LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 305, 30 December 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There will lie no publication of the "Daily News" on Wednesday, New Year's 13ay. The Ilinemoa left Auckland oil Saturday for the Kerniadec Islands, to replenish the castaways' depots there. Collections taken up at l)aun<:virKe on Christina* live, in aid ot the hospital, resulted 111 £l2O 4s being received.

Chines; are becoming a, l>jg factor in the business e.ouinuuiity of Ci-eytowu North. No fewer tlu thirty are running greengrocery and market gardening businesses iu the district.. The Australasian stjuadrwi is due in Lyttelton 011 January Htli, and is expected to Stay until the 18th. The llagship, Ii.M.S- Powerful, is expected to arrive ihere to-morrow.

report the appearance ul that summer pest, liie ily, wnlch has eojmnenced boring operations on the green crops, lilight is still prevalent. . . ...

A party of young nieu left Stratford 011 Friday morning lor Mount ligmont. ilr St, Clair, caretaker of the .Dawson's fails house, was to pilot the pally to Lake Dive. This trip is a dil- ' Jicult one to make, few persous having succeeded i u reaching the lake. A' "News'" reporter nas oecn told lh,t a young larrikin why intericrcd Willi the fireworks display 011 Boxing Night was only a little nipper who "uujjhu 10 ha' been JMMue with wis mil.'' LUfoitunately the age limit for sUccl-siiull-iug and larriksusm has been much extended in recent years, and many brats of boys seem to be beyond pireiital control before their schooldays are over.

llad an officer been stationed on Ihe Powderh im street bridge 011 Saturday evening just after the close of the tennis touuanient. he could have brought on enough actions for breaches of me borough hy-laws Lo have warranted the corporation in reducing the general rate next year. All manner of people 111 all manner of vehicles drove across tile rickety old structure at full trot, one resident taking a pair over "at other than a walking pace."

I The following i.s the drawing fur ! places in the J-irc tlrig.ide events ,ii. tlie 1 ik'creation Sport* Ground garden par;y oil New Vcar's Day-Five men event (U» .-''art at 2. o'clocki, New l J Jyniouth 15 U'jim, Fit/.roy, New i'lymoulli A, Wangiumi, A, Eltham 13. Three men cv,»';jLS—New Plymouth i>, JEltham A, I'it/U'oy ii, Wanganui, Now IMymuiith C, Eltham J>, JH'-i' 0 )" (,u ' J'lyinuutli A. The 'J'<' J»sij»j»y Jiaml loam are to challenge the winner*.

"The old trouble of people who unpack good» on the street and leave tlie nail- scattered oil the road cropped up on I'iiday at the mooting of the Wellington Society Jor the Protection oJ Animal.-. Mr Seed, the Society's Inspector, reported (Sa\> the 1'osl) that a man who empolys a great many hordes complain> that he lias at the, present live horse- re-ling in consequence of injuries caused by nail*. lie calculates hi* losses at .CIUU a- year through Inji'ses that have been lamed, The meeting instructed the Inspector to trv to sheet *\ ease homo." AYe have not heard id' injury to hoiscs by similar reprehensj'W?' practices indulged in by a I Jew New .Wpnout h tvadt'spfnple, !>n>t wo have heaJ'd *j,'/)ny complaints regarding the inconvenience to adjacent shopkeepers* ami the genera/ pnhlic through footpath* U-ing littered w;'h packing cases and packing. There is a bye law regulating this practice. and. no duubl. the advent oi the new inspector of nni-s'-aui-iM will prevent further abuses.

So'inotimi— aecidents that pass for niisj'ortmtes to our welfare. This fact is lirotight home vividly to the dairyfarmer who ha* Iwm'N prevailed on to invent in an inferior cream separator, and after being hurt- in pocket u.ml very ofleii in body* he consigns it tii 1 he >cr;iplioap. and. proliling bv a bitter oxpoi'ienee, buys an *'Al fa-Laval"— the separator that Juu» stood all testis for a quarter of a century and tins 700 first prizes to its credit. Buying experience is expensive; buying an "Alfa-Laval" is a provable investment—it will Save its cost 1 1c first year of use ami last you a lifetime, i'e])utat'ioii &)r common sense will snfl'er unless you profit by th<- mistake* of others. Catalogue f T' mailed free. Sole New /enlnnd agents, Slrutliei's and Co., Ltd., Mainstreet, Palmerston North. E. GriHlths i and Co., New Plymouth local agents,

Machine guns were turned on the ni- I Irate mini's strikers ut Iquicpie, and 200 were killed. I he Mauretania broke from her moorings in New York harbour and was slightly damaged. Nearly a hundred people wore drowned through the collapse of a bridge of hunts on the Indus, in India. Lu'enlv-throe lepers escaped from hospital at Havana. Only four have been recaptured.

