LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 73, 22 April 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The captain of the Kire Brigade desire* us to acknowledge a donation of two guineas from Mr. C. C. Ward, whose premises were threatened bv last week's lire.

This is the latest sixth standard "howler.": There are two great classes of the animal kingdom—the ebriates. which have a backbone, and the inebriates.' without a backbone.

Seven prisoners went north bv last night's boat, under the charge of Wtnler O'Crady and a warder from Wellington, en route to the trco-plantiii" camp at AVaiotapu. Dr. Coode was also taken by the same steamer to the Avondale Asylum, where he will be detained

Several business men who were approached and asked to become candidates lor the borough council elections dee-lin-ed on the grounds that it would cost tliem business. "A borough councillor," said one, "who does his duty faithfully is bound to make a lot of enemies,'' A noticeable feature (says an exchange) in tin; dairying districts around Pahintua is the large number of stacks of beans which have been successfully harvested. The grain is used for feeding |iigs, while tiic stacks make excellent bedding for them during' the winter, j

i Tlib first radium cure in Masterton * lias just been clicctcd bv Dr. \V. 11. r ilosking (anys the W'a'irarapa Daily I Tillies). Tile patient was suffering, 1 from an ulcerated tongue, and after , other forma of treatment had failed i vadium was tried. The process ot i healing became apparent n few hours : after tho first application, and a comi plete cure was effected in a remarkably short space of time. Commenting upon the. demand made upon an empty Treasury for the «>nstructiiSn of local railways. Hie Sew Zealand Times contends that it would have hern „f more value to the country if the Chamliors of Commerce, instead! of dealing wit It railway construetiun problems in a ijuite iuudeiiuitte way, had devoted themselves to formulation of some scheme by which local ambitions might he tested by willingness to assume liability for tost of construction of railway works, There must, for instance, le ninny districts in New Zealand now crying out for railways in which the landowners and business people would bo ipiite willing to undertake responsibilities for interest on the loan inonev necessary to carry a railway to them.' '['lib could be done by nivalis of a special rate'guaranteeing tlw, loan, as U tl, o case of municipal underlakimrs. The se-curity-would be one that financial <or positions here and elsewhere w«uili readily accept. The adoption of «i m( such method of expediting railway con struction should not be beyond the en terprisc of the people., for it is perfects certain that ninny of them woulil lliei" by get railways tliey will otherwise havto wail until iJoomsdav for. In a letter on water-10ggi,,,, to til New Zealand Times Mr .lames liurocsof Uarea, says:--"Butter buyers !m\ ""J.' giu'ii too high a price fo'r output at the beginning of the season ar now crying „ut that New Zealand'but ter contains too much moisture air that it is to this fact we must nttrihut the fall in price on the Home market H this lie a fact, where should lb blame for too much moisture lie placed -Most decidedly on the local buyers. I farmer* buy manures tliev pay on th percentage of phosphates, potash „ nitrogen contained in it. not merel for the weight, and so with other con! modifies that can be analysed. |<„ the butter buyers hay,, not aW ni , fraction more for a butler coiitainiii 10 per cent, of moisture than for «u' containing ]■> per cent, to 1:1 per cent I nder these conditions it is hardly like ly linil any dairy company would on ib'avoiir to make a dry 'butter, an thereby K ive away ;i per cent. ,„■ .| pe cent, of butter-fat for nothing. If th buyers want a dry butter ami will pa for it according 'to its tut contentno doubt they will be able to get. il It certainly looks bail business to pa freight, insurance and other charges o: water, which can be had for nothin in Kiiglanil, and th;' sooner butter i bought and sold (like other articles on an analysis of its contents, the bet ter for all concerned There can b little doubt that any very dry liittte ■exported is blended arid otherwis manipulated before reaching the con sinner, but this need not eoiieoni u

very much. Our object is to obtain the best possible net return for it ami if buyers would purchase on the lines suggested 1 believe this object would be obtained."

Prices that nake you smile:- Gents' chrome Hals, standard screwed, usu-.l price 14s fid, now- 10=) 0.1; gents' heavy chrome hoot, usuail price Ids Oil, now : lis fid: S eu>U' liox-ralf. best boot, usual 'row VH 11.1, ni«w Ms lid; gents' heavy Kil' lis Cd; All Black 'football boots, s-lul tow, Spikes lo order, lis Cd; chrome football boots, hard toes, youths' !)s (Id, gents' 10s fid. We've got to elcnr these lines riirh'tawiiv.—A.B.O. Hoot ami Shoo Co,, Devon Street, New PiymoutV-AW.