LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 151, 17 June 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I'W some mouths past a "beer strike" has be.m iu progress a I Kucky Head i \ i'ii ii jii i, with the object of compelling the local publican lo reduce the pI'HV 111 lij ,'jf| ;| I;tSS. Till' l'Piillll ha* been ;( triumph lor liie ''unionist •'s I lu*, publican iuis now reduced the price.

During Mny Xew 'Plymouth exported iit)s7c\\tof butter valued at Palea shipped Ufifk-wt valued at COll!)), ami .Auckland ioijSewt valued at The Hhiir exported the greatest- quantity of cheese. s]ii|»j»jn-L»- i"i7iSr-u t valued ;it .Ci(i,(i2U, Patea came second with I valued. al .C14,y02, and then follow New Plymouth 3S:i.'!c\vt valued al ;Cli).,V|(i. Dunediu 2lß:!cwt valued at Cil.*l, Wellington J(ij3cwl valued at a;.I7U:).

| Mr. Clarke, of Xew Plymouth, is sparing no pains in building up his I -lei'-i.y herd. by the Kotoiti. he landed live nice young Jersey cat tie ti'oni Mr. A. (i. Ilodgkiiison. of Xakaka. lin Ihe NeKmi district. There are four heii'eis and a bull, and all are „f a nice tvoe. Tlie heifers are bred as followsMa V[io \\ it Millet 11.- Ouerii-ey VI.: I'll 'le .lap Oi Si. Lalllbeii; M;i \ lb• wit .Mamiel 11.- Land Carterion II.: i;.,lden IVinee-Magnet ie Uav. Th» bull i> by lioldiMi Priilce <hieen Mav. Wifh the increa.-ing popularity of the •leiM-y bfiM'd the-" Momld prove a pro iil.ible iiive-tUH'iil.

No -hclj in men'- winter j and oveivKiu can be again looked 1 for as iho-e olleriiig at "The Melj bouriieV" Mjnjj'hler stle of -I. T. MoiYs • -tiK-k. Then- are nood :;.">s knock-about ! colonial -nit- for -J.V. and a lot of superior i nijoi'-inade boved for UK fid and .">!!< l»d—sui{s lhar inake a iiuiu look and fee I well dressed and -dyl-h. and that would <o-l you live guineas it" made jo mea-urc. Sep liie s])!endid stock of overcoats which vo ave Don't mis? iliis ' opportunity—Advt. I

A little girl cycling along St. Aubyn-1 street tile other day received a nasty fall as the result of a dog tackling her. This brute is said to he valuable, and if so it would be a good idea to keep him on the chain. New Zealand is the country for shattering ideals, says the ltev. Drew. He left England fourteen years ago a hot advocate of secular education. Fourteen years' stud}' of New Zealand undel' this system have convinced him o£ the error of bis ways.

We have it on unimpeachable authority (says tiic Tiniaru Post) that Mr. J. T. M. TwOmey, of Teniuka, is so incensed at some of the remarks made l.y Mr. l'latman in bis speech at Teniuka on Tuesday night last, that he has declared his intention to stand for the Ashliurton seat, in opposition to Mr. l'latman at the general election.

A medico in his motor-car arrived yesterday at a stretch of newly-metalled road. The footpath was temptingly smooth, so lie passed on to it. 'i'he patli was very accommodating —it widened as he proceeded. But then the reaction nunc. Tlie path narrowed, but the car refused to accommodate itself to 'he altered conditions, and the brand-new cor was soon pulling and grunting in a ditch.

At a meeting of 'the Xew 'l'lymouth Fire Brigade held last evening the following association decorations were awarded: —Two-year-service bars: .foreman Johnson, having completed seventeen years' service; Fireman J. i»v;', fifteen years; Fireman 0. Tempero seven veal's; fireman W. Way, sever years; certificate to Custodian (!. Lam "boil for three years' service. A friendl;. game of cards, Brigade v. Kgmont 800 l Factory, will be'.played at the Centra I fetation this evening.

The Cardinal Logue incident tends to show- that it is dangerous for a conspicuous man to go to America, if he does not desire to lie made the author of all manner of weird doctrines (says the Wellington Test). Whether he speaks or not, an "interview" appears. A man is sent out by the city editor of a journal for a "story," and the "story" duly arrives. King Edwanl had better beware of yielding to any temptation to visit New' York. ''The Peacemaker might be credited with a speech urging that all Europe should at once combine against, Asia, annihilate the native Tr.dian population, blow Japan and China up into small fragments, and so indefinitely postpone the yellow and black nvasions.

'■Did you say anything when the s»I'ouil oriiciT called yuu T' asked counsel at the nautical inquiry at Auckland into the striking ot the Northern Steamship Company's steamer Muritai at the Hon and Chickens, The question was addressed lo the muster of the Muritai, Captain Hopkins, who replied.—:lo not remember whether T said anything. Just as my feet touched the floor C'.uj vessel struck. I was not asking questions just then, and if T had said anything it wonltl probably have been something lliat is noi to be found in the dictionary. (Laughter). T put it to yon," he added. "\vlietho t - you think that a master of a steamer carrying passengers, 011 feeling his vessel 'strike a rock in I !ie middle of the night, would be j likely to stop and ask a lot of bal\y ! questions?"

