LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 15 May 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

-Mr. 11. Dive has received a cablegram ''<>"> •dessrs. Wilier and Eiley, dated l-omlon, llth mst, to the effect that the iulmg price for New Zealand butter is •><s to .Us and for cheese 04s to 05s, and that an advance is expected in the price «t lioJi cheese and butter.

1 he scarcity of surveyors was referred » by the lion. J. A. Miliar at Auckland las,, week, in the course of an inteview. I lie .overninent, lie said, could do with twcul v extra surveyors now if it could ge, tlieni. The o u lei . daVj wneu • M suive.vors were required to follow up the. •Nahy,. Lands Commission thev could not lie untamed.

..ie:.s|.,s are rife about Auckland at the piesent. nine, and one result of the widespiead epidenne is a considerable reduel:»n in the attendances at the, local scaools , Yt one school (says the New Zealand Herald) it is reported that the absentees suffering from the contagion number about 20U. The Health Department has, m most cases, made free use

»f disinfectants at the schools affected! mil. it is not considered advisable to take t he extreme measure of temporarily closing down the schools unless the position is far more acute than it has so far proved to be.

According to a Press Association telegiam i oin Christclmrch the slaughter men wlm were fined as the result of the recent strike at the freezinj -.-..rks were given time in which to pav " m .i,

mil. this leniency apparcnil ■■: -,vnn\ in I*", with tin. result tl. . il.i.'iuyiiM'iiis in some cases have been Inn,. 'j„ '■""""K I" "ami, while there wci/in. stances or a diivct attempt to evade the l " 1 " out right, tin Fii.lav ii. was .liscovered that, smile ol' (he men intended l» i eiaiill, and leave by the. Mahcno for Australia m the evening. The Labor .Department at (Jhristchurch. „,. till „ „„ iiislruel.ons i', um WcllCiuftnn, therefore caused u warrant for arrest to be issued

against one of the suspected men, against whom writs 0 f attachment hud been issued by tlic Supreme Court, but the mini paid the amount owing just before the warrant, was to have been executed. II"''-'' VA-re others about to leave the colony and orders m . K istkm ou( . against their wages and held bv the company. There j s ro ., S(|]| t()

III"! three of (1„, lniMl left Wl . llin ,„„ l;.v Hie Mahcno for Sydney via Weloiigion oil Friday evening, lait the amount of Ihe wages held will probably satisly the amount of the lines owing.' ilr New;on King will st .n to .,, ny a J ho shop lately occupied by ihn Stores Co. balance of the stock-in-trade in (lie assigned estate of h. Foot and Ron The sale will be conducted without rc-crvo and commences at 1.30 o'clock.

Tn drawing the attention of aur readers to the Mortum Insect Powder tulvorliscment we beg to inform the publW. . Hat the Mortum is far superior to any other powder on the market, anil ia 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, (leas and every other vermin. All chemists or stores sell it—Advt,

A man is supposed to have been lost Jin the bush near Raetihi. He has been : I heard coo-ee-ing by two or three persons, i a search party have been out willi- I l out success, although they found recent' tracks. ,

No definite arrangements have been iiiii<lo for the sain of the Exhibition mildings Jt is understood they will be taken to ]iii-euf) first, and tin: timber sold m lots. - All the statuary and oilice furniture will also lie sold by miction. The Recreation (irounds Conimitlee nave had the Harrington Road entrance widened so as to admit of the free in.•cress of goearis. an alteration which will lie appreciated liy mothers desirous of giving (heir oll'spring an airin" in ,\\. w Pl} mouth's chief beauty spot."

A typical West Coast cargo is the most, curious collection of commodities that ever goes on the wharf. At Dunedm one was accumulating for the Koonya timber and treacle; mangles and mafcna. dredge parts and drugs, firebricks, window sashes, agricultural implements, and goodness knows what else. lint the outstanding feature is always beer. The; other day (says the Star) t'he whirl' was littered with casks bearing the huniliar quadrupled reiteration of the third last letter of the alphabet.

The steam trawler Mora Mivcu, belonging to toe Xapicr I'ish Supply Company, which is to undergo an overhaul :it Wellington before starting on her Government charter, has in one respect (says the Poverty Hay Herald) a j-veat advantage over North Sea trawlers* being titled with a complete icc-makim> plant ol her own. capable of turning out about three tons every twenty-four hours, and. therefore, enabling her to heep her "take" of fish fresh "and cool m any temperature. Trawlers sa'ilin" out oi Crimbsy and Hull are not so equipped, but curry supplies of ice with them from the shore, where two extensive factories manufacture it principally tor the "fialiing fleet:," the vessels of winch each use from two to four tons of ice per week. When operating in waters where (ish is abundant, the trawl of the Mora Miveu could, it is estimated "land" sufficient fish to fill 100 lame baskets at every haul, 80 tons being her I "full cargo."