LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 9 December 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The express engine that leaved Tailiiiaruiuii for Frankton, on the .Main Trunk line, returns the same day, covering a distance of 182 miles , which is rsaid to be the longest daily run of any single locomotive in the Dominion. The "Taihape JLVt" says that for the week ending Saturday, November 211, IU4.UUO icel, and for tnat ending November 30, 250,000 feet of sawn timber, coming from mills only around Taihape and Bennett's siding, were booked lor transit at the Taihape railway station. The gold returns for New Zealand for the eleven months ended last Saturday week were 402,30!) ounces, valued at £1,84.5,74.1, as compared with 51U,b'J5 ounces, 01 the value of £2,055,U3S foi the corresponding period last year. The return for last month was 54,121 ounces, of the value of £215.524, us against 11,375 ounces, 01 the value of £IUI,US3, in. November lust year.

In the past four weeks the borough treasurer has received £731 lis lid lor rates, £177 17s Sd in payment of electric light accounts, £lii Us ltd abattoir lees, £i;> 1 4 M revenue from the municipal bath,, and various accounts amounting lo £IUJ 13s; total receipts, £lliil 13s Id. The borough's bank overdraft to-day .stands at £IOSB 7s Id, and accounts amounting to iiil'S sis (id are presented for payment to-night.

C.iclc-iacing siiumd get a big iilnp in I'aranaki tins season worn u.c mcieasing auentioii being pa.u to the sport h\ .-ports societies. A li tue principal 0 o"cieties are increasing thuir prizes, the -New Plymouth Society probablv oilering about £.4U for three open races. It is signiiicant that the Lllham Axemen's Association has deleted running events irom its programme, substituting theretor cycling events, entries 10, which close with the secretary at rJlthan, tomorrow evening.

When llic- Ac.v Zealand footballers :.W t heir Home headquarters at the Leeds brand Central Hotel, wr jtes London correspondent, i thought 'a i«ad«. Auivl lias

»■<•" deeded to make their home at ;" , a r et h \ lio j ,laue '«»«* ™« im . of » team in train»y "jail -Leeds. Of that oily one memUcr ol the ••All Blacks" writes : -"Tlu's place is 01 ho use to a team u f any sort

«;ho are wanted to keep in decent-nk-k ; temptations, so we are off to Jlklev to escape the hospitalities thrown a,.' u s ») all Hurts and conditions of people." '■l'll'! decorum of both niuriiiii.r and owning services in a Carterton church on a recent Sunday, says the "News," » iirta ed by the antics of !"■<< h-liicl, had taken up their abode in the organ. During the morni,,., ai . ','"" " ! , »'« 'li.Minutive rorienls '"MI. and solcnnly ,eated itself on l hi' *acau( ,to„l ol (He organist, where 1 1 ;™;.ii"';«l in an attitude of attention ' •• he hymn ~,,,„ aunollUW(l , Jt (Hs _ ,'. ,V, ,w a ', (,K ' a l>P''<'a<!« of the rightful cu.pa ,1, who, summoning up courage, ev i, "' "I T " • httke -' JJl "'»'S tie tuning., devotions four mice creut "!<"' and thither, to the grcat coi^r n.Mioii oi u l( . temiuine choristers, who to the unsuspecting congregation -m Paired to have developed an alnrmiii.r restlessness. °

J here are plenty of shops where vou «»i buy clothing, but very few shops «liere they pay such attention to detail us they do at The Knsh, that shop '„ l)c\on-strcet. Xew Plymouth. They're just as particular in selling von a ready-o-wear suit as they are in'their made-to-measure ones. AVhen you try 0!1 ~ suit m that .store a practical man sees 'I on, and ,1 any alteration is needed I"' tlocsn l wait for you to see it, but he suggests doing j(. a „d, that's more, Hicy do it free of charge. They've a •-nlciidid range of suits and trousers in Htock and it will well pay you to get your Christmas suit there. Their Prestwoll suits from 4fls fid to 65s are splendidly tailored and lined very well The shoulder* are well padded, and they have that nice hang so much sought niter by dressy men. Drop in as soon as you can and pick out your Christmas 6tut.—Aavt.

The work of lowering Liardet-strcct at the entrance to the Recreation flronnds has been completed. Mr. A. Hooker showed us on Saturday a splendid bloom of a spider-lily. He Una since plated it on view at Mr. Hui'le's fruit shop.

A swarm of bees took charge of a verandah-post in front of Mr. A. Vcale's grocery on Saturday afternoon, and were tlie centre of attraction for some time until a businesslike old gentleman came along and popped them in a box.

