LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 332, 26 January 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ail effort is bi'ing made to form a second golf club in Xew Plymouth. The Tanmarunui paper says the closing down of the sawmills will have a bad ell'ecl ti'pon business along the Main Trunk li^e. Wanamaker's Philadelphia store- recently devo.ted a big window display and considerable newspaper apace to airship supplies. Next, America!

New Zealand is to be advertised tic the picture til 111. An arrangement has been concluded between the 'tourist D"partment and Path,' Frcres, of Paris, the cinematograph manufacturers, to take a series of views representative of New Zealand scenery, Maori li:i-, and

The artesian bore put down al tii.< Aratuki Experimental Station on a sji.it indicated by the Rev. M. Mason, the water tinder, is giving a llow of (>OU gallons an hour (states the Manawatu standard). The bore at Weraroa is down 530 ft, and at this depth an obstruction has been met with.

One little piece of roadway is important in connection with New 'Plymouth's watering-place aspirations. Yet it is sadly neglected. The ijiiece referred to is the apjiroach to the municipal baths. At present it is nil exceedingly rough road to travel, aad the dismay of the barefooted sand-shovellers who travel bv this route to the beach.

Having succeeded in lowering tin' e\ cling time between Wellington and Napier. it is .stated mat .\ir l\ JiirtJfs intends to undercut ail the long-distance runs in the Dominion, lie will next turn his attention to the road lying between Wellington and J'almcrston and Wellington and After thai lie will essay record-breaking in the .South island. The Lyttelton Times makes a strong

appal to the railway Department to arrange with the I'jiiou Steam Ship Company to bring into ell'ect a system of through booking in connection with railway and steamer journeys between Hie Nortll ami South Islands. It points out that the practice is a common one ill llreat Britain, and says so long as the present system prevails the Railway Department stands convicted of lack of enterprise and failing to consult the

convenience of the public. In furtherance of his ideas of beautifying tlic borough, by making the most of its 'natural attractions, the Mayor moved at last night's meeting of the Borough <"ouueil that owners of property adjoining be notified that it is the Council's intention to open up Baini's' Terrace. Many of our staid married people of tw-day ca7i remember "the lovers' walk" of old, for once upon a time Dailies' Terrace was "the' lovers' walk, and it is pleasinir to note that i this beautiful promenade is to be reopened. Hawern wants a State Coal depot. In answer to a petition to that ellect the I'nder-fteeretary for Mint's replied (>ays the Wellington i'ost) that the request could not he acceded to at present, owing to the fait that there was not sutlicient eoal available for extending the business of the Slate Coal Department to enable a depot to he established in llawcra. When new work> at Port Elizabeth tiling were opened up it was expected that a. plentiful supply of eoal would lie available, and the question of establishing depots in parts of the Dominion not at present served would be considered.

Tilt; distinction of "Royal" attaching to tile Koval Welsh Mule Choir is jio empty self-assumed title, but one carrying with it privileges throughout tile Empire. The title was specially bestowed on the choir by her late -Majesty Queen Victoria, the circular despatch in connection with which was issued by the Secretary of State, on Bth April. ISM!. The authenticity of this (so l'aius this country is concerned) prerogative is undoubted, and yesterday we perused a letter fi'oni the I'larl of Crewe, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to the -'Ollicer Administering the (lovernment of New Zealand." reiiucstiiig that all assistance in furthering the object: of the Koyal Welsh Hale Choir's journey be tendered "subject to the twin* of the circular despatch of the Secretary of State, Sth April, lS'.lli." This niiiiost uuii|ue distinction, we understand, lias proved of tile greatest service to the choir on more than one occasion since the commencement of the Au.-tra-lasian tour.

The extensions to the Salvation Army's lish-ciiring works al Te Ope a:.' now concluded, says a country exchange, and they are linding plenty of employment, wilh regular orders for Opotiki, Rotorua ami Auckland. The works are well cqiiijipcd. The lish are cleaned and salted, and then hung up to drain. They are then transferred to the double-lined smoke comjinrlmenls, each practically

smoke-tight and capable of treating 25 to :!() dozen snapper al one time. The curing process requires a period of eight hours, after which Die lish are allowed

to cool before being packed for market. The Te Ope curing works have a very necessary adjunct in the shape of iqi-to-date "freezing machinery, which enables tlu; fish to be kejit in condition suitable'for .smoking. The only frozen article sent out is a quantity of liapuku. During the last three months large lots of this lish have been sbip|ie,l to Auckland. Experiments arc now being carried out al the works witii a view of utilising the by-|iroduets for fertilising pinjioses.

