LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 155, 22 June 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

'! lie Mn;i Hcmtt Board is considering J hv advisability of purchasing a roadgrader. and will discuss I lie matter at iU July meeting. Aii Inglcwi.od i'lii|>l<ivc]' remarked on Satniil;iy ili;u l:ilmr i-, becoming move fii-n!inil, and In- anticipafes a full In lite late uf will's very .-Imrtly. i in- dr. uuiiL-e ni* ihe Mwunp at the borough <1 l»;l 1' i*i ]'« i> lliivinn j |j«, effect of leaving tli«. fences hij.li „nd Hit. The mailer i- Im\il115 the attention of the borough engineer. ; I )»•" will to-night dis- | r\\>< j In- I'i'cinilini'iiila I i«iit (> f the Works j Committee to charge tile I'ilzroy 'town | Board u:>u imv fin- u-i' of water for j I'i' l -1 1 1 1 ''\ nlin11 | >ii!'|iosi.'s at Fitzroy, I i'Mil ;)-l-.f ! lor a (iovernnieut subsidy. bill Ur ilislll'l g.'l a cOj,p r r," si i,| I a al ! iic \|.„ Road Moard ! »i}? Sum-day. Kvidcutlv he's a | llUtiti-i :| In(• is! i 111' 1 .'!~.

! be e\e--iilive of 1 he [ 'h.Uilber of ("oill* nicree ih.-cN to-niiiht to disciis> the New l'l.\ iiiini: h "l:.'!ii-i i i,-~ m) i!„> matter o| as->eriiiig New Plymouth's claim- jo; 'uji-ideraiion in (lie reJ»i'i.r"g. iiiom oi ii,,. railway timetable tendered uecc>-arv by the approaching opening of ihe Main Trunk line. Til,. inH'ciiifih [.n^iiiici't'. .Mr. A. 11. Kc»ililll. •'III 1 11-l'l(' il!l ills|icrlicpn of tllr aii-i v.iii |,< imuii'l. anil fniiml nfliliilll lirl!;>]. ih;)t| in- |ij) ( l cvf'l' sPCJI it ||.. ri-( uiiiiiumkls Hip vp. iiiuval of liir | h'pspiil fiiiilriiPtion at tlic Miiiifianiiihcu. „s a „ IPiin s of ucci'U'i'iitiii" tlw s],poil of ti,,. water ill,, tunnel. Mr. Kendall is at present collwliiig infonnation to lie einliTtdieil in a rejinri to lie to the Borough Council.

\arioiis reports are being circulated as (o the Attorney-General intending to stand for election lo the House of Representatives, u ne suggestion being that lie will stanu for the lion. 0. 11. .Mills vacant ■-eat. J1 ]-. Findlay himself savs it has been suggested that, he should stand three dill'erent places, bin lie has no intention of doing so. H> find= lii. s|j|iere of usefulness as leader ol the I onncil jiisl. as large its if he were a member o[ t[j c . 011 il-r House.

The consolidation of the Je* Zealand Statute, has been completed by the Commission (the Chief Justice', Dr. I'itched, and Mr, W. S. I!eid). The Coveriiuiciit Printing Cilice is now busily engaged in printing copies for issue lo the House early in the coming session. Tlie work has oecupied live yea is. It lias involved (he condensation of fifty volumes of statutes into five volumes containing about 900 pages, Tlie price of the complete set has been reduced from foil to less than £2O, ' Might, I ask," said one of the speakers at Die Teachers' Institute meeting in Wellington on Friday, '•whether teacher has retired on a pension of Clod a year under the Superannuation Hoard?" "Xo." replied the president (Mr. l'oster), who is a member ol the Hoard. "My reason, for askin",'' said the first speaker, "was that I heard the other day of a policeman who retired on CKit a year and another on •CI 75." "The largest retiring allowance granted so far to a teacher," said tlie president, "uiih one nf £1)8 a year,"— Dominion. '

In Ihe Magistrate's Court at Stratford on Friday, Messrs. Dcrbv Tiros, were prosecuted by .Mr. Willis,'inspector of Factories, under section 111 of the Faeiories Ael. which provides that wages shall lie jiaiif in toll at not more than tori!iie|,t|y in,t;,|ineitls. 'The firm had nol eliisely observed this in all cases, and lience tlie prosecution. The Inspector pointed out that the Act provided a penalty of ,h per day lor every dav alter the hirtniglit that default was made. No defence was offered, and tlie ben. h i Mr. A. 1 innbu 111 inllicted a line ol lid per day. i..i,.,11i,i a Ms. and costs os. I',,M.