Keeently an old-age pensioner, 82 years of age. was sent to the Old Men's Home at New Plymouth from the Eltham district. The Xmv Plymouth authorities wrote to the Ilawora Hospital on Monday (reports tlie Star), saying that the mail required a good deal of attention, and at the suggestion of another person he had l>eeu transferred to an asyltini. Mr. Taylor pointed out that the asylum people were of the opinion that tin- old man was perfectly harmless and Mas not a tit subject for the institution. The New Plymouth Hoard suggested that Ik-lore ilawera Hoard sent people to the home the , patients should be medically examined. I Mr. Tayler remarked that it would ap--1 pear as if the New Plymouth people | w-.'Ve living in iu l,jl „f ;l ]n^u . o iU]{] t)ial [ I hey did not wan) too ifcieh trouble. ! r,,lt ' ■•■hunnan (Mr. Sutton); Unfortuu- | atcly we are no*, in ;i position to liuild lan o.d men s home, otherwise I think it , " (,,, 'd be a gixnl thing to have one in I Itinera, The letter was left in abevI nnce.

At tuc Magi.si rate's Court vesterdav "filing, before AJr. il. 8. Fhzherbert, S.M., judgment was entered liv default hi the following cases:--Xewto'n Kin.r (.Mi. Orey) v. tleorge Tickner, claim t'3 ■is 1(M and 10, costs; .r„s t .,>h i iookor ;""1 <o. (AJr. F. ii. Wilson) v . I!. K lloweil ami Co. (.Masterlon), claim £ls ■-s (id and costs , t l 5s (id; Joseph Hooker ami Co. (Mr. F. )•;. Wilson) v. Lincoln, eliiim Ills (id and costs 10s: ■same \j U. .1. kulitze, claim £2 2s and costs .is; same v. I>. Cairns, claim 12s lid ami costs as: same v. C. S. Crawford, claim 1 (>s id and eosls li s; s , lm e v. Ldniuuds ami Warburton (Ilastiii«s) eh"" 1 C.S Is (id. costs 18s (id; Jhiibor Hoard v. \\. Cnbbon, claim CI 2s lid and Ss costs; Coldwator lirus. (Mr. ".••In.) v, .lolm licrtic, claim .£7l 4s lid und costs t-t ss. In a judgment summons. Co,-eft and (Juilliam v. .1 •■nipi", claim L.l 12 s, an order was wade lor payment of full amount within a week, in default seven davs' imprisonment. '

A letter received from a New Zeulandcr resident in Sail Francisco mves a lively picture of that city's reception ot the American licet. "Tilings are verv lively here at present." the writer States. Ihe licet arrived yesterday J saw them go Ihrougli the '(Jolden Cale twenty-one ships and live torpedoes! s trects are nothing but stars and stripes; can't see anything for stars and stripes; streets and llect were all illuminated at night. There was a great procession to-day, and thousands of visitois in the city. Tho newspapers exaggerate even more than usual. The Examiner said; 'The j;uiis thundered in tremendous roar, as the might v mass ol moving mechanism moved majestically up the grandest harbor in the world.' That sounds pretty good, but it made me laugh, because 1 saw the mass, and tin' follow 1 was with remarked, •Listen to those guns, they sound like crackers.' Hut you want to read an account of anything in this countrv, not see jt."

Uivnieu often hiugh at the Uwvcr. Imt when ;i layman elects to act as'his own lawyer. if s the lawyer's turn to W ° IU * or two members of the legal profession enjoyed themselves ror a briof space in the .Magistrate's t.ourL yesterday morning. A man entered the l>ox, armed witli a hig ledger, to prove Jiis claim against an allied debtor, lb- was sworn. JSelore lie liad time to hold forth the defendant ■commenced to make a speech, and was told his turn would come, and' he must confine himself to <juestions. 'J hen Ihe plaintill asked permission to uddress a lew questions to the defendant, and .was .told that lie would have Ins opportunity vvhcu the defendant entered the box. They both were at sea. J he plaintill set-out to prove his claim, «nd at the outsrt was confronted with this difficulty that, whilst he could sucar fo ||;c sal<- of the {rood* he coufd n»>t prove their delivery unless Die could produce all the errand boys that In- had employed in the last four'or live year*. -Defendant was all this time itching In air Jus eloquence, ami in a ifuiet. imuuent hi- chip|K'd in at. the, plaintill thus: "}ou come here with a wooden-headed yarn. You're as bad as I am. 'Hi know nothing neither do i. I think his Worship ought to dismiss this ease ;is ;i warning." Then his volubility was clicked. The 8.M.. meanwhile, lind l'ouinl that whereas the . ledger account'was in the name of the wile, the summons bad been issued against the husband. A non-suit without costs was granted.

