LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 5 June 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Taranaki Licensing Committee meet.-, this morning. Captain Edwin reported at 12.40 p.m. 011 'iuesday: "Moderate to strong westerly winds; glass rise; tides moderate; sea considerable; probably much rain and rivers rise." We should have 'mentioned in our report of the Xiitles' social that Mrs OTh'iscoll and Mis»; Hopkiuson were responsible for the pretty table decorations. The tickets for the complimentary concert to be tendered to Mr A. E. Fletcher arc going off rapidly. We are asked to correct the advertisement which sets the price of admission at 3s; the tickets are 2s each.

Complaint is made that the openings in the up&nings at the post ofiice aiv t,)o small to easily admit of weekly newspapers and snrill parcels. As a result tilt, counter al-lemiants have an increased number of packages to handle over the counter.

The diverting incident at the close of one of Mr Malouo's political addresses m New Plymouth formed the subject of Cmirl proceedings 011 Tuesday morning, when if. Mehail'ey was ordered to pay CV for damage done to the curtain in the Theatre lloyal. lie was also mulcted ui the usual costs. A ei'iekct enthusiast has drawn our attention to the following item in Ihe staiement of expenditure in connection with the tour of the MaryJebone Crickjet Club's tour in New Zealand: "Washing and tips, CJ Ss 3d." lie asks if they ■ ran truly be called amateurs when they asked the New Zealand Council to refund even their tips.

'ihop-Scene" writes: "I hear that Mr MehatTey has been ordered to pay for the curtain damaged in the the.itre during election time. Now, seeing that Mr MehalFcy couldn't have half an much fun 0111 of the game as the audience had, .1 think the audience should he prepared to pay for their fuu. Could you open a fluid lor the purpose? I wasn't there, I don't propose to assist."

Over fifty local gentlemen met in the T"\vii Hall hist night to consider the ijiieMi«lll of re-forming tho Liberal polii.ieal organisation, and it was unanimously ie-olved to establish a blanch of the Liber;il and Labor Federation in New Plymouth, to be followed with the escaidi.di'Mcnt of branches right through the electorate. Oflieers were elected, and ,i considerable amount of initial business transacted. Jt was resolved to hold a social at an early date.

Ever since the middle of March (says the Post) scarlet fever has been busily prostrating people an the Wellington' city and district- The cas>e s reported, to the District Uoalth Officer to date I total a hundred and seventy-five, and j there habeen four deaths. Since Saturday only six cases have been announced. to the authorities, but during j the week ended on that day there ware twenty-eight. The figures for the yu?- , cessive weeks of the epidemic, commencing with Oth-llith March are iive,j twelve, eleven, ten, twenty-seven, fours teen, thirteen, fourteen, nineteen, sixteen aud twenty-eight. There are believed to be many cases that have lot I been disclosed, and the inspectors <uv making efforts to bring these to light.

Last December Messrs T. Borthwick and Suns consigned to Loudon per lv.iikoura two prize pigs and fifteen lambs, and requested their head ofllee, Lorn'on, to send them a report on them. The report lias now ani\ed, and we have to thank the firm for a copy of the ■•eport which is as follows.:—"Two pigs, mark i'd l\N. 3: Those were very good pigs, standard quality and carrying u lot ol meal, They were a shade too heavy for the best butchers' trade; the weight liked is about 70 or 801bs. Five lambs marked F.K.2; These were very good lambs, a shade too heavy, but full of meat and well-bred, being very short in th»» logs. Five lambs, marked F.TL2; These In nibs were the best suited for the London market, the weight being about :>(ilbs being the most suitable. They were well liked and and readily sold. Five lambs, marked 5.H.2: These wciv five good lambs full, of meat, and were well-bred, but they might have been just a shade fatter. In I lie Magistrate's Court on Tuesday morning Mr W. C. RiddelL S.M., gave judgment for plaintiffs iu the following caw*:—■W. Pvowe (Mr tSiandish) v. 11. Kva. claim IDs for goods supplied. eoM.s CI 10* lid; ])r J3. 11. Walker (Mr Weston) v. \V. P. CarringUm, claim ;Cl costs .">s; Dr. Walkei v. Chas. Thomas. el.ii:n Cl. costs ss; Xew Plymouth liar--1 so* Board (Mr nuilliam) v. \<\ Close, ebtiiii !!'-■ ad, costs ss: 1> Walker v. <*. -hur. chum £2. costs 10s. Alice

Saiiin-on. storekeeper, of Sentry Hill, ent eifil a judgment summons against Tlx.i.ia-; Lawrence, of Uaitara. fur the payment of .12 J-Is, balance of an ac.count lor goods sold and delivered. InI eluded in the amount were two entries !' :,J eigaivites. ;.;iid tlie rem;iimier of (ho | delij wa - Jov wearing apparel. The -.Magistrate made an order that the de- ! lendant, who did not. appear, should pay L'2 I I - to the e!erk of the court at jSfew I 'l viin>*i( li on or before dune 1 ]th, in det mil t,, be imprisoned fo 1 : three days, with hard labor, in the Xew Plymouth

At the N.M. Court on To day. Air \V. li. Kiddell. NAf.. ijive his r ■ • inn in Ihe re-hoard case. Honk v. S"- ■!. , I iiin f or niain 1 enanee oi an illegili,." ■ ,iiil,|. At I lie original hearing the /cnilant admiitod (lie paternity, and also all (he lacls deposed lo by eomplaiiianl. iilid her inolli"r. In the re-hearine bolli sides varied their evidence, Ibe ilefenilant alleging that the period of gestation had so protracted as to prove that lie was not (he lather of the child. lie als.l sel up an alibi and produced a witness to prove that he was in another place the whole of one evening on which 1 lie alleged intimacy look place. I lie MAI.. ill lace of the defendant's relationship with complainant u|i (o the ISth April when he became engaged to liov, his admissions at the original hearing, and the statements of complainant aiiir her mother I hat he was with complainant on (he evening of Bth May, he was not prepared to accept as correct the evidence of the witness thai hi> was in another place the whole of that evening. 11l Ills opinion (he probabilities were in tavor of (he complainant, rind ho hold Hint Nliiol was the putative father of (lie complainant's illegitimate child. Tile dclemlaiil was ordered to pay Gs a week towards the maintenace, nurse's expenses a, doctor's fee ,c:i Hs, and solicitor £2

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