LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 4 July 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Captain Edwin wired at yesterday Sou tk .easterly, strong winds; glass rise: tides high; sou considerable; rain probable. '•[ have had occasion to go very closely into this matter. [ was sued once for negligence myself."—Judge Button, in the Moynihan v. Ifumcrton, alleged negligence ease yesterday. The Stratford School Committee has selected Miss 3f. AVebb, of the lnvercargiil High School stall* to iill the vacancy oil the Stratford District High School stall'. At the Hunt Club meet at Omata today O'Xeill's lhickjumpers will give an exhibition of leaping and bucking. Several of the most noted holies and riders are going out, and the display ill the open .-.hould he well worth seeing. A class for instruction in photography will probably be opened during the ensuing term a( the New Plymouth Techliichul School. To stall the class a guarantee of twelve pupils must be. forthcoming. The fee is iixed at 2.15, and there should be no dearth of students, for a fully competent instructor will be appointed. Al the inijucst oil the remains of Xathaniel Crimes, found in the debris o£ his burned residence in Crenui, l r red-'. crick .Main deposed that he was with the deceased up to 7.0U p.m. on Monday night, The lire occurred at 10.30 p.m. The deceased slept on u mattress on the iloor, and he supposed a spark . irom the lire must have ignited it- The I jury returned a verdict thai Crimes was accidentally burned to death.

A practical joker had some i'un jii town ycsterJii} ul the cxi«-n>>u of cu-1 Umsi;ist 3 in oil matters. A iin ptuX>tirtiiiy; to contain a sample of oil from Jnglewood was handed to the unsuspecting. ttemoval of the lid liberated a spring,—lHU not an oil spring—and a huge, ugly Mechanical jumping snake heaved its whole weight at the curious one. The expressions and acclamations of the tricked menfolk were interesting and blue. ill connection with the Carrington road loan proposals, a po'l upon which is to take place to-day, the ratepayers of lirooklauds wish to point out how „r----bitrary and uujust they , consider the proposals are in respect to themselves. I'licy slate they are not concerned 111 any waj with what Carrington ro.id i proper does in respect oi„ raising loaus for improvements. What tiiey are concerned about is their own locality. They want to manage this themselves, and not be forced into a scheme which they state is oi 110 value to them And which they do not waul. A sum of money is to be allocated to them under the loan proposals, but this sum, they contend, is quite inadequate for taci I purpose it is intended fur. The Brooklands ratepayers have an improvement scheme of their own which will involve 1 the raising of a loan of .CIUOU. - Their scheme is to lower the gradient ot lii - hill, broaden the road and generally ; make it an up-to-date suburb, and they ' say that if the present loan is carried, 1 the amount of money ( DM) will be : utterly inadequate, ami what is more, I will iiiterfi-K with their raising a big- ; ger loan of their own later on. They t point out. I hat they arc already buvJened with a special late of their own, to which Caning ton road does not contribute. They believe that the promoters of tno Carrington road improvement scheme would be better advised to go ill lor tile alternative which makes no provision for lirooklamh, mil they hold that as nothing can Hre done this winter, even if the poll is carried to-day, it would be much better in the interests of all concerned to hold, the poll for the alternative scheme at a It later period, J •lust before proceeding with the molt' " serious business of the band contest meet inn hist night a silver tea keltk

and spirit lamp was placed upon the table. To the uninitiated it seemed a peculiar start of the meeting, but the facts were soon made plain by his Worship the .Mayor, who stated he had been asked lo perform the ceremony of presenting this handsome piece of plate to the secretary of the Taranaki Harrison Band, .Mr Newton Allen, a present from the bandsmen to him on the eve of bis undertaking, on the morrow what all good men and true should do. He was asked to assure Mr Allen that the baud made no altempt lo measure his services, but merely to make their pleasure at the event and to give some token of their appreeiation of his good work in the interests of the baud, and as a memento of the good feeling which existed, and hail always existed, between the band and its; seerelary. Mr Allen said he was taken by surprise. He would value

illO |)ie,Ollt all tl| ( . „„„■,. hijrlily (■,„,,, ill.' fad that it had boon handed' to him l.y llio Alarm- of 11,0 town. All lie had .lono had been for (ho g 1 ~,f tlio. Imiicl. and 1,0 trusted to 1,0 able to continue to assi.-d iii its welfare. Jf you want your furniture removed carefully, expeditiously and economically, employ the New Zealand Express Company, Ltd., who make a special feature of this class o! work, and wl, o arc also a'xc to supply first-class dry storage accommodation.—Advt. 'Hie store thai is unfed for go,,d. honest value is ••Tl„. IGikli." ~f Wow y| v . inouili. Always to ll,e f„re in sei-uriii" ' bargain-, for their customers tiny ■ bought a large lot of hoys' suits last I' week, and are offering liiem at a lliird * oil' the usual prices. Hoys' Norfolk > suits from 8s fid, hoys' tunic suits 7s * lid, boys' three-garment: suits from \'!s l fid, hoys' braces 3d, hoys' stockings 'a. ' hoys' overcoats from fis lid, hoys' j -r- ' ; seys from Is 11.1, hoys' odd knickers '■ from 2s Oil, hoys' celluloid collars from | 'i 74 Pay;: tliea a sisit ei inspection,.-, I