LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 55, 30 March 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Capo Fgn,o„ t (I'ungarohu) Dairv Company liandled S-1.H,5!1.-,|hs. „f m i|k ,|,„'.. '"J? l ,< ' l| r t. From this :i4,iW!j|l, of Imtlcr-ftU wor Willed. This was paid lor nl the rate of 1- a pound, and the supplier,' cheques (olalled LITuTSs 11,1. Owing to the wretehed weather the me.ding of ladies in eonueetioii with tlie anniversary pieni. ; and the entertainment of (he veterans was not largelv attended, but all the 'neccssarv nrrau...-"lent-were made. MrsTiseh (llie Mayo,-. ess) accepting a | 1M .,,,. „!,.,,.,, „,- t | |( , w ' lr| . with Mrs. O'jjriseoll -'at her elbow." ' Tlie quarterly meeting of tit<- Local Kgniont Lodge 1.0.0. F. (M.r., was hold lusl evening, Ji, u |;. A . Xl .wton, _ V( , _ presiding. Owing tu the ineleinent weather there was only a small atteudanee. A letter ol recommendation was grunted to a member who has left Hi,', district, iwo female eandidates were propused |'or membership.

The wretched weather conditions hist night had the e11,,, of reducing what would otherwise have been a von- iar.'e audience to a collection u f about' thirty Pyuple at the leclll.'e M , c „ ~, S [. Mary's Hall by t|„, lli s ; 1()JI of Auckland Despite tl„. howling „S tin. wind ■with""f. and the uncertainlv uf 1],,. |i.,|„ which illumined Hi., pictures within" a very interesting evening was spent, Dr. -Neligan proving himself an adept in the art. ol entertaining. The slorv of the Lambeth Conference, and the Fan-Air.li-ean Congress, and hi- lucid description "I II"' chief personages thereat, made up i a very instructive evening. The liMn, , showed. Unit he knew hi- London well, and throw new light upon many of the' well-known landmarks of U,,. „ T ..at metropolis, liev. ]■'. (i. Kvans was the operator.

related at the Sydney Central Police c t tlie other day. It appeared that on the previous day a respcctahlvdresio.l woman, while at the corner of Druilt and York streets, was accosted by an elderly man, who begged for a shilling with which to purchase food. Sue "'plied that she had no luoiicv to .>ive but the man followed her and pressed iiei- for money until she spoke tu a P"l» H'ieer. with the result that the 1111,11 »'h- iirreslcd. When tile alleged olleuder was called befoiv the Ma«islrale I"' 'irmly denied 11,,,; |„. |,.„j 1,,,,.,, „„i|iv "f begging, and 1, ■rtainlv an v.. proof fl'.'t he I , ~,! (~ ,i„ so. The proof wa- the production „( ~ |,. u ,| ; 1 kl» s|,„w || U | t |„. accused had t';l7li i" 'he hank and the second proof was a deposit slip fo r csos, Avliit-li he handed up for the Magistrate's perusal. The man's denial, however, was disbelieved bv thc.\lagi„lralo,aiidli.. was sentenced I" imprisonment until 0 o'clock in the evening.

Thus ex-sailor Tom Sharkey in America on the result of the hist fight: "Wliv. it -imply prove- that .loiinson is head and shoulders over any man on"n"od in at the present time. " "\ow I hat. he ha- lost hi-; ehiiiupiOTisliip T be "jn to feel ;i lim,. -one for limns, lie is a pime little fellow, and he really de-erves credit for jrh ine; the hi" itcuro Ibis chance makinj; him the lirsi black heavy-weight champion. Mums kne„- he wa- the only man with clum. and still lie cauylil. him. Xow. I -aid th,. other I day thai I would never I'mjil a ncero. I am simply boiling over Willi rill;,, at -eeiue a uoiiro lioldiiijr the title. That won't do for Ton, Sharkey. 11l m, „„| "ml try to win the title back from him. I'll be readv in liiree I (lis 1„ li-ht him to the finish, ami I'll never rest easy until an Irish-American is again at I lie head of the list. If th,. American public won't back me up. then I'll fall buck to the hoys of the linvv: they'll, l .stand by 1110. I'll bcl my hard-earned money, thomjh. and I'm willing to 10-c it if Johnson can whip me. It would be | 111 \ lasl |i,.M tinder any cirr stances.- I

