LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 152, 18 June 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

lii regard I" •■Siili.-trilirrV Idler -]•- pcarin»"in Mmichiy's issue tu the el'fc-i tlml 111' had learned Umt. no present..lion had bed made to a. yiran? hi'V •>' ~,,. (>l .,,,si(:n ul' her I.Mvin- ill." I".-MI telephone exchange, tin' treasurer of the I'uml has shown UK tli« young lauy « receipt f"r the presentation in '|uesfioii. The presentation was made privately. 'J'liis accounts fur "SuU-eribcrV' ignorance of tlie matter. Wc aro glad to i make tin' correction, ami so put l'itreasurer right in the eyes of the readers of "Subscriber's" letter. The Carnegie Library will lie official ly opened liy his Worship the Mayor on Thursday, July '2nd. In the Police Court yesterday a lirstoll'eiidiiig ineliriate was remanded for a week for medical treatment. The Education Hoard yesterday deeded to grant X. for X, subsidy, up W JC7O, for the erection of a gymnasium and -shelter shed at the West End school. Messrs Nixon and Nixon arc at oresent installing a dough-mixing machine in .Mr. E. .May's bakehouse, to he worked by electricity from the borough mains. The will of John Carpenter, late <if_ Tataraimaka, farmer, was granted ir. the Supreme Court on the Uth insl., o;i the ujiplication of Mr. Hughe". Probate was granted to his sun, John -JosejyO; Carpenter, the executor named in ;'k will. The annual meeting of the Theatre Uoyal Co. was held last night, when there was a good attendance of shareholders. The directors' report wis adopted. Considerable discussion arose concerning the requirements of the Fire lJuard, but no delinite decision wajs arrived at. At the Magistrate's Court ye-tcrday morning, Mr. A. Hooker, the Taranuki Education Board's truant inspector, obtained fines of is ami costs agaiin; George Knight, T. Parker, F. Martin, .1. C. .Smith, If. Cram, and J. Stewart unfailing to send their children regularly to school. John Hale produced a medical certilieatc to answer a charge tint he had failed to sen.l his son (1-1 years old) to school, the hoy not having passed the fourth standard. The eortilicnte was to the effect thai the child would lie injuriously alCc-lcd by study. As ho, had failed to obtain an exemption eer ilicate he was lined "is and costs. T'Dng T.ee. a local Chinaman, wis yesterday morning fined V> and cO;W CI 10s on a charge of having in ics possession opium lit for smoking. He pleaded guilty to the charge, and f,u police then withdrew the charge of permitting opium-smoking on the promise;. Mr. Kerr appeared for the prosecution His Worship addressed a few remark? to the accused, pointing out that th ', presence of the opium dens was regarded as a danger to the eoiiiiiiunify. -i.r.j that he was liable to heavy puniu:ment. His penalty, however, would hj" lightened by the facts that lie 'ia.l pleaded guilty and that only a little opium had been found in bis possessiu >. At a meeting of the Tarnnaki Butter, Creamery and Cheese Factory Industrial Cnion of Workers (registered) at Eitliam <>u Nairn-day night, the following resolution was unanimously carried: - "That (his Union protests'against the. Suggestion miide all over the Uominioii by Hie Fanners' Union dial. Hie Arbitration Act, be made inoperative over farm laborers, and that the Government, be urged to maintain Ihc nrcsc it Act, ;,s f i(r -,., f-um 1,,!,,,,-,.,,, .„.„ ( , Jh . cerned." A subslnntial donation from the funds of the Union was also v 01...] to lb,- Canterbury Agricultural and Pas-' toral Laborers' I'niuu who ale now enplying for in, award from the Arbitration Court. '.'"alily i- Hie silcul salcsimm thai talks l„n,hst and persists in rocom- "'" .-.' "Alfa-Uival" separators. When you put. v.,111- money into an "Alf.-i- i l-iiv.ll" y„u ,-,,,! v ,.st assured vol! will I g.'l Hie very best ,„ssil,|e value. The lies; evidence ~r (heir superiority comes Iron, (he slory of success iii iwlual working. Mr. W. T. .Mac. Ilangiiiiu. wriles under dale Si h June: "I have done some ■jood work with Ihis little machine, skimming .01 will, temperalure of milk 83 degrees, which I eonsider cannot, be beaten. This trial was made in (he presence of .several persons, including the manager of the l!,iv of I'lenlc Co-operative Dairv Association, and two samples of the skim milk were taken a lid tested (hen and there. There was „ver 100 gallons put through. 1 consider the machine an ideal one." j Sole New Zealand agents. Mason. Slruliiers and Co.. 1-1,1.. Main-street.' Palmcr-ion N.irih. F. Griluths „,id Co.. New I'lymoulh. local agents. All-over 1,-tces at great reductions at] White's. Some reduced 100 per cent, to make room fo,- a fresh lot. This is a good opportunity to get a luce, blouse., Ifave a look a'- them—9d and Is a yard. —Advt. !

it i» understood tbat ill the event ol the lion. C. H. Mills deriding not to eon test any seat for tin; House ui' Representatives at the cvuiiiig election there is a strong probability of his being tailed to the Upper House.

