LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 5 October 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Taranaki man just returned from the Waikato informs us that {lie prices ruling for sheep are tiie largest yet seen there. home local gardeners who have early potatoes already complain of blight amongst the crops. Vnfortmiately the wet weather is so persistent that spraying is practically useless. The Clifton County Council yesterday passed a resolution asking Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.H.R., to urge 011 the Government the great necessity for passing the proposed Model By-laws Bill into law during the coining session. As a result of the heavy rains all the streams in the district are in flood, lmt no serious damage has been reported. A traveller between Tarata and Inglewood yesterday morning stated that only one slip had come down 011 the Zig-zag. In the Uruti district the roads are all open, contrary to expectations. Says the Hastings Standard: "Mr. Newton King, of Taranaki, has entered, in Holsteins, for the A. and P. Society's Spring Show, held here the middle of this mouth, one big bull, a yearling bull, two two-year-old heifers, and two yearling heifers. Owing to the long interval between the Hawkes Bay show and the Miinawatu and West Coast show at Pahnerston, Mr. King has decided not to enter any in milk. The stock will arrive here under the care of Mr. George Ileslop, one of Mr. King's stock agents."

The danger of tying-up a dog near a tree with bows low down was exemplified at a Taranaki farmer's place the other day. The dog, a purebred, valuable collie, tied up in this way, jumped over a bow, and when the owner visited the locality he found that the animal had hanged himself. The owner, strangely enough, had decided to cut away the bows because of this danger, and had purposed carrying out his intention the very day that the animal lost its life.

When Maoris cannot give the correct pronunciation of a word they can usually make themselves understood when money is in question. A native supplier to one of the factories came into town on Saturday and inquired for the secretary, lip was told that the secretary was not about, and (hit any time next week would do for liim, as his business coulil_not be very important. "Py golly, ain'L it." said the Maori. "1 tink it is; I want the 'boneilust' for last year's milk."—Opnnake Times.

l'or some time past a movement has been on foot to try and establish a cheese factory in liahotu (writes our Kahotu correspondent). Definite steps were taken 011 Thursday, when a meeting of intending suppliers was held in the liahotu hotel. There was a good attendance, including most of the largest suppliers in the district. Mr Jacob Rotherv presided. After some discussion, it was resolved to form a Co-opera-tive Dairy Company, with a capital of £SOOO, and, if successful in raising the capital, to erect a cheese factory near the Pungarehu river. It is intended to push the matter ahead with all speed, so as to have the factory in going order this season. The following were elected a provisional dircctoiate or committee to further the scheme:—Messrs P. Will - coj; (chairman), 11. Chapman, A. Chapman, P. James, C. Sole, Hopkins, Newton King, and T. Willeox (secretary).

Tin' Clifton Rowing Cliid at Waitara lias the material on the ground I'or the erection of the new boatliouse, the plant having outgrown the old shed, which has been dismantled. The new shed will be built right on to Die road boundary opposite the Bridge Hotel. Its dimensions are 52ft x 24ft. with a dressingroom along one side HOft x !)ft. The ends will lie of rusticated boarding, sides and roof of iron. The boatliouse will have an lift stud, which will be a great improvement on the old low-roofed building. The secretary to the club, -Mr. 11. Spurdle, has received a communication from .Messrs. Edwards and Sou, J.lie well-known Australian boatbuilders, that the new best-and-liest four-oared outrigger has been shipped. The builders express the opinion that "this boat should not only be a very fast racer, but also be good in lumpy water. She should give you complete satisfaction." The boat is fitted with 24-inch slides, and chocks are provided to reduce flie length to 22 inches if required.

The Lytteltou Times, commenting upon tin; action of the Grand Jury at .New Plymouth in the tar and feathering ease, says;—if grand juries should survive the exhibitions they have made of themselves lately, their proceeding.-; should be openud to the Tha; seems to us the only way of reforming them out of existence. It's a good many years now since we shocked our Conservative friends by suggesting the abolition of the grand jury, but though most of our friends have now eomu round to our way of thinking, this excrescence upon our system of administering justice appear* to be as Jirmly routed as ever. If reporter-, had bem present ;it the sitting of the grand jury in Jaranaki, w>, >Jiou!d have known the Hittui'e 01 ilic evidence on which it threw out the'bill in Hie tarring and feathering case, alter the •Judges very explicit direction to the contrary. As it is, we can uiiiy accept ! the foreman's explanation with a very unlhitteniig intimate of its value. The truth is that in nine out of ten u graml jury is utterly ineuimMe of determining the value of evidence, and ill the tenth case it is often too weary to trouble itself about the farcical business.

