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I The Auckland police umdv a serious complaint to the Auckland' Licensing Committee regarding llie license of a city hotel. After going into the matter the committee intimated th.it the license of the hotel would ml lie renewed to the same licensee at the ne\l annual meeting. The case upon which the police based their complaint was that of a man named Patrick Smith, who stayed at the hotel in ipiestion for nine or ten days at the beginning of last moiilh. He lianded CiO to the publican, who gave him hack a sum aggregating C2-I. tip to ittli February it was shown that Smith expended at least Cli of this in drink, "shouting'' fur numerous "hang-ers-on" at the hotel. The .s:"|iicl was iusanitv for Smith, who is nnw confined in the Avoiuhile Asylum. The whole circumstances of the case left the Licensing llencli dissatisfied with the conduct of the licensee.

Owing to the prospective high values of oat-sheaf chaff during the winter months, farmers In the Ashburton county hav© threshed out very little oats tliis year, preferring to thatch the stacks I and 'hold for chaff. A farmer in the Seaview district North Canterbury) states that his crops yielded 12 bushels per acre in excess of last year' return, and, in addition, he i has sold his wheat lit Is 3»/ 8 d in advance I of the price ruling at this period last I year.

As the result of investigations made by the boards appointed to inquire into tiie claims for assistance by 00 sufferers from the recent bush fires in (iippshmd. the Victorian flovernnicnt Ims decided to advance .C.'107."> for grass seed, £l4O for fencing wire, and ,€7!) 10s for iron.

"Advertising is educational. It makes people thoughful of their bodily coinforts by bringing to their notice all kinds of food. It encourages thrift by advertisements of sales, etc. It elevates taste in furnishing by advertisements of artistic furniture or wall-paper or pictures!. It produces a taste for musit, sport, and art by advertisements of their respective necessities," M r meeting of the Revival .on (jiouncls board en Monday night, Mr. M. W. Smith, who for some tune nasi, lias been in charge of the municipal reserves at Palmerston North, was appointed curator uf the grounds. Tue appointment is ,i first-class one, and bound to lurther increase the charm of the famed gardens. The AstibiuTon public gardens, a monument to Mr. | Smith's liandicratt, arc amongst the Jicst known town beauty spots in the South Island. As the outcome of his recent success as Madame Melba's accompanist, Mr. Harold Whittle lias received a handsome Viler from the great singer to become her permanent accompanist in her iuture concert tours of the Old World. Mr Whittle, who is a son of Mr. W. Whittle, of the Wellington staff of the Hank of New Zealand, and a member of the Wellington Howling Club,, leaves for tendon shortly in ilctba's.wtike to take up his new duties,

At the Magistrate's Court, [nglewuod, on Moudav, a boy named Leonard Cope's lake, from W'aitara, was charged wuli lorging and uttering a cheque lor .C 5 odu on Mr Turcln's account at the Hank ot New South Wales, luglcwood. Mr. lurchi is a farmer residing at \\ aitui, and the accused was staying with him for a lew days. Mr. C. 11. Weston appeared for Copestakc, who pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Sa preme Court for sentence at New Plymouth on March 18.

Townspeople will not be sorry to learn Mint the latelv created title of "Pukckura Park" bestowed on the Recreation Grounds has not received the Government endorsement. Personally, we have from the outset regarded the new name as merely a temporary one, and would suggest, if the Board is still anxious to find a new designation for the grounds, tnat there is no necessity lo aim any mrthcr than "New Plymouth Botanical (".aniens." a mime that, if perhaps not at present altogether appropriate, will soon become «o under the care of the •new curator.

That the Ilawera district is capable ol j growing prolific crops of Russian barley {s shown, says the Star, by a 12-acrc block of W. Appleyard's, within a mile and a-half of the town. The seed was sown on November 7, and the crop was cut on February (i and 7. Threshing was done on February 18, and it was found that the yield averaged 71 busnels to the acre. Barley is valued at 3s per bushel. It is said that if the crop had been uncut for another week it would have yielded 80 bushels to the acre. This crop, in respect of time and yield, is regarded by Mr. Appleyard as a record.

New Zealand is to provide some of the horses for the Indian Army, says the Wairarapa Standard, under the new scheme arranged by General (load who visited Australia and New Zealand last year. The scheme is lo issue "commissions" to six firms in Australia and one in New Zealand to supply the remounts. Hitherto twenty-one firms have been providing them. New South Wales breeders are complaining that the effect will be to create seven combines and Iprevenl competition. They have appealed to the Federal Prime Minister to receive a deputation in protest. The contract price is at present f 45_ each. '■GunneVs" or artillery horses will no doubt be taken from New Zealand.

Seemingly all that requires doing to convert these Islands into another Garden of Eden (says the Mat-aura Ensign) is to translate a few Labor precepts into practice. Unfortunately there is a cloud on the horizon which menaces this blissful prospect of a Socialistic Utopia. Immigrants of our own kith and blood our Labor demigods may keep out by brand-new red-hot resolutions, but there is another potential immigrant casting his almond eves in our direction who mav not be so denied. Whether the

fiercely-worded resolutions of labor unions will prove a sufficient obstacle to bar his progress is a subject on which the historian of the future may have something to say. In a letter to his brother in Feilding, a resident of Whackrow Bungalow, Tticlimond River, N.S.W., writes:—"This is the most wonderful place for growing things I was ever in. Indian corn is now' 12 feet high, without a word of exaggeration, the cobs being nearly ripe, and presenting a beautiful picture. Grass is up to the cows' backs nearly everywhere. Ten inches 'of rain fell last week, and there is every appearance of more. I may mention that rain falls incessantly in the Northern Rivers district of New South Wales, and land is not to be bought in places at £OO per acre. Snakes are very thick. See several nearly every day, and never think of going out without leggings."

Apropos of church-going, men often state that they stay away because the "pirson" has everything his own way and can argue with them for twenty minutes or so without giving them a chance to reply in or out of church. Such would doubtless have been surprised had they been present at the annual meeting of the Dimedin City Mission (says the Otago Daily Times), when the Rev*. W. Heiritson said it would be a decided advantage from the preacher's standpoint if the churches reverted to the. synagogues, wherein the people were at liberty to question the priests on subjects not made clear.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 69, 11 March 1908, Page 2

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Untitled Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 69, 11 March 1908, Page 2

Untitled Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 69, 11 March 1908, Page 2

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