LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 13 November 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

About .£BO has been subscribed towards the Paul memorial entrance to the New Plymouth Bowling Club's green. About £IOO is required. There are now 2115 connections with the municipal electric lighting system. The earnings from private lighting and power supplies last month were £l5O 8s 7d.

Tho election of the new Hospital Board takes place on the 27th in»t. The Borough Council will elect its representative!! ;it the next ordinary meeting of the Council.

The soaking rains of Sunday and the early part of Monday have made an appreciable difference in pastures and crops. There is now a splendid growth of grass everywhere. In explanation or a letter sent by him to the 'bus proprietors in the town, the borough engineer stated last night that the borough by-laws made it an oli'enco to allow any intoxicated person to ride in these public conveyances. The winner of tin; prize for the most original costume for girls at the Fire Brigade ball was .Miss Adeline Sariioni. 1!;, Mime mischance her surname was omitted from our report yesterday morning. About it hundred and forty children were absent irom the Central School yesterday on account of the prevailing e}.identic of The annual examination is only u couple of weeks distant.

It is rumored that a member of the Cabinet has contributed £101)1) towards e>lablifhing a lirrd of Holstein cattle. Also that a gentleman in llawkes Bay has liecn approached with a view to establishing in a similar way a herd of Shorthorn*.

There is again some talk of making concrete kcrbing and channelling the whole length of Devon-street, entailing the alteration of the present footpaths and verandahs. The .Mayor naid last night that the Borough Council has been considering this matter for twelve years. The presence of about a couple of hundred ladies on Monday at the opening of the Xeiv Plymouth Bowling Chili's "reen for the season tempted (he president (Mr. H. Cock) to express the hope that the fine old pastime would not aivayts be confined to the sterner sex. We have not heard of a ladies' bowling

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club, but tlicre is no reason why JSeu l'lymouth should not lead the ivay. Ml. Cuek did not mention who would provide afternoon tea oil the men's links if all the ladies were bowling on their own account. That's another phase ot the proposition.

Excellent progress is being made in the widening of the Victoria-road, Vogeltown, and the engineer, Mr. L. 1. Spencer, hats reported that he expects I | u > work to lie completed at his estimated cost of .£2OO. Mr. J- Berndtson acts as overseer.

The borrowing proposals of the liloc trie Light Committee wore lud the Borough Council last night, me amount asked for is £SOOO. Consideration was deferred till next, meeting. In the meantime the committee is to prepare a detailed schedule of the earning* and expenditure. There were several visitors to the Mountain House 011 King's Birthday. The most venturesome of the visitors only ascended a little beyond Humphries Castle, whilst others visited Bell s Falls. A report reached town that a party had climbed to the Summit, but this is denied by "one who was there." Mr. \V. 1- Newman has requested the Mayor and Borough Councillors to meet him on the Espjanade at some time convenient to themselves, no that he may formally hand over to the Corporation the handsome lamp and fountain erected by Mrs. Honeyfield to be presented to the borough. Mr. Newman will be asked if Thursday afternoon at 2 0 clock will be convenient. In answer to the Borough Council's query as to "what assistance the police are prepared to give in enforcing the borough by-laws," Sergeant Iladdrell lias written that this information was supplied to the Council only a snort time ago, and he assures the Council that t assistance as quoted then will be du J Kivcn. "As satisfactory as the toft one" remarked Councillor Collis last night when the letter was read. Very non-committal," rejoined the May 01. And there was no further korero. The favorite track of the Vo ß ßl '°'* rl J cvcliat ie the footpath. Messrs bcorcher and the Misses Scorcher and a very large family of scorchers put up some meat records sometimes along the track ilat, but the "pace that kills is d \ the long hill to town. But tins ex hilarating track-racing must cease-at least, along tire footpath, feuch pacing must in future take place oil. tl,c L road, for the Carnngton KOad Board, acting upon the representations of aggrieved and inconvenienced residents, is setting out to stop the practice. The solvency of New Plymouth is clearly shown by the brevity ot tta. Magistrate's Court proceedings. Usterday'B Sitting occupied only a few minutes, in which the e erk read out a list of cases which had been settled out of Court. There were not many. i»en the crier tried hard to get the parties in a little debt ease, but there was no appearance. The only decision was in a case in which the Tarauaki Count) Council had sued two Maoris for rates. The amount of the claim had been paid, but not the costs, and for the Mtei amount judgment was given, Mr. W>y appearing for the plaintill. The Garrison Rand's secretary, Mr. N. Allen, had a letter before the Borough tcuncil last night asking when the Council would like the series of open-air concerts commenced, and where the band should play. Twelve programmes were submittal, the Council being requested to choose six. All this was simple, the money for the concerts hav_ ing been duly allocated, /lhc sting of the letter was in the tail, where "the band would like to know if the Council could see its Va.v to instal the electric li.iht in the Esplanade rotunda." The musical part of the affair was referred to the musical committee of the Council, and the matter of lighting to the electric lighting committee, to report. Councillor Mills advocated the work, as the poles were already close by.

An exciting whale chase took plaeo in the bav in fronf of Kaikoura last week (says 'the "Lyttelton Times correspondent). After an hour's dodging and hard work the whalers made fast a full-grow-H calf, three-quartern of a mile oil' shore, and then commenced a battle royal. The parent bull whale kept near the boat, endeavoring to save its young one. Its bellowing was heard on shore very plainly, and the fight was intensely exciting. Twice the boat was touched by the "monster, and the occupants narrowly escaped disaster, losing two oars in the struggle. After a few minutes' bellowing and struggling the whales made inshore with the l>oat in tow till they were within one hundred yards, then turned northwards. After going some distance along the shore the harpoon suddenly broke and the whales disappeared. They were estimated to lie ivorth hundreds of pounds.