LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 256, 22 October 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Elijah Trask, against whom bigamy is alleged, was brought up yesterday on " remand, and further remanded for lc:i days. On Dili November a triangular rillo match will Ijc lired at ICginout Village between Mangorei, Kltluim, and Kaponga Clubs, eight men a-side. The next meeting of the Land Board will be held on Thursday, Kith November, owing to the date of the general election falling oil the ordinary meetingday. The Treasury lias notilied the County Council that CIOOO, being the first iuIstalment of the .CISUU loan for the reeonstruclion of Lhe >lenui bridge 011 the Junction road, has been remitted to the Council's credit. Oil the la.sl day of the session members of the Legislature had |iut into their private boxes a copy of .Mr. Izctt's poem 011 "Tutanekai and lliuemua," reprinted from the Oailv .New.-,, ill'. Izett has since been the recipient of sheaves of letters of highly flattering compliment. The petition to the Minister for Railways requesting that To Kuiti be made the point of connection on the Main Trunk lino of the Stratford railway has been largely signed in that town md district (says the Taihape l'ost). Formation lias now reached a point 22 miles from Stratford. The end is not yet. We arc given tc understand that 011 Tuesday next the claim of the Taranaki County Council against Air. I''. J. Morris for the value of timber removed by him from the famous Tapuae will be heard 111 till Magistrate's Court. The Tapuae is like Tennyson's brook—it goes 011 for ever, jj A number of butter-buyers were ir I Kaponga on Tuesday, and met the dirsc J tors of the Kaponga Dairy Company I who decided to make fresh arrange'

ments regarding the disposal of their output (owing to the Danish fraud.;). The company arranged, we hear, to consign their season's output through ,tho Arm of Wright, Stephenson and Co., of Dunedin.—Star. At the annual meeting of the Inglewood Lawn Tennis Club, the following ollicera were elected:—President, .Mr. W. Messenger; vice-presidents. -Messrs. Matthews, Howe, and 11. Thomson; ,-reretary and treasurer, Mr. 1!. 11. E. •Moody; committee, Messrs. Crombie, W. Evans, and J. Sutherland, with oilice-bearers ex oilicio; auditor, Mr. T. E. Ilanierton; delegate to association, Mr. 11. J. M. Thomson. ■ What should prove an interesting debate is to eventuate in the Theatre Royal on Thursday, 12th November, between Mr. B. Enroth and (lie Kev. h. M. Isitt. The subject for debate is: "Is Xu-License inconsistent with Christian citizenship and opposed to tile teachings of the BibleV' Mr. Enroth takes tile allirmative. Tho proceeds are to be divided between the Recreation Sports Ground and Western Park.

The Eliot Road Board has requested that at the forthcoming election of members of the Taranaki County Council a polling-booth be established at Westowji. Tlie Returning Ollieer, Mr. R. Ellis, i s complying with the request, as well as to that of the Carringion road residents for a booth at Vogeltow.i. There is a suggestion that the candidate returned next month for the new Hurlord riding will be elected unopposed at the election in March next. It having become necessary to provide a new '•honors" shield for the New Plymouth High Sehnnl, Mr. 11. Moverlcy was asked to submit n design. T'li'sl wa-, before the Hoard of Governors yesterday afleriiouu. and seemed in every I way suitable. The design is classic, consisting of scrolls in the centre surrounded by a wreath of laurel leaves, the school monogram to lie placed on a tablet set in the wreath When carved, the shield should be a very handsome addition to the interior of file school. A couple of Wellington visitors to New Plymouth went into raptures yesterday over the Recreation Grounds, and when they came to the magnilieent sports ground made as the result of the elforts of the well-known committee of young men one of them declared it to lie the liuest in the Dominion, possibly in Australasia. The praise was not overdone one whit, and it was beaulifujly timed. A grand comedy entertainment in aid 0 f the funds is bein» lield in the Theatre Royal to-morrow night, and there is an excellent opportunity lor assisting in the completion oi the grounds.

A taranaki man who has just returned to New Plymouth after .some months' residence in Invereargill te'ls a good story uf the .No-License town. His work hiy away from Invercargill, and he. used to travel to and fro by tram, rarely returning home without a lew "commissions'' in the shape of bottles, due night the nionolouv of the ride was broken by a gentleman who entered the carriage with the qttcrv, "AV lio s got a corkscrew';'' There was 110 reply. The stranger tried a new 1 "-c- 'ls there anybody here front lu\ercargill was his next question, vid our informant answered "Yes." "Well, then, lend me jour corkscrew, will vou>" He got it. The New Plymouth High School Hoard ot Governors met yesterday afternoon. Mr. 11. 11. Ward, acting-principal, in his report suggested the institution of a junior department, which he thought would have the eJlect of increasing 'he 'usefulness and attractiveness of the school, junior pupils to be those children who have not passed the fifth 'standaid. lie believed such u system fwas in vogue in Napier. The secretary /was instructed to communicate W't.ii the authorities there ij t this ennneetion Hie Iran-let' of the lease of scctionY block Hi, Waitaia, from 1,. |.\ Lam ent to A. Walt was approved. A eonuiiitiee was set u|t to deal with various clauses 111 Hie principal's report. Accounts amounting to ;CI3S lis 3d were pass -d lor payment.

