LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 235, 28 September 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Supreme Court sessions will open this morning. Owing to the .illness oi the instructress chesses in dressmaking will not be held this week at the Technical .School. • Tlie tender of Mr. llowson, of New Plymouth, lias been accepted for alteiatious and renovutioiis at the Hawcra Post Office.

On Saturday morning Henry Thomas Chall.y, who is at present undergoing a sentence of two months' imprisouincnt for theft of a bicycle from tile ■South road, Xew Plymouth, was brought before Mr. 11. S. Fitzberberi , SAL, and pleaded guilty to a charge of theft of a bicycle, valued at ,C 8 His, from Frank Doherty. cycle dealer, of Wellington. Sergeant Haddrell slated that on August 17, under an assumed name, accused purchased the bievcle from complainant and paid a deposit of Ms on it. He rode it acivay into the country where he sold it. The bicycle bad not been recovered. Accused was convicted and sentenced to three months' hard labor the sentence to lie cumulative on the one ho is now sen-

A town-'bred tean-her Was appointed recently to a bockWuoks school, and, made rather an exhibition of himself when lie rode a stable hank into the township. A month later he was giving a lesson upon the means of locomotion, and sought to illustrate it. ''Just suppose,'' he said, "that 1 .wanted to get, 'from here to Chris'tchurch, .could I d'i it.';" "No," said 'two or three of the class. The teacher was satisfied with the answer so far, but he wanted to And out how .much his hoys -knew about rail■ways and ,s'te«uners.' "Why not:" he a.-Jkod. "Bet'ause you ain't got a horse, sir." „ai<l one of the elder .pupil*. "And. if J had a could 1 do it then';" he asked. "No." "Ami why?" asked the teacher, "liecnuse you'd fall oil'," Mime the .unexpected but unJiesilatiue; reply.

At the ollieial opening of the New ■Zealand Express Company's fine new Uniildings ,ui Tiniani lust week, Mr. 0. S. Owi-n, ojie of tire directore, gave, teonic inlcresting .figures ab'oirt the progress 'and present position oi the conip'any. He, /with a parlncr, hiid lieen carrying on a business of (he kind Ul ,tii, it ibec'ame too I'ig for tlmm, and .it .wasji 'formed into a liinled eompanv. Stalling nfth ..CSOOO, the cnnipiuiy'now ha I. 'a capi'tal of oyer 1100,1)00. "'J'liey paid, in wages about .CIOO for every day ol the year; over ISOO people earned their. Jiving directly through the eompaii,'; la.-t year .they jiaid to fanners .CI7 Pis per iliiy for hoi'sej'eed,, and their tut.nl 'Woiiing expenses were ,L.J2,0110 for the year. Fur the two yeans PJoli-7 the," lfml ispeiet «u hiiildings an' average of CSO lor every day of the year, besides, lb" .as.oiM now being spent in Dun-, c.lin and in Auckland. PERSONAL

J lis Honor Jlr. Justice Dcnnislon arrived in New Plymouth In- the express train on Saurday ovoniny. Jlr. W. L. Filzherlici't was ,'i passenger for Xi'\v I'lyiimuil, ] >v the mail train on Ka%irdav.