LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 24 April 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Fitzroy school has been transferred from (he west, ward to the north ward of the Taranaki Education District.

The llcgistrar of Electors is coin piling a supplementary roll for the forthcoming bye-election. Hectors desiring enrolment may procure forms from Mr. W. A. D. Hunks, llcgistrar of Electors, or at any post ollice in the district.

The Education Board on Tiinsday was discussing the loss of some books from a country school. One. member said there had been a "ciiurcli meeting or something" in the building. Which seemed to explain matters.

At a meeting of delegates representing societies aililiulcd lo the X.'W Zealand Atlicllic I'niou. held at Ekclullitna on Monday night, a resolution was unanimously carried expressing conlideiice in the New Zealand Axemen's Association, as at present constituted.

There was a violent thunderclap at Kllhani on Tuesday morning about 7.:>lt. The lightning struck the house occupied by Tteulien Uliite. The kitchen chimney was wrecked, the bricks being thrown about the plav*s for some distance.. The drawing-room chimney was slightly injured, and the window glass was 'blown into fragment;!. The sashes that were open o-eaped injury. One gable end was split and scorched, and tile water downpipe burst. There appears to have been a narrow escape irom wrecking the whole house. Mr W. A. Balhintyne, Chief Inspector under the Taranaki F.ducation Hoard, implying last night l iO questions asked by .Mr Kenni'ily, a member of the Board, saiil the standard of the country schools compared very favorbaly with that of town schools. Thcr* was only one standard of passes ,for town and country alike, A pupil pa-sing Standard VII. at a backblocks school should he able to pass in town, the only (inference being that in the larger I own schools more ot the ''optional" subjects were taken, and, of course, the country pupil could not pass in subjects which'were not taken in his school.

I .Messrs J!. Dingle, chairman of directors of the Stratford Farmers' Co-operative Association, and A. .Morton, chairman of •directois of the ilnugoivi Dairv Co.,waked on the lion. Jlr McNab, .Minister for Agriculture, at Stratford on Tuesday morning. and brought before his notice the claim, of this district to have the dairy experimental sralion established here. The Minister, in leplv, pointed out that the Government was awaiting the l'ctui'a of Mr Singleton from Canada, for he had been deputed to obtain Hie fullest information concerning experimental stations. For thift reason the t?ov«riimuut would delay living the site until his return. Other matters of importance to the industry were brought under the. notice ot the Minister, who promised to all'ord an opportunity, perhaps before long, for the deputation to place these matters more fully before him. Your cold? RVlsl'-S'SCIJiIA COUCH is a soothing and healing balm. Jt stops the cough, allays soreness and makes expectoration easy and free from ell'ort. Sold everywhere 1/G and 2/(1. The proprietor of Tleaulyshiiie. wishes V -peciully known the.' he has l'.cvo' tit any lime sent out samples. This floor polish is getting into public favor more every day, because it is easy, quick, beautiful, lasting and cheap. T/.y a tbi. All stores and ironmongers cell it.—

It is stilled Unit the cout.est for Kl iliiiin .Mayoralty to-chiy will be particu larly keen, Mr. 0. A. Wilkinson tunics! h\» Hie sent with tlio prcsfiil .Mavor, .Mr. (.1. \V. Taylor. There are twelve can.li dates lor'the nine seats on the Council,

Among the deputations introduced bv /Mr W. T. Jennings, M.H.R., to the Acting Premier was oil behalf of Pilzroy reI si-dents, Messrs J. B. Connett anil Leslie Steele waiting on the Minister in support of ilie application made to have the new suburban station at Strandon. After hearing I he. views of the deputation. Hon. W. Hall-Junes said lie would consider the matter and have l-iie fullest ciujniry made Jwfore replying. Sergeant lladdrell, conducting a case a prohibition order-drunk on Monday morning, was watching a halfbottle of beer, alleged to have been tak mi from the drunken man's pocket. Counsel were seated in considerable force at the same■ tabic. Kyeing the legal profession for a few niomeius, the wary policeman, without a word of explanation, moved the bottle to the Oilier side oi the table. And several people smiled nif they knew why.

