LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 66, 7 March 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Waihi return for the past four reeks was worth CflS.Wi'.l.

There is a remarkable growth of grass li the districts north of Waitara.

Harbor ratepayers in New I'lyuiou l h I ire to be addressed next week by tlie. Tiairmau of the. Harbor Hoard concerning the proposed Harbor Bill. Kcmcmboring the holiday muddle last year, the Chamber of Commerce has thus early discussed the mutter of elioosiug between Empire Day and I'rince ot Wales' Birthday for the general holiday. Upon the motion of Messrs. Johns and linker, it was decided to recommend the various organisations in Tarauaki to observe the holiday on Kmpirc Day.

There: are Will members in the Tarauaki Oddfellows' Lodges. H was hoped that the number would have touched tlie lllllii mark before Thursday's <lisiriet meeting. As the result of a special effort 14J1 new members were initiated, but there was a much larger number ot losses by arrears than usual, line lodge suffered the loss of 28 members.

Passengers by the 4.H1 juii. train from Waitara yesterday wondered at the numerous stoppages. One of these occurred just More reaching the Sentry Hill yard, and a guard informed the passengers that they would have to requisition "shanks' pony" to complete the journey, the line having become blocked during the operation of shifting one of the big tanks to another part cf the >tatioii-\-.ud.

At the Clifton County Council meeting yesterday the matter of rearranging the Council's agreement with the engineer. Mr. C. !■'. Dowsctt. was again considered. Mr. Dowsett offered to undertake all the Council's engineering and survey work for the sum I>f C2lO a year, exclusive of road maintenance su|iervision. and providing that he should not be asked to supervise contract* of a less value than CW. After a very long ami desultory discussion these terms were agreed to. At the llav.era Licensing Committee on Thursday. Constable ~ Carroll, of Mauuia. in a written report, commented upon the intemperate habits of tin? licensee of the Otakeho Hotel lA. Heatticl. and gave instances of having found him under the inlluenee of lioauir. Mrs. I'eattie bad complained of her husband's intemperate habits. .Maori women w.Mc allowed lo "sipial" about the doorsteps and in the yard. He hi I spoken to the licensee about the natives, but be appeared to have no control over them. The licensee, the police report stated, was not a lit person to have the license. Tin- committee decided to ~1 low .Mrs. Beattie to liave the transfer for three months, on IV understanding that she must get a licensee to lake her place.

Replying at Aralapu lo a deputation which urged the extension of the railway from Kaihu to iiokianga. the Prime Ministers said he would remind uis hearers that in his ollice and that cl the Minister for Public Works there

were applications for something approaching seven millions for roads, and -ix or eight millions for railways, but the welfare of the whole country had to be looked to as well a- the require-i,H-lils of localities. -We have requests for :i'2 new railways," said Sir .losepji. "but these matters'will have to be gone

into by degrees, and after the Main Trunk is out of the way. The Coverumeiit would sooner go out of oilicc tlum borrow four or live millions every year to meet the requirements of every di;Irict."

The children who arc turned mil of tlio industrial schools anil reformatories commence life in the world under a manifest handicap. The remarkably high percentage of ".successes" of young men aud women—that is, who settle down to earnest, honest life-is proof that the material is good. Surciv the Slate should do its whole duty by these hoys and giris, and train ihem under conditions that will give them a better chance of larger success ill the ultimate competition with their fellows. There is scarcely one of them that enjoys the inestiuialile benefit of a tr.ie home inllueuce. The existing system is had, and the sooner it makes way for a more enlightened system the lietter it will he for the children themselves and for the community.—Lyttelton Times. The Chamber of Commerce last night discussed the suggestion of Mr. T.'('. Schnackenbeig that :i weighbridge should lie. provided locally. In introducing the subject he ssid that, judging from the amount of short-weight com ! sigiiments landed in New Plymouth, the merchants in the south seemed to lnaware that there were no weighing facilities here. .Messrs. Newton. King, 0. 11. Burgess, and M. Fraser opposed the motion on the ground that the bridge was not required and would not pay. .Messrs. Roy, Ahier, Baker, and .lohns favored the proposal to ask the Borough Council to provide the weighbridge, but the consensus of opinion was against it. It was explained that there had once been '■> borough weighbridge, but it had to be dismantled as being unprofitable, it was further pointed oul that the railway authorities would check weights upon payment of sixpence

| Tlic lilthy cuiiililion of the banknotes in circulation was discussed by the Chamber of ' o lerec last nighi, the matter being brought up by Mr. C. E. Laker. lie considered that some of these uerc "swarming masses of microbes, and a menace („ p U l,|j ( . health." Hank .if England notes, he said, were never re-issued after once returning to the bank, and hi' thouslit that in view of the profits made by the banks here it ought In lie possible- to have a more frequent issue of new notes, together with a withdrawal ..i some „f 1 l„. slinking thing- „nw in „-,.. Son ' the members were incline] to ireat the mailer with levity, declaring that, dirt v .11' otherwise. |he note of even Ihe smallest denomination was worth a golden sovereign. But the meeting generally took Mr. linker's view. Mr. Connett said that but a short time ago ; he saw a Bank of New Zealand note which had been signed bv the lute Mr.

Thomas Kin« Oli-. Newton King's father), mill Mi. King retired from his connection with the bunk in 1873. It mi- decided to request tlie eo-operation of the various Chamber* of Commerce in securing a cleaner paper currency. At the .Magistrate's Court, Stratford, yesterday, A. If. Korth was charged with obtaining tlO ill money from T. Lawless by means of a valueless cheque. Detective lloddaiii prosecuted and Mr. U. Spcncc appeared f ( ,r accused. Evidence was given liy the licensee of the Stratford Motel („ |I K , effect that ac';iiscd had Wen boarding at his hotel lor about six weeks pri.,l In October Ist. on which date he asked for a Wauk cheque. Mr. lawless gave one of l,i, own on the Xational Hank, and accused portly afterwards presented the cheq.i,. iilled in and altered from "Slrat fnnl" I" 'Xapi.o." Tli,, cheque nib ea-lied. I Aiviiseil left by the mail (rain, and the cheque was subsequently returned marked Wo account." ILuatio Nelson gave tor.nial evidence of seeing the cheque at Napier mi October 3rd, and that "A. Tl. Korth" had „„t Hien. or at any lime to witno.,' knowled.re. an aecount, with the bank. {>„ October 'lrd lie had caught a gliiii| f accused as he passed out of Mi,, manager's room in the bank at Nipiev. A |,|,.., ~f •■„,,( guilty" mi. entered, defence hci'ii* j-„. -erved. .Mr. A. Tiinibini. S.Af ?.„.,,.

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