. I nured to manual labour, his peculiar e.*reuinstauce,s 'mid compelled him to, Lake to Jiapping stones, "and," he said, "I've been working like a negro, working like a slave, working without a shirt; you .should see mo.' J llis appeal was not sullieicnt to move the | hearts of liis hearers, adamantine 111 their determination to do justice to the ratepayers, the contractors blisiercd hands notwithstanding. Chinese cannot be telegraphed, and [ tu meet this dilliculty a cipher system I has been invented, by which messages 1 .in Liiat language can be transmitted 'over the wires. The sender of the messages has no need to trouble himself about the meaning, and, in fact, may be telegraphing all day without the slightest idea of the information ho is sending for he transmits only numerals. It is very diU'erent. however, with the receiver of tile message at Ihe other as he must have a code dictionary, and after each message is received, must translate it writing each literary character jn the plaue of the numeral that stands for it.

ftome sensation was occasioned prior to the opening of the Supreme Court at Auckland the other day by three or lour excited ladies, who Junl evidently been waiting the arrival of one of the persons commuted for trial. When lie appeared on tne scene they immediately availed him, and commenced to very frankly tell him their opinion of him, and the opinion wasn't the best in the world. The man surveyed them for a moment or so, and th:'ii lainted, and dropped on one of the grass plots. When lie was brought round the ladies were kept at a *a{e I distance.

lii li o course of an interview reported in the Sydney Daily Telegraph, MilJoseph Ward prcd.c.c imi at lUc end 01 tliu iinaiieial ye-. i .March Jl) Ilia colony would be able |.> show a record revenue. lie expects a't least .L'S. i7O,(JIW, 01- JCTUOjOOO more tliau the Kg" re oi the previous year. Uoiiig buck to lKfir, (aays the Telegraph) we iind Liut t)ii> i., caue amount t „ jji,u.iUjOOO. B'nould this year's rate ol progress be. kept up for another year the revenue will have doubled in eleven years. That is a very remarkable advance. liotli in the Commonwealth met .New Zealand are now rejoicing in the be*l How oi' fortune they have ever experienced. They are making more money llian they are sjien-tiiie. They are aeeiiiiiulaUuy wcailli. Jiutii are being helped by splendid oversea markets, and both are mainly indebted to the nauirul industries. It is the bounty ot Nature that strikes ihe loudest nole ol progress. How long' this siiperabuiidanee will last is a matter ot speculation iu thousands ot : minds;

l!">7 nuitioL be a bad year., though il j-. jiut probable, 'Mint it will not be ,-0 good u year as wis 190 U. Il may. on tiic other liand. be a belter one. Tlic prcsuul indications point liial \\a\. .lu.sl now we 51 re reaping \\ealtli iu millions lYoin tin 1 expansion. -S'ow /calami can ?■ I<i>w nothing approaching if. Nlio lias a great dicep industry, but Uil' nuinliiH' of stock docs not muck exceed t/](j increase of our Hocks since 1903. Jiut then sir! li.is no!. to endure tit:' vanishing - ol' vegetation and the. con*<'<jm i v\t pcvisiiinjj ol' Jit'cks. I lev arca of production docs no:, shrivel up under a cloudless ekj. She iri blessed Avil.lt a more even production and a steadier prosperity than is the lot uf the CommunwealUi.