lie strolled into the Agent-denenils ollice in London t lie oilier day and asked to see the man in charge of emigration, lie was shown in. dust an ordinary labouring man of '"><) or so, lie said he wanted to emigrate to Xew South Wales with a part, of his family. Iluw many had lie ? Well, he had a few ; perhaps they would write their names down as he called them oIT Alma, Violei, Annie, Helena, Lily. Jessie, Kvelvn, .\Jav, \'ere, Charlie, jjolly (Jladys, Arthur, Xorman. They ranged from the eradle into the middle tummies. "Part of

your family ynu said the cm- ' barrasscd (.'migration oflic<M\ " Yes/' replied the father of 20. " I haw half-a-dozen sons older than these over in Canada. They don't thhik much of Canada. and if you could settle the rest of \u down in your country, and we lik • it, the hoys would probably come out too." There were (writes the London correspondent of I he Sydney Telegraph) one or two little dillicuHies in the way--the old infill was sli£7itly over the and some of the children below the a»e particularly desired by the department but the oilice widely threw out it* arms and grabbed fh<-' lot. They couldn't miss that sort. Writes Frank Morton :--l am not a

liliml idolator of tlie horse. ] liny liim fur liis |>icliires(|iiciicMs, for lii« frnicv. /oithe Nl'llltJl (if his llistnj'icii I II SSOl'iil tiolls. I in him a certain Mild exelusivcness ; so dial wlien 1 sec him bestrode by some miserable litt-| ( . worm »f ii mail J always fed sonic siieli ii I lirill of repugnance. Hut I have no 1 illusions concerning the intelligence, 11() . liility, or wisdom of the horse. 'J'lu; average horse is us silly as a lien. I have seen 11 lior>e kick'its liest friend. I saw one. frightened In- -i ..t0..,

I ■ a.i« i.jh-, irijiiiii-nen hva sl . ra |, n f Uniterm!;; payor, kill a child. 1 hoard „f one thai wcul half-mad will, terror when a mouse gut into its stall. \u. all I lie talk of tlic horse hciiiir a nolile animal on Hi,, iiitcllctlual side is inoi» shop talk, talk without foundation The elephant is llie kini; of animals ||,. i s wiser than most men. Hi' tivasii'vs up tlie memory ol' your very kindness. Vun could turn him loose in a yard full 'if haliies. and not one would lie' harmed. can touch hi re in a dav than the horse will learn in a year, lie is magnificent in slrciigtii. and' magnificent jn ropo*-. lie was Hi,, aristocrat of Ihe animal kingdom «lien Hi,. |,nrse u as a clumsy creature will, live toes, lie is llie wisest and samM of all licusK

Affording to the Mastorto:i llospilal diary a man was admitted to tin- institution at llic end of last inunlli sulloring from ii '-frost-bitten foul!" 11l Now Zealand and in mid-summer ! Truly a remarkable commentary on normal—or abnormal— climatic conditions.

The big mushroom season is upon th« Manawatu district, and the* Pitlnu 1 r.sLo:i North newspaper unices are besiejpl with callers who are alleged to carry their mushroom offerings in Ihu place of unbrellas. Twelve inches, ten inches, and ten and a half inches in diainete* are some of the measurements given. President KoosuvcMt has already liegun his editorial connection with lli-*.' Xew York Outlook, la the December |

number there is printed an article by liim on "The Awakening of China," in which ho says : u Now is the time for the West to implant its ideal in the Orient, in such fashion as to minimise the chance of a dreadful clash between two radically different and hostile civilisations ; if wc wait until to-morrow, we may find that we have waited too | long.*' U is not often (remarks Cliristchurch Press) that the Premier gets caught in the net of mixed metaphor, hut at the

social to Mr Ml. M.l\, when referring to the presentation ci n silver tea service to Mrs Ell, Sir Joseph expressed Uk? hope that it might fall to his lot to have his rough feathers smoothed by drinking to a out of the serv.ee. .lust, before making this remark be had referred to the soothing inlluenee that, <t cup of tea exercises upon-the man \vii<> arrives home in an irritable condition.

The Advances to Settlers l>< pjrtnK'iit is being besieged by people who are desirous of improving their holdings, and the Collll limit, imposed in view of the shortage of money, is being severely felt. Those who can only obtain a moiety of tlie advance to which they are entitled, complain that their development operations are seriously retarded, and that the opening up of the countrv and its consequent increased productiveness in delayed to a serious extent. ''The million pounds authorised last session," said one who should know to a Post reporter " was not half enough. What is the good of a £5 note when you want .tloO-and are entitled to foil 1"

11l these (liivs of commercial ■•shrewdness." when inen hold their tinanciul re'spousibilitics lint lightly, it is refreshing, suys the Oaimini -Mnil. to lind an occasional example of severe integrity. During the "eighties." when the colony was fsntl'eriiig I nun ils lean years, wlieii Ipriees for all classes of were Ul. their miiiiiimm, a client of a big llocal inereanlile lirm contracted liabi-. liities which were, too great for him to Ifnllil under tlie distressful conditions itlien prevailing:, and, realism" the hopelessness of tln< settlement of the debt, which amounted to C!H>. was written oil' tlie books of the company. Last week, isoine twenty veal's inter, the farmer, having shared in the renewed prosperity of the district, brought his cheque-book : into' town and tolled in a form for the whole amount of his indebtedness. This step was somewhat disconcerting to the officials 'of the financial concern, iione of whom bail anv knowledge of the delit, so that it was necessary to dig up old and dustv h'llgcrs and to delve into Itlicse with considerable patience in compiling tlie account, settlement of which ■hud been so long delayed. No doubt '■other local lirms call show on their books similar mementoes of those dark days which tliey woijld he pleased to see as happily consummated us tlie one already alluded to.