LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 197, 10 August 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At tlic Magistrate's Court t" 1 Saturdav morning' :i lii'st-oU'ending inebriate I was lullvk-tfil anil discharged. Tiie Knglisli mail despatched from \VeUin«um via Naples on the ilitli June arrived in Loudon, on the morning of the Itli instant. The reeent gale was responsible for a good deal of destruction at tin' ltecrc.ition tlrounds. Dii llie hillsides branelies arc strewn around in all direelions. Even ill some of ill: 1 secluded nooks the palm f'ern.s have Mili'ered, most, of tiie vonu"' fronds being denuded of their i'lir-like covering, while llie larger leavs are torn and broken about. Much of the foliage and vegetation bears a bruised and blackened appearance, and the debris of several large trees has had to be eleared I'voni tbe pa lbs. The August ''Lone Hand," :i copy f I' which is (o hand from the (luMi-h-ers. is easily the best number yel produced of thai popular Australasian magazine. [ls chief feature is a pvnl'n-elv illustrated al'tiele oil the American licet'. ileseriliinsj its Uislor.v from the Miming until the present. It is about the mo-t : instructive account we luive read of lb" American navy. Dnlfie savnirery conceptions are continued, and entertaining articles and *tories make u]> an interestinj; number, and olle that 110 dgnbt will he' much sought after. Eveivone knows th:ib at Ambiiry Bros.' aenmil stocktaking sale huge bargains ave t'.ie order. The sale tins winter commences to-morrow, 1 Uli .Inly, and continues till Stli Anpust. Every department ill lilt establisliment is full of every line of stock, and as every article purchased is to a discount of 2d I in tlic Is. cu3to:.urs niv in for a harvrr'. 1 of bargain".. A personal inspection V | jted,—A<M,

The signal lighting at the New I'Jyliioutli railway station lias boon connected willi lilt- borough elect™ lightnig system.

There wore lili.ec/i veterans present at tile meeting of the Veterans' Association on {Saturday afternoon. Their total ages mounted up to 1078 year*,: or au average age of 71% years.

At a meeting of the Tariki Dairy J Company's shareholders on. Thursday, the chairman read letters from those who had handled their cheese, expressing Uie excellence of the make and their anxiety to handle the next seasons output. Tlie supply of boulders at the Borough Council's abattoir reserve is stated to be lessening, ufving in a large deI gree to the fact that contractors have "claims" higher up. The engineer suggests that at some time in the near future it may become necessary for the Council to look lor supplies of metal elsewhere. With a plentiful supply of cheap power, he suggests that it will bo possible to utilise the large neds, coiitainin g thousands of yards of stone, in the Wuiwukaihu riv-er at. Hie old waterworks reserve. 'Hie present steps could be made the foundations for an -elevator over the most diilicult portion of the track.

The abattoir manager's report [or July states that during that period lucre were killed for uJeal consumption Kill cows, 2S bullocks, 20 calves, i>7li uliecp, ;> lambs, 307 pig's; 183 tripes were cleaned, and two calves' heads and feet. Compared with the corresponding month of last year, these ligures show increases of 10 calves lambs. •! p.'gs, and 1!) tripes; and decreases of 17 cattle and 122 sheep. There were slaughtered for export; 202 cows, 8 bullocks, and 25 bulls, a" total of 335, and anincrease of 199 head. Oi these 21 were condemned. 'Total fees were £IBB )5» lid, and rents ;C1 ss, an increase of £ls 9s (id. To cope with the mailer of complaints concerning the state of hides, the manager suggests that the men 'carting hides and. skins for the. abattoir should sign for them as in good order and condition, or note in a book any faults.

The New Zealand Times says: "The Dairv Division has lost its instructress, Miss' Urcen having resigned to marry a Taranaki farmer. Lt. is to he hoped the Department will not further encourage private dairying hy the appointment of another instructress." The Times does not understand the position. There are many places where it is impossible for farmers to send their milk to either creamery or factory, owing to the wa.it of communication, had roads, etc. To deprive home dairymen of the instruction and help of an instructor or instructress would be both unfair and inexpedient. These pioneers of ihe hackblocks are just as worthy of consideration as the makers of butter and cheese at the factories, if not more so, and for the good of our butter trade 1 they must lie accorded instruction. Possessed of this knowledge, we do not think the Department would hearken to the. voice of those who apparently are unaware of the conditions that make it necessarj fur'instruction to he given to our way hack farmers.

in the. course ot a letter, dated from Paris, -June, 22, Mr. '"Jim" Campbell, of Ilawera, refers t.o the great sulfragetle demonstration in Hyde Park, at which he was present, and goes 011 to say; —"it is stated to be the largest crowd ever seen in the park, and 1 am sure that Sunday -June 21, was a day 1 shall never forget. Talk about being pushed, shovud and ,squeezed, the big-

gest of New Zealand football crowds is u fool to it . J)ut this was not the largest' crowd i saw together, for a million people were assembled at the Derby—considerably more people than we have in New Zealand. We were fortunate in that the crowd oi which we were units was steadily and bodily shifted round, as wo were enabled to get, glimpses and liear the utterances of such notables in the suffragette world as Mrs Pankhurst, Mrs t'hristabel Pankhurst, LL.B., Miss Barrett, B.Se., and .Miss Adela Paukhurst. We stayed longest at the *tnnd where Miss Pank.hurst was giving ail address (each speaker had her own particular position in the park), and strangely enough she was holding up New Zealand as a splendid example of a country where women's rights were respected and recognised." —Star.