LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 236, 29 September 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Kaponga Dairy Co. have decided to consign the season's output. In the Police Court yesterday morning two lirst-olVemling inebriates, husband and wife, were convicted and discharged. A Mastcrlon dairy fanner considers that if the new Dairy Bill i a passed it will spell ruin to the' industry. No farmer could, he contended, carry on under such drastic conditions, mid innumerable factories would probably have to close down. The Strut ford Dairy Company's directors at their meeting on Saturday decided to dispose of the season's oiti.put on open consignment through .Messrs .Mills and Sparrow, for whom Messrs E. GrillUh-s and Co., of New Plymouth, are New Zealand agents. The Kginonl Lodge, No. 112, 1.0.G.T'., held its regular weeklv session on Mollday night iu St. .Mary's Hall. Bro. ,1. <*. I.egg. C.T., presided. There was a ■fair ailcuilaniT of menrbcrs. Accounts ■lor CI were passed for payment, and correspondence .was read from the NaLiceilse League. Eight new members were proposed.

Alter lying buried for two centuries, a firkin containing lewt of butter has been dug up ill l-'allaglierane hog, Co. 'Tyrone, by a farmer. The hoops and staves of 'the lirkin, which was twelve feet under the .ground, collapsed when lifted up, but the butter, of pale yellow color, i s iu a perfect state of preservation.

Whilst hii.-hfelling on Messrs. Chin Bros.' properly, Radnor Road, recently, Mr. Charles Vol/.kc, of Volakc Bros,, the champion sawyers, was struck by the butt of a falling tree and rendered unconscious. The suffered was removed to the Stratford Hospital, where it Wis found that a Uadly-bruisnl shoulder constituted the chief damage, and Mr. Volzke is now progressing favorably.

The Stratford Post understands' that the Railway Department will shortly run a fast train from New Plymouth to connect at Marton with the mail train from Wellington for tlie Main Trunk line. The proposed train will only make four ,stop.s between New Plymouth and Wanganui, and an earlier train making more stoppages will be run in order to allow of passengers from 'intermediate .stations catching the fast train at the nearest stopping-place. The quarterly meeting of the Loyal ■Eguiout Lodge, 1.0.0.K, M.U., was held •last evening, Bro. C lioiul, N.G., presiding. Owing to other attractions there, .was rather a limited attendance. Coutiidcrablc discussion took place over the I proposed rules of the Hospital Fuil.l, 'and it was decided to call a speciali | 'meeting of the lodge on 23rd October ito consider the question. A letter of I ,rceoiuuicndatiou was granted to Bro. A. ■E. Jackson, who is leaving for Samoa on 'loth October.

The Home industries Committee of the Eguiout A. and P. Association has decided to introduce something new in that section at the forthcoming snow, says the Hawem Star. A girls' cooking competition and demonstration will be 'held on tlie show ground, the ■prizes for which amount to four guineas. Gas stoves will be fitted up on the ground, and girls will cook in pairs

and prepare a tea. The cookery will comprise scones, and tile table' must be laid out for four persons, tlie setting out and table decorations to count for the prizes as well as tlie cookery.

An evidence of the durability of l'j4arn is furnished by tlie present condition of two survey pegs of that timber wfnich were 'placed in the ground at Uhawc, near llawera, in 18(i(i. One peg, Iwhieh was put into peaty soil, is as isoiaid as the day on' which it was jlrivc n. The other was juore exposed bo the weather, and sunn; of it i,s a little decayed, but on the whole it is in an excellent stale of preservation. The pegs were taken the oiber day from the land belonging to Mr. .lames Living'ston. ii leading settler at Ohawe, who took ihem to Wellington for presenta"tion lo the Biological ;Musouni.

"Quite overlooked it, sir.'' breathlessly urged Mr. .lames Taylor yesterday morning, wiiun he arrived at Hie .Supreme Court too late to answer to his, name when called as one of the lirand Jurors. "That isn't much of a comuli•nieiit, yon know, to the summons of a Magis'trate," said his Honor. "We're awfully busy- hali-yeiirly balance quite forgot it- sorry," jerked out the delinquent. Under the circumstance-, and seeing that the full panel had been «ecure<l without this juror's attendance, the .Judge remitted the line of £5 v-liieh, lie had decided to inllicl a few minims previously. Mr. Oorge Hale was excused ■from attendance on the common ju>'y on account of partial deafness. He'was advised by liis Honor to have his name removed from the jury-list.