-U Umiznlu's trial evidence is heiii" .U'ven "I Ins complicly \v|h l!ainbania r , rebclnm. Mr. .lellicoe (formerly of Wellington), has been retainde for the defence. . ; $ m -Mr (linncll, Nationalist, member lor •North Ueslnieatli, whose arrest was recently ordered for contempt of coitrl h.'s been arrested while travelling in disguise, n The liedniond and O'Brien sections of the Irish Xationalist partv have reunited. They agree that, while thev will ceaselessly strive for Home Jiule,' they will endeavour to secure practical itmeli- 1 oration from the English parties

Ihe Union Company's turbine steamer Maori, which arrived from Lvttelton oji l'l-nlay morning, established a „ ow record. Jler latest performance is frojn ; :1 Shrs .-„., i „; ironi whaif to wharf Rhr 42niin: an averi"c s poed of 20-1 knots, °

l ie Aloa Uoad Hoard has accepted the lender ol Messrs. t'arkin and Kvngdon lor Lincoln road work: Formation Cl.w Is Sd, metal X 7 5s 2d per chain, pipes 4s each, re-coating 8s ])er yard, Mr Standing's lender fur the tunnel on the same road was accepted at (is per foot and 12 10s for inlet and outlet. At the re-trial of Count, von Moltke. his divorced wife modified her testimony regarding his depravity, and the medical expert withdrew his previous opinion. Ilerr Harden s to call the Kaiser's sister to repeat on oath what she told him, that she know von Moltke was a man ol depraved habits.

A valuable cow, owned bv Mr Fendall, I died li victim to its own thirsty dissipation one diy last jveek. The animal broke into a neighbor's dairy and went on what may be termed n 'lacteal tangle." After getting outside of eighteen gallons of milk. the cow calmly walked outside, and, after one long look at the heavens, fell down and died. There was nothing wrong witty th<T milk, nntl it is a general opinion that the cow died of TotTmuch of a good thing."

Important change* in tlie British Cabinet are /oreshndowed. The Premier and Mr. Cladstone are to go to the ! House of Lords, the former replacing Lord Kipon, who is 8(1 years of age. The "Express" says the Government will be rearranged as follows:—First Lord of the Treasury, Mr. Asquith; Chancellor ot the Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd(ieorge; Home Olliee. Mr. dohn Burns; Local Government Board. Mr. Tj. liarcourt: First Commissioner of Works' the Hon. A. W. Murray {Master of Elibank). The Sydney Chamber of Commerce lyj.s been notilied by Ac Imperial naval authorities that the navy is already taking in Australia supplies of the following good* on their ships, viz.:—Coal, fresh provisions, ru<m, Sugar, coffee, tea, Hour, medical comforts, condensed milk, chocolate aad cocoa, preserved meat, preserved . provisions generally, jam», timber, firebricks, tiles, soap, drugs, etc. It is added that there are any oilier lines of goods suitable foi naval requirements, which can be supplied in Australia, the Admiralty will •favoraWy consider any offers made.

Since the beginning or 1007 the COlll- - has sli li e red eojjiderably through defaulting olliccrs. The total ajmount involved was £2.i)88 Os li'/»d.' This was mostly in siting p£ less than i £SO, and a largo proportion of if. ; recovered from the guarantee fund and arrears of salary. The largest sum in default was £lo© 9s 2d, for which W. J. Stafford, postmaster at, Wyoming, in New South AVales, was responsible, JJij whereabouts are unknown. • In most cases legal proceedings were taken and convictions obtained. A Tasmanian postmaster was found in default to the amount of £3OO, and another in the same Statejxtis responsible for a shortage of £372 ss. This last case is still being investigates. The total amount in aefeiult in Victoria was only £62 17s Bd. Tilery were only four defaulters, and all the money was recovered. Referring to the proposal to establish

4 Commonwealth arsenal, Mr Deakin recently ss-id: "We find that in order to provide against Ike emergencies of war it will he necessary tu' establish an ani-i munition factory. This m#aj)£ a cordite factory by way of basis. If we cOHhJ—aixl lam still ncgotiting with the Admiralty tin the subject—obtain the work of supplying the fcpaaron here and that in the China seas, it ywijd be a great help to us. If could use JOO tone* of cordite a year we could save 3u per lb in production; if we use only 00 tons a year our cost will lie proportionately higher. Jly colleague having received a valuable report from Jlr liake, the very capable explosives expert in Victoria, who visited the Mother Country for us, will .make a proposal as to the ammunition' factory, which proves that the proposition is as absolutely sound as it is from a defence point of view essential." Jlr Willis: You will have to have a yarn with the Treasurer about that. The Postmaster-General: What about the Post Office now? (Laughter). The Prime Minister: 1

have shown you tic comparative slight increase in expenditure proposed under this scheme, and I have also show# ij}j} t a large part of that expenditure can bp spentin this country. (Hear, hear),