LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 203, 17 August 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The fun of motoring!— One of our motorcar lleet was -ecu on Saturday ignoniinioiisly trailing a! the rear of one. of the town carriers' expresses. The Aloa Dairy Company holds its annual reception to-day, the guests being the butter-buyers' representatives seeking to secure the season's output. A road board the other day was discussing the bitter complaint of a settler concerning the delay in metalling a certain road, due of Urn members staled thai the lioai'd had promised to buy a certain quantity of stone from this settler, and the probability was thai lie wauled the cash. He couldn't handle that until the lioai'd took the metal off

his hands. A. little coterie of the shareholders in the Moa Dairy Company held a meeting on Saturday, preparing their small arms ammunition for the impending engagement— the annual meeting of the coiupanv. The chairman of directors, -Mr. 1). Ilerliliy. is to be on his trial again, but he informed our reporter on Saturday that he has his big guns well primed and charged with some ammunition that will rather surprise .(lie other „idc. A loiter read at the meeting of Cue JOltliani Drainage Hoard on Saturday I morning was a comment on the recent I unemployed demonstrations. The l!na.rd \ had vrilten to the 1,a.00r Heparin,,ail el Auckland, a kum that. „ :,.,, .„ : ,t ■'own lor drain. »„,1:. 'I he irnlv re ce!\,.| fl'.en lb,. In-.'.. •• , . , : ••; ;,,... i read vour l.'i (.-!■ t„ -,-u-rM men whom j I considered suilabk- f..c the Work. bill. so far Ihev Ir.nc all I'elllsed. I drill I keep you,- Idler before ~„•. and -iiouhl any likely l„e„ ~,, aloag dr. one- | diatcly acquaint you." (

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According to the testimony of a iMaorj witness at Hotorua, the keeping of time-sheets is unknown in Maori contracting, but the "boss" curries everything h> his | u . aUi tut , t . m [ „f

the job he pays out according to Una way he "fixes it up." This pre-historic method, remarks a northern contemporary, requires a little unravelling in a pakcha Court. We hear, upon what we believe to he reliable authority (says the Waiigauui Chronicle) that a pair of linanciai experts" are reaping a rich harvest a'; tile expense of a considerable number of youUaful clients. The modus operandi of the enterprising operators is, wc believe, to make advances to imp. - cunious young nreli, w'ho have, no to spoilk, "run out" pending their next pay-day, and to receive from them in return interest equivalent to anything up to 31)0 per cent. This, if it is true, heats the average usurer out of sight. The .Southland News is reliably informed that within the last few months prominent mining men and capitalists of the North Island have been directing

their attention to Preservation Inlet. Negotiations have been in progress for

some time, ami a well-known mining expert will shortly visit the Inlet and make an exhaustive report, ii is believed that the latest methods of treatment of ores will permit of the successful working of many mining properties at the Inlet. Shouid the result of the present negotiations he favourable, a large company is lo he formed to carry on operations on an extensive scale. Private advices have been received from .\fr. Edgar F. Stead, who, with a Wellington gentleman, bought the stranded whale at Okarito, Westlund, and left a fortnight ago with a party of friends to secure the skeleton. The task was one of great dijlliculty, for the whale measured 87 feet in length, and was estimated to weigh some 101 l tons, while, the fact that it had been dead for some five or six months made the work of getting out the skeleton still more arduous. Mr. Stead reports that his party liave just secured the linn I item in the whale's anatomy, its skull. One of the palate bones is'missing, otherwise (he skeleton is coinplele. .Mr. W. 11. Cruickshank has just; rc-

turned l<. AJiislerton from Queensland, wlu'iv lie had taken a i]iiuL,y of capitalists lo inspect properties, which were under (iilVr to tlwiii. Four of llio party clubbed together and purchased a properly of 42UU acres at Dolby, (ill miles from Toowoomba. Now Zeafa'ndcrs were acquiring properties in all directions on Hie Down's, and the hotels at Toowoomba were full of settlers from this Dominion who were on their way to the Darling Downs. Mr. Cniiekshitnk was of opinion that those doing well in New Zealand should certainly remain, hut those with capital who could not buy at a suitable price here could secure splendid investments in Queensland, The ingenious boy who must have a j shot at something was discussed at the meeting of the S.P.C.A. on Tuesday evening (says the New Zealand Times). A Newtown boy possessed a Jittle wooden gun—a barrtdless, ineffective pieet of wood. He obtained a spent .303 service brass cartridge case ami bored a hole in it, filled the shell with ,powd". and lead pellets, put it into a hole in tho ineffective gun, put a fuse in the hole of the cartridge, lit the fuse with a match while lie pointed the gun at a neighbour's eat, and shot the eat in ihe eye, ulimliiiif it. It is an amazing circumstance that the boy is still unhurt. The parents are to be written to in the interest of the boy and neighbours' cats, Mr. .1. W. Hirst, of llawera, who with .Mrs. Hirst has lately been on a visit lo New .South Wales and Queensland, returned on l'ridny evening (says the Stan, lie reports that the conditions for holiday-making were ideal in Queensland, but in Sydney the weather was very wet and stormy. Doing on a pleasure jaunt, Jlr. Hirst did not trouble to travel over unsettled land, and lie saw nothing of the Darling Downs country which is now being "boomed'' so vigorously; but he savs Ihe country lie diil pass' through offered no attractions to a man who knows the chaiseIvr of N'ew Zealand, and especially of Tarannki land, and he heard nothing to warrant the belief that New Zealand farmers would better themselves by going to Queensland. The Dannevirke Advocate records a sensational incident that occurred at Taraite last Wednesday night. .Mrs. Hobertshawc, wife of l.ev. K. Kobertshawe, was visiting some relatives in a station, and, having retired to bed and endeavoured unsuccessfully for two or three hours to obtain sleep, rose and determined to light the candle. With a shock she perceived a man crouching on bauds and knees on the floor close to the bed. . She rushed to the door, displaying great presence of mind, ami alarmed the household. Meanwhile, the intruder made his escape by the casement window, dropping on to the gravel walk, and unfortunately leaving no footprints. The police are now investigating the circumstances. l'lettv cool!—A settler in the lnglewood district hail a letter before the .Moa Koad Board on Saturday asking the Board to semi the surfaceman down the road to his properly, as lie intended to do some work on the road instead of paying his rates. A few minutes later another ratepayer waited on the Board willi a request for a deviation of a liacklilocks road, lie supposed the uec-s-----iivy hind could l,c purchased. Iml lie had made no emjuinVs. At any rate, ..e informed the members, the Board had power to take the land at the (joverumeiil valuation. This piece of voluntary legal advice, however, was too cheap lo be good. It was pointed out lo (he young niiui that there, was a considerable and expensive legal process attendant upon taking land. As he did not. have all the information the Board