In reference to Air. W. A. I'ollis' Mt"r complaining of the excessive speed of Mr. Beeston's motor-car from %iie Xorili %mont Mountain House to Yew Plymouth, Mr. Bees ton desires us to point out tlmt there was no rash or reckless Jnving. and that the car was capable of cpvenng the distance in much quicker tune, As ji matter of fact, he savs. the tar rail now the house to the 'radius line before evening fell, with ll,e breaks on and (lie engine at a standstill with the exception of two or three occasions when the speed slackened to such ah extent thai a lit tic power had to |.e requisitioned to keep her going. At any part of the journey through the reserve lie eonltl have brought (lie ear In a standstill in a couple of vards. The lamps were lighted at the gate, an-! this made driving by night as safe, as driv.,l" by day., for the lights would be seen b? travellers more readily than a car by day. So powerful are'these lamp- llut one can ~ce quite clearly a couple of hundred yards ahead of the car, which fflves ample opportunity In detect, .pI'proaciiing trallie. fur which Mr. Tlcesl ' n says he always slowed down or pnlbd up entirely, as Ihe ca-c warranted. ll,id there been nnv reckless drivim;. lie points out. tllel'e Would have been M-I,lie 'complaint, from the people ~s i ,|„ iiiel 'road, j i

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At a meeting of the Council of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce yesterday it was decided to send to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce the resolution passed at the public ineetiug he'd at New Plymouth on Friday lust protesting against any alteration in the time-table of the Wellington-New Plymouth express that would cause a deHy in the time of arriving in New Plymouth, and asking that Chamber to support Tarauaki in this protest.

* Owing to a technicality, au application to ttie Supreme Court nt Wellington for approval of a. creditors' composition in the matter of the bankruptcy of J. J. Patterson, of Dairaevlrke, was refused recently. A meeting of creditors was held at Danuevirke on Friday to consider an oiler made by the bankrupt, ill'. Patterson made the same offer as previously —that 12s fid in the £l he paid in amounts extending over twelve months, Jlrs. Patterson to secure the same. It was resolved that the offer be accepted, an amendment "That provided after a satisfactory examination of the bankrupt no better offer is obtained, the oiler be accepted," being j negatived.

On Tuesday we republished from tlic Stratford Post a paragraph complaining that frequently the mail from New Plymouth reached that time after 10 o'clock instead of «y the express train. Mr. Chancy, Chief Postmaster at New Plymouth, informs us that this is practically an impossibility, for the very simple reason that what is known as the 10 o'clock train in Stratford does not carry a mail from New. Plymouth t'J Stratford. It may be that on the two or three occasions per annum when the steamer from Onehunga fails to connect I with the mail train, the mails are sentl on by the first train available. At any rate, an absolute denial is given to the suggestion that the Xew Plymouth mail was sent out on Monday by the second train.

it is verv noticeable that there is « improvement in the behaviour of ou horseflesh to wards motor-curs. Tli liorses working about the town wouldfl' budge if a 20-h-j>. car spun past U'em a full speed. Chatting to a Kews reporte yesterdav. .Mr. A. Jk'eston, of the Cri terion Motor Carage, said tliat som people made the mistake of turjlin; their horses into side-streets or side roads upon the approach of a car, thu increasing the animal's timidity. Wit! the increase in the number of autonm hiles of all kinds in this district it i •inevitable that every horse must a some time or other meet a ear 011 th road, anj Mr. Beeston is willing to gi-V' any horse a little education if the owne ■wiil but bring him round to the garag': where the "noble animal" will soo learn that lie has nothing to fear froji his mechanical competitor. A special study of the value of Hi come as a iced for dairy cows has jus 'been completed, by Professor E. H. Otis professor of animal nutrition at tli College of Wisconsin. An experimen which lie conducted (says an America; exehaiige) showed that young cows no giving milk can he kept in good con dition during the winter and gain frou 1.231b to 1.511> per day when fed wit nothing but lucerne hay. "In coinpoti tion, lucerne is nearly, if not quite, 'equal to brail, pound for pound," saA ■Professor Otis, discussing its nntritiv' value. "The excellent feeding value 0 ■lucerne lies in its high content of _d' gestible protein. With an average yieh of four tons, lucerne will produce 880 i of digestible protein per acre, A sura mary of feeding trials with dairy cow shows that lucerne can be made to tak the place of at least one-half ol lh grain usually fed to our dairy cow; and as the nutrients needed by dair cows can be produced much more chear, ly with lucerne than with grain, the coi of producing milk may be greatly re duced by its use." They look some way ahead in Hi United Stales. The railway compank supply trains free to farmers to go J. big bodies and see how the States farm plough and manure and plant thci lauds. The railways are spending mono; on those 'trains, but they look for 1. return hundredfold when the farinei goes back and works his land wise ,V instead of ignoranUy. Also, the State lits out two cars—one ;i sort of museum, full of roots and the other a lecture room and bedroom for two lecturers. The railway companies pack those cars 011 to expresses and freights from siding to siding, and to each silling come the fanners to be lectured and to get tli* roots and plants given free. The Congress in America years ago sat aside 10,000,000 acres to provide funds for starting State farms in every Stale, Since then it gives £(5,000 a year to each as well. The States give more. And rich men more yet. The principal )f the llawkcsbury College sighed (say s Llic Sydney Morning Herald)'when he spoke of what Cornell did for America, Nlassev for Canada, Sir J. Bennett jawes) who gave :CIOO,OOO, a country scat, and his life's work to English 'armors. When Italy wanted school ;ardens, '2OOO blocks were immediate y ;iven by private landowners. Appar111ly, founded a Chair of Agiiulture in 1800. Scotland did so in 700. Kraiiee. lierinany, Italy, Austrh, Selgium, Sweden, Denmark, all tea-'h heir children to farm in the school gu 1 - ens.