LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 2 September 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is reported tlmt Mr J. J. Hills has purchased the butchery business of Mr Geo. Riddell in New Plymouth.

The Franklcy Road Board met on Saturday. There were present: Messis Billing (chairman), Hooker and Oha.it. The balance-sheet was returned from Wellington, duly audited, _ Accounts were passed, and routine business transacted.

The Ngairc Dairy Company made about 4UO tons of cheese last year, a record in the history of the factory. It is hoped that the 450 tons mark will be reached in the coming season. A much bigger supply of milk than ever is assured, and the directors have had another vat installed-in readiness. The town was alive with butterbuyers on Saturday. The directors of four dairy companies met to receive oilers for the coming seasons output, but the only one to do business was Hillsborough, who decided to consign through Messrs. Cflllett and Co.

A window has been completed in Bulvan Church, Essex, and will shortly be dedicated, which has been subscribed for entirely by women'bearing the Christian name of Mary. The rector received shilling contributions from women of that name in all parts of the world.

A Tai'iki settler, in conversation with a "News" reporter on Saturday, said the milk supply at the new cheese factory had increased from 18001b to about 70001b since the opening of the factory. New suppliers arc coming on to the list, and it is expected that the whole of the six vats will be required by the end ot October.

'1 don't think the accused was in

;he least worried ilbout her husband,"

remarked a witness at the S.M. Court, I'almcrston North, the other morning when giving evidence, "in fact, 1 think she was looking for him to give hiin a thrashing; she had a strap with her, anyhow." The witness also informed the Court that she had seen defendant chasing her husband with an axe.

One of the Taranaki school inspectors had a surprise the other afternoon at a country school. One of the lower classes was being examined in plasticine work, and a little girl of eignt years essayed to make a bottle. The inspector would have his little joke, so he asked her to pull out the cork. She must have been a bright little mite, for she had not only provided a cork but had made it Uasy to draw.

The new flag of the Transvaal Colony has been approved by Mr Botha and the Colonial Office, The basis of the ilag is the Vicrkleur orjthe old South African Republic. This Tras originally constructed by taking the red, white and blue ensign of Holland, and adding to It a horizontal green bar to star for the veldt. Upon the Vierkleur has been superimposed the Union jack, so as to occupy the top left-hand corner. Mr Dan Barry (says an exchange) advertised a moving picture of the Bauer murder and robbery, "but the Chief Secretary of Victoria stepped in and intimated to the municipal authorities of St. Kilda that if the picture were shown the license of the local hall would be cancelled. The New Zealand authorities

may well follow tho example set by the Victorian, and prohibit the exhibition of miving picture shows which are cal-

culated to have a harmful effect on the weak-minded portion of the community. The three daughters of Jladauie Carrerio, who came from Europe with their mother, remained in Australia during Madaine's iSew Zealand tour. The eldest, ildlle. Tcresitu Carreno-Taglia-pietra, who has already made a name for herself in Europe as a pianist, was rnared at a boarding school in Melbourne to Colonel Blois, who followed her to Australia. The younger daughters were placed at a boarding school in Melbourne, and will go to America by the Moav.a, via Suva, where they will be joined by Madame Carrena and Signor Taglinpietra, who will travel to Eiji by direct steamer in time to catch the Moana.

On the occasion of the prize-giving niter a recent rille-tneeting on Salisbury i'lain, Lieut.-General Sir lan Hamilton said:—"As I watched this competition X thought how much Better our men shoot than they used to do, and than tho men of any foreign army I know. In Manchuria, for instance, I have seen Kussians and Japanese bobbing up and down out of their trenches or cover, not at 200 yards, but at CO yards, and at that range go on missing al one another for so long that at last they took to the bayonet and to the butts of their riiles as the only final solution. Theorists have since deduced from this the amazing argument that bayonets und lances and sabres are all coming back into general use. Don't you- believe a -word of it," In his letter to the Customs Department Air. Shannon mentioned the savings he hid effected for the Treasury, and the Wairarapa, Daily Times takes the view that attempts to defraud the revenue should have been punished.: Our contemporary says:—'"'A good deal has been said about 'the green banks of Shannon' perpetually watered by a dail/ allowance of thirty shillings for travelling expenses; but there is one aspect of thu question that has not been touched upon. Air. Shannon is understood to have earned all he lias received by saving the Customs revenue from fraudulent entries, which have amounted to many thousands of pounds. But why, may we ask, do not the Government, when it obtains clear evidence that someone is trying to rob it, prosecute the offender? A Parliamentary return ! should be prepared giving the names of the presumably highly respectable im- | porters who have been detected in the past by the Government expert in defrauding the Customs. A return indicating the prisons who have been fined by tho Department for the past ten years might, in the interests of commercial morality, lie an object-lesson, As matters have been in tho past, Mr. Shannon lias been worth £1350 a year to his Department; but if a batch of offenders were gibbeted in a Parliamentary leturn, a highly-paid expert Customs detective would soon be superfluous."