■ Tliu duties of ;il! citizens towards their country bring with them certain civic responsibilities Unit often entail personal inconvenience. For instance, the grand jurors and common ■jurors at yesterday's Supreme Court' sessions was quite a fair sprinkling of the members of the banting profession. There is only one other week in the year when iheir absence from their ordinary avocation would cause such great inconvenience and dislocation of their business. As many of thoir clients have reason, to know., the ''half-yearly balance" is flow due, and the attendance of every ollicial is of moment. Tile teller at the local branch of the Jlnnk of New Zealand was too busy balancing: to rememilier his' stiiniuuiis. Subsequently the manager ■of one bank sat as lorcman of two separate juries, and on one of them sat the teller from another bank. It was n ,l;i\- „„f, and an, unfortunate day out, for |he bankers.

The latest mel'hod of dealing with the dillieiilty of providing access from the. railway goods-shed to St, Aubyii-street without traversing Devon-street is o'le thai, should -be less expensive than anv yet iiropounded. Residents will doubtless have noticed that where it cuts through the railway yard to the sea the IKiatoki stream has been narrowed considerably iliy the erection of retainingwalls. The idea is that this narrowii"" should be continued up to the landward side, of Gill-street. It would then ho necessary to purchase a strip of the 1 abandoned railway line to Hie corner of Messrs. Wilson and Nolan's premises, «nd a (ifift .strip of the railway yaul 1 from there to St. Aubyn-street, ' and .this street extended to' the Tluatoki •river, which would then be bridged from the corner of St. Auliyn-street extension to dill-street and the traffic street formed on the bridge. ]f nec-.is-.sary a. strip of the llavlinr Board's 'leasehold on the eastern side of t!r iriver might he acquired. With tir's s '-' lu •oniplete.l there i s reason to suppose lhat the liailwav Department .would connect the new .street with the roadway near the goods-shed.

It is improbable that there will bo any contest in the approai-hiug genera' eledlioii over which more feeling wii! be excited on the part of the rival candidates and their respective supporters tli'sin there will he over tint, between 'Messrs. 'l'. E. Ncdd'on, M.P. and 11. L 'Michel for-the Wetland seat. An in livatiun „f il„. extern to which the constituency is already .stirred over the 'conflict i.s all'orded in u tele«ram published be the Auckland ;Stnr~ from its <'hnMchurch correspondent, who writes''H.ippcars that Wes'c Coaster-, are anticipating that the coming election in 'Westland will 1> 0 a bitterly contested one, and already there are signs of the intensity of the partisan spirit. AAVesf Coaster who knows the constituency in'(innately alleges that it is an example of the failure of the female franchise. Since.the bye-election, at which Mr T. Melon was elected to nil his father's Iplaco, s'lx-ieitv i„ llokitika j.,,,1 in thb other centres of the electorate his ,ri"idly divided itself into two opposing fcampfc, the (Seddon-ites and the Michel" ties, which,, like the -lewis and Samaritans of old. ha.ve no dealings with .each lother."

There are men in Auckland who •would wish .nothing better than lo iie. prose* Hied for calling and uddressi.'lg. 'public meetings during the week pro" ceding Second ,l',allrit. and it is hurdlv "' !V ' "'\ ( " add thirl, the press cannot possrldv .be stilled in, the (usual way 'suggested by .Sir Joseph .Ward (writes the Auckland Herald). The whole situation proposed is not only intolerable, ■but .impossible. The ("lovermnent jmv 'siiiioosslully import its, ballot method's iro.ni (lei-iiiiiuiy, i'or Parliament will admit only those elected under n .riven method. l!u.l, lo«ti,p Knglishiucu'irdm meet in,',' anil Xew Zealand,-is from speaking, and to siMii'inarilv 1,„.| ; (j,,, d"or of every printing office and type«riling room ,n .(.lie n'omiiiiou, passea the power even of (his strongly-wip-i ported (loverniinent. It simply cannot 'be done. A measure of submission, .might he accorded,ibut the sligMcst agi'l;ii!ion wowld 'break surfi a. law iirr.o"a thousand pieces. There in not an el lorale in I his wide Dominion sn alien, in -pivil.-so airli-l'.rilislii,,, I'eclmg. tluitL if one,, the puJflio, .temper were aroused, meellugri .would not. lie held in every 'public place, a.-J the,-walls be plastered will, defiant nd.lrcs.sen!. The flovern- 1 mi. ut.h'ad liotler submit while there is *l ill I ime fo,.sub,ini.t, if not gracefully, H-i least without attracting undue attention.. I