Every btage of separator development lias been strictly of "Alfa-Laval" origin and ell'ort. Would-be competing machines to-day manufactured arc. without exception, but mere followers in the wake of the "Alfa-Laval." They possess no original ideas or features in construction, and simply utilise that which expired '"AlfaXaval" patent lei.ve fie- to them, so that the very best of them are hardy equal to f'he* I "Alfa-7,avaV' und the best of would 1 e : competing separators still further widened, placing the "Alfa-Lrtval" machines far above and beyond the pofigi bilities of competition from anything idsr in the shape of n crenin separator. Catalogue mailed free. Sole "XV\v Z>\\. land agents. Stnifhers and f'\. r ,M.. "VT .ill street, "Pnlmerdnn "Vnrfh. T.ocal agent 5 *. K Griffiths and Co., New Plymouth. ! ]

1 he continuous wet weather is caus-1 ing a general shortage of feed for stock. | Jhe iiome-going steamer Ruapehu is ' due at Waitara on Tuesday night uexfc to load meat and produce for the Eng- I lish markets. j Stock in the Hawera district is .-ull'er- J ing from the continued wet weather. The ! milk supply is badly affected. The same > may be said of the whole of Taranaki. Hie well-known auctioneering business of Alessrs. Nolan, Timks and Co., of ilawera, has changed hands. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency <s the purchaser. Denmark leads the way in labor organisation. Fifty per cent, of her wageearners are unionists, England, Germany, Sweden, Hungary, Austria, and Belgium follow in respective order.

Although the fishing season opened 011 luesday, there are no good bags .of the •spotted -beauties yet recorded. The' heavy rains are mainly responsible, the streams being in such a swollen condition as to make successful angling almost an impossibilty. The finger-print system of evidence was responsible for the.arrest of a man named James Baldwin on a charge of having broken into the house of A. 0. Buchler, of Okaiawa, in January last. -Lhe accused is at present in the New PI) mouth gaol on a week's remand. J . r * * •f' ox » il member of the Tara- , naki .Maori Council and leader of the -vlaori Progressive Party in that district, is bringing under the notice of members of the Wangiinui and Kurahaupo Maori Councils the necessity of establishing a native hostelry in Wanganui similar to the hostelry at New Plymouth. .There is quite a stir in the Lepporton and Sentry liill districts concerning the proposed demolition of the two stations bearing those names, and the establishment of a new junction about half a mile above the present one. It is suggested that the stopping-place at the Sentry Hill goods-sled (011 the Waitara line) may be made a regular passenger station. The reason assigned for the change is that the yard at Sentry Hill is not sufficiently level.

Still another story of the hardships of the back-blocks'settlers. A woman with baby in arms journeyed the other day to Tongaporntu, intending to stay at the boardingliouse. It was full. Anxious to reach Waitara, she tried to secure a seat in the coach, but the coachman was unable to oblige, on account of the almost impassable roads. So she set out and walked to Urenui, and there secured a ride to Waitara. When last seen she was endeavouring to remove traces of travel from her attire, prior to proceeding further liy rail. The Dominion understands that the site of the new Dairy School and Experimental College is to be at Levin. This matter has been under consideration for the past year or two. The chums of Palmerston North, Hawer.i, and Patea have been in turn urged, but, though no official declaration has been made, there seems little doubt that Levin has been finally selected. Probably nothing will be done in the matter before Mr Singleton, dairy expert, who is now visiting Canada and collecting information regarding similar institutions, returns to the Dominion.

