LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 25 April 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Th" Uatapiko school is closed for a couple of weeks on account of the prevalence of whooping cough ainoag the children.

The Xew Plymouth post ollice clock has arrived in Wellington by the Corinthic. The clock has four dials, to lace north, south, east, and west, and has five peals besides quarter chimes. The prison labor is to he withdrawn from the Western Park at the end of the present month, aiul the gang will be set to work on the installation ot up-to-date drainage at the gaol, connecting with the town sewerage scheme. Wood-carving classes aie to be lu Id in the Technical School on Friday alVrnoon and evening in each week. Sir. T. A. Dcwson, of Wanganui, is the instructor, and the hours arc 2.15 to 4.15 p.m., and 7.1u to 9.13 p.m. "C.W." writes: {, I have a suggestion to make, and it is that you. reserve in your paper a few inches ot space m which to mention the names of the few local residents who have not bem mentioned as likely aspirants for the Taranaki seal."

A local resident, says the ilaweva ■Star, was surprised the other evening to find that his domestic cat had captured a good-sized hare. The prey was quite overpowered, and it only required a slight finishing touch to end its existence.

Cood news for Taranaki people. Acting on telegraphed instructions from Dunedin, Mr. .1. llenrieks, local manager for the Dresden Piano Company, has engaged the New Plymouth Theatre Itoyai for Tuesday, May 7, for a performance | of the Exhibition orchestra, which is now 'touring the colony.

}' arden Drwnes, of the New Plymouth prison stall', returned to New Plymouth from Christchureh on Wednesday night lie brought in his charge six prisoner* sent up from Wellington gaol to be set to work in the qiairy at the ba"k of the gaol. Oaoler Millington having decided .to get out stone and gravel for the J borough authorities.

3t is understood that at a technical school the other day tho cookery class was sadly inconvenienced by a smoky chimney iMrmirieu made revealed th: fait that the instructress, being unused to the heating capacity of the wood supplied as fuel, made the stove far Loo hot, and in order to reduce the heat sir. closed all the Hues, or dampers. And the smoke had to go somehow, so if went out into the room.

Messrs. W. Ambury, ]•:. (!. Allen, K. ■V 1.. Olcey, ;uu[ Jos. Hooker, rcju'csenLing l-'rankley rond residents wailed on the Education Hoard on Wednesday with reterenee to the condition of tile t'rankley road school building. The board, recognising the hopelessness of obtaining a grant for re-building, decided to go on with the work of repairs authorised at last meeting.

Mr. W. U Kennedy, of Toko, has submitted to Mr. Jas. Sanderson, the Wellknown New Plymouth architect, all excellent sample of lime I'nr testing purposes. The lime was burned bv Air. Hell at a kiln on Jlr. Milne's farm on llie \\ awiri road, a couple of miles inland from 1 oko. and was reduced from shell-i<--*k. It is thought that the lime enn lie cheaply produced, and if the sample stands the necessary tesls, there seems no reason why we should import lime trom outside the province. The monthly business meeting of the W.UT.r. was held in Wliiteley°llall on Wednesday afternoon. One new luciuhi-i was received. It was resolved to organise iiioth«r*° meetings, to lo held weekly. .Mrs. Boon, senr., liuller street, who has charge of the help department, asked that it be made known that she is ready to receive fresh supplies of eastoil clothing for the needy cases iiiat would arise during the winter. A vote of sympathy with Mrs. E. M. Smith ami laniily in their sad bereavement was carried by the members silcnt.lv standing.

The Pohoknra school has been closed tor some years. The former committee left a credit balance at the bank, and in the interim this seems to have been eaten up by the hank charges for keeping the account. When tlie matter came under tlie notice of the Education Board Oil Wednesday, several members considered the committee should have trans■ ierrcd the account to the post otiiee savings banks, where, instead of tlie funds having been eaten up they would nave been earning interest. Mr. Trimble said t.ieie was no real difficulty in keeping the committee's accounts in the post Olbee, and staled that the .Norfolk road account was kept in this manner.

Jli. (~ AV. Browne lias been elected lives,den Ol the. Provident Investment and Building Society 0 f Taranaki. At t.ie annual meeting on Tuesday, Mr. L. . , dll,Xi »id<>r presiding, the report ami lalaiieo-siieet showed that the business Had been ol such a sound and steady 11.11 ille that the directors could recommend a t /., p er OMlt ( |i v i ( fcnd. In addition to ISi) 12s 2d brought forward at the beginning of the year," ,C2!) was now carried forward. The report and. bal-ance-sheet were adopted. Messrs \V <! Browne ;;■:■! W. 1). U'cbsler were 're-' Heeled directors, with Messrs. 1.. I! |> spencer and I. \y. Alexander also appouued. Messrs. McKellar and MeAlhini \U'ic re-elected auditors. The direct.,rs were granted a .CIO bonus, ami votes ol taanks were accorded the retn directors.

