LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 44, 17 March 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Kit ham paper hears of some Canterbury buyers who are coming to Taranaki shortly in search of farms, strong men financially who will buy for cash. Before Mr. Fitisherbert, S.M., yesterday morning, (ieorgc Albert WadhamJ known as the " mad artist," was con-1 victed and lined 5s or forty-eight hours' I imprisonment on a charge of being lound drunk on the previous day, and 5s and costs or forty-eight hours' imprisonment for procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order. During the hearing of the .Stratford indecent assault case, in the Supremo Court yesterday, the presiding judge, upon noting the turn that the evidence had taken, suggested to the Tress reporters tlie advisableuess of withholding the evidence and name of the young girl from publication. The warning, for ' such it was, was rjuite unnecessary. A representative meeting of delegates in connection with the proposed establishment of a co-operative freezing works was held at Pahiattia on Friday afternoon. After considerable discussion (he following motion was carried unanimously;—" That it is the opinion of this meeting that the only satisfactory < solution of the fat stock trade is the establishment of a fanners' co-operative < freezing works." This matter will be I further discussed at Mastcrton on the 24th instant. ;

Three exemptions from service on ! juries were granted yesterday morning. : (Jenrgc Hint was excused as a member of a defence corps; John Harvey on account of hardness of hearing;" and Louis Marks on a plea of general inability. Later in tin* afternoon, after having given the country tiie beneijt of his services as foreman of tlie jury in tiie case against Brown, Mr. (J. A. Adlam asked his Honor to relieve him from further attendance on the jury, on the grounds that he was not feeling very well, that he hail long ago passed the age limit of sixty year*, and that he had ten miles to travel. Tiie request was granted.

Says the Kltham Argus : —One of oil I best-known townsmen had, an eveninj or two ago, a narrow escape fron "passing out,'' as lie terms it. lb' was having his supper when a piece of tomato skin stuck in his throat and wedgcii so firmly that his breathing was seriously interfered with, lie became almost black in the face, his eyes became bloodshot. his head felt, as lie describes it. bigger thhn -a pumpkin, and he became, unconscious. A doctor was sent for but before lie arrived the obstacle in the throat had shifted and breathing was again possible. The patient had a very unpleasant time, and did not feel right, until several hours afterwards. (Spiders live two years. J

'l'hr Salvation Army is fsl ; ilili~iinl h ISWy-ilwo eountrios. nnV 1 <[>Uinios t ami preaches ll)o in |]iii'ly-om i lani guages. Voun? Willie was given n_ treat, Ami i oo much unwisely did eat, He, felt very ill, And was given a pill, Ijaxo-Tonlc; lie's now oil liis feet. I LAXO-Tosflo PITJLS, lO'/ad and la 6d.— I

The lire- insurance companies uperat-'j ing in New Zealand paid out the *iUiu v of £52,000 in daiins during Die fortnight ended last SirUirday.

Probably the jnost remarkable haul of Jislu yet roeoirded in Wellington was netted by local fishermen oil' I'lat Point —a little to tie south of Pent-arrow,

Head—on Monday morning, Eive big trawlers, each li'tted .with an auxiliary, engine, caiuc into Wellington *it 10, o'clock, laden down to the gunwale with, I wharehou fish, and weighing over I tons.

Fi&li is very plentiful in Kawhia- harbor just no|\v. A .resident of ihe district.. in a letter to a, friend in Welling-

ton, states that great catches of flounders are being made.- The other Slight t'wo Maoris in one haul of the net. brought 700 uisJiorc, and had some •dilfr eulty in selling them at. one penny each. The "writer considers that a very prolitiible fish industry could be established ait Kawliia if a small freezing plant were, established near the wharf, and arrangements made for a more regular, steamboat'service be'tween the township; and New Plymouth. The dairy shipments by vessels which 1 left Wellington last week for London, comprised:—Per Whakataiie (Wednesday): From Taranaki—23oo crates cheese. From Wellington—23oo crates, cheese. Per Turakina: l'l'om Auckland- -770 crates cheese, Willi boxes butter. From Tarauaki—;i.">U crates cheese, 10.0!).') boxes butter. From ,I'a tea—-40.")!) cra'tus cheese. :1831 boxes butter. Kioirn ! Wellington—7oS crates, cheese, WW#. , boxes butter. From Lytteltou- 17t>

crates cheese. 12:1 boxes butter. Front Dunedin—l244 crates cheese. 87 boss's butter. From l!luH'--H!)2.'i crates cheese.. That the I'.tirrington Itond Hoard has, in, opening u,;i .the .Mill read, .provided another a.i'tciy, though s'inall, to the Ulwn, is amply demonstrated hy the fairly constant volume of traffic, vchfciiiiir and' otliei'wi'sc, which daily passes u'|) and down the rouul, although as vet not out of the contractor's hands. The Board h'.is nie'ta.phoii'.'ally iprovided the trouper's in carrying out the formation! and partial 'metalling, and no doubt when 'funds -warrant it will provide, in comple'tion of the 'iiveta 1, tlic vest, while it appears to us it is "up to"the borougn I to .rind the <■(>;!t ajwl do its slrare_ on

this side of the iprefcty little bridge ■which <ue,sties mid acacia and poplar at ■the dip of t'lio road, tiro to'wn. approach thereto beiag positively dangerous. What some folks will do in the name of amusement' almost passes comprehension. Some time during .Saturday night or Sunday an individual with a dreadful kink i'li his mental condition visited Messrs. Ambury Bros.' premises, and left his card, in the shape of sundry slashes and cuts upon the frame of one of the shop windows, besides interi fering ivitli the door. Mr. .1. Bennett, - watchmaker, reports that recently one , of these gentry paid his closed shop a ; visit and committed «n onence. No l doubt the miscreant takes the trouble l to acquaint himself with the wheres abouts of the police and night watclir man before transgressing in this way, s but some day he may be fortunately i- ''out" in his calculations. 'f A good story is told by " Mercntio " in his notes in the Auckland Herald.

Some time ago a police magistrate in Auckland was showing an old friend from tile King Country over tile " Queen] City." "Do you know, I have never been inside >ai 'polk?e court," said the visitor. So his host took him to the Court next morning and gave liiiu a seal on tae bench. Just as the business was about to begin the countryman leaned over to the magistrate, and indicating a group of men in the from, bench remarked, "You seem to have a tough-looking crowd to try this morning." It was altogether too much for the magistrate's dignity, but after a mort convulsion and a suppressed explosion, he whispered warningly, "Don't speak quite so loud, ltobcrt. Those are Mr Lundon,Mr Brown, Dr. Bamford, Mr llackctt, and «<!.«» mnmlinro nf l.lin letr.il imifessioll."

The* i'iilca Tradesmen's Association, recently fixed the hours at. wliieJi shops should dose a« 0 p.m. on four night* of the'week aud ou Saturday .nighU H 0.80 •]>.»), during the sirmmer ami !) ,p.in. during the winter. The rules of the Ani sociiition provided certain exemptions, including chemists, hotelkeepers, stable projprietors, tobacconists, harbors, toi\» rooms, and fruiterers dealing solely in fruit, oon'fretionery and cordials. In, due 'course the 7ioti'c-c fixing the closinghours appeared in 'the (*!nzette, but} through an oversight on the part ofi someone thovxeinptions did not appear, and ilie result is tluit "all" shops "will, now require to close. Tt is stated that; the enforcement of the Gazette notice will mcasi a, considerable loss to tliosc\ shopkeepers -who thought they wow exempt. Mr. A. Chris'tonsen.. who is president of the Tradesmen'** Association* intends 'interviewing the Labo.r Department in regard to the matter.