LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 16 August 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Captain Edwin wired yesterday at 12.45 p.m.: —Moderate to strong westerly winds; glass rise slowly; tides moderate, and sea moderate. The Rev. 11. Foston, lecturer and organiser of the Taranaki No-Licenso League, lectured at Pungarehii on Monday. Illustrated songs were given and much appreciated. At the close a branch of the league was formed, with -Mr Layard as chairman and Miss .Simons as secretary and treasurer. Ilie cjiciiuork contract on the \ m - - loin i'ark i'lucUcally completed, iiy a sligat aili'ratiun oi tae boundary Hues a lu.l si/Jd ioutbail ground i-> now uwihaulc, and tiic Auciaanu ruranaki sciuor match, H 's understood, will Oe plumed. Ulei'e. Should tlio portion ol the Held oeuind Uie goal posts at tile southern end be muuuy, a coating oi will Ou applied.

Constable ii/jwlauds had a few merry mumenLs lust night with a man bei'eit ox uic greater pari oi his senses. Willi lac inmost- diiaeuxiy tiio prisoner was conveyed lo tin* iock-up. lighting every mch m Uie way. iiia ia®L act was Lu Uu -' policeman's overcoat collar, lie , pulled, and ripped the coal so thai a ■i occame useless, and broke the whistle. ike man wjli Ia: bl'ougnt UkJio;c '*.* l j Court Lljii morning. f . *- au iiiiiru inare "jluistoad Ducket,'' | iiii.-wteU by tut; Uowji'ii'iiwii fro u ij'-'d j AioUischiiu s> Lunous Jiiiirc otuu. la.?; j «..u----was trained through to the Lreak\va:er f evening, eu route to the lt.ua--kura, tftute farm (Waikuto) for stud | parpuses. I'hls annual is a very line , specimen of Uiu true tthire t\pe, and iia,*, j bi-'.u at the Alojuobak-i ;tu* i'urin, | wm-re oilo leaves an excelhm yeu.-mig colt. ■'JCaLiKMu Heath''' ia h\ Lord ltotlischild's champion aire "jUaVkeaxon Koyal J'arold/'' a home that ha* gained the iionors at the London :tnd other noted horse shows.

A'any of the dairy farmers who have hel . clearing sales of their herds have had to be satisfied with small average prices as compared with former years, and unless the cows were allowing close: to prolit they have been sold at iiguresj little better than, the prices paid for animals for boiling down purposes. There are several reasons for this condition of affairs, the principal being the slioitago of feed. Another reason is that a large proportion of many of f h t; herds this season will be composed of hoifera.

lo give some idea of the condition of the ilaiu South l-oad between Hawera and Jlanaia duriug tile winter, a traveJ- [ ler who saw it at its .worst says that a team of sixteen bullock's drawing a medium dray load of gravel got stuck in one o£ the many bog-holes. The earners plying on the road have had a very rough time of it. In negotiating the bad patches they worked together, each waggon necessitating the aid of the otners leading horses to get through. n V l '' 1 wtra ■t le 'P an <l ont.V small loads, it was often necessarv to unload, and the spectacle of the drivers carryin cases of cheese, etc., on their "iioulders was a common one. •■oo<l buying Close selling, and honest ' ii'atnient is the short storv of .Ytorev 1 . oils Miccess. See advt. * I

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