LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 214, 31 August 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

it is considered unlikely that th; Midhnst Dairy Company will join in the National Dairy Associations consignment scheme.

Tiie postal authorities advise that fie Mokoia, which left Sydney on Wednesday, 24th August, for AucKland, has on board an English and Australian mail, which is due here to-morrow (Tuesday).

We are informed that a local seitier, mho bought some South Island nay Ike other day, foimdWt full of Uie sue'd of Cali.ornian thistle. 11 this Sort of tiling continues we shall have any amount of work for the Government

weeds inspectors. Butter buyers were strongly represented in New Plymouth on Saturday Two companies decided the fate ot their output, the Fraukley road and Hillsborough companies entering into arrangements with .Messrs. Collelt and Co. The nature of the "deal" is not disclosed.

Passengers on the 0.30 p.m. train Irojm Inglewood on Saturday evening had ata yxtra sensation "thrown in" with the price of their tickets. The train had just got decently miner way, when down went the brakes, and down went some of the passengers a*i a result of the sudden stoppage. II transpired that some horses had disputed the right of the engine to cross the street, the promptness of the en-gine-driver averting serious conse qnences. Jit is reported that a local farmer has purchased tiie local cheese factory and sitejfrom the Wavejrley Dairy Co., Ltd. (says the Waverley correspondent of the Patea Press). There are many rumors afloat regarding what is lo ne done with the factory. Suppliers have been notified that the factory must be closed down by the liith of September. An extension of time has been asked •for to enable the suppliers to make satisfactory arrangements for their Season's output. Mr. Fitzlierbcrl, S.M., remarked in Court on Saturday morning that there had been considerable comment upon the practice of suppressing tile names of witnesses in the recent licensing cases. He noticed that in the Supreme Court the oliher day tiie Judge had gone so far as t o order thy Press to refer to the parties in a divorce suit as "A" and "B." There was nothing unusual in the practice, and there was certainly nothing to compel counsel to refer by name to a witness whom he did not, intend to call. Mr. Quilliani rejoined that in tiie 'Law Times one bankrupt case was reported without the name of the bankrupt appearing. [The circumstances of the Wellington case were quite unusual. The newspapers, as a matter of fact, did «iot require any direction in the matter. Their good taste and consideration for the unfortunate woman who was seeking a divorce from hur lunatic husband would, we feel sure, have stopped tihcai from adding to the poor creature's load of trouble 'by publishing her name. The circumstances were obviously different to tlioSct surrounding the local case. There was no unfortunate woman to be considered. There were only two witnesses considered so far as the us,ing of 'the names in Court was concerned. The full names of the others were given, as well as their occupation and address. Partiality was apparently thereby shown, and it was this partiality than has been taken exception to. -Ed.]