LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 91, 6 April 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

o | The Tarunaki County Council meet:; to-day. At Die S.M. Court this morning a MinLii employed mi the U.iruwa will bo 'charged with desertion and with the iiiell of .CH from one of his shipmates. The motor omnibuses which were to have been given u trial run between I l-'it/.niy and Multiroa on Sunday have not yet arrived. They should be here iiv inc lies I steamer from the south.

Owing to Easier Monday following upon Hie usual meeting-day of the Taraiiaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Jfoanl. the April meeting will be held next Monday.

The Kjjmont lioad I'ublie Hall 110-v in course of construction is to be ollicially opened un Caster Monday, and tic' commit to,, intend to mark the occasion by holding high holiday. An interrsihi" spoils iiieeling will occupy portion °i Hie .lay's proceedings.

I A couple of young men were sauntering through the Itocrcaturn (inuinds ihe otaier evening and observed a rami

,-neakiug after tliciu. At a fuvorable opportunity they stepped one on either side of the path to await the arrival ot the ••shadow," and to give hint a hsliciill reception if necessary. But he luilsi have seen the move, for he made oil'.

A llluir correspondent of the Southhunt Times writes that his attention has just been drawn to the fact that Tasmanian timber, the Jhi on pine, can be landed at the Jilulf 4s a hundred cheaper than New Zealand kauri. II anything, the former is a superior timber for duration. The result is that the Xew Zealand article is getting shut out of its own market by the foreign import.

An extraordinary accident happened rccciiilv at WaiUi.' A young man who was driving a cart left the horse and vehicle standing on the main road while he entered a house on the opposite side of the road.. In. his absence it is surmised that the horse must have bucked the cart across the road, over the embankment, and into the river, which was much swollen by the recent heavy rains, and both must have lieen carried down stream, as neither hoi's,, nor car! has since Ih'ou seen.

A meeting of the supporters of the Opposition party in the Cardiff district was held in tlieCardilf school on 1-riday night, Mr. J. T. Belcher the Post reports. On the motion ot Mr. !•'. Crossly, seconded by Mr. McHechic Mr. .1. T. Helihcr was unanimously appointed a delegate to attend the electoral conference to he held at Eltham, on April 14th, to consider the 'pieslion oi the selection of a delegate, etc. It was further resolved to-give the delegate a free hand in the matter of of a candidate, with the one restriction thai he be instructed not to support the candidature of anyone who was unwilling to fall into line with the organisation of the Party as already laid down. From a conversation overheard the other day in the train it would seem ilia: maiiv people are under Ihe inipi;es--inii (hit tin: hospital uinepenny rale i- a rate of ninepeiice in the .C. It Is, of course, only ninepenee on each CIOH capital value, a very different matter. 1 Thus the man whose' properly is valued Inl UIOOO pays in rates only 7s Oil per , annum Inwards the upkeep of lh<. hospital and charitable aid system. In addition to this there is the (iovernment subsidy on the amount, collected, and •v..' all have to bear our share of that,Should (he rate lie reduced to eightpence as (lie result of 'Mr. Browne's million the difference to the £IOOO pro-pcrly-uwncr's rates will be tenpence per annum.

For several year- past the Taraiiaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board has

ligured high in the lists of boards in respe,-, of the amounts collected tro:i patients who have left the hospital, the local hospital usually lying about onefourth, although this is mil by any means one of the largest hospitals in the Dominion bust year the secretary (Mr C. Al. I.epper) put up a record, but. this he has eclipsed in 1907-8.. the amount of fees from approximately IUII patients being .Willi) and over. ' The Auckland H.i-pilal Hoard generally gels only a few hundreds more from four or li\e limes as mniiv patients. II is due to Mr. Lepperrt efforts—and to the prosperity of the district, of course—that ibis result can be chronicled. Witli a less active, secretary a higher rale would have to be paid.

(In Satin-liny afternoon Air. S. Iliil introduced two old Crimean War veterans lo the miniature rillc range, and lliev were soon engaged in a match. Thev were Messrs. John (IT)riscoll, formerly

m' Hit' jolli Itegiment, and now 77 year's »f age, and ]•'. Watson, who is also considerably over the allotted s|ian oT (Tirer score years and ten. .Mr. O'Donnell is the holder o( a gold medal awarded to liim as the best shot in the British ainiv in Hie Crimen. And he's a deal bettor even now than many men young enough to be his grandsons. Out of nix shells he registered live bulls-eyes and an inner, miking 211. His, old conniide iiFarms was le-s skilful, notching lii. A week previously il,-. O'Donnell niadi! exactly the same .seme. J|i s tni-«i-ts are now exhibited at the range, and are worlli IXiltli injr at. «