V, hen di-i-ii-siiig socialism at his! nieciiiig a, rapanni. ,\lr. George Willy. -a'd l lull lie was ipiile disgusted ■ U Ihe i-nii.i m-[ i.f ii,,. | n eal socialists al '' ! Minister's meeting on Monday las; 11.. had never -ecu such a faice l.cioio a- iii,, M , w-isp- of humanity "I ill. i.idi,-. and others on ihc sta'ae. Snrclv iie p,,,01e were noi going to allow -ii -Ii 111,-n lo Mile | lie country. '1 hey -aid ili.ii :]■'■>' would make it heaven. 1,1,1 >« i! would he hell upon 'aiilr \|- ii wlioioiild not control themselves. who had no judgment and no common ciuliiv. were not fit to rule Ihc count ry.

j It >oii are siifleriug irom lliliousness, | Constipation. Indigestion. Chronic Headache. invest line penny in a post card, I send to Chamberlain Medicine Co.. 60S. llarris-~treel. Sydney, with your nam? and address plainly on the back, and they will forward you a free sample of Chamberlain's Stomach and Tjivcr Tab Ids. For sale by all chemists and storekeepers.

ll.e lainy days a.re here. Always have, an umbrella ready. IT you haven't any. liny one n ( White and •(ions'. They have a hit of ladies' and gents' at very moderate lirieos.—Advt. If you want your furniture removed "arofully, expeditiously, and economically. employ the New Zealand C(mi|i,M.l„ who make a sne-,«I fcalnre of thin clasi f-F work, and who are also able to sunnlv first-class d'v slorn./e nceOininodalion r', ls fnm« v.-nrt, (n A! 1 ifc hnnplipA — VAX'T SIIAKI-' TT Tl«>u f M"t4>n nnponj opVi. i" 11 kr» I'nmnvlsr »m<- "JV ■hill's >,cw riismwv shales thcin off m-oinptlv and pllectively in a few doses. Obtainable everywhere,

During hie remarks on Friday evening Mr. Okey criticised the grant of £IOOO to Mr. Hogbcn, Secretary for Education, the dropping of a cypher in our report making it read -CIOO. Referring to the Divorce Act Amendment, lie said it had been found that, a couple could be married and divorced in twelve mouth*, not divorced and married, as wo stated. Miss Powell, a Socialist lecturer, hap challenged Mr. Wilford to debate with her on Socialism. Though, says a contemporary. Mr. Wilford was expected to turn pale wnd retreat- when ho heard of the challenge ne i* not much concerned. "What, arc you going to do';" asked ihe newspaper man. -Mr. Wilford: " Indies do make proposals in leap ! year!'' While we are pouring graduates into professions already overflowing. we are di>ing nothing to meet the rising demand | 'fur scientifically educated agricultural i expert-. It i* true we can import ex- | ports hut are we content for Xew Zea- ' landers to remain hewer* cif wood and drawer* of water because they are. denied opportunity for obtaining the education required to lit them for superior ami responsible po*t New Zealand Herald. Winter .-eem* ihe -pringliinc of disease and deaili. in otago and Southland the Dunediu Stary infection** disea.se*. widely scattered, are more prevalent than u-ual. w «-ar|ei fever is the most pronounced trouble. ,iin! iht' l{ea I! ii Departnienl ha.- been noiilied ol twentylive ca*«'«. Diphtheria i- .-'No stalking in the city and in tin- lonnii'y. In addition to these -eriotn enemies, influenza and colds are too well known of the people. All will lie glad when summer comes.

A married woman, who was a passenger from the Lower llutt to Wellington on Wednesday evening, gave birth to a child shortly before the train arrived at the Covernnieut Station. When the train pulled into the station a doctor was summoned, and having done what was necessary he directed that the mother and child should be removed to the Salvation Army's Maternity Home in Thompson Street. Inquiries made by the Times showed that liie incident had not prejudicially affected the condition of the mother or the baby.

