LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 192, 4 August 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

t'nder its guarantee to llie Post and Telegraph Department the; Whaii-,-.v nmniona (..'niintv Council has had lo pay X.',) on account of the telephone ollice nl Kohuratahi (aiiuou»ces thu fcjtratfoid l'ost). Willi the completion of Hie footpaths iii Yogcltowu mill the approaches thereto, llii! footpath cyclist is to receive, scant consideration at'the hands of Hie authorities there, and there will lie no respect of persons, either. The flavor will move at the nevt meeting of the IWuitgh Council that 1.e." adoption i.l' the last clause ill the engineer's report of 2-lt h Jul v.l hut. : he position at the waterworks 'i„. oiler. •! to l-'onm-.in Hooker. Uc rescinded. Another step towards the inilleiiiuni. when the small birds pest will hive ceased to exist.--A lad in (lie Tariki dislriei has managed to rapture hvivry niinahs, as proved hv his having delivered their heads hj, the county foreman. 'l'hc t'nion Company ,la Ihal mi far there are no indiic'cmcnts to put en an cNtra boat to earrv visitors In Auckland in connection with the Fleet festivities, hut should neea-ioll demand the company will he prepared lo meet the The usual fortnightly mcoling of l'i ■ Loval Kgmoul Lodge, Lti.tU-'., ,\i.l'., w.i, | held last evening. In the absence of I a • N. 0., Pro. A. Hooker. I'll., occupied the j chair. A letter of recommendation was j granted to e. member who has left the | district. | Strong, serviceable, and sighllv Ui.-v're adjectives thai will describe a material that has been verv much in doI maud this season. Crded velveteens KM ' ma:iv a wiml. Thev will make a lady's ' f'OWll, a "ivt's dress, „)■ a l.m's lonic. ' Y.hilc and Sons have a stock In colois. ] drab, rc.l, and brown, which was l'. .■■! ; per yard. The sale price to clear is Is J -Advt. '

The new riding of the Tarnnaki county is to be tailed the Jlunvorth riding.

Hunvorlh was the name of the late .Sir Harry Atkinson's homestead, is the name of the only post olliee in the riding, and of one ot the dairy companies in the area.

At yesterday's meeting the Taraiiaki County Council passed a resolution favorable to the Jmv Plymouth Harbir Bill, ami requesting the lions. 0. Sannrl and T. Kelly, M.L.O.'s, and .Messrs. 11. Okey and \V. T. Jennings, M.l'.'s, to stipport tlie measure.

At a meeting of the Tarnnaki Butter, Creamery, and Cheese Factories' Employees' Union held on Saturday, the question of compulsory unionism was under consideration, and it was decid-jd to take a ballot of the members of the Union according to statutory form whether the dispute should be taken before the Arbitration Court.

The Kginont Lodge, .No. 112, 1.0. G.T. held its installation meeting last even iiig in St. Mary's Hull. Bro. ,). C. Leg;. C.T., presided 'over a large attendant of members. The reports of the different retiring ollieors were presented am adopted. The secretary reported a mem bership of SI member's. Capitation am accounts amounting to J-3 Os lid wen passed for payment. Bro. K. A. Stole-"

D.G.C.T.. installed the olliccrs as reported last week. Bro. (i. \Y. Hartnel! wa>

elected Electoral Deputy, vice Bro. G. | Cock, resigned. Greetings were received from Lifeboat Lodge No. 101, Timaru. At the last meeting of the Whangamomoua County Council it was resolved "That as the rapid development of the resources of the .province within recent years, particularly in the outlying districts, makes harbor extension at N«v.Plymouth a matter of urgency, this Council approves the Bill now before Parliament, believing that if the expansion within the harbor area is to ':e satisfactorily coped with, the provision of harbor facilities must be accelerate.!, and that copies of this resolution be forwarded to the Hon. 0. Samuel, Messrs. Symes and Okey, M.F.'s, ano. also to the Clerk of the New Plymoiuh Harbor Board."

Hope of Egniont Juvenile Temple, N\>. •>5 1.0. G.T., hold its usual weekly meetin'' in St. Mary's Hall last night. Tie Superintendent, Sis. (Mrs.) Bruce, was in charge, the Temple being opened Dy the Acting-Chief Templar, Bro. 11. Curline. The Superintendent then installed the new officers as follows:—Chief Templar, Bro. 11. Curlinc; Vice-Templar, Sis. L. Allen; Past Chief Templar, Bro. L. l'cpperell; Chaplain, Bro. E. A. Bktnchetl; Treasurer, Bro. F. 11. Peppered; Financial Secretary, Bro. w. Ilandh'v; Assistant .Secretary, Sis. A... Hawse- Deputy Marshall, Sis. 1. Council; Guard, Bro. Lealand; Sentinel Bro Mitchell. The new ollieors decided to entertain the lodge next Monday mgiil with refreshments after the usual busi ness. The lodge closed at 8 p.m.

The following tale of a Uv is told «t Thornianbv'H Derby. The n'gM be «"' c tUo race a fell hawker's wife seared her husband hiully by tugging at his hair as slu- screaineii "The boy in yaUer, holjy. Tl„. ]>ov ill valler wins!" "WrthtcliOT K ivin' us?" disked the slccpv Solly; ' ave v«u -one rally!" "X"". replied is sleeping partner, " lml I've just seen the Derby ran, and tho boy in yalta won it; you better put a bit on 'nil |» Solly's disgust, when he went to the course he saw two boys m ' y ttller , distance on Thormanby, and the black cap afeo; and Sharpe in a while one on Northern Light. But as Mrs. So y was wearing' a white dress, poor Solly "popped the pewter" on the wrong un, nml there was no fried schnappei and pickled •• cowcumber" in his home lor a month after.