In the report of the Supreme Court ease P. B. Fitzherbert v. C. M. Townsend, it should have been stated that costs have been paid, the case having been settled by consent. Mr Wright, 011 behalf of the plaintiff, and with the consent of the defendant, applied to have the statement of defence removed from the Court file, and expressed the regret of the defendant that that statement had been filed. Ilis Honor said he could not. comply with the request, but no doubt this public statement of the case would be sufficient. The claim was fsr accounts and payment of amount found due on the basis of 20 per cent of the first year's profits, not half the profits, as reported The District Health Officer, Dr. Frengley, has informed the Borough Council that he considers it advisable to take legal proceedings against a New Plymouth doctor for failing to notify a case of infectious disease, and that he has placed the matter in the hands of Mr. Kerr, the Crown Solicitor at New Plymouth. He explans that his suggestion that the Council should undertake the prosecution was prompted by a sense of courtesy to the Council. He was not aware of anything in the principal Act or later Acts to prevent a local authority itself taking, or causing to be taken, proceedings against a defaulter. The sections in question were, he had always understood, inserted at the desire of some local authorities. His desire was therefore not to seem to step in in the place of the local authority who had initiated the steps for action.

In a comment 011 the proposal lo change New Zealand's name to Maoriland, the Otago Daily Times says:— Granting that '"New Zealand" is an unsatisfactory name, not without an element of downright absurdity, still we have it now as an inalienable posse*.

sion, and it could not be discarded without a perilous breach of historical and sentimental continuity. Unlovely and perverse in itself, it has yet' gathered the associations and memories of the best part of a century, and to put il

aside would be to do violence to our humanity. It is Dutch, as Mr Witty says. Yes, it is our "old Dutch," so to speak, and the union must continue for better, for worse. "Maoriland" is essentially a much better name, but it was not to "Maoriland" that the pioneers, the fathers and' the mothers, came. It was not in "Maoriland" that they made the new homes and reared their children, and found their last resting place. It was in "New Zealand," and a true instinctive judgment will restrain their descendants from playing tricks with the national nomenclature.

A new life is already stirring in the ' live States that make up Central America. An association has been formed in the city of Mexico which is pledged to bring about federation of the live Republics. The oath of protest which the members take is the following:—"Do you, on your honor"and conscience, protest that you will preserve and cause to be preserved the existence of the Central American Committee; to comply and cause to be complied with the orders and dispositions emanating from it, respecting and obeying them without observation of any character, and work loyally, painstakingly and patriotically to constitute in a single Republic the five States which, with independent life,now !orm Central America, putting into action lo attain this noble and elevated aim your energies and all measures which are at your command?" Tlie lead of the association is Dr. Francisco Reyes, a Salvadoran. The greatest opposition to such a proposal comes from Guatemala, but Nicaragua, Salvador, Honduras, and Costa Rica are generally favorable to federation.

The services in Whitelcy Church tomorrow will be conducted in the morning by {he Rev. J. F. Martin, saddle-bag missionary on the Main Trunk Line, and in the evening liy the Rev. T. G. Brooke. At the latter service Mr. Brooke will continue his monthly addresses to young men and young women, and will take as lis subject, "Lessons from the Business before the recent fitting of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth." Visitors, especially young men, cordially invited. Solo, "Calvary," by Mr. Harris.—Advt. TARANAKI A LAND OF MILK AND

HONEY. jj More especially milk. The ]n.!i*y is to g«it the maximum amount of cream from the milk. The Melotte Separator will extract more cream with less trouble than any other. It is so easy to drive 1 —in fact is a child-power as compared _ to man-power in other makes. That's because of the wny they are made—practically no friction. The bowl is • 'impended, and the only point of contact - work* oil a ball bearing. The Melotte is the lightest running and most dur : able machine made. 'Anyway, if you are interested in -separators, just pop in and have a look at the Melotte.— Wilson & Nolan, Agents for Taranaki. Fur Children's Hacking Cougn Hu night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is Gd and 2s Cd. DISORDERS OF TITF STOMACH Are responsible for nine-tenths of the ills that human flesh is heir to. If you keep your stomach right, you can be prctfv sure of good health/ Cure your stomach, and you cure tfie'rost. -Get it in good condition, and keep it so, and you will be able to stop all the-dosing ; and physicking that seems so necessary to you now. There is only one way ta accomplish this purpose, and that is to 1 ! ensure the digestion of the food yon ( eat. Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules ! represent the natural juices of diges- f tiou as they exist in a healthy stomach, ( combined with tonic and reconstructive ( properties. The.v actually do the work c ot the stomach, and nimble that organ 1: io rest, recuperate, and become strong n and well. In fact, under their influence S a man forgets he ever had a stomach. 1 He again becomes a good fellow and a t; man among men. Obtainable every- t where, Jh