inrnV. women's :uM i-liiMrciiV -1 ipjKM-s. ex Papjtroa. liavo ]>nl o| l(; ii.,| nut ; ,t thn Molbnurno. Tiioy 'lire<-( from || M . iinikcr, <-niiKc-tpi'-iilly tlic price-: sliow m sJmi|» reduc-H.-lrl llir-r:- WoilMMl's |V]( islipprr-:. cnvvi-l Ic-;, 1< ji.iir: v.nni'Ml 1 - clii'i-k prill -!ippi-r~. jiili- -olik. U lid; I llli'ii'< fi'l 1 -lippov-. "'lirpii soli'-. I- Ih|; \v»ii.i';i's clii'irv fell .li|i|H>r«. Irafh.T Ih fid: Iniliiv liviiwli felt simpers li':il)i.T f-nli's. Vi'ry Mimi'l. ,1s ' llil: l:\iiiis _<\i'clir c!.,(li sli]i|)iT-. felt an>] slviuu sole. vow wiivm niiQ (Uirulil, 3s 01 paiv.—Advt. 1

Measles are again so prevalent in Tiiuaru that it has been found necessary lo close the main school there for a week or two.

"It seems a general system ill this district for tile ladle* to be bosses," remarked Mr \V. P. James, S.M., during the hearing of a case at the Kketahuna Magistrate's Court on Monday last.

The Duneiliu tramways working for the year showed a profit of over C37OU over and above working expenses. Alter allowing for all charges, renewals, depreciation etc., the net profit is i'3ooo.

Th<> Carrington Road Board held its final meeting last night. A meeting of ratepayers is to be held next Monday evening to review the work of the Board and to .say farewell to the regime under which the iill'airs of the district have been concluded for many years past. The Bishop of Auckland, in the. «our»o of his lecture last night, referred to the fact that the Lord Mayor and aldermen of London nUcnded service at Westminster Abbev olliciallv, and expressed his desire that the Mayors ol New Zealand I cities and boroughs should do likewise.

The report on the New Plymouth Fire Brigade, presumably from the In-spcctor-Ceni'ial of Fire Brigades, seeing il came from his ofliee. was placed before the Fire Board yesterday in an unsigned condition. In a private concern such a proceeding would be called carelessness. For putting bis arm around the nock of Florence Jackson, a young woman in

a Iramciir and kissing her twice, despite her resistance, the Magistrate at Mansfield. Notts, sentenced a young collier named llenrv Briggs lo a month's hard labour. The girl's face was blackened by the co:il grime.

"There is no one in the world like the London bobby'." said Dr. Neligau last night, lie referred to the London policeman's control of the street Untile as the st wonderful example of the British love of law and order, and (he Britons' acceptance of the sane and reasonable authority, that could well b.- imagined. A resilient of Nelson who recently visited America has received a letter from one of the large New York papers asking him lo furnish them with photographs ami accounts of the great tunnel connecting the two islands of New Zealand ! 'The Olira tunnel evidently grew a great deal l.v the time it readied I In' failed SUlct.

The Waiau river, one the most dangerous in New Zealand, is to be bridged at last. The lloverniucnl has decided to call for tenders for the erection of a bridge immediately. The cost will probably amount lo something like .WUjUUO. It is intended to make the sui'eluvc a combined road and railway b; ; dgc. About lifty-four 42ft spans will be required.

Accurding to a biisincus man having interests throughout the Dominion, Taranaki is at the present lime in a better condition as regards bu.siiiess and the availability of ready cash than any other part of New Zealand. The great grass-growing qualities of o'ur land and the success of the dairying industry are responsible tor this-enviable position of affairs.