TilH "L.K.l!.'' BAVHS IIOXEVT AND

LAIIOU,

Mr. Herbert Cole, of Kaukapakapa. writes: ''(l is with great pleasure 1 testify to 11k» many benefita derived from usitiir Milking Machines, I have been using three pulsators for two years, milking between fJO and 70 >?ows, and 1 lie time required to milk them average* about I'/. hours per milking. Three hands are engaged with ' the machine*, and do the separating of the milk. One of fhe great advantages is that a great amount of labor and drudgery is d<me away with, and {Tie ; work is much quicker and cleaner." The | ''L.K/L" will save you money. Writ.} I for further information to .T. Ik Mac- !"• wan and Co.. Ltd.. Sole Agent*. Kg-moitt-simd, Xew Plymouth.

J of all places in Taranaki we kuov I ill' no belter ,-iore for men's and boys' | i-eijuhvnienu ihalt "The Kasli," that | \velbkinn\'n -tore in Devon-street just | below Nolan's: auction mart. New PlyI mouth. Ntocked with the latest- goods and buying in the best markets, evcry- , one n sure to he thoroughly satisfied I with hi*, there. They've a lot of bush rugs pi\- feet long from Is (»d. men's tweed overcoats from 21s, boys' tweed overcoats from 8s Ud, hoys' stockings from Is. youths' throeparmem suits from l"s (hi, It's a very economical store to deal at. and we advise our readers to pay tlwm a visit before the very bad weather „ comes.— Advt.

Speaking to a Post reporter, Mr. J. 1).

Ritchie, Secretary for Agriculture, who had just returned from the Soutli, said that farmers in Otago and Canterbury

would welcome rain.

The weather 'or

some timo past had been Tather dry, and the ground will bo much easier to plough if rain sets in for a few days. Stock is looking well. Increased attention is being paid by Southern farmers to the cul-

tivation of wheat. A well-known Scottish architect was travelling in Palestine recently, when news reached hint of tin addition to his family circle. The happy father immediately provided himself with some water from the Jordan, to carry home for tile baptism of the infant. Oil the Sunday appointed for the ceremony he duly presented himself at the church, and sought out the beadle, in order to hand over the precious water to his care. lie pulled the flask from his pocket, but U"

beadle held up a warning hand, and came nearer to whisper, "No the noo, sir 110 the noo. Maybo after the kirk's oot."

A narrow escape from death by suffocation was experienced in Japan tout month by jUr. 1' .H. Wood, who was .n business as an auctioneer in Greytown North for many years. Mr. Wood, who is making a tour oi tho East, was accommodated in a bedroom in which a blazier of charcoal was burning, tlie weather being chilly. After he had been to sleep for an hour or two, he woke up with a sense of suffocation, and was in the act of groping his way to tho door,

when lie fell to the floor in a swoon. ■ 'n 1 falling he knocked over a piece of furniture. The noise awakened some of the hotel people, who entered the room and found Mr. Wood unconscious. The New Zealander was carried into the open air, and soon regained his senses, but or some days afterwards he was feeling unwell.

An Auokhinder who tl';iveiled dow tin' Alain Trunk line the other day ii formed a Dominion representative tlui the journey was one of extreme (liseun tort, ami that it was a surprising thin, to him how the tourists endured it, II referred especially to the 10-mile eoac service between the rail-heads. Tiler was apparently a deartli of coach accom inodation, anil on the day he cam Jirough a number of passengers, includ mg women and children, had to 1)0 lef leliind. The coach ride occupied a perio if tliwe hours, and on a good road. Th ime could be easily cut down by hall \nother cause of complaint was tlia ravellers by tile coach had a wait o liree hours for the train at a bush rail vav station, where there were 110 com ■l'tiiences of civilisation whatever. Xot nthstanding all the inconveniences, th Vucklander stated that lie would no iave missed the trip on any account wing to the magnificent spectacle pre euted by the mountains, Tongarirc [uapehii, Ngaruhoe, and Egmont. Speakiug to a Timaru I'ost reprc entative with reference to the gifts o toek foi- the State farms, the Hon. 1 It-Nab stated, with respect to the ott'e l-oni Mr. W. (.'. Buchanan, ol Waira •apa, of £IOOO for the purchase of nilking lierd, and 5000 for the purehas if a State farm, that there was a con lition attached to this oiler, that tli arm must be in the Wairai'apa, and til lovernment could not accept it, hey already had the Levin State Farm nd the next experimental stations ar ,o be in the South Island, where a iresent there are only two poultry sta ions. With regard to the £IOOO give >y an anonymous donor, Mr. _ McNal aid that the money is to lie utilised a: ,0011 as they -ascertained what utocY hev were getting from other sources Ire'eds of cattle would lie selected thai icre not otherwise in the possession ol he department. He had been in comlunication with one or two gentlemen n- some time, and he expected that lie •oukl be able to intimate that they ould give something in this line.