LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 223, 14 September 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Whitley Church wa» well :iilonded yesterday at both muruing ami evening services. Tlie ltev. \\. li. Bromelow, missionary from New Guinea, occupied tile pulpit. The rev. gentleman is a very able speaker and rivetted the attention of his congregations with his description of missionary and other work in New Guinea, At tile evening service -Mir. Broiuclow spoke for some minutes, giving nn interesting a.'eount of her personal experiences amongst tilt; New Guinea natives, and was attentively listened to. Mr, and Mrs. lironielow also sang a hymn ill the native dialect. This evening the rev. gentleman and his wife will give a lecture on missionary work iu New Guinea. Tlie I'isphmiule extension was well patronised by townspeople yesterday, and many were the appreciative remarks on the splendid improvement eU'eeted, making it possible to walk ill comfort from town almost to tiie 'breakwater along the water front. On Thursday next, t.k: Mayor, .Mr. 'I. Tiscli, who has had this work carried out on Iris own initiative, with funds donated bv townspeople, will formally hand (lie extension over to the Seaside Improvement committee to administer. The ceremony will take place at Ihe harbor end of tile Ksplanade, and complete arrangements have bee'n made for the success of lb.' tunction. It is unfortunate, however, that the Northern I'niun football match between Auckland and Taranaki lias been set down for decision on file same day.

Flowers are becoming plentiful now, and the daffodils is the Recreation Grounds bloom unmolested. Tiie lirst 500 boxes of the Kakaramea's new season's output realised 12'/ 3 d f.o.u Wellington, ana the directors have decided to pay out H%d for September, It is said that the "Awatuna Dairy Company have sold their output of cheese tor the swison to A. S. Patterson and Co. at a figure il advance of sixpence. Mr. J. D. .Mitchell, of -Manaia, recently took Kandahar, a 3-year-old son of Lord ltoibcrts, to the Melbourne ho"se sale, where lie was sold for the sum of 325 guineas. '

_i liiiL* eoiiuvtiua of native shrubg and uves, garnered at tne nead oi tne Mount Ejjmom railway line tiy uie vuiator and others, are now being p/anu'ii in the Recreation Grounds, ihe committee of the Patea .Bowling C'luio have decided to try Hie experiment in Patea of having liie gi,vii "pen ai ttighl, and tor tms puipoae propose installing two cleiuie ngais, one at eilun end of the given. ille bililer-iuuyers' li.Kle -l»lle reals to-uay at Ligieiiood, wnituer tliey mil repair lor tiie purpose of interviewing .ui. iierniiy anil Wo "liierne men" m eonnvetioa vvith the disposal oj the t ui.ipaiiy s output, it was announced sonic tune ago tinat the .uoa Company una joined in tiie co-operative consign l mem move, but the buying oilers are better than were expected at that time. The following were successful at the examination held ill St. Mary s Hall in connection with Hie Trinity College vl

Music (LoiiUoa): —Agnes Garden &n----clair, itenueduite pass, piano, U4 (Miss Mouiitfovd); Claribe! I'euew, junior honors, si (Mi»s Mountford); Mona Corkill, junior" pass, 00 (Miss E. Young); preparatory piano, Eileen Kimble, 05 (Mrs. Uniacke); preparatory violin, Erie Drayton Colson, 84 (Miss H. Robson); Dorothy Leah Corircy, preparatory piano, I* .(Miss H. Robson), The Eltluiui Dairy Company will pay out Is l'/id per lb for last inontn s out-ter-fat, or £1440 in the aggregate. Last month the company made 28,793 lbs of butter. The over-run was 12.72 and the average test 4.03. The company is now making 1% tons of butter daily, a few boxvs more than at tnis time last year. The company will receive milk from more cows this year and increased supplies are expected more particularly from tne Mangawhero and Clival roads. Willi a good season the company will probably turn out about 850 tons of butter.

Tile ilattipu district was agitated en Thursday by the report that a mild- ] man was abroad, and upon relurni.'ig honiw Mr. J. llcslop found the individual on his property, haranguing the stumps. Upon being approached by Mr Ileslop the man imparted the news that lie got a lot of information from stump , which wen! wonderful tilings. The only tiling wanting, he contided, w.is a human hand io crown each of t limn. After these miitterings Mr. Ileslop took prompt action. He had a horse la messed, and induced the mail to accompany him to Ilawera, where be was handed over to the police. An official diagnosis showed that tlie mm was suffering from delirium tremens, I and next day, when he was much improved, lie was sent to New Plymouth gaol for seven days to fully recover Ilawera Star.