A ivw wv,'U ago Melbourne was ago-' "ViT the liallarat niiirdcr mystery. The murderer had not been found, and a man wanted by the police to give eviilcnec was inissi„ g . At last °a clairvoyant informed the police that while conducting investigations on her own account the "spirils" had shown her til" iinssing man in Canada, and there sic ''''•■' lured he was. Anyone else would linve been laughed at; but this woman, who has a. '•fashionable practice" in Melbourne, is credited with having on a lonuer oceasmn correctly informed the police exactly where the body of a miss- '»}-• l>".v wonM be found. '« 0 on tlio -trenglli ol her former success peopl" watched the outcome of the police investigations with an added interest—""Hl Hie man was found a f»w davs allerw-ards working on a farm in Vic-

-Mi.tuara Island' i„ t'elorus Sound, ha: <'r some time past been devoted by flu Department of Agriculture to (he pur I"'.-'.* of brechug Angora goats. Tin •Minister ol Lands (lion. 1!. AlcXuh) "'•■il lliere last week, anil his opinion '- Hill it is unsuitable for the purpose "» Hie Kroundof ils innccessibilil v \ '"'"V '■'' "" the mainland is i, •ml. Apart from this considerii!l"". Imwcver. the goals have lliriveu ,'"' '!"' '"' r ' l k The p„rel"c'l Angora- ar,. being crossed with 11„. '■..liii.iij goals, as it is consider,.,! (]l .,| '•"iMitiiti..ii lor 11„. climate and counlrv. '" Il ''"• '.'.verninenl sells I lie half-breed '"" l ic'ii'iis Hie pure Angora. The d"- '"■ ; l"' l " 1 ' Hie (loveriiineiil's stock i, ','"". v :"'- v "* f " l iu keeping down . i.o M.euies and other noxious Weeds.

l'"i Uiiklreirs lacking Cough at ni-l.t . , "'. l ; , • | r,;ut Cure, h (id ami is Ull.

J'.very man in want oi clothes naturally turns to "The Kash," for ihey oiler | <'U-c|)ti„ual opportunities to keen buy, i-,.. .M„re especially is this Q le rasc Ju.-t nmv when their great annual sale '* on. they're making alterations in thou- ~,„jj, t 0 eope with Their rapidlvmci easing trade, aim naturally thov want to .dear out as much stock as thev poss.uly can. Tliat tney are guing the right way about it, you can judge by

the prices they .ire ollering their good' 'l. J lio rjnalily is, Bs ususi, very goo< Iti-.v vo n splendid lit of men's mackir •oshes „f blue Mellon with long cap,., in J with sleeves just the lh?ii" fo -oiml i-v wear, and at the price, 17s X hey are just about three times as chea is an oilskin, because there's about fiv ■imes the wear in the mackintosh. The ■licy've a let of trousers with the lir ngs slightly damaged by water: the lave heavy serges at '3s Gd, ' hoav : weeds at 4s Cd, and so on. AH the! ion's suits they are reducing; on plendid line of all-wool tweeds, mosll .'imple suits, they are clearing out -i -Is; then there's a line at 30s, reduc Irmii -IL's 0,1; and then the fainou suits, usually t!)s fid an us--these are mnr selling at 3!>s In Kvory one knows [lie shop is in Devon <l'■<■'•!.. just below Nolan's auction mar! K '"'- 1 " «' : "' hof lliom. couutries we dr.u ""■ >"P|>I.V Ol' hiscuils; Kroin K„.,1..,., •"' '"'"I''"! l'<-'-k. I'rean and (V," Ii■»lls: I'l'oin Ireland we get llubbni'l' ■iisks I'm- inl'anls and invalids; wail ""in .Mir own Dominion we receive on -i'i'l'lios from all (|„. best iiiaiiula, Such a vnriely is well won', n.iiiei-liiig. |.',,|. bisruils anil all reqtrr. ; "i""ls for the present Centen season „ I Img li-h. timid lish. (is), pastes, an I l:l ' delicacies of every kind call at. Th . r ' "I'' 1 "- Crocerv. ['rockery and glaF-s ".are ii.Mi.ivlmen|-, U|>s',nirs.—Ailvt. ■ \ lug ini|irovemenl. on Hie nrdinar; "ilskin i-oat is tlu- canvas slicker eoa m.w being largely s i, ow „ ])y llln Mf ,'

""""i" <'l"lliin s Company. In appear- : "'■'■ *'"■ is ii. dull vellow and well .-■. ls>i>t•-. 1 1'.,,- iis purpose. 11. is made of •'•nil Aiiii'i-ii'iin duel: anil fashiono-l '• ||l "' l ' f "i- iidini; or walking K is '•l.mmii.,l I'm- llih cnat tliat il is absolutely impervious |„ W aler ami i.lial il li:i" none ill' (lie common defects oliaraelerUio of oilconts. Fanners and others aiv iuivi=ed to give il a trial.—AM.