Members of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (First and Second Groups), are notified (hat subscriptions will be due and payable today (Monday) at the Secretary's Office, Curne street, from 9 a.m. to 12.30, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., anil 7 p-m. to 9 p.m.— Advt. PROFITS FOR THE DAIRYMAN. 'J.he profits from the farm cannot be calculated solely by the eize of the milk or butter cheque received. The losses have to be deducted. The money lost, that should have been saved, by cows dying fr<tm milk fever and other kindred ailments is enormous, and most farmers p.ty their share of this tax— Home move, some less. If tile farmer worked his business in a methodical and practical manner, his losses would be less, 'llie largest losses occur to cows at onlving time. The only remedy is to drench every cow ps she comes in. Sykos's Drench is recommended for this purpose by all the highest authorities, and is used by thousands of the largest milkers in the colony. It has been on the maTket long enough to be thoroughly tested, and has gained a marvellous reputation as a preventive md curative medicine. It will increase your profits if you use it. systematically because it decreases your losses. That's logic, and here's proof. Mr A. ,T. Hintz, of Tataraimaka, Taramki, writes:—"l have used Svkes's for nine years and have always found it satisfactory. Upon one occasion T had 14 cows doivn with red water. After using Rykes's Drench the effect was marvellous. I consider Rvkes's Drench saved their lives. I have always used it since for nil ailments in my cattle whether young or old." Tjsp only Sykes's branch, because it is the best. Price Is packet or Ififl hy tho dozen. Bettor buy it by the dozen, Write for Booklet,

A Thaw murder trial biograph is al--ready abroad in the Australian provinces. In fact, the biograph showmen are fast catching up on the illustrated papers everywhere. Tn tlie Oamarti rain experiments they seem to have ''shot at a pigeon and killed a cow." The rain pigeon did not work, but the cow—the top of the hillcame down bodily. iiy direction of the Admiralty, the obsolete battleships Thunderer (built ill 1872), and the Devastation (built in 1871), both of which were included ;n the Admiralty's recent return, are shortly to be utilised as targets for modern ordnance.

During a violent. thunderstorm near Arras, France, a farmer was struck by

lightning. Strange to say, he was not killed, but was stripped almost naked. His trousers, sliirt and boots wcre_ found on fire in a ditch near him. His feet jhad sunk four inches in the ground.

In a general discussion, after the for- o mal business of the Cheltenham Dairy 7 Company was completed at Cheltenham ii ,on Wednesday, Mr W. Mills said there v woifld bo less heard about the Farm p Laborers' Union if farmers would endeavor to give their men work all the 1 year instead of at the busy time only, i Mr J. McDonald, who has been for s many years director and chairman of di- ( rectors of the Ngaire Dairy Company, ' does not intend to offer himself for re- j election. Since his accession fo the - chair the company has had a very smooth passage through the usually troubled waters of farmers' co operation. The Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald telegraphs that a discovery of interest to music lovers was made a few days ago by a resident of Mount Norah. An old violincello, which has been in his possession for a number of years, was taken to pieces for repairs, and was found to bear the label of Nicholo Ainati, ami the date 1024. This in itself lVnotliing remarkable, for thousands of forged labels are placed m musical instruments, many of them closely resembling the written tickets which most of the old makers used. In- : side this instrument, however, is a record of Its having been repaired by Louis Dandeh, of Versailles, in 1781, for i Louis XVI., a, fact which goes a long 1 way towards establishing its autlien-1 - ticity. ' Referring to the recent visit of their • steamer Waiwera to Oamaru, the follow- • ing extract from a letter received by ? \V. Ji. Rose from the London office of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, Limited, will be read with interest, says i the Oamaru Mail;—" The community ' Shore (at Oamaru) are to be congi'atu- , lated upon their enterprise in so iinU proving the port as to permit of the i visits of steamers of so large a size, and i it is to be hoped that they will reap •, their due reward in a increase of i business. As far as we are concerned t we shall be pleased to do everything m our power to provide facilities for the conveyance of cargo thence, in so far as conditions will permit of this being ' s done without undue risk." The company s would no doubt provide similar j facilities if New Plymouth harbor is improved just a little more, o The Star juniors returned from Auek-

