LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 107, 2 June 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Two horses were straying un the. Marsland Hill Domain yesterday afternoon. Visitors of this description' are hardly likely to improve the paths and terraces. It is suggested that the headquarter, volunteer eumpnnies anil cadet c"umpanies should parade and attend in uiiiliirin at Mr. H. UcNali's lecture on cuiupiil.sory training.

A start has been made with the opening up of Haines' Terrace, along the banks of the Huatoki. A zigzag pain has been cut down the steep portion uf Fulford Street, ginug lueess iroai Brougham Street. Mr R. McNub has arranged to lecture at the Theatre Royal on Friday, lltli June, on the question of universal trailing, Mr. McXab is at present conducting a campaign on this all important question throughout the Dominion. At next meeting of the Tarauakii County Council a petition will be presented praying for the rescinding of the resolution to establish toll-gates, and that a separate rate of a farthing be struck. Ratepayers' deputations will support the petition. Un Monday .night at U'aitara Colonel Bauchop met a good meeting of those interested in the formation of a nioiriled' rifle volunteer corps, lie promised to make a favourable report to headquarters, and that in a month or two the corps should be in full swing.

A final rehearsal is to be held this evening 'of the oratorio "Christ and His Soldiers," winch, is to he repeated in the Whiteley Meinori.il Urartu on Friday evening in response to a request from those 'who received such pleasure from its first production a short time ago.

A fortnight ago a civil action in tins .Magistrate's Court was made remarkable, by the direct conlliel of the evidence adduced by plaintiff and uetend-

ant, and for a distinct denial of an alleged conversation. The plaintiff was present at the hearing, and a nonsuit was given entered. \«e plaintiff lias now taken iresh proceedings, and the ease will be re-heard, with additional evidence, in the course of a week or so. At Ilawerj yesterday, R. Grylls, licensee of the Royal Hotel, was charged with exposing liquor for sale »n a Sunday. The Magistrate said Sunday trading was a very serious offence." He would not endorse the defendant's license, but lie would tell Mr. Grylls that lie must take warning; if the defendant came before the Court again on a similar charge he would not he let oil' so easily. A line of ;Co, with costs 15s, would be imposed.—Star, There was an attendance of about seventy ladies at the meeting held yesterday afternoon in connection with the need for assistance in London shun work. .Airs Tisch, .Mayoress, presided. Mrs Rice delivered a very interesting address on the work in tin; slums. ■ A

committee was set up, with Airs Tiseh as convener, to arrange for the collection and despatch of second-hand clothing, etc. Aliss Waugh consented to act as receiver of clothing at Waugh's confectionery shop in Devon Street central. A meeting' of the committee is to be held next Tuesday. A reporter of this paper was informed yesterday tiint oil .Monday afternoon, whilst driving out to Waitara, a local resident saw » glaring instance of carelessness or cruelty to animals, or both. By the roadside ou Jlangaoiie Hill, just beyond Air Joll's boiling-down works, a horse was lying. Tue poor brute was evidently in agony, and had been cruelly cut about, apparently from a collision. Our informant added that when he got to Bell Block he had the police informed of the all'air. Judging by the fact tiiat the horse had its cover on, he surmised that it had strayed from a neighbouring paddock. At the S..M. Court yesterday before Air 11. Is. Fit/.hcrbert," S.M., j'udgme it for plaintiffs was entered by default of defendants in the following cases: New Plymouth Harbour Board (Air tjnilliani) v. Walter Harrison, claim £4 10s, ud, and 13s costs; same v. (.!. .1. Willy, claim £4 7s (less J.M 4s it) paid into court), and costs os; Peter Aicllvndge utr. Hoy) v. Edward Cooke, claim £4 13s Od in respect of dishonoured cheques and interest, and costs 10s; Wilson and

Grey v. Harris Ford, claim £lO 8s (id, and costs 10s; T. P. Iliighson and Sons (Mr. Hoy) v. A. (1. iloeller, claim CI 3s-

4d, and costs 12s; T. P. lluglison and (Mr. Hoy) v. A. (1. iloeller,

claim ,£o 10s and £1 10s (id costs; W. V. AlcAlluiu (Air V. JO. Wilson) v. V. A. Lichtwark, claim £74 Ills lid, aid costs £4 7s. There was a long list, but most' of the cases were struck out, or paid into court. The Rev. Mr. Rice, organising secretary of Dr. Barnardo's boys' tour, lias had previous experience of the colonies. Twenty-live years ago be acted as locum leneiis ifor the l!ev. Thomas Spurgeon in Auckland, and he was for some years in Adelaide, South Australia, lie still

.keeps fur Us a warm corner in Iris heart, t and is ipiiio a little "trade commissioner" on lii.s own. New Zealand butter is 1 used ut his talilc, and all his lamli is ■ "prime Canterbury.'' Generally, when I there is' coiupany to dinner iiml Xew Zca- . land lanub forms the piece de resistance. he manages to lead the conversation to the question of'frozen meat and imported foods' generally, and he usually linds ■ a strong prejudice against them'. His joke conies at tin- end of the meal when, ; in reply to compliments paid the isuc- ; eulcnt roast lamb, he tells what it is mid whence it came. In this way he gets a little ipiiet amusement, and helps to break down the .prejudice against our meat. Mr. Rice .says Chat he is ipiii.e sure that many .people who boa*t of their home-grown laml) are regularly eating the Xew Zealand article, and they don't know the difference. He has' known it to he sold in the West End as \\ cl.-h laui.li. A* for our butter trade, lie 'has in his congregation a butter merchant whu is in business in a large nvav inid this uiiiu declares that of "ill imported butters the Xew Zealand article is his best and favorite brand. What is generallv conceded to have heen the best battalion parade-yet held "I the .North Taranaki battalion' of school cadets was that which look place yesterday altermiim. The Central, West End, I'ity.roy, Hell Block, Eginont road, and Waitara companies were on parade, hut Crenin ami Opunako were unable to take part. Tiie parade state was as follows: Central No. 1 (Capt. .Mcllroyl, lib; Central Xo. 2, (Capt. liooock) -IS; West End (Capt, liarv), 57; Waitara (Capt, Wyljie) 4'J; Klzroy-Bcll Block Eginont road (Lieut, Bailey') ■{■>, Jlajor Sandford, V.D., was in command, witn Adjutant Johnston and (.luartcniiastcrCaptain Bary, and Sergeant-Major-Linn. The battalion had n useful afternoon's close-order drill In the Hccrcalion Grounds, and then marched into town. As they breasted the hill in Devon St. near tire post office. Mr. Miller, of West's Pictures, secured a kincinnlograph film of the battalion, Ihc cadets marching in splendid style. .Mr. Miller said it was as guod inarching as fluv that, hail yet been presented by cadet's for kincmatography in the Dominion, and vastly superior to'some. The battalion halted ill Street, where Mr .lames Clarke, on behalf of the donors, Messrs Gilmour and Clarke, banded lo Private Stanley II -ham, of the Waitara Hillos, Ihe challenge cup wtm by him recently for the highest score registered at the 201) yards range at Ihe local villi- meeting. The cadets were photographed in Liardcl Street at the instance of Captain Itcllringcr, who reipiires the picture as a fellow for a picture of the military taken at that point fifty years ago. The waters of the Antarctic Ocean is colder than that of the Arctic.