A Napier paper says: It ia said to lie possible, even pnilmble, that the llov. Leonard -\l. Isilt will lie a candidate for the representation of Napier at the next general eleetion.

Tim following will be interesting to local butchers:—At a meeting of Pulmciston manor butchers it was proved that oiin-iderably over .CjlllJU had been lost liming Ihe lust live years through the credit system. The butchers have therefore decided I" lower the price of meat niter Ist .May, when they intend to run (heir respective businesses on a cash basis only, thus eliminating bad debts.

A very extensive amnesty has been granted by his Majesty the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary to subjects of Austria, Hungary, and llosnillereegoyiiia, who have failed to comply with the military duty or otherwise come into eonllict with'-the law of couI scription of their country. Details will be supplied to any person interested on application In the I. and ii. Auslrnlliiuirnrian Consulate for New Zealand in Auckland.

London is Ihe most expensive of all the great towns in (lie I nited Kingdom to live in. Two-roomed houses in London are rented at from -Is (Id to 7s lid a neck, while the rents in the provincial towns for the same class of h'ousj's are as low as from lis to ;>s lid. There Sire s'inilar differences in regard to threeroomed, four-roomed, and live-roomed houses. In London sixroomed houses bring front Ids (Id to I,ls (Id. and in the provincial towns from lis (Id to 7s lid. Next to London. Orovdon, l'lymouth, and Devonport are the most' liighlyreulod towns, but even in those places the rents are nearly 'ill per cent, lower I ban in Ihe metropolis.

It is interesting to note that some live years ago (lermnny was about ill-? I.hini largest exporter of butter to Hreat I'rifain. Now. however, home eonsuniplion has overtaken her production, and she is a buyer of Australasian butter. Last year her purchases were eonlined to London, but the steamers of the Her-man-Australian line, having been fitted with refrigerating space for the purpose of currying food products, those concerned consider that the trade can be more advantageously carried out direct from Australia. One drawback lo this business is the veto placed by the German ("I'ovei'iinw-nt on the use of boric

acid, and no butler showing traces oi it is allowed to enter the country.

It is said Unit municipal life is but a nursery for a Parliamentary career, and if this is true the Dominion has foonw*" tiling in store for licr from the NorthEast Valley (says the Otago Daily Times). The Mayor of that delightful and salubrious suburb informed the ratepayers recently that the town clerk refused to shake hands with him, that councillors denounced him as a liar, and left him without a quorum, that the.attitude adopted by these same councillors was that of a snarling, barking dog, and that a dog show and a bull light (both of which, by the way, he had witnessed in England) were as nothing to a meeting of the North-East Valley Borough Council. P,y this it would appear that when these politicians in embryo arrive certain gentlemen during the season will have to look out for squalls. The fact which has been recalled that

Sir Samuel Kvans, K.C., tiie new Solicilor (leneral. began his legal career, like l-onl Chancellor Truro, as a. practising solicitor, may lie supplemented by the further instance of (he late Lord' liiissell of Killowen, the first Human Catholic Chief Justice of England since the Involution, who, before his call to the lOnglish liar, was a solicitor practising in lielfasl. tint the Bight lion. Eugene Wilson. .M.l'., has had, perhaps, (he most extraordinary series of changes of this kind. Having begun as a barrister, he determined to leave the JW to become u solicitor, and was accordingly, with thai object, disbarred, lie then returned to his old profession of the .liar, Io which he was recalled, having previously, in order lo accomplish (hat object, 'been "struck oil" the roll" of the solicitors. He is fond of telling his friends that he has been both disbarred and struck off Ihe roll, but in each case, he qniellc adds, al his own instance.

'Hie Almistcr of Labour, replying to the toast of "■l'iirliainent" at a luncheon al Wellington recenlly, made a few ||ertinent remarks on the spoon-feeding which at the present day was demanded ol the Slate. There was an idea nowadays, he said, that if a person wanted anything at all he had just to run to Parliament, and it would be done for him. lie deprecaled giving way lo every pressure that was made on Parliament He. thought -New Zealand very nice as it was. Parliament had done very well. This country had been fortunate in the past in having in Parliament some of the ablest men in New Zealand—and perhaps the world-had seen, because, without doubt, some of the old pioneers in Hie Parliament of this country were men of standing, integrity, and men 01 brains. With these things combincd, could they wonder that this little country had risen to the place it now occupied? The present Parliament had endeavored to carry on its work on the •-mind lines laid down by its predecessors and Ihe next Parliament would no dnulil do the same.

