LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 13 August 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The pupils of the Central School ale at prudent undergoing examination, of llieir teeth. Hatches of twenty-live interview the dentist at stated in.crmls.

Captain Edwin, telegraphed at id.3l yesierd i}':— Easterly strong winds io gale; glass fall soon; tides high, -,oa, heavy; rain probably heavy, aud rivcis high after 24 hours.

As a result of the work of the Kev. Herman f'oston, the representative oi the Tai'.uiaki Xo-License Council, br inches of the League arc being formed in the townships along the coast. .Making a miserable lile happy. In the live minutes' spoil given to His Majesty's laborers on the earthwork at the back of the gaol yesterday several of the prisoners amused theinselv.'s with a jumping contest, essaying the greatest distance ill what the schooloo\s e.ili "three close-looters."'

Cr. Bellringcr at lust night's Council meeting drew attention to the inadequate police protection provided in New I'lyinouth. lie held that six constables H'lie mounted, were altogether insula cient ill view of the situation of the town as a sea-port and railway Terminus.

The Borough Council recently forwarded a protest against the increased duty proposed to be placed upon the importation of electrical goods and appliances. Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister of Trade and Customs.has acknowledged the letter, and states that the representations made will receive the careful consideration vi the Government Cr. Brown pointed out at last night's Council meeting thai the new tarilf would aHect the material now landing for-lite electric lighting extension to the extent of .CloO, a contingency that had not been provided for in the estimates. Douiiniou "cheek' is just as urinuui as the well-known colonial brand. On .salui'd.y evening a gui cycled on io the Devon street footpath at the "jlelouurne corner, aud iang her bell luviouoly to char the way whilst she proceeded to a conicctiouer's shop so'iio distance further down. .No one iutcipooed, or disputed the right of way. uist night a girl, probably IS years of age, rode her bicjeic on to the Currie street footpath, and kept on her way to the Devon street corner, where the rang her bell as she turned the corner. There must have been gentlemen amongst those who got out of her w.iy-

i rae electrical engineer repoilctl o> 1 UIC Uulullgll COUIICU last lllgill, IUMt since the lieu' lil-iiii-li m.aii was connected by Air Kendall griui ijupiutcuieul km been made in lite pressure ;, l the Uul>iiie», whicu should givu sunicicnt puucr Oil Ulc jjrcdi.'llL lurbincti Lu siipplv _ leu kilowatts. I'aiL ul' the :i<\v plum has aimed, and the remainder ui-iivud m Lin.- i'apamu ul \\ clliuyun on Hie Will. has opened ii'l in tust-eiass condition. Twenty new couueciiuus ueic made ilie p aioiitii, mutiny tht: lolal lu date 2-i'i. Tilt income Hum j,ji'ivttLc lighting and power iui July was XIVJ i's. Tile report was adupled.

I ilieic aic luru-iivi: siguiturcs to li.c peiiuuu asking lor ilic nitliioiou oi' tae iaruiiaUi Jockey Club's piopmy in >he Aiaugorci Koud District. (Ji these i-l arc ratepayers iu the Alaugurci ro.ud district, and wo oilier is that of tlie secretary to ttiu Jockey Club, rcprejjjmeiy; tlie whole oi tlie ratepayers of- the portion of tlie Curriuglun road district proposed to be annexed to tile Manguivi road dislricl. The uiuiii reasons adduced for tlie ckungc are tliat tlie ia-clu-iou uj, tfefpruperly in tlie Caririigton iioad district is unfair and unre.iso.'i-ablo-beeausc the land is so. situate that it derives no benefit from the Carri.igtun road Or any expenditure upon it; iind that the only road from cxpcaliturc upon which the Jockey Club's laud derives a direct benefit is tile Alang'ilci road, iu the Aluugorci district.

The Western l'ark pi-opused fence ;uhertibiug rights occupied tlic alt.-n----tiuii of the Council for some time lasi night. Or. Browne, in submitting '.he resolution contained iu the "round robin" recently signed by councillors, honed the matter would be acted ui according to the resolution, lie pointed out that only "•/irtislic" signs would he attached to the fence, and no posting of impel- posters would he permitted by his committee. IT. Oollis moved aii amendment tlml tin- i|iic„lioii of the fence be left in the hands of the Western Park Committee, (he Council declining to accept any responsiliilitv 'n l-pgiird 1" siiiie."' (Jr. .VilU. i„ seconding, s.id ;„• did <■<, because' lie did jot think it win- for the ('mine:! to attempt (be active admini-tratioii ~,f i.l„. grounds, which sliouhl lie in the bands of the eoimiiillec in charge of the. Tuik. lie was not against 'the erection of the fence. Or. Browne said if the Council bid not power to give a ten yenr-,' lca.,e to the electors of f,e fence, he believed his enliiinittco „-„;,„! aeee.,l Hie ,-,mend,„e„l. The .n01i,,,, «-,. withdrawn, and IV. OOlis' proposition carried.

