LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 81, 1 May 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The bilkers of Eltham have decided i to raise the price of bread to 8d per per 41b loaf cash, and an additional penny if booked. The recent trouble between tic suppliers and directors of the Mereuiere Dairv h'arturv lias resulted in an application being made to the llawern Cooperative Dairy Company to erect a dual plant in the Moreinerc district. Messrs. Mcyncll and (iunii's season at Ni-tv Plymouth was concluded last evening, ivlien Arthur Shirley's dramatic plav -The Stepmother" was staged, There was a fair attendance and, the east of characters being a strong one) the drama was most ell'eetively given. All the artists acquitted themselves well, Miss Ben trice llolloway especially giving a. splendid delineation of the boy character. " Danny." The company leaves by this morning's mail train for Wellington, where a season will tie c opened on Monday evening. DOXTIARRA. W..V Air. W. A. Kenworlhy. Timber House, v Dongarra. W.A.. writes'as follows: "fp , I to about twelve mouths ago my wife was subject to rheumatism in the arms |, ami shoulders. When she commenced ~ using Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment J shelouuil relief, and this winter thcr» was no return of the rheumatism. Thus Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment speaks for itself.'' Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Lini- j c incut relieves at once Rheumatism. Lum-' (. lmgo. Lame Rack. Cuts, liruises, and I . y Burns, and repeated applications will (, ell'eet a cure in a remarkably short time. J n Price Is Oil ami :is per bottle. Obtain- (~ able everywhere. , I 4

A Press wive states that the price of milk h«s been rais.'d by n.penny u quart in Wellington, making the price fourpence,

..Messrs. T. llorthwick ami Suns, of Wnitara, have, exported by tile s.s. Rnkain 04:) eases of eanneil ineats for distribution on the London markets.

The annual meeting of the Provident Investment and Building Society was held last night, but was adjourned for two weeks without the formal busbess being taline.

There was a good muster of the delegates to the Card Association last night, but the secretary was not present, forwarding an apology. The meeting was adjourned for a week. According to Mr. Browne, supervisor for the northern Wanganui district, the Knponga people are greatly impressed with the value of technical education, and classes at that centre are making satisfactory progress. If some of the enthusiasm which is apparently being shown al Kaponga were also shown in some other places in this district there would be a large number of subjects on the rolls.—Argus.

A meeting of the Scenery Preservation Society's executive was held last night. There were present Messrs. W. A. Collis (president), \\\ 11. Skinner, W. L. Newman, E. Doekrill, F. Carrington, and C. Carter (secretary). It was decided to authorise Messrs. Skinner and Newman to have it track cut direct from the root of the breakwater to the turnstile at Paritutu, and to have the wire rope on the slopes of Paritutu sccurca, Mr. A. McCracken, one of the local buyers of pigs for the Christchurch Meat Company, informs the Elthani Argus that, taken all round, there is an improvement in the quality of the pigs now being offered ill this district, more care being taken in the feeding, lie says one reason for the improvement is that there has been a large quantity of barley grown this season, and it is being sold at a reasonable price, thus enabling the farmers to " top oil'" their pig* The Christelmrch Meat Company has now extended its buying operations to inglewood, and Tariki. A resident of Roxburgh found a weasel at his back door the other day, says the Mount Benger Mail. Last Wednesday night a young lady was awakened' by something running over her bed, and by a sharp pain in her face. Upon getting up sh,, found that a weasel hail clinfbed up the wall of the house and entered al the 'window, tile bottom sash of which had been accidentally left open. Blood streamed from the young lady's face, and it was discovered that the weasel had made two bites. Steps were at once taken to prevent any evil results, and the wounds , have now healed up, though the marks are still plainly to be seen. . | A young lady travelling to Auckland on the Main Trunk line had an unpleasant experience one night recently. She was endeavoring to sleep and was suddenly aroused by a loud crash, and found that she was smothered in broken glass, a piece of which went about a quarter of an inch into her face. Inquiries showed that a honeymoon couple had been enjoying some harmless midnight refreshments, and the new-made "hubby," after draining a lemonade bottle, hurled it into darkness,,thinking it would drop clear of the train. But the train happened to be passing through a cutting and the bottle had rebounded on to the window of the succeeding car, with the alarming result already stated. The lady forgave the bridegroom, but the guard made him pav 15s for the carriage window. ' ~"

An instance of the usefulness of the biograpli ns a means of education was presented in one of the citv schools hist week, slates the Lyttelton Times. The ehildre?) wore to write essays on the prm-esses of rice-growing and culture, and one hoy surprised tl) e teacher )>v dpsoribing in an accurate manner the whole of the work from the preparing /of the ground to tile gatheriiK' of the harvest. The teacher 'was certain that the boy could not have assimilated so much information from the lessons that had been given on the subject, and enquired -rathe,- indignantly who had help, ea tile scholar m the production of the «ssuy, winch was easily the best of the class. The hoy assured'the teacher that he had been helped by no one, but had seen a fi m at a olograph entertainment bat had shown the process just as ho had described it. On Thursday his Worship the .Mayor received a requisition signed by 7(> business people t ,f the town requesting that a ball-holiday be declared for Friday next, in ticu of Thursday, i„ order u> ■allow the public to attend the ceremony ol linveiling the lnoniuneiit on Marsland Hill by His Excellency the tlovernor. Yesterday 27 of those who hud shmed the petition withdrew tlieir names,°uid n further petition, signed bv 87 business people, was presented to t'iie .Mayor requesting that the usual statutory halfholiday he not interfered with, as 'several important functions had already neeu fixed for that date. The petition pointed out that in order not to interfere with the unveiling ceremony, the business people were quite willing to do tlieir premises from 1.30 p.m. on Fridi until the ceremony was concluded, view of all the circumstances his Wo ship decided not to interfere with tl usual Thursday half-holiday, but to i vile the business people to close the business premises for a couple of hou: on Friday afternoon.