LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 4 March 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There are rumours of another butchery opening in New Plymouth.

The TarnnaJji Counly Council meets 1-j-iTay.

The Tnseo ni.ul arrived at flic Breakwater, a.id was sent on to Weiby sp.-cm! train on Sunday morning.

Ids u.nl.'iMuo.l lii.'il an endeavor is bung made lo licit a iar„\> company with the object of developing the lm industry in Stewart Island.

The bni'ding trade is particularly active in Auckland yul now. Une architect had m hand ullil.ijuu worth oE wo:'!*, and another J.'liM,oijij

Several farms in Hie lariki district have changed hands recently. Mr iijvett bus disposed of lijlli) acres on the Tariki road to Mr Grcville, and Mr Carlwrijjlit has sold his farm of 10U acres on (he Mountain road to an outside buyer.

Owing to continued dUirrangeiiient of Nan I'ranc-.sco mail service, no mails to Ureal Bruan will be sent or received by I hat route for the present. Every oppmtuiii.y via Suez will lie availed ( »f. Subsidised connecting steamer, to Sydney leave Wellington Slh iusl., and fortnightly thereafter.

Tile site for the town .-ehools' picnic was left lo the children to choo.,e. The Central School Committee suggested either llaweni or N'gaire. liic children plumpc 1 for llawera. and Hie picnic will be held there on f-'ridav week. The West End school authorities have been asked to join in.

Mr George, the new member of the linn of George and Stokes, electrical engineers, is a son of the lion. Seymour George, who for the past three years has I ecu gaining experience in England. One of the principals of the firm is due in New Plymouth in a few days to go further into (he proposal to establish electrical trains in the town.

The new Waitara Hotel is practically completed, and the new Bridge Hotel on the opposite corner is progressing favourably. Waitara j'olk and visitors will be glad when the town has once more its full amount of accommodation facilities for the travelling and general public. A start has been made with the erection of new premises for the Bank of Xew Zealand.

"Potatoes IS months old" was the lirst line on the notice board outside a local auction mart on Saturday. There was some fun over it, people wondering what sort of 'tubers tiiey would be after Id months" keeping. The explanation wa:s 'obtained 'byl reading on, and supplying the punctuation, as follows: "Potatoes, IS mouths' old monkey." .The dillictilly was surmounted by rubbing out the reference to the monkey's age.

Mr Tyrer, headmaster of the Strut, ford J Ugh School, is to lie asked to form ; .1 Stratford centre of the Teachers' institute. A suggestion has been made l hal Stratford and Sew Plymouth should join hi one centre, with mcet- ! nigs held alternatively or otherwise in the two towns, but it is thought probable that Stratford will form a brunch of its own. Professor Oliver Johnson, an iconoclast of Lcland Stanford University, has demolished to his own satisfaction (he Biblical story that it was an apple with which Kve tempted Adam in the Garden of Helen. He declared at a meeting of the National American .Language Association that the forbidden rruit might have been a lemon, but thai il was not an apple, which was a product of the temperate zone. At the meeting of teachers on Saturday it was decided to hold u Uachcrs' reunion in the form of a picnic ill Lepperton on Saturday next. 'Mrs Dowling, .Misses Bartlelt and iilaclr, and Messrs Johnston and IVnlington have been appointed u committee to make the necessary arrangements, Some years ago Iho teachers held very enjoyable pirnlKgH but for some reason or other the pi'HH lice was discontinued, and these ings are invaluable in enabling IctiHH ers and their families to meet HDI friendly intercourse. In drawing the attention of renders to the Mortuui insect I'owHH advertisement, we beg to inform fIH public that the Mortum is far superßW to any other powdir on the maikßH anil is not an old powder under fIH other name, as some shopkeepers been trying to make out. (jive mHH U'u Insect Destroyer one trial aHfl you will not wish for any more effßH live to kill ilies, fleas, and every vermin. All chemists or stores '•OH