A me'-iinL' „r ii„. w.r.T.r. „jh p,, held ill the \\"lli|Ph-v l| : .|| „„ Wednedir. (he I llh in-1.. at :i put I'aoer bv Mrs T,i11.--Ailvt.

A FMEXT) OV TITE FAMH.Y Ts lb'. Sheldon's New Discovery. i| K > well-known remedy for all Chest md bung Ti bles; is fid and 3s per botlk Obtainable everywhenu t

I At the Police Court yesterday a iir,t' i oiluudiii'T inebriate was convicted and j discharged. J There are rumors that as one of Die I after-effects of the Christchiirch Exhibition a prominent civil .servant has been | granted extended leave of absence

.School matters in tin. Cruti and' Ytaihi districts do not seem to trouble' the settlers very much. A second attempt Jo elect committees for the ininagenient of the schools has failed. At Cruti Messrs Jupp and Murray will act as commissioners for the year.

Jh« Wailara- Hail is informed that a ] hum.ll ~s lo 1„ erected at Nukaharika Hay, near l!,e locality of the Kia Ora week, ibe dressed fibre will be sent V? '.' in il «n'f boat, of which Air De Nolle, late of th c Northern S.S. Company will have charge. Mr A Lindsay, senior, says a Wellington exchange, considers the''boy" of the «'-lii»lrinl world of Kew Zealand to-day is one oi il„. miracles of the age. lie "reives a wage that his grandfather and gwit-graud/allier would be proud to get am rear a family 0 „. wh( , n , lk , , and girls of New Zealand are going he does not know.

,itl? I " f Vo Hl<nvn I™ near his stioot frontage a net ice-board on which ] " dinplays plac;,r,| s setting forth »,«. advantage <ll total abstinence. Home of the youth of the district must be opposed to t„- temperance movement,,aid nke a dehghl i„ „ trippillg the,-board. ~"! ,y"\ Patience of the reformer is d.flicu t of exhaustion, and fresh notices immediately appear.

tl, r< "7.,', l!IV thc P° lic « provided in the Court b,![.„t-f„ vc a mmi))( , r oft ,, sc9 !-ell»" -IT (I ''" ts "' CTC cliargi-,1 with cycling without ligh ls . Am " th number was a borough councillor Re0' the police Jorce cycling. iUld that ll( , ,'H no bell on his , reu -hine. This, he "" tound, was a breach of the borough by-laws, so he requested (he Inspector to take action. Developments are expected.

Ihe Salvation Army is doing good work among the Maoris in the Bay of j tally district. Fimling that the potato crop was a failure, the Army devised a scheme for supplying the Maoris Willi employment by establishing a fishsmokehouse at Kangawca. The Maoris catch and smoke. li,e. tish under Army supervision. Twenty-iliree boats arc in constant use in the trade. There is a great demand for this fish, Auckland desiring -tut) dozen a week besides an unlimited quantity of fresh fish.

- there is a great future before the flax industry, declared a welf-kuowu ilaxnullcr to it representative of the Wellington Post at Levin. "There are, however, two problems to be solved bclore tlie necessary progress can be made. »e want, lh-st of all, some cheap me. thoil ol propagating the plant over'large areas. At present the cost per acre is prohibitive. Then Ihere is the question of utilising the by-products. It takes ten Urns of raw Has to make one ton of iibre. The rest is refuse. There is a fortune to the nun who can get the lull value out of the ilax plant." A pamphlet issued by the Salvation -umy ~iiows that tlie cost of maintaining lust year the Oil Amy institutions throughout the Commonwealth and iSew Zealand aggregated over £I3OO per wech, or nearly £IO,UOO for the year. Ul this ,um Hie homes raised by means ot industries, no less an amount than A..>3,0i3, or tin average of slightly over -liioo per weeK. Erom Government gram, and capitation fees the Army re<cived U0,302, or an average per week ol .L2uu This only left me comparatively small sum of £31)00, or £l2O per week to be contributed by the public, the hundred aud ten children, were burn hi the hemes last year.