During the recent Hotter in the potato market, says a southern exchange, lioine persons made money, though a good many lost. One middleman in Invercargill is reported to have cleared Cl-tUO over a week's transactions.

The exceptionally heavy shower of rain during Friday night overtaxed the capacity of most of the culverts and side-channels in the borough, with the result that in some cases the lloodwaters ilowcd across footpath's and into private gardens.

One of the footpaths most frequented | by visitors to New Plymouth is that leading from Courlcnay-stroot to the Carringtou-road entrance, to the, Kecreation Crounds. A litroll along the wellkept footpaths in the grounds is the more appreciated from the untidy and stony footpath provided by the borough. The "Feilding Star" learns from ilr. Donald (Irani, formerly a well-known Kairanga farmer, that the proposal he i made to invest ten million yen or dollars ( ,-1:2,01)0,1100) in the development of the I A/.unia Pasture Company's ■ land, about I 100 miles to the north of Yokohama (Japan), has been accepted. | (Jn the amplication ol Mr. R. C.

Hughes, the will of (he fate Margaret llcggs, of inglcwood, was proved before his Honor Judge Denniston on the 3rd inst., and probate granted to Margaret Ann Harris and ihomari Clarence Howard Nicholls, the executors named in the will.

The Junior National Scholarship and the Junior Free Place examinations will lie held at Stratford and New Plymouth, commencing on Tuesday, 10th inst. At the former centre 37 candidates are sitting, mid at the latter 48. For the Junior Civil Service examination commencing on Friday, 31st inst., 42 candidates are sitting at Stratford and 30 in New Plymouth, The New Plymouth examinations will be held in the Cour-tenay-street school.

A proposal lias been made that the band rotunda in Kawarua Park should lie moved to a more convenient site, on the. Victoria Ksplanade near Dawsoustreet. The bonmgh engineer estimates that the work would cost about £33, and the Works Committee will recommend the Borough Council to undertake the work. Tlie present rotunda was elected as a Coronation memorial. Its first foundation-stone is understood to be resting in front of the Terminus Hotel.

As ilr. and ills. W. Jenkiusou were driving to JVaitara yesterday with a child, the strap of the swiugletree broke, causing the horse to play up and eventually to overturn the vehicle against the bank at ilangalione hill. All the occupants of the trap were thrown out, and unfortunately Mrs. Jenkiusou received some injuries through her legs becoming entangled with one of the wheels. The trap righted itself on the horse swerving round and making for town. The runaway was stopped near the Fitzroy Primitive Methodist Church and taken back to Mr. Jenkinson, but Mr. Kunciman kindly placed his trap at the service of the sufferers, their conveyance being brought into town for them. Mrs. Jenkinson as soon as possible received medical aid.

The manager of the New Plymouth municipal abattoirs in his report to he presented to the Council to-night says that during November there were slaughtered at the abattoir for human consumption 58 cows, 84 bullocks, 7 calves, 484 sheep, 13(1 lambs, and 120 pigs. There were 109 tripes cleaned and 3 calves' heads. Only live pigs were condemned—three for tuberculosis and two for malignant growths. Comparing the figures with the return for November, 1110(1, there is a falling-olt of 12 cattle, 8 calves, 04 slieep, 00 lambs, and 10 tripes, etc. Pigs showed a trifling advance over last year's numbers. Fees amounted to £142 lis Od. Export cattle were killed in greater numbers than in the corresponding month of last year, last month's figures being 111 cows, 2 bullncks, 82 bulls, and 2 calves, totalling 105 head, or an increase of 110. Twentyeight grown cattle were coiiiTenmed, half of these being for tuberculosis, two for advanced pregnancy, and 12 for emaciation; one calf for tuberculosis.

At a meeting ol the New Plymouth Caledonian Society the draft, programme was revised and several increases made. The Baud Contest Handicap was allocated JCSO cash, the quarter and half mile .CO 10s each, cycling events £2O, and (lancing and bagpipe music £11). A subsidy is also expected from the New Zealand League of Wheelmen, in which case tho principal of the four cycling events (the Dominion wheel race) may be increased to £25 cash. With so attractive a programme, and the Waitara and Stratford meetings being held about the same time, the cracks of the colony may be expected to compete, and no doubt the aggregated money, totalling close on £4OO, will induce'many new local men to enter the field. The New Plymouth sports take pi ice on February 2(itli, during band contest wwk—an additional attraction. H v that time the new liecreation Sports Around will I)e, from both the spectators' and eompotitors' points of view, unequalled in the Dominion. Tn addition to the above events, the 100 yds, 4-luvds, and halfmile championships nf the Dominion are set down for decision.