LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 20 November 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Tapuae deviation is to be opened for traliic to-day. The warm weather has iiaj the effect of increasing the attendance at the municipal baths. The temperature of the water is improving greatly. An inmate of the Old People s Home named Hansen died on .Monday, and was buried yesterday morning, lie had been a patient in the. Hospital, but being considered incurable, was transferred to the Old People's Home. A motorist got a bit of a scare last night. lie was careering through tne town, and was met by the liremetfs practice jets. lie swerved the car so sharply that the bysaudcrs fully expected an accident, but he maintained nis equilibrium. 11l the S.AI. Court yesterd ly judgment was given in the cases: H. It. Cattley I.Mr Quilliaui) v. 11. I'. and -M. C. Callaghan, claim i'2l 5s on dishonored promissory note, anj X2 17s costs; 11. A. Mcfleland (Mr Hoy) v. E. Jenkinson, claim tM 10s tid, costs ss; J. Snowball (Mr ltoy) v. tile .Uokau Timber Co., Ltd., claim £lO 10s, and costs £1 10s Od.

in tile Magistrate's Court iv, | a lusL-oii I'iidiiiy drunKard was convicieu and discharged, LlizaUeth \\ ilson i,v;ii K.' a w-.ck njiuii a charge of, utul visiule means 01 li being an i-Uu una disorWiijmiii Jones, charged attempted to commit suinganiomomi 011 Kttli inst., pleaded guilty, was convicted and discharged, and a prohibition order issued to take elleet ill the Jigmout and Ji'atea licensing districts.

•i o°od lisli story is going the local lounus. j.a.-l w'i.'L'k it \vai reported IJm l a perch, mlly three pounds m wciglu, hau been siranded in the Kecreauon (jrounds. liie fish, as a matter of course, duly found its way 10 the hands of the chairman of the controlling Hoard, nno took sonic pride m showing it to lis fiiends. One o£ these smacKed his lips at sight of it, and called to mind hou he had, in tile years now gone, on joyed the delicacy ol delicacies, baked perch. .So ilr Perch was handed over, lie was ipiite the talk of the circlenot the owner, hut .Mr i'ercji. Tije marvellous size of this piscatorial speei"«'ii was under discussion a. few days titer, with a gentleman who had evidently not been of the circle. But he tad I'een present when the fish was land- >'• was floating belly uppermost 011 he surlaco of the pond, and from its appearance had evidently succumbed to ofThi' ni'*';, liUt lLudi,R ' r ? 1 !* It's hardly safe to ask him now whether he likes perch

m.ui'isou i.,uia iicon.-,.acrid 111 uie ni = t iiigni ot Liic uiass lAinas in tne lJohiiniuu. War alter }c„r, Ulo nope mat the oand would Likc pride of place at the could, local pcop.e have siiiiscriiK'd and subscribed again to its luniU. Xhf -North island lir.iss Bands Association foulest is to be field this ear in .y w Plymouth. Aud Uan . iauu ho n M U T 3L I ilad to I't that the local combination will --•"P at the finish. in order not d isa powit !he givers of the gold and \l« h lb^7t Chance ot walking oil' with the first P S h'N' J'a WaS ! Ilstit uted for the pur- ,('' K i o !'. ra °""K bands to T , "'."petition ranks. But i s tlie ■ .tiaiMki f.arri-on a young band -tl "»f> for (he purposes ofHas . with seven,, other bauds (i"I i».u« 1)4 ell nominated i'or the A «•»• j are classed C ;rS d , s 0 ° n,uch tUI » i; r v "r"° ExhrrfHo* to Li ' „ iownspeople find it hard to believe (|,ni the leading band in the 1 contest own has taken such a step as J»». «.«1 it is hoped that it !s 100 late to re-consider the matter. • hould the band continue i n it s !°v lv ™ may rost ' ,on(f '"t timi .New Plymouth will never ncrain be made the scene of the Dominion contest. jhe town, we are nersuaded would prefer n,at its popular hand should' finish out of pl„ee m (he senior contest 1. her than that have praeti-" • a amongst junior liii'h rformn '' rn f ' ,at 1V0,,1<1 '1" '"t

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A "wet" practice 01 the Eire llrigado was lielil last night. It was decided to conduct two open events —live men and three men at the garden party on New Year's Day in the ltecreat-ion (^rounds. The Marlon, Slanaia, Stratford and Taranaki Harrison Bands are so iar the only entries -ill the B grade at the forthcoming contest. F;>r bigger entries —ii|lioiit ten —have already been received in the A grade, where the prize-money is bigger, and there's a greater credit attached to a win.