Luring ike year the Elthnui Dairy Company received 43,4!)!),4331bs of milk producing l,ol7,StJS,l u lba of butter M, and l,suo,2oilbs or SOU tons ldcwt IUUiS oi butter, The increase in the output oijmtter over the previous year was bu>m> ia-wt zto. Tl,e average test was 3. 1 2 per cent.; 21.041bs of milk made one pound of butter. The over-run of ■'.' butter over the test was 11.82 nor cent. The total cost of manufacture, j including charges i.o.b. ocean steamer, but not including ocean freight or depreciation, was ill (Is 2d per ton or Lib pence per lb. The average price paid to suppliers for butter fat was !».'.W pence per pound, and the balance in baud on realisation will make a further payment possible of 0.31 pence per pound. The total payment, thereloro, lor ouiter fat for the season will !e 10.2.. pence per pound. At the annual meeting of the eomj.any on Saturday a motion that cheese plants be installed was negatived, and the company will this season manufacture butter as formerly.

! Give me a Britisher every time' drunken and bad as he is." This sentence indicates the views Captain Paliman, ol the Australian trader Loch Torii'idon, holds of the foreign seaman as I compared with the Britisher. Continuing Ins observations in regard to the | manning question, he said:—"The best crew I ever hud during the past 10-years .1 slopped in London-last summer. They were ail Britishers. The view f hold on this question is that the British saling ship sailors cannot be equalled, let alone beaten. But the difliculty 1 have experienced is in regard to steamship A.B. s. f shijiped one of these fellows some time ago, and it turned out he Knew nothing of sailing ship ways, lie eouldu t steer aud he knew a good deal less than one of our second voyage upprentices. As compared with such a man, 1 say give me a foreigner who has been at sea 011 sailiug iQj . lwu three years, and who knows the way things are done on a sailing ship. 1 hud, however, thai the foreigner who iias been a lew years in JJ,itish ships becomes more insolent, more disobedient, ana more diilicult to manage than the Lnlisli sail-trained seaman."

A deputation from tiie Recreation tepovU (Jiunnd Committee, consisting of the chaw-wan and secretary, Messrs A. iiumphries and J. Clark respective, waited on tiie Council and asked that i'lliis street, against the Recreation ground, he raised to its permaiiijnt level, enabling the committee to erect a. permanent fence along the Villis street Iroiitago. As the new footpath would bo unstable, u e Humphries further asked that the committee he allowed to encroach about three feet in order that toe. fence would get a soi,d "."•ulatioi.. There was no objection t» the Council, until the road was rah;. ™l> "mnuig the drainage from (he road into the sports ground drains. He also drew attention to a. nuisance caused hv drainage from houses running acioss tins-street into the sports ground drains '■' lid asked that the Council make arrangements to divert this drainage.1 lie Mayor pointed out that the Council had no power to allow anvone lo encroach on streets. The' Council might give its tacit consent, hut could not give authority, or protection to the lommittee. It was also pointed out that there was not. likely to he any objection to, the fence encroaching." and it could he met hy charging a small annual fee as was being done in a number of cases. The borough cn-'iuecr estj. mated that the cost of a fi'llin:' 10 feet in width, as per ph„ submit'.-.l hv him, at the proposed levels would he t'lo. < r. flellnngor hoped the Council would accede to the committee's request, which was not n very heavy one. It would -how the ctizens that the. Council appreciated the work being done by the sports ground committee. Or. 'Mills stud he would prefer that the street should be filled to its full width. To raise only the footpath would be. an eye-iore. Cr. Colli* moved that the work he gone on with, and that the works committee report on the question of making the street, to its full , width. Cr. Jlorey seconded, and the motion was carried.

(HM-.VlXfi m> OfR IIACK-COUNTUY. 'The proprietor 0 f TVautyshlne wishes ]' ■.■ penally known the.! he' lias nw at i )y lime sent out samples. This floor polis.i is getting inlo pnHic favor more every day, because it is easv, quick, beautiful, lasting and cheap, tij a fcia.