The final returns of the agricultural an.i pastoral census for Argentina reveal three rather unexpected results--hrstly, the great increase of cattle ; secondly, almost a duplication of the number oi horses ; thirdly the continuation of the suspected decrease in sheep. The ligitres are as follows: Cattle :Sy,lH>,»i>, horses 7,031,370, mules -100,037, donkey, 2.5,),080, pigs M03,.5!11. With a view to gathering information coue.Tiiiiig the crowded state of the lluirua liiii.i, ilr. J. 1). llino, 11.1'., on Saturday,counted the number of persons occupying the generous provision oi iwo carriages made for the accommodation of u u the morning i,i opu'slion. Tliu carriages contained on.' hundred and seventy perto.is, while the guard's van sheltered twenty-six more.

It is allirmed by Ihe Stratford bakers that owing to strong competition for some time past a cutting policy has been ill vogue, and in eonsetjiieueu bread has been sold loeallv at a loss of one-half-penny per loaf.' We are informed that the bakers have seen the error of their ways and will in all probability raise the price OI bread one-penny per loaf from April Ist next.—Post, 'llle warship Von tier Tumi, known as a cruiser, launched the other day at Hamburg with great secrecy, is 10,000 ton.-. The British cruisers Invincible, Inllexible, and Indomitable are each of 17.231), so that the new Herman vessel ha, a tonnage greater by 1700 tons. The new Herman vessel is no doubt called after the well-known Bavarian gen-e'.-.il, Baron von de 'Tauii-Hatliannishau-sen

Tile Young Men's Club ill connection will. Lit.. Methodist Church will probably debate tin- <|iifstiou of providing llie liii.aev I'.'r A It*. purchase ..f New /calami's IJiva.liiuiijflit. A Hill is being drafted tu provide f»r ii tax u|iiim the pleasures of the people, the idea being lli,ii mil .if every shilling tieket -"id In give iulmi—i.ni to mi entertainment or -purl- gathering or foot bull inn fell, or any other form of aiiiiisi'ineiit, one jii'imv .should be ]iut t» ii. 1 iiml for re-(laviiii-nL of file Dreadnought loan. The scheme will nee.l considerable elahoralion and the openers' speeches some preparation.

llathor u remarkable instance of payment, fur lio-pital treatment come- Horn an ex-patient now engaged in harvesting, lie wrote to the Duncdin Trustees, enclosing CI for treatment, an.] said Unit when discharged the hospital doctor had advised him to get work, lie took "11 clerical work at iirst, and found his health was such that lie could not apply his mind to it at all. Thra he chose

harvesting as being the hardest work ' with the longest, hours that he knew of, [and it suited him splendidly. lie aiiI nounceil his intention.!! of presenting liim,elf to tin- doctor on his return to Duncdin for examination, with a view I to lin.ling out whether all that, really ailed him was the need of hard work.

A prophetic incident has jttisl been revealed in connection with t'li c late -Mr. A. !•:. Bono (brother ~f Mr. L. A. Hone, of I law era I. one of the victims uf the ill-fated I'eiigiiiu. Shortly before enterin- o7i his uiifurtnnale voyage, .Mr. Bono was spending an evening with some friends, ami was presented by a lady with one of Lett's diaries, in which, hi response to a jocular remark, he wrote the adilro— of his wife in ease he should for.jet it. The diary contained an insurance coupon for .Lll)l>. Air. Jionc said that he did 'not want to meet witli an accident, ami so had no desire to sign the coupon. lie preferred to niak • CltlO bv a better method. The hidy. however, prrs-e.l him ,lo sign the conpull, and -Mr. Hone, in a spirit m good htinior, comiilied. His next jounicy was I in the Penguin, and the sad result is genvrally known. The coincidence « thai th,' iuMira.ice coupon has been presented and honored by the linn responsible for it.

