LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 13 April 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At tlie Police Couri on 'Friday a prohibition order was issued against a local resilient. The Telegraph Department expect to mid some thirty operators to the staff within it short time, to cope with the increased traffic. According to a sneaker at the Oddfellows' dinner there are 311.1)110 members of t'riendlv societies in New Zealand, and these ligurcs indicate .„.al, fully 21)0,000 folk are interested in ilie work to a more or iess extent. Owing to the tlitlictiliy in obtaining a nuoruui. and Ui • aibsenee of the werenot held on Friday. The Hoard wil.l meet on Tuesday. At the annual meeting of Ihe S;rul.fovd Una Club, Mr W. I'. Kiikwoud tra- elected patron and chairman of committee, Mr New ion King president, and Mr (!. \ I). Hunter seccrtary. The cluli is in a noo.l financial posiloin, w th a balance of CI7 IDs Id of assets over liabilities. The .Manchester L'niA- on Thursday received congratulations from a speaker at the jubilee Iramptet.on its decision not to accept the national annuities scheme at the expense of sucrilieing ils independ ence. There was now, said t lie speaker, n greai tendency to sacrifice' independence in favor of Hie State mid State aid.

In order to avoid a repetition of thjei confusion which resulted last year ill tin' observance as public holidays of Empire Day and tilt- Prince of Wales' Birthdav, it is intended this year to hold a conference of Auckland tradespeople and shop-keepers so as to observe, one or oilier of tile days as a goneraty holiday.—Pres- wire. Enquiries made indirectly by a. '■News'' reporter yesterday elicited the information that several members off the Borough Council do not intend to£, seek re-election. Amongst those who have apparently had enough of municipal life are Councillors jMonteath, Wilson, llntcben, Stohr. and Browne. It was whispered last night that pressure was being brought to bear by west ward ratepayers to induce, Councillor Hrowne to stand again, and that he is giving the matter consideration. Or. Bellringer has decided to again seek a Seat on the' Council, and Ors, Webster and Collis are looked upon almost as cerfain starters. As to the utter ignorance of the ordinary Frenchman of ihc Bible. Mr Stead gives a curious illustration of his own experience. At the general election of 11100 lie pnlili.-lied a political pamphlet entitled "The Candidates of Cain," dedicated to all candidates who approved of the Boer War. A French publisher asked to be allowed to bring it out in a French translation in Paris. "Hut," he said, "you must give it another tit'ie. Nobody in Franco knows who Cain is.'' On Mr Stead repeating this to some literary friends in Paris, they declared the publisher was right. '-'Arc none of the Biblical characters known to this generation of I'rcnehmcnr' Mr Stead ashed. "Xot. one," was the reply. "Xobody reads the. Bible in France."

At the With animal meeting of the N'ew Plymouth Frieuilly Society in New J'lyinouih there was a good aUi'iidiiiu-r. Bro, >i. O.oldiug (pl'es'idonl) occupied the ohair. Tim liajoncu-aneel fur the year was adopted. Tlio year's receipts totalled t'Ml Us (Id, ami the expenditure £287 18s. Tile value ami disposition of fluids amounted to C222S 10b Oil. The preside-ill. in reviewing the work of the year, said the society eonttnned to 'flourish. Xothwithstauding that sick benefits, paid amounted to .Clls, and there lr.nl been a rail of C 25 for funeral money, the society's receipts for the year exceeded the expenditure by CIS 2s 9d. The present cash worth of Ihe soci<dy n, C 2228 10s, which, with outstanding amounts, provided siillieiem: for an average of 1.28 17s Oil per meniber. A vote of thanks was accorded Hip olliccrs for sendees during ilic year. The following oflieers were ideeled':— President, Uro, N Golding (re-elected); treasurer, ISro. .')'. Kenvon (re-elected); Board of Management, Pros. T. French, C. Grcrnway, J. L. Ililiotsnn. A. Marsh. .1. Xorthcott. It. I'cpperrll, and T. Solie, senr.; auditor, Mr .laekson. The annual dinner was held at the Imperial Hotel at the eonelusion -of the business.

! Foot bailers will find their wants well eulrred for at the Melbourne. Splendid solid toe honts-nnt too heavy—lo/(1; stockings, 1/11, 2/8, knickers 2/0, strapped jerseys, all sizes, in club colors, 2/8, Wh 3/11 to 4/0.

