LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 294, 7 December 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Sydney-Vancouver mail, despatched on 27th October, arrived in London on the 3rd inst. The Taranaki No. 1 Battalion of the School Cadets go into camp on Monday next on Mr. Mtfnlosh's farm, Old Hospital road, for the annual week's training. The spokesman of a deputation to a County Council the other day opened thus: "Chairman and Mr. Gentlemen," and proceeded as if there were nothing unusual in the style of his address.

The lessee of Wellington's latest and most up-to-date private hotel, J. T. Edwards, has gone bankrupt. Ik' states that the weekly rental of £35 was too big a handicap.

There arc two days in the year on which shopkeepers, must, under the Shops and Olikcs Act, clis.' their premises, apart from the weekly half-holi-day. These are Good Friday and Christmas Day. Christmas Day this year falls upon a Friday.

The proprietor of the Denver Post has offered to Mr William Bryan, who contested the Presidency of U.S.A., the editorship of his newspaper at a salary of £24(10 per annum, it is stated that Mr. Bryan, who is a journalist by profession, will accept the offer.

The Government takes over the business of 'the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company—lock, stock, and bar-rel—to-day, when a luncheon will be given by the directors to the members of the Ministry find the leading professional and business men of Wellington. On the motion of Mr. Rov (of .Messrs. l?oy and Nicholson) his Honor Mr. Justice Edwards has granted probate of the will of George Niell, late of Lepperton, deceased, and letters of administration in the estate of William Fuller, late of Okato, deceased.

The following appears in the columns of tin.' Mainnvntu Daily Times:—"Attractive housemaid wanted for suburban home. Jvo children, every home comfort, piano kept, husband quite tame, evenings off whenever asked. Apply, 'Distracted Wife,' Times office." The unanimity with which the Opposition press is commending Mr. W. T. Jennings to the Prime Minister as the most suitable of the aspirants for the ollice of Minister for Lands is quite remarkable (says the LytteUon Times). Even the Otago Uailv Times, the most cautious of the Conservative newspapers, implies that it would not be dissatisfied with the appointment of the inembe r for Tauniaranui. The Lone Hand magazine continues to improve. This month's issue is easily, the best we have seen. The articles and stories are more varied and interesting in character, their lone, too, being of a distinctly improved standard. Among other features arc "The Asiatic Menace,'' "Under Fire," "Star Watchers of the South," "The Spirit of San Francisco," "Tiie Battler," "Tommy Bums and Jack Johnston/' and "The Commonwealth Crisis."

The Opposition, says the Wanganni Herald, are jubilant at their success on this coast, and have decided to commemorate their l!)l)8 election at a social re-union at Murton on the 18th prox. All the Opposition 'members in the North Island will be invited, as well as ex-members of the party, while the Leader of the Opposition, if his arrangements permit, will also be present. It is expected that the gathering will be a notable one.

The <)ore-\Y;iikaka railway line is now completed. Several of the station structures luivi; yet to bo linished oil, but with litis exception the work is ready to pass uut of the hands of the Public Works Department. The majority of the men who have been engaged upon the line have been transferred to the Hiversdale-Waikaia line, where there are now over 200 men employed. The length of this line is about I*3 miles. l r or a distance of liv-e miles the rails are laid, and for about six miles further the formation work is well under way.

Mr Charles Parncll, late musical director for the Fuller Ifroprietary, is about to attempt a new world's record for continuous piano playing. The present record for this kind of .endurance test is ol hours a minutes, established at Sydney by a Mr. Freeman. It was intended by Mr. Parncll to attempt the feat at Wanganui, but lie has now contracted with tlie Royal Pictures Syndicate (of Wellington) to make bis attempt a I Auckland on December 20, 3U, and 3), partly in conjunction with the syndicate's moving picture show at the northern city.

Having been informed by « fellowI passenger that a stop of a quarter of an boiir was made at Stratford, a lady on the mail train recently got out 011 the station platform for a breath of fresh air, leaving her child aged about four in the railway carriage. Whilst she was walking 011 the platform tin: train moved out without her, and with tlie child still aboard. The station ollicials were made acquainted with the facts and communicated by telegraph along the line, tile result being that the little one was returned safely to its j anxious mother liv the next down train. —Post.

The site chosen for the School Cadets' camp is a paddock at To Hcaui owned by Mr. A. J. Mcintosh. The spot, is beautifully situated 011 the bank of the stream near the old redoubts. Mr. Mcintosh lias intimated to Jliijor Sandford his willingness to allow the cadets to use the property as a rille range. This is indeed a boon, for Ihe distance of the Rewa licwa range from town has proved a hardship to our boy soldiers. This new range will lie within handy distance of the town and Fitrt'oy schools. The olliccrs of the cadets acknowledge their indebtedness to the local volunteer companies for the use of targels, etc., at the Rewa Rewa range for two or three years past. Major Young had also placed his Bell lllock homestead at. 1 li" disposal of the cadets, and, until tliis fresh site was offered by Mr Mcintosh nearer town, it had been practically decided to hold the camp there.

A pair of deer of the Sanibar tvpo, very handsome anil interesting, though small, and known as "hog-deer,' 5 arc expected from Sydney by the Ulimaroa on Wednesday, They hsivc boon purennsed by Hie Citizens' Zoological Gardens Committee for the Wellington Zoo. Jt is intended to enclose then"? hi a smaJl paddock embracing one of the little hills ill the rear of Newtown Park, and in such surroundings should prove a rerv attractive feature. Ilog-door are found wild in many parts of India ini Hurniah, and arc" white-spotted, like ' nearly all indiaa doer. ffhey have, yellowish or reddish-brown coat, which in summer is paler. They usually stand from twenty-four to CwbiUv-eight inches at the shoulder, and carry untlci's which average from ten to lift-eon inches, and reach occasionally as much as twentyone ami twenty-two iaches. These sturdy little animals have extraordinary pluck, and defend themselves with groat vigor.

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