LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 83, 4 May 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

—■ . ji -Mr. Newton King lias received the fol- a lowing cable from his Sydney agent, re d hides, " Lights scare*.- ' ' c The Central School will not close on ? Thursday afternoon as previously published. A half-holiday will be observed '■ on Friday afternoon. : There were 37 births in the district of j the New Plymouth registrar (Mr. J. [, S. S. Medley) {luring the inontli of April, a 12 deaths, and 0 marriages. f "The motor-car, like the poor, is nl- 1; "ways with us," said the county chairman j yesterday, ill 1 . Eri Bennett, one of the c foremen, had asked: "Can you tell me r at what speed motor-cars arc.-'supposed I to travel, or whether they are limited t to any speed? Lately they have been t travelling a bit too fast for my liking." i The Hope of Kgmonl Juvenile Temp- ' lars met last evening, liro. G. Hundley, ' C.T., presiding. There was a fair a't- ' tendance of members. The officers sun- ' mittcd satisfactory quarterly icports. < Notice was given of the celebration of ■ the Lodge anniversary on June 3rd. ' Officers were installed as published hist I week, Mrs. Duckrill, president of the Society for the Promotion of the Health of Women and Children, has received advice from the private secretary to Laity Plunkct stating that Her Excellency will be pleased to meet the committee and honorary members of the Society on the occasion of her visit with Lord Plunkei this week. Arrangements arc now being made accordingly. A meeting of the Veterans' Association was helil on Saturday. 111 1 . Allium presanU'd' accounts in connection with the social and shooting match. These snowed a balance in hand, which was voted to the general fund. Votes of thanks! were accorded Captain Standish and j Captain Mace for donations towards the social fund, also to the members of the social committee for their work in bringing ahout the success of the gathering. An lnglcwood settler recently wrote that a contractor had asked for permission to enter the writer's properly for the purpose of taking stone from one of the rivers. "1 have no objection, he added, '• tu selling the stone required, provided I get value for it, and an agreement of payment by the Council, . but 1 also want "to know'if the Council is going to indemnify me f«r damage tu grass, damages to fences and gates. ' and grass eaten by some twenty or • more bullocks allowed to roam over the I paddocks, as these latter have always I been my experience of allowing the entry of contractors upon one's property." r The traction engine tragedy on the ( Junction Road, just a few years ago, was recalled yesterday by a report and discussion at the Taranaki County Couii- •' cil meeting. On that occasion a man ' named Gledhill, engaged on the county t traction engine, was killed by the engine breaking through the toUra bridge and falling into the bed of the Maketawa f stream. During the past month Mr. James Tarry is reported to have had n narrow escape when crossing the Mangauui bridge, also a totara structure, on his traction engine. Fortunately the decking was new, for file joists' were , quite rotten. The Council has decided \ to prohibit traction engine traffic on I this bridge in future. I Mr. Fred .bines, of the Frankley Road, ■ waited on the Taranaki County Council yesterday anil requested them to take steps to prevent the abuse of the footpaths on Franklev Road bv cyclists, lie 1 suggested that the footpath should be I gazetted as such, so as to enable the 1 Council to prosecute. In support of his application hp referred to the accident of a fortnight ago, by which his wife when walking down the footpath had 1 been knocked over by a cyclist, and was ■ so severely injured that the doctors thought she would not fully recover for three months or thereabouts; in fact, she might never be herself again. The chairman saiil the matter had already been before the Council, at the instance ' u[ Councillor Carter and Foreman Eva, and the Council had decided k ike examples of the lirsl offenders that the foremen could catch, Alas, those names! The decision of .the Mnrslaiid Hill Memorial Committee to carve the names of some of its prominent members on the fallen sounds' monument has been questioned and criticised a good deal, and another anonymous critic has arisen. His contribution to the correspondence is couched in threatening terms, as follows, the letter being addressed to the Mayor. Mr. Tiseh:—"Take notice that if the names of any of the monument committee are placed on the tablet, as is proposed by certain seekers after notoriety, I will make it my business to obliterate or mutilate such mimes.—lndignant subscriber." The letter is dated at New I'lviiioulli on April 30th, and the writer has ell'cetually covered up his tracks by inditing the missive in bold capital letters. It is to be hoped '-Indignant Subscriber " has a bark that is worse than his bite.