land on Saturday morning. The lads aro all well, and had a very enjoyable trip. It had been intended to play a second match, against North Shore, on , Saturday, but no guarantee was forth- : coming, so the match was abandoned. The game against the Wednesday representatives was all in favor of the Stars, except the scores. They had the best of the game right through, and played at the top of their form, but luck was against them. The Auck : land Itugby Union and Wednesday] Union entertained the team, tiie latter meeting them on arrival at the wharf, and providing a reserved carriage on .the Auckland-Onehunga railway on the return trip. It is the intention of both the North Shore and the Wednesday Union to play return matches on the local ground next season.' The latter, it should he remeim.bercd, are mostly seniors. The manager Btates the eonduet of the team was exemplary throughout. •' ■ T "I'-fyf A coupie of local people were talking on Saturday about the schools' swimming classes. in the conversation it was remarked thai llio Central Hclioul had not taken up swimming as a technical subject owing to its distance from the municipal baths, but there was a probability of the West liudera being made to take second place when the new bathing place was provided in the liecreatiou Grounds. Enthusiast No. 2 deprecated auy such scheme as absurd. He did not think a new swimming place was required, basing his remarks on the comparatively small support accorded the town baths, which were very complete in their arrangements. Ho thought it would be an excellent thing to have the children taught swimming in the baths provided for them already by the public, with a view to their becoming regular bathers there in the future. He also pointed out that if the West End and Central children were patrons of the same baths a healthy rivalry and emulation would ensue, and this could be made to lead up to a schools championship swimming carnival here each year. The suggestion, to our mind, is a good one. Stratford intends having baths at its school, Ilawera is already well provided for, and New Plymouth is well up to the mark. Lepperton and Waitara schools are said to have some crack swimmers, and we see no reason why the schools championships should not become an annual fixture. We commend" the matter to the notice of the New Plymouth Amateur Swimming Club.

'tte periodically hear of new countries which, it is said, will become keen competitors in the world's market for dairy produce," said Mr. Spfagg, speaking at the i\ew Zealand Dairy Association's meeting- yesterday "To shut out the knowledge of this possibility would be foolish. On the other hand, it would be unwisdoin to take these reports too seriously, and get scared too long before we are hurt. Notwithstanding the advent of these new dairying countries, our Home market is actually a better one than it was a few years ago, and new markets in growing industrial centres ■ire being opened up, while it is reported that the Argentine, which we were told ten years ago would shortly make our position precarious, is not making progress as an exporter of butter. The total exports of butter from the Argon tine for the three years ending 11)00, these being the latest figures available, are reported as follows:—1904, 5400 tons; 11)05, 5500 tons; 1000, 1400 tons, ine New Zealand export for 100G was over 10,000 tons. Serious competition with New Zealand has not yet set in from the Argentine; indeed, it seems farther away, or at least less to be dreaded, than it was ten years ago." Mr. Spragg said lie was of opinion that any extension of dairying in New Zealand; on prudent ■ lines and on up-to date methods woifd be good, safe business for many years to come. The industry had now reached a stage when its development shoulS be very rapid This was especially the case with the Auckland province, because of wkif 1 ) C, '" mte and conditions favoured the industry, and its enormous and hardly touched r,-so.,r,™ of land, which could be most profitably occupied as dairy farms. '