Messrs. Thomas liorthwick and Sous, Ltd. (of Waitara Freezing Works), lia.'e tiled, a concurrence in connection with the industrial agreement recently cnUr. Ed into between Jlessrs. Oppenheini and Co. and the Whakatu Sausage-easing Makers' Union of Workers.

One docs not often hear in these days of persons residing near towns not having even been in a train. Yet not_iup«J than a dozen miles from Ilawera lives a lad of about 18 years, who, if his storiyi be correct, has ever yet had a ride in a train nor has he over set eyes on a steamer. —Star.

Mr. \V. F. Massey, Leader of the Op position, has made arrangements with the Railway Department for the conveyance of the Northern members of ■Parliament over the Main Trunk line in readiness for the opening of the session at the end of the month. The through trip, it is anticipated, will occupy not more than two days. The history of the wrecked steamer, Muritai is oi more than average interest (says the Observer). Away back in lSlri, when the seamen went on their famous strike, the Seamen's Union brought the MuriUi—then known as the licllingcr—over from Hobart, and ram her on the Onehunga-Waitara route in! opposition to the Northern Company's Gairloch. A few years later tho Northern Company bought the Bellinger, ana re-christened her the Muritai. It i» rather a curious coincidence that both tie; Muritai and her erstwhile rival, tfc Gairloch ended their respective existences by being "piled up." Since the completion of the new police barracks in Uonrke-strwt, Redfern (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph) a system of revolver practice has been introduced. At regular intervals a number of constables (assemble there and fire so many shots at a target. The idea, of course, is to endeavor to make them proficient in the art, but it is objected in many ipiarters that the under lying motive is to train them up so that should necessity arise they could be utilised as capable defenders. This, it is thought, has been prompted by the statement of a high official in Victoria, tha the police tliere would make good defenders. Whether the New South Wales force arc lacking in valor, or whether they see the futility of attempting to keep an armed force of invaders away from Sydney's shores with revolvers or not, are questions, especiallv the former, that have to be handled very delicately. Anyway, the revolver practice is looked upon as farcical, especially among the members a little up in years. In their opinion they are merely a laughing-stock for the younger members, as the latter, as a rule, have

