LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 1 June 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Taranaki Daily News will be pub lished as usual on .Monday (Prince of Wales Birthday). Mr. Okey. M.U.R., was entertained by the electors of Carrington road last evening. Captain Edwin wired at 1.20 p.m. yesterday:—Moderate to strong southerly winds; glas, little movement; tiles moderate fcea moderate; probably cold night.

The following sections were disposed of bv public auction at the Lands Ollice on Thursday;— Sec. 8. !), block 111., area 2 roods, price realised CM, purchaser M. Franklin; sec. 1, 2, 11, 12, block V.. 1 acre. £4O. .1. Franklin; sections 2, 3, 4, 3. 13, 14, 15.' 18, block VTII.. 2 acres. £(>o, A. L. Young; sections 7, 17, 18, block VIII., 3 roods. C2O, A. L. Young; section 5, block X.. 1 rood, .€lO, J. Gilniour; sections 4. .5, block Xfl., 2 roods. £l4, G. 11. Metili; sections 12, 13, 14. 15, l(i, 17, block XXI., I acre-2 roods. £4l, A. Eliott; sections 1!), 20, block XXYL, 2 roods, £24, .1. Gilniour; sections 4, 5. (i, 7. 8. block XXVIII.. I acre 1 rood, £35, .). J. Mcldon; sections 10. 21, block XXVIIL, 2 roods, £ls. .1. J. Mcldon: sections Hi. 17. IS. 10. block XXYHL, 1 acre. £2(l, J. 3. Mcldon.

There was some excitement on one of the colonial ferry steamers the other day. Leaving port a police ollicer bad charge of two men under bis care. One of these was practically given the ramie of the ship. The cabiii occupied by the three M» so situated that one of them courted sleep in vain, and he .-.trolled .11' into another cabin wearing only his py jamas, ami leavbig his ordinary apparel

saw the clothes and the empty birth, and became alarmed. ".Man overboard" was passed round, when the ship bad been searched from end to end. Ky-aucl-bye the delinquent strolled out of his new apartment, and the excitement failed away ill the oliicers' glad smile of satisfaction.

• A lew weeks ago a young man named .Sfhrodov.ski, of the Carripg'lon road, was ordered to contribute 15s per week towards the support of his sister, an inmate of the I'orirua Asylum, and to reduce the arrears by payments of £1 per week. Yesterday morning he applied to the Court for a variation of the order, •and ho was examined in an exhaustive examination as to his circumstances. It was shown that though he was ostensibly the owner of a couple of farms, lie bad heavy interest to pay. and his father and sisters all lived on the profits of the farming, which were not verv large. Under the'circumstances, Mr. liiddell, S.M., whilst declining to reduce the order for present maintenance, agreed that the facts disclosed a position rather different to ili.it at (he previous hearing. II" reduced the payments on account of arrears to 5s per weelc. Mr. C. H. Weston appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. Kerr for the respondent .authorities.

The .tune issue of "The Lone 11a,id promises 10 be much, superior to ine first one. It will lane a new cover resign by Harry Weston, and tiie contents will be more varied ami attractive looking. All excellent sketch on Itowd Syme, of the "Age," Melbourne, with We only photograph he ha- ever sai for, is included. J. T. Archibald's .Memoirs continue brightly. Someone writes on the Bar of Victoria, and there is also an interview with Nellie Stewart. S'.o/ies there are both long and short, gay and sad. by Edward Dyson ("Two Hattier-, and a Tiear"); Ethel Turner ('■Widening tin' Horizon"); Allien J)orring:on ("An Australian Whaiing Station"); <l. 15. Lnnca-ter ("A Jul) for tne i'ai'ron'). (lie iirsi of an inlcrciing series entitled "Secrets of a Prime Minister'' and others. A strong appeal is made for an Australian Navy, built in Australia, in an article called "building nil An-Kalian Xavy." The illustrations are innumerable.