Farmers in many portion* of Tapaniii district— cs]H'cially at the north end about Moa Flat--will Isavs the Courier) coin money out of their grain and grass seed this season. Whilst many laudowners iu the North have suffered from the dry season, the season. 11107-8 will long be remembered in South Otago as a bounteous period. Farmers selling wheat al Is lid, potatoes C 3 10s a ton, grass seed at from 3s lo 3s Od, and oats at 2s upwards, arc fortunate beings; and although the low price of wool has handicapped some of the owners of broad acres, the high price of grain will restore the balance of income to at least the normal.

A runaway horse attached to a grocer's cart belonging to Ah Chang dashed along Glover road on Saturday morning (reports the 1-lawcni Star), and turned down Union street, where Mr. H. Haine made a plucky effort to stop its career. As he grasped the horse's head and the shaft to steady himself ins foot slipped and he fell, with the result that Hit; wheel passed over his head. Fortunately for Mr. Hainc there were no weighty goods in the cart, but lie nevertheless sustained nasty injuries about the face and the lobe of one ear was badly torn, Or. Brown finding it necessary to inser? a number of stitches. The horse was eventually stopped without further damage being done. The White Star managers at Liverpool state officially that two steamships, which will be the largest in the world. Hiv to be built, for the eomp'any at Belfast. The exact dimen>ions arc meanlime being kept secret. One will be tailed \he Olympic. Both turbines and nviproca!ing engine* will be supplied, ; ami a speed of not than 2! knots I guaranteed. Information from Belfast

stales that the new vessels will be 840 feel long and 79 feet broad. This will make ihem about 40 feet longer than the two largest existing ('nnarder*, and give 'them an tonnage of 43,000 to .">O,OOO gross, h is also stated thai the name of the >econd vessel will be the Titanic.

Speaking at the Him the other day, Mr. \\ illord that he wished to ask the fallowing (pH'St inn «»f Wi>s S<H-ialistif-frieie'-.- "If |\\«t itice earn the satm* wag.- under" Si.fi );• -.hi. ,i ml one man -.inning he k p iid i:i insicml' ,if by lat»or < «-vi iiir as- i. v ill [li u man Ikallowc.l tn buy a e.yi iiing wiili ii. <»r will lie be allowed it ajiii will i' to hi* children ': Mis saving jif llic •is allows him lo ;-.<nHft"iice the second week witii .*»- wortii of accumulated in dtMry t-y wiiieh h'- ma\ become a capi!iilis|. aud if he leave- it when aceuinufated to his ;-i:ild)en by will, then we have oin* man drawing the result of another < lalxir. even alt"]- his death, wltn-li is the essence of Capitalism and the antithesis of Soeralistn. The three factors uf production are land, capital, and labor.''

A striking evidence of the credulous nature of some people was shown lo a reporter at Tiimmi in the form of a room littered with a couple of hundred photographs ol all kinds, "which had been collected with deposits, ranging from 2* Oil, by (he iin'inlters of a syndicate styling (henisclves tlie Princess Art Studio. Five or six weeks were spent in a profitable Canvass of the district, people o| all classes and professions handing over photographs, in many eases valuable lrom their associations, and deposits, in return lor a lliiusy agreement. in which the Princess Art Studio promised to return a crayon enlargement. Complaint was made reeently tliat no enlargements had been delivered, and inquiries made by the police show that the canvassers have left the country. Ihe police have now undertaken the task of restoring the photographs to the owners.

( Says a writer in the Auckland Herald; ■' It is going to he a, perplexing problem how we are going to put up the enormous number of visitors who are likely to pour into the city during Fleet Week. Already all tlie hotels, lam told, arc booked up to their full capacity, while the boarding-houses are, in the majority of cases, ijj a chronic state of repletion._ jProbably with the aid of private citizens the situation will be tided over in a fashion. But does it not. show how dependent we are on hotels when we go from home? And yet the trend of things is to reduce tli'em! I am not going to enter into the troubled

