LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 169, 8 July 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Amongst the ornamental plants now being planted out at the Recreation (■•rounds by the curator, ilr. W. VY. Smith, are some very line "horse-shoe" ferns.

Only the retiring members, .Mosul's, ■lames Wade, Henry Paull, and W. linger were nominated for lhe vacant seals on the Education Hoard, and they have been declared elected.

At a meeting of Indies held yesterday afternoon it was decided lo 'make ail early start with the preparations for the Western 'Park bazaar, the lirst sewing meeting lo be held in the old library room at the Tuwn Hall nest Tuesday afternoon.

A man was charged at Collingwood (Victoria) witJi ill-treating his »on. It was stated that on one occasion the hoy was beaten -10 minutes with a wliip-hamUe. A line of only £1 was imposed, on the ground that the boy had given provocation. The boy had to remain in hospital for live days. The following are the technical classes for l.i-iiay at the i\ew I'lymoutli Technical School: —lO a.m. lo noon, drawing and painting from life model (Mr. K. V. T'ontun, instructor); evening, 7.1") tji 9.15, geometrical drawing (Mr. Ecnton), preparing for Standard VI., chemistry (instructor, airs. Cleddes, li.A.), commercial law (instructor, .Mr. J. if. Strang).

A meeting of the Xtw Plymouth Boxing Club was held last night in the Town Hall. The meeting was called to consider the proposal to send a team of heavy, light, feather, and bantam ■weights to'compote for the £3O provincial cup at the f'almerston tournament on 7th August. It was decided to enter the team, and the men will go into training right away. A pen sketch of Hie "prophet":

Kim's nose liegan to be Jewish. Then it left oil' and lay down. At present it is Hat; typicaly wide at the nostrils, with a slightly hooked point. All the followers with' him are of the Hebrew type, as far as features are concerned. ■Following Una is a slow and comfortable business—the tvpe of .Maori who is following him is likely to still follow him as he carefully restrains them from working.

Tlit! amniiil meeting of the 'J'nriinaki Liberal ami Labor FcMicraliou was held last night in tin! Town Hall, there being a very good atti'iidaiii'c of members. At th« conclusion of business on tlii! orderpaper a resolution was passed urging on "tlii' Premier and tin l Onvprunienl the importance to Taranaki and the Dominion n( tin- completion of tile New Plymouth harbor, and urging that 1 In* Harbor Bill before the House receive the support of the Government. A eoSiiiopolilnn rook, who told the Arbitration Court that he had adopted thi! outdoor profession of cooking for shearers for Ulic sake of ids hcall ii. after a varied experience, in whieh (::' had lieell ehef in several good positions, was linked wliv Australian shearers came to New Zealand if they th'cughi llie conditions were better in Australia. -Wen;' he replied, "if inhad all stayed in London we would all iiave been running about as .Maoris in New Zealand, wouldn't wo'<"

instances of pluck on the stage .are not rare, but there are few to cipia! the courage of little Vera Uuggctl, of -'Tile Prince t'liap'' Company. Those \y,:o were present at the performance on Saturday evening (-ays the Wellington JKuiinioii) would have noticed that tile child played with her arm in a sling. and llie circumstance was passed oil by an allusion in the dialogue io a Sprained wrist. As a matter of fact, the child's arm was accidentally broken on pear in Christchurcii tile same evil-' ing.

There was a well-attended and enthusiastic, meeting of ladies last, night called lor (he purpose of forming lirsl and second aid ambulance classes for ladies. Mr>. Dockrill. Airs. Uowling, and Miss Teslnr. members of (he local executive of llie St. John Ambulance Association, were amongst those present, and .Mrs. Dockrill presided. It was decided lo hold ;t lirsl aid class every Wednesday evening, commencing on 2:2 nd -liily, and second aid classes everv Friday evening from r»H.Ji instant, Dr.'lVlackloy aiding as instructor in the first ease anil Dr. b'alliam in the second. A large number of intending members' names was handed m.

Tile poultry industry in Duneiliii is i. ;,.' too bright, ai prc,cnl,and panic,iIra.:, is regards the table variote there is a il'eided scarcity (says the' OtagiJJaily ■•:-uc,). As'a result, cockerels for tube' purposes are now selling at as high as iruin (is lid to 7s per pair locally, and it is doubtful if the same class of birds would bring any more, it as much, in London. 'J.'iic almost pro'bilftve price of fowl feed has been responsible lor a very limited production, and more cockerels have hecn killed this last season as soon as breeders were able to distinguish them koiii pullets than probably ever before, simply because it would not pay to rear them.

In the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before Mr. 11. R. I'ltzherbcri, S.M., tin' following cases went by de-fault:-H. Cecil "Wright v. T. M. Jay, claim CI 10s 4d and'eosts 7s; Taranaki Petroleum Company v. .T. E. Nixon, claim Cfl Us (Id and costs CI 3s Gd; same v. If. K. Owen, claim £2 His and costs ins: same, v. Caroline M. .McConochie. claim C2 Ills and costs Ills: same v. A. Klcnncr. claim CI lis (id and costs Ss; A. K. Sykcs v. K Onrringtnn, claim CI IDs lid and costs ss; F. O'Regnn v. •1. I. Flower, claim Co l.'is ami' cost's CI IN (id: 1,. A. Nolan and Co. y. W. J!. Wilson, claim CI7 Us S,l and CI 12s tid costs: H. Weston y. J!. V. McMillin. claim C 7 and costs .CI :is lid. Abo'.t: forty cases were otherwise settled or adjourned. 'there was no defended business.