Sydney newspapers to hand bv the lusl mail show that tlie Chinese traders "J tlint city have taken up the boycott ol Japanese goods with spirit. At a meeting of Chinese merchants and traders, over hfty prominent business men were in attendance. The meeting decided to cable for confirmation of the report <>' tlu' Tats,, Man,. It will be remembered (hat this Japanese steamer was seized by Chinese Customs officials l»v allegedly running contraband, and released alter Japan had made strong representations. Fifty thousand persons made a demonstration in Canton the noters burning their Japanese garments and recommending a boycott of Japanese goods. Subsequently confirmation was received in Sydney, and the meeting recorded m a recent cable message is tie. result. It is stated in Sydney that he ( limese are not content to rely solel.v "pun the llccts of other countries' tlierelore a powerful company has been formed m Canton to build a line of steamships to trade to Australia, America Japan, and straits Settlements Aeeordmg to cable messages received in Sydney, the whole of (he required capital was quickly subscribed ex. I,,'nj- ■ '''* (;llillos( '> '""I Hie work of building a fleet is to be put in hand at "»;■'•; A direct JilM . will ~„ established »:««'" <- '""■•< iiml Sydney, and the "'"■■ H porls of call will be Shanghai «" Hongkong. The preliminary work "HI, however, occupy s „me timei and it « ««'l Miiticipatcd (hat operations will be commenced lor mai, v months.

'•< "ung to our commendatory notice ' , '" ' , ' l'"" " l' '" ™-l'W' the Now Ply. »»litli Honing], Council contlurts its hv ".viT'i"' '•""! n ,I™<i»B' 1 ™< i »B' ou tlie system > which carclully copied ~,,p0 l. t s f 11- working and engineering stalfs «tinI ;;; j lo .ho c ounc il.or ri ),,„?o .ilr,,,' ' y keep Ihen, well iMforil| ,. d ~o r. .I 1 !," 1 . i,1,i,1s - "'.. lillbaiu Argus suv.s- . "'T ( s ; vs, " , " '»'<>■ I'" J."«»l. l.nt then, s a heller, , me „.,,!,.,, wo ~u , ,l |||)tcd t ,„.',"'; ■-""'<■ vcmi-s ago but was not ■'■:'" /" "'" "«'" »mncil. We e, h i a i° pt t ' i " ! l ,la " th:lt w '"Wlopt- •'•\ " <lo, \ H'<- meetings with copies I ll ',™ 1 * l ' ,,| " JlU ""'t a™ to he "* ,mV "- Tlli * -'"■'•l™ «n... c ill„w ' n.leinl meetings fully prepare,! for report, for having S oen ..';.",'.' '"''.'"•' '"ivc tin.,. t„"f,.llv "-- ;'- .;u.,|,,| to (1.,. Press two <■>■■ "toio (lie council meeting J,,.,-,, j ' '"'V "I»I«mi' in i-rinl. Not „„,,: :"•, lml ';*<■}< •■miuciiior i llls i,i s c„pV H " li »?* >'<'l">" t! lectin..'. ''

u, «'-> In <.,..)„,' a long andhappv '««.!. ~„„r loved one, always ke ep W y | "'' ~Sl!a,loU,eot Dr. SheldonV, v ' '"';'"■ , 1,,k ™ w, "'» »«*ded, it > n„l nnhappmess. n i 3 the to X l ''"'- ,"f'' <l «f for all'cctions of '''' ' : '"'l lung, which so often at - !„,',.: ~ \" S"aranteo,l to cure, V 11,.,,, '|, ' v !' '' i "" lot (l ° heUn "I >.'.• \'"h«'H.PtW try it to- ',,: '""•l'liiilile everywhere. '" «rcat !llmil;1 | sa)e at « Tllo Kilsh „ om,, • ~,','!'/! l ' m V ,, ' CS , I,nt ! mc of "'« best nltTon ' '" ymg yOUr ™''' s " l.o>, clothmg y O „>U have th ; "J'r ' lo >'°t ™».o,liaWy y-ant • "J »r the goods, they are scllim* so ■ I i Uighl on y, anrl we advise you to ]Mt Ihe.n early. They've some spleu'l'l I'oys Conway suits in serges and all-wool tweeds. Most of these arrived oo late for the Christmas trade, and they are givnifr n-third reduction on the | I'ncc, so that 19s Gd suite are now 13., overy suit bearing an equal reduction.' l-oys Norfolk suits they have comuioncmg at 8s lid'boys' sailor 911it3 run from 3s fid. hnyg . 3 .gar,nent suits from 13s Gd. So that you see what a good opportunity you have to buy your W clothes. Of course, you know th>> address—it's in Devon-street, Now Plymouth, Just below Nolan's auction mart