I We have received from the author | copies of Du-ald Ferguson's "Bush Life lu Australia and Xvw Z'aland." and "The King's I'riends.'' Tlie former is ol more interest to colonials, because it Heals with, tlio earlv life, and its stirring associations, of the colonies. It is a verv interc-tiug. at times exciting, slorv, one ol the Lost that has been wril'ton of early colonial doings. The writer has an iincii.iveiitioual yet forcible and picturesque stylo, ami succeeds in holding the interest ol the reader from cover to cover; indeed, the reader feels loth to put the book down when u-.ice he has tasted of the contents. It is a faithful picture of what actually took place in the early days, and has a healthv, wholesome ton« about it, word- that cannot lie applied to some of the works dealing with Iho bushranging davs that have had a liig vogue in the past. The author is at the present time oa ,i \isit lo New Plymouth, and intend* visiting oilier, purls of Taranaki before proceeding to his home in Southland.

No complete list of humble heroes should omit the name of the HurtonoiiTrent policeman who has had a luolh drawn ill the course of duty (says t.ie Pall Mall Gazette). There are V.C. heroes who would shrink inuu that, without gas; and this policeman was debarred from gas by the fact that it, was essential for 'him to keep wide awake. Someone hud to provide direct evidenee against an uni|ualilied dentist; and in such a case the. law admits of some sort of agent provocateur. It was decided, that is to say, that some policeman should be sent round to ask the "dentist" to perform the act, for him I illegal, of extracting a tooth. If this sort of thing becomes a recognised part of the policeman's duties, watch committees will have to increase the pay of the force considerably. In this instance. happily, a polii an was found who bad a tooth which lie would be better without, and the story has a happy ending in the assurance that he is glad it has gone. Hut we do not gather that his gratitude takes the form of any suggestion that he should pay any portion of the two guineas which that illegal extraction has cost the operator.

Writes Frank .Morton, tin- well-known writer, in a contemporary: — Or. Ooude lias wliat .you call 'got oil'.' He has lieen declared insane, lie will lie detained during bis Majesty's pleasure--the faree of the words! lie lias, if you ! like, -got oil';' but in his ease I would sooner die. The thing of interest to me is the faet Unit liuoilu was acquitted of criminal responsibility on the evidence of Dr. Trilby King. 1 know Dr. King rnllier well, and there is in .New Zealand no other man 1 respect qiiitu so keenly, lie is the linest of characters, a scholar without prejudice. J have visited him at Hie great asylum he controls. 1 have seen the unl'orlunaU's immured there looking to him as a happy dog looks to its protector. I have enjoyed Hie stimulus o! his conversation, and rejoiced in Hie extraordinary idusticitv of his moods. lie is the most • thorough humanitarian I ever mel, and yet 1 never met annlher man so excellently live from tinkering sentiment. Since Dr. King declared (ioode insane, J have no doubt about it. Confession, however, is a good thing. I rejoice Hint (ioode has what you call 'got oil,' quite apart from the issue of tin ill's mental condition. 1 think there are a thousand better uses you can put a man to than to hang him."

Air cx-ulViecr in a Cancer regiment, win, has spi-iiL the lust twenty years almost wholly in prison, wns the prin- . <■iii.ii character in a striking dramatic , sc-iic nt thcr Uravcscud Quarter Sessions a few weeks ago (says tin- Daily Kx- - press). When the .irtmc 01 Joseph ] Crcsslcv, alias Tliirlsl.v, was culled, a wellgroomed man, whose soldierly tigunr seemed strangely youthful for his 71 years, stepped iillii the dock, lie phaded guilty to obtaining money by false pretences. The man whose identity is still ii secret, then handed the Kc'eudcr a written statement. He de-c-lured that lie was a member of a prominent family; he passed through Sandhurst, and afterwards held a cuniin'illed, however, that Hit- last twenty years had been spent almost wholly in prbon, and on not a single occasion when he came out had he received any help to lead an honest life. The liecorder, wlio seemed greatly impressed with the man's story, told him that il he would give him in confidence the name ami address of his brother lie would call upon him personally, and see if he could assist him when he came out of prison. The cvolViccr replied Mint he could not see ids wav to accept the 11IV1-, n- he did not »i>li his relatives In know his position. '■ I >tronglv advise von to accept the oiler I make von," urged Mr. Weddcrburn. Again the prisoner declined. Then he was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment.