LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 39, 11 March 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

" From the parson's point of view 1 approve of mixed foursomes,'' said the Kev. K (i. Evans at last night's meeting of golfers. The country lictween Stratford and Lcpperton is enveloped in smoke from bush lires. The timber is very dry and i burning right to ashes. A local trailer, whose business is prac- ' tically on a ready-money basis, buds 'trade considerably better now than in the spring and summer. All his hands 'are kepi busy, and orders and cash lie describes as being pleasantly plentiful. The dry weather is "playing up''with the streets of the town. A member of tin- liorough Council estimates that it will take .C7OO to .CBOU to put them in tile order they were in before the dry j spell commenced and the heavy gale of " Penguin week " was experienced.

A Parliamentary return shows that | the quantity of Oregon pine imported into New Zealand during the live years ended August, MIS, .vas made up of thirty round logs, 4500 pailings, over six million laths anil shingles, and nearly ten million superficial feet of sawn anil rough hewn limber. The bankruptcies in Wellington city numbered 29 in 11)05, ;ij in l!J0(i and 15 in 1907, and the average dividends paid in those years were respectiveh- Is «i/,d, 2s Od, and 10i/,d in the C Auckland has had a grcaler number of bankruptcies, but the average dividend to creditors were much higher proportionately than

n Wellington.

Telegrams were received from Elthain ] and Stratford yesterday staling thai if New Plymouth falls into line the towns of Eltliam, Stratford and Hawera will observe a whole holiday on Anniversary Day, March 31st, when the Provincial Taranaki Oddfellows picnic and Anniversary Day celebrations are to be held On the New Plymoutlf beach. The ques-

lion of New Plymouth closing is to be decided to-day and there is no reason to doubt the result.

A case in which Gcorgina Annie Linditi'om sougllit a separation from her

husband, Gustav lljalincr Lindstrom, on the grounds of cruelty, was called at the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before Mr. 11. S. Fitzherbert, S.M. Mr. Grey appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Johnstone for the defendant. The latter applied for an adjournment

to enable him to familiarise himself more; closely with the papers and the facts of the case. An adjournment was granted to Friday, the 12lh instant, at D.3U a.m., counsel's and witness' expenses being allowed to the plaintiff.

The matrimonial market was extremely brisk yesterday, ami there, was a corresponding briskness about the business of the local clergymen and cab proprietors, who are 'bracket-

Ed" in those speculations. Three wedding couples left by the 4.15 train, and the plaftoi'in looked as though a hailstorm had visited it, so thick was the rice. One of the happy bridegrooms was a railway man, and the others have something to thank him for. Detonators thundered from the wheels as the train got under way, and what was more natural than that the newly-fledged husbands should bring into play the protective arm?