LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 82, 3 May 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tin- Crown Solicitor, Mr T. S. Weston, has, it is staled, been instructed to appcal from the decision of his Honor Mr. Justice Chapman in the case of JScnnic ami Hie Commihsioner of Crown lunula, argued af tlii' last silting of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth. In the eourae of his remarks at the annual dinner of the Kltham Tradesmen's Association 011 Friday night, Mj. C. A. Wilkinson made reference to recent heavy increases in steamer feright, and particularly in regard to charges 011 grass need, the general cargo freight charges having been increased to Xew Plymouth and Patea by 25 ,per cent, anjl on grass eeed up to as high as 50 per oe'.il. in some instance!!.—Argus. Alt extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Hawera Co-operative Dairy Factory Co., Ltd., was tmjd ou Saturday morning to consider the application of certain Mori'mere farmers to erect a dual plant in their district. The' application was the outcome of the recent trouble between some of the suppliers and directors of tin- Mereinere Dairy Co. It was stated that Mereiuere hail guaranteed 700 cows, and were also prepared to give a linancial guarantee, it was believed if (lie factory were put up* lUOU cows would be forthcoming, [t "was resolved that the proposal before the company lie not entertained. Miss A. llatz, The Lake, via Cliarleville, writes: "1 do not know what we people who live in the bush would do without Chamberlain's Itemedies. Many of us live miles from a doctor, and the time that would be lost in sending for one in a case of Croup would in ■most eases prove fatal, to sav nothing of the expense. In our family wi: take the precaution of keeping Chamberlain's Cough Hemedy 011 hand—we always have a few bottles in the house—and we call it our doctor. l\s a matter of fact, one and all of Chamberlain's Remedies have a place in our medicine chest, and I could not tell you the number of times lltey have saved us serious trouble." For t,nle liv nil chemists ami storekeepers. Ever to the front with keen pri.-es. The Kash is still below other stores in price. At their sale they've got bovs' ' washing Conway suits 4s lid, bovs' knicker? Is lid, boys' caps «d, bovs' braces from 3d, boys' stockings from -7Tfa Kasli Alteration Sale,—Advt.

Some wonderful .stork's are told in regard to the number <>!' black swans at the Chatham Islands (says a Christcliurcli paper). TUe.se birds were iutroUijci'd o.i aie islands about liUt'en years ago, and they urn now present.in cointJess numbers. A gentleman who visili'd tlie islands rat'utly was told by another visitor that lie had seen the bird*) sitting nine di'cp in a continuous line several miles long. It is stated that last year 20,000 swans' eggs were exported from the Chathams to New Zealand.

Following is an extract from the annual report of tile chairman ol t)ie| Wanganui Education Hoard: —The Board has adopted tlie principle of making no deduction of salary from a. teacher who is absent irom duty Uirougu illness, considering that it is at such a linus that the loss of salary would be most severely felt. This is a strain on the Board's funds in providing payment of relieving, teachers, but it is not found that there is any attempt on the part# of teachers to take unfair advantage of this privilege. A rosy prospect (says the New Zealand Times) is apparently opening to Jliss Thompson, a Stewart Island girl, of whose voiiv Jladame Melba 'has formed a very Uigli opinion, which is backed up by that of Mr. John Leniinone. The peopie of Dimcdin are moving to organise a great benellt concert to enable Miss Thompson to proceed to Melbourne in ■September, where .Madame Melba u.s promised to take the youag Xew' A'alander in hand and give Jier lsssons, If, on a further test. Miss Thompson's maintains the quality that has so aroused Madame's enthusiasm, there, can i be little doubt that the great diva's

patronage will be further extended, and, under it, the young Xew Zealand girl will rise to heights in the vocal world that in her wildest ilights of imagination she could lmrdly ever have conceived.