. I «' lady teacher at a country school in the Stratlord district his written to the Munition Jiua.rd: ■'Some of (|„, parents object to niv usin«« tlie cui" and the strap I have' takes "little or no' ellect. Is there not a particular kind stm P nuUioroed by tlie Board ioi corporal punishment ? If so, would von kindly send me one, or tell me where I could obtain one'" The secretary replied, directing the enquirer to the clause in the regulations dealing with the dimensions of ihe tiuvsc, and suggested lall ol an old trace as a substitute. ■ leanu lulc, lie promised to lay the mattei before the Hoard Willi a view of having penal straps put on tlie same contiact basis as dog collars i..,. I . lnln |., councils and so forth

"'»n the faeu of it there .-ins i„ | J( . sun... nilHlnkt./' said an AgucuHural JJe])artiiiei)t tin- other daw discussing the eal,l(. message relating that a IIIMU 111 Australia had contracted nilthrax alter handling Zealand Juries, -h seems very unlikely tliat tliere is ally anthrax in New 'Zealand

now. \\ (! have hud 110 reports I'm- a long■time about any outbreak of anthrax in laranaki; it is some, years since miv <■«»■ occurred thee. At the present time "•'i'- 1* ii" anthrax known in Xew Zeaaiul. and in view 01 (lie precautions 111 the nmtlcr of sterilising all animal manures before they conic into the country from India w ,d Australia, it is most unlikely that anthrax will appear 111 the colony again." lie thought that ;i mistake had been made in attrilmtiii" the mans attack to the landing of hides Irom New Plymouth; he must have handled something else. It was possible —it could not be denied outright—that the consignment might have been responsible for the trouble, but this was highly Improbablo. Enquiries into the mat ter were being made, and the hides I would bo traced."

Your cough? .Don't trifle with iti SYKIiS'S CUIIA COUGH will cure ii now. Sold everywhere, 1/0 and 2/0. lit drawing the attention of our readers to the Mortum Insect Bowcjer advertisement, we beg to inform the pubis, that the Mortum is far superior to any other powder 011 the market, and is not an old powder under another name, as some shopkeepers have been trying to | make out. Give Mortum Insect Destroyer one trial, and you will not wish for any more effective to kill (lies, fleas, and every other vermin. All diemiata or J §tofP9 sell it—Advti . jj ,

'"With a little more ventilation they would be nearly lit for fowl coops."Mr. Anilmry on the. l-'iaukley rond ridiooi

Ihe Tilylor-Ciiniiigtuii dramatic ami lyric company staged "Our Pantomime" in the Theatre lioyal last night before a good audience. pieee, "written and aoled just for Jnn, v produced roars of laughter, and the audience seemed lo thoroughly enjoy (lie performance. Little general interest was taken in the polling yesterday on the proposal 10 create it Fire District in the New Plymouth Borough under the Fire Brigades' ; Aet of last year. Only 120 votes were | recorded, the proposal being carried, with K)f> voles in favor and ]."» ngainst. 1 There were only two informal.

At. the annual meeting of the Inglewood parishioners held on .Monday evening. (he llev. .Mr. Pavel] presiding, (he following olliee-bearers were elecleil: Clergyman's churchwarden. .Mr. ('. O. l.oberls: people's warden. Mr. Harding: veMrymen, M.e>sis. 11, Brown. <!. Ohhiv. .1, Dullill, \V. .Messenger. 0, \\\ Beimel I, and Dr. Xntting; secretary, Mr. \V. .Messenger; auditor. .Mr. T. K. Ilamerton. During a short discussion which followed. says the Uecord, it was nolilied lhat an architect had been instructed to draw plans for a new church, (lie plans to be drawn with a view lo erecting a poll ion of (he building at once, and the extended full plan when the additional sealing room is rcfjitireil, this being considered more advantageous than any permanent addition to the present building was likelv to be,

Some time during the eariv morning of Friday last (the ,Stratford Post ieports), a quantity of railway tickets of the face value of something in the neighbourhood of six pounds was stolen from the Stra'tford Railway Station. From information in the hands of the police, it is believed that some one acquainted with the placo took the tickets, and also that 'the tickets were stamped "April 10th." One of the tickets taken was for Patea, and others for Wellington anil other places. The police have the matter in hand, and it is probable that some arrtSis will be made very shortly. [lt transpires that the robbery was committed by a cadet, who took the tickets upon resigning his position. Accused was convicted in the Magistrate's Court, Wanganui, on Monday, and orderid to come up for sentence when called upon.}

The April issue of the Dairyman, dealing editorially with the Butter v. Cheese controversy, says: "In the Stratford discussion, as in that which took place previously at Eltham, there was an element of "bogey man" introduced thai was successfully used to frighten the share,holders. The "bogey" 5 was that a factory was necessary for every place where at present is a creamery. Making provision for a fully-equipped cheese factory at seven or eight different points, all within a few miles of a centre, is quite as unnecessary iu the case of cheese factories as it is in the case of butler factories. In fact, to build so many separate complete factories in the cases of factories situated as are those of Stratford and Eltham, would be a distinct economic blunder. In cases of this sort ail that is wanted is a "making room" and a double set of hoops. The cheese could all be sent to one centre to be cured as easily as the cream is carried from the skimming stations to the central factory to be churned."