LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 181, 22 July 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Government offices are closing today for Arbor Day. The case of tike police v. Bishop, *m> a charge of allowing drunkenness on licensed premises, has been adjourned until Wednesday next at 10.30 a.m. The Education Board objects to wallpapers in teachers' residences, insisting on all the walls being painted. This is probably ccononiic.il,' but very few •of even ,the laboring classes in our towns would" be content with painted wooden walls.

At the New I'lymout'h Fire Brigade, meeting last night Lieut. Boon was presented with a further two-year bar, bringing his total service to 1' years. Secretary I'md likewise received a twoyear bar, his length of service now being 17 years. l''orcnian Blaekett, who lately joined tlie brigade, received a three years' service certificate front the Stratford Brigade.

Mr. W. L. Kennedy told the Education Board last night that in his twentyfour years' experience of Taramiki he had never before seen such a road as the Mohaka road was now. The Government had been carting over the road, and it was so bad that the other day a (Inee-liorse team was stuck with a load of 100 feet of timber. It cost no less than 25s to cart that hundred feet of timber for four miles!

At a meeting of dairy factory suppliers held at Kaptini on Monday it was decided to form a co-operative, association to purchase the late Mr. T. h. Joll's dairy factories, which are valued al about -C22.0U0.' .Mrs. Joll gave the suppliers the lirst offer of the business. The genera] opinion favors the co-operative principle, although (he late Mr. .lull's peculiar qualifications gave full satisfaction to the suppliers of his proprietary concern.

Yesterday afternoon at . the Magistrate's Court, before Mr. H. S. Fitzl.cbert, S.M., a lirst offender, who bad been on remand for a week under medical treatment, was convicted of- drunkenness and discharged upon paying 7s Od, the amount of expennwt, and upon his application for a pro'hibi. tion order, which was issued accordingly, the S.M. warning the defendant that he must conquer the drink and nvt let it become his master.

A meeting of the executive of the St. John's Ambulance Society was held 1» the Town Hall last night. In the unavoidable absence of the President (Mr. G. Tisclt) Mr Dempsey presided. There were also present: Mcsdamcs Dockrill, Jjowling, Bullard, Misses Test.ir, Hempton, Messrs. Hughes, Berridge, and W. Ambury. It was decided that the lirst of the weekly first aid classes be bclo! this evening, in the Town Hall, under Dr. Bleakley, and the weekly nursing classes commences on Friday under Dr. Lealham. AL present the classes art for ladies only, and a large roll is ex-' 1 peeled. It has been proposed to approach the Garrison Band to join Iho classes, which will then be extended. Mrs. Dockrill was elected secretary to the Society.

It is one of Hie essentials in entering up a lime-book that it must be entered up day by day. if a- book is kept in a bush whale for three months, and entered up every evening after tea, by a man who has been working in the bush all day, it is extremely probable and feasible that the book will become a little dirty, perhaps very dirty, and that it will show considerable signs of wear and usage, yesterday, however, iu a civil action in tiro Magistrate's Court, a book was produced Spick and span, with clear-cut sides and the mottled edges as clean as when it came out of the shop, 'ilic Magistrate wnuul it hard to believe that this book had been kept in a bush whnre, and entered up as just mentioned. '-If, - ' lie said, "this hook had been kept by a careful young lady in a beautiful drawing-room, it could not be more spick and .-pan. The man must have used Pear's soap evory tiiiie he made an entry, put a piece of blotting paper under his hand, used the same pen, the -amc ink. and have written always at the same angle.'' The defendant, however, who produced the book, swore that lie had made his entries every niglit, after work. The Magistrate, in his judgment, said that this was asking hiin to believe too much. The defendant must have made a mistake.