LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 170, 9 July 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Window-dressers are already at work preparing for the ".Made in Xow Zealand" displays during the whole of next week.

The Canlerbury hockey representatives arrived by the mail train last evening, and are staying at the Imperii! Hotel. Host of the team witnessed the performance of Hie .Maori Entertainers at the Theatre Koyal last night.

We regret to learn that the condition of the iiev. .1. W. Worboys, Methodist minister at Opunakc. is such as to cause his friends and relatives the gravest anxiety. Indeed, only very slight hopeare entertained of his ultimate recover.'.

Tin- West End School Committee Ims accepted lliu lender of McSSl's. Loon Pros, fur tlio erection of a gymnasium at the school, the price being .tlilj. There were six tenderers. Tin. gymnasium i; to be erected on the front portion of the schoolground, next the .South road.

The season has not yet arrived lor 'the big gooseberry stories, but the in full swing. There is a line show of tlicse farm produce just now at Mr. W. Howe's seed and grain store in Jirougham street. Amongst them is ,i long red mangold, weighing ;)7H,s, grown by l\ir. A. Western, of Hell Block, '.on seeds and manure supplied by this :• '". There are also some splendid mi"'"s. some verv hue ones being from .Mr. i\ Cray, of Okuto.

Cur.ii.rs of public parks and "aniens principal olfenilers against, the regulations are women, at any rale in connection with the regulation forbidding the removal of plants, llowers, and so forth. Shortly, women arc more given to thieving plants than are men. The curator of the Sew Plymouth Recreation Grounds was the other day informed that, a lady had stolen a fern. He started out in pursuit, but she was nowhere to he seen. Probably she was hiding behind a shrub somewhere, an] watching the curator's fruitless search. It is unfortunate that there arc ueople with so little respect, for themselves or regard for the property of the. people. Mr. Smith is now engaged in making a fernery on "the island,' at the upper end of the big lake. Should thieving practices obtain, however, it is only too probable that the fernery will have to be viewed from a distance, the present little footbridges being removed.