LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 242, 6 October 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stray horses and cattle abound along the coast. The County Council is inviting the co-operation of tile Omnia and Barrett Uo;ul Boards in appointing a ranger or in laying informations under the Public Works Act against the owners of stray cattle.

A .special meeting of the shareholders in the Franklcy Koail Dairy Company was held yesterday, llr. Grooby presiding. The meeting continued the resolution of September 7th last, in which it was decided to register the company under the Co-operative Dairy Companies Act, 1907.

The Hope of Egmont Juvenile JYmple 2.i) 1.0. U.T. held its usual weekly meeting in St. Mary's Hall last night, the superintendent in charge. Tils Temple was opened In- the ActiinJ*-Chiel'-Templar. Sister L. Allen, at fi.HO. After I he usual business, the Rev. If.' i\ L. Palmer gave the children a splendid addicts, which was inuili appreciated. Next week ;iu olllciid visit will be paid to the Egmont Lodge.

though the weather was showery there was a /air attendance at N't. •Joseph's euchre party last night. About 80 . players competed for the prizes, which were won as follows:—Ladies: Ist (.silver-mounted pin-box). llrs. Harvey; 2nd (fancy va»c). .Miss Crean. Cents: Ist (inkstand), .Mr. J. Clarke; 2nd (collar-box). Mr. W. Powley. After a splendid supper, dancing was indulged in till (lie small hours of the morning. Mr. .lames supplied the music, and Mr. Clarke was J I.e.

On the .limotion road, just a little beyond the boundaries of inglewood, is [a "rubbish dump." The rubbish carts from Inglewood back to the side of the road, and down goes the rubbish into a little hollow, whence portion of it reaches a small watercourse. Another portion smites tile olfactorv organs of the p:issei\s-.bv. .U Hi!' instance of the Taranaki Comity Council the presence of this object ionable spot is being brought under the notice of the Health Department.

The Levin Dairy Coni|>any. contrary (o the general rule, had to record a loss last season. The causes assigned in the directors' report tire:—Change of management in the lliisb of the season, shortness in supply owing to the excessive dryness of the season, and consequent failure to fulfil a contract. During winter an experiment was made ill supplying the whole of the milk to Wellington, but it was not an unqualified success. The balance-sheet shows a d'eficit of C 1 .Vi( ]fis (id. Mill: suppliers received C 2-2.78!), and butter sales brought in .Cl!>,3on.

'Mrs. W. 11. Walker. SKWI HmulTrey si . "Ballannf. Vic., writes: 'ilavo used Cluiinlii'vliuVs Kcuirdv for four yoars, and know it U <\NiM.dlcu.l. Have found it most lu'iiofiml, Can rovninmend H: 1o anyone. In fact "have dono many 1 linos, and it lias ancovppliKhod good rosiilts in pwry oaee." "For snlo by all chemists and storekeepers.

Lite Eltham Dairy Company has soldi the seasons output to Messrs. Wcddol and Co., London, at a high ligure. iJie amount of timber carted over thu county road from tlie Koru sawmill lor tiie past seven months was 17!),381 feet. The County Council levies a tax upon tliis for the upkeep of the road. In the S.M. Court yesterday morning a first-oiiending woman who had been mixed up in a drunken brawl in Aubrey Street on Sunday morning was convicted and discharged, alter ttn incarceration of twenty-four hours ill liio cells. ,She was also made the subject of a. prohibition order, on the police application. Robert Home, disorderly and drunk, who had also done twentyfour hours, was lined £1 and costs for his part in tlie affair, and a firstoffending drunken man, who was also ill the ruction, w'as fined ss. There were two other litst-offending drunks, who were convicted ami disc/i<ir<»ed Crom custody.

A correspondent of Ute Opunake Times writes:—"Like the great Poobull in the comic opera, J would like to know what all the fuss is about—what is all the noise made over the dairy regulations? After reading them v.uofnily tlie only compulsion that 1 can see is that they emphatically require dairymen 'to ' wash and be clean.' Is this a hardship, or does it harass them to be clean? People living in ilile towns have been regulated out of tile squalor business years ago. When pigs, fowls, and pet animals were driven out of the towns tlie same hardship and 'harassing cry now was chorused out. but gradually this was overcome, aud the towns were put in a better hygienic state. Now the mop, scrubbing brush, and clean water are to be sent round the country. The clean dairyman has already got them. But tile other fellow—Oil, lie shall be washed and made clean,''

'J he county chairman ruported yesterday to tlie council that during the recent visit of himself and the county clerk to Wellingtoa tliey had succeeded ill impressing upon the Treasury that the Council was entitled to raise £1340 as ten per cent, on the bridge loan., and tile necessary steps would be taken forthwith. The Native Department was impressed with Mie necessity of 'enforcing judgments obtained in suing Maoris for overdue rates. A visit to tlie "\ aluer-G'eneral's oilier had been made, and the council's unfortunate linaiieial position placed before liiiu, and ill*. Campbell very courteously agreed to forward £OOO on account of subsidy due. The Junction road was not forgotten, «,nd t'he Minister for Public Works agreed to take into favourable consideration tlie question of paying over to„the council the grant of £3OO promised on account of this road some years ago. In all of this, Mr. Brown said, they had been very greatly assisted by Mr. 11. Okey, M.P. No man could liave done more for them.

There was no trouble ivi finding Mr. Okey. If Parliament waj sitting, Parliament, House was the place to find him, and lie had been most active, courteous, and obliging in this matter, and also in connection Willi tile, dairy regulations. Mr. Brown said that Mr. Jennings, too, had been very valuable in securing Hie interview with tlie Public Works Department, and ill other ways. The council decided to convey to Messrs. Qltcy and Jennings an expression of its appreciation.