LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 98, 22 May 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The new dredge at Hie harbor is to be named "Paritutu.'' other names suggested were ■■Kgniunt." "-Uuluroa." ".Marehaut," "J.uucb Thomson." and "Salvation.''

The Harbor Hoard had a fairly lengthy discussion ycMcnluy ill committee concerning Hi.' use of colonial cement in I he breakwater extension. r'.vcutu.illv il was decided in make live concrete blocks from New Zealand ceuieat ami place them in the wall for observation and testim...

The Harbor Hoard yestcrdav -made" a rate. It will not, however, be levied. The chairman, in explaining this at vc«terday',- meeting, said that it was pure!.y a formal matter, but a.bsoliilely necessary, t'uless the Hoard would ".»nk.." the rale the Hoard', linaucing operations could not the completed. The resolution was moved bv .Messrs Wells and Wilkinson, the other southern -;.-■ nreseulat iv-c. Mr. Hughe shakin,, hi,, head dubiously. =

Mr. Walter Traffor.l. Pharmaceutical Clicmwt by Kx.uni.iation. High-street. West Haitian.!. N.S.W.. writes: "i" have had over 25 years' aclive and practical experience in leading English and eoloI trial pharmacies, and am convinced that of all the numerous cough medietaes, none has given greater satisfaction than Chamberlain's Cough Ilcmedv. 1 invariably use it in my own famil'v. ar.l have derived sneh lienelit from it that whevi I am asked to recommend n good medicine T unhesitatingly recommend Chamberlain's Cough Ileine.ly." For sale by j nil chemists and storekeepers. For Children's Hacking Cough a t night, M'oodF' Great Peppermfat o Curo' i/6 and 2/H ' |

His Worship the Mayor requests that Umpire Day he oibservod as a whole holiday. | Arrangements haw lieeii made by which the Tarannki CaiU't linltulion will lie ciitemalographed during the forthcoming visit of West's Pictures. Toll-gates—still they come! At tic I Stratford- t'oiratv Council meeting on Wednesday. Or. Marfell gave notice of motion as'follows:—That the Whangamoiuona County Council lie asked to distribute a lair share of the upkeep of that portion of the EasT road between Douglas and Strathmore; and railing an equitable arrangement that this Council take Ihe necessary steps to erect a tollgate on that portion of the road. '

diving judgment in eases in which Muff residents were charged with purChasing smuggled boots from the chief steward of the Opawa, who was lined .£3O, the Magistrate said the law was very stringent and the defendants must be 'convicted, though he was satisfied they were innocent of any intention to defraud. He ordered the defendants to forfeit the 'boots and pay three times the value (£3), which amount would be reduced to 15s without costs. Three informations against Stell, a bootmaker, were dismissed. His explanation was considered satisfactory.

In the Chrislchurel] Magistrate's Court on Wednesday, John Grey, was charged with assaulting his father—also named John Grey—with intent to do him bodily injury. After hearing the evidence, 'the -Magistrate- reduced the charge to one of common assault, and Grey was lined ,t)4. Grey, who was in the habit of getting drunk, came home in that condition, and when remonstrated with by his father, pushed the old man against a bedstead, and broke one of his ribs, ft was stated that accused I was n good enough son when sober. Grey and his wife were old-age. pensioners.

At the Harbor Hoard meeting yesterday the chairman stated that an incorrect impression 'had been created that the rock recently discovered off Moturoa was located by Captain Post, of the Tutanefcii, although the harbormaster had been directed to make a survey with a view of ascertaining whether or not such an obstruction existed, as reported by the master of the Corinna. As a matter of fact I'nplniii Hood made tile survey a.-: directed, and located the rock before the Tutniiekai arrived, and his report was in the Hoard's olliec when the 'harbormaster took Captain Post out and indicated the exact location of the rock. It was only fair to Captain Hood, said Mr. Maxwell, that this matter should lie noted.

"The. fact cannot be disguised," said a farmer to a Wnirarapa Age reporter, "that rabbits are on the increase very appreciably in the lower stretclies of the Xorth Island. It is all very well to assert tlmt the past season bas been a record one for poisoning. Such a statement must be illogical when there lias been an indubitably record growth of splendid grass. Rabbits are to be seen in thousands in certain districts, where no doubt, most complete measures have been taken to prevent their spread. Even behind Inc. capital city, where the hills are steep and barren, and wlier. rabbits can thrive, there are now many times more rabbits than were to be Been ten years ago. Believe me, the rabbit nuisance is not checked yet."

At the Inglewood S.M, Court, before Mr. Turiibull, 8.M., judgment for plain- | tiff was given in the following cases:— F. Drake v. Croft CI Ifti: 11. k. Jlarsh v. 11. Cole 18s. In the judgment summons case J. Andrews v. 11. Ward, a debt of £ o 2s, debtor was ordered to pay the amount-forthwith, in default one week's imprisonment in Xew Plymouth gaol, warrant to lie suspended if monthly payments of -CI each are made. A similar order was made in the case J. Andrews v. A. Allan, a. DAt of .11-1 Bs. T. W. Kolsto'n v. W. Gryllfi, a debt of .14 !)s. Debtor was ordered to pay the amount forthwith, in default one week's imprisonment in the Xew Plymouth gaol; warrant to be suspended till June 7th. Kolston v. 11. Tate, a debt of £<i 12s, Debtor was ordered to pay the amount forthwith, in default 14 days' imprisonment in the Xew Plymouth gaol; warrant to be suspended till June 7 next. A large number of cases were set down, hut were either adjourned, confessed, or settled out of Court. Iron must 'have been plentiful and cheap when the Harbor Board's seal was made. .Nowadays the average local body affixes its seal with a little machine that one might carry away in his overcoat pocket. The.Harbor Board's instrument, however, is more than a man would carry very far. Perhaps the Hoard of the days gone by bad visions of the .11275,0(10 worth of' ;CIOO debentures which will .be issued from the office to-day, and invested in the extra iron to prevent some enterprising thk-f from setting away with the apparatus. It is n cumbersome thing, and no one will envy the secretary or his assistant in bis task of stamping 27."i1) debentures to-dav, The process, will be watched bv a Wellington official of the Bank of Xew Zealand, who 'will take delivery of the debentures. And Messrs It. Price and J. Ward will each keep on e\> on the banker, on behalf of the Board] Mr. Quil'liam, the Board's solicitor, has completed the legal formalities in connection with this matter, and reported' accordingly to yesterday's meeting.

The ceremony of unfurling the Cnion Jack on the Central -School flagstaff on Empire Day promises, to attract n good attendance. fM'r. Dernpsey, the headmaster, has issued personal 'invitations to survivors of the passengers who arrived in the first six ships, the "William Hryan," "Amelia Thompson." ••Oriental," "Tiniaraiidral' "lUonheim." and "Essex." The great majority of those pioneers sailed from Plymouth, and it is a thoughtful courtesy to endeavor lo secure their attendance at the ceremony of unfurling this liny presented l>y the Recent-street School, plynioulh. to the Central in exchange for the Xew Zealand ensign sent Home a few months ago. floating uoconunudalinn is to lie provided for these guests. In addition to (he speeches by t'hc Mayor ami (he chairman of the comniittee. the headmaster and Revs, (klioruc and lOvins will have a few words lo says. Mr. Dempsey states that, out of regard for the little ones, addles are to be cul „hort. The function commences a ( i p.m.. and will include the -aluting of the flag, the singing of "The lied. White- and Blue" by the children, and -possibly other patriotic songs.