LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 163, 1 July 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

i'lie HiiL'iish mail despatched, iflonii ■llington via Naples oil l*'t» ,u ' I'd lit J.oiulon on tlu? L 'he. polling lor I lie special waloau at Stratford on Monday, ruled ill tile proposal Wing carried >.t .'Here lias just died at a Melbourne liltic asvliun n patient who nail been inmate <f t'lie institution for lib lis! lie WN 78 years of age. lie Taranalii Jlilles have decided to d a eiu'lire pjrly and dance on "Weilday next at the .lirougham street 1 in aid of tile Ksplanadc Extension t seems likely Unit the Supreme Court sessions will lie concluded to-day. From tlie form 1 ..1 a lite array of cases and couii-ei and litigants on Monday il seemed the Court was likely to oc,".ipv the greaLer portion of tile week. The number of estates ol deceased icrsons dually eerlitied ior stamp oaty luring .1 line was ISti. Tiie largest wele .hose of .lolm Dimeaii (\\ aiiganuil, ,L7(>.77.>. .lames A. Milicr (.~iiaj m>,-2-17. Herbert Austin (. Wellington) Isani; Sargem iCantcrtiiiry) £22,li4fiT%iuies Keid ;.\nci;!anil) Cx*.-1-20, inul; Hir-*l (llawke'sN Bay) The l.llgcHl. e-iates ol Tiranaki deceased penons linally certiied for stamp duty tbls month were: (I'. M. t'otLier. C8!lo7, Robert ISruce £1925. Ann liavvlings C'.l.'it), Frederick U*M C 82.), and W. d. lliitchance ttil.'l. Hk meeting of the New I'lyniouth Kni.Associnlion was held .vesterdi^, .ing to consider an application from close from one o'elock 'On tlie tlt,. lb'ii.is!i-Taraiiat;i I'ooton duly J-">. -Mr. iliiniplnies. PPmian of tile I'nion. in placing the ■■quest before the. meeiing, stated that lb' t'niou ha.d mistakenly stipulated 2 instead of 1 o'clock in the prcWuis. iipplication. Several members tokiNu support of the application, Bliile at the same time objecting to be town as to what hours tiicy should observe. It was unanimously resolved to 'accede to the request of the I niou. and will be recommended to premises from 1 to o p.m. Tribune, in a recent, a*1. medicai the fact the been 'chief r ll

• The tightness of the money nml'kct and the increased rates o\ intokcst charged I)y tht 1 bnuks and hanl'ng institutions have bad the inevitable! effect of turning attention to 111» Advailces to Settlors Ollux'j with its h\ V internet rates. Sheaves of applications for lolj's have gone in. and Taranaki 1 as done lit* share. The result is that at presim the District Valuer is now kept goLg at top pjwnre in makingjthe valuations for loan purported,; jn ftfwlUi'on to bis other work. j t j It happened in one of Ta" u ii|kiV progressive boroughs. A well-nispJcted eitiKen came across the MayoJ J ml. Town C-liirk in conversation. And'Jp accosted ibeni thus: "Ihis the got an accident policy over its (/uiployoes? -1 The Mayor said that, ot'Mnivse, they bad. The Council took of that kind. '"Oh, that's all rijjß, then," nonchalantly replied tlu> othjjashe walked oIV. "Only I saw your foreman loaning hard on his shovel and!f:lking polities for the last half-hour, and 1 was mortally afraid the handle ivouhl break ami | if(i (hroiigh him." AmljfK* ofhos were! left to kii-k themselves.; The llishup of Air; Aw.; was one of {be speakers at themeeting of the Mothers' t T the Churdi House (writes the U>Hilon corrc.-pnn-dent of the New ZeahmUllerald), other speakers including the Bishon of London and the Rev. R Lvtte!t<m (headmaster of Eton). Bishop Ncligfin, referring to the "humanitarian" legislation of New Zealand, is said to have expressed the opinion that this legislation had a tendenev to soften and weaken the raee, and its' robustness might ijuite easily be . eliminated. lie ulso -"jici; again spoke • strongly against system- of secular i education in the Dominion.

To the Manawatu -H »«<l !'• -\:.>otiatidii belongs tl"' distinction of fur Hit lirst display I'v.fin tin: Veterinary Department, presided jover !»y Mr. (>ilriilli, UK-' exhibit •beini; on view at the Wiiitit SB : ow. 'the t-'Hhibit was plainly illustrative Jot tl"' value uf the Department's woif, ami was viewed with great iiilerrrtt a nit attention by Ihi')Ji> crowds collee' i,-,7eumriw4.|.".tl 1 o| l , fJl eal exhibits ~f the diseases of animals, one ol I lie most in! cresting ol various microbes, including tuhorniioMs. anllirax, typhoid, anil others of a pially formidable nature, 't'lie stand v.as under I he 'direction of JJr. 0. It. Barker, whose explanations o[ tile varum* points mill nm-iinv- of interest found approval willi ntiditoi

"It is a curious thing to tliink ol wliat [| K , power of reduction of temperature m free/,in" clinnilersis doing lor Nc'.v Zealand!" "aid an expert in cold storage when speaking to a representative of I lie Auckland Herald. "I f tlic freezing orocc.-s Inul not been discovered probably hundreds of thousands of acres now in profitable occupation would still be busli iuii"le. railways and roads now all accomplished fact might nut even be thoiHit of. and the bulk of the population have migrated elsewhere. Today vou see a Shropshire.sheep feeding in a paddock; six months hence it might have travelled to London and be foriniiii< part "f tl we'll I" 1 board the Cnnard limn- Maurctania. A nice young hen. IA-eiiing her feathers in the sunlight in Jl Avuiulale |ioultry-run this week, may vovn"e to London and be sewed up in a restaurant in I'nris or on a passenger liner lining t<) .litpan, and the eggs she laid before slie departed, and which her inotheiiv instinct, no doubt, taught her t« look forward to hatching, will perhaps be taken out of cold store iu Auckland two years afterwards, and be praised in Duncdin as "those beautiful flesh eggs from Auckland.'"