x> needed, the member representing'-'that ,l p locality, Mr. C'-liard, offered to go 4o\vn ,1' I and view the place. Then the mpjhber K had to make his visit lit in with the 0 convenience of this ratepayer. Who K) says ''beggars cannot be choosers';" it 'Pee June Windsor Magazine is a 1( . sumptuous summer number, containiii" L- complete stories by Mrs. P. A. Steel, 11. n B. Marriott Watson, Fred M, White, ;. lveble Howard, Fiances Rivers, W. A. n. M. (loode, E. S. Warren Bell, and Orme n Angus—all lavishly illustrated by lead- -- dig black and white artists. The lhioc art feature of the number includes y seventeen beautiful reproductions of ~ the animal paintings of Mr. .Arthur ... Wardle—one of which is given as a a tinted plate. Other plates in the nume ber are from famous pictures by T 4 ord Leigliton, J. MacWliirter, K.A.," Frank Dic-ksee, R.A., and K. Blair Leiglitou. General Sir George Wolsoley, (i.C.li., coiuribiiles an intereising article on 'The Andaman Islands'; and the. technicalities of the new mono-rail invention, the ••Cyroscope," is explained with many interesting illustrations of its possible development in future traffic by land and sen. A study of the career and art of Katharine 'GooiNon. the brilliant pianist, will prove of special interest to music lovers, and (Inverses of the number include notable

contributions by Dora, Sigerson Shorter and Charles G.' D, Roberts. The Chicago correspondent of the Loudon Times (ill'ers some comments on the ir lighter aspects of tlie recent Republican V Convention. He ,-ay-: The hospitality •I' of the citizens of Chicago lo strangers, especially foreigners, is as boundless as s (he vasl prairies from which it draws .s its wealth. The hotels are ample, and. . 9 1 suppose, considering the circumstances, reasonable. I was charged ;!M a' day ._ for board during the Convention for a medium room, with bath, in an hotel . on the lake front. True, the blankets > ■ were a foot short on both sides of the : a bed, and there wa- u similar inadequacy ' iu the sheets. The counterpane, how- ' r ever, covered thesi- shortcomings liv " day, and during the last days of the *

j Convention blanket* were the least of our dilemma. 1 never realised before why certain American State Lcgislats ures—and probably Oklahoma's Consti- ; tutiou- regulate the size of the blankets 1 and sheets in the hotels. The service in ' tin 1 - Chicago liuU'ls, fnini the Auditorium * downwards, is of tlie "wait on votir- . self and telephone" order. In spite of ' tin irinniisly high prices ]iaid for 1 everything the service was abominable, and one hail a constant strangle in order to get the barest necessities. The 1 voracity for tips in America is insatiable, 'in Chicago even the lift boys seemed to hesitate to open the doors to let you out till yon had tipped them. If is nothing unusual fur the bov who brings jmi iced water 'to linger and sav: ••Anything else?" -'Nothing. | Ciank .(on.- yon reply. "What, nothing ei-e-;" "Nothing. , l-nighl." An- ! -dimming t loor violent 1 v.' and the' key falls on the Hour.

I A sore throat niav be. nuirklv cured ['by applying a flannel bandage dampenI eil Willi Chamberlain's Pain ISnlin. A I I'anie back, a pain in the side or chest, ! should be treated in :i similar niiinnev. | I'ain Halm is also famous for its cures < f rheumatism. Kor Sale i.y all ehemj i N and storekeepers. See what cash w il] j 0 a t flic A.Tt.C. !'oc , Co.: —penis' kiji shooters, nailed. '.'i fil; Oenra' l!ainrerad, wide-fitting, 7s (M: Scold, gnin « a lev-proof knee boots ( ■■»■ (he stockyard). 22s fid; gents' dnucin.g shoes, (is Oil; /allies' felt slippers, Is; childrcns', 7d; goloshes 3s Gd; foot'nolds, s (Id: L"m boots, 'ls Od; ladies' glace slides, os Od. Gtff toots to order. All parcels carriage paid.— Advk