LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 27 September 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Additions to the local gaol arc being carried out in fcrro-concrete. The plans of tile proposed alterations to llatamii II ill on the Carrington road provide a grade of I in 11. The '"thin red line," of historical fame, was absent from the blue trousers of at least one volunteer on parade at New riymoulh on Dominion Day. Excursion trains to Now Plymouth were not very largely patronised yesterday. There was, however, a fair sprinkling of visitors from most of the townships between here and llawera. The widow of the late Jlr. K M. Smith, 31.11.K.. for Taranaki, who asserts that she iias been left practically destitute, is petitioning Parliament for compensation in respect to the services rendered to the colony by her late husband.

the time oi despatching trains from New Plymouth is now fixed by the post oflice clock. in future, if the town timepiece shows the man rushing inio Egmont street that he has a full five minutes to spare, he need not continue at his break-nct'k pace, but slow down. The vagaries oi that railway clock have caused the use of some exceptionally I choice Billingsgate on various occasions, ind it might just aa well be '-scrap. J caped" now that the railway officials' f ovemculs arc governed by what we jiope is a reliable clock, The youngsters of New Plymouth were much concerned yesterday in the "Ji'ii de joie" on the racecourse, after it had heou fired. No sooner had the vnhinuvi~ i-uijie to the "order arms" than the boys dived down about their n'l't in gather up the cartridge cases, i lie total disregard of the warlike uppeaianee ol our-citizen soldiers was e;|iia)li'd only by the nonchalance of the Kiddies who kept their hats and caps on whilst the National Anthem was beiii" played In iluw days oi cadets and llag-saluting ceremonies at schools it \s a little remarkable that the boys have not learned to respect the strains tf "God Save the King," TWO SOVEREIGN REMEDIES.

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About twenly plots wit' >»*» urovid'.Mi , by Captain Young lor tuo Agricultural Si?:-i(>(y's root-growing experiments :it P»ell Block. Operations will be commenced almost immediately. As Mr Heath was taking his morning stroll along the beach near the Sash and Door Company's property yesterday lie found a lifebelt marked "Defender" ' in a good state of preservation. Condescending, very! A co-operative dairy company recently circularised butler buyers to the eti'ect that the direc-1 tors would ''listen" to them on a certain date. A judge at a recent dog show had to decide between two setters. Setters were not in his line, and he was puzzled. He ascertained that one was a Gordon sutler and the other an English setter. He awarded the prize to the former. The judge was a Scotsman! A meeting of creditors in the estate of Edmund Murray Fowler, of Toko, formerly of New Plymouth, bankrupt, was held at the office of the Deputy Official Assignee on Wednesday. Bankrupt's statement showed liabilities amounting to £72 18s Gd, all unsecured creditors, and assets £->5, leaving a deficiency jf £47 18s (id. Only two creditors being preseiu, the meeting lapsed. Eventually he signed mi agreement that provided he was allowc-d to keep his furniture and piano, he would pay 5s in the £. A suggestion was made last night that about the very best investment for the farmers of this district would be the contribution of, say, half-a-sovereign or a sovereign apiece to a fund for the purpose of purchasing twenty or thirty 1 acres of good ploughable laud adjacent' to New Plymouth, to be worked by the Agricultural Society and the Education Board as an experimental station. .There's a '"self-help" and co-operative spirit in the suggestion that is new in these days of (.Government spoon-feeding.

In announcing the reading of the Dominion proclamation from the Inglewood post office steps, the Record says: —This is, perhaps, more than "very appropriate," as the Inglewood post office *wns the first post office opened in New Zealand lo have the letters E.R. instead of V.li. over the entrance, and it is consequently in accord with the fitness of things that this great gift of gleatness from King Edward, which Sir .Joseph Ward carried to New Zealand "up his sleeve," should be proclaimed from the first post ollice in the Dominion to carry his initials as Kin" of England. °

Owing to the very dark and wot night only about twenty attended the meeting of farmers called by the Agricultural society to hear an address by Mr J. A. Gilruth, Chief Veterinarian. Mr Newton King, president of the Society, took the chair. A hastily-called meotin« of the members of the committee decided to postpone the lecture until the date »f the annual show, Mr Gilruth promising an address for either of the show ?]•= ~. or " le nigM prior to the show. Mr lisch, chairman of the New Plymouth Technical School committee brought under the Chief Veterinarian's notice the proposal to establish dairv f a T r eS r,'-? Ne "' P] y ffioutl i- A report ot Mr Gilruth s remarks is printed elsewhere m this issue.

When introducing the Land and Inoome Tax Assessment Bill, Sir Joseph Ward referred to the various ingenious methods of evading the Jand tax that hit d been successfully resoited to. One illustration of how" half the legal burden can be avoided was given. A firm's land is assessed separately, as also is the separate estate of each partner. Consequents, if A owns and is worth ,-6100,000. he would be rendered liable to a tax at the rate of .10 per cent., which, not counting the 25 per cent increase proposed, would amount to £IOOO, but if he gives his son (B) a nominal half-share in his estate as partner, then A is taxed on £50,000 at the rate of 10s, and A and are jointly taxed on the other .-£50,000 at the same rate; and so the total tax paid is only £SOO. There is nothing at present to prevent a landowner from establishing a private company, of which he practically owns all the shares, an'ij transferring half his land to it—thus saving hat? the graduated tax, in the same imanner as a landed proprietor who had a son to shoulder half the responsibility. The new Bill will remedy the deficiency in the existing law, which has made 'evasion possible.

Lord Mounts teplien, a wealthy Scottish nobleman, associated with banking and railway enterprise. in Canada since 1850, and for some years head of the Canadian Pacific railway, figured honorably in tile cable messages a few days ago. In June last he was seventyeight years of age; twice married, he lias no heir to his fortune—and apparently, like many another who has lived and toiled abroad, as years advance his thought "turns again lioine-" At all events, he has munificently endowed a charitable institution in his native town of Banffshire. To the Abelour Orphanage he has donated £35,000, sufficient to support one hundred beds. This i.f the kind of tlijng which is defined on apostolic authority as "pure religion"—the magnitude of the gift is a matter of detail—in this eise it seems proportionate to the means of the giver. Liberality of this kind needs no comment. The Wellington Tost says: "It may be that a good many of our own citizens have in view equally worthy objects on whicli to bestow their wealth —wc might suggest th it they do not too long defer the carrying of their good intentions into effect. Bequests arc well enough in their way, but the testator misses tile supreme pleasure of seeing the realisation of liis wishes. There are those among us—some of native birth—who might take the hint.'