An important meeting will l»e_ liel<l at the own Hall tliis evening of all interested in tlu- formation of "a company for the manufacture of sand-limp bricks in Xew Plymouth. We have been shown a specimen cf tlio brick, manufactured from the Ncv Plymouth black sand and Toko lime. To all appearances it is a capital article, and architects who have had experience of them speak highly of their good qualities. It is claimed that with the apnrently unlimited supply of | mind here, lime within easy rich, and, above all, local coal available for the manufacture at reasonable rates, the bricks can lie turned out here at a figure that will make brick buildings quite as cheap as wooden structures, if not cheaper. The company, if formed, can do Tarartaki yeoman service in placing upon the market ail article manufactured from her ow;i natural deposits. One of the clcph.-.nts employed at Wirth's Circus in Sydney narrowly cseseaped losing several joints of his tail one Saturday night recently, when they were chewed by the big brown bear Tile elephant was engaged ill hauling the bear's cage in tile arena, when a ilv led to his swishing his tail through the bars. The hear instantly pounced ujioii it, anil, holding it in his paws, proceeded to try to eat it. The elephant, pranced wililiv, and his roars were pathetic. The attendants seized animal forks and all sort of implements, and the peanut boy dexterously juggled a whole basket of peanuts near tlie bear's nose; but only the severest proddings compelled him to let go, lortuiiately, the elephant is an animal that take f | troubles philosophically, but the following day he spent 'gazing dejectedly at 1 his tail', which now resembles a piece of 1 ancient rubber hose.

At a meeting of the Teachers' Institute in the Education Hoard's rooms on Saturday, the secretary was directed to forward'a letter of sympathy to the widow and family of the late Mr. W. J. Evans, and a resolution of appreciation of his work on the Institute was ordered to be inserted in the minutes of the proceedings. Letters of sympathy wer e also ordered to be sent to Mrs. J. E. Gulliver, whose husband, a member of the Institute, was drowned a few weeks ago at Pukearuhe; and to Mr. T. Boyle, whose little son was accidentally* killed at Stratford on Thursday.' Tt was decided to approach the Director of Technical Education and the members of tho Technical School Committee for a room in the Technical School for the housing of the Institute library. The meeting decided in favor of erecting a memorial to the late Mr. W. J. Evans in the event of the oiler proving acceptable. Mr. Samliord was elected auditor in succession to Mr. J. Hunter.

Tlii; Chapman-Alexander party, whicn arrived in. .Sydney by the Makura oi:| April lit, enjoy tin; distinction of having published tiie first unily paper on a i'licilic Ocean steamship. The object, l>u first issue of the Makura Globe, set out, was to relieve the monotony of thi! voyage. The publiiatiuu of the newspaper was only Hindu possible through the generosity of -Mr. Alexander. Two hours before the boat left Vancouver he discovered that there was 110 printing plant on board, so lie set out to rectify the omission. As a result, when the vessel steamed out of the harbor she lint only had a good serviceable planS 011 board, but a printer was hard at work handling "copy" dealing with events connected witty tile ijepartuiv of the party, The title of tl|e publication was altered with each issue, ui|d ui|d r the heading of "An exceptional treat," there is ill tile last edition of the Makura News a report of an entertainment over which Major-General Hoad presided, and lo the programme of which liengough, the cartoonist, contributed, In a recent case against a parent at Napier for alleged cruelty lo his daughter, a girl under 1(1 years of age, it was slated that he had kicked her in the back and struck licr 011 the head. The girl said punishment had only' started after a stepmother litul come to reside in the Wise. The parent complained that his daughter had gone out at night and he hail punished her for her eonduet. The Magistrate said the parent had done tlie proper thing ill correcting his child for being out at night. The question was, did the defendant adopt the proper method of punishing her lor lier conduct'; He (liis Worship) thought not. Iloxiug a girl's ears and kicking her wore not proper methods of punishment, and permanent injufy had been known lo result from such acts. No father with any respect for himself or his child would attempt to kirk either a boy or a girl. In this particular ease the Court had lo liiul whether the child was caused unnecessary suffering. This had not been proved, and the case must therefore be dismissed, but at the same time he wished to say that tile pnM did quite right in bringing it before the Court, as the mctihods adopted by the father were not proper. Parents should know that although such acts might not cause permanent injury or harm they were degrading, both to the parent ajfij the child.