LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 269, 6 November 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The "Taranaki Daily News" will publish as usual on Ihe tlth inst. (Kin»'s Birthday). n Messrs. Sole Itroa.' '-Aotea" grounds will fie opened on Sunday next, not on lhurselay, as announced, Thursday not being observed.as a holiday. Oil .Monday morning next, the Pi--nncr Sir Joseph Ward, is to receive a deputation of larmcrs at the Hurou«-!i Council Chambers on the subject of thedairy regulations. , J "" U: - s il<'Arlliur was yesterday arle.sted on a charge of misappropriation ot moneys of the New Plymouth Sash and Door Company. 11,. will appear liefore the Stipendiary Magistrate this luorniiiL'. -More retrogression. The F.llhnm ( ounty touiieil has decided to ereef three toll gates-one ~,,,1 „f st,.„art load One east of Auroa road, and one Oil the Skcet road ill conjunction with the Huwera, county.

The press of to-day is the world's pulpit, and with all its faults anil inconsistencies, the press of Xew Zealand is ~cnerally on the side of righteousness." If is a. pulpit open to us as to others, and we mast not. neglect it if we would be hoard by thousands who never enter a church."-Jtishop Julius. -Mr. S. Smith's special prize to be donated to the member introducing the most members lo tile Taranaki Agricultural Society before the dale of the annual -how has had an enlivening effect, upon the canvassing capabilities'of the members, Last night over fifty candidature cards were handed in. and of t.Jlese forty were signed by Mr. It. f. Cornwall. Seeing that he had established siicli a lead, the society decided to add a ;-c."ond prize, lest (lie others should be down-hearted. There is going to be a lively struggle for that second prize. At the previous meeting of (he committee thirty new members were enrolled.

Tile New Plymouth liue'hre and Cribbagc Association's social last night in the Brougham Street Hall was '.doubtless owing to (he late dale and the unpromising weather indications, only moderately ;■ Ifcinlcil, although the cn'mmillec had made extrusive preparations in anticipation of (he pre.-cnee id' a fair proportion of the Association's mem! - ship. 'The euchre tournament resulted in favor of Miss J. Jenkins and Mrs, .1. Harvey. Messrs. Hunter and A. Eoveridge. Jlis Worship the Mayor, who is president of the Assoe'ia I ion. e.a ; presold. and handed Mr. 11. (iobl water. as

representing Ourf Waircka, ibe shield von ill Ibe rec.'iii, foili'.ianieut. lie also presented (he prize-* W"it 1 iia t evening. Eater on Mr. A. Hooker, secretary of the Association, was presented wilh a set of carvels in recognition of bis services. .Mr. If. Gardiner made the presentation. An excellent supper was served, and dancing followed, the music; being supplied by Mrs. (Jeorgc and Mr. J. Hunter acting JI.C.

There will be about thirty New Ply-loulh-owncd dogs exhibited at tile i'anganui show.

The li'utea Shipping Company's steamer Kapiti, which went aground at the entrance to i'atea ou -Sunday afternoon, was refloated on Tuesday. The Press reports that whilst coming in 011 Tuesday niglit the Maaa bumped and got out of the channel, finally taking tin; ground some two hundred yards to the east of the eastern pier.

At a meeting of farmer® at the Oarriugton lload School oil Wednesday tho following resolution was passed by nearly all the farmers in the district:—"We farmers of the Carriugton Road district consider the new dairy regulations uncalled for. unnecessary, and detrimental to the dairying industry; also we strongly resent the injustice of a cowtax imposed upon the dairy farmers.'' The Premier (Sir Joseph Ward) wires to the secretary of the Recreation Sports Ground Committee: —''1 have much pleasure in accepting the cordial invitation your committee extends to myself and party tu attend the public

function in the Recreation orounds on Monday next.'' Sir Joseph will also attend the Fire Brigade ball on the conclusion of his public address in the Drill Hall the same evening.

'• \A e hear a lot from the innocent Southern members about the poor, simple Maoris licing rubbed,"' -aid Mr. Moss, in the course 01 a political address at Parnell. "Well, any member who talks like that should be conipell'd to come up North for three months, and make his living at robbing the .Maoris. (Laughter,) He would lind it the hardest work and the most miserable wage he ever experienced. The

Maoris know too much to be robbed, and the best way to deal -with all the native laud legislation is to wipe it off the statute-book." Experiments to show that it is not, only possible but practicable to cook meat and vegetables without pots, pans, or utensils of any kind, have been carried out at a camp of the Legion of Frontiersman near Croydon. Tlio experiments have been termed "remarkable" there, but there is nothing new in them to those acquainted with methods cmployed iu the youth Seas. At seven o'clock iu the evening ollicers and m-vi were served with a meal consisting of duck; pork, potatoes, onions, cabbages, and liread. 11l the process of cooking no utensil of auy kind was used. The mini was prepared by placing food in a healed hole, covered with a sack, and pouring water in, so producing an "ove-i" likejhat used by I lie Maoris in the thermal districts. Among those who were present and partook of this extraordinary earth-cookcd meal were Frontiersmen from Yukon, Canada, Zululand, and New Zealand.

The Sydney payers to lianil give particulars of tlie murder at Gayndah, in Queensland, tlie victim being Mr. Muir, one of the. employees ,of the branch of the Commercial Bank of Sydney in that town, Between nine and ten o'clock on Sunday night, the 18th ult., a man passing the bank heard shots. He informed the police, who entered the bank, and found Muir lying dead. Xothing had been taken from the bank premises. The victim of the terrible affair, J. I'. Muir, was quite a lad, employed as a clerk in the bank, and he had only been in the Gayndah office ior about three months. He went to Queensland from New South Wales; he was a native of Wollongoug, and was about 18 years of age. Muir was in tlie bank premises alone at the time of the tragedy, the manager (Mr. A. A. Walker) being absent a,t church. Constable Green was ,on the spot in three minutes after the firing, lie found Muir lying on the lloor in his bedroom with four revolver shots in his body and one through the head. A strange hat was found with the body, and the hat has since licen identified. Muir left his boarding-house five minutes previous to the shots being heard. It is surmised that the murderer was on the premises when Muir entered, and shot him as soon as he lit the lamp. The bank property was lou'ld intact. A broken and extinguished lamp was the only sign of a .struggle. Two detectives left Brisbane immediately for Gayiulah, and a day or two later, as reported by cable, a man was arrested in connection with the murder.