LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 30 August 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Captain Edwin telcgrapued yesterday: Westerly strong winds to gale; glass fall; tides high; sea considerable; rain probable.

Only two teachers applied for the second assistants' position at the Central School. The committee met last night and decided to ask the Board to invite fresh applications. The Recreation Sports Ground Committee has decided to abandon the Labor Day demonstration this ye&r, owing to the possibility of the Liardet street grading being in progress at the time fixed.

A marksman had to tread down the flowering furze on the rifle range yesterday in order to render one of lie targets visible. Tile yellow bloom is at present a pretty sight, and we are told the shootist much regretted helving to trample them down. But stern j necessity knew no aesthetic tastes.

About 200 attended the organ recital by Mr A. Jililler l'otts at St. Mary's Church on Wednesday evening. The: organ programme covered a fairly wide-] range, each of the following numbers I being capably interpreted by the ,r-j g.inist: No. 1 Sonata in D minor (GuilMiaut), '-Nocturne des Agnes' (Vineent) Minuet in (J (Smart), two bracketed numbers of Lemare, "llomance in D Hat." and "Allegretto in B minor,' concluding with Wely's well-known Oll'crtoire in 0. Miss D. M. Fulton sang in most acceptable manner the aria. "He shall feed llis Flock," from Handel's '■-Messiah," and Willeby's settina k-1 '•Crossing the Bar." The choir rendered the anthem "Cod Hath Appointed a Bay" (Berthold Tours), the nrartetto parts being taken by Misses Taylor (soprano), Gideon (alto), Bannister' (teno.-) and Guy (bass).

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The West End school is at present working under difficulties. Two of the teachers (Miss Potts and Mr Meyenbovg) are absent owing to illness. The principal, Mrs Dowling, and Miss My- 1 nott are both endeavoring to ward nit influenza, but the complaint seems to be making headway.

A housewife in one of Dunedin's suburban villas was much concerned about the recent rise in butter, and when the driver of the T. and P. delivery van called, she demanded: ''[low is it that tin! price of butter has gone up this month?" The* reply cam" without hesitation: "Well, madam, the company are getting two carts painted and done up."

An extraordinary fatality during a thunderstorm occurred on Sunday afternoon, 9th June, at Goringi, a small village three miles west of Worthing. Four men were conversing under an elm tree on the Worthing and Littlehampton road during the storm when the tree was struck by lightning. Two were killed outright by the current, which struck alt four men. The clothing of both the victims was torn to shreds.

Mr W. L. Newman announced to the children of the West End School yesterday afternoon that Mrs Newman and her friends intended to again provide an afternoon's swimming sports for tuo girls during the coming summer. Seeing that the boys of the school were behind the girls in the matter of natation, he would himself endeavor to arrange some races for them. The youngsters seemed mightily pleased at the announcement, for they have pleasant recollections of the little gala day last season.

Otago men are using Otago money to

tost the Phillipinc Islands for gold. Mr W. J. Love, who has returned to Dunedin after an absence of eight months, went to the Phillipines to inspect a claim on the Parade river, Island of Luzon, this claim and the dredge that is upon it being the property of an Otago company. Mr Love consulted with the expert and went carefully over the claim, and he says the commercial value of the claim is proved. The dredge was to start work on the Ist August. Mr Love had a very serious illness whilst at Hongkong, but is now quite recovered. In a private letter written a few

years ago, the King declared that he had a horror of gambling, which, in his opinion, like intemperance, was one of the greatest curses that the country could be afflicted with, and he went on to add: "Horse racing may produce gambling, or it may not, but I have always looked upon it as a manly sport, which

is popular with Englishmen of all classes and there is no reason why it should be looked upon as a gambling transaction. Alas! those who gamble will gamble at anything."

At the Beginning of the year the London Daily Mail, ever on the look-out for novelties and fresh blood, imported an American editor to show journalists how to "hustle up and do things." His salary was £SOOO a year, it is said—enough to encourage remarkably good work. Since then the Daily Mail and othe; Harmsworth papers have had to pay damages totalling about £IOO,OOO to Mr Lever, of soap fame, and Messrs Watson and Co., another big soap firm. It would be interesting to know whether this was the result .of American methods.

The cantata, "Britannia and her Daughters," was repeated in Whiteley] Hall last night. Owing, no doubt, to the heavy rain just about starting time,'the audience was not a large one. The piece was agajn splendidly staged, the choruses of about forty voices and the excellent orchestra creating a decidedly favorable impression, whilst the Boloists were quite up to the standard of the first performance. The staging and grouping were'favorably committed on, and the remark "a splendid entertainment" was frequently heard at the conclusion,

The stock inspectors of tho colony, according to Mr Wilford, have, in some cases, powers as autocratic as tho Czar of Russia. During the hearing of some Stock Department informations in the Wellington Magistrate's Court, he mentioned an interesting point in regard to the Rabliit Act and the Dairy Industry Act. Some years ago, he said, the statute provided that a property had to be cleared of rabbits "to the satisfaction of the inspector." This was found to lie too hard on a man desiring to raisa a defence, and the "satisfaction" was transferred to the Magistrate. l'iie Dairy Industry Act had not been amended, and counsel wished .to know from the Court whether % was any use a man calling forty witnesses to prove that Fs stockyard was in a sanitary condition if the inspector went into the box and oxpressed the opinion that the yard was in an unclean condition. Mr Riddcll, S.M., replied that the Court had no power, under the regulations, to override the decision. Mr WHford stated his client real iscd that it was no use going into the defence, and would take "lying down" whatever penalty his Worship thought fit to impose.—Post.