I'sichclor. en fruit farms hj, Canada, have for some time past (says an Ph.glisli journiill been in liie habit of putting missiics among the contents of barrels of apples, asking anv young woman "who gets this,'' ami 'wanla a husband to write to so-and-so. Several by theses means, and had a'X'ewtowu Pippin wedding. The plan lias now been adopted by the Canadian dairymaids in not ipiite So harmless a manner. It seems the maids have been enclosing overtures 1 0 marriage correspondence in bottles and embedding them in the hearts of Canadian cheese in the making. When the frugal citizen buys half a Cheddar lie is" not so well pleased with the discoverv that he has paid lor „ love missive „t the rale »f Hid a pound. A Dill has been iutroiluced into the Ottawa Legislator- to put a stop to ■Vhcoschov'romances •■ So the lovelon, dainSels of the DuniinH'n v.ill have to tind .some ol her means of smuggling their 1«,,. tokens, and. beheap Year, thU should not be difficult

Till'' "HARD TIM ICS" I'UiA. •IllxL US llllll'll ill ;| ilain lllilll ri'J h.-jii.l; In jmreliase a rt>i.,V on < "n11( < .l' money ."Imrincss as Iht-ri- is in ;i |i.'i!ii'iil medii-iiii' ~]• jjoiil'j.sJi"HMil mi tin- wiiiic MjiU'c. In Imlli oases .II"' 1 ' 1 ' is -i" ail In Ikilli cases there I- 11 cei'Uilil y of I,us- in mi Ule Dili 1 llUM'l ;i 11(1 liimKl) on till' (Jlut. Til liotli IM-I-- 11ii-re's ;i ,-iiiv for I lie f.roiil>!r II"' iil-l;lll;(lin]l (if ;iii "A I fa-l,avn I" se|,;ir;u„v jv.. (if llirtlii'l' less t.» I lie dairyman nil,l Ihc ai'CC|i(am,'e 1,1 III" uieiliriii" mill I',,nil I'm- (.lie one U'lln sock - recovery of health. Wl'ile to-day I'm- yn,- illustrated < il 1 :ilo"iu- " I'. which w:! 1 tell vim lnuv ji, j Vn;!| . slinre iif I in- c\t ril iiniliU u liieil "All'llUvnl" Users al'e obtaining. Si ill- New Zealand agents. _\la sun, Ntrnlhers mil ( I -I il.. ,\la in si reel. I-;i I inovsfi m Mini i|. lii'ilWlis mi.i Co., I"lviiiiml local ii^i'lii-. Mi's. ,1, Aliinvicl;, On-y .sl.ri'e!., Nhorl.-l-'inil, Thames, X.Z., mi\>: "Sunn- {title a;,'o w 11"11 lnv hi.lle liOy liiul his Ikinils severely bumf, Hanson and Cn. recom mended mi: (o {.ry Cliamberlahrs J'aia liiilni. I aojdied (lie liniment. us soon as possible ami :if(i-r n few applications tile p:iin disappeared ami liis hands ' llealed without sears. Since then I have liswl Chamberlain's Pain lialm for head,'telle, I o'ot'liaclie, and rheumatism and I find that it always frives relief. I ran reor.nmicnd it lo anyone wanling a. (rood family liniment.'.' For sale by all Plmmists and storekeepers. ' n tau- Bronchial Coughs take Wood's Peppermint Cure. 1/0 amV2/,(J. 1

Wo Imvi' to compliment tile local tole• | graph stall'.upon ilic excellent w.i.v in which they handled tho l''inancial Stale ini'iit hist evening. The long messageover 13,01)1) words, equal to ni'iirly tea columns of the Daily News—was handed in late. Inter really tlum there was any need fur, mill the telegraphists were' kept at. tt till after midnight. Their work, however, did not sillier, the "copy" being very legibly written ami consequently easy for the linotype operators to handle. '

Any casual observer along our Precis to-diiy may notice tow little regard some, drivers have for their horses. .1 horse's month is n thing to he jagged. jerked, torn, lacerated, ami otherwise mauled until hlie wretched animal nas hroken into a fearful submission, with all 100 many of them. The oll'icers of the 5.1'.0.A. are out after these cases, iney. have had trouble enough to secure convictions, lint they do get them, lint thov .loive done noble work in this icomioctioii, and are doing it still.—' l'vcc Lallec.

fine adjourned meeting of the New Plymouth branch of the Civil Service Association wus~iieht last night, -\ir. lb S. i'l'lzllcrbcrt, 5..U.. presiding. 'Tile meeling considered the remits of the proposed amendments of the Civii Service Superannuation scheme. All the remits were carried, and the vote was unanimous except in regard to tije proposed age limit. A division resulted in favor of the retiring age limit ut (111 for males and 50 for females. The secretary, Air. W. .1. Wiggs ((loads Department) is the delegate to Ihe conlereme. Amongst the remits from this branch is one in favor of extending exciirsicii railway rates to all Civii Servants on holiday, in view of tile fact that few Civil Servants are able to lake, their leave when excursion fares are rilling. During (lie discussion at. last night's meeting it was pointed out that old age pensioners under Wi.c general laws could receive up to £2O per annum, whilst this special siiperuunuali'cn proposal provided for only X7S a year.