a better knowledge of revolver shooting, whilst the former, generally sneaking arc almost ignorant of it. Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company appears to be making natisfaelory progress, and it is hoped soon to be earning a net revenue of £1.">0,000 a year. When the Marconi patents were originally acquired in 13117, eommunicaj tion could only be sent a distance of two , miles, but as the result of the work on developments since that date communications ran now be sent 2300 miles. The long-distance station at Clifden, in Conlicmnrn, communicating with the longdistance station at Glace- Bay, in Xova Scotia, wa-s, in October, 1007, so far completed as to admit of its being opene'l for a limited press service, and in February, 1 '.HIS. (he stations were opened to the public fur the transmission of messages between London and Montreal, at an inclusive rate of ~y.A per word. A considerable amount of business lias already been transacted by these stations, and this is daily increasing. . One newspaper in New York states that it had during live months received despatch .'s, totalling (it,-l(M words -promptly aad efficiently transmitted by the Marconi system." Tlio.se stations'will be able <o cope with a much large,- volume of messages when the necessary enlargement and duplication of machinery has be Ml carried out. According to a recent cabled forecast. Mr. Hughes, (iovernor of New York Slate, is not. likely to wrest the Republican Presidential candidacy from Mr Tuft; but that Mr. Hughcs'is a man not ■ easily thwarted is proved by the Anlii Gambling Act of (lie Xew York s(-i'» l Mate Legislature. In April :, division ' oi the Senate resulted in , t> there being twenty-live vole for (lie Bill ■ and twenty-five against: ami its defer . was looked on as certain. ]i,,t. accord- ■ ing to a cablegram in Monday's issM'-'V i the Senate, "by i|„, Cll ,|i : ., v „ h . of a • .lying Senior, who was <- M rried into tV House, made gambling on a racecourse punishable by imprisonment." The further cablegram-to the e/l'ec|. (lmt Mr. ■las Keenc and other leading American Sportsmen intend, as a result of f'h" ww law, to send their horses to Km' -V ami-lends to confirm (he f0110w!,,.. at,, ticipation by !t Home paper:—"lf ° the Bills are finally passed it is (he genenh '"lief Hint flicy „ill s„„„d (he dent,',knell „f horsc-vacing in the countrv, and that all leading American breeders and trainers will transport their stables to Great Britain. Without betting racing men assert, racecourses cannot exist for the rewards would be utterlv iniufcw quale for the expenditure and risks involved Governor Hughes has maintamed that tins a pitifully weak nr<mmon . and (hat if horse-racing is depende»( for , ts s „ W ss on betting it deserve, ".,'' . A " ''""minus 'boodle fund' is said to have l,ee„ organised by racing thiee senators lo f . ut iM , ■•'gninst the Bills. Tj „, ,„„,, ,„' to amount to £100,000." ■-,"', *''?' '•'. V' 1 , "" 1 li «t"-"»»ation to „h si, ,1 ''" , S| ' iU ' of " n . v Slll 't ol pI.J alo mental ,„ mi tmawmi «» -' » the Manawatu Times) to the jUtoi milll „. t)n| . ul (|uw u{k|i w<i riA- i ml ,i """'"'"st quips being ~;,,. ' "" ',"' SlaK ° ''- v soi»eoue wlios? "'a.t we have known to have been l«i«i,ng with the sorrow of recent be ;;''«;nie„t_e.K„ a famous comedian ol me t.aiety Company, plaving in Sydney "ondenng at (he apparently cxeeptioiul p.icty ol his wife in tin. same cast. «;'»!" «'i', Plucky Httk. , V ou.„n. was eelng (ha, a telegram telling of i!,e death of Heir favorite child was (earing mto her bean beneath the stii«e cos tunic and bearing all (he burtlien her- ■"*'■ ~ ' ', , l,l ' r husband should break down at the news on their first night in Aus'.■ilas.a, when so much depended on '"'"■ . then the examples of physical sullcnng brarely home! The' Owcl. tympany, playmg here on Friday and Saturday, canine through from Masterton, where one ■member, under urgent medical advice, had a bad abscess removed Irom his face. He could not well he replaced, and so appeared each evening after taking the dressings from the wound, filling it with cotton wool in order that his "make up" might i,,. practicable, and replacing them' after the performance. To make endurance possible at all, cocaine had to be injected ■ on each occasion. Something like five hundred claims have been lodged against the Victorian Uailway Department in connection with the Sunshine horror. Doubtful if there were more than live hundred people on the luckless jJallarat (rain (savs the Bulletin). Some of these claims are almo,t. humorous, scores of (hem being lor damaged attire, lost cll'cels, broken | ropeiTy, unfulfilled engagements, and so forth. One victim, having a firm

hcliei in iinpurd-iL railway maujiycrrt, is Mini l<i be claiming damages for a compound fracture 0 f his misplaced confidence, which is .-mashed beyond repair. Another claim is by a lady who was travelling with a. dozen gallipots of 1 'Hindi' jinn, which slid hail slowed oil (lie rack above her. There was the wreck of the next carriage on top of the one she was in. the jagyed points stuck through Die walls, a dead body lay beside lur, and blood was oozing all round, but the dame grimly opened her hamper and exclaimed dramatically ■■'J'tii-i-f, every sin-;,, jar broken!" Slii lierself escaped without a. scratch, and lives to make the Department pav for all that jam. Another claimant bases his demand vn the fact that a portion of his bclon-iiiHs was spattered with the life-blood of the Department's passcn-i-'crs, and that it is the contract of the DepartuiraFfu laud him with his clothes unsoilcd. Tin. Depart nt is cnnshloriiif! whether it didn't kill the' wrong passengers. Sec what cash will do at the A.8.0. Boc, Co.:—Rents' kip shooters, nailed. 7s Gd; Gents' Balmorals, wide-fitting, h fid: f-'cotch irrain water-proof knee boots (for the stockyard), 22s Gd; gents' dancing shoes, (is (id; ladies' felt slippers, Is; ehildrens', 7d; goloshes 3s Gd; footholds. 3s Gd; pum boots, lis Od; ladies' glaec shoes, 5s Gd. Golf boots to order. Al] parcels carriage paid.— Advfc.

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