LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 26 April 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I)r (Irallan lluiniiess,who is announce! to speak at New I'lvinoulh to-night, i: the brother of Dr. Harry Crattoi Cuiuess anil Mrs. Harold Taylor, win visited the colonies a few years ago, am will be remembered with deepest interesi by all who hoard them oil that occasion Dr. (luiiiness is also Ihe founder of tin ••Regions Beyond Mission."

A well-known Hawera genllemai whose interests lie almost wholly i:

South Taranaki. was heard to re'marl at Palea yesterday that he could hardl; imagine how; mariners managed to nnvi gate the entrance to the Patea River, th bar then being very rough. This slartei

a conversation about harbors, in tin course of which it was mentioned tha the other day another steamer was un able to get out of Patea with a cargi of dairy produce for transhipment to tin home-going vessel at Wellington. The

seriousness of these accidents was com meiited on. ami the Hawera man sa'u he had always considered that the polir, of the people of 'Taranaki, as far sout'l as Hawera, should be to assist and en courage the development of the New Plymouth harbor and its increased ac comuiodalion.

I Tin' unusually long train from soutli on Thursday evening, and the fact that il was running sonic few niinnlos late at a consecpicnfly accelerated speed, caused a bit of commotion in Die dining-car. It was swaying and rocking like a ship at sea, and on rounding a sharp bend took a dangerous list to starboard. Ho severe was (lie lureli Unit some of the attendants said afterwards that thev linlf expected I lie ear to turn iur'lle. The chairs were unable to withstand the shock, ami some of them deposited their occupants sprawling on the lloor of the ear. .\s might reasonably be expected under the circuinstances, the plates and dishes were considerably disturbed, ami several pjalcs containing bread and oilier edible, toed; the warest road to the lloor. where thev distributed anil their contents lo the best advantage. If'or Ihe next f,.« minutes (lie wallers wen' kept lnisv in cleaning up the debris.

Ri'l'tTt-iii"- (u Mr. Andrew Collins, a , member of the Conciliation J!,„ m |, anil " tin- purl he i-ii<li-ii\' (> iv(l to ].lnv in Taranakt ivivijtly as a disturber of tin; indus"'lill I"''"' «■" f»l»ny. the Wellington Times say.-: .Mr. Andrew Collins seems to have special {(ills for the woik in . which he has lately been engaged, and H is no wish of ours that'he should t hide his lighU or renounce a vocation lor which he h;,± a natural calling, lint ' if Providence framed him for an agitator, llici) Providence, ipso facto, di,fnot intend him tor a place on a Conciliation Hoard, and the sooner -lie ceases | 0 lead Ilie.M' (wo contradictory existence,, the better for his mm rcpulalion and hull"' '•"''Hl of the JJoard on which lie lias '»■>■" Mppoinicd to sit. II W(l |,ld. no doubt, be presumptuous on our pari to od'er .Mr. Andrew Collin* a ,]vice. Wo would point out, however, that lie has taken nil oath "faithfullv and inipariiilll.v !» Jicrforni (he duties of his oliiee" -Hie oltice „f conciliator, that U to say. It has been a fre,p;e/|t complaint with labor unions that employed uIL . j.ol willing to submit their eases (o (lie (oncilation Hoard, that (liey insist on carrying their disputes straight j„ ~„, A ,.,;,. tration Court, inking past I he f'oi.ellntion Board work that belongs to it. \\\. I would ask.liow employers are to be expected to submit their 'disputes to a Conciliation Board one of the members of which makes it his business or his pastime to stir up industrial strife where formerly there was harmony aud good .fueling between employer and employed. ■

The interlocking system is now being installed in the Stratford railway yard. Newcomers to the district, and persons who have come of age since the last general election, should lose no lime in getting their names on the electoral roll. Although we have no delinite information, the writ will probably he issued to-morrow, after which it will be too late to get on the rolll. The new Borough Council has made an excellent start. Last night's meeting was finished just after nine o'clock. There was a coinenndable brevity in the remarks made, and new members dhl not seemed inclined to air their eloquence on matters that they do yet thoroughly understand. A recent New Plymouth visitor to Invereargill made enquiries concerning the ell'ect of prohibition in that town, lie said it did not seem to have decreased the amount of drinking, but the results of it were not apparent in the streets. The town, however, did not seem prejudicially affected. Several good builidngs were in course of erection, and trade-people informed him that cash trade was increasing. A smile went round (he Boonigh Council table on Thursday evening when.the Town Clerk read a notice from the Labor Department calling upon the Council to shut down die electric light distributing station and powerhouse at 1 p.m. on Saturday-. One of the Councillors anxiously enquired of the .Mayor, whose connection with the opposition lighting concern is often re'terrcd to by Councillors, if the Ons Company had received a similar notice. His Worship, however, was not to be drawn. He informed tile meeting that the Hon. J. Carrol had undertaken that no action in the matter would be taken by the Labor Department until it had' been considered by 1 the Cabinet. And he did not think there was any possibility of shopkeeper? ■ having to resort to candles and dips ' for lighting their windows on Saturday.

nights. ' Mr. N. .1. King writes as follows to the Stratford Post: -When the Hon. the Minister for Public Works met the deputation of County Councillors the other * evening, lie referred to the public meeting held here in 'February last, and is ' reported to have said that some very ' hard things were said at that meeting ' about the (iovcruinent. I may add that 1 the Hon. the Minister also said some very •unpleasant things about me when discussing matters with the deputation L the other night, for which J really for--0 give him. ff 1 thouglit my action in ' calling that meeting would be in any " way disastrous to the settlers, I should J be soriy indeed, but, on the contrary, h 1 think good will result. It was the in- - Icntion of (he Minister to hand over e the uniiielallc'd portion of tin; Oliura ; road whether that meeting had been e called or not, and would undoubtedly i- have done so. The result of that meetn ing therefore is this: The settlers know |- now exactly how they stand, a thing ], they never knew before, and 1 have [. everv reason to believe from the remarks j, made by the lion, the Minister that 3 the Ohura road will he metalled years y sooner than it would have been had that ' (1 meeting never been called.