LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 47, 14 February 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-d;ey is the ]a>i day for tin; me lit of Income TaxYesterday \va-? the anniversary ol tlu* White (,'lills in iSOb. An im|iiiry will be held to-day ai U.'fOa.in. in the F<»re>ler>' Hall, W'aitara. before the -S.M., .Mr. Fitzherbert ; a- to the wreck of the Nora I'radshnw on the W'aitara bar. liie I'.aud ( t'uiiiinii tec haw iu\iied tlie mayors ui the various lowns in laranaki to he pr«--ent at the garden pirly on the -"»fb inst.. when a public welcome will be given to the vi-iting bandsmen. The railway stations of Jlerlin are >hort!y to be provided with automatic 'jiaeiiines which, on the insertion of two •'hillings and .. penny, will deliver .-hi nml.reiki. A ticket will also drop ont. and on pre-.-nling it within two day- to an ollice of the automatic society. Is Xd will be paid back in return for the uniThc following delegates to the ;innu,<l lOnlcrenee of the. New Zealand Alldutie I'nion to be lield here on the day ot she championship sports have already • ont word to secure accommodation:--Me-srs and W'ouds (Southland!, e.east and Corcoran (Olago). Kennedy (South Canterbury).-Parkis (Westland), Duncan < Wellin«rtou 1. Smith (Pahiitua). The Wairarapa. Ilawke's Bay, uid Wanganui delegates have not yet been appointed. A man eighty year.-, of age and a

woman of seventy-two eloped ;>• week ago from a home for old people at Dornbirn, a little town near Bregenz. Suit' zerland, localise they were refused permission to marry. Shortly afterwards] they returned to the establishment. ! slating that thev had been married, and h d spent all their money in having a good time. On the couple agreeing to live apart as before in different wings of the home they were allowed to oei cupy their former garters. Yesterday morning a milkman was going his usual rounds, (,'pon leaving j the house of one of his customers h'- no-

ticed an urchin taking' a drink', holding his mouth under the tap. The youngster promptly "cleared." and the' milkman followed, but youth was on the side

of the pursued, who soon got well away. Tile owner of the curt, turned back, aiid noticed for the first time that the boyhad left I lie tap turned on. The .shorthand writer close bv was unabk- in "take" what followed.

The men engaged on ih r Carringion road received yestrrday a c uisideral.c ea-h gift from Mr. It. fork, who wi-hea thus to acknowledge ;heii- sciu, r> j,, extingiii'-hing (he lire on hi-- nroperlv on Wedneday. He expressed his warm ..'pprceiatioii or t Im* proinptnes-. with whieh I hey rushed to the ,n-ne wlnm "f toe lire ami of the >trenuou- : work which rc.-nlted in arre.-tiii" ilCock c>!iinaies that" Hte d<«mai:c t'i trees; hedge* amounts t*> from L'loo ll( e

I '''in' out-of-date l)(vds is 1,, i.e ! .at »" early ,lat,. I,y M I <!nic 1 'Ull .i 1 iiir. Til,. ~itp t | l(1 ■ stmi-iinv. we ninl.-r-1;m,l. i, t„ l„. wlic.'e Um.lilicll < ri'.-iili'iicc now sian l-i I !" A sci-liim adjoining h j :,» ( been purchased. to which the Sergeant's lioum' will ho rpuioveil, jiivinp; 111. 1 cuj'uer MTliun ror the now Deeds Olliw. Ue uiHerstnml Hint tU? jjripf pai.l /or tlie acipiirod qiinrler-nprp soclion wa---C7SU. Mr. llickniiHi F. Russell, Inn,] il "'I i-Mak' tlio anlc. The uiilinnrv meeting ol' the JJjunl Contest Committee was held last niglii. |»ll \\ii.s ri-»olvetl to wire urgently Minister for linilwuys (the lion. \V. asking liini to fnr iin 11..11) [i.iii. triiin iruni .New Plnnouilj 10 IlinwiM on the 2lith and 27th in,;. Ill;' eliairnnin ( Mr. !•:. Djrkrill) repoiti'd !i_iviii- i'.iii 1 vvieweil t ln- Minister f., r l.ann-, Willi to iho closing of the I'••'Veninient on the afternMon> ol luv-day l.L'al'don parly! ; W'odnesdav (alhlelic >portsi. a:'i Tliui -<l«iy (<]uic-k-Me]. eomiH-iiiinu': a was decided ihat ' I'-' t'\e -:! live meet eaeh morning of the eonle.->t ni S.oO o chteK in the Tlieatnj It w;is al-o d-'eided to have ! iiolii-.'-iMiard.s printed requesting tinj pulilie not to menlion the names bunds „( players while competitions are in prn^re—. TJie >iii"ke Jiom the bn>h liiv> w.;.'•0 thick ye-jl'.'rday nioniiny fna! i In* ':oa>l was ijuite ob, L -iired wli.-n the t'akapuna arrived. A jmll ol uind cleared Alt. fur ;l .n-ond, and Captain 11 utcliings hi-, bearings shortly Mtterwai'ds the Sugarloave.s loomej out of the haze, and tlje >teanier was ijiuckly brought alongside, to the fur-

ol simic who iijui thought tlu' hank ot -muk.. would Jmvr made it imposj,)i>cii+sii]g win, iI K , chairman 01 tile Jlarbor Hoard the be.-t system "f tog-signalling tu at tin- pun Captilni llutchings said the Board cutild ii»t do better than to erect a good hell. The 11.5.5. Co.'s si earners were'to be ijtt''d, Ik? said, with an apparatus bv which Hi.; captain of a vessel could hear the sound Ol a bell ,:( a distance of three miles, the receivers lieing in' the water am] tlie sound Jed bv wires to the ear. trials of signal gun? have not heen a -uceess.

Mr. W T. Jennings. MP., referring to the Mam Trunk line, which lie has Just visited m company with (he lion! 1!. iMc-Nab. slates that at To Kuiti. „-hen ,'" v , tl'" Kgmont seat in (licie wove only two frain- nor week from Auckland. At the present time there are six trains per dav- three ill and three out. The sett lenient oil the Olmra area and Wairoa (Southern Kan-hia) district lias been wonderful. At 01, lira, the votes at (he election m 111112 amounted („ j whereas in the election in Itin.-i. votes wpro recorded. In Tanmaranni three years ago there were only four houses.' To-dav"tlie popnlation in that district numbers about WWII, the 1111 jority of wliom are engaged 111 sawmilling. Manuuui. which did not lane any J-.'uropean residents three years aeo. has now a considerably population. Jli,. place shows (),(. Dio-I rapid develop, ""'-it anv settlement along the North 1-laiul "Main Trunk r»ilwav. There are between -inn lllid o(||) men employed :ibout the district in and