A t neail each day makes a skein in a year. Kven the smallest amount we save 'ion soon makes a large sum. J& for instance. .Men's Caps Is; I'lcecy Singhds. Its fid: Fleecy l'mlerpaiils. wararnted not to shrink, "s (id; Tennis Shirts, 2s lid; Dungaree Pauls. 2s lid; Grey laiusrarees, lis lid; Bush Rugs, 4s lid': Oiid'Coats, 8s lid; Odd Vests, .is fid; Men's lleavv Overcoats. 2as; lioy.s' Overcoats, 8s lid to .18s Cd; Saddle Tweed Trousers, fls (Id. Th-se are only a few of the lines we do so well—a money saver in every line of ours from the smallest article to the largest. ''The Knsh," Devon street, New Plymouth.—

Thirteen Chinamen landed in Wellington on Wednesday, six of whom paid a I thousand pounds in poll lax. On being questioned, at Carterton, . how they liked New Zealand, one. of .he. ' I oflicers from the Japanese cruisers re- I | marked. "Very much; it's much like I Ida pan!" , The official opening of the new poM, ollice will not take place at present, but . the building w II be available to the pub- | lie for transaction of business on and from Holiday, the loth inst. j A young lady who sought to save! | twopence by dodg llg the" ticket-collect-or at the railway station last nighV reckoned without the painters. The , little escapade resulted iu serious damj age to her attire. Moral; Pay up and) , look pleasant. : It is reported that Messrs. llortliwicl: - and Sous intend making extensive addi- - lions to their Wailnra Freezing Works. s involving an expenditure of something s like £20.0011. They intend In add meat v tinning works to their freezing induse trv.

The irallic returns on the Wellington- | Xapiei-Ncw Plymouth section of ,he. . railway during the four-weekly period i ended March 2nd, amounted to CWi.HOI, | against CiiH.O.V2 for the corresponding , period of 1000. Pascngor trnflie accounted for €2t,().-;7. as compared with .£21,■2!)t; for the same period last year. An instiliiliou that interested the Japanese greatly i 3 the Wellington Hospital, and several t'-mes they have visited the doctors there and gone round t)i«" wards. They spoke cufhu-iastieally of their own hospitals. "Rut," remarked one smiling Jap, "in our country ladies nurse the ladies and men nurse our*, men."—Pctono Chronicle.

A breach of promise ease brought- by Mr K. T. Stenison, of Tabling, against Freda Clara 'Parsons, of Pahiatua, daughter of Mr Thomas Parsons, of Pahiatua, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Farmers' Dairy Union, claiming £250 damages, wiil be heard at the next sitting of the Court at Pallncrstou.

The sneak thief appears in many iliapos and devices. One of the latest is o obtain a bicycle tirjtct from the Railvay Department, there being no bicycle. .0 represent it. Then at the end of (he journey a sutta'-hle machine is cliiim:>d. ami detection of the cheat is difficult. Instructions have therefore been issued that no tickets arc to be issued unless the bieyeie is in evidence.

In eneeavo-.iiy to v..-.-, up iuierc.ol iu I the -etk of ;i,f K.v.ional i;..J.-i.;e league, Major N. i.. D Smith -..ougni cut the oflieer commHiding the Siili-a-tion Army in New Plymouth. He wat. surprised to find 'ihe ciiptnin was a lass." iiul he found, he says, that sinwas iii hearty sympathy with tin nineruent. "She was British first, and Salvationist pfterwnrds, and I," concluded the Major, -shouted 'Hallelujah'!" An interesting tabic published in the wheat from different sources of supply in lU0(i and the two preceding years. Last year New Zealand topped the list for wheat at. 32s 2d per quarter, which price was followed bv 31s 2d for Australia, 30s lid for the* Pacific States -of America, 30s Sd for Canada, 30s 7d for the Atlantic States, 2!)s lOd for Argentine and Russia, 20s 4d for India, and 28s Ud for Koumania and Turkey.

