LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 100, 16 April 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The oil Boring and Pro--pivting Company. Limited, report that the lal" difficulty with casing has been meroonie. Drilling li;i- been proceedln - sali-hiclorily in papa country, ami a depth m! about lion leet has now* been reached, at which depth -Guilder cotnt frv is encountered, and the ni.ma. g'T fully ev | wet s to be enabb'd In reper: a dry hulc in a very short period. Darin" the la-t day or two an excellent flow ol gas has l.ecii struck in the harder fur'nation, the present indications in (he bore being of a in,,.| favorabl" ibaractrr. !

I In l c.i-t ol living lui- up. an.l llic in ill most rvm- walk «.f lift. li.ivo also Bono up. l,ut iln- unioi'luii^slo country loachiT lia- hi <j-rii.il alua- mi -i mi^ci'ii(ill- -nlnry alti-r '.wars of -hiily mill ]Ji'o]i!irut ion (li-|( woiilil ii.ll l„(•('[■(oil liy ;inv artisan. Anil il must 1,,. ri'iiii'iiilici-i'il tli, u it j, tin- (iimitrv districts tlwl arc -nH'criiij; from (hi- ,-nnflition of nll'iiirs. Tin- t..aclit>r's life i. in ninnv r'--p>Tt- a liar.l ami trying one. Not Olllv is (!u> salary illai|r<|nat+\ lull a l;'»"il lear-l-H-r may ini'vilal.lv »,•( slr.linl-' '•'l in ""I"'' «'it\-l>arl; [<l;u c. ami !,.■ jp-t' no I'hani-I' of promotion. ini-n-a-nl <-niolii""'"t • "I' til"'?" for yC'U'rj of iwiiH inir. I Innie-f work. If i«; ;t (lijfieuM: |iinl>lfm. ■crliiiiily, liml iU solution is surely uoi Ih-viiihl I'm- fapiilnlitips of our v.l auiliurilit's.—Clutha Lender. '

Hotels and boarding-houses are full for tlic Easter holidays, and many are refusing applications for rooms. It lias often been suggested that steps slimild be taken to provide tlie people of llie Old Country with a better knowledge of this Dominion than they are reckoned to possess. One lady, at any rate, would seem lo have* already opened such a mission. Jlrs. Napier, of Edinburgh (late of New Zealand), recently lectured to the Rutiicrglen (Scotland) branch of the British Women's Temperance Association oil "Women's Suffrage: Its Relation to Temperance," and, of course, selected New Zealand to demonstrate her contentions. So interested were the audience that .Mrs. Nn pier had to promise that she would return in October next and deliver a lecture on New Zealand, illustrated by limelight views

.There is some likelihood of the Tourist Department taking over lite Egmoni National Hark, and oji Monday night Councillor Kirkwood, as the Stratford Borough Council's representative on the I'ark Hoard, asked for instruction as to what he should do in the event of the question coming up. It was unanimously decided that Councillor Kirkwood exercise his own judgment, but at the same time members ot' the Council considered it would be one of the best t'hnigs that, could happen if the Tourist Department took over the Hark, the hinds at the disposal of the Hoard were limited, hut the Department could erect suitable buildings ami otherwise make the Park one of the favourite health resorts in the Dominion.—Stratford Tost.

A meeting id' the executive commitlee ol the Ni-w LUymouth Employers' Association was held yesterday. A communication was read from the Chamber ot Commerce recommending that Empire Day should be observed as a holiday in lieu of June the Prince of Wales' birthday. It was resolved to recommend Hie Retailers' Association to adopt the suggestion. The secretary reported that the requisition for a poll of the burgesses to be taken as to tlw Factory Act half-holiday had not received suilicient signatures. , It was therefore decided that, the petition should lie held in abeyance. It was decided to meet the local members ot Parliament prior ( 0 the commencement of the session to emphatically proles', against the hasty manner in which business was rushed through the House towards the close of last session, and also against the burgesses being asked to decide the epiestion of the half-holiday.

Alanv a man is cold and miserable because bis underwear is not warm enough, and yet he doesn't realise it. White and Sons make a specialty of keeping good warm woollen underclothing. They keep Kaiapoi brand, and seil it at prices no more than many makes which coutaiu half cotton are sold at. - -Advt.