The Daily News WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 16 October 1907, Page 2

The Daily News WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16.

Subscriptions to the iiiarsland HiU ij ( Memorial to Fallen Soldiers now amount to £3OO. j Millionaire Carnegie lias forwarded 1 I the first £IOOO of ihe _£2SUO given by t 1 liim for tile erection of the new library t building in Plymouth. t The borough councillors have decided to inspect the septic tank after their return to-morrow afternoon from the Waiwakaiho bridge opening. The committee is making all arrangements for the official opening of tho new Waiwakaiho bridge to-morrow afternoon. The Recreation SporU Ground Committee desire us to acknowledge receipt of £8 3s, net proceeds of tho benefit social_ conducted recently by the Railj way Social Club. ] Tests of the New Plymouth milk 1 sl, pply show that there is no ground to 1 suspect adulteration, despite .the amount ;of '"milkmen's friend" that has fallen ! lately. The butter-fat tests range from 13.0 to 4.3. Some youngsters with a better eye I for firewood that honesty have recently j been stripping some of the Recreation Sports Ground fencing posts with an jaxe. A continuance of the practice is j likely to land them in legal difficulties. | A special meeting of the County Council is to be held immediately prei ceding the ordinary meeting to pass a by-law having for its object the regulation or prohibition of excessive traffic on the Xariki road. The borough by-laws were in evidence yesterday morning, when James Young was, on the information of the police, fined 10s and costs for driving a vehicle wtithout lights through the 'borough streets on the night of September 20th last. Mr and Mrs !■'. \Y. Court had a sensational escape from accident yesterday morning. They were driving in ama to catch the mail train. Just as they passed over the crossing in Devon street t ie axle broke, and the occupants were thrown out of the vehicle, fortunately escaping with only a shaking. Tho price of flour locally went up again yesterday, the increase this time 1 g£l P er ton ' 'J-'" 3 P'ice- is now , i S Cd ,lt the railway station, or ■*.l4 ; 3s Od delivered. So long as rates remain at this level there will be no ' bread IDCreaSe ™ the price of tht I'"*? brou S ht un <ler our notice the,-/ • in the evenings aminJ 3 h. knot 01 meu 6tandi "e against the letter posting box at the Our n 7nf Uf JJeV °" and streets. ur infoimnnt is a retiring young ladv and she really doesn't life J box under . WM«Mou* at that under thy circumstances wkhTr* f • ld,Vi "' a yomig uian barged Okaiawa " S aild , untei ' in fe' and thef t at Pohcw*' a { ,peared at the ! ! gathering of evidence is a matter nf j some difficulty. matter of I 5 Z jS ' , Bu ßß«tcd the Bench. "I've been t 5 • our H " nor " smiled the lawyer "Ah" •" i" venerable appearance' you hem, somewhere said! A conference was held recently of represen atives of the Fitzroy Towfi £oar d to the B ° roUg \ with regard whici "P kee l' the Clemow road which gives access to the municipal I aba ' t(m ' s - The Board asked for a recost"of COntnbution towards th» cost °f maintaining the road. It wa uXe, ° Ut ' ,'! owever - that the cost o linnH? was /hree times more that th Boards contribution, and the reques was not acceded to- The Town Boara will be informed that if it renews the in* nelT C ° Uneil 18 prc P ar iSn f f ai 3 estimates the matter Will be further considered. "Ifnthly practice of the New Piymouth lure Brigade was held at -the was a i at ' 0n Jast Dight ' when thc " was a good muster. Fireman W. Rocli was presented with his three years' service aerate. lt wa9 inl w mker for the dist ""t (Mr H. . Ukey) to oppose clause 4 of the Fire Brigades Amendment Act, limiting the ponS «o S ° f \ be Aot t0 towlls of 6000 with th r m ■ u P wards ' 'Jtnc play-off ribhnl t IDgton road euchre a nd nbbage team is to be held at the staA f aUenge t0 meefc «'e rnent L Brigade in a card tournawa3 accepted for Friday night. h AjU TM lg6 ''• l ' lL business dealt with by the Electric Lighting Committee on ■ff -"onday, but not reported to the Bolougli Council, was a petition from tho electricians in the borough complaining , oi the want of some set of rules lor , their guidance. Tradesmen, conversing with a representative of this paper a° iege that there is absolutely no standard set in regard to the inspection of , electric wiring. Under these circum--1 Btancc ? stocks are difficult to select and 1 '";l ,c, . lilve to keep up, and j n order * ol) >am some lin.lity the various firms ask that rules shall be printed and material specified. The matter is to be referred to the electrical engineer, who was absent from the meeting through The Commissioner of Crown Lands practically "had the floor" at the Mar gistrate's Court yesterday morning, when a batch of cases was heard in which he claimed overuue rents on Crown land. Several of the case.s were settled out of Court. Judgments I>y default were given in the cases against Ernest Donas, claim £9 lis Bd, and costs £2 13s 6d; V. E. and 11. Denes, claim £l4 lis, and costs £1 13s fid; J. Prendergast, claim £lO 10s, and costs £2 10s Od; Anselm Framb:i, claim £5 18s Bd, and costs £3 2s fid; T. Davis claim £0 19s Id, and costs £3 0s fido E. M. Izett, claim £G 10s 3d, and costs '■£?! 7s fid; C. Callaghan, claim £2 5s Cd and costs 10s; Nina Webbv. balance of costs 2s. Mr Standish (Standish find Kerr) appeared for the Commissioner. The only other debt case was that of Tj. Marks v. .T. P. Lomnx, claim £5 ]"s fid. judgment bping given for the full amount and costs. In reference to p, letter from Mr F. Bellringcr, chairman of the borough works committee instructing him to be more vigilant in the matter of detecting breaches of the borough by-laws, Mr Kendall wrote to the Council on Monday;—"l have now (material in band for upwards of twenty cases of breaches of the by-laws. ... As the proper working up and hearing of the cases and searching for others will occupy all the time at my disposal, I shall be reluctantly compelled to ask your permission to let all matters stand aside in the meantime, as I should not like to lose my cases." This seems to be work for the nuisance inspector, not for a highly-qualified man like Mr Kendall, whose engineering work should be plnced first, except, perhaps, in the ease of very flagrant breaches of the by-laws which come under his notice. In the Police Court yesterday, before Mr il S. Fitzherfuert, S.M., A. M. Potts appeared on charges of drunkenness, refusing to leave the Taranaki Hotel licensed premises when ordered to do so, and with resisting tile police. Mr T. S. Weston, who appeared for the defence, said the circumstances showed the otfence to be a trivial one. Constable Mcintosh, the arresting policeman, siid the accused had been making a noise in the hotel, and Ihe licensee had had io send for the police. He requested the accused to leave the hotel He refused. He and Constable O'Halloran tried to put him out. He fought, knocking witness over, and they had to put him into a cab by main force. The Magistrate said resisting the police w.n a most serious offence and one for which the accused could he indicted and sent before a jury. On the first charge the accused would be convicted without a fine. Fines of 10s and costs were inflicted for refusing to leave the premises. and 40s and costs for resisting the police. A lnr<ro quantity of indent shoes arid slippers at, a reduction of 10 to 30 per cent, will be offered for the next four weeks at Dockrill's, to make room for shinments to arrive. A larsje assortment of ladies' evening shoes to lirtml at low prices; also in stoek his well known brand of men's, youth's and children's boots at bedrock prices Advt,