"it's a "rent help to be able to sine up the men you come in contact with," said a business man to his son: "but it's more important still that you should first von know yourself, lor instance. A noisv buncli lacked out of their dull late "one night and up the street They stopped in front of all. imposing residence. After considerable discussion one of them advanced and pnomlcd on lira door. A woman stuck her head out of a second-storey window and demanded, none 100 sweetly: "What do you want?" 'lsh this the residence of Mr Smith 1 !' inquired the man on the step with an elaborate how. It is. Wluit do you want?' 'lsh it possible I have the -honor shpeakin' to Missus Smith?' 'Yes. What do you waul?' '.Dear Misshus Smith! (inod Misshus Smith! Will yon—hie—come down and pick out Mr Smith? Tlte lvshl of us want to go home.''' Mr. Rockefeller and Cardinal Logue met' one day recently, and what they said to eacli other litis much space in the New Vork journals. It was while the Cardinal was lunching with Mr. Butler that Mr. Rockefeller unexpectedly called. Cardinal Logue and Mr. Koi-kefcller dial ted together animatedly, the Telegraph says. They had a tussle about who should go 'into the parlor first, the Cardinal insisting upon the Oil King ami the uil Mng upon tile Cardinal. 'This is ;i question," said Mr. Rockefeller merrily, "of Cod, and Mammon. \»\\ really' must j»o livst." I.alcr on the two sauntered in nrm-iii-arm, mid Mr. Rockefeller said: "I would like to know the. feelings and thoughts of a man in a Cardinal's position. They must be wonderful." The little Cardinal answered: "It would interest me just as much, Mr. Rockefeller, to know your feelings and til oughts."

The recuperative power of Australia is in no Slate so evident as in Queens-., land, whic'li miderwcut the greatest aet back of any. 'Hie (locks are increasing with a rapidity whicu Ms exceeded the most sanguine estimates, though till quite recently there wis a considerable area still under drought. The number of sheep, wluc'h fell to seven and a(|iiarter millions in 11102, and was 14/ 8811,000 in December, lllOli, reached seventeen and a-(|uarter millions in December, IUO7, and should be well on (he. way to twenty millions by the end off this year. At the present time, ex-, cepting :1 small corner in the Southwest, all Queensland has abundant feed for a year Id come. The fall in wool values will make a difference to Queensland, but the increase in the year's clip s'liould makeup the dill'erence." The heads, of course, are not recovering so quickly, and the surplus for beef export is slow of realisation.

Desultory "picketing 0 f „ kind is si ill being practised in connection with the bakers' strike (says the Dominion). '.I hat incidents of a grave character have also taken place is indicated by statements that have been made by working bakers. About II o'clock the other .morning a baker riding to work on his bicycle dowji Kent Terrace, when a large stone llirown from somewhere in the dark whistled past his machine, a missile, which, had il. found its billet, would have "laid out" the cyclist. A policeman, who was knocked up, went to the place where the incident occured, and found two strikers standing at Hie corner of the street, but. both disclaimed being a party to such a cowardly ae,",. Another baker i„ employ was riding aI long Vivian Street earlv the other mornling, when he came in contact with a line that had .been stretched across the street. Fortunately, the line gave way, otherwise the story might have been told at a hospital bedside. All employer, whose employees were non-unionists whin ihe strike was declared, awoke a few mornings ago to find Hie words ■■Seal.'' and " lllackleg'' scrawled across the front of his premises. Such a els as these arc bound to alienate sympathy wilh the bakers 011 strike and deserve the alteration of the police.

I-'iKST AIL) TO THE INJURED. Accidents arc common to every household, and it is necessary to be ready ;or such emergencies. A bottle ot Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment awl a roll „f soft, bandages will relieve many a sufferer, ft takes tfe pain from every burn and bruise; will heal suiy and mry sore; destroys the poison from slings of insects;' stops neuralgia and cures rheumatism. J\V family can alfonl to be without J)r. .Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment. Keep a bottle on the sludf i„ plain s i„| lt) tH . I( it may l,«. quickly found when needed. I rices 1/0 and :;/. Obtainable everywhere.

The expression, --| will eat my hat" is likely (olosv favor w i(|, th,,-,.'people win, always oiler lo perform some wonderful feat ,„ the „ V e„(. of the pronounced opinions being proved incurI.reel. two gentlemen recently had i. dispute as to the amount of'stripping t.thal. had to be done after the inilkinr- ■ machine, and one of lh,. m oll'cred to . i ; (l, '" lk - l| l Hie stripping*" left by tire kawrcnce-Keniicdy-dillies" machine on a dozen eows. The oiler was accepted. A teacup was procured, and found ampie to hold (he stripping*, which were ns easily swallowed as the bet was ••v'li. -I. 1!. Macßwan and Co., Ltd., sale agents Kgmout street, New Plymouth.

I'Vir Bronchia! Coughs take Wood's j Croat Peppermint Cure. 1/0 a nc. 2/,fl. j Influenza i 9 always more or less ~re|- | valent at this season of the ywir. Tllis I disease is very similar to ~ ' SO vere cold and if allowed to take i(s course is | mble to cause s-.-vh.us results. The | best, treatment for iiilloun™ is to avoid expiißiire and take Chamberlain's C 0,,,, Ponied-.'. This niclicine gives imniedi. ■•'!<■ relief, and if „se,| „,„ directed will Avanl ofl all dangerous consequences. It leaves Hie System in a natural and .lieallliv eondition. U always cures and j cures quickly. For sale by' nil chemists I and storekeepers.