| waters of the license v. Xo-lieense controversy, but this 1 will say, that, the state of tlie law is responsible for what may be called the non-progressive policy ol many owners of hotel property. I daresay there are at least lialf-a-dozen hotels in Auckland whose accommodation could, and would, lie doubled if it were not for ihe uncertainty attaching to property of thU kind. There is room lor a Hotel Cecil in Auckland, a huge and really up-to-date establishment; but it will never be built under existing circumstances. Norn,, people. of course, may regard ilint- as something to be thankful for. [ don ( ((iiarrel with (lient. I merely .-(ate a fact which it seems to me has all important, or at least, an interesting relation to ~ur social life," Tilt: -LK.t;." C|\'|.;s s.vi ISFACTtO.V. Messrs. Mouton and I'earse. of Mav. fvelll own. write: "We | lilvl . t| iro e 'b.K'.c.' machines in use aud are milking 11(1 cows. \\i. can generally milk 1 Ihis number in 1 hours 20 minutes, while there are only three of us to do this work. We are fully satisfied with both the test, ami i|iianlity of milk? Dili' great advantage is iln. short time tlie cow, are standing'in lie., shed. !lii„ being .oily halt' tlie time required lor hand-milking, i onsecpiem h ihe cowhave move time in (lie paddock. We arc |.erieet!y sati-tied with the machines." Write for full parlieiilars and list, ot satisfied users to MacKwan and Co., Ltd.. Sole Agents, ICgmoiit-street. New Plvnioiitli.

A succession of colds or a protracted '■old is almost certain to end in chronic catarrh, from wbit-li few persons ever wholly recover. Give every cold the attention it deserves and von may avoid this disagreeable disease. How can yon cure a cold? Why not try Chamberlains Cough lieinedy? It. is highly roeommended. for sale by all chemists and storekeepers. Ninc-tcnthg of the. principal diseases which to-day afflict the human race have their rise in a common, ordinary little cold. Tho history of most, cases of disease of this character is very much the same. TThe cold comes and is neglected. It moves down fr<pu noae to throat, from throat io bronchial tubes and lungs, and when it doesn't end there, iu consumption. Its after-effects are sure to "weaken the kidneys, liver, and heart. This is all accepted r.vul taught- in the medical schools of today. It well for Vou to remember it. \n equally important fact to remember is that the proper and only scientific iro.it,nieiil for a cold in any stage if Dr. She] lon's "NewDiaeover-y for Consh= Mollis, and Consumption. This nicdifine w'll "lire any kind of a cold or cnuuh. and will prevent nil the dnmrerOtis aftcr-cft'oota of Lun» anr] Throa*' Diseases. It is guaranteed to cure, or money baqk, Try it. Price, Is 6d and

Lack of interest in Unionism was the subject of comment at the annual conference of that organisation's Poverty Bay Provincial Conference at Gisborne last week. The president stated there had b'ecn three meetings drhig the year (one a special meeting to consider the Land Bill of last, session), and that three had lapsed for want of a quorum. Of these meetings two members of the executive had attended thrie meetings, three attended two meetings, and four others only attended one.

Speaking to n reporter of the Otago Daily Times at the close of- an address ill Ouncdiii slum wkirki, Sister Anne stated that the amount of drunkenness amongst the youth of tin l southern city was astonishing. Things were much wnjsa n»w than they were six years ago. 11l the English towns site had seen deplorable scenes ol' drunkenness, anii had seen little children crawling amongst

the Ver-soaked sawdust on the lloor whil-t t heir parents were drinking to excels, hut Out. of her wide experience slie had lo say that she had nowhere found drunkenness amongst the youth so prevalent a> it was in Dnnedin at. the present time. Something would have to be. done, and done quickly, to improve this appalling slate of affairs, ISig Dick Arnst is not troubled with tin o\erplus of modesty. Recently lie threw out iiis ( best and re narked contidcntly: "1 won the greatest bike race on earlli. tlie SVdney Thousand, anil von nI M tell cyclist t„ p'hink all Hieir dollars fcn nee in this Shilling championship!" Sound- all right, if he tan live up to it (says tile Sydney Hullcliiil, till I considering he has not yet defeited any sculler of note a mere gentle demeanor would la- wise. All the same, the only reason In- had not. been either lifted into the limelight, or biffed right out is that all the scullers have been 100 scared to take liini on. When he has luul he opportunity lie has done well, and out, of seven handicaps he has won four, arrived second once, fourth once, mul pulled himself clean out of the shell (lie other time, .Vol a bad record.