The Central School householders' meeting was advertised to be held in the Council Chambers. -As a maltcr of fact the Mayor's room was used. Some feel ing having been engendered over the result of the election of the new com mittec. if is rumored that ail nltempi I will be made to upset the election 01 as it was not held in conformity wit! the notice. We give the rumor for wha it is worth.

It is not legally or morally within tin province of 'the' doctor to" forbid th marriage of consumptives with one an other or with healthy persons, bill n physician lo a sanatorium, however emi nent he may be, can be justified, in til opinion of the British Medical Jotirna in aiding or conniving at the engageinen lot a consumptive young lady placed un der his care, without first eonnuuiiiea ting either with her relatives or wit her medical adviser.

A rather nniipie point was raised a the Moa Road Hoard meeting on Satii, day. A certain matter had nt the foi nier meeting been referred to the chaii man and Mr. .Morgan with power to ac The chairman was unable to give his fu attention aud he authorised Mr. Morga to go on with it. On Saturday Mr. llei wood moved the confirmation of M Morgan's arrangements. The. latti wanted the chairman's name include' and Mr. Trimble oll'ered no objection I bearing his share of the responsiliilit Mr. Morgan, with a modesty not ofti seen on local bodies, said lie was in much troubled about the responsibilit but could not see why he himself shou take all the credit. So they gave M Trimble sonic of the credit, too.

The Tarauaki provincial deputalion, the ottti ic of the Count)' Councils' Conference at Stratford, proceeded to Wellington-this morning to represent certain matters of local importance to Ihe Acting-l'remier. The principal matters concern the rating of native hinds and the need for clearing native lands of noxious weeds. Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.11.R. for Egniont, Mr. IV. Svines, M.H.R. for Patca, and probublv Mr. C. K. Major, M.11.R. for llawera.'will accompany the deputation, which will comprise Mr. YV, B. Foreman, Chairman of Clifton County Council; Mr. J. Brown, Chairman of Tarauaki County Council; Mr. Burgess, Egmoivt County Council,Mr. G. V. Pcarce, Chairman Patca County Council; and the. Chairman of the llawera County Council.

Mr C. Holm Biss. district railway engineer, inspected the New Plymouth railway deviation works on Tuesday. He reports that the work is going on satisfactorily, except that the concrete work is retarded by the lack of good men, for whom there is an opening. Nearly all the material for the Devon road bridge is now on the groud, and the first of the steel girders should ho placed in position in the course of a few days. There is, however, a good deal of concrete work to be done before the asphalt and metal are placed on the top. This bridge, whose unfinished state is of more or less an inconvenience to the general public, should be completed at no very remote period. The permanent superstriictur: for the Ilenui bridge is now being constructed at the Eastown workshops. As soon as the ballast train now engaged on ihe permanent way is available a start will be made with the ballasting of the new line, and on completion of half the length, the permanent, rails will he laid there. Ballasting should be started in about a month's time.

A correspondent writes to the Opnnake. 'Times:—t see that tie Parihaka ltoad Hoard lias expressed its intention to run an uncontested election, but whether tliis unique proceeding lias been entered in the minute book, the report saycth not. The excuse is to save expense, because an election might be held in the distant future for ward representatives, Ho W long has the Board been imbued with this spirit of economy, that to save about £5 they want to shirk a a poll'; Whynot loo,! up the books and see where contracts have been let and money squandered, berore talking of economy in tlii' matter of electing members. Why, this question of wards has been before the Hoard's notice for years, and now, ou the. eve of an election it is placed before the public as a subterfuge so that some members may lie returned with out risking a detual.' When once elected some may be there for three yours, as there is no assurance of wards being made, and when they are formed it will be a poor look-out for the return of some candidates. Let every man who aspires to membership allow himself to be nominated, and not let the thin excuse of saving a fiver keep him back, k> that a few men can be safely pushed into seals, and run the ratepayers as well as the Board.