LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 101, 26 May 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

-Mails for ["nitcd Kinmlom (via San Fruueiscol, which left 'Wellington on April 21st arrived at London on May 2."ith. The despatch via Suez, on April llilh. arrived at London on May 23rd. The shareholders of the Kakaramea Dairy Company, at a meeting on Saturday, decided to wind up the company. At. a subsequent meeting iL was agreed to form ii new company to go in for the manufacture of cheese.

Kaimiro people must be held to be keenly appreciative of our education system. .Mr. Dallantyne, tile Education Board's chief inspector, was (here recently, anil he found that, there had not been one child late for school ,ince it opened al Hie begriming of tile year.

The \ew Plymouth Technical School pupils are going to give the education Hoard members anil oll'ieials "a taste of ilieir ipialily" to-day. They are preparing a lunch, to which a cordial invitation has liecv • . led by the chairman of the Hoard, at his own expense. .Still another school committee complains of the state of the school teacher's residence. The Lincoln committee, in writing to the Kdncalion Board, says: ■'The residence, which is about a mile away from the .school, is not only too smail for a man wil.li a family, but also 100 antiquated and out-of-date to .ie habitable."

The Wellington City Council rcce-.iUy approached the (lovernmeut and nsk»d that any old pieces of ordnance in the possession of the Defence Department, and suitable for placing in reserves or parks might be handed over to the Council for thin purpose. The Defence Minister. Sir .losepli Ward, lias looked into I lie matter, and has now informed (lie Council that-it can have two obsolete "in KM.I,, guns, at present located at Mount Cook barracks, for the object it lias in view. The Johsonville Town Board, through Captain Moore, of the .loliiisonville liillc. made a similar re quest, and the Defence Minister has placed at the disposal'of the Hoard two old ■24-ponnders. 'What about New Plymouth'.- application f'rr old guns for Mnrsland Hill, one „f the most historic spots iii the Dominion?

Mr. Waller TraH'ord. Pharmaceutical | Oheiniet by Examination. High-slroet, West Mnliiand, N.S.AV., writes: "I have had over 25 vent's' active and practical [ experience in lea'ding Kugiish and colonial pharmacies, and am coiiviuccd that of all the numerous cough medicines, none has given greater satisfaction than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. I invariably use it in my own family. ar.;l have derived such benefit from it" that when I am asked to recommend a good modicine T unhesitatingly recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy." For sale by' all chemists and storekeepers.

The audit of the school committees'] iccounts has been completed, and Mr. I Whitcombe, the Education Hoard's secretary anil auditor of these accounts, looks'relieved. On the whole the accounts have been less trouble to audit I than in previous years. There were a few exceptions. The Kolmratahi Committee omitted to forward the hank book, and Waitara's vouchers were* not all produced. Pukearuhc, an old offender, forwarded no books at all.

At the 'quarterly meeting ot the Clifton Lodge of Drnida, held in Waitara on Monday evening, there was a large number of members of the- Order to hear the address of the president of the Taranaki Friendly Societies Hospital Association. After the usual lodge business, the Arch Druid called upon J!ro. 11. J. Hobbs to address the meeting, which he did at some length, covering tho period from the Association's early days up to the present. After several questions had been asked and answered, a proposition was moved by Bio. Proctor and seconded by llro. Farmer, "That the members of Clifton Lodge join the Association straightway." The Arch /Druid called for a show of hands, and every member in. the room, over thirty, voted in favor. It was announced during the evening that llro. Gilbert, of Moturon Lodge, would visit Clifton Lodge on next lodge night and speak against the Association. A hearty vote of thanks to Bro. Hobbs for his address and assistance was carried by acclamation.