'J-' 1 " 1 f"ii f tlie sliillin..' stockings soli! by the Melbourne Clothing Coinpuny is spreading. -Regular orders f'cr these I Miiniis c-i-diiuero hose now come from Auckland, llawko's Ha v. Ihmedin, Wellington and Nel«,„. A l-reater tnl.ule to their value than this could noti b- found. Have you trie,] ;l pair! Ask yen- lricnils about them.—Ailvt.

I "Where's a gooil place to buy some clolhc?" is a common nucrv. In Ta.itnaki the invariable reple is "On to tee Melbourne, you'lll get what vnu want I hero cheaper and better than anywh're oNo." 'l'he Melbourne is the greal-st and he«t known men's and boys' clothing store in Tarnnaki. Tf you're not a customer become one to-day. It'll pay] vou.—Advt,

Tiie oilier day ten'tons of niarg.u'ine, nuiiiufiitturt'd in Holland, were landed at Lyttelton. I'rokibly the origin of its jcliid' constituent, relined animal fat, wan n New Zealand meat freezing establishment,

On account of the long spell of dry weather, the Taieri Peninsula Dairy 'Company is unable to complete its British contracts to supply butter. The North Island will be looked to for snp--1 plies for the local market.

An observant fanner met by a reporter of the Timani Herald said that he was under Hie impression that we are 'apt to have two dry years in succession, consequently he would not be sur- ■ prised if the coming spring and su-'....ci' !prove to be dry, ~.! rt.

A socialist lecturer in Wellington re- j cently made, says the Times, a long statement about "man being the only iiiiimnl that lived under a competitive system, all the others being communal, anil therefore happy"—leaving thc im-press-ion that lions, tigers, grizzly bears, and rattlesnakes existed under thc. most delightful relations with one another. Opunake and its battle for the railway is known outside of New Zealand. Mr MeDavilt received a letter from the secretary of the Trinity College of Music, London, who requested to be communicated with on several matters, amongst which was the prospect of the railway being opened to Opunake.— j Times.

A visitor from Canterbury states that the drought has played havoc with the fish in shallow lakes. The water has receded, leaving the lish trapped in small pools. The pools in turn dry up leaving the lish to die in thc mud and rot in the open-air. The smell arising from the vicinity of these lakes is anything but pleasant. Amongst other articles purchased by a farmer at au auction mart on a. recent Saturday was a roll of linoleum. Prior to loading his cart and starting for home he "jollied' with a few friends. An hour later lie was seen with his cart and horse stuck in the mud at a bend in the road, and the linoleum had been by his intense imagination transformed into a pom-pom, with which he swept the road.

A police court dialogue at Mastcrton: iiciich (considerately): "We don't want to send you to gaol if lie can help it." Accused: "No, your Worships; it'll do ye no good if you do." Bench (sharply): "Hut it may do you some good, though." Later to same accused:— Bench: "Why, man, you are shaking with the ell'ects of drink now." Accused I innocently): "i'es, your Worships, it's the water J. have been drinking this morning." A special form is used for making inquiries all over the world for proofs which applicants for old age pensions arc themselves unable to obtain. During the past year 072 applications for proof of age were received at the head oitice, in 3:28 cases of which the claimants were proved to be oi the required age and 2:21) not of age. Of the remaining 113, replies from outside the colony are awaited in 101 cases. There were fourteen cases in which no proofs were obtainable.

A new '•.Prophet'' Dowie has arisen in Ohio, who expects to take up the dead leader's mantle and found a new Zion. The new "prophet," the Chronicle says, is ijovi Lupton, who is leader of a sect called "The Disciples of the Gift of Tongues." His headquarters are at present at Alliance, Ohio, and he declares lie will establish a faith winch will spread over the world. Lupton says he has revealed to him. the rules under which the adherents of faith shall live. One of these rules limits the faithful to one meal a day, and the converts babble a gibberish invented by Lupton, who claims it is the tongue of the new nation. The sect is increasing.

In our cables recently reference was made to Lady Godiva's ride through Coventry. In 1040 Leofrie, Earl of Jlercia and Lord of Coventry, imposed certain taxations on his tenants which his lady besecehed him to remove. To escape her importunity he said he would do so if she would ride naked through the town. Lady Godiva took him at his word, and the Earl faithfully kept his promise. The legend asserts that every inhabitant of Coventry kept indoors at the time, but a certain tailor peeped through his window to see the lady pass. Some say he was struck blind, others that his eyes were torn out by the indignant townsfolk, and some that he was put to death. Be that as it may, he has ever since been called "Peeping Tom of Coventry."