LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 329, 22 January 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

It is said in Wellington that the contractors for the Waugauui tramways made a profit of .C7OOO. . The luglewood school excursion to the New Plymouth breakwater will be held on the &)th inst. Richard Valentine Radford was y?sterd'ay remanded to appear before the .Magistrate's Court at Napier on Monday to answer a. charge of failing to comply with an order of that Court fur I tile maintenance of his children. Owing to insufficient members attending to form a quorum the meeting of 'the Uairv Workers' Union lapsed, says 'the Kltliiim. Argus. This is the second I 'occasion on which the meeting lias had to be postponed owing to the above reason. *

i Wednesday has been lixed as the day on which the half-holiday is to be observed in Hawi'Ta. It is a pity some effort is not made to have a uniform half-holiday throughout the province. At present half the towns observe •Thursdav and the other half Wodncstfay. 1 In a comment on the present conditions of labor, the New Plymouth ollieial contributor of the kabor Journal remarks that unfortunately there is a Very largo number of workers (even amongst the new arrivals) who seem to ■prefer living hi the. town rather than I good, though rough, living in the country.

At the sale bv unction of the Pa tea biickworks by Mr W. Cower.i on Wednesday, the following prices were realised:—f.ot 1, the Paten steam brickworks, with plant a'lid machinery, l.C.1000; lot 2, 12a 3r Slip, borough of Ettluuii, £1000; lot 3, section 10, Kaponga, 1 acre, .C 450 Messrs. MeKenna and Matthews were the purchasers of all three.

. The engine used in the old Egmont Hour mill, now converted into a modern warehouse for Messrs. L. D. Nathan uud Co., was shifted yesterday, to be transhipped for use- up tlio .Main Trunk Hue The engine, which was installed over forty years ago, 'was no light weight, and it must have been a large order to have landed it in surf boats in the old days. The driving-wheel alone weighed live tons. The cogs in this will be filled with wood, ami the wheel converted into a, (ly-wheel. . Once again have the rails of the abandoned railway line been cleared of road metal at the street crossings. A isfcrcoching engine and a, gang of men are engaged in the further demolition of the line, which has worn, out of use for about a, year. It is not generally expected that the work will be completed at this attempt. If not, the Borough Council will doubtless again metal the crossings, ami some 'day the public accounts will again bear the cost of opening the line for the bailie of its own funeral.

We have received enquiries from persons who subscribed towards the cost of erecting the fallen soldiers' memorial on Marsland Hill, the enquiries expressing surprise at the delay in commencing the work. Applications to Mr S. Hill, who is secretary to the committee hi charge, elicited the. .information that the contractors for the work have ordered the stone from Italy. Upon its arrival in ; the Dominion no time will be lost in placing the monument in position—a work that should not occupy any great I length of time.

i . The annual picnic in connection with \ the. Wbitoley Memorial Sunday School " 'was held yesterday afternoon on Mr. t ISa,xton's property on the Carrington £ road. Tim weather conditions were £ id'eal. The site selected, however, wa* J not the most suitable for a sunny after- £ noon, the shade, of the nearest trees bet ing some chains away from the scene jj of tin? juvenile stragglers in rounders jg and racing. The teachers were in charge U of the arrangements, and the children f- were well looked after. Messrs. C. Cark ter, J. Gibson, F. Obey, C. W. Hooker, |< and V. Griffiths were to the fore in i keeping the fun going. Evening was ? Well on its way before the last 'bus S load left for home.

The llawera Mounted Uille ('adds went into camp at the old redoubt. Mann in. on .Monday, and left on Tuesday for a tour round Mount Kgniont. Slnll'-Sorgcant-Major DoiM a(TOiU|)iinies the corps, which is expected to number forty un the march. The programme arranged was for the company to reach Opnnnkr 071 Tuesday night, sionv River Wednesday night, Xcw Plymouth' Thursday night, where a day will lie put in. Waitara Saturday, and church parade on Sunday. Stratford Holiday, Okiriawn Tuesday, and hack to Manai'a on Wednesday. A shooting match with the New I'lymoutli Cadet* has been arranged. The conditions will he ei|uivaleiit to an army marcli, and full reports on roads and lines of communication will be made.

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Alhc Police Court yesterday, Kail,lecii Stanley pleaded guilty i„ ~ ~|i a, .. T0 ;>f having hccn found drunk „ u u,,, ''_ hi'i'fh on Wednesday. Tt l„>h,j, |„, r w . mid offence williiu a. fortnight she wis '•"uvietcd nml lined ss. i„ default 48 hours imprisonment T!,o prisoner wa, then charged with boin- a 7. idle and disorderly person ami having insufficient hnvful mean, of support. The evidence showed Hint accused arrived in \ PW Plymouth in the early ~art of October, from. Auckland, that she had provioiisly heen Morn the C'oint. and that she liad heen. «:\ inmate of the hospital V•uscd admitted certain statements on Will and said that, immediately „ftor iier discharge front the hospital she was promised ai situation at a eertaiu hotel is soon as she was aide to take up the work. She expressed a desire to g„ i„to M Salvation. Army Home at Auckland, she ad'mitted thiit she had 2Ts (id when die came out of the hospital, hut soon spent it, chielly in drnik, and had none eft now. The Salvation Armv authorises could not undertake io say whether .here was room in the Home for her at ircscnt. Tf accused were remanded unil Monday they could find out whether ihoro was room for her. The Alam's;rnle. remarked thai, if a,«cusi'il had "oallv got the promise of a situation she ■mild scarcely he said to have .no lawful risible, nieaiis of support. She would >e remanded until Mandiiy. Tn the neanlime inipiiry could he made regardnar the alleged situation, and also whe:her tlu-re was room for her in the | Salvation Army Home.