A lighted match carelessly thrown by a passing boy gave some \ ogeltown residents a scare the other evening. itte match fell into the debris at the toot ot a, great toi-toi, and ifl a few minutes the whole was ablaze. A hedge running pasL a house became ignited, and it was with great difficulty that the lire was checked just before reaching the

house. T The Stipendiary Magistrate, ill • s. Fiuhcrbcrt, yesterday ga're * in the case against Isabella Alice Dy , barmaid in the Bridge Hotel \\ aitara, charged with having supplied liquol to A half-caste not living as a Europcail. The information was dismissed, gcant. lladdrcll conducted the l'!' oscc ' tion and Mr tjuilliam appeared for the

defence. The following handicaps have >oen declared for the Taranaki lWh» secondclass trophy shuotmg, to take p. Thursday and Saturday member Willis and Private Okey, sci., Captain Bellringer, went. Lever, tonmembers Buchanan and AWiott, Fuvates Davies and Cole, 2 points; lriyates ■Ward. 11. Bacon, Whitmore, 7 points; Scrgt. .Tpsepli, Private Blanchett, 0 points: remainder of company, 15 points. Whilst it is a fact that 110 photographer has ever been able to produce a photograph of the late chief Te Whit'i, a camera fiend very nearly accomplished this 011 one occasion. He ohtainedliis "snap" nil right, but the Maoris became aware of it. So annoyed were they by this sacrilege —for to them it was sacrilege—that they smashed up the camera and plates, and forcibly ejected the luckless snapsliotter from the village.

A local resident who was one of 'the local force before Parihaka in 1881, relates that when the order came for the Taranaki men to turn hall-right a lid advance at the double, there were murmurs of discontent in the ranks of the Auckland and Wellington contingents, ,vho considered favoritism was being shown. "By Jove!" he said to a reporter vesterdav, "they were quite welcome to it as far as I was concerned. 1 didn't reckon on going down there to be shot."

Sonic youngsters oil tile South road arc evidently anxious to have a visit from the polite. Last night a youngster was masquerading ill a queer garb us an "escaped lunatic,and kept some some of his jials to announce his appearanee to passers-by. No damage was done, but it would do that youngster good to receive a scare such as he is trying to inflict oil others. \\ neii William James, lue attempted siuc.iie I'ioui Wliaiigainomoiia, was injure the courl yesterday luorning the police asked lor costs amounting lo XO is and gaol expenses. The .Magistrate said thai this was a novel claim. The gaoler said that Xti 15s of the amount was for special attendance on the mail whilst in the hospital, to guard him against himself. James had to be watched both night and day. Sergeant Iladdrell said that the-accused had put the authorities to considerable expense, and it was nut fair that tlie country should have to pay. The accused said he Avouhl pay the hospital charges himself. The Magistrate refused to make an order for tneSe costs, and urged James to keep off the liquor, for it had been pleaded that his attempt to end his existence was the result of a drinking bout. f

Captain .MaeAllister, of the steam trawler "Nora. Niven," in a chat with a "News'' reporter yesterday said that he had traded here in the s.s. Xoroa some five or six years ago. And when lie brought his deep-draught little steamer in yesterday he recalled the days when it was impossible to bring the Toroa alongside exceptant good tides. drew only eleven ret of wat»«*,' but he says he can well reiMsrWf having been stranded for half a day on a sand-bank at. Motnroa- i r esterday lie noticed the exlension °t' the breanwatcr, and was favoiv l,| y impressed. But he was not Tffepared for the greatly increased depth of the harbor. As lie brought the trawler in to the berth, drawing thirteen feet, he was anxiously looking for the muddy eddies that would indicate shallow water under the propeller. But she didn't grnze, or even stir the bottom. "The first bump I felt," chimed in the chief engineer, "was the bump as we came against the wharf." People who are daily using the harbor are apt to take the ftraduaT improvement quite as a matter of course, but' in Captain Mae.'Ulister's ease an absence of some rears enabled him the better to apprciate the value of the work done