The hist census shows that during the last liye years the sauce, pickies, and yincgar industries have made good progress. The number of hands engaged in these industries in 100(1 was 21!), as compared with 128 five years previously. In 1001! sauces, pickles, with Other condiments, and vinegar, to the value of €511,3211 were manufactured in New Zealand, ami increase of £25,000 as compared with the figures of 1901. The Ilawera County Council has been approached by the representative of an Auckland syndicate with respect to laying a monorail between Hawera and Kaupokonui. The system proposed is that known as Caillet's, and the Star says that so far as can be ascertained the company will require the sole rights lor, say, twenty years, no other rail to be laid. On the other hand, the company are prepared to enter into a con-ti'iK-t not to charge a liigher freight for carriage than that which obtains now. A resident of Daniievirkc, in conversation with a Wairarapft Daily Times reporter, sailed that business in his town was very dull just now. Asked as to have jiint relinquished my dairy farm at ,120 per acre," lie said, "which I am confident is much more than it was worth. Town property is at n discount, and I* am willing to close at any time with an oll'er of £250 less than 1 paid for somjtf property in one of the' most important business streets. This gentleman thought t.hnt it. would be three or fou r years before the. district would recover from the ell'eet.s of the property "boom.''

Residents of Wellington have had good cause to gnage tile Japanese hunger for information, says the Post.. An employee of a coaling company, which had a contract to supply fuel for the training ships, was bonmarded with questions every time ho Set foot on one. of thi' crui.-ors. lie was perpetually asked how many hulks there, were in Wellington, the number of winches they carirJcd, thi' grade of coal they stored. Driven to desperation, the Briton had some tables typed, giving all particulars about the -hulks. The eagerness of 'ihe visitors to secure statistics of tills kind is likely to make Now Zealandcrs nut on the Journal of 'the British Board of Agriculture gives the average values of their considering caps. Writing from London on February 18 to the maunger of the Christchureli Press Company, a linotype operator on one of the. installations in the great metropolis says of tlie State of the trade:—" The) misery that-exists in a place like London is simply awful. The number that walk about out of work is simply appalling.! In the London Society of Compositorsi we are paying out-of-work pay to about; 700 men per week. This is awful, considering the membership." Linotype operators in London are looking to the possibilities of New Zealand for work,' and it is likely that the ranks in New 'Zealand will be strongly recruited from the Old Country at no distant date., There is a continual {(rowing demand in New Zealand for linotype operators.

"It is of great interest to vecaj/i that this year is the centenary of steam navigation on a commercially successful basis," said the President of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, in addressing-that body recently, "it was in ISO 7 that Robert L'ultou built uy.l| first run on the Hudson river the steamer Clermont, which made the first really successful voyage by steam from Nc-W York to A'ibany, a distance of 150 miles, in ;f2 hours, against current and wind. The lerniont was \'i'M long, 18ft beam, and Oft deep. It was fitted with paddle engines made in England by Boulton and Watt, and sa'd to'ue 20 horse-power. The new Cunard liners Lusitania and Mauritania are 785 feet long, 88 feet beam, 00 feet in depth, with a displacement of 43,000 tons, and a total indical - ed horsepower of O'B,ouU" A Jastardiy outrage was committed at the Kiiupokonui cheoso factory last Wednesday. Some miscreant, who evidently knew the [dace and nas tillering under a perverted sense or '.■■•i-.ior, entertered the factory on 'fuel '--w night, till- | e.l the starter cans with salt ,aiul after cutting up a large quantity of soap, put it into the boiler through the safely valve, causing the boiler to prime when getting up steam in the morning. Luckily the manager, Mr W. Ogie, was wide awake, and except for the water guage blowing out no damage was done, although ihe factory might have been blown sky-high. ' Salting the starters was a dirty trick, and if it had been put into the vats unnoticed would have ruined tlie day's output, to the lossi ojf the suppliers. It was after II p.ni'. before the stall' finished washing up that night.—llawera Star. White and Sons stock Horrockscs' Flannelettes, at all price.-,, in while, cream, and stripes.—Adyt.

The Melbourne Clothing Go. is the cheapest and host house in Taranaki for boys' top coats, 8/3 up to 9/; men's raincoats, 19/0, 29/0, 39/0; boys' oilskins i!oat=, 7/JI; men's oilskins, 10/0, I'J/9, 21/, The proprietor of Beautysliino wishes i' specially known thai lie'has i:' : \iy at any time sent out samples. This floor polish is {jetliner into public favor mow I every day, because it is easy, (prick, I beautiful, .lasting and cheap. \'i;i :i tia. All stores and ironmongers sell it.— Tne next steamer to load at the "Wai(am n mislead wi|l be the twhi-scre.v ' steam'. - Ayrshire, on or about 17th April. Wool and other general cargo to go forward by this opporiunity should be delivered to the harbor board shed, Waitara. with as little delay as possible, and all instructions regarding documents sent to thfc jf.Z. Shipping Co.'s rValtyra office,