LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 324, 25 January 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

i W luNt fi'ui: i- lieinj: bronchi to Xew Plymouth ami at remarkalilv low ■ it ia interesting to note Unit, at I Nelson tomatoes arc selling at 7s (id per , how Here they fetch only 2s to .V Tlir !»«'< rcatiou >pc>]U (iromtd ( <>m- ; inittee U evidently rf.-t ermine,l U, h:m- :t tlilt'K l"l' till' '"lliHtl | >!' 'H ~1l l| I ■Npol't--111<m• i jii';. If nc< (•--iiiy four turn arc t«» he Lept a( work mi it f<• r the next liv" .v.ffUs. At til' l F/juitaMc JJuihlinj; Society's i Jncelnji.' );i-i Mr.' \\\ (H)ivcr was • in the ballot for the »ppr»- ■ priatinn n| ant) i„ u )(1 i; is t ; iml Mis A. IVjirce. n f Wiiitnrn. for a similar amount in ilie c eeomJ The i -urn-satnl teudi'r-i tor of | .%,].>() were C2S Irtc jn the first group ;iiiil C.T-1 10s in the second. i

; At ii iiic.-tinjr r ,r U),. Horlii-iilliivii] Soj ciely ■■niiiiiiitr.-<- tnsi lnVlit il was decided . no! In hold an autumn slimv. The lial-ancc-lioct of (lie late >!,„«■ revealed a fioodly credit lialancc. the th'-t for sonic ( lime. The schedule was reviewed, aud i-i!coiiinn'in)iition? noted for next year's niiinaacK". j I The mm appointi'l -nine lime ago a« i dairy lii,|ieetors arc not to be Kent Out | airion-' > In- dalrv farmers a.- educators . in i-lo.nilint tlio mo-t ini|i.irlant su'>- | jort tin' manufacture 111' liu''i !.m- and .lii",'-,.- until (hey | lilV( . received ; some training specially on their future work. I! ,\ intended to scl.-cl ' : special men to .-arrv out I his (-durational j ! work. »hich «-i|| include elementarv | veterinary knowledge pai ti-ularly in I ! I lie d : r(v!inn of die mean- neee-«a'rv to I 1 !»' taken to iwortaiu the presence of I ; di-a-i-. and -iinplc -anitarv conditions !" I"- adopted for ilu- iirodnelion si ii -1 | Imidl'n... of milk ina lou.lilioii soiled io | ■eiai product-. ' ' "-" '' " """ l " 0 '';

The English mail despatched from Wellington via i\aplea on 13th December ir, rived in London on the Morning of the j 2'Hli instant. The sale of sections In Chilman's Extended on Thursday alternoon was not very successful, only one section beiii{! disposed of, at tin 1 upsei price. 'The Works CoimuiLt-ee last aiylit again considered the borough engineer's report upon the County Couueil's Avenue-road u 'vialion and bridge. The conitTciicc between the delegates oi the two Councils will be held on Tuesday evening next. The services in Wliitcley Memorial Chun h un Sunday will be conducted in | me morning by Ue lie v. 11. A, 11. Kc.-k, 'and in I lie evening by the iWv. T. :;.

Urooke. Subject lor evening »eivics. ■l'he Conqueror." Visitors cordially invited. Advt.

In c in-lioii with the Hospital Sull.i.iv movement, the secretary of the (..ii-ri,nn Hand lias invited the Jliliu.ry Maud and the Inglewood, Wailara, n.ml Nirnu'ord bands to take part in .be demonstration to be held in the Kecrcali.iu (..rounds, if permission can be obtained.

Mr. T. L. -101 l paid out J113,330 2s MM for the niontli of December, being

■a: the rate of lid )wr lb for butter-fal. It i- stated thai if there had been a favorable season payments would have ureii fully 2(1 pet cent. more. The pay-

ment is'claimed as a record for any | dairy cujicern 111 .New Zetland except Taie'ri I'eninsulii, Dunedin, and Dairy Association, Auckland. New Zealand lias lieen approved by a count, and the nice compliments are scarcely discounted by the fact that the praiscr is a Herman, Count Fritz llocuiierg. He covered a page of the visitors book at the Sydney agency. lie was very glowing in his tribute to one married couple in charge of one of the accommodation houses in the Cold Lukes district. "The uoveriimeiit." he quaintly wrote, "tan be congratulated upon having chosen these highly respectable and capable people."

The "Dominion" unburdens itself as follows:—It has been a long time coining, tint it is here at last. We have known the black Derby, or " hardhitter "—lie. made headgear symbolic of English re-s|ectability----for a long time, and have at various periods noted with varying feelings of misgiving the alterations in lb- width and shape of brims and the height of crowns. Mack has on occasions given war to all shades of brown, while a green'and grey have crept in here and there on rare occasions. But now the white hard hat has come to trick oil' the male person, and if the weather does not change there is likely to be a run <m "the white Derby of blamele-s life'' this summer. White hard hats were just the thing ill l.oml m la-t summer, and no one who desires to i oe up to the minute in headgear should hesitate in adopting the new hat.

They have a Lionel Terry in Spam. At Madrid, Senor lleliodoro Uojas, a Judge of the Supreme Court and a writer of merit, is being tried for attempted murder. In January of kn-t year he followed a lady as she left the theatre with her son, declared bis love for her. and shot her son wiih a revolver. The son only recovered after a long illness. Rojas ' was arrested, mid doctors declined him insane. Ko.pis however, declares that he is sane, and is conducting his own defence. He plea Is in extenuation the ''force of passion fanned by a lovely woman's coquetry." In one of his recent books Kojas remarks that there is no longer any need for railway sleepers, and suggests that the rails lie supported instead on the heads of the people through whose country the line passes.

Kutries have already commenced to flow in for the champion-ship athletic •sports meeting to be held here on the 2Uth February. Besides competitors from all parts of the North Island, runners' and cyclists at lnvereargill, Dunediu, Christchurch, Blenheim, and other centres in the Mouth Island have intimated their intention to compete, and the meeting promises to be one of the most representative ever held in N :w' Zealand. Most satisfactory train arrangements have been made, including a night train from Wanganui after the Webb-Tressider champion sculling match on the 2(ith February. In consequence a large majority of the Southern visitors to the sculling match will book on excursion fares on to Xew I'lymouth and attend the sports meeting and band eon-tet-1. At the same time the annual conference of the Xew Zealand Athletic' I'niou is to he held in New I'lyniouth, and also a conference with Xew Zealand league of Wheelmen delegates tJ form a Taranaki centre for the control oi cycling sport in this province.

lit a reference to the accident to a young man in the Manawatu (Jorge recently, the Marlborough Express says it recalls meniories of an almost exactly' similar accident which happened to the late Mr. John O'Meara a few years ago. Mr. O'Meara, who was at that time a member for I'uhiatuii district, was cycling through the Gorge at night-time on his way to his home at Woodville, when his bicycle "skidded," and the unfortunate M.l>, tell some IUU feet down I lie Gorge eliir, landing, very fortunately I'm' himself, in a clump of shrubs only a dozen feet or so from the river. The unlucky legislator simply "cannoned" from riK'k to rock on his way down, and when he returned to consciousness ne was in an awful state. Over sixty stitches were put in his head and neck alone, and for many weeks lie lay between life and death. Cyclists are very fond of using the Gorge as a short cut from the east to the west' coast and vice versa, but until the road has been cleared of slips they will